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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-12-13
B.ULLE I 1 N 5

WARSAW Elliott Roosevelt and his wife have arrived here by airplane from Moscow They expect to see President Boleslaw Bierut, Premier Edward B. Osubka-M Nor awski and other government lead CTS.
 SHANGHAI - The U. s. Graves Registration Service today announc- ed it has recovered in China the remains of nearly 5000 of Americas war dead for shipment to the United States Included are the ashes of 140 cremated American airmen and prisoners. of war.
 OTTAWA Canada's Army. Navy and Air Departments, under sep arate ministers during the war, were back on a pre-war basis under a single defense minister today after a series of cabinet changes.
 CARACAS, Venezuela-- President Romulo Betancourts government announced today leaders of the short-lived revolution of a few mili- tary aviators had been arrested and that the Hast small pocket of re- sistance in the interior is elimin- ated."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-12-13
FIREPROOFING CHRISTMAS
 TREES

Apropos of Christmas, don't for get about fireproofing your Christ mas tree A Yule tree needn't be
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-12-13
IDAHO VISITORS

Bessie M. Little and Della L. Pearson from Jerome, Idaho are staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-12-13
0LDIIMERS, Y0UNGUMS
 WILL BOWL TONIGHT


 There is to be a great bowling game on the Elks alless tonight. starting at o'clock The Oldtimers are to meet the youngsters and show 'em up.
 Oldtimers are Henning, Met calf. Stewart, Carnegie and Holm quist.
 The small fry are Hagerup, Me Kinnon, Barragar, Snow and Burke
 PEIPING = Chinese Communists attacked government forces IS miles from Dairen, said unconfirmed re- ports today but were driven off after two days,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-12-13

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Evening star., 1946-06-01
Statesmen's Window
AT Cathedral Unveiled

The statesmen's window in the
north tranSept of Washington
Cathedral now may be viewed by
the public.
The stained-glass work, symbolic
ing principles underlying the
Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution, was unveiled yes
terday in dedicatory services led by
the Very Rev. John Wallace Suter,
dean.
The unveiling was done by James
P. Berkeley, senior verger, and
George Walcott of Rye, N. Y, a
member of the boys choir and pupil
at st. Adams School.
The window, designed and made
by Wilbur H. Burnham and Joseph
G. Reynolds, jr., of Boston, Mass,
depicts Thomas jefferson, James
Madison, the Supreme Court in
session, the swearing-in of a Pres
ident of the United States, Colo
NAL soldier, the Liberty Bell, the
American eagle, Minute Man with
family, a British "redcoat" and
other historical subjects.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
BY the Assoeiated Press

FRANKFURT, June Limited
States Army intelligence officers
said today that 1t. Gen. Andrei A.
Vlassov, termed Russias No. l ma
tive-born war criminal, was secretly
handed over to the Red Army a year
ago and that his fate is mystery
to the Western Allies.
Releasing hitherto confidential
information, the Americans said the
once-honored former Soviet Army
commander was reported to have
been turned over to the Russians by
CzechoSloVak authorities after he
was taken prisoner in Prague May
), l945.
1T would be interesting to know
what happened to him afterward
and what his status is" these Off
GERS SAID.
Since Vlassov's capture. thousands
of his saber- welding Cossacks.
whom he led against the Red Army
he once served. have been sent back
to their homeland to face Soviet
justice.
Speculation as to VlaSsovs where
abouts has circulated since his dis
appearance at the end of the war
Only last week, French reports said
he and a woman friend had been
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Third Canadian Sentenced
In Espionage Ring Probe
BY the Associo'ed Press

OTTAWA, June edward MAJ
erall, 30, former National Research
Council engineer, was sentenced to-
day to four years in prison for
conspiring to break the Official
Secrets Act of 1899 a charge which
arose from inquiry into the Soviet
operated espionage ring in Canada
Mazerall betrayed no emotion. He
was the third to be sentenced among
IA Canadians detained in connec-
ton with the espionage activities
He was convicted May % by a 12-
man jury after a Today trial.
Prosecution evidence showed he
had given for the use of Russia
two radar documents taken from
the Canadian Research Council. The
defense contended that Russia could
have obtained them herself If she
had asked for them officially.
Only one of the original IA, Dr.
David Shugar. has been discharged
from court for lack of sufficient evi-
dence to commit him for trial.
He now is working for the Health
Department.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Striking Canadian Seamen
Drive Crew From Ship
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

s OTTAWA, June 1.-Approxi-
mately rs striking seamen boarded
a Canada Steamship Lines freighter
in the Welland Canal near Port Cor
borne in the predawn darkness to-
day and forced the nonunion crew
to leave the vessel.
The strikers also attempted to
board a passenger vessel in the
canal, but were thwarted when they
discovered all possible entrances had
been closed and the rails and
hawsers creased.
Seven men were injured last night
in f1areups resulting from the strike.
Six were hospitalized after an
outbreak of violence at a Cornwall
restaurant involving nonunion sea-
men from Montreal, unionists and
police. Another man suffered
wound in the right leg and a pos
sible fracture of the nose in a melee
at Montreal when 200 pickets board
ed a freighter in the Lachine Canal.
J. A. Sullivan, president of the
Canadian Seamen's Union, sent a
telegram today to Labor Minister
Humphrey Mitchell charging that
police shot at strikers on the
Lachine Canal and demanding that,
the police be ordered of all Gov
ernment property.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
No. Soviet ruitor Given Over
To Reds by Czechs, Yunks Say

picked up trying to leave" the
American occupation zone.
The last reports to the United
States Army from its agents were in
midsummer last year.
These said that Vlassov, who COM
manded the Red Army on the
Smolensk front to 1941 and who
switched to the Nazi cause when he
was captured, and an infantry regi-
ment of pro-German Cossacks moved
into Prague on May 5, l945, under
agreement to surrender.
The United States intelligence re-
port said VlaSsov and some of his
men, believed to number about 200
were turned over to the Russians on
their arrival few days later.
BY the time our units came into
Prague, Vlassov had disappeared
and we never have been able to find
out what happened to him." Amer
lean officers said.
Since the first of the year, Amer
ican authorities have turned over to
Russia three trainloads of VlaSSov' S
men, captured by American forces
When the first transfer of these
prisoners was made, under provisions
of the Yalta agreement. IL Russians
killed themselves and 81 others at
tempted suicide rather than undergo
repatriation.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Mead Criticizes Services
For Prosecuting '1ipsters'
BY the Associoted Press

Chairman Mead of the Senate
War Investigating Committee de-
manded yesterday that the armed
forces protect rather than prosecute
persons who tip off Congress on
regularities in the armed forces.
His statement came as the COM
mittee dug into the case of John M.
Curley, a civil service employe. Mr.
Curley had furnished the committee
with the tip which led to an inquiry
into the disappearance of nearly
100000 in bomber equipment from
the naval air station at San Juan.
Senator Mead maintained that a
half dozen naval officers received
only letters of reprimand after being
found responsible for the loss. He
said Mr.. Curley was singled out
for criminal prosecution on a charge
of using $3.50 worth of Government
wood and labor to build furniture
for his house
Rear Admiral Paul F. Foster
assistant naval inspector general
said the charge against Mr.. Curley
was brought by some of his fellow
civilian workers against whom he
lodged accusations of misappropriat-
ing naval property.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Nazi Says His Men Stole
Rings From Yanks' Bodies
By the Associofed Press

DACHAU, Germany, June IA
former SIS major said in a state
ment introduced at the Malmedy
massacre trial today that he had
ordered his men to shoot eight un-
armed American prisoners in the
Battle of the Bulge, but chided them
afterward for stealing rings from
the bodies.
The major, gustiv Knittel. ex-
planned that he feared looting of the
dead might bring bad luck. Knittel
is one of the "A defendants on trial.
The statement, presented by the
prosecution, said the major decided
to kill the prisoners because his unit
was cut off on all sides and he had
been moved spiritually by the
death of his bravest noncommis-
snoned officer.
Mrs. Regina Gregoire of Stavelot,
Belgium. sair she was among wom-
en-, Is children and men driven out
of cellar and accused of shooting
at German soldiers. When the Bel
gians denied the charge, she testi-
fled, the Germans opened fire with
pistols and killed 10 of the group.
Jean Elias, a former member of
the Belgian resistance movement,
told of finding the bodies of 13 of his
neighbors, ranging in age from l to
81 years, who had been killed by SIS
troops
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Truman Receives Report
On Army-Navy Merger
BY the Associoted Press

President Truman received from
the War and Navy Departments late
yesterday the report he asked for Oh
efforts of the two services to COM
pose their differences over unifica-
ton.
Indications were that Secretary of
War Patterson and Secretary of the
Navy Forrestal were able to report
progress in some details. but there
was no immediate hint whether the
Navy had receded from it's opposi-
tion to creation of a single Depart
ment of National Defense.
The report, which Mr.. Truman
directed the two Secretaries and
their principal advisers to prepare
May 13, went to the White House
after Mr.. Patterson cut short an
inspection trip at Fort Sill, Okla.
and returned to the Capital by air to
agree to the final draft.
The President told his news con-
ference he would discuss the subject
further with the two Secretaries on
Tuesday.
One indication that some of the
differences may have been settled
came from Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz, chief of naval operations.
who told reporters at the Governors
Conference at Oklahoma City this
week that we are getting closer
together"
Evening star., 1946-06-01
| Pullman Sleeper
| Evicted by Police
| After IL Months

Charlie Saffold, -, colored, who
found way to solve the housing
problem, had a complaint of his
own today in Municipal Court, when
he was arraigned on a charge of
trespassing on railroad property. F.
They done broke up my home"
said Saffold, arrested Thursday
night by police who said he was
sleeping in a Pullman car at the
Pennsylvania Railroad yards. -"
I'm an old railroad man." ex-
planned Saffold, who said he now
worked for the Ebbit Hotel. L
couldn't find a room. and I've been
sleeping in the cars down there for
a year and half"
Saffold added he slept in the
cars through the courtesy of care
taker whom he helped out from
time to time. Police denied that
employees knew Saffold was making
his home with the railroad.
Il hope this doesn't get out" said
Judge Thomas Dewey Quinn. An
the people who are looking for rooms
will be running down there"
The judge suspended a IS fine,
for Saffold and ordered him to md
sleeping quarters elsewhere.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Air Pilot Insurance Rates
Low, Companies Declare
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, June 1.-Contention
of airline pilots that the hazardous
nature of their occupation justifles
wage increases was met yesterday
with testimony that extra premium
charges on life insurance were con-
siderably higher for many ground
workers than for pilots.
Edward I. Whyatt, executive vice
president of Northwest Airlines, tes-
titled before a presidential fact-find-
ing board hearing a dispute between
Airlines Pilots Association (AFL)
and Transcontinental and Western
Air, Inc, that railroad workers pay
twice as much in extra premiums,
laborers in candy factories twice as
much, while bartenders and street
cleaners are assessed four times as
much.
He said excess insurance rates to
pilots are $3.50 a thousand against
$50 in 1881. The death rate of pilots.
he said. dropped from % to 1000
during 1881 to 1884 to 3 in 1000 in
1945.
James H. Carmichael, executive
vice president of Pennsylvania Gen.
tral Airlines, another witness, said
pilots average a half
day work week and that many of his
acquaintances supplement their in
comes in other jobs.
One pilot in his own company, he
testified, operates dairy farm which
represented a S150,OO0 investment.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Meat Quote Is Failure,
Swift Official Asserts
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, June Paul C
Smith, vice president of Swift e. Co.
said yesterday that OPA controls
have failed to stem a raging
black market" and that as a result
his company's business reached ar
all-time low this week.
Swift purchases totaled $500 head
of cattle this week-17 per cent OF
the OPA quota" Mr.. Smith said.
These were all we could buy and
stay in compliance with OPA regu-
lations,' he said. Government re-
ports show that most of the cattle
sold at live stock markets this week
were above compliance prices"
Mr.. Smith said the company could
buy no cattle at Kansas City, where
its quota was 1,500; purchased 81
head for its East st. Louis Ill.)
plant, which had a 1,400 quota
bought 200 at Fort Worth against a
quota of nearly $500, and obtained
203 at Chicago, where it's plant S
quota is 1000.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Union Station Aide Retires
After 35 Years to Go Fishina

Wyche C. Tilghman. assistant
stationmaster since March, 1918. and
in the railroad business more than
80 years, started Ito take it easy
today and looked forward to a few
trips. But he will go by automobile
instead of train and go fishing in
stead of sightseeing, he said
He and Stationmaster w H. Marks
ended long official association last
midnight when Mr.. Tilghman re-
tired from the Union Station post.
They met in September, 1907, when
Mr.. Tilghman started as gateman at
the old Sixth street terminal of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. They were
transferred two months later to the
newly opened Union Station.
Mr.. Tilghman, born in Greene
County, N. c., IS years ago, came to
Washington in 1895. He worked for
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
for several years He went into the
railroad business early in 1907 as
clerk for the Southern Railroad.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
More Towns Reported
Captured by Chinese
By the Assoeinted Press

PEIPING, June 1.-Gen. Tu Ii
ming reported today that, govern
ment troops captured several more
towns as they expanded their push
northeast from Szepingkai.
The vanguard of Gen. Tus Man
churian Corps. moving north from
Panshih, reached Yentungshan. An
other unit captured Haishihcheng
and HWatien, 40 miles northeast of
Panshlh, said Gen. Tu's newspaper,
Hsin Shen Pao. Tsingyuan, midway
between Mukden and Panshih on
the Mukden- -Harbin Railroad. also
was reported seized
Meanwhile, the Ministry of In
formation said Communist activity
In Shantung and Hopeh Provinces,
including three-prong drive on
TSinan, had halted.
Through train service on the
Shanhaikwan-Mukden Railroad was
resumed today.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
House Unit to ChuIIenoe
MihuiIovich Trial Setup
BY the Associoted Pres.

Representative Mundt. Republi-
can. OF South Dakota said Yesterday
that a House Foreign Affairs sub
committee will recommend next
week that Gen. Draja Minailovich
Yugoslav guerrilla leader, be tried
by an international tribunal.
Mr.. Mundt told the House the
subcommittee will not express an
opinion as to whether or no
Minsilovich collaborated with Axis
powers during the war, but will
voice opposition to his trial on such
charges by the Yugoslav govern
ment.
The Yugoslav Government, now
headed by Marshal Tito, is sched-
uled to start the trial June 10 in
Belgrade.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Italy
Continued From First Page.

sembly. also to be chosen in tomor-
rows .balloting, had completed a
new constitution.
The new referendum, the King
said, could be "in any form of
popular representation the Con-
stitutent Assembly might propose.
All Citizens Could Vote.
Then many passions would be
allayed," he said, many who today
are perplexed would have had time
to make well-pondered choice
Then all italian citizens, even those
of frontier territories such as
(Venezia Giulia, still under Allied
occupation) now excluded from the
right of voting, even prisoners .oi
war still awaiting to return home
could vote as all of us fervently
desire"
The lone disorder reported was
the explosion of bomb in front OF
the Chamber of Labor in Bologna.
The contest is expected to center
between the Catholic Christian
Democrats and the Socialists. Oh,
servers believe the Communists have
lost ground here during the last two
wears,
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Conferees Back Trumun
Stand on Movinq Jews

President Truman's stand favor
ing immediate transfer of 100000
homeless Jewish survivors of Naziism
to Palestine was indorsed by the
second annual conference of the
American Christian Palestine Com
mittee held in Ocean City, N. J.
Among those attending the three
day conference which ended yester-
day were DR.. Frederick c. Reissig.
executive secretary of the Washing
ton Federation of Churches, and
Mrs. Walter Clay Lowdermilk, lee
turer on international relation and
Middle East affairs.
While commencing Mr.. Truman's
stand, the conference warned that
the State Department. failure to
insist on that policy is causing wide
spread dissatisfaction.
Evening star., 1946-06-01

Before becoming assistant station
master at Union Station he was ar
usher for the Washington Terminal
Co., stationmaster's clerk and ticket
examiner.
AS assistant stationmaSter he
dealt with crowds and inconven-
fences of two wars and, as he said
today, listened to a fascinating but
often trying procession of COM
plants. questions and appeals. But
in the "old days he added, the
tempo and troubles were mild as
compared with those of recent years
Associates said Mr.. Tilghman was
proficient in finding misplaced ar
ticles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tilghman and their
son, Walter E. Tilghman, have lived
at 1914 w stf-t Sc. for almost IS
years. Mr.. Tllghm6n said his plans
as of today are Just to take it easy
tor a while" He intends to drive
occasionally to Moorehead City, N
c., for fishing.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Truman S Labor Policy.
Hit by Robson at
Negro Congress Rally
BY the Associoted Press

DETROIT, June l.-Outspoken
condemnation of President Tru-
mans labor and foreign policies was
voiced by Paul Robson, colored
singer, and other speakers at the
Negro freedom rally sponsored last
night by the National Negro Con-
gress.
About $500 delegates to the Con-
gress' 10th anniversary convention
heard Mr.. Robson, in a radio ad-
dress. call the present administra-
ton the willing tool of corporate
reaction, turning with ever greater
candor to the oppression of our peo-
Pile
Our Government is no longer the
friend of labor and the Negro people.
as during the days of the great
Roosevelt" he added. 1T is decid-
edly not an instrument through
which the will of the American peo-
pie can be achieved
Also appearing on the speakers
platform under banner carrying
the conventions slogan "A Death
Blow to Jim Crow were George
Adde's. secretary treasurer of the
CIO United Auto Workers, and Ben
iamin Davis. jr.. colored member OF
the New York City Council
Mr.. Davis declared that the forces
of imperialism are moving us into
another war and added:
I'VE want to say to the Truman
administration that We do not want
such a war"
Mr.. Adde's told the delegates the
UAW-CIO was launching "a new
all-out effort to secure General
Motors signature to national
agreement banning Jim Crow prac-
tices in all General Motors plants. .
He said union had hoped to in
clude such an agreement in the
settlement terms of the recent strike
in GIN plants, and expressed regret
that the strike ended without such
an announcement other than a
promise by GIN to give the union a
letter to the effect that they do not
discriminate
Evening star., 1946-06-01

the secretary general submitted an
unsolicited opinion on the Iranian
case.
Some of the delegates charged
privately that he had overstepped
his authority and contended that
he was purely an administrative
officer. Mr.. Lie, however, argued
he had the power to intervene in
cases before the Council.
The ruling still must be approved
by the Council before it becomes
effective, but since each of the II
nations on the Council is represented
on the committee of experts there
was little doubt that approval would
be given.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
'Chrys|er Workers
Open Drive for New
Increase in Wages
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

DETROIT, June 1.-Ofhcials of
Chrysler Local 7, C1O United
Auto Workers, have disclosed
that their $500 members have
begun drive for another wage
increase to supplement the 1917
cent hourly increase granted by
the company January 26.
Norman Matthews national direc-
tor of the JAWS Chrysler depart
ment, said yesterday the JAWS Ex-
ecutive Board would meet at Cleve-
land next week to discuss possible
demands for a blanket review of all
Chrysler wage classiflcations.
Local said in a resolution, re-
leased by Nick de Gaetano, chair
man of the locals Education Com
mittee, that rising living costs long
ago evaporated the original 1877
cent raise"
Observers foresaw in the units
action the beginning of new drive
for increased wages throughout the
auto industry and pointed to recent
blasts by UAW President Walter P.
Reuther against OPA approval of
increases in auto prices.
No official word was forthcoming
on the amount of the proposed new
increase, but usually reliable
source indicated it would be about
an additional 1872 cents.
Mr.. Matthews asserted he already
has filed three requests with Chrys-
ler Corp. for meetings to discuss
wage increases for low bracket
workers in Chrysler plants" but de-
clined to elaborate as to whether he
will support the proposed general in
crease for Chrysler's workers.
Company officials were unavail-
able for comment.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
Bank Is Too Busy,
So Thieves Take
$500 in Coins
BY the Associotsd Press

BALTIMORE, June Each time
William Fleckenstein emptied the
coins from the peanut vending ma
chine in his store he would toss
them into a lard can.
After 10 years, he had filled three
cans, each so heavy he could barely
lift it.
He tried to bank the coins Mon
day, but was told that the tellers
did not have time to count out the
estimated $4,000 In small change
and to come back another time.
Thieves broke into the store. he
told police, and took the cans and
coins.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
.Greenberg 10 Speak
AT Center Toniqht

Hank Greenberg, Detroit Tiger
first baseman. will be the principal
speaker at the Jewish Community
Center's annual boys athletic night
at $50 o'clock tonight in the Cafritz
Auditorium, Sixteenth and @ streets
NV. Members of the Washington
baseball team will be present and
there also will be a number of
entertainers on the program at
which Adlai Mann will preside.
Awards will be presented by Leo
Schlosberg to individual and team
champions of the current season at
the center Edward Rosenblum,
executive director, is in charge of
arrangements.
The Jewish Community Center's
juniors and intermediates will hold
a play day at ais pm. tomorrow
at grove %, Rock Greek Park.
Evening star., 1946-06-01
lroqi Cabinet Resigns
In Domestic Dispute
By the Associoted Pres.

BAGHDAD. May 80 Delayed).-
The Iraqi cabinet resigned yesterday
after meeting Senate opposition on
the administration of domestic af-
fairs and new government was Or
ganized by Arshad al Umary, former
Foreign Minister and head of the
Iraqi delegation to the San Fran
cisco Conference.
The cabinet change, effected i'm
mediately after Regent Emir Abdul
1llah's return from the Cairo con-
ference of Arab rulers. was not ex-
pected to alter Iraqs foreign policy
Political observers attached sig
nificance to the failure to include
Baba Ali, son of Mullah Mustafa el
Barzani, leader of several Kurdish
revolts, in the new cabinet