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Senate Urged to Pass House Bill to Repeal Exclusion of Chinese By tb« Associated Press. The Chinese exclusion laws were one step nearer repeal today with submission of a report to the Sen ate recommending adoption of the House-approved Magnuson bill. Chairman Andrews of a Senate Immigration and Naturalization aub-committee, said as he filed the report that "the tenacity and cour age of the Chinese in their terrible ordeal of the last seven years has impelled a respect that we are proud to acknowledge.” "It has always been the policy of the United States to help China in her struggle against encroachment upon her independence and sover eignty, and we are now brothers in arms in that cause. It is fitting, therefore, that the incongruity of discriminatory legislation, inconsist ent with the dignity of both our peo ples, should be eliminated.” The Magnusqn bill would place Chinese on an immigration quota basis which would permit the annual entry of 105 persons. Chinese also would be made eligible to become citizens. - # The citizenship provision. Attor ney General Biddle told the com mittee, affects directly only approx imately 45,000 Chinese residents in this country, but will create good will extending to the millions “in China who are fighting at our side.” Board Sends Walker Verdict on Esquire A recommendation in the case of the Post Office Department vs. Es quire Magazine was in the hands of Postmaster General Walker today, and a final decision in the celebrated affair was expected to be handed down within the next-two or three days. Walter Myers, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, who headed the three-man board which listened to three weeks of testimony, said the verdict had been reached much sooner than was expected. He said the board's recommendation already had gone through the Third Assis tant Postmaster General, as pre scribed by the rules, and was await ing Mr. Walker’s approval. If the Postmaster General upholds the contention of some of his subor dinates that Esquire contains inde cent material, the magazine would lose its second-class mailing privi lege. The office of the post office solicitor, however, contended the publication could still use the more expensive first-class or fourth-class mails. Mr. Myers sa^d he was not per mitted to give any inkling as to the recommendation passed on by the board. The hearings were concluded No vember 6 after 37 witnesses for Es quire testified the magazine, in their opinion, was not obscene, and nine Government witnesses found the publication objectionable. Trial ot tx-Policeman In Wife's Death Delayed ! District Court Justice Matthew P. McGuire yesterday continued until Wednesday the first-degree murder case against Jeffries D. Henry, 35, former White House and Metropoli tan policeman, charged with fatally shooting his wife, to permit alienists to examine the defendant. Henry was scheduled to go on trial today. The continuance was asked by J. Bernard Flaherty, defense counsel, who said he wanted Henry examined before going to trial. The Government charges that Henry Shot his wife Lola last April in a restaurant in the 1100 block of Thirteenth street N.W. after arrang ing a meeting with her there. Assistant United States Attorneys Cecil Heflin and Mrs. Grace Stiles will handle the Government's case. Air Officer Moves Wife's Admission to High Court A Naval Air Force officer yesterday appeared before the Supreme Court1 to move the admission of his wife! to practice before the high tribunal.! Lt. Ralph W. Wilkins, stationed with the Naval Air Force at Pa tuxent River. Md., acted in his ca pacity as a lawyer in moving the admission of his wife, Mrs. Ruth Lloyd Wilkins . The two are from Columbus. Ohio, and both are for mer members of the Ohio Legisla- j ture, where they met. Lt. Wilkins is a former member of the Tax Commission of Ohio, and his wife is the only woman to have served as chairman of the Taxation Committee of the Ohio House of Repfesentatives. They have a law' partnership in Columbus. Lt. Wilkins has been in the Naval, Air Force for the past year. American Engineer Dies Returning on Gripsholm NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—The Gen eral Electric Co. has received word from the State Department of the death of Arthur Wood Turner, 52, general manager of Andersen, Myer <fc Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China, November 12 aboard the exchange ship Gripsholm. Mr. Turner, interned in China for almost two years, had been ill for some time prior ' to his departure from Shanghai. His company was an affiliate of International Gen eral Electric. His wife, interned by the Jap anese in Manila from the outbreak of the war, also is on the Gripsholm. Mr. Turner was a native of Cedar town, Ga., and was a technical engineer. i I 1 | Esquire Doled Out to Members Of Cosmos Club There's a sign posted in the li brary of the exclusive Cosmos Club which tells its own story: “In view of the fact that the Oc tober and November numbers of Esquire have disappeared as soon as they were placed on the reading tables, the December number will be kept at the front desk.” Members now are required to sign receipts when they take the maga zine, the management explained. Esquire is the only publication in the club which enjoys this special vigil am ce. Popularity of the magazine in creased during the recent post office hearings on charges that Esquire published Indecent materials. RUSSIA! STATUTl MIIIS Pra-Wat Boundaria As Of Sap* 1.19391 RUSSIANS DRIVE CLOSER TO POLISH TERRITORY—Russian forces west of Zhitomir were 150 miles from the Ribbentrop Molotov line of 1941 in the offensive to deepen the wedge between the German Armies. To the north the Soviet units cut the rail way from Gomel west to Rechltsa, and west of Kiev they were driving toward Korosten. In the south further gains were re ported for Russian forces north of Krivoi Rog. Sawtooth line indicates possible German defense line' along the Bug River from Odessa to Zhmerlnka. Shaded area is German-held. __ —A. P. Wirephoto. OPA Says D. C. Cafes Have Good Record Ceiling price violations in 260 res taurants. representing 54 per cent of the 480 eating places surveyed; have been corrected in almost every case, the District OPA reported to day. Most complaints sifted by the price panels attached to local ration boards, it was reported, wer^ cor rected through conferences with pro prietors. In only one case, it was said, did a panel find it necessary to refer a complaint to John Laskey, chief attorney for the District OPA. The survey was made to deter mine how many restaurants were complying with regulations gover ing maximum prices. Eating and drinking establishments are not per mitted to charge above prices during the base week of April 4 to 10. Price panel members made the survey and, after the proprietors were notified of the violations, checks were made to see whether conditions had been corrected. The OPA said investigators now reported IVashington restaurants are now, complying with the rules virtually* 100 per cent. "Response of restaurateurs to the price panel action has been most encouraging," District OPA Director Robert K. Thompson said. He pointed out, however, that the job of enforcing celling price regulations' in all retail places would be more complete if price panels had more volunteer assistants. Ironworker Admits Housebreaking Here With a paroled, 32-year'-old con vict in custody, police today believed the series of safe-cracking jobs in the District, which have baffled them since last September, were at least partially solved. The first break in the case came yesterday with the arrest of Gordon A. Schofield of the 2100 block Ran dolph place N.E.. an ironworker, who, was arrested by detectives yes terday and pleaded guilty to a house - breaking charge when arraigned be fore United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage. He was re manded to jail in lieu of $5,000 bond. Schofield w>as released from Lor ton Reformatory last January after serving more than five years on a nousebreaking and larceny charge. He was charged with looting the Dastleberg jewelry store and selling the spoils for $500, and of obtaining 6135 in another housebreaking. He »lso was charged with attempted noldup of three men in the streetcar oarn at Fourteenth and Decatur streets N.W. Schofield was taken into custody on a tip police received after the Melody Inn safe had been broken open and rifled, together with the :ash register and juke box. The manager of the place previously had reported more than $500 stolen by the thief. Inspector Robert J. Barrett, chief of detectives, today was trying to connect Schofield with other safe opening jobs committed here in the last few months, but evidence points to the presence of another gang here, which has been able to carry off a safe and break it open. Funeral Planned Today For Mrs. Ruth E. Connor Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Elizabeth Connor. 52. of 1835 Third street N.E. were to be held today at the S. H. Hines funeral chapel, 2001 Fourteenth street N.W. Interment was to be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Mrs. Connor, who died Sunday at Doctors Hospital after a long illness, was a native of Sioux City, Iowa. She came here four years ago as a clerk in the Treasury Department. She was a member of the Lutheran Church and of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the American Legion. Survivors are her mother,, Mrs. Minnie Berquist; two sons, Pvt. Bruce K. Connor. U. S. M. C„ now attending^Duke University, and Pvt. Burl W. Connor, serving in the South Pacific; a sister, Mrs. Mar garet Carlson, and a brother. Pvt. Carl E. Berquist, all of Washington and vicinity. Antifourth-Termer Held Insane in Killing Uncle Bj th# Associated Presi. FORSYTH. Mont., Nov. 16.—Shir ley Haley, 34, has been acquitted, by reason of insanity, of slaying his uncle, killed after an argument over whether President Roosevelt should have a fourth term. Mr. Haley testified at the trig] that he took the negative on the fourth term, and that In the dis pute Dan Haley, a rancher, was shot. Daniel Woolley Ready To Take Over OPA Regional Post Daniel P. Woolley. New York City i commissioner of markets, today was ready to take over his duties as ad ministrator of region 2. Office of Price Administration. He was ap pointed to the post yesterday by OPA Administrator Chester Bowles. In accepting directorship of the region, which includes the District, Maryland, New York State, Penn sylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, Mr. Woolley will take a $2,000 cut in salary under his present $10,000 a year. More than 75 applicants had sought the.post, vacated by Sylvan Joseph of New York on October 22. Mr. Woolley led the list of three names certified to Mr. Bowles by the Civil Service • Commission yes terday. "The position of administrator for the New York region, with a popula tion of 30,000.000, is one of the most responsible of any in the OPA,” Mr. Bowles said. “We are asking Mr. Woolley to look over the whole OPA organization in this region and to streamline it from top to bottom sO that we can improve the service to the public and to business.” Mr. Woolley began his career as a $3-a-week stock clerk in St. Louis. From 1908 to 1939 he was associated with Standard Brands, Inc., food manufacturers and distributors, and its predecessor organizations. He rose from a $15-a-week Job to vice president and general manager with a salary of more than $50,000 a year. Since Mr. Woolley assumed the markets department post in Febru ary of last year, revenues Increased from $458,398 'to $723,801. His de partment, working with the OPA en forcement division, issued 6,000 sum monses and 7,000 warnings to per sons accused of price violations. Through his efforts, the depart ment last winter obtained 1,000.000 pounds of potatoes that were sold at Ministers Alliance Discusses Problem of Racial Minorities Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and Justice Bolitha Laws today were to address a conference of the Inter denominational Ministers' AlUanoe of Washington which began at the Asbury Methodist Church. Eleventh and K streets N.W., yesterday. Speakers yesterday discussed prob lems of racial minorities in Wash ington. Particular attention was given to the colored problem at a mass meeting in the church last night. "One of the most pressing prob lems at the peace conference after the war.” Dr. Frederick Relssig, ex ecutive secretary of the Washington Federation of Churches, told the gathering, "will be the colored ques tion.” Dr. Reissig said he was encour aged bv thi increasing number of white persons who are trying to fjtea racial problems squarely in a. Chris tian wav and also by the Negroes who are facing it realistically. But, hi added, there is still a "tremen dous amount of deep-seated preju dice” which must be stamped out. Other speakers were Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for Advance ment of Colored People; Maj. Ed ward J. Kelly, superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Department; Dr. G. C. Wilkinson, assistant su perintendent of schools; E. B. Hen derson, in charge of health and physical education for the Board of Education; Rabbi Norman Gersten | feld and Wilbur La- Roe, jr. 1 Earlier in the day the conference heard Mr. White, James Ring of the National Capital Housing Author ity and Miss E. Pauline -Myers of “The March on Washington.” The Rev. Robert ifoten Williams, pastor of Asbury Church, is presi dent of the Alliance. eeiling prices during a period when the vegetable was scarce in this area. K" ~ . '■! ■' ■ , District OPA Probing Shortage of Turkeys The District OPA la investigating the current, shortage in turkeys here and as its first move has requested the enforcement division of the Bal timore OPA to begin an immediate check of reports that turkeys are being bought there at above-ceiling prices. District OPA Counsel John Las key warned last night that there will be no relaxation of ceiling price enforcement here. In a statement, the OPA said the same ceiling, with proper allow ance for freight, is in effect here •nd in Baltimore and that* these ceilings are being enforced alike. “Growers and shippers are ad vised they will gain no advantage by by-passing the District of Co lumbia,” the statement read. Reports circulated yesterday that black market operators were buying up large quantities of turkeys in the % Virginia area and shipping them north. Blood plasms saves those fighting to save you. Brother, can you spare a pint? Call Blood Donors, District 33M, for an engagement te give yeur blood. Nazi Troops Execute Italian Partisans Taken in Battle tr the Associated Press. BERNE, Switzerland, Nor. 18.— German occupation troop* this morning carried out a series of mass executions of prisoners captured In an all-day battle with Italian parti sans near Domodossola yesterday, dispatches from Brigue to the news paper La Suisse reported today. The bulk of the Italians escaped i to the Northern Italian hills, the Brigue reports stated. Fighting was particularly violent around Vllladossola, a village adjacent to Dorpodossola, and Luino, target of an air attack yesterday which was attributed here to the Allies but which, according to La Suisse, was actually carried out by the Germans, who used both planes And artillery against the Italians. Three Fascists, all railway em ployes; four German soldiers and a number of the Italian partisans were killed, the dispatches said, Large numbers on both sides were reported wounded. The Italian wounded were re moved from hospitals and, with pris oners captured by the Germans, were taken to a neighboring village and shot, La Suisse said. Describing the battle, La Suisse said the Italians launched an attack at 10 am. yesterday against Ger man-held armories stored with guns and munitions. At the same Hn» | they called on workers to leave their jobs. German and Fascist troops then opened Are. Jailed for Liquor Sales Helen Hope Spencer, 43, colored, of 1243 Army-Navy drive, Arlington, was sentenced to six months in jail yesterday in County Court on two counts of selling liquor in violation of the State alcoholic beverage con trol act. State ABC investigators testified they purchased liquor on October 30 and November 6 at (8 a quart. Crippled Nazi Reel Believed Planning To Quit Norway By tbt Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Nor. !•— crippled condition of the German fleet may force the Nazis to aban don Northern, Norway as a naval base and even evacuate the Far - North before the turn of the year, naval authorities here believe. Some units of the fleet hare been with- •< drawn to the Baltic Sea during the last few months. Another reason for withdrawing the Germaa fleet from Norway’s'^ fjords is the fact that the Allies'; no longer send convoys to Mur mansk. It was to combat this supply line to Soviet Russia that . the Germans moved some of their ' heaviest units into the north waters. Here is the latest information ob tainable here on the Nazi fleet itself: The 10,000-ton cruiser Admiral Hipper, long laid up in a Baltic 1 port, has been written off for the duration; the Kipper's sisterShip, ~ the Prlnz Eugen, is reported to have been converted into a train- ’ Ing ship; the Gneisenau, a 36,000- ' ton battleship mauled by the RAF k when she made her dash from Brest to the Baltic last year, is reported being used as an antiaircraft train- * ing school at the Baltic port of! Gdynia. The pocket battleship Luetzow,0 previously reported to have been" sabotaged, is reported here to have” been damaged so badly it is un-1 certain when she will return to action; the 35,000-ton battleship' Tirpits was damaged last Septem-1 ber when British midget submarines 1 made a daring attack into her fjord hideaway, and the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin is reported in a"' Baltic port, needing months of work to put her into fighting shape. As a result, the 36,000-ton bet tleship Scharnhorst and other unites which might be still lurking la < northern waters may raise anchor and sneak for the Baltic. Industry is helping win the war... Industry must help build a peacetime world Thi will of oor soldiers assures an unconditional smander... The wfU of our people can assure a just and durable peace Today the limited Nations are joined in their determination to win a decisive victory. On every battle front and on every farm and in even production centre a singleness of purpose is speeding "unconditional surrender." Tomorrow millions of soldiers and workers can have steady employment if they also unite with determination to bring about "a just and durable peace." Proaparity can ba raaliaad anly through tha will of an in form ad and a uniSad paapla. With thair oauraga and thaix lislsmriaatinn, tha paapla's will to accomplish a rightaous paaca if inraaiatibla. * People here, in common with people of other lands, can prosper materially and spiritually after the war ends—but only if now the peoples of the United Nations make loud their demands for "a just and durable peace." THE 1 NTS I NATIONAL NICKEL COMPANY, INC. imktiJmry of 7 k* Jntarmtiomtl Ni*k«l Compmy of C**sd*, Limit id Now York, N.Y. Jfvnftmgto* Work9