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Evening star., 1946-05-15
Soap Box Derby Guide

The Washington Soap Box
Derby, sponsored by The Star
and the District Department of
the American Legion, is open to
boys II to Is years of age, in
elusive. Boys reaching their
1lth or 18th birthdays in the
period from June l to August
18, inclusive, are. eligible.
Each entrant must obtain an
official rule book from the
Washington area Chevrolet
dealer nearest his home and
have entry blanks signed by a
parent or guardian.
The coaster cars must be boy
built at a $40 maximum cost
with not more than $6 of the
F total being spent for wheels and
aXles. Precision wheel bearings
are prohibited.
These design limits are pre-
scribed: Length, 80 inches;
width, AZ inches; height, in
cluding windshield, 80 inches;
weight of racer, 1875 pounds;
combined weight of racer and
driver, $50 pounds.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
load-to-A|titude Record
Is Set by Big al Guam
BY the Associoisd Pres,

TOKYO, May 15-A B-29, piloted
by Col. E. D. Reynolds of Beaumont
Tex. set a new world load to alti-
tude record Monday at Guam. when
1t carried payload of 1000 kilo-
grams (4,400 pounds to an alti-
tude OF 44,200 feet.
The announcement was made to-
day by headquarters of the Pacific
Air Command of the United States
Army PACUSA).
1t was the fourth load-altitude
record established this month by
B-29s of PACUSA.
The previous record in the 1000
kilogram load category was estab-
lished in September, 1896, Wy Vladi-
mir Kokkinski of Russia at 36,105
feet.
Headquarters said attempts would
be made soon in the 1000 and 5000
kilogram classes to complete the
marathon project, aimed at i'm
proving the peacetime efficiency of
B-29s and obtaining for the United
States a number of records pre-
viously held by other countries.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Army Truck Dealer
Called 10 Tell Senate
OF Sales 10 Stores

The Senate War investigating
Committee recalled Cleveland auto
dealer today to tell additional de.
tails of how 600 surplus Army trucks
happened to go on sale in New York
department stores.
The witness is AL Brenner, treas.
urer of the United States Truck
Sales Co., one of eight Ohio firm.
which purchased the trucks from the
War Assets Corp. in February.
Also called was Louis Broido, ex.
ecutive vice president of Gimbe
Bros. one of the New York store.
which sold the vehicles.
Sold at Ceiling Prices.
The Ohio dealers bought the
trucks for 1884 each, which 1t
Gen. Edmund B. Gregory, War As.
sets Administrator. testified yester.
day was the OPA wholesale ceiling
price
Before the deal was made by
WAA,s Cincinnati Office, Gen. Greg.
ory said 1900 catalogues announcing
the forthcoming sale were sent tt
priority claimants, including vet.
Grams who had indicated an interest
and the two-week priority preference
period elapsed.
Each dealer obtained IA or. II
trucks, and Mr.. Brenner said yes.
terday that through his company
all were sold to Jose Mayorga, who
had named Arthur Price Associate.
of New York City to sell them fol
him.
Mr. Price testified that Mr.. May.
orga, acting for Mayorga Hermanos
a Buenos Aires partnership. origin.
ally intended to export the truck.
but later changed his mind becaus,
of price difficulties.
Not Suitable for Farms.
Senator Wherry, Republican, O.
Nebraska insisted the trucks were
sold to the Ohio dealers befor.
farm groups had adequate oppor.
tunity to buy them. Mr.. Bremen
maintained the vehicles were no,
suitable for farm use because O
their five-ton weight and high gas
oline consumption. He declared h,
had 100 other trucks just like then
which he was unable to sell tt
farmers.
Mr.. Price told the committee he
first attempted to sell the truck.
through dealers but failed becaus,
spare parts were unavailable.
Then, he continued, he turnee
to Gimbel's and other New Yorl
department stores. He said the re.
tail price was set at $4,000, though
the OPA ceiling price in New YorR
City was s3,039.08.
I'VE paid $2,053.16 for each truck
the correct OPA figure" said Mr.
Price, adding that with expense.
for assembly. handling, delivery
insurance anG other costs, less thar
5000 profit was realized on each
truck sold at retail.
Only 215 of the trucks have beer
sold and paid for" Mr.. Price said
He declared WAA's New York of
flee ruined the sale by announcin,
two days after it started that simi
lar trucks soon would be availabl,
at lower prices.
Mr.. Price said the rest of tn.
trucks probably would be exported
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Overdue Books Returned
In Library 'FineIess Week

Washington residents are taking
advantage of the District Public
Library's "Fineless Week" to return
overdue books, Miss Clara w. Her
bert, librarian, announced today.
The library is accepting overdue
books through Saturday without
levying penalties on them. Miss
Herbert reported that on Monday,
1,340 volumes were returned, 245 of
them having been overdue for three
weeks or more. One book was out
since May, 1943.
Books may be returned to any
branch library this week without
fines or questions being asked, a
library circular said. For those un-
able to return books during library
hours, a box is placed outside the
door of each branch library where
books may be placed after the build
ing is closed.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Anthracite Miners
Inject Case Measure
In PAY Negotiations
BY the Associnfed Press


NEW YORK, May 15-The United
Mine Workers notified anthracite
operators it feared the Case anti
strike bill might make the union
liable for damages in the event of a
strike and asked the operators to
consider possible effects of the leg
islation during current contract ne
gotiations.
j. B. Warriner, president of the
Lehigh Navigation Coal Co. and
spokesman for the operators, denied
the bill would affect any contract.
ut has nothing to do with this at
all" Mr.. Warriner told a news con-
ference The right way to pre-
vent it (the Case bilD is to prevent
illegal strikes"
The contract between the groups
expires May 81 and the UNIV al
ready has filed notice of intention
to strike. A walkout would affect
IS 900 Pennsylvania anthracite min
ers.
Meanwhile, negotiating commit
tees of the union and the operators
again were called into meeting after
four inconclusive sessions.
The strike bill issue was raised al
the end of yesterdays meeting when
Thomas Kennedy, UNIV secretary
treasurer, said at the news confer
ence the union had told the oper-
ators that the bill may destroy COL
lective bargaining" since there was
the possibility the act might require
settlement of grievances in court.
Mr.. Kennedy also said there was
question in the minds of the
unions attorneys whether the UNIV
might be liable for damages in the
event of strike, and added:
1--WE want the operators to be
thinking about it between now anc
the end of May"
The bill. passed by the House, now
is under committee consideration ir
the Senate
Evening star., 1946-05-15
New York Seizes 80 Units
To Ease Housing Crisis
BY the Associoted Press

LONG BEACH, N. Y, May 15.-
Eighty empty dwelling units here
were seized yesterday in the first
exercise of the New York State
Housing Commissions seizure pow
ers under the Emergency State
Housing Act of 1916.
State Housing Commissioner Her
man T. Stichman said the seizures
constituted "the first direct action
by State to condemn housing held
off the market for higher prices or
other reasons"
Long Beach is a summer resort.
Henry N. Rapaport, attorney for
Henry w. Weitzner, president of
the Long Beach Realty Taxpayers
Association, said he had appealed
to the OPA to issue summonses per-
mitting an examination of Mr.
Stichman and local officials as to
the motives for the seizures.
Mr.. Stichman said he had ap-
pealed several times to landlords to
rent the vacant apartments to per-
sons in need of them.
Immediately after the seizure -four
commission deputies sent kilograms
to 80 persons on a list of 140 high
priority homeseekers-veterans anc
victims of an apartment house fire
in March-that quarters had beer
found for them.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Australia Gives Macarthur
Thanks for War Leadership
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, May 15.-Gen. Mac
Arthur yesterday received the Off
cial thanks of the Australian Gov
ernment for the way he led Allied
forces through the Southwest Pa
cific and up to Japan.
The formal thanks came from
Australian Prime Minister Joseph B
Chif1ey, who is visiting Australian
occupation troops in Japan. He Is
en- route home from the Prime Min.
isters' Conference in London, ano
called on Gen. Macarthur late yes.
terday.
Touching on the world food situa.
ton. Mr.. Chifey pointed out that
Australia still is on near-wartims
rations, but is contributing food te
famine areas without questioning
how it was allocated.
(The Far East Commission in
Washington recently asked for a
report on food ALLEGATIONS to
Japan)
Evening star., 1946-05-15

Members of the District Depart
ment of the American Legion will
be called on for a major contribu-
ton of manpower for the Washing
ton Soap Box Derby, sponsored by
The Star and the Legion, in asso-
citation with Chevrolet dealers of
the Washington area.
Derby Director o. C. Holleran, long
active in Americanism activities of
the Legion here, is engaged in OBJ
tanning commitments from active
members to serve as chairmen of the
key committees in the derby organ
ization. AS acceptances are received
and complete committees are formed,
Mr.. Holleran will announce assign
ments.
Some to Be Starters.
Several groups of committeeman
will be active on Derby Day, and will
be seen at work near the course.
Among these will be the starters,
finish-line crew, course patrols and
Reception Committee. Members of
the Legion auxiliary will serve as
clerks, keeping a careful check on
the credentials of drivers as they
line up for the start and recording
results at the finish of each heat.
Other committees will be at work
on problems of planning long before
the event. AS Derby Day ap-
proaches, Legion men will be in
charge of the prerace inspection
of coaster cars, the final checking of
entry lists and the assignment of
entrants to heats. The assigning
will be done with complete i'm
partiality. since the committee will
have no advance knowledge of the
relative driving proficiency or car
building skill of the boys. .......~......
Registration First Step.
Meanwhile, as the Derby organi-
zation takes shape. entries are
reaching Derby headquarters in in
creasing numbers. Among recent
registrants are: Robert L.. Smith
ers, II, 1411 Taylor street NV; Ed
Evening star., 1946-05-15

Until sufficient leather can be OBJ
tanned it will be necessary to make
wooden clogs and to use leather sub
stitutes in Czechoslovakia.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Reich Armed 10 Meet
East Prussia Attack
By Poles, Raeder Says
BY the Assoeioted Press

NUREMBERG, May 15.-Grand
Admiral Erich Raeder testified today
that before the last war Germany
faced an attack by Poland on East
Prussia and our efforts therefore
were aimed at organizing to oppose
such an invasion"
Raeder, who guided reconstruc-
tion of the German Navy, opened
his defense before the International
Military Tribunal. He was sue
ceeded in command of the navy by
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, whose
defense has just been concluded,
on January 80, 1943.
Raeder testified that he rebuilt
the navy within the framework
of the Versailles Treaty" and en-
phasized that all work was subject
to approval of President Won Hin
denberg and later Adolf Hitler.
He said the German Navy had
men who were respected at home
and abroad because they fought in
en- exemplary manner and partici-
pated in no; atrocities"
Doenitz' son-in-law testified yes
terday that "U-boat traps" were
partially responsible for Nazi orders
forbidding rescue of survivors of
torpedoed ships.
Capt. Guenther Hessler, husband
of DoenitZ's only daughter, testi-
fed as defense witness that in
two instances the crews of appar-
emily abandoned ships suddenly
manned guns and opened fire on his
submarine.
He said Doenitz forbade the de-
struction of German naval records
because I'VE have a clear con-
science" Doenitz was the last COM
mander in chief of the German
Navy.
The tribunal yesterday denied re-
quests of two defendants for per-
mission to seek to establish-by an
interrogatory submitted to Secretary
of War Patterson and Maj. William
j. Donovan, former OSS chief-that
Hans Bernd Gisevius was on the
American payroll as a spy,
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Consider-
able cloudiness and milder this
afternoon and tonight with some
chance of a brief shower. Lowest
temperature tonight about co. Part
ly cloudy and warmer tomorrow with
afternoon showers.
Virginia and Maryland-Consid-
cradle cloudiness and mild with
occasional rain or drizzle tonight
Warmer tomorrow with afternoon
showers likely.
River Report.
CFrom United States EngineersD
Potomac River clear at Harpers Ferry
and muddy at Great Falls; Shenandoah
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Admiral Nimitz Given
Degree at Notre Dame
By the As,seiofed Prass

SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 15.-
Admiral Nimitz, Chief of Naval Op-
erations, told University of Notre
Dame convocation today that peace
will be only an interlude between
wars unless all of us learn the art
of living in global community
He spoke after receiving an hon.
orary degree of doctor of laws from
the Rev. Hugh O'Donnell, Notre
Dame president,
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Escopee Is Sent Back
To Laurel After Arrest

Eugene Chester, 20, who escaped
from the District Training Schoo
at Laurel, Md, month ago, is
being returned there today for
further disposition following his
arrest yesterday in connection with
an alleged criminal assault on g
4-year-old girl.
Evening star., 1946-05-15
Man Slain, Wife Shot
On Steps of Home
By the Associoted Press

CHICAGO, May 15.-John Bar.
tuch, 43, father of five children, was
shot and fatally wounded last night
and his wife, Madeline, AZ, also was
shot by a gunman as they were
sitting on the front steps of theil
West Side home.
Before firing at the couple the
assassin shouted, Now is the time
to get you" Mr.. Bartuch was shot
in the back and his wife in the
neck and left wrist. Mrs. Bartuch's
condition was serious.
Evening star., 1946-05-15

win w. Meredith, Is, SIS Swan roao
Sc; Theodore Padgett, IA, 1871
Thirteenth street Sc; Billy In.
gram, who will be II on May %
1888 Thirteenth street Sc; Rich
ard Mankin, IL; Richard Hintze
IA; Russell Nusbickel, II; Waite,
Ray Huff, IL, and Thomas Drech.
sler, IA, all of 230O Good Hope roao
Sc, and Edward M. Bannar, Is
235 Mississippi avenue Sc.
Registration is the first essentia
to participation in the Soap Boz
Derby. to be held here in July, since
it includes issuance of the officia
rule book to each registrant. Show
rooms of Chevrolet dealers in the
Washington area are the only
authorized registration points.
Tread The Sfur for DerbH Mems
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Tread The Star for Derby News.)
Evening star., 1946-10-27

Cotunne0 from page SeSsn
is reality 1t may be possible destroy the power
of industralzed nation in few days. or even few
hours.
If 1--WE have Third World War; that is what the enemy
will attempt to do to destroy in the first days of
war We may not again have the opportunity to prepare
to fight after hostilities have begun.
In the past two our production lines the
fountainheads of victory In third enemy would
have no choice but to attempt to choke off the flow of
these fountanheads at If he should have his way.
the arsenal of democracy would become the prime
theater of war.
To protect ourselves against the possibility of super
Pearl Harbor attack must be Arcticconscious. Our
major defense effort must be directed by aware
of the potentialites of air power the
Great Circle routes of the polar frontier.
Interceptor bases radar antiarcraf fighter aircraft.
rocket and guidedmisse ntercepon of hostile bombers
- all the measures to ward off attack must be available
and properly orented to the route of attack These
however purely defensive measures and the advantage
lies with the offense. Such measures at best
only blunt a sustained and determined assault Some
attackers will get through Purely defensive
are not enough.
The Threat Of Countsxattack
HE only true defense lies in strong counter
offensive We must be prepared to strike back instantly
and with terrible force at any enemy who strikes at
We be able to make aggression the prelude defeat
for the aggressor That must strike him
through the air We must destroy his air force its
source, his arieds and launching stes must destroy
his industrial cepters and transportation; must
parayze his cities and his We must destroy
enemy before he destroys
All this means that in the air age air power
must be second to none until such time power is
devoted internationally to the maintenance of We
must keep ahead at least abreast of chronological
developments in aeronautcs everywhere We must man
tain air strength at such pitch the security of
country requires Eighty per cent of that required
strength is little better than strength. To be
second-rate in the air is to be swept from the
air.
We live in the age of high speeds and shrunken
distances.
In the past, great nations have wthered away after
sustaining military defeat but their decline took
generations, centuries. Now, with mans capac-
tiles for destruction it is possible that nation may be
destroyed in air
These grim specuations but must face facts
We devouty hope that neither other country
will have to fight another war We have all had
enough.
But closing eyes will not bring peace. We must
resoutey defense in the North and be pre-
pared to cope with whatever the future has in store
Evening star., 1946-05-10

Kenneth Royal, Undersecretary of
War, seems to have slipped into the
Presidents Office where he appa-
rently gave Mr.. Truman bit of fast
talk and secured one of those hair
trigger decisions whose recoil on
past occasions should have made
the President gun shy by this time.
He then marched this bill to the
Senate where he prevailed upon
Chairman Thomas Of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee to in
troduce it without hearings.
incidentally, the pressing reason
for the proposed merger of our
armed forces was the shocking lack
of coordination among Army, Navy
and air force field commanders
brought to light at Pearl Harbor
and thereafter. Nobody ever charged
that there was ever any lack of CO.
ordination between the civilian
heads of the War and Navy Depart
ments. Yet this bill would not so
much merge the armed forces as it
would submerge the civilian agen-
cies of the Government.
President Truman is not, I think,
in favor Of turning this Government
over to the brass hats. But If he is,
the change ought to be made openly
so'that people may have a chance
to have their say.
Copyright, 1946)
Evening star., 1946-05-10

retary of common defense, and the
Secretary of State would, under the
bill, comprise triumvirate known
as the council of common defense
Both this council and the resources
board are given powers so broad as
to be revolutionary.
Few Would Fix Policy.
For all practical purposes, the
foreign policy of this Nation would
be determined by the President
and the triumvirate and not by the
President and the Secretary oi
State as it is now.
The bill authorizes the new agen-
cy, the national security resources
board, ito prepare and maintain
an inventory of the natural re-
sources of the Nation i. to formu-
late policies and programs for the
purpose of maintaining adequate
reserves of strategic minerals anC
conserving our natural resources
to formulate policies and pro.
grams for the maximum use of the
Nations resources"
Since the Nations resources in.
clude not only minerals and oil, but
forests and soil, fish and animals
the bill would do away with the
necessity for a Department of the
Interior with its Bureau of Mines
Geological Survey, General Lane
Office, Fish and Wildlife Service
Grazing Service and Bureau of Rec
lamation. Nor would there be any
place for Department of Agricul-
ture with its soil husbandry pro-
grams or its Forest Service.
Other Departments Menaced.
Another section of the bill pro-
vides that the board would prepare
and maintain adequate information
on the manpower, resources and
productive facilities of the Nation
This would, to say the least, dupli-
cate the work of the Labor Depart
ment and its United States EN-
ployment Service, and of the Com
merce Department.
Despite these broad specific pow
ers, just in case there might be a
disposition to retain certain of the
existing departments, the bill con-
tains this bright gem: With re-
spect to decisions of the board which,
affect agencies beyond the control
of the council or not represented
by members of the council, appro-
pirate action (always In the com
mon defense, of courseD shall be
recommended to the heads thereof
and If action satisfactory to the
council is not taken by such de-
partments and agencies the council
will recommend appropriate action
to the President"
This means that these three men
could, and probably would, recon-
mend the firing of any cabinet Of
ficer, if he didn't jump through the
hoop when called upon to do so.
Bill Kept Quiet.
1t would be absurd to-believe that
the Army did not know of the bills
potentialities. Extraordinary meas
ures were taken to keep the advent
of the little stranger from the pub
lie. Ordinarily bills prepared by a
department are circulated among
the other departments for comment
before being sent to the Congress
for introduction. They are also pre-
Sented to the Bureau of the Budget
for close scrutiny. In this instance
Evening star., 1946-05-10

President Tru-
man is permit
ting the politics
of an election
year to affect
his attitude to-
ward this vital
problem for
that he is not,
and 1t Is pretty
rotten to suggest
1t. Nevertheless,
1t is wholly ac-
curate to Say
that our man.
agement of the
food situation
Ln, Loor faoL1o
Evening star., 1946-05-10

in China. Our hope of competent
ly measuring up to the unprece-
dented relief needs of 1916 with a
real plan lies first. in the character
of Mr.. Hoover's recommendations
second, in the speed, vigor and de-
termination with which they are
adopted.
1t would be inexpressibly shame
full and shocking if petty political
preJudices and unreasoning personal
dislikes should interfere this time,
as they so often have in the past.