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WITH TENTH CORPS IN KURE,

WITH TENTH CORPS IN KURE,
JAPAN - Louis E. Binkley, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Binkley, Route
2, Hagerstown, Md, has been pro-
NOTED to Technician Fifth Grade
at Tenth Corps Headquarters, where
he is secretary to the commanding
general.
Entering the army in December,
1914, Corporal Binkley has served
overseas since last June, first in
Leyte and then Zamboanga, both
in the Philippines, and now in
Japan.
He attended the Cearfoss, Md,
Elementary School, the Woodland
Way Junior High School in Ha-
gertown, and is a 1910 graduate of
Hagerstown Senior High School. In
civilian life, he was employed in the
accounting department of American
Fruit Growers, Inc, at Hagerstown.
Tenth Corps now is the Occupa-
ton Force in southwestern Honshu
and Shikoku, Japan, under Eighth
Army. The Corps came to Japan
last October, after campaigns in New
Guinea and the southern Philip
pines.
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County SPCA Meeting

The contribution of the Washing
ton County SPCA to the welfare
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31
back to San Francisco.

Sunday Night $3.50, WEI, at
Happened During The Week."
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31

Officers Attend PIT. A. Congress
Mrs. Milton D, Moore, Mrs. Grace
Downin and Mrs. John Long exec
utive committee officers of the
Maryland Congress of the Parent
teacher association, attended state
meeting at the Lord Baltimore
Hotel in Baltimore recently, at
which plans were furthered for a
two-day conference at the Univer-
sity of Maryland in July.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-01-31

MANILA -- Private First Glass
Charles Leslie Burkett, husband of
Mrs. Nellie Burkett, of Hagerstown,
Md, is now with the 357th Quarter
master Service Company at Taclo-
ban, Leyte, P. l.
The 357th is one of those many
outfits under the Quartermaster
Corps who seem destined to "hide
their light under a basket" as their
achievements receive scant attention
from the press and public during
war time.
The Quartermaster service COM
pany is seldom spectacular. They are
part of the team which must en-
sure the delivery of necessary sup
plies to the men who do the fight
! ing They must accomplish this in
spite of bombings, strafngs, and
artillery fire, and regardless of
weather or terrain. Theirs is the
task of going ashore with the first
assault waves of an invasion and
setting up supply operations on the
beach head.
With the end of hostlities, the job
of the service company is not finish
ed, There are still many troops to
feed, clothe and equip. Vast store of
supplies were concentrated for the
invasion of the Japanese homeland
supplies which must now be pro-
tected from the weather, from rats,
and from pilferers. The service COM
panies will continue to assist until
the task is done.
Pfc. Burkett, who has a step son,
81 Harold Grove, Jr, in the Navy,
entered the service in March 1945
and left the states in August 1915.
With The Sixth Army in Nagoya,
Japan-Sgt. Robert E. Granstaff,
husband of Mrs. Robert E. Grand
staff, R. F. D. No. 3, Hagerstown,
Md, will soon be homeward bound
for discharge. Bob has served rs
months, q of them overseas, where
he was "tops" among the heavy
equipment operators with the
1059th Port Const and Repair
Group, which is attached to Gen
eral Walter Krueger's Sixth Army
engaged in the occupation of Japan.
Sergeant Grandstaff formerly
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worked in the Aircraft Experimental
Dept. of the Fairchild Aircraft Co.
in Hagerstown. He participated in
campaigns on Finchaven, New
Guinea, Biak, San Fernando, and
Luzon. He has received the World
War II Victory Medal, Good Con-
duct Medal, Japanese Occupation
Ribbon, Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon with
2 stars, and the Philippine Liberia
ton Ribbon with / star.
ON THE USS WILKES BARRE
Garland M. Harbaugh, 49,, signal
man, second class, USNR, and Rich
ard F. Jordan, 81, Radioman, third
class, USN, are two Hagerstown,
Md, veterans who are serving on
this light cruiser, a unit of the u.
S. North China Force at Jinsen,
Korea, and Taingtao, Taku and
Chinwangtao, China.
The WILKES-BARRE supported
landings on Luzon, Two Jima, and
Okinawa as a member of Task
Forces 38 and So and participated
on strikes against Japan as part
of the 3rd Fleet. After taking part
in the surrender ceremonies in
Tokyo Bay, she was flagship of a
demilitarization unit which destroy
ed suicide submarines and other Jap
craft in home island waters.
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PACIFIC AIR COMMAND, PHIL
IPPINES - Sergeant Samuel A.
Briom, 1874 North Bethel Street,
Hagerstown, Md, is enroute home
from Pacific Air Command 22nd Re-
placement Depot, Manila,
Overseas six months with the
455th Aviation Squadron, Fifth Air
Force, Sergeant Briom served in the
Nichols and Nelson fields.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1946-05-11
OHIO WAIsENFREUND

oaB mir nidt einmal unleren eisenen
In9eborigen belfen biirfen, boB mir
nitiduloig gema6t peroen am Mor.
De rmieres eigenen 9lutes! Silfe ia,
erob5iisig, tpeitber5is = aber Sill
fe fir alle - briitli6e &ilfe!
Sd idreibe oieie 3eilen in Ser
gsadt bes 9arfreitags, an Dem mir
olle erloit, an Dem Die 8lutsbriioers
lfaft in GbriItrs beitegelt puroe.
garum idIieBe ih nit Dem @ebet,
oos mir beute morsen beionoers nabe
etng: ~2aBt uns beten baB @ott Die
8elt bon alien Srrtiimern reinige,
&ranfbeiten bintpegnebme, Sungerss
not pertreibe, Die &erfer eridlieBe,
Die 6elieln loie, oen 8ilgern Seim-
tebr, oen Sieden @eneiung, ben See
fobrern ben rettenoen Safen i6enfe. "
Die ausfiibrung oes 8ebetes liegt
on uns - oen grloltenl
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1946-05-11

Gem 3eutI Idamerifanert1lm aber
eripo6it Die aufsabe oes groBten
Silfsmerfes fir bie alte Seinat unb
onmit fir europa, bas es in unierer
nationalen @eididte ie gegeben bot.
Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1946-05-11
Die weltberihmte st. Bene.
dict -Wundsalbe

Grprobtes &eilmitteI gegen alle
Arten bon olten i,nb frifden Wu1t.
ben, @eihmiiren, @etpddien, Bib.
w,rnben, Rarbnr1fel1,, ,uitp. 8ttte @eIo
it1ir oatrb 8oit Moneb Or6er at i1if-
Ten. &eine Sbuurps. 60 Gents Die
Shahtel Bel
Evening star., 1946-08-29
Band Leader Benter
Accused Of Auto Sale
Above Ceiling Price
Former Navy Officer
Arrested by OPA Agents;
Pleads Not Guilty

Charles Benter, former leader
OF the Navy Band and now direc-
tor of the Metropolitan Police
Department Band, was arrested
by Office of Price Administration
agents shortly before noon today
on a charge of violating maxi
mum price regulations by selling
1946 Pontiac for $l,120 more
than the ceiling price.
The arrest was made by OPA
Agents Dan Jones and Marshall
Miller with deputy United States
marshals on a United States Com
missioner's warrant charging Benter
An honorary police captain-with
making the illegal sale yesterday
The warrant alleges that he sold the
automobile to Ensign Joseph E
Sisler of the Maritime Service, who
is a resident of Colmar Manor, Md
Arraingned before Commissioner
Turnage shortly after the arrest
Benter pleaded not guilty and the
case was continued until tomorrow
to permit the band leader to confer
with counsel. Bond was set at
$500.
The automobile was sold to the
ensign for $4,000. the OPA charged,
while the ceiling price is Sits. 20.
Where Benter obtained the auto
mobile could not be learned i'm
mediately. The OPA said the war
rant was issued on receipt of a
complaint from the purchaser.
Evening star., 1946-08-29
Durant Conspiracy
Charge Thrown Out
BY the Associo,sd Press

FRANKFURT, Aug. %. - The
prosecution concluded today its case
against Mrs. Kathleen Nash Durant,
charged with larceny and embezzle-
ment of the Kronberg jewel collec-
ton. The military court granted the
defense three-week recess to line
up its witnesses.
The court threw out the con-
spiracy charge against the WAC
captain, approving a defense con-
tention that evidence failed to sup
port it,
Prosecution attorneys said the
War Department had prepared tc
send witnesses for the defense by
air from the United States next
week.
The defense has asked for at least
six witnesses from the United States
Among witnesses sought are Army
officers at Fort Sheridan, Ill. The
defense wishes them to testify in its
effort to show that Mrs. Durant
never was reinducted into the serv-
ice and therefore is not subject to
military court-martial.
Dispositions also are sought by the
defense from the defendants sister
Eileen Lonergan of Hudson, Wis, In
whose home jewels owned by the
royal houses of Hesse and Hohen-
zoIern were found. The defense
wants to show that military police
took the jewels without a proper
search warrant and obtained from
the WAC waiver of her rights In
this respect "by coercion"
Evening star., 1946-08-29
Ministers Start From Scratch
In Effort to End Peace SnorI
No Hint of Proposals as Meeting Begins;
Moy Attempt to Trim Treoty Amendments
By NewboId Moves, Jr
stor sioff Correspondent

PARIS, Aug. 29.-The question
in every ones mind as the Big
Four Foreign Ministers Council
met here today was: What can
the Ministers produce by way of
"a plan to speed up the work of
the Peace Conference?
1t is not an easy question to
answer. The truth seems to be that
they are simply going to sit down
together and try to figure out what
they can do to push things along
So far as is known now, none of
them has in mind project to sell
to the others.
However. even cursory study of
what has gone on so far in Paris sug-
gests few ideas which might pro-
duce the desired aceeleration. The
obvious answer-that the thing which
would help most is for Russia and
the West to agree to get along for a
while-may fairly be ruled out In
this connection. There obviously is
little likelihood that Secretary OF
Evening star., 1946-08-29
'5enatorstoInyestigate
Gifts 10 Sponsors Of
5000. Wartime Ships
Mead Committee Seeks
How Much They Cost
And Who Paid for Them

The size of the bill for Amer
ica's 5000 wartime ship launch
ings, which included such item;
as gifts of iewelry for the spon-
sors, champagne for the chris
tening, corsages and dinner
parties, will be checked by thu
Senate War Investigating Com
mittee to determine who paid
for it all.
Records of all the launchings and
the costs involved in sending this
country's mighty merchant feet
down the ways have been requested
by the committee from the Mari
time Commission.
Names to Be Revealed.
Maritime officials said they hope
to complete within two weeks an
itemiZed statement, including the
names of the feminine sponsors who
broke bottles on the prows of the
thousands of vessels, along with a
'dollar-by dollar account of the ex-
penseS OF the ceremonies.
The Senate committees investi-
cation next month is expected to be
followed by another study of the
same costs by the House Merchant
Marine Committee.
Accounting procedures and othel
fiscal methods of the commission
have been under investigation by
the committee for several months
At hearings during July, there were
(See WAR PROFITS Page ALL
Evening star., 1946-08-29
Charges Filed Against Two
Held for Month by Reds
BY the Assoeiatsd Press

BERLIN, Aug. 29.--Two Ameri-
can officers, who were held almost
q month by the Russians on ac-
cusations of spying after they hac
illegally entered the Russian zone
were charged by the United States
Army today with violating an order
prohibiting unauthorized trave.
into another occupied zone
Capt. Harold Goblin of New York
City and Second 1t. George E
Wyatt of Oklahoma City will be
tried by a general court martial in
early September under Article OF
War 96. which forbids "a disorder
and neglect to the prejudice of good
order and military discipline" the
Army announced.
Capt. Goblin and 1t. Wyatt dis
appeared into the Russian zone or
July 4, Despite American Army
representations the Russians dis
claimed all knowledge OF their
whereabouts. On July 80. however
the Russians turned them over tc
American authorities.
Evening star., 1946-08-29
Col. Kiion Convicted and Fined
For Permitting Cruelty to GIs
LichfieId Commander
Is Fined $500 and
Given Reprimund
BY the Associoted Press


BAD NAUHEIM, Germany, Aug.
29.-Col. James A. Kilian of
Highland Park, ILL.,, former COM
mander of the United States
Army's replacement depot at
Lichfield, England, was convicted
today of permitting cruel and
unusual punishment of Amer
lean soldiers imprisoned in the
depot guardhouse.
Col. Kilian was fined $500 and
reprimanded by the seven officer
military court. The court convicted
him after two hours deliberation at
the end of the 10-week trial.
Col. Kilian was acquitted of aid
ing and abetting" cruelties for which
nine enlisted guards and three sub
ordinate officers have been convicted
The court-martial cleared him also
OF charges of knowingly permitting
crueltieS.
The colonel had testified that if
prisoners at Lichtield We're mis-
treated, he knew nothing about it.
The court found that Col. Kilian
had permitted these punishments
Striking prisoners with fists and
clubs, kicking them in the body, or
forcing them to stand nose and toes
against wall or in other strained
positions for protracted periods.
More than score of soldier wit
nesses, most of them former prison.
ers of the Lichfield guardhouse,
testified about such punishment
Col. Kilian received the Legion
of Merit in October, 1914, for "ex-
ceptionally meritorious service as
a replacement depot commander
More than 100000 American soldiers
had passed through the Lichfield
depot before the Battle of the Bulge.
Evening star., 1946-08-29

State Byrnes. British Foreign Min
lister Bevin, Russian Foreign Min
lister Molotov and French President
Georges Bidault. who have been
slugging it out for month now al
the Luxembourg Palace, will resolve
their basic differences in a few
hours of chatting.
But it is good guess that, in the
course of their conversation, they
will consider at least some of the
possible prescriptions for the ailine
conference which have occurred te
observers of the proceedings ir
which they have played leading
role.
Perhaps the most obvious of these
is that 1t would help the work ii,
treaty commissions lot If the For
eign Ministers went over the list OF
more than 200 amendments to the
treaty drafts which have been pre-
sented by conference member states
In order to see, even before these
1see MOVES, Page A-6.5
Evening star., 1946-08-29
Russian Prejudice
On 1ransjordan's S
u. n. Bid Charged
Australia AssuiIs Stond
Attributed to Lack of
Diplomatic Relations
BY the Associoted Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Aug.
29.-Paul Hasluck, Australian
delegate to the United Nations
Security Council, today charged
Soviet Russia with prejudice" in
refusing to accept Transjordan S
application for U. N. member
ship because the Soviets have no
diplomatic relations with that
country.
The Council, considering eight
applications on the last day In
which it may complete action for
the September meeing of the Gen
eral Assembly, ran into a snarl
when Australia, the Netherlands
the United States, Egypt. Great
Britain and China challenged An
! drei A. Gromyko. Soviet delegate. to
explain his stand
Mr.. Hasluck said the Transjordan
application would fail now through
the veto because it does not have
relations with Russia.
Mexico Questions Stand.
Declaring that the Council men,
bers have responsibility to all U. N.
members and not solely to their
own governments, Mr.. Hasluck said
1--WE cannot on grounds that
amount ). to prejudice" reject any
nation.
Mexico also joined in questioning
Russia's stand.
Mr.. Gromyko replied briefly to the
delegates with the statement that
1t seemed to him he was clear
enough on his motives and that he
had nothing to add.
Gromyko Cites Support.
China and Soviet Russia today
supported the application of the
Mongolian Peoples Republic for ad-
mission to the U. N. and thus diff
fered openly with the United States
ana Great Britain on the second of
eight applications to be taken up by
the Council
When discussion on Albania, to
which the United States was op-
posed, was completed with a brief
parliamentary skirmish in which
the Council decided to vote on all
applications at the end of the de-
bate, Outer Mongolia was taken up.
DR.. c. L. Hsia, Chinese delegate,
said China was prepared to sup
port Outer Mongolia "if we ever
come to the voting China orig
inally had recommended the ap-
plication wait until next year for
the U. N. to know Outer Mongolia
more intimately
Mr.. Gromyko cited support given
the Red Army by Outer Mongolia
The British and United States
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Evening star., 1946-08-29
Temperatures Dip
To 3Os in Midwest
ey the Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO, Aug. "a foretaste
OF autumn spread over the Middle
West today as temperatures in three
States dipped into the 3os or below.
Land OLakes. Wis, reported q
minimum reading of 26 degrees, ac-
companied by light frost. Other
low temperatures included SO at st.
Cloud, Mimi, 81 at Wausau, Wis, SO
at Spencer, Iowa and 80 at Madison
Wis.
The forecast for Chicago, which
had low of So last night, was for
a minimum of As tonight. The
Weather Bureau said this would
represent the coolest August in the
bureaus history in Chicago. The
previous record was 46.9 degrees on
August 25, 1917.
No immediate change was in sight
as a mass of cold air from central
Canada blanketed the Nations mid
section.
Federal forecasters said the cool
weather extended from Illinois and
Indiana northwest into the Dakotas
and Montana and the Plains States.
They said the cold mass, moderat-
ing as it moves southwark, was ex-
pected TO extend into Ohio, Ken
lucky and Tennessee.
Evening star., 1946-08-29
Rail Transport Crisis
|Win Close Factories,
'0DT Director Says
Lines Cannot Handle
All Freight Expected
In Fall and Winter
By the Associoied Press

ODT Director J. Monroe john
son declared today that the i'm
pending transportation crisis
will compel some factories to
shut down or curtail operations
this fall and winter
"The railroads simply cannot han
die all the traffic which will be Of
fered them during coming months -
the Office of Defense Transportation
chief said in an interview.
$50 when the storage facilities of
industrial plants are filled, they'll
just have to close down or curtail
operations until they can move their
goods
Predicting that "it will take long
time to move the freight backlog
which will accumulate during the
fall and winter" Col. johnson
added:
The railroads will still be moving
this years wheat crop when the
next crop ripens. There is pressure
on the transportation system from
all sides of the economy. We're try
ing to build more of everything and
to haul it as fast as possible-from
primary to secondary producers and
then to the consumers.
Col. johnson said he is preparing
an order "to compel the railroads to
handle railroad freight cars with
more efficiency
While refusing to specify its ma
ture, he said the effect of the order
will be to make available an addi-
tional $4,000 freight cars a week
On Tuesday Reconversion Director
John r. Steelman ordered several
Government agencies, including the
.ODT, to take emergency action to
prevent "a transportation crisis"
But Col Johnson said today, "All
we can do is to reduce the paucity
|of freight cars. not eliminate it. We
shall be in a terrible fix in trans
portation until May"
Evening star., 1946-08-29
DC. .NovyC Captain sWife Killed
In Calvert Street Bridge Leap
Mrs. Armand }. Robertson Was Mother of 2;
Husband, Pacific Veteran, on Duty in Jopon
(Picture on Page B-1.l

Mrs. Armand J. Robertson, AZ,
wife of a Navy captain now serv-
ing in Japan and mother of two
children, plunged 100 feet to her
death from Calvert Street
Bridge at 730 am. today.
The coroner's Office said it would
issue a certificate of suicide later
today.
Mrs. Robertson, whose younger
child, Jeanne, was born at George
town Hospital only four months ago
left her home at 1924 Legation street
NV, an hour before the fatal
plunge, according to members of her
family.
Police were told Mrs. Robertson
had been under treatment of DR.
Robert H. Groh, 1000 block of r
street NV, for a nervous disorder
since the birth of the child. Neigh
bors, however, told reporters the
attractive. red-haired Mrs, Robert
Evening star., 1946-08-29
By George Kennedy
The Athens incident recalls a

The Athens incident recalls a
fiction serial that attracted much
attention in a popular weekly
magazine just after World War I.
1t was written by Samuel G.
Blythe, a brilliant Washington
correspondent of that day. That
was in the aftermath of the
muckrakers, when the Tammany
Tiger and Lincoln Steffens' THE
Shame of the Cities were much
on peoples minds.
Good government groups COM
pared their cities to philadelphia
Corrupt and Contented" as they
debated whether the commission
form of government or the city
manager plan was the better cure.
Mr.. Blythe's story told how group
OF clean-cut and upright dough-
boys returned from France TO q
city Of about 800, 900 population
Evening star., 1946-08-29

son always appeared in good spirits
She loved that baby girl" a
neighbor said. "She hardly ever let
the child out of her arms
Capt. Robertson left Washington
about three weeks ago. it was said,
to assume command of the cruiser
Chicago, based at Yokosuka. Japan
The other child, James, 9, also lives
at the Legation street address.
Police were unable to account for
Mrs. Robertson's movements after
she left her home at $50 am, ito
take a walk" An unidentified per-
son called police shortly after 7::3o
m. to say that woman had jumped
from the Calvert Street Bridge. but
investigators could not locate any
one who witnessed the plunge.
Commodore A. T. Sprague, hus-
band of the dead woman's sister-in-
law, met Detective Sergt. j. o. Cur
tis of the Homicide Squad at the
Evening star., 1946-08-29

Col Kilian's former adjutant and
a former chaplain at Lichf1eld were
among the men who testified in his
defense.
The chaplain, Capt. William I
Comfort, said prisoners occasionally
got showed around" but that there
was no actual mistreatment. He
said ANY man in a guardhouse viii
say he's mistreated."
The adjutant, 1t. Col. Robert
Norton of Mountain View, N. j.
testified he never saw any evidence
|of prisoners being treated cruelty
at the Lichfield guardhouse.
Col. Kilian himself remarked early
in the Lichf1eld trials: There must
have been something wrong al
Lichfield which was concealed from
me. 1t looks like they have passed
the ball to the old man
He is 55 years old. He was borr
in Nebraska, obtained a degree al
the University of Missouri in 1914
and served as an officer in both thu
First and Second World Wars
Evening star., 1946-08-29

and threw corrupt political ma
chine out of power.
Mr.. Blythe wrote his story as a
blueprint for action. 1t described
the techniques Of raising campaign
funds, getting out the vote and
'enlisting public interest. 1t was a
bangup story ending with fist
fights at the polling places as the
ex-soldiers. husky and athletic from
their military training. punched the
noses of the thugs trying to steal
the election. 1t remained fiction.
When the doughboys came home
nothing like that happened any
where.
Athens did happen. The veterans
OF McMinn County had no political
experience but they learned fast.
Three Of them held a meeting with
three businessmen in Athens, the
county seat, In April to plan a con-
test for the five elective county
Continued on Page A, Column i