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Evening star., 1947-05-07

Friday will be Paul Junior High
School Day at the Washington Soap
Box Derby Coaster Clinic.
The program will begin at 3:45
pm. In Room 528, The Star Build
ing, with q question-and-a d-arlswer
period. Entrants in the coaster race,
to be run in July, will be invited to
present their construction problems
or queries involving Interpretation
Of the official rules.
From Ais to 4:30 the boys pres
ent will participate in radio round
table over Station WMAL. Bill
Coyle,. radio director Of The Star,
will preside.
Although Paul will be the school
honored, all entrants and prospec-
tive entrants in the Derby will be
welcomed at the clinic, Derby Di-
rector Charles Kohen emphasized.
"It might be a good idea for some
of the fellows from other parts OF
the city to show up Friday" he
said. Those Paul boys always have
had fast cars and the meeting may
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Soap Box Derby Guide

The Washington Soap Box
Derby is q coaster car race for
boys sponsored by The Star and
the District Department Of the
American Legion. Boys II to
IS, inclusive, and those reaching
their 18th or 10th birthdays in
the period from June / to
August II, inclusive, are eligible.
Official rule books are issued
on registration with a Chevro-
let dealer in the Washington
area. Entry blanks must be
signed by a parent or guardian.
The coaster cars must be boy
built at a cost Of not more than
Sc in addition to the amount
spent for wheels and axles.
Precision wheel bearings are
prohibited, but ordinary ball
bearings are permitted.
These maximum limits are
prescribed: Length, 80 inches;
width, AZ inches; height, in
cluding windshield, 80 inches;
weight of racer, $50 pounds;
combined weight Of racer and
driver, $50 pounds.
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Coaster Clinic Planned Friday
For Paul Junior Hiqh School

give others an idea OF the sort Of
competition they'll meet In July"
After the broadcast, the official
Derby color film will be shown.
As was the case at the first clinic
session last Friday, Paul Boudrot's
1916 championship racer, Good
Deal" Is 20 be on exhibition.
Additional Derby entrants In
.clude:
George Curtis, II, 20o2 T street
Sc; Paul Croft, IA. 731 Xenia
street Sc; John Pullen, u, SIS
Roxboro place NV; Clark B. Tay-
lor, Is, 4l0 Douglas street NE;
James Donnelly, IA, 1886 Nichols
avenue Sc.
fRead The Star for Derby Ne,Ds.)
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Marine Sergeant Forfeits
SIS for SIappinq Picket

A Marine stationed here yester-
day forfeited $25 collateral for slap
ping woman picket on April % at
the Ludlow telephone exchange
building, 629 B street NE.
Municipal Court Judge Aubrey B.
Fennell declared the forfeiture by
Sergt. Arthur R. Walner, 27, who is
assigned to the Marine Barracks,
Eighth and I streets Sc.
Sergt. Walner was charged with
assault on warrant sworn to by
Miss Vivetta Eccles, "a, of the 600
block Of G street Sc. Miss Eccles
told police she was slapped to the
sidewalk while on the picket line.
Evening star., 1947-05-07
Free Lance Writers to Meet

The Society of Free Lance Writers
will hear talk by Miss Olga Moore,
fiction and article writer, at $50
pm. tomorrow in the Mount Pleas
ant Library. Sixteenth and Lamont
STREETS NV,
Evening star., 1947-05-07

fRead The Star for Derby Neps.)
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Man Robbed and Slain,
Companion Sought
By the Associated Press

HAGERSTOWN, Md. July 2s.-
The body of Charles Taylor, alias
Charles Terzien. was found this
morning along Route IL with AS
caliber bullet hole in the head. and
police were seeking driving COM
panion as the slayer, States At
torney Martin Ingram reported.
Mr.. Ingram said the body of the
52-year- man was discovered and
reported to police by an unidentified
Pennsylvania motorist.
The attorney said Taylor was
killed by a bullet which entered his
right creek and emerged from be-
hind his right ear.
Taylor's bloodsoaked automobile
was found several hours later be-
hind the South Potomac Junior
High School here. The body was on
the highway six miles south OF
Hagerstown.
Ingram said robbery undoubtedly
was the motive for the Staying as
he learned Taylor left Martinsburg
w. Va, about midnight with between
81, 400 and $500 on his person.
Police were told by the toll col
lector at the Williamsport bridge
across the Potomac river that he
recalled Taylor crossing there with
a companion at 2:30 AM The
collector said he would be able to
identify the companion.
State police were broadcasting an
alarm for the companion described
as between 20 and 80 years old
wearing a white shirt with sleeves
rolled up.
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Picture on Page BIZ

James v. Forrestal, chosen to
head Americas unified armed forces
as Secretary Of Defense, said today
that he planned to put the unifica-
ton law into effect by process of
evolution rather than revolution"
He described the unif1cation law
as "the most decisive and defnitive
step in the formation Of a national
military policy since the foundation
of the Republic"
He pointed out it represents many
divergent viewpoints" but asserted
it ''is workable law"
Mr.. Forrestal, still Secretary Of the
Navy until he takes the oath OF
Office for the new cabinet post OF
Secretary of Defense, discussed
workings of the uniflcation measure
In his first news conference since
his appointment by the President
Saturday and confirmation by the
Senate early Sunday.
He said he did not know when he
would take the oath Of office as
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Jose Laurel Treason Trial
Postponed in Philippines
BY the Assoeiafed Press

MANILA, July 28.-The treason
trial Of Jose Laurel, puppet Presi-
dent of the Philippines during the
japanese occupation, was postponed
indefinitely today by the first di-
vision of the peoples court on motion
of defense council.
Solicitor General Lorenzo Tanada,
newly nominated candidate for the
Senate on the Liberal Party ticket,
did not appear in court to contest
the motion for deferment of hearing.
Quintin Parades, Laurel's counsel,
asked the delay pending the out
come of a Supreme Court ruling on
the return of documents allegedly
taken by the United States Army
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES corps from DR..
Hilario Mopcado, collaboration sus-
pect. The ruling was expected to
form a precedent for parallel con-
tentions by Laurel and Jorge Vargas,
puppet ambassador to Japan, that
their rights were jeopardized by
United States Army seizure of con-
f76ential documents
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Raj Squadron TO Arrive
Al Andrews Field Today

British Royal Air Force Squadron
GIT, comprising 16 four-engine Lin
coin bombers, was due to arrive at
Andrews Field, Md, at 4 pm.
today from Gander, Newfound-
land.
The visiting flyers are to be vel
coined by Gen. Carl Spaatz, COM
manding general of the Army Air
Forces, and British Air Chief Mar
shall Sir Guy Garrod.
Squadron SIT will take part in
an Air Force Day observance Fri
day. It will begin tour of AAF
bases August 4, visiting first Self
ridge Field, near Detroit.
The tour, is being made under
the command of Group Capt. w.
P. j.. Thomson, D. F. c.
During World War II, Squadron
GIT participated In the sinking of
the Won Tirpitz, German battle
ship, and in destroying important
dams of the Ruhr Valley.
Evening star., 1947-07-28
ForrestoI to Merge Services
By Evolution, Not Revolution

Secretary Of Defense, explaining this
awaited consultation with President
Truman. With Mr.. Truman in
Grandview, Mo-, for the funeral of
his mother, the ceremony may be
delayed several days.
Mr.. Forestal said he also did not
know yet where his headquarters
would be situated. He told question:
ers he had not yet selected any
assistants. Declaring that he be-
lieved a large part of his Success in
the new job would depend on keep
ing his administrative staff small,
he said he hoped not to add large
number of persons to the Federal
payroll.
When asked how long he believed
1t would take to put provisions of
the unification law into effect, Mr..
Forrestal said he did not believe it
would be useful for him to guess on
that, and added:
"This will be evolution, not q
revolution. It viii reflect unification
.1See FoRREsTAL, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Montgomery Jap Beetle Plague
Called 10 Times That Of '46

the ground now, he added, and by
the middle Of August the swarms
should begin to die of.
No estiamtes of crop losses are
available, although Mr.. Anderson
predicted an unusually heavy toll
would be taken in the corn crop.
Ravages of the beetles are dis
tributed more or less equally
throughout the county. Mr.. Ander-
son explained, although areas ad-
jacent to the Potomac River have
reported exceptionally heavy dam
ages.
He expressed the opinion that the
river originally was the source OF
the beetle migration.
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Commissioners Order
License Fee Boosts
Up 10 1000 Per Cent
Sharply Increased Rates
In Many Fields to Be
Effective October |

Increases ranging as high as
1000 per cent in some instances in
District business license fees were
ordered today by the Commissioners.
The increases affected Is types of
enterprises.
The 20-fold increase was ordered
for commission merchant licenses.
The fee was raised from SIS to 500.
Theaters using movable scenery"
will have to pay $3.50 instead Of $50
for their licenses under the new
schedule, which will become effective
October /. This 900 per cent in
crease will affect the National, Capt.
tol and Howard.
The fee changes were decided on
to meet the increased cost Of in
spection and supervision, 1t was
explained. They were recommended
by special committee on licenses
after a public hearing June 9.
Chairman of the committee,
Robert D. Wise, assistant corpora
ton counsel, pointed out the in
creases were not recommended or in
tended for revenue raising only.
Other members of the committee,
which heard many protests from
merchants, included Supt. Of Lii
censes Edward E. Bailey, Traffic Di-
rector George E. Keneipp, Police
Inspector Lloyd E. Kelly, Fire Mar
shall r. C. Roberts and D. P. Her
man, assistant budget officer.
The order raises the license fees
Of carnivals appearing in the city
from $35 to $50 a day. A drastic
increase is ordered for circuses. The
existing rate is a fee of So per day
for each carload of equipment or a
maximum of $3.50 day. These
rates are raised to S6 a day per
carload and $500 day maximum.
Operators of motion picture the
aters now paying $50 a year for
license fees will have to pay $75
under the new rate.
Fees for other businesses and
amusement places are increased as
follows: Swimming pools, from SIS
to $50; shooting galleries, from $40
to $40; restaurants, from SIS to $25 /;
massage establishments, from IS to
I$12; wholesale marine products,
from $50 to SIS; public halls, from
So to $50; groceries, from IS to SIS;
public baths, from S. to $12: auc-
tioneers, from S. to $40: apothecary
shops, from $12 to $25.
Authority for the increases is pro-
vided in the 1882 act which empow-
ers the Commissioners to raise or
lower the costs of supervising bust
nesses whenever justified.
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Dutch Troops Capture
Sumatra Coal and Oil
Fields Nearly Intact
Three Java Ports Are
Ordered Opened to Move
Out Row Materials
Rx the Associated Press

BATAVIA, Java, July 3D.
Dutch military headquarters an
nounced today sweeping new
successes in Eastern Sumatra,
reporting the capture virtually
intact of vital coal and oil re-
gions more than 100 miles from
the jumping-off point of Dutch
troops at Palembang.
The advances were announced as
the Netherlands Navy ordered the
Java ports of Cheribon, Probolinggo
and Banjoewangi opened imme-
diately to normal trade IN an effort
to get great stores of captured raw
materials moving to world markets.
In two separate communiques, the
Dutch announced that they had
captured the rich Sumatra old field
town of Batoeradja, 80 miles SOUTH
west of Palembang, and the impor-
tant Boekit Assam coal mines, 20
miles further to the southwest.
Seized without Resistance.
Batoeradja was seized intact
without resistance, the announce
ment said, and asserted that the
occupation of the Shell and Stand
ard Vacuum Oil holdings there was
being consolidated. The attitude
of the remaining oil field personnel
seems favorable" the bulletin
added.
The Dutch said they had captured
large quantities of arms in the
South Sumatra operations, but said
the retreating Indonesians had
burned several villages to the ground
on the road to Sekajoe, some 81
miles northwest of Palembang.
Midway on the southwest coast Of
Sumatra, near Padang, a small
Dutch amphibious force was report
ed to have captured a Republican
battery on Bankoed Bay which had
been harassing Dutch shipping.
The columns, which seized the
Boekit Assam mines, also swept
through the twin towns of Moerara
Enim and Lahat, situated respective
ly 80 and 100 miles southwest OF
Palembang, thus virtually slicing of
a large segment of Eastern Sumatra
Dutch Drive Southwark.
In Western Java, el-helmeteo
Dutch troops thrust methodically
south of Pengalengan, Is miles south
of Bandoeng and only 20 miles from
the south coast of the island.
Can Indonesian communique
issued in Jogjakarta today re-
ported that the Dutch had
brought paratroopers into play
for the first time in Java last
Friday \in an effort to capture
Lamadjang, small village 20
miles south of Bandoeng, but de-
clared the paratroopers had been
wiped out)
Yesterday the Dutch reached the
south coast at Palaboehanratoe, 7e
miles further west. Should they
drive through the last 20 miles
from Pengalengan to the south
coast, another huge area of West
Java would be isolated from the
Indonesian Republic.
In the north coast of Java, the
Dutch consolidated their hold on
the Port of legal, 40 air miles
east of Cheribon, the fall of which
was announced yesterday.
Stiff Fighting Reported.
A broadcast Republican army
communique heard here said that
legal had fallen only after stiff
fighting and reported the town hao
been put to the torch. The Dutch
1See INDONESIA, Page A-5O
Evening star., 1947-07-28
On q Silver PIutter
AirpIone Builder
Directs Open Letter
At Contract Prober
By the Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, July 28.-How-
ard Hughes, movie magnate and
airplane builder, asked Senator
Brewster, Republican, of Maine
in an open letter today why he
did not "tell about the $1,400
worth of airplane trips which
you requested and accepted from
me?"
The letter was in the form of
signed and copyrighted article in
the Los Angeles Examiner and was
public statement regarding q
Senate committee investigation Of
Government plane contracts award
ed him and Henry ]. Kaiser.
Addressing the letter to Mr.. Brew
ster as chairman Of the Senate
War Investigating Committee, Mr..
Hughes said:
Dear Senator Brewster:
while you are telling, why don't
you tell all?
"Why don't you tell about the
time you invited me to lunch in
your suite at the Mayhower Hotel
and the proposition you put to me?
Juan Trippe's Flight.
"Why don't you tell about the
flight Juan Trippe made to the
Coast to see me, and the two-day
conference we had. (April u and
13, 1947.) Why don't you tell what
we were talking about?
Editors note-Juan Trippe Is
president of Pan American Air
ways System.)
And, incidentally, since you
think it is so horrible for any one
to accept my hospitality, why don't
you tell about the $1,400 worth OF
airplane trips which you requested
and accepted from me?"
He said the airplane transporta-
tion consisted of "a round trip in
a luxurious private airplane from
Washington, D. c., to Morgantown,
w. Va, on February 10, 1947, and
second round trip from Washing
ton to Columbus, Ohio, on Febru-
ary H."
His concluding remark was: Eyes,
Senator. the regular charter price
for those flights is $1,400. But you
didn't pay anything for them, did
you?" ..
Says Senator ''Went Overheard"
In one part of the letter, Mr..
Hughes told Senator Brewster that
if he had not gone so far over
board II might have been willing
to take certain shellacking in this
publicity spree of yours" ..
Eyes, I might have been willing
to sit back and take certain
amount of abuse simply because l
am only private citizen while you
are a Senator with all sorts of
rights and powers to subpoena me,
make me drop my work, and travel
$500 miles back there to Wash
ington and otherwise cause me no
end of inconvenience" he wrote.
$50 I sat back and let you do
the talking for five days. But one
thing you said, which just appeared
in the papers, sort of stuck in my
mind.
"You said that asked you to
send someone out here to check
through my books. Now, you know,
that statement Is true. I did make
20. C-1 TNTTIiT 49, ~
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Bandit Robs Capital Garage
Of 900, Holding 4 at Bay
Gunmon Opens Safe After Forcing Attendants
To Lie on Floor in Office During HoIdup

Holding four men at gunpoint
while he opened a safe of the
Capital Garage. 1920 New York
avenue NV, a bandit with mas
cara circling his eyes made away
early this morning with the
weekend receipts of almost
$4,000.
Arthur L. Bennett, e116 Osborne
road, Columbia Highlands, Md,
who was in charge Of the garage,
said the bandit held a gun in one
hand, forcing him and three others
to lie on the Office floor, while he
operated the safes combination
with his other hand.
The man strolled into the garage
at about 2::30 am, Mr.. Bennett
said. When the garage man ap-
preached him, he flashed gun
and ordered Mr.. Bennett into the
Office.
Mr.. Bennett said the gunman had
dark circles drawn around his eyes,
Evening star., 1947-07-28

Montgomery County Farm Agent
o. w. Anderson said today that the
Japanese beetle plague in the coun-
ty, now at its peak, is 40 times
worse than last year."
He said the county lacks enough
DDT spray and equipment to meet
all demands of farmers for spraying.
Wet weather in the late spring and
early summer kept planes grounded
which would have sprayed the fields
and orchards.
He said the peak point is reached
at this period because corn, the
beetles "favorite food" is just be-
ginning to tassel.
ALI the beetles have come out Of
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Man Who Shot at Bricker
Indicted on Two CHARGES

William L. Kaiser, 49, former Cap
itol policeman accused Of firing two
shots at Senator Bricker, Republican,
of Ohio at the Capitol July 10, was
indicted by the District grand jury
today on charges of assault with in
tent to kill and assault with q dan
gerous weapon.
Arrested shortly after the two
shots from a .22-caliber target pistol
missed Senator Bricker in the Capt.
tol subway, Kaiser has been under
observation at Gallinger Hospital
since the incident.
A mental examination for Kaiser
was ordered July IA by Judge Ellen
K. Raedy of Municipal Court, who
set August IA as date of the prelim-
mary hearing.
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Is Polish Refugee Youths
End 8.Year Flight in U. 5.
Nv the Assoeioted Press

SAN FRANCISCO. July 28.-Six-
teen orphaned refugee youths from
Poland arrived in San Francisco
aboard the Marine Adder today,
ending eight years of flight.
They expected to be Franciscan
priests when they leave the United
States.
The youths, ranging in age from
1s to 81 years, fled Poland in 1899
and since they have travelled through
Siberia, parts of the Orient and
lived in a Polish camp near Bonn
bay, India.
Arrangements recently were made
for them to enter the United States
on student visas to study at the
Franciscan Fathers Seminary in
Burlington, Wis.
On completion Of their studies
they will return as members of the
order to Poland or to Polish settle
ments abroad.
Also arriving on the Marine Adder
were 143 Indian students, 81 of them
under sponsorship of the Indian
government, who will study in this
country. On hand to meet them at
the dock was Prof. M. S. Sundaram
of the Indian Embassy in Washing
ton
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Airport Most Profitable
In Nation, Randolph Says

Washington National Airport, call
ed a financial white elephant when
it was opened six years ago, has
proved to be the most profitable mu-
nicipally operated airport in the
country, Jennings Randolph, assist
ant to the president Of Capital Air
lines, told members of the Airline.
Traffic Club today.
Speaking at luncheon Of the
group at the New Athens Restau-
rant, Mr.. Randolph said that for the
fiscal year ending June 80, the air.
port showed a net gain of approxi-
mately $4,000.
/. While reviewing the operating pro-
cedures at the airport, Mr.. Randolph
pointed out that more than 1000
persons earn q direct livelihood from
the airport and its facilities.
Evening star., 1947-07-28
Last Rationing
OF Sugar Ends;
Funds Lackiinq
Controls on Industry
Lifted at Noon; $50
Workers Lose Jobs
By Malcolm Lomborne, Jr.

The Agriculture Department
today announced the end of in
dustrial sugar rationing, effec-
tive at noon, and the liquidation
of its Sugar Rationing Admins
tration "becatase Congress failed
to appropriate the funds neces-
sary" to continue operation.
At the same time, the department
disclosed that about $50 employees
of the sugar agency were being dis
missed today without the usual 30
day dismissal notice, since no funds
are available to continue paying
their salaries.
A department official estimated
about 1865 employees of the sugar
rationing administration in Wash
ington are affected. The remaining
485 are in eight field offices through
out the country.
Consumer sugar rationing ended
two months ago.
Scramble For Supply Possible.
A department official conceded
that the end of industrial rationing
raises the possibility of a scramble
for available supplies by large sugar
users and of householders in some
areas experiencing temporary short
ages.
Today's action eliminates all sugar
rationing, and sugar becomes the
last commodity to be released from
wartime rationing.
The department said that price
controls on sugar we're being re-
tanned and that sugar inventory
controls are instituted concurrently
with the end of rationing.
The department earlier had sought
rationing until next Monday 81, but
early this month Congress voted
an extension only until October 81.
Suspension Orders Revoked.
With the lifting of rationing con-
trolls today, all suspension orders re-
lating to sugar are revoked, and all
suspension order proceedings now
pending are terminated, the an
nouncement said.
Persons under subpoena or notice
to appear in proceedings are re-
leased from making their appear
ances. However, all records pertain
ing to sugar transactions must be
kept for 80 days after today's re-
vocation.
The department said that sugar
price and inventory controls will be
handled by the sugar branch of the
Production and Marketing Admin
istration.
The new sugar inventory controls
provide ID a general limitation of
sugar inventories for any person
(other than household users) to a
maximum of 1900 pounds CD a
limitation for any individual or in
stitutionaI use of $40 per cent of
the quantity used during the cor
responding and the next succeeding
months of the year ended June 80. y
t3) limitation for all wholesalers
or retailers to quantities equal to
those sold by them during the pre-
ceding calendar month, "a in gen.
eral, no limitation Is made for pri-
mary distributors (reflners and i'm
porterS).