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Evening star., 1946-01-17
Troop Arrivals Total
.24,5OO Yanks Today
Aboard AZ Vessels
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
More than 24,500 servicemen are
scheduled to debark from AZ trans
ports today at three East and six
West Coast ports.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York-Borinquen, from
LIE Havre-1 ,298 troops, including I'd
Battalion, 334th Infantry Regiment;
784th Ordnance Light Maintenance
Company.
U. S. S. Lake Champlain, from
Southampton-5,255 troops, includ-
ing parts of 318th and 319th Infan-
try Regiments, Both Division; 1880
General Hospital, 437th Ordnance
Company 7th Traffic Regulation
Group, 815th Signal Service Com
pany, 9Th Medical Depot Company,
232d Station Hospital
y. S. Victory, from Bremen (orig-
inally due yesterday)-1,513 troops,
including 29th Quartermaster Com
pany, 3689th and 3389th Quarter
master Trucking Companies, 346th
Ordnance Company.
Henry Wilson, from Antwerp
Originally due yesterday)-109 mis-
cellaneouS troops.
At Boston-Miscellane on fol-
lowing: Arlie Clark, from Antwerp
"a; William Jennings, from Ant
werp-33.
At Newport News-Blommersdijk,
no troop information.
At San Fropcicoo N6;eoelIa~za,,s
personnel on following: Allendale,
from Manila-l,l35; Bering Strait
2o4 Navy; Dawson, from Guam
9l4; Vigilance, from Pearl Harbor-
To Navy; Waupaga, from Pearl Har-
bor-l0 Navy; George Flavel, from
MANILA ,003 Army! Allegheny Vic
tory-20 Army; LIST 1924 Navy;
LIST 1,096, from Pearl Harbor-18O
Navy; LIST l,l96, from Pearl Har-
bor-48 Navy; LIST 905, from Pearl
Harbor-65 Navy; LIST 1853. from
Pearl Harbor, As Navy; PCS 1,450-
% Navy.
At Portland-Edgecombe, from
Leyte-l,837 miscellaneous person.
mel.
AZ Los AngeleS-Dauphln ,9l8
miscellaneous personnel.
At San Diego-Miscellaneous on
following; Escort carrier Halinin
Bay-l,109: destroyer Baldwin-l5l
Navy; LCIs 800, 397, 43S, 460, 4s3.
727, 1913, 753 and 1870 Navy:
minesweepers III and 100 and patrol
craft 620-l214 Navy; LIST 67-2o
Navy and Coast Guard; Ism 307-
II Navy.
At Observation-Disclosures on fol-
lowing: Florence Nightingale, from
Koreau-1,96 1868 Army; Hamblen, from
Korea-1,9 1868 Army; Hamblen, from
Okinawa-l,953 Army.
At le-Miscellaneous on fol-
lowing: Marine Jumper, from
Manila-3,242 Army; Henry Failing,
from Alaska-195 Army.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Demonstration Ban
Scored by Wheeler
Ey the Associated Press.

~ l&lC ESoOS4otS0 GIGoS'
HELENA, Mont, Jan. 17-Sen-
ator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon
lana, last night denounced Gen.
Josepa T. McNarney's ban on troop
demonstrations in Europe as "a
denial of the right of freedom of
aSsemblage."
When a man puts on uniform, :"
the Senator said in an interview,
lit should not close for him, espe-
cially in peacetime, the rights of
free speech, assemblage and re-
ngion."
Gen McNarney's announcement
in Frankfurt, Germany, that no
more soldier mass demonstrations
would be permitted in Europe with
out authority of commanders will
serve only to increase the bitter
ness"
Senator Wheeler said he was
mot surprised" at the attitude of
soldiers, particularly in the Pacific,
because 1.-The administration hasn't
announced a clear-cut policy in the
Orient, and there is no need of
keeping large idle forces in China
the Philippines, Okinawa and other
Oriental areas"
NEW YORK, Jan. II Up).-Former
Maj. Gen. Frederick Osborn, until
recently head of the Army's Division
of Education and Information, said
yesterday in discussing the return
of troops from overseas that "neithe,
Congress nor the President has told
the Army what it is expected to do.
There is no mutiny among our
troops, no lack of discipline" said
Gen. Osborn in a Town Hall lecture
There is simply no clear-cut in
structions or understanding of what
the Army is expected to do. I re-
spect the men for their questioning
attitude"
Evening star., 1946-01-17
United Press to End
Services to Government
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSoclateo PreSs.
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-Hugh
Baillie, president of the United Press
Associations, last night said william
Benton, Assistant Secretary of State,
had been advised that the United
Press intended to discontinue fur
nishing news to the Government
for overseas broadcasts and other
uses.
Last Monday 1t was announced
that the directors of the Associated
Press had decided it was inexpedi-
ent to grant State Department
request to extend the date for ter
minating Associated Press news
service to the Government.
A statement by the board of di-
rectors said the Associated Press
holds that the Government cannot
engage in newscasting without Gre
ating the fear of propaganda which
necessarily would reflect upon the
objectivity of the news services
from which such newscasts are pre-
pared"
Evening star., 1946-01-17
By the Associated Press.

HONOLULU, Jan. 17.-A story in
Stars and Stripes that a small group
of soldiers was making a small for
tune" at dice from homeward-
bound GIs at the Oahu Army Per-
sonnel Center has brought an off,
cial Army ban on all forms of
gambling there.
1t. Gen. Robert c. Richardson,
jr., Mid-Pacific Army commander,
issued the ban late yesterday after
Stars and Stripes reported organ
lied gambling goes on nightly with
thousands of dollars changing
hands"
Nov the men can't even play
pinochle," said Col. William SAT-
farrans, commandant of the center.
Il authorized controlled gambling
in order to give the men a decent
place where they could meet" he
told interviewers.
He asserted they formerly gam
bled in latrines, in barracks and in
other places, and:
They are going to gamble re-
gardless of what any one says and
1 provided place where they never
had the slightest trouble. Every
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Warmer WeatherDue;
No Snow in Prospect

The snowstorm that missed Wash
inston last night on account of a
sudden shift in winds today had
blanketed all but the 10 northern
counties of Virginia with a white
mantle. Snow also fell in the
Carolinas.
Meanwhile, the Weather Bureau
here forecast drop in temperature
to about 20 degrees tonight and gave
assurances that the District had no
present prospect of snow. Warmer
weather was predicted for tomorrow
About inches of snow fell in
Richmond last night and was topped
later by sleet.
The Virginia State Highway De-
partment reported that all roads
we're open.
In Norfolk, the traffic on low
streets was reported tied up before
noon today by a tide about 8 feet
above normal.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
BiIbo Calls for End
To Monkey Business
Over Receiving Home

A suggestion that the District
Commissioners stop the monkey
business" over details of the plans
for the $285 900 new Receiving Home
for children and get the project
under way came last night from
Chairman Bilbo of the Senate Dis
trict Committee.
He listened yesterday to pleas for
action made by Mrs. Ernest w. How
ard and Mrs. Leslie B. Wright of
the District Federation of Women's
Clubs and responded promptly with
the assertion he didn't propose to
bother" the Commissioners about
it at all
I'VE all know the substantial and
proved need for the new Receiving
Home" he said. 1T has been be-
fore us for some years.
"The facts are before the Commits
sioners, not Congress. have no
idea of telling them what to do.
They have the appropriations, they
know what is needed; let them de-
eide on the best plan and get the
project under way.
Il do not propose to bother them
over this argument about details of
the building. That is their job. But
I do hope they stop this monkey
business of argument over details
and get the work going This argu-
ment has been going on since 1910.
Il also hope they will not be
diverted by some of these hifalutin,
theoretical, dreamy-eyed social ex-
perts from New York that I am
hearing about, The Board of Com
missioners is paid to decide our
problems.
I'VE don't need the New York
stuff down here. II anything, New
York could learn something from
u.s.
Meanwhile, the Board of Public
Welfare and outside social work
groups still differed over details of
the plan. The issue was dumped into
the hands of Assistant Engineer
Commissioner Joseph D. Arthur, jr.,
after the Welfare Board refused to
agree to more than minor changes
in the building plans.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
D. {. Suffrage Drive
Leaders SET 10 Take
Fight 70 Congress

On the advice Of Senator Capper,
Republican of Kansas, long an advo-
cate Of national representation for
the District of Columbia, Central
Suffrage Conference leaders today
made plans to carry the fight for
the vote to Congress.
Speaking last night over Station
WMAL, Senator Capper. urged those
interested in the campaign for en-
franchisement to get acquainted"
with the Congress members who
have it in their power to grant the
vote and "sell them on the idea that
the people of the District of Colum-
bia who bear all the burdens of citi-
zenship are entitled to and should be
granted their rightful participation
in the affairs of our Nation"
Mr.. Capper's address was the Sec
ond in a series sponsored by the
suffrage conference as part OF the
campaign to secure favorable action
on the Sumners-Capper resolution,
scheduled for consideration by the
Senate Judiciary Committee Feb
ruary 4.
Will Work for Passage.
UNFOLDING the measure of which
he is co-author, Mr.. Capper prom
ised to "do everything in my power"
to see that Congress acts on it ia
vorably, adding that he sees in the
resolution "the real key to the solu-
ton of the many recurring problems
of the District"
Acting on the Senator's advice,
James S. Beattie, chairman of the
Conferences National Representa-
ton Committee, announced today
that beginning next week a con-
certed effort would be made to ia
miliarize Congress members with the
extent and purpose of the suffrage
campaign. A subcommittee of Mr..
Beattie's group already has been
formed to maintain liaiSon with the
Hill.
Senator Capper, emphasizing that
his measure would not in the slight
est detract from the power of the
Congress, stated that, stripped of
its formal setting" he proposed to
add to the Constitution the follow
ing Simple and brief" amendment:
THE Congress shall have power
to provide that there shall be in the
Congress and among the electors of
President and Vice President men,
bers elected by the people of the
District constituting the seat of
Government of the United States, in
such numbers and with such powers
as the Congress shall determine. All
legislation hereunder shall be SUBJ
ject to amendment and repeal"
District CTS Plight Stressed.
In advocating favorable action on
the measure, he stressed the recent
plight of District servicemen, who
continued voteless while their COM
rades in arms from the 48 States
were permitted to vote by absentee
ballot" Nothing "has so emphasized
this injustice and denial of funda-
mental American rights" Senator
Capper said.
He pointed to his q years service
as member of the Senate District
Committee as a testament of his
competence to speak on local prob
lens. and declared:
IF the administration Of the Dis
trict government is to continue with
officers selected by the President.
there is far greater probability of
more acceptable appointees by a
President in whose election the peo-
pie of the District have had a part"
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Veterans in Schools
GET Checks in 80 DAYS
Under 5peedup Plan

The Veterans Administration to-
day put into effect new procedures
designed to assure DISABLED veterans
going to school or taking on-the- job
training under Public Law l6 that
they will receive their first SUBJ
sistence checks within 80 days after
their training starts.
The speedup was made possible
the administration pointed out, by
recent amendments to the law. Of
ficials said Veterans Administration
employees have been working nights,
holidays and Sundays to draft the
new procedures.
The announcement follows a re-
cent protest by a committee of dis
abled veterans from the service Of
flcers' school at American Univer-
sity, who complained to Gen. Omar
N. Bradley, veterans administrator
that their checks were long overdue
Under the new program, the pro-
cess OF authorizing subsistence pay
ments will be started Immediately
afer a veteran enrolls for training
even If pension records and other
necessary data are not available.
First subsistence checks will be is
sued in 80 days and will be adjusted
later on retroactive basis where
necessary.
Veterans taking training under
Public Law l6 now get $65 a month
without dependents, or 500 a month
with dependents. In addition, they
continue to draw full pension or re-
tirement pay. When the pension
plus the subsistence totals less than
sl05 a month, the amount is in.
creased to that minimum for veter-
ans without dependents and to Sis
month for those with a depend
ent, plus additional allotments for
other dependents.
These increased payments win be
made automatically as far as pos
sible. the Veterans Administration
said. Where this cannot be done
the subsistence payments will be
started Immediately and adjusted
with pension payments at a later
date. All increases were effective
beginning January l and payments
Will be retroactive to that date.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Dead

1t. Monty Ereza, %. who has
been listed as missing in action
since last January, is now reported
dead by the War Department. He
was the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Sol
Ereza. 1850 Sixteenth street NV,
and the brother of Mrs. Luna Dia-
mond, secretary to the Secretary
of Agriculture.
A letter received by Mrs. Dia-
mond from another member of her
brothers outfit said he had been
killed in the Reipertsweiler Forest
during heavy German attack. 1t
Ereza had been back in action only
a short time after being hospital
lied for wounds received in Octo-
her, 1914. He was graduated from
Mckinley High School and George
Washington University. Prior to
entering the service in October
1910, he was employed by the ONCE
Of Price Administration.
Decorated
Capt. Alfred C. Richmond, U. S.
c. G., whose home is at 1855 North
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Dr.. Wall Denounces
Peppers S Bill for
Health Legislation
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Jan. 1.-THE proposed
Federal maternal and child welfare
legislation merits unanimous dis
approval by the medical profession,
DR.. Joseph S. Wall of Children's
Hospital, Washington, told the
American Academy of Pediatrics
today.
The legislation, incorporated in a
bill introduced in the Senate by
Senator Pepper Democrat, of Flor
ida, calls for an expansion of exist
ing State programs of child health
and welfare instituted during the
past 10 years under the Social Secur-
ity Act.
DR.. Wall, who is president of the
academy, summed up the bill as
providing medical care "for all
humans under the age of 81"
He suggested that any indorse-
ment of the bill by the academy
should contain reservations "con-
cerning the question of economic
need of its benehciaries, the artifi-
cial age limit of childhood as fixed
by the bill and the lack of authority
and method of appointment of ad-
visory committees"
The objectives of the legislation
are not in question, DR.. Wall as
serted.
Attacks Dole" Angle.
The bill, DR.. Wall contended, pro-
vides that members of the medical
profession be 'commandeered" to
provide medical care to those COM
ing under it.
Physicians who do not choose to
participate, he asserted, will be left
to their own resources Ito survive
or perish in competition with Gov
eminent practice fortified with the
bait OF free service dangled before
the consumer in the form of
Government dole"
DR.. Wall charged that the acad-
emy had not been taken into the
confidence of proponents of new
legislation affecting our interests
and prerogatives
Had such confidence been given,
he pointed out, Government plan
ners would have discovered that
measures proposing the extension of
health services to mothers and chill
dren represents the very goals for
which this academy was founded
and toward which it has constantly
labored since its inception"
The bill, he said, mentions mere
millions" for its initial appropria-
tionS but will ultimately neceSSitate
the expenditure of an amount in
billions thus adding to the bur-
6en of excessive taxation = s"
Called Danger to States Rights.
THE centralized Federal control
(in the bilD deprives the States of
their constitutional prerogatives as
sured them by the founding fathers
in the conduct of their own affairs, 81
he warned.
DR.. Wall said proponents of So
cialized medicine have pictured
American youth growing up Into a
band Of weaklings" under inadequate
medical care. Actually, he declared,
this Nation flelded physically fit
Army of 100000 men and women
in history's greatest war and pro-
vided countless others physically
equipped to man production lines
behind the front.
Under the bill, the academy presi-
dent said, pay for physicians will be
far from adequate" and "fee sched-
ules will be established by bureau
cratic edicts which will remain asI
immutable as the laws of the Medes
and Persians."
Under the bills plan for a gen.
eral advisory council to administer
it, the medical profession, in DR..
Walls opinion, may be eliminated
IF the State so desires"
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Brothers Held in Attack
On Druft Board Choirmon
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Miss, Jan. 17.-Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation Agent
]. M. Lopez reported last night that
two Army-discharged brothers Of
Philadelphia, Miss, are being held
in connection with an attack on
DR.. c. c. Davis, chairman of a
Philadelphia draft board.
The FBI agent said the brothers
charged DR.. Davis with being re-
sponsible for their having been in
the Army. Mr.. Lopez identified
them as Blanford and Henry Stokes.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
News of District Area Men
In the Armed Forces

rated with a Bronze Star Medal
for meritorious service with the
ordnance section in the European
theater of operations, it was an
nounced by the Army He is to be
returned to this country shortly for
discharge.
Returnees
Among District area veterans
arriving at East and West Coast
debarkation points are the follow
ing men due to reach New York
today aboard the Maritime Victory:
B. Jachowski, ri Marvin c. Kalyoda.
Serst. Allan G. Minko, TIA Jack Eitle,
T/!S. Aloysius. Moran and Pfc, Charles J.
c. Loomis, Silver Spring, and T/5 George
J. McDonough. Alexandria.
Due at New York aboard the Will
liam w. Jackson:
Capt. Cornelius Butner, Washington,
and It. ool. walter D. swank, Aisxandria
Scheduled to arrive tomorrow at
New York aboard the Smith
Thompson:
Pfc. Pete g. Papanickolas,, Capt. Louis
James C. MACPHERSON. Pfc. Thomas F:
sae rn and H15ry 5 rrses M Rsa r. L.ap. al
Silver Spring.
The transport Henry Baldwin,
originally due at New York Sstur-
day but now reported delayed, has
the following men from this area
aboard:
Pfc. Giles C. White; serst, Donald C..
Palfrey, IT'S Garner F. Collins, T/5 Albert
M. Alpin and Pvt. Alfred G!ovinazzo: all
& Wadhinst9n and pts Allen w1insT MsT
tr. Arlington, and Pfc. Norman T. SMELL
ings, Alexandria.
Due to reach San Francisco today
aboard the Mountrail:
stree. Sc Sc: $ ?s ?sssst; Franz " pesson; ysss
sf'fss stFs.s Sc trE sers eTs Robert
LsSis. SG Nsr $500 %oodlsy s road Nv; se serIs:
EW VIVIAN PFC prGS snf & sI0f b.esS1 5s a
Street Street Sc; Pte. Nathan e Jones ia5s Z
street NE: PVT. Arzzol A; Minor; 1918
os sumner rosd sE fs sod
ing, II Street sW.; corpl Thomas b.
Raymona, .1st It. Wallace M Bqrkttt, TAI
fH5 f5e COURTNEY m s' Robinson and and IT'S V; paEson
A. Gardner. all Of washington.
Nearby Maryland and Virginia
men on the Mountrail:
Pvt. Elmer. L. Baskerville. SOIL North
Twenty second street, Arlington; Maj. Rich
ard Rsauch, Culpeper: CoEpl, Frank Glenn |
snts, Leonardtown, and TVS Ellis Lyon, |
Indian Head.
Arrived yesterday at San Fran
cisco aboard LIST 458:
T/5 Harry Chase, 1888 B street NE:
T/5 Theodore Dean, 1919 South Capitol
street: TL5 Willie Sans and Pfc. Herman
Dudley, all Of Washington.
Inductees |
Another group of II District men
is scheduled to report for induction
into the armed forces today. They
are:
Leon Herbert. Bernard Shapiro. Irwin
Woifson Scott Akers. Theolius Alexander.
Donald Brown. James Dodd. James DUNN.
Walter Greene. Clarence Harris. Rallie Hill.
ira johnson, Russell johnson. Leonard
Mendenhall, james Patterson. Thomas
Powell Sidney Rurch
Evening star., 1946-01-17

EQSeWOOO SCTeeI,
Arlington, h a S
b e en- awarded
the Bronze Star
M e d a ! for his
20 u t S t a n ding
zeal" and pro-
fessional S kill"
in peri orming
his d u t j es as
Coast Guard Of
fcer in charge
of the Merchant
Marine detail in
London from the
summer of 1943
until last sum-
mer, it was an
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Reporotions Group
To leove for U. S.
BY the Associated Press.

DJ lEIt 1ASsULIdLtU FIGbE.
TOKYO, Jan. 1.-THE American
Reparations Commission is scheduled
to depart by plane for the United
States tomorrow to report to Com
missioner Edwin w. Pauley In
Washington Tuesday.
Since arrival here, the members
have visited China, Korea and the
Philippines.
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Weather Report

District of Columbia - PARTLY
cloudy, cold and windy with highest
temperature about 80 degrees this
afternoon. Fair with lowest tenn
perature near 20 degrees tonight
Tomorrow sunny and warmer.
Virginia and Maryland-Fair to-
night and tomorrow, preceded by
rain changing to snow. Windy near
the coast this afternoon. Warmer
tomorrow.
River Report
From United States Ensineers)
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Ferry
and clear at Great Falls: Shenan6nsh
clear at Harpers Ferry.
Temperature and Humidity.
tHeadings at Washington National Airport. }
Evening star., 1946-01-17

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 65, on January s.
Lowest. lS, on January l6,
Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast and
Evening star., 1946-01-17
The Sun and Mo,

Monthly precipitation in inches
Capital tcurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1946-01-17
Decorated

Capt. Alfred C. Richmond, U. S
c. G., whose home is at 1865 North
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1946-07-12
Editorial
HURRAH FOR TOWN BOdRD

No one knows vet just how far the
towns proposed Improvement program
will 90. 1t may all end with nothing
more than what we have now IN the
WAY of good streets, fire protection
Tharough sewage system ct cetera.
But lust to know that the town beard
ism sitting still and letting things DRIFT
along without thought or care Is
something to be happy about.
The board is at least trying to get
something that the town needs badly.
1t is making every effort although 1t
knows now that to carry through the
complete program would cost consider
able money. 1t also knows that some
money would have to be added to that
which might be procured from the Ted
eral government before the project could
he tackled. This additional money would
undoubtedly have to be raised through
the selling of town bonds. 1t knows
also that a few hard heads would kick
about the spending, there are always
few people whc had rather see the town
stay like it was 10 years ago, just
train stop.
But the board also knows that the
vast majority Of townspeople would
like to see the proposed Improvement
program go through. Furthermore, the
town board doesn't believe that too
much trouble would be encountered IN
selling the bonds should the proposals
get to such Il stage.
The Tribune is glad to see town
board that is alive to the needs OF Tabor
CITY. Our town had to wait during the
war when many Improvements we're
needed. 1t is now seeing some hight,
some hope that it may be able to beautl-
fv its streets and make of Tabor City
a better, safer, more healthy place to
live.
Before any steps will be taken. the
proposals will have to 90 through plenty
of red tape. 1t may become entangled
and fall at any one of them. Still, we
don't believe the town would give up
because the board means business and
the men making up its membership are
cf a calibre capable of seeing their
tentative plans become realities.
We are all fer the town board and
believe that the things they are trying
to do are the things that will help US
all.