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Algiers Censor's Ban
On Tito Interview
Protested by A. P.
By the Associated Press.
An Associated Press dispatch, the
first interview given the American
press by the Yugoslav Partisan
leader, Marshal Tito, has been
stopped by censors of the Allied
Mediterranean command at Algiers
despite official assurances that po
litical censorship would not be im
posed in the Mediterranean theater.
No reason has been given.
Representations have been made
to the War Department in Wash
ington and authorities in London1
md directly to Gen. Sir Henry Mait
land Wilson, supreme Allied com
mander in the Mediterranean, but
the dispatch, by A. P. Correspondent
Joseph Morton, has been refused
clearance after 12 days considera
tion.
Called “Theater Matter.”
The War Department said yester
day it had no comment at this time
because the situation is “mani
festly a theater matter.”
When Gen. Wilson took command
In the Mediterranean theater in
January he told correspondents he
would continue Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower's policy of no political
censorship, saying, “I hope you don’t
think I have brought all those Mid
dle East rules over here with me
* * * Here I see no reason for in
troduction of political censorship.”
Gen. Wilson had been commander
in the Middle East, where Cairo has
been noted as a center of censor
ship difficulties.
On May 4 Kent Cooper, executive
director of the Associated Press,
telegraphed Gen. Wilson:
“Earnestly request your interven
tion in matter of release of Asso
ciated Press story written by Joseph
Morton based on questions sub
mitted to Marshal Tito but which
censors under your command refuse
to permit be sent to us.
Asks tor statement.
“Edward Kennedy, chief of A. P.
staff in Mediterranean, declares
that suppression constitutes politi
cal censorship in spite of your as
surances and those of British and
American Governments that politi
cal censorship would not be intro
duced in Mediterranean theater.
“If you feel unable to pass dis
patch in question, we would like
statement from you as to your rea
sons therefor which we can publish
with our disclosure of imposition of
political censorship in your theater.
Assurances high regard.”
Gen. Wilson has not replied and
Mr. Kennedy telegraphed the As
sociated Press in New York Thurs
day night that Mr. Cooper's mes
sage was “apparently ignored.”
Mr. Kennedy further reported he
had “attempted full details regard
ing Tito story but consorship pre
vent me from sending at this time.”
Mr. Morton obtained his inter
view with Tito by submitting writ
ten questions from Bari, Italy.
Personally Written Answers.
The Communist-trained guerrilla
leader, whose forces often have
clashed with those of Gen. Draja
Mihailovich, war minister of the
exiled Yugoslav government, sent
back personally written answers.
The story, about 1,600 words, was
sent April 30 to headquarters at
Algiers for censorship and trans
mission, but there the censors
stopped it.
Mr. Kennedy cabled on May 3
that he regarded the affair as “a
censorship scandal 10 times more
important than suppression of Pat
ton incident and if accepted by us
can only lead to permanent Allied
political censorship in Europe and
end all freedom in reporting politi
cal news from here.” He appended
a note that his message itself had
been held up by the censors in Italy
for six hours.
This is not the first clash be
tween correspondents and censors
in the Mediterranean theater, but
Mr. Kennedy said it “is the most
clear-cut yet involving freedom of
the press.”
One of De Luce Stories Killed.
Daniel De Luce, Associated Press
correspondent, who went into Yugo
slavia last September and got a
first-hand account of the Yugoslav
Partisans’ struggle against the Ger
mans—a feat which contributed to
his winning the 1943 Pulitzer prize
for reporting of international af
fairs—had one of his five dispatches
killed by the censors.
Two of the others were sent as
written and two slightly mutil
ated” after a battle with the
censors which lasted “until long
after midnight,” Mr. Kennedy re
ported at that time. He reported
also that Mr. De Luce was the sub
ject of “an official investigation and
report, but they could not prove he
had violated any regulation.”
Subsequently, Mr. Kennedy said,
air-tight regulations were imposed
against correspondents going to
Yugoslavia, and twro (not Associated
Press men( who attempted to do so
were arrested.
Request Made by Tito.
Mr. De Luce applied for permis
sion to return to Yugoslavia as a
correspondent officially accredited
to Tito's headquarters, but was re
fused, despite two specific requests
by Marshal Tito himself and Tito's
offer to furnish transportation.
On March 28 Mr. De Luce tele
graphed New York that he had ob
tained “the only travel order issued
a correspondent by Tito but using
it would make me liable to military
arrest and disaccreditation by Med
iterranean command.”
As part of the general picture, a
Blue Network correspondent in
Naples radioed last night (May 11)
that “relations between military au
thorities in Italy and the represent
atives of the world’s press have
fallen to a new low in the past
month. Even the pretense of daily
press conferences has been dropped.
Instead, all news comes out via the
mimeograph machine ”
Meanwhile, Mr. Morton’s Tito
story lies in a censor’s pigeonhole,
or safe, in Algiers.
WLB Reinstatement
Order Results in Suit
The Centrifugal Fusing Co. of
Lansing, Mich., yesterday filed suit
In District Court to prevent the War
Labor Board from taking any ac
tion to enforce a directive of WLB
Regional Board No. 11 which or
dered the company to reinstate a
discharged employe.
The suit claims that the regional
board ordered the employe rein
stated with back pay after he had
been cleared of a charge in court
of destroying equipment.
The suit says the Regional WLB
has been enjoined by a Michigan
court from forcing 'jlhe firm to re
instate the man ana: that an appeal
k pending.
i DREAM GIRL —Miss Mar
jorie Brown, a George Wash
ington University student, of
4600 Alton place N.W., selected
as “dream girl” of Pi Kappa
Alpha, will be honored at a
dance tonight at the chapter
house, 2450 Massachusetts
avenue N.W. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.
Charles Brown.
Labor Department
Conciliator to Handle
Radio Union Dispute
A Labor Department conciliator
was to be appointed today to medi
ate the dispute between radio en
gineers and three of thl Nation’s
largest networks over contracts re
cently signed by the broadcasting
companies with James Petrillo, APL
Musicians Union president.
Affected by the controversy are
the National Broadcasting Co., the
Blue network and the Mutual
Broadcasting System. Inability to
settle the dispute by June 1, when
the contracts are to take effect,
may result in a general work stop
page among engineers and would
affect radio communications
throughout the country.
Engineers at the Columbia Broad
casting System are affiliated with
another union and are not involved
in the current discussions.
According to Allan Powley, presi
dent of the independent National
Association of Broadcasting Engi
neers and Technicians, the Petrillo
contracts provide that musicians
take over the work of handling rec
ords and transcriptions — a duty
which heretofore has been taken
care of by the engineers.
"If there isn’t any settlement by
June 1,” Mr. Powley said, "we’ll
either walk out or we’ll keep Pe
trillo from coming in.”
The conciliator was to be appoint
ed from New York, where, it was
understood, he would examine rec
ords of the National Labor Rela
tions Board, which has already
given some attention to the case.
D. H. Davenport Appointed
Curtiss-Wright Official
Donald Hills Davenport, former
chief economist of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, has been appointed
director of business research for the
Curtiss - Wright
Corp., Burdette
S. Wright, vice
president of
that firm, an
nounced yester
day.
During his
service with the
Labor Depart
ment, Mr. Dav
enport served
concurrently as
acting director
of research for
the Army In
dustrial College.
At the request Don*U H. Davennort.
of the War Department he will con
tinue to act as counsel to that unit.
Previously, Mr. Davenport served
as special economic consultant for
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission. He entered Government
service in 1929 on leave of absence
from Harvard University where he
had been a professor ih the Grad
uate School of Business Administra
tion.
2 Pay Fines, 2 Forfeit
In Health Law Breaches
Charged with health law viola
tions, two restaurant operators were
fined $50 each yesterday in Munici
pal Court, while two others forfeited
$50 each.
Fined were: Thomas Lalehos, op
erator of a restaurant at 23912
Fourth street S.W., charged with
having dirty floors, shelves, two cafe
on the premises and a dead rat in
the cooler; Christ Nitsakes, oper
ator of £ restaurant at 1226 Thirty
Sixth street N.W., charged with
having rat holes in the storeroom
and dirty floors.
Peter V. Vlachos, operator of the
Alamo Grill, 1127 Fourteenth street
N.W.. forfeited $50 on charges of
having roaches in a dirty bread box
and a cat under a sink. Robert
Philipson, operator of the Hubbard
House, Inc,, of 6434 Georgia avenue
N.W. also forfeited $50 on charges
of having a dirty dishwashing ma
chine and leaking garbage cans.
Rat Poison Obtainable
Free at Polk School
Free rat poison can be ob
tained at the Polk School, Seventh
and P streets N.W., Maj. William
Cary, jr., director of the Health
Department Bureau of Sanitation,
announced yesterday.
Maj. Cary said red squill, and
instructions on how to ratproof
homes will be given out at the
school between 8 am. and noon
on weekdays.
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19 New Scarlet Fever
Cases Reported Here
Nineteen new cases of scarlet
fever and 43 new cases of measles
were reported yesterday to the
Health Department, Dr. James G.
dimming,- head of the Bureau of
Communicable Diseases, announced
last night.
Dr. dimming also announced that
meningitis cases had risen to 50 for
the year with a report of a case
at Gallinger Hospital. Health offi
cials said the patient was a 19
year-old boy who has practically re
covered from a contagious type of
the disease.
The total number of scarlet fever
cases this year now stands at 2.962
and the total of measles at 2,350.
Three Pay $25 Fines
On Blackout Charges
Three men were fined $25 each
yesterday in Municipal Court on
charges of violating blackout regu
lations by having lights on during
the test last Monday night.
They were John Paul, 1335 Massa
chusetts avenue N.W. Maurice
Greenburg of 801 H street N.W. and
Raymond Cox, 1510 Twenty-sixth
street N.W.
Woman Traffic Violator
Prefers Jail to $3 Fine
Despite offers by several Munici
pal Court officials to pay her S3 fine,
Mrs. Janet Atkins, 25, of Falls
Church, Va., yesterday preferred to
go to jail on a charge of passing a
flashing red light.
Mrs. Atkins, a well dressed wom
an who drove up to Municipal Court
in her own car, philosophically told
attendants, ‘‘I am not guilty, and
anyway I have a lot of things I
don't want to do this week end.”
Furthermore, she said she was leav
ing her car parked outside the court
house during her three-day sen
tence, and hoped the policeman who
arrested her originally would tag it.
Mrs. Atkins had 60 dozen eggs
with her when she was arrested by
Policeman Daniel C. Diehl for driv
ing through a red signal at Massa
chusetts avenue and Q streets N.W.
She told the policeman she was
bringing the eggs here to sell them.
At the time of her arrest she re
fused to post collateral and wanted
to go to jail instead. Policeman
Diehl, however, released her on her
personal recognizance to appear in
court yesterday, rather than hold
her and allow the eggs to spoil.
In court, Mrs. Atkins, accused the
policeman of lying, and claimed'
that she had stopped for the sig
nal. Judge Ellen K. Raedy sus
tained the officer, but admitted la
ter that she certainly didn’t expect
the well dressed young woman to
choose the jail sentence.
According to the police, Mrs. At
kins’ husband is overseas with the
armed forces.
Eight-Hour Violations
Cost Shoreham $250
The Shoreham Hotel Corp., 2500
Calvert street N.W., was fined $250
yesterday in Municipal Court on
charges of violating the 8-hour day
law.
The District Minimum Wage and
Industrial Safety Board, which pre
ferred the charges, contended that
the hotel worked a telephone oper
ator more than 10 hours in one
day, worked one woman more than
48 hours in one week, and permitted
a cashier to work seven days in
one wjeek.
Fight inflation . . . Speed inva
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Price Outlines Formula
To Safeguard Information
Byron Price, director of the Office
of Censorship, yesterday outlined
for the public a formula for effec
tively safeguarding information
which might be of value to the
enemy.
Among the salilent points stressed
by Mr. Price was the absolute neces
sity of eliminating from expressions
of opinion facts which constitute
military information.
Caution in written or spoken mes
sages cannot, he said, be over
emphasized. The importance of
discretion in written communica
tions is indicated by the fact that
Congress has prescribed heavy pen
alties for transmission of letters out
of the country without first sub
mitting them to censorship.
Newspapers and other media of
news disseminaticyi should not be
expected by the public to aid the
enemy by announcing in advance
when and where our forces will
strike. Delays and inconveniences
to which practically everyone is
subject at some time or other, due
to wartime exigencies, should be
borne with patience, Mr. Price con
cluded.
U. S. Flyers Wilh RAF
Among Early Berlin Raiders
by the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 13.—Americans
were at the controls of British night
bombers hammering Berlin months
before the first official United States
raid against the capital, the British
Air Service Command disclosed yes
terday.
Officially known as “members of
the American Air Force on detached
service with the RAF,” the Amer
icans flying under two flags called
themselves the "Blue Eagle Air
Force.”
The force consisted of RAF
trained pilots, bombardiers, navi
gators, radio operators and gunners
who came overseas to Join British
air units. They transferred to the
American Air Force when the
United States entered the war, but
the Blue Eagles returned to their
former crews to complete their tours
of duty.
Four Americans working in a
small room at an Air Service Com
mand replacement control depot
formed the headquarters.
Capt. Bryan Rust of Detroit is the
Blue Eagles’ commander.
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Australian Train Crash
Kills Four Soldiers.
By the Associated Pres*.
ADELAIDE, Australia, May 13.—
Pour soldiers were killed and 27
Injured yesterday in an accident in
volving a troop train and a freight.
The troop train, carrying 300 sol
diers, was at a siding at Pattapa,
350 miles north of Adelaide. The
freight crashed into it. Several cars
were telescoped.
Soldiers not pinned in the wreck
age did heroic rescue work. A
medical train arrived at the scene
eight hours later.
The dispatch did not specify the
nationality of the soldiers. Presum
ably they were Australians, though
great number of American soldiers
are stationed in Australia.
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