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Evening star., 1946-07-18
Clashes Along Yangfze
Bring Threat Of Huge
Civil War in China
BY the Assoeiofed Press

NANKING, July 18. Rival
Chinese Government and Com
muniSt armies were on the march
along the mighty Yangtze River
today and clashes north of this
vital artery of China posed a
threat of full-scale civil war.
Gen. Chou En-lai, leader of the
Communist delegation in Nankine,
charged the government with "ag-
gressions" and told a press confer
ence local conflicts are blossoming
rapidly into civil war"
Peng Hsueh-pei, minister OF In
formation, denied this and assertc%
that Communist armies inste~
were marching from the north
the Yangtzze, along whose he~,
lie Nanking and the great port
Shanghai
Marshall Flies to See Chang.
If we permit them to adva..
to the Yangtze unopposed," Pc.
declared, we had better start cc~-
sidering moving the capital BIZ
to Chungking wartime capital Il
Western China.D
Gen. George c. Marshall. special
United States envoy, flew to the
summer capital at Kuling to cen
fer with Generalissimo Chang Kaf-
shek and presumably gave him the
latest account OF the deterioratine
situation.
His headquarters said only thai
Gen. Marshall was accompanying
DR.. John Leighton Stuart, new
United States Ambassador, who viii
present his credentials to the gen.
eralissimo. Gen. Marshall is ex-
pected to return to Nanking within
two or three days to resume the
deadlocked negotiations
There was an ominous quiet In
Manchuria, but from reports pour.
ing in little remained in China
proper Of last January's cease-fire
agreement. which Gen. Marshall
hoped to use as a foundation for a
permanent peace.
Fighting North of Shanghai.
Chou said fighting now was con-
centrated north of Shanghai and
northeast of Nanking in Northern
Kiangsu Province, in strategic Shan-
tung on the seaboard farther north.
in Northern Hupeh, which embraces
Peiping and Tientsin, and South
Shansi, just west of Hupeh.
Chou added, however that un-
less the fighting were checked in
this string of eastern provinces the
whirlpool Of war" would draw into
its vortex all Manchuria and ada
cent Jehol Province.
1t was reported reliably that Gen.
Marshall had made no progress in
breaking the government -Commu-
mist deadlock on truce negotiations
before he left to see Chang.
Evening star., 1946-07-18
Government Moves
Ito Force Hard-to-Get
Goods Onto Market
Rx the Associated Press

The Government set out today
to squeeze hard-to-get goods like
washing machines and refrig-
orators out Of factory stockrooms
and into retail stores.
At the same time, it stood ready
to man the export gates against &
possible outgoing flood of shipments
to foreign buyers who never heare
Of OPA ceilings.
The factory to-Main street order
was issued by the Civilian Produc.
ton Administration last night IL
fear that some manufacturers might
be tempted by the current OPA un'
certainty to hold back their fin.
ished products in the hope of get
ting higher prices.
Limited to 80 Days.
The antihoarding order covers re.
|frigerators, vacuum cleaners, wash
ers, sewing machines, electric
ranges, electrical appliances, gal,
yanized ware, bedding products
Photographic equipment, and GER.
tain scarce building materials.
Manufacturers are forbidden tx
keep on hand more than 80 days
output of those items, or a ''prac.
tical minimum working inventory,
whichever is less
CPA Administrator John d. Small
said manufacturers with bulginf
|storerooms have the choice of "eith.
er increasing sales or curtailing pro-
duction.' This must be done by Au.
gust Is or raw materials and tool
will be cut off.
Export Order Drafted.
What we are after is to see tina
scarce materials go to the manu-
facturer whose finished products g
Immediately to the consumer MI
Small explained, rather than t,
those who plan to withhold manu-.
factured products awaiting possible
price increases"
The proposed export order, which
would put a blanket limit on tn
quantity Of scarce consumer good
being sent abroad. is understood t.
be ready in draft form 1t will no
be issued, however, unless a floor
of exports develops and threaten
to starve American markets, MI
Small has said.
If exports increase only gradually
CPA now believes, the shipment
overseas can be controlled by tn
present system of requiring in
dlvldual export licenses for specific
products. If price control is restored
there probably will be no expor
action at all. =
Evening star., 1946-07-18
Dam
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been fully restored They walked
across the top of the huge structure
and drove in automobiles through
tunnel roads extending the full
length of the dam just below the
water level.
Workmen are now rebuilding the
ipoWerhouse which turned out 3,000,.
900 900 kilowatt hours OF electricity
annually for factories, mines anc
collective farms in the Ukraine anc
elsewhere in Southern Russia.
The river port area above tht
dam, which handled the ma jor share
of the Dneprs prewar freight oi
about 2.000, 900 tons a year. is high
and dry now, but is expected to be
busy again by next April. following
the impounding of the Dnepr's wa
ters.
=Loginoy said thateone of the nine
turbine-generator assemblies would
| be working by December, and the
entire restoration job would be COM
pleted by 1948.
The Russians have bought three
generators from General Electric
and three turbines from Newport
News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Co, Loginov said Part of this
equipment already has reached the
dam, and part is now in Odessa
Harbor.
I'VE have been trying to get three
additional generators from America
making six in all, but costs are hold
ing up the DEAL" he said.
Negotiations now are underway
to buy switches and other spe-
cialized equipment from the Switz-
erland plant of the English Electric
Co, he said, because American
firms cannot make delivery of this
equipment for IA months.
$4,000 Worked Five Years.
The dam, one of the Nazi's prin-
cipal targets when they invaded the
Ukraine in 194l, was completed in
1882. 1t is situated at Zaporozhe,
las miles from the mouth of the
Dnepr Eighteen thousand work
men toiled five years to build the
project, and an American engineer,
Col. Hugh Cooper, served as tech
nical adviser.
1t is concrete and steel structure
Evening star., 1946-07-18

see my attorney. But I learned
afterward that he never saw him. ]
never had heard of Batavia or Erie
Basin and l didn't know anything
about Murray Carson"
Die he mention any Government
contracts?' the chairman asked.
mo, he did not said Senator
Capehart.
That was the only time he ever
saw Carson or talked to him, the
Senator added.
Evening star., 1946-07-18

was being treated unfairly, since he
was receiving no such stipend. He
told the committee Tuesday he was
paid $11 900 a year as Office manager
Many times. Mrs. Hall said, she
heard Mr. May referred to by
Freeman or Murray Carson as
"Yeikle" 1t was a sort of code name
for the House member in the Office,
she said.
One day, she recalled, Freeman
was talking to Henry M. Carson,
directing genius" of the munitions
enterprises, by long distance to
Batavia, III, and asked to be switched
to man named Glazier, who seemed
ito have something D do with
finances of Batavia Metal Products,
Inc. This was another time she was
listening at an interoffice phone and
taking notes, she explained.
"S1 900 for Yeikle.'
Freeman said" she added what
about that piece of paper?' Glazier
didn't appear to understand, and
Mr.. Freeman said, oh, you know
what I mean-that thousand dollars
for Yeikle. GlaZier said he had put
it in the mail the day before, and
Mr.. Freeman reprimanded him for
not having things done on time.
Francis D. Flanagan. associate
committee counsel, interposed that
he had looked up the term ''yeikle"
and found that the correct spelling
was 'yankel"
1T is" he said. "a Yiddish term
meaning Jacob or Little Jack, and
Is used in derisive way"
Referring to Jacobson's frequent
visits to the Office, Mrs Hall said
on one occasion the telephone rang
and Jacobson waved his hands to
indicate he wasn't there. He told
her, she said, If a call ever comes
for me, remember, I'm not here
you don't know me-I've never been
here"
Jacobson would go into a private
Office and talk to Freeman or
Murray Carson, she said
jacobson told the committee he
was there only twice, to pick up
souvenir shells which Erie Basin
and Batavia were distributing Mrs.
Hall said she never recalled his
picking up any shells.
Wanted Elliott Promoted.
Those souvenirs were always de-
livered," she said.
Referring to the list of hoped for
Army promotions and transfers,
Mrs. Hall explained:
Mr.. Freeman didn't tell NE what
would be done with the list, but I
got the impression from what he
said that Mr. May would help out
with it.
Asked if she could recall any
names on the list, she said she could
mot, but she did RENE .nber that
Freeman wanted Col. Lowell Elliott
Iof the Chemical Warfare Service
promoted from lieutenant colonel.
Mr.. May was going to take care
Iof it, she added.
Was anything said about trans
ferring a general from Washington
to the Middle West?"
"Oh, yes" she said, and as recall
lit, he was transferred. And MI
Carson and Mr. Freeman were
sorry afterward They said his
successor was even less coop
erative.'
Visited Mays Office.
Mrs. Hall said Freeman and Muir
ray Carson frequently went to Mr
Mays Office, and number of times
she PACED one or the other there.
She said Freeman, Carson and
Sarelas frequently went to parties
with Army officers and sometimes
Sarelas showed her pictures he had
taken.
Was he an amateur photog-
rapher, too?" asked Chairman
Mead. Il know he's an amateur
singer and actor. He told us So"
Mrs. Hall told the committee she
Evening star., 1946-07-18

got the impression from all that
went on that Mr. May was some
thing of guardian angel for the
company
What made you think that?'
asked Senator Mead
WELL she explained, mo mat
ter what happened they always
consulted Mr., May and seemed to
get help. They would have a prob
lem. and after they talked to him
they seemed very happy again.
Describing the Christmas gifts
she said when she took the silver
vanity case to the apartment OF
Gen. English, which was on Christ
mas eve or the day before, in 1914
she said Murray Carson first called
the general and told him she was
coming Gen. English opened the
door. she said, and when she gave
him the package and said it was
from Carson. he thanked her
Gift for Mrs. Porter.
A similar gift went to the wife
of Mai Gen. William N Porter
chief of the Chemical Warfare
Service at the time, she said
There was another such present for
another generals wife whose name
escaped her, she added.
A lot more vanity cases were pre-
pared for distribution. she recalled
Iand there were cigarette case-com-
pact combinations or either one sep.
arately. which she assumed were fo1
the wives of lesser officer and sec
retarieS.~
Once, she said, Sarelas told her
he had delivered case of liquor to
Maj. Gen. Alden Watt, present
Chemical Warfare chief,
Concerning the alleged $1,000 bill
which Sarelas gave her in sealed
envelope to hand Freeman, Mrs Hal
said she didn't see the money. but il
felt like a bill.
Once, she testified. when she re-
turned to work after an illness
Sarelas told her something funny
had happened to her semimonthly
pay check from Erie Basin. 1t haC
been signed. he said, but the place
where her name should have beer
had been left blank She said Sarelas
handed her $40, which he said came
out of his pocket.
Says Forgery Admitted.
At the end OF the year. she said
when she protested an income tax
statement which included the check
Sarelas admitted he had forged her
name and cashed the check for
1920.
Another time, she told the COM
mittee, Sarelas told her Mr.. May
had got him out of the Army after
six months service.
Before that, she explained, he had
said he got out of service because he
had suffered broken arches.
Senator Capehart, Republican, of
Indiana appeared before the COM
mittee briefly to explain reference
to him made by an earlier witness.
Mrs. Jean H. Bates, who preceded
Mrs. Hall as secretary of the Cars
sons Washington office. Mrs. Bates
testified that 'on one occasion she
got Senator Capehart on the phone
for Murray Carson.
Senator Capehart told the COM
mittee that about three months ago
Murray Carson did phone him and
asked if he could see him about OBJ
tanning license for photographic
and sound equipment made by a
company which the Senator owns.
Called at Capehart Home.
He said he was representing the
Challenge Co. Senator Capehart
recalled. Il said l would be very
glad to see him.
Carson called at his home later.
the Senator said, and explained the
details about wanting a license.
Il told him." the Senator said, ito
Evening star., 1946-07-18
Aircraft Robbery Curb
Bill Goes to Trumun
BY the Assoeio'ed press

The Senate yesterday passed and
sent to President Truman a bill
making it a Federal crime to rob
an aircraft or its passengers.
And just in case, it included
rocket ships among the aircraft
specifically covered
Evening star., 1946-07-18
Alice Joyce Files Suit

LOS ANGELES, July Is (Pl.-Alice
Joyce Of the silent screen filed suit
TO-DAY for 100000 damages alleging
that injuries in an automobile COL
lision last June IA may disfgure her.
Evening star., 1946-07-18
Son Born to HuzeI Scott

NEW YORK, July 18 PA son
was born yesterday at Sydenham
Hospital here to Mrs. Clayton
Powell, wife OF Representative
Powell of New York. Mrs. Powell
is the former Hazel Scott, night
club and movie pianist.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-03-14
To The Editor
A STUDENT SPEAKS OUT

Finally it has happened! Hagers-
town High School students are
speaking up. We are looking around
us and seeing the advanced condi-
lions of other schools and we, as
Americans, are going to demand
some measure of what is due us as
modern youth.
This is a democracy, but needless
to say, goings on lately at H. H. S.
have been anything but democratic
To cite a few examples: 1t is the
Anticipated idea of a few, that boys
and girls in high school should not
associate An attempt has been made
to enforce this attitude, but unknown
to these few, hupan nature cannot
be stopped and these perfectly sane
and normal happenings go on I'M
altered.
The student government has been
made a rubber stamp. This is by
no means a reflection on its student
members. But it is the direct fault
of someone higher. Any ideas that
are the least bit modern and help
full are either hushed or openly sur
pressed.
Attention parents of war veterans
at Hagerstown High! Recently two
veterans of the veterans workshop
wanted a short recess from their
grueling day. So they did what every
normal human being would do. Dur
ing their lunch hour (half-hour),
they went over to the 'Val' for a
smoke and a bite to eat. Upon their
return to the prison" oh excuse
me, school building, a certain some
one was there to greet them with
these words: EFF you expect to go
to this school you will have to con-
form with it's laws" Imagine citi-
zens of Hagerstown, young men who
risked their lives so that education
may continue freely, being denied
any extra privileges at HagerstOWn
High School!
l could go on and on, believe me,
but I shall end, because others will
follow. What [ am personally striv-
ing for is this: It is time the people
of this town DID something. These
are the best years of your child's
life, and you must get to it and see
that they are years they may look
back on with pride, not with scorn
that was caused by few richards.
A High School Student.
Editors Note: The original letter
bore the name and address of the
writer, but is withheld at the stu
dents request.)
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-03-14
Published by BObbs-MerrilI

Not too long ago a song called
Swinging on Star" swept the ma
ton. 1t was introduced by that ace
song plugger, Bing Crosby, and con-
tanned a verse that went like this:
"a mule is an animal with long
funny ears,
He kicks up at anything he hears,
His back is brawny, but his brain
is weak,
He's just plain stupid with stub
born streak" #
It came to the attention of George
Agnew Chamberlain, by the way
of his radio one evening. Mr.. Cham
berlain, who knows mules as well
as he knows his fascinating New
Jersey Delta country, rose with a
below of "Sacrilege!" and the re-
suit is one of the most completely
captivating novels of many an arid
literary year
Mr.. Chamberlain has written
much, and much of it has been
mediocre, but when he does ring
the bell he sends the wild echoes
flying. A few years ago he produced
little gem called 'The Phantom
Filly' and he's done it again in
udda-Hoo," the ingratiatingly
simple story of boy and two mules
and the great love and sympathy
that existed among the trio.
To attempt to give resume of
the plot would be, in this review
er's opinion, to spoil it. Set in the
Jersey marshes, whose atmosphere
the author recreates with an author
ity born of affection, "Scudda-hoo"
tells simple story, superlatively
well (and contains one of the most
epic fist-fghts in all literatures).
You meet Daniel Dominy, known
as Snug and his sturdy father, Milt,
who goes off to the wars via the
Merchant Marine, preferring death
by torpedo, to slow demise under
the endless tongue-lashings of
Snug's stepmother, Judy. You meet
Stretch, Judy's utterly worthless
son, endowed with the appearance
of Greek God and the morals of
Borgia. You meet Roarer NcGill,
whose bite would have been worse
than his bark, had he not been out
Witted by his diminutive and wary
wife. There is the McGill's enchant-
ing daughter, Rad, whose young
struggle in the tolls of Snug's sacred
love versus the profane offered by
the stunningly beautiful Stretch, is
set forth with a lovely understand
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-03-14
WACS ARE URGED
TO REMAIN nv
ARMY SERVICE

To meet the critical shortage Of
skilled personnel in Army hos
pitals. personnel centers and
headquarters installations, the
War Department hos announced
a program to encourage members
Of the Women's Army Corps to
remain in service beyond their
date OF eligibility for separation.
The conditions whereby honor
ably discharged WACs may seek
re-entrY to the service are:
l. Volunteers must submit up.
plicution in writing to the Ad-
iutunt General. Washington, D. c.
2. Volunteers must volunteer
either for the durution Of the war
plus six months or until Septem-
Der 80, 1916. unless sooner re-
lieved for the convenience OF the
Government.
8. Volunteers must be between
the ages OF 20 and so years.
4. Volunteers must waive all
rights TO discharge because Of
marital status or age.
5. Volunteers must possess
skill usable by the War Depart
ment or q major continental force.
s. Volunteers will be accepted
in the grade held at the time Of
discharge.
2. The duty assignment will be
as directed by the War Depart
ment.
In announcing the program,
Secretary Of War Patterson said:
The members Of the Women's
Army Corps proved their value in
war. They filed important jobs
and relieved men for combat
duties. The need for their serv-
ices during this Transition period
from wdr to peace is equally
great. am confident they will
prove equally worthy"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-03-14
Book Review
SCUDDA-HOO! SCUDDA-HAY!
By GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN
Price $3.50


ing of youth. There is also Bean,
christened Euphrosyne (NGrs. McGill
was quite reader), who discovered
early in life the vast monetary
value of a piece of information
peddled to the right person.
Then there is Tony Maule, Snug's
friend and defender, a wise old man
who lives happily in his barn -
the only building that survived a
fire which destroyed once pros
porous farm - making chicken stew
and knowing all there is to know
about the much-maligned mule.
And last, but not least, there are
the mules themselves - tall,
creamy-gray, solemn, sorrowfu1 and
proud. 1t is Tony who says of mules
/. eff | was to name the quality
above all others of mule I'd call
it sadness. A man has his hopes in
his children and they's even dogs
that can trace their line clean back
to the Pride O. the Border. But a
mule has no hope before or after.
His life is single link without no
chain. All his days he witnesses the
happiness of others and that be the
grounds for his powers of thought.
No yesterday and no tomorrer, all
his hopes conferred on finding man
he can love. Some does and most
don't, and the many that don't is
the saddest of all. 49,.
49,. give knowed a mule to stand
straight on his long legs for forty
years, only to hang hisself when his
master died"
Snug had mule fever" and he
had it bad and a mighty tale it
makes, for the young in heart from
seven to seventy. And in case you're
wondering, "Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-
Hay!" is the old, old mule-drivers
cry to his beasts, the Gee" and
"Haw" of the mule world.
A laurel wreath to George Agnew
Chamberlain for a novel that is like
bubbling spring in a literary
drouth. This book can proudly take
its place among such classics as
"Greyfriars Bobby" "Black Beau
ty," Bob, Son of Battle" "Garm, A
Hostage" and Mr.. Chamberlain's
own 'The Phantom Filly"
-Myldred Schoen
Footnote - Lyric by Johnny
Burke, music by James Van Heu-
sen. Published by Burke and Van
Heusen, Inc, Copyright 1914.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-03-14
Church Neus

The following ministers will con-
duct the Morning Devotions over
Radio Station WEI (1O:15) for the
ensuing week: Friday, Captain
Churchill, Salvation Army; Satur-
day, Rev. Walter J. Dice, st. Paups
Evangelical Church; Monday, Rev.
Raymond M. Miller, st. PauPs Lu-
theran Church, Funkstown; Tues
day, Rev. DR.. William M. Norment,
First Christian Church; Wednesday,
Rev. Harold Tapscott Smith, Pres
byterian Church, Waynesboro
Thursday, Rev. w. F. Schmidt,
Seventh Day Adventist Church.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-03-14
st. PauPs Methodist Church
North Potomac st.

The pastor, Rev. Harry c. Marsh,
will preach the second in a series
of sermons on, 1.-THE Christ of Lent"
Sunday morning at II o'clock.
Special music by the choirs, under
the direction of Miss Viola Fisher.
No evening service and no We'd
nesday evening prayer service will
be held, as the congregation will be
worshipping in the Union Lenten
services at st. Johns Lutheran audi
forum, where DR.. Peter Marshall,
from the New York avenue Pres
byterian Church, Washington, D. c.,
will be the speaker for the full
weeks services.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-03-14
First Church of Christ Scientist
235 N. Potomac Street

Substance" will be the subject of
the Lesson-Sermon on Sunday.
The Golden Text will be from
Proverbs 22;4 -- "By humility and
the fear of the Lord are riches, and
honour, and life"
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-
lowing from the Bible -- Proverbs
81 - 'My son, forget not my law;
but let thine heart keep my COM
mandments."
The Lesson-Sermon also will in
clude passages from the Christian
Science textbook, Science and
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-03-14
st. Mary's Catholic Church
West Washington Street

Sunday morning Masses will be
celebrated at 7, 8, 9 and 1890 o'clock.
At the 1890 Mass, which will be
broadcast over radio station WEI,
Father John V. Ballard will be the
speaker.
Evening Lenten Devotion service
the Rosary, Sermon and Benediction
at 7:30 Sunday evening. The Sta
tons of the Cross will be observed
on Friday afternoons at o'clock and
Z o'clock during Lent.
Weekday Masses during Lent at
$50 and 800 A. M.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-03-14

the theme "The Way of The
Cross Leads To Self-FulfiIlment."
Everyone is extended a cordial in
vitation to worship with us during
the Lenten Season.
The "Lenten Preaching Mission"
at st. Johns Auditorium, Hagers-
town, will begin this Sunday. There
will be no Vesper Service this Sun
day evening, nor any midweek Lent
en- Service on Wednesday, March
20. Everyone is urged to be pres
ent at the 'Lenten Preaching Mis-
sion" to hear the sermons of one of
Americas great preachers, DR.. Peter
Marshall.