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News Services Adopt Uniform Name Style For Foreign Places By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. April 8.—A uniform style for foreign place names was adopted by the three American news services today to make it easier for the public to follow the story of the war. In an effort to end possible con fusion over places appearing in the war news under more than one name, the Associated Press, the United Press and International News Service adopted in general the style of the National Geographic Society, but made certain excep tions to conform with American usage. The style is effective to morrow’. The National Geographic Society style basically followed is that of the name in use in the various for eign countries themselves. The principle of native spellings also has been adopted by the United States Geographic Board and the chief American atlas and map pub lishers. Out of 40,000 names listed by the National Geographic Society, the three news services made 78 excep tions in the cases of places figuring prominently in western culture, his tory’ or tradition under an angli cized form. Exceptions Adopted. These exceptions include Rome instead of Roma. Moscow instead of Moskva, Athens instead of Athe nai, Limerick instead of Luimneach, Euphrates River instead of Frat River, etc. Among the National Geographic usages adopted are Romania instead of'Rumania, Yugoslavia instead of Jugoslavia, Manchuria instead of Manchukuo, and Dnepr and Dnestr Rivers instead of Dnieper and Dniester. Foreign names for such words as “island,” “gulf,” “sea,” etc., gen erally given in the National Geo graphic Society's lists in native form, are to be translated into Eng lish by the news services. The three services agred also on the form Marshal Josip Broz for the Yugoslav Partisan leader, in stead of Brozovich. The appellation Tito also will be retained. Aimed at Ending Confusion. The new uniform style is aimed at ending such confusion as may have arisen over places like-Cemauti, also called Czernovitz, and Iasi, also called Jassy, to name only two which are prominent in current news. Following are the exceptions to be made to the National Geographic Society's style: Algiers Black Forest Antioch Blue Nile River Antwerp Bonin Is. Athens Bosporus Azov, Sea of Brest Litovsk Belgrade Brunswick Brussels Lions, Gulf of Bucharest Lisbon Cape Horn Marcus Is. Caucasus Mts. Mexico City Cologne Milan Constance, Lake Moscow Copenhagen Mozanbique Corfu Mukden. Corinth Munich Corsica Nansei Is. Crete Naples Crimea New Siberian Is. Damascus North Cape Danube River Olympus Dardanelles Port Arthur Dead River Prague Dead Sea Rhodes Devils Is. Riga, Gulf of Dublin Rome East Cape Salonika Euphrates River Sardinia Faeroes Is. Sicily Florence Sinai, Mt, Formosa Sofia Geneva Sparta Genoa Tiber River Hague, The Turin Harbin Tyre Havana Venice Hook of Holland Vesuvius, Mt. Korea Vienna Kurile Is. Warsaw Limerick White Sea Small Groups of Anti-Nazis Declared Busy in Reich By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, April 8.—“Small Illegal groups of active anti-Nazis are spread throughout Germany and, in addition to these independ ent opposition groups, there are tens and hundreds of thousands of per sons who work on their own against Naziism,” a German under the pseudonym Peter Michael has writ ten in the newest book on Germany appearing in Sweden. Tire title of the book is “German Home Front” and the publishers de scribe Michael as a man having close contact with his homeland. “The opposition movement al ready is so strong that when Nazi ism is overthrown it will become a powerful mass movement which will have the support of the whole German nation and will not suffer the fate of the Social Democrats wrho took power in 1918,” Michael wrote. Tire majority of the Nazis’ oppo sition is incapable “of active and dangerous work due to the terror exercised by the Gestapo,” he said “political opposition has had to be decentralized. The bravest men break down under torture and give away their comrades. It therefore has proved necessary to permit each individual member to know as little as possible about others.” Easter Sunrise Services Arlington National Cemetery, 7:30 a.m., under auspices of Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, Gen. George C. Mar shall and Gen. John J. Persh ing will participate; the Rt. Rev. Oliver J. Han, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, principal speaker. Jefferson Memorial Easter Dawn Youth Service, 6:30 a.m., sponsored by Washington Fed eration of Christian Youth; the Rev. Ralph W. Loew, Church of Reformation, will preach; music by All Youth Chorus. In case of rain services will be held at First Congregational Church, Tenth and G streets N.W. Fort Lincoln Heights, 6:45 a.m., sponsored by Organized Bible Class Association; the Rev. Harry W. Burgan, Ameri can University, will speak. Faith Lutheran Church, Lee boulevard at Jackson street, Arlington, 6:30 a.m,, the Rev. Robert W. Long, pastor, will preach. -■ ■ ■ - GOLDEN WEDDING—Mr. and Mrs. James S. Barr of 1013 Flower avenue. Takoma Park, Md., who recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniver sary. Mr. and Mrs. Barr have 8 children, 13 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. —Harris-Ewing Photo. Henderson Is Held Partly to Blame for Small Loan 'Racket' By the Associated Press. Criticizing what he termed a Na tion-wide “small loan racket,” Rep resentative Sheppard, Democrat, of California today named former Price Administrator Leon Hender son and Rolf Nugent, former director of the OPA credit policy office, among others he said were “solely responsible” for conditions which led up to it. The Californian charged in the Congressional Record that Mr. Hen derson and Mr. Nugent, both direc tors of the remedial loan division of the Russell Sage Foundation, and Frank Hubachek of the law firm Hubachek & Kelly, were “purport edly” authors of the executive order vesting in the Federal Reserve Board regulation of small loans. He said he would reintroduce a resolution for a congressional in vestigation of the small loan busi ness. A former similar resolution was not acted on by the House Rules Committee. Wants Ceiling on Loans. Mr. Sheppard also asked why the OPA had neglected to consider plac ing ceiling prices on small loans and charged that the Russell Sage Foun dation and lenders operating under the Small Loan Act it sponsored were waging a “sham battle” in the fight to correct usurious practices in the lending field. When questioned by a reporter as to what he meant by ceilings on small loans, Mr. Sheppard ex plained that he was referring to interest on small loans. “In this sham battle and plan of deception of the American people and their notional State govern ments.” he continued, “this crowd have duped many members of Con gress, Governors of many States, State Legislatures, the American Bar Association, the Better Business Bu reau, the Legal Aid Society, some of the Nation’s outstanding colleges and universities, national labor groups and many other outstanding people and organizations, including a large segment of the publications. Lists Those “Responsible.” “The only persons that can ex plain the condition and the facts that have led up to it f small loan conditions) are those that are solely responsible for them,” Mr. Sheppard continued. “These persons are Leon Hender son. Rolf Nugent, Frank Hubachek, of the law firm of Hubachek & Kelly, attorneys for the Household Finance Co.; Byrd Henderson, president of the Household Finance Co.; Charles Watts, president of the Beneficial Industrial Loan Co. of Newark, N. J.; Jackson R. Collins, attorney for the beneficial, and Edmond Ruffin Beckwith, former attorney for the beneficial of New York * * *; P. B. Leverich, Western director of the Beneficial, located in Los Angeles. L. J. Styskal, attorney for the Household Finance Co. * * *; Rufus Dewitt King, Miami, Fla.; John M. Ogden, Miami; Jerry H. Taylor, At lanta * *» ; Fred Snite and Thomas Griffin of the Local Loan Co. of Chicago; Mr. Lichtenstein of the Loan Co. of St. Louis * * Hits Lack of Action. Specifically Mr. Sheppard main tained Mr. Henderson, Mr. Nugent and the Federal Reserve Board had knowledge of a Nation-wide small business conducted by Mr. King, Mr. Ogden and Mr. Taylor partly on a 240 per cent interest return basis, but that “no action nor explanation from either or any of them, nor from the Russell Sage Foundation,” had been forthcoming. At a meeting in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Mr. King and others associated with the small loan business divided States “between them like pawns,” Mr. Sheppard stated, and agreed “to let each other alone in certain given territories and to manipulate bor rowers into certain individual loan balance averages in certain local ities.” Furthermore, he continued, at an other such meeting a $500,000 “kitty” was made up for use in influencing passage of national tax legislation which put the national chain loan companies under the business man agement tax-exemption laws. Cites Bribery Case. “Congress should find out and the people should know who received the $500,000 and what was done with it,” Mr. Sheppard declared. He recalled that recently an em ploye of the Beneficial industrial Loan Co. admitted to a judge in Lansmg, Mich., that he had “bribed legislators” and had received money from the company to do so. “Right under the nose of the Federal secret grand jury investi gation in San Antonio, Beneficial, Household and King have their anti usury societies with their high sounding names which are made up of representative lawyers of the State of Texas,” said the Cali fornian. Alleges “Felonious” Acts. Mr. King, he added, had "several million dollars” out in small loans to needy borrowers at 240 per cent in terest annually in Texas. Mr. Sheppard also charged Mr King with failing to include in a statement he filed with the Secu rities Exchange Commission in 1939 information concerning business he had in California which Mr. Shep pard contended was "felonious.” “On that date,” Mr. Sheppard said, “King had loans outstanding in California, somewhere between $600,000 and $1,000,000, upon which they were netting 100 per cent per Allied Airmeh Attack Japs From Timor To Bougainville By the Associated Press. Ranging over the Pacific from Timor to Bougainville, Allied airmen made comparatively light midweek attacks pay worth-while dividends Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's summary from the Southwest Pacific showed today. One oil-loaded enemy ship was sunk, a merchant vessel suffered two direct bomb hits and was left afire and the island of Wakde off the Dutch New Guinea coast wras bombed, w'ith 29 tons of explosives, for the first time. Torpedo and dive bombers struck at the Japanese in the Empress Augusta Bay area of Bougainville in the Solomons. Medium bombers dropped 36 tons on Kara and Kahili airdromes. Numanuma was dive bombed. Other light attacks were pressed against the Japanese in this region, evidently to nail down Amer ican dominance of the whole Solomons group. Japs Reinforcing Truk. The Japanese Domei Agency said in a wireless dispatch to North America recorded in New York that "about 20”. American B-24 bombers had raided Truk Island Thursday morning. The dispatch claimed that two of the bombers had been shot down. Indications of Japanese reinforce ment of Truk were seen in delayed reports of 7th Air Force flyers re turning Tuesday from the seventh straight raid on that enemy base from the Central Pacific. One bombardier said he counted 19 ships in the lagoon. Army heavy bombers hit Wake Island, 2,300 miles west of Pearl Harbor, with 44 tons of bombs Wed nesday night, setting off heavy ex plosions in enemy storage areas and in an aircraft repair base. Ponape Also Blasted. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an nounced the raid yesterday, the second this week, and also reported strikes the same day by American planes against Ponape, in the Caro line Islands, and four Japanese po sitions in the Marshall Islands. All planes returned from these opera tions. The attack on Wake was the 18th since that former American island was captured early in the war by a force of Japanese that overpowered a small but heroic marine garrison. Swiss Envoy Confers With Hull on Bombing By the Associated Press. Charles Bruggmann, Swiss Min ister here, today presented.Secretary of State Hull oral representations over the accidental American bomb ing of the Swiss city of Schaff hausen. American liberator bombers carry ing out a sweep against the Reich accidently dropped explosives and incendiaries on the Swiss city April 1. The Swiss Minister asked an ex planation of the bombing, requested that measures be taken to prevent recurrence of such incidents, and accepted Mr. Hull’s promise that the United States would indemnify the Swiss government and Swiss citizens for the accident. On April 3, Mr. Hull issued a statement expressing his “deep re gret over the tragic bombing” and assured the Swiss government that “every precaution will be taken to prevent insofar as is humanly pos sible the repartition of this unfor tunate event.” On the same day, Lt. Gen. Carl Spaatz, chief of the British-based American Air Force and American Ambassador John G. Winant called on the Swiss charge d’affaires in London to express their regret at the accidental bombing. Mr. Hull said at that time that he was informing the Swiss Minister of his statement and instructing the American Minister in Bern to do likewise with the Swiss government. Burma _<Continued From First Page.) “prowling” nature. This town is important in the line of communi cations reaching back to the Ben gal-Assam Railway which feeds the North Burma offensive of Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell and the China air supply route. The Japanese have been reported within 35 miles of the railway after cutting the Imphal-Kohima road along 15 miles of its length. Important Village Taken. The communique announced a particular success on the Arakan front where an English battalion captured an important village posi tion southwest of Buthedaung in the offensive against Akyab on the Bay of Bengal shore. In Northern Burma Chinese troops were continuing their attack on Wakawng in the drive down the Mogaung Valley some 40 miles north of the Mandalay-Myitkyina Railway. To the east in a parallel drive down the Fort Hertz Valley from Sumprabum Burmese troops inflicted 50 casualties on the Japanese near the Tiang River crossing, about 45 miles north of Myitkyina. 2,000 Round-Trip Flight. American heavy bombers, in the blasting and strafing of locomotives, rolling stock, bridges and many miles of track along the Burma-Thailand Railway between Thanbyuzayat and Bangkok three days ago flew a round trip of 2,000 miles, it was disclosed. The big bombers used not only Pursuit plane tactics, but also a spe cial bomb designed for use against railway tracks. Lt. Arthur Flesch of Chicago, a bombardier, explained that the Oombs "instead of bouncing away from the tracks stayed where they landed and made the rails look like taper clips ” The communique said medium bombers, dive-bombers, fighter bombers and fighters yesterday and the day before were out in strength bombing and strafing over the Northern Burma, Arakan, Kaladan Chin Hills and Chendwin Valley ireas. Relief Workers Acfiv The United States Office of For eign Keitel in North Africa now has 20 workers distributing food and finding employment for many who .vere previously in refugee camps year, part of which was owned by the Miller Management Co. These operations were felonious. I have documents In my file that reveal that they were.” FINISHING TOUCHES—At the Navy Yard gun factory a 16-inch gun is moved into place with heavy chains so that the outside surface may be finished. Delicate rifling inside barrel has just been completed. Eight Yanks Trapped 40 Hours In Pillbox Under Jap Attack By the Associated Press. BOUGAINVILLE. Solomon Islands, April 4 (Delayed).—A story of hell shared by eight American soldiers trapped for 40 hours in an isolated pillbox under almost continuous Japanese attack was related today by Pfc. George Haluska, 34. One wras killed, three were wounded. The Japanese stormed the pillbox so fiercely that one of the enemy actually crashed into it. An other was slain at the entrance. Haluska said that three times he and his buddies felt certain all would meet death momentarily and "once we were so certain we would be killed or captured that we discussed plans for suicide.” He and the other survivors finally escaped under cross-fire as Amer ican troops nearby laid down a ma chine-gun barrage. One of the sol diers trapped was wounded so badly he could not walk. He was evac uated on a litter. Haluska, who is from Cleveland, Ohio, related his story to Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold, of Elko, Nev., commander of Allied troops on Bou gainville, at the officer’s request. The story was corroborated by Sergt. James H. Ford, 23, of Biggers, Ark., who shared the trapped hell with the other seven. Senate Group Asks Speed on Postwar Contract Claims Bill Ey the Associated Press. The Senate’s Postwar Planning Committee called yesterday for legislation “at the earliest possible moment” to cover the settlement of claims arising from terminated war contracts. Other problems for demobiliza tion may be put aside for the pre sent, said a report from the com mittee headed by Senator George, Democrat, of Georgia, but termina tion legislation is needed now “in view of the speed with which con tracts are being terminated.” The report suggested several changes in the contract termination bill Introduced by Senators George and Murray, Democrat, of Mon tana in February. Baruch Joins Discussions. Patricipating in discussions which led to the suggested changes were representatives of Bernard M. Ba ruch adviser in the Office of War Mobilization. Primary responsibility would be centered in a director of contract settlement within the Office of War Mobilization, who would see that uniform standards are laid down for the mechanics and operations in the settling of contracts, the clear ing of plants and interim financing by the contracting agencies them selves. As revised, the bill confines the authority of the controller general to determining after final settle ment, whether payments were made in accordance with the settlement <and whether there is a reasonable 1 belief of fraud. Presettlement Right Urged. The words “after final settlement" were written in as a suggested change; there has been some de mand for pre-settlement authority for Controller General Warren, but the committee said the changes were in accordance with Mr. War ren’s own suggestions. Under another change, the amount of money immediately pay able to a contractor on termination would be left up to the director of contract settlement. As originally written, the bill made mandatory immediate pay ment of 90 per cent of a war con tractor’s claim, less certain de ductions. Martin Plant to Build Plane Bigger Than Mars By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE. April 8.—The lar gest cargo airplane in aviation his tory—to be constructed at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore—will be in the air within the next 12 oi ls months. The company reported yesterday It was rushing 20 of the “flying Liberty ships’-JRM-1—into pro duction for the Naval Air Transport Service. One of the ships will require 60. 000 pounds of aluminum, 23,000 pounds of steel, 750 pounds of rub ber, 800 pounds of plastics, 900 square feet of plywood, 650 square yards of fabric and 300 gallons of paint. The JRM-1 will be even bigger than its famous prototype, the Mars, and will have a cargo carry ing expectancy of approximately 3,000-ton miles per hour. Giraud _(Continued From First Page.) ported decision to intrust Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower with author ity to negotiate with groups inside France. Gen. de Gaulle has sought recognition of himself and his Na tional Committee as the provisional government of liberated areas. A De Gaullist committee spokes man later said an ordinance abolish ing the post of commander in chief had, in fact, already been adopted but not yet publicized By refusing to accept the post of inspector general, Gen. Giraud thus challenged Gen. de Gaulle to oust him by officially publishing the ordi nance. The committee’s actions regarding Gen. Giraud have been assailed by 1 French Communists, including Com munist members of the National Committee itself. Republicans Ponder Willkie Silence on Plans for Future By the Associated Press. Wendell L. Willkie, who was ac cused by some of his Republican critics of "talking too much,” may give his worried party colleagues the silent treatment for a while. Aides said today that Mr. Willkie probably soon will go to Rushville, Ind., for a rest. While none of them professed to speak for the retired presidential candidate, they said they would be surprised if he makes known his plans within the next few weeks. Mr. Willkie’s abrupt withdrawal from the presidential race, without any hint as to his future party course, has left Republican officials wondering if he will support the convention’s nominee. They fear his refusal to go along might be felt in the strata of independent voters to whom Mr. Willkie made his strongest appeals. Silent in New York. He had nothing to say on that subject when he returned to New York yesterday. While there has been conjecture that the 1940 nominee might jump the fence and return to the Demo cratic party, Senator Taft. Repeubli can. of Ohio said he believed it would be logical to expect Mr. Will kie to continue the course he set in his 13-day Wisconsin campaign— pointing out what he considers party faults and working to correct them. “His Influence along that line per haps will be even greater now than when he was a candidate for the nomination," said Senator Taft, who is supporting Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio for the nomination. Many Republicans here believe Mr. Willkie will exert his efforts primarily toward forcing into the convention platform a more liberal statement on postwar foreign policy than some of his erstwhile oppo nents otherwise might favor. eoantion Move Possible. There remained, of course, the possibility that President Roosevlt might make some coalition overture to Mr. Willkie such as that which placed two Republicans—Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Knox—in the cabinet shortly before the party’s 1940 nominating convention. The betting here, however, is that Mr. Willkie would not accept any such appointment from an adminis tration which he criticized so severely in recent speches. Pacific _(Continued From First Page.) installations, stores, ships, building and small craft damaged. Some Japanese planes vainly at tacked the task forces as they ar rives and as they departed. Carrier craft shot down 17 of these and ships’ antiaircraft wingod four more. The ships’ guns also accounted for three small enemy ships sunk. Jap Navy Fails to Challenge. But the American warships, al though moving more than 2,000 miles away from the Kwajalein Lagoon base in the Western Marshalls, did not stir up a challenge of the Jap anese Natfy. Synchronized air raids in the Cen tral, South and Southwest Pacific helped n*ke possible the deep naval excursion which put behind the war ships such enemy bases as Truk, Rabaul on New Britain, Wewak and Hollandia on New Guinea. Central and South Pacific planes joined in pinning down Truk’s air arm. South Pacific planes kept Ra baul neutralized. Southwest Pacific planes knocked out Wewak and de stroyed a fleet of 228 enemy planes at Hollandia, nearest New Guinea airbase to Palau. (A recent dispatch from a New Guinea airbase by Olen Clem ents, Associated Press war cor respondent, dealing with Hollan dia attacks, intimated that the warships moving on Palau also shelled objectives, but no refer ence tn any bombardment was made in Admiral Nimitz's com munique yesterday.) The Pacific Fleet, forces in the Western Carolines strike were under the tactical command of Ad miral Raymond A. Spruance. The carrier task forces were commanded by Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher. Capf. Gentile Claims 27 Planes, One More Than Rickenbacker By the Associated Press. A UNITED STATES FIGHTER BASE IN ENGLAND, April 8 — Capt. Don S. Gentile, 23-year-old Mustang pilot from Plqua, Ohio, has claimed the destruction of 27 enemy planes, one more than the total de stroyed by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker in the World War. At least eight of the planes claimed by Gapt. Gentile were de stroyed on the ground, however, while Capt. Rickenbacker downed all of his in air combat, a record which two marine flyers have equalled in this war. In most theaters of war only planes destroyed in the air count in the "aces” competition, but a pub lic relations officer of the 8th Fight er Command said the practice of crediting pilots with planes de stroyed on the ground developed in this theater in the last few months when on many days the Germans did not come up to fight and the Americans went after their air dromes. (In Washington the War De partment said the term "aces” is entirely unofficial so that there are no formal rules governing the scoring procedure.) Grounded Planes Hard to Bag. American pilots say that it is harder to get enemy planes on the ground than in the air because of the hail of gunfire met in diving down and sweeping over a German airfield. Capt. Gentile, with a total of 22, already was tied for first place in this theater before he claimed five planes destroyed on the ground during a sweep over Berlin yester day. Because of the keen competition in Britain, Capt. Gentile was per suaded to enter his latest claim of five planes. At first he had claimed only three of these for himself and the other two he shared with his regular wingman, Lt. Johnny God frey of Woonsocket, R. I., who has 10 victims. Records here show that Marine Majs. Joe Foss of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and Gregory (Pappy) Boying ton of Okanogan, Wash., who now is missing in action, equaley Capt. Rickenbacker’s record. Worked In Steel Mill. Capt. Gentile, of Italian extrac tion, waited on tables in his fath er’s night club, the Genoa Club, at Piqua while in school and also worked part time at the Jackson steel mill in Qiqua. At 17, he quietly drew $300 from a bank and bought a nondescript plane which a mechanic had made at home, but his mother inter vened. Afterward, his father bought him a $3,500 biplane in which he buzzed the homes of Piqua girl friends until police came rapping at the Gentile door. He flew Hurricanes and Spitfires and then Thunderbolts with the Army Air Force. His last 15 kills were scored in a Mustang. Polish Underground Begins Co-operation With Reds By the Associated Pres*. LONDON, April 8.—The Polish government-in-exile has announced that military co-operation has begun in Volhynia between the Polish un derground and the Red Army, estab lishing a link between Moscow and the exile government. The Polish statement said that the regional Polish commander, after informing the Soviet leader near Lutsk that he had been ordered to co-operate with the Russians, was invited to Soviet headquarters on March 26 and was informed of Mos cow’s “principles of co-operation.” The Polish commander asked for four days to communicate with his London government, which sent a reply which was understood to ap prove the “principles.” The develop ment does not mark a resumption of diplomatic relations, but was warmly welcomed in British official quarters where efforts had been made for months to heal the breach between Moscow and the exile Polish govern ment. Weather Report District of Columbia and Mary land—Partly cloudy with mild tem perature this afternoon and to morrow. Virginia—Mostly cloudy with mild temperatures; showers in south por tion tonight and tomorrow. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers cloudy at Harpers Ferry. Potomac slightly muddy at Great Falls. Report (or List 24 Hours. . . Temperature. Yesterday— Degrees. 4 P.m. - 66 8 P.m. _ _ 64 Midnight - 58 Today.— 4 a.m. - 55 8 a.m.___ _ _ 51 Noon _7. 64 Record (or Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 68, 5:20 p.m. Year ago. 69. Lowest, 51. 8 a.m. Year ago, 41. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest. 80. on March 16. Lowest. 17. on January 2. Humidity tor Last 21 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 76 per cent, at 8:30 a.m. Lowest, 25 per cent, at 2:30 p.m. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) „ . Today. Tomorrow. High - 8:55 a.m. 9:29 a.m. Low' . - 2:26 a.m. 4:00 a.m. High - . .. 9:14 p.m. 9:50 p.m. Low - 3:55 p.m. 3:34 p.m. The Sun and Moon. o , . Rises. Sets. Sun, today .. 6:41 7:38 Sun, tomorrow 6:40 7 39 Moon, today 7:42 p.m. 6:59 am. Automobile lights must be turned on me-half hour alter sunset. Precipitation. Monthly* precipitation in inches in the Capita) (current month to date): Month. 1944 Average. Record. January . _ 2.06 8.55 7.83 '37 February 2.48 3.27 6.84 '84 March - 5.44 3.75 8.84 ’6l April - 0.23 3.27 9.13 '89 ■nay .. - — 3.70 10.60 '89 June - ... _ 4.13 10.94 '00 July ------ -- 4.71 10.63 '86 August - ... 4.01 14.41 '28 September___ 3 24 17 45 '34 October - —_ 2.84 8.81 '37 November __ 2.37 8.69 '89 December 3.32 7.56 '01 SPECIAL EASTER DINNERS Virginia Turkey and Ham Nebraska Sirloin Steaks Famous Fried Chicken Delicious Sea Foods Complete Dinner $1 to $2 Enana (Hoffpr 4770 Lee Highway Chestnut 9888 Girls Run Ad Offering Gl's Blind Date / By the Associated Press. f ELIZABETH. N. J„ A ini 8 — Three Elizabeth girls have placed a "men wanted” advertisemt*f'.t with Port Hancock Service Club; Hostess Helen Cahalln. Their request, suggested by a olind date telephone program at the service club recently, was “Wanted: Three soldlei-s, single, at least 5 feet 8 inches tall, to go on dates with three girls from Eliza beth, N. J., who will flhance the evening up to and including $15 worth of entertainment/’ Hancock soldiers will get a chance to vie for the blind date on April 27 when they will make service club telephone calls to the three girls. Agreement Reached On Postwar Airfields For All Countries By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 8.—Adolf A. Berle, jr.. Assistant United States Secre tary of State, said today the British American civil aviation conference had reached a preliminary agree ment on the principle that all na tions should allow other countries access to enough airfields to main tain communications. A further accord was reached on the principle that competition should not be used to "bedevil” another na tion, Mr. Berle said in a joint press conference with Lord Beaverbrook, British Lord Privy Seal. The customarily jocular Beaver brook, who is in charge of Britain’s civilian aviation program, said little beyond the statement that "most admirable results” had been achieved and that the conference was domi nated by “the desire for agree ment.” Both Sides Made Concessions. Mr. Berle quickly injected that concessions had been made by both sides and from then on answered a barrage of questions. He said the sugject of acquisition of British bases in the Pacific had not been discussed but that America expected to have “a good many bases” in that area after finishing with the Jap anese. He sidestepped the point of the postwar fate of American bases de veloped on British soil. Earlier it had been announced at the conclusion of the four-day dis cussion of postwar civil aviation that the two governments were agreed that international control should govern a large field of tech nical matters. Subsidies May Be Necessary. Mr. Berle said it was agreed that subsidies would be necessary in some instances but should not be used “to knock some one else out of the air,” and that the use of long-range planes, developed by the United States during the war, to seize postwar commercial advan tages would be considered by the American people as bad business and a betrayal of the understand ing “entered into in good faith” by the two countries. While the discussions were taking place here Russian representatives met in Washington with Joseph C. Grew, special assistant to the Secre tary of State; L. Welch Pogue, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, and W. A. M. Burden, Assist ant Secretary of Commerce for Air, for similar talks affecting nations which operated international air services before the war and are planning to pick up again. CIO Unit Hopes to Oust Harris, Byrd From Office By the Associated Press. PORTSMOUTH, Va„ April 8.— “We have an opportunity to bring about a political revolution in Vir ginia, retire Winder R. Harris from Congress and send Senator Harry Flood Byrd back to selling apples,” Dan Boano, port agent for the National Maritime Union at Nor folk, declared here Thursday night at a meeting of Tidewater CIO labor groups. The groundwork was laid at the meeting for the organization here of Political Action Committees. After attacking the Democratic organization in Virginia, Mr. Boano declared the union cost-of-living committees already set up in this area could be used to help establish “representative political action com mittees to carry on the movement to get every member of organized labor on the qualified voting list.” The Virginia machine controls not less than 120,000 votes, he declared, “but we have them worried.” Other speakers included Robert Johnson, CIO field representative for the Tidewater area, who declared the time is ripe to rid Virginia of “the Harry Byrds and the Howard Smiths and others of their like.” Ration Books Scarce, Housewives Warned By the Associated Press. The Office of Price Administration yesterday urged housewives to take good care of their ration books, be cause the replacement supply is limited. Book 4, the agency reminded, will be in use about three times as long as earlier food books. Only airplan® stamp 1 for shoes is currently good in book 3, but other stamps in the book may be designated for use later, OPA said. Book 1 will be withdrawn from use with the expiration of shoe stamp 18, good through April 30. Housewives, join the fight! Save waste cooking fats for gunpowder. Take them to your meat dealer. London Paper Fears Muddle if Dewey Wins Nomination By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 8.—The London News-Chronicle declared In an ed itorial today that If Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York became the Re publican presidential nominee, “the world may be kept completely In the dark about America’s foreign policy until after the election, and this unhappy state of things will only be avoided if Mr. Hull (Secretary of State) succeeds in getting the Re publicans to take foreign affairs out of politics.” The paper said Wendell L. Win kle’s retirement as a candidate for the GOP nomination meant that "from one point of view the political outlook in the United States be comes more obscure than ever. So far as American policy affects the rest of the world, the issue which dominates all others is internation alism versus isolationism. If Amer ica elects a President and Congress of isolationist sympathies, the bot tom will drop out of the Allies* post-war plans. “Mr. Willkie is an internationalist. Had the fight been between him and Mr. Roosevelt there would have been little to choose between them from the standpoint of world policy. But Gov. Dewey has not yet de clared himself on this issue.” Republicans in Congress See Little in Comment Republican members of Congress turned aside the News-Chronicle comment. Senator Taft of Ohio dismissed it with, “It is very pointed comment without foundation in fact. Appar ently the editor of the News-Chron icle has not read the Mackinac declaration or the Connally resolu tion.” "There Is no reason for such com ment,” was the reaction of Repre sentative Gearhart of California. "The United States has already committed itself to a policy of world co-operation when American In terests are involved. “The Republican party will de velop an international policy based on realism. The test is—are Amer ican interests involved, and when they are you will see the United States playing its full international role.” Representative Michener of Mich igan felt it “unfortunate that Great Britain is attempting to dictate American policy and American pol itics, as this is what it is because what appeared in the London News Chronicle appeared there with Brit ish government knowledge and ap proval. Everything they print is censored. Nothing will make for greater disunity in this country than the entry of some foreign country into our local politics.” Two Men Are Sought In Assault on Woman Prince Georges County police to day were seeking two men in con nection with an alleged double crim inal assault on a 24-year-old Gov ernment employe early today near Largo. County Policeman C. L. Perrygo, who investigated the case with Po liceman Wilmer Suit, said the wom an told them she and a companion, Paul Fitzhugh, 30, of the 1100 block of Eleventh street N.W., met the two men in a Washington beer parlor shortly after midnight. After having a “few” drinks, she said, the four drove into Maryland “for a nightcap.” The two men stopped their car on Central avenue, near Largo, she added, forced Mr. Fitzhugh to get out and then drove to Largo, where the alleged attacks occurred. The men then threw the woman from the automobile and drove off, she said. She made her way to a nearby home and called police, who were on their way to find her after Mr. Fitzhugh had called them. The victim said she had never seen the two men before but de scribed them as more than 6 feet tall and “very heavy.” This descrip tion was verified by Mr. Fitzhugh. isotn the woman and her com panion said they could not see the license plate numbers on the at tackers’ car because they were ob scured by mud. Baby Two-Hump Camel To Make Zoo Bow Today A baby male Bactrain camel (that’s the kind with two hump6), bom March 31, will make its bow to Washington Zoo visitors today. The newest arrival at the Zoo is 3% feet tall and weighs approxi mately 50 pounds, Ernest P. Walker, acting director, announced. The baby, as yet unnamed, will share an outdoor paddock with its mother. Papa Camel, Zoo officials said, will remain in his own pen nearby. (Camels, notoriously tem peramental, sometimes resent addi tions to their families.) 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