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Gi Bill Farm Loans
Available, but High
Prices Cut Volume
The way is now clear for veterans
to- obtain loans under the GI Bill
of Rights to purchase farms or farm
equipment, but inflated farm prices
made it doubtful today that many
veterans would be able to get Gov
ernment-approved loans soon.
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, admin
istrator of veterans affairs, an
nounced the regulations governing
farm loans at a press conference
yesterday, but admitted that the
provision of the GI Bill of Rights
requiring approval only of farms
with a “reasonable normal value”
would mean less farm opportunities
for veterans than there were five
years ago.
Other Regulations Near Completion.
Gen. Hines also announced that j
regulations governing loan guaran
tees for veterans going into busi- j
ness probably would be ready next j
week.
On the farm loans, a veterans’
advisory committee, working with
the county agent in every county,
will give free advice to veterans
and protect them from unwise farm
investments: They will advise on
local farm opportunities and the
costs of farms, where to get train
ing, safe margins of debt, the kind
of credit needed and where it is
available.
May Pay Off Old Debts.
Besides loans for the purchase
or improvement of property, the
loan may be approved to pay off i
delinquent indebtedness or assess-!
ments if the place is to be used
as a home.
The loans are made through reg-j
Ular private lending companies, with
the Veterans' Administration guar
anteeing up to 50 per cent of the
loan with a maximum guaranty i
of $2,000.
Gen. Hines said the forms neces
sary to obtain the loan guaranty
should be available in about two
weeks, but he added that veterans
Interested in farm loans could select
their proposed farm property, find a
lender and • have themselves certi
fied as eligible for the loan guar
anty while awaiting the necessary
forms.
Meanwhile, the realtors’ Wash
ington Committee of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards
called on OPA to give preference to
veterans in the purchase of homes
through GI loans. Asserting some
veterans have been prevented from
buying homes because of the 20 per
cent down payment required on
tenanted houses, the realtors asked
the OPA to waive this requirement
in the case of veterans.
Baby Found Dead in Crib
Danny Lee Nalley, 4 months old,
son of Mrs. Mary Nalley, 2224 Penn
sylvania avenue S.E., was pro
> nounced dead today by Gallinger
Hospital physicians after he was
found unconscious in his crib by his
grandmother. Mrs. Mary L. Nalley.
He was in the crib with his twin
sister.
Greece
(Continued From First Page.)
Athens area appear to be armed;
largely with German and Italian
equipment.
A force estimated at between 800
and 1.200 men was said to be be
sieging a Greek mountain brigade
stationed in a barracks to the north- .
east. Heavy sniping fire was re-;•
ported.
The 2d and 13th ELAS Divisions :
drew up last night to the village of ;
Hassia, northwest of the capital on
the road between the port of Piraeus
and Elevsis. A British ambulance
driver was killed yesterday on the :
Athens-Piraeus road and his ve- i
hide captured.
One ELAS battalion is known to
be equipped with 75-mm. guns. Dur- :
ing yesterday's fighting the Leftist i
forces employed mortars against
British tanks.
(The Cairo radio said last night
word had been received from
Athens that a member of the
Leftist EAM had met a Greek
government representative to
discuss cessation of fighting.)
On the island of Crete, where a
German garrison remains, the two .
major guerrilla forces—the ELAS
and the EOK—are reported to have
agreed on common measures to
avoid civil war. Cretan nationalists .
make up the EOK.
—
Blood Quota
(For District. Pent**on and
Mobile Units.)
District quota per
week _. 5.080 pints
Donations last week 3,715 pints
Donations so far this
week _ 3.873 pints
Today’s appoint
ments _ 204 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center
in the Acacia Building, 51 Lou
isiana avenue N.W., by calling
District 3300 between 9 a.m.
and 5:30 p.m.
Thus far in this war. 993 men
from the District area have
been reported killed.
On the Roll of Honor—
Prt. Anthony
(Mounded)
Capt. Feiker
(Wounded)
Serrt, Moreland
(Wounded;
Pfe. Caruso
(Wounded)
Killed
Lt. Archibald F. C'ommiskey, jr„
a former student at Georgetown
University’s foreign service school,
was killed November 18 in Germany,
the War Department has notified
his parents in Baltimore.
Lt. Commiskey's uncle, Maj. Gen.
Walter S. Grant, is on duty here in
the Secretary of War’s office. His
father. Col. Archibald F. Commls
kev, recently retired from duty
after a term of service which began
during the Spantsh-American War.
Wounded
Staff Sergt. Francis M. Brooke. 24,
son of Mrs. Mamie Brooke, 1333
Euclid street N.W., has been
wounded in action for the second
iime. the War Department an
nounced today.
Sergt. Brooke was wounded first
n France early in the summer. He
was wounded the second time Sep
ember 16 in Germany. A native of
Washington, he was graduated
from Central High School. He was
employed at the War Department
when he entered the service over
three years ago. The Star carried
a story March 1 by War Corre
spondent Tom Henry describing
Sergt. Brooke as the first Yankee to
drive a jeep into Bizerte. A brother,
Pfc. Jim Brooke, also is fighting In
Germany, but the two have never
met overseas.
Second Lt. Gilbert Hahn, jr„ was
wounded seriously November 23 in
France, the War Department has
notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Gilbert Hahn. 3207 Cathedral ave
nue N.W. Mr. Hahn, vice president
and treasurer of the Hahn shoe
stores, said his son, an artillery of
ficer, was hit while acting as fire
director for a heavy artillery outfit.
Lt. Hahn was a member of the
Princeton University Reserve Of
ficers’ Training Corps and was com
missioned at Fort Sill, Okla., in May,
1943. shortly after his graduation
from Princeton. Lt. Hahn was em
ployed at The Star during his sum
mer vacations in 1940 and 1941 while
he was attending Princeton, where
he was president of the school sen
ate. He wras a member of the Can
non Club at Frincton and the
Washington Princeton Club.
Lt. Hahn recently informed his
parents that his colonel had recom
mended him for a field promotion.
He has been overseas since June and
fighting in France since July. A
brothpr, Pfc. Walter Hahn, is with
the Quartermaster Corps at Fort
Bragg. N. C.
Pfc. William A. Wishard. 23, was
wounded November 18 in Germany,
the War Department has informed
his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Wishard. 1202 Forty-eighth avenue.
Hillside, Md.
A native of Washington, Pvt.
Wishard has always lived in the
District area. He was employed at'
the Washington Gas Light Co. in
Hyattsville when he entered the
service in August, 1942. Pvt. Wish
ard has been overseas since August.
His brother. Pvt. Norman Wishard,
is with the Marine Corps in the
Pacific.
Pvt. Tayloe R. Anthony, 26, U. S.
M. C. R„ has been wounded in ac
tion, the Navy Department an
nounced today. According to his
mother, Mrs. Mary Anthony, 641
Park road N.W’., Pvt. Anthony was
wounded September 20 on Peleliu
Island, but has returned to dutyj
after 10 days in a hospital. He
never has mentioned any of his
wounds in his letters home.
A native of Westmoreland County,
Va.. Pvt. Anthony moved to Wash
ington 18 years ago with his family.
When he entered the marines in
August, 1943. Pvt. Anthony was em
ployed as a machanic for the Capi
tol Transit Co. He has been over
seas since last May. His wife, Mrs.
Violet Anthony, lives at 355 W'es
mond drive, Alexandria.
Capt. Frederick C. Feiker. 34. who
is listed as wounded by the War De
partment today, was hit in the hand
by shrapnel in Germany, Septem
ber 16, but has returned to action,
his parents, Mr and Mrs. Frederick
M. Feiker, 2137 Bancroft place N.W.,
have learned.
Capt. Feiker was a member of the
fiirst American .division to enter
Paris. According to his mother, he
wears three Bronze Stars for brav
ery in action. Capt. Feiker was grad
uated from Bard College in New
York and received a degree from
Columbia University. He was em
ployed at the Federal Home Loan
Bank in New York when he entered
the service in 1941. His father is dean
of the School of Engineering at
George Washington University.
Technician Fifth Grade William
Wr. Thompson, 32, whose wife, Mrs.
Regina Thompson, lives at 2224 Min
nesota avenue S.E.. has been wound
Pvi. Pryor
(Wounded)
James Waller
(Missing)
ea in action the War Department
disclosed today. He was badly burned
in a tank explosion and is recovering
at a hospital in England.
A member of a tank destroyer
unit, Corpl. Thompson landed i#i
France on D day. He participated
in the Allied parade through Paris
when the French capital was liber
ated and fought through Fiance,
Belgium and into Germany where
he was wounded.
Corpl. Thompson was born in
Southern Maryland, where his par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. George C.
Thompson stil llive.
Staff Sergt. John O. Moreland, 19,
of 409 Forty-ninth street, Capitol
Heights, Md., suffered his second
wound since his infantry unit
landed in Europe, his mother, Mrs.
Eva Moreland, has been informed
by the War Department. The com
munication stated he was wounded
seriously November 20.
Sergt. Moreland was born in Cap
itol Heights and was graduated from
the Maryland Park High School.
At the time he joined the Army 20
months ago he was employed as a
civilian with the War Department.
His unit moved overseas about six
months ago. His mother said his
I unit had received the Presidential
! Citation.
Pfc. John Caruso, 26, infantry’,
listed as wounded by the War De
partment today, was hit in the leg
and shoulder September 18 in
France and is recovering in a hos
pital in England he has informed
his mother. Mrs. Maria Caruso, 1404
North Capitol street.
In a letter from another son. Pvt.
James Caruso, who is also in Eng
land, Mrs. Caruso learned that
James had gone to see his brother
John in the hospital. “He is getting
along fine.” John wrote. It was the
first time the brothers had seen one
another since January.
Pvt. Caruso attended McKinley
High School and was working at
his father’s bakery at the North
Capitol street address when he en
tered the service over a year ago.
He has been overseas since June.
Tech. Sergt. Edward Carney,
whose mother. Mrs. Mattie Tucker,
was listed as living at 1029 Seventh
street N.E., has been wounded in
action the second time the War De
partment announced today. Sergt.
Carney was first listed as wounded
on the August 25 casualty list.
Stories about the following men,
listed as wounded by the War De
partment today, appeared in The
Star after the next of kin had been
notified. /
Sergt. Mannce W. Manoney, jr„
630 Elliott street N.E., October 11.
Corpl. Bernard J. Tomardy, 1132
Fourth street S.W.. October 17.
Pvt. Hilary W. Jenkins, jr„ 3538
South Wakefield street, Arlington,
Va., October 15.
Corpl. Lloyd O. Allen, U. S. M. C,
1819 North Van Buren street, East
Fails Church, Va.
Pvt. Edgar Pryor, 20. was slightly
wounded in Germany, November 27,
the War Department has notified
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Smithwick, 2411 Fifty-seventh ave
nue,. Hyattsville, Md. A member of
a reconnaissance outfit, he had been
wounded twice previously, once in
the left ankle and once in the left
hand.
Pvt. Pryor entered the Army two
years ago and has been in continu
ous action since he participated in
the D day landings in France. A
native of Washington, he attended
Anacastia High School prior to en
tering the service.
Missing
Fireman (Second Class) James
Agustus Waller, 19, has been report
ed missing in the explosion of the
ammunition ship U. S. S. Mount
Hood, the Navy Department has in
formed his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Waller. 2611 Adams Mill
road N.W. The loss of the Hood
was announced by the Navy Depart
ment earlier this week, it exploded
at an advance Pacific base.
Bom in Colorado, Fireman Waller
spent most of his life in Washing
CATHOLIC LAYMEN DECORATED—These outstanding Catholic laymen in the District re
ceived papal awards yesterday at headquarters of the National Catholic Welfare Conference.
Three members of the headquarters staff of the NCWC were made knight commanders of the
Order of St. Gregory the Great, and Miss Margaret T. Lynch, retired executive secretary of the
National Council of Catholic Women, was awarded the Cross pro Ecclesia et Pontiflce. Left to
right, lire: Frank A. Hall, director of the press department; Msgr. Michael J. Ready,
Bishop-elect of Columbus, Ohio, presenting the medals; William F. Montavon, director of the
legal department; Miss Lynch and Bruce M. Mohler, director of the Bureau of Immigration.
—Star Staff Photo.
House Vote on 5-Star
Commanders Hints at
Permanent Rank Step
By the Associated Pres*.
A bill to create eight wartime
five-star Army and Navy command
ers, equal in rank to British field
marshals, has passed the House.
Chairman Vinson of the House
Naval Affairs Committee said in
brief debate which preceded yes
terday’s voice vote that every other
major power has these ranks and
“it is essential on the basis of the
size of our Army and Navy.”
The bill provides four appoint
ments each of “general oi the Army”
and “admiral of the Fleet” for the
war’s duration.
Mr. Vinson, “merely guessing,"
predicted the jobs would go to these
men:
For the Army: Gen. George C.
Marshall, Chief of Staff; Gen. H. H.
Arnold, head of the Air Forces;
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, all four
star generals.
For the Navy: Admiral William
D. Leahy, President Roosevelt's
Chief of Staff; Admiral Ernest J
King, Commander in Chief of the
Navy; Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
and Admiral William F. Halsey.
A hint that yesterday’s vote was
the first advance showing of a move
to make the higher rank permanent
came from Mr. Vinson's remark that;
“The strength and pride of the
United States justify making this the j
high rank when the Army and Navy
are reorganized” after' the war
There has been talk of creating an
admiral of the navies” to corre
spond with Gen. John J. Pershing’s
“general of the armies of the United
States,” the Nation's highest mili
tary title.
Under questioning, Mr. Vinson said
he intended early in the new Con
gress to propose legislation which
will raise to the rank of full general
the commandant of the Marine
Corps.
10 Die When Plane Hits
Barracks After Collision
By the Associated Press.
SIOUX PALLS, S. Dak., Dec. 9 —
Ten soldiers ‘at the Sioux Falls
Army Air Field were killed yes
terday when one of two planes
that collided in midair crashed into
a barracks on the field, according
to Col. O. L. Rogers, commanding
officer at the base.
Seven men in the other plane
parachuted to safety.
Every one of the seven occupants
of the plane which crashed into
the barracks was killed. Three
more men were killed in the bar
racks building when it was de
stroyed by fire. Two men in the
barracks suffered minor burns.
Both of the twin-engined planes
were used as “flying classrooms”
i for furnishing radio training in
flight to advanced students and the
ships were on “combat training
missions,” Col. Rogers said.
The plane which crashed on the
field “dived out of control,” he re
ported. Men in the second plane
were able to escape as it flew on
nearly six miles before crashing
and burning near Renner, north
of here.
Russia
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where the river turns west toward
Vienna.
The hard-driving Russians were
closing in on Budapest like a vise
amid Moscow reports of wholesale
defections by Hungarians from the
defending forces.
City Is Under Pressure.
The city already was under heavy
pressure from Russian forces on the
west bank of the Danube less than
13 miles from the city.
Berlin also said units of the 2d
and 3d Ukraine Armies had linked
up on the west bank of the Danube
at Ercsi, 13 miles south of Budapest,
following a crossing by Russian
troops from Csepel, the narrow
island that splits the Danube for 30
miles south of the capital.
A midnight Soviet bulletin said
an entire Hungarian infantry regi-i
ment comprising 20 officers and
1.390 men surrendered as a unit on
the Danube front. The bulletin
said 1.500 Germans and Hungarians
were killed yesterday on the front
West of the Danube.
Some Gains Reported.
In that area Moscow said Russian
forces smashed ahead II miles and
captured the rail station of Kiscseri
and Csosz village, only nine miles
south of Szekesfehervar, great road
and rail junction between Budapest
and the northern end of Lake Bala
ton.
Soviet forces were poised all along
the eastern and southern shores of
the lake, while in the corridor be
tween Lower Balaton and the Yugo
slavian border, 3d Army units ad
vanced closest to the Austrian fron
tier. Moscow' said 30 localities were
captured against heavy German
counterattacks in the area and offi
cially placed the Red Army within
41 miles of the Austrian border and
less than 110 miles from Vienna.
Unofficial front dispatches had re
ported Russian armored vanguards
fanning out in this sector to within
35 miles of the border.
ton. He was graduated from Cen
tral High School in 1943 and entered
the Navy shortly afterward. Fire
man Waller had only been overseas
a few months.
First Lt. James H. Mouth, 22, of
1415 Chapin street N.W., a navigator
on a Flying Fortress, is missihg in
action after a raid over Yugoslavia,
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H.
Mouth, were informed yesterday by
the War Department.
Lt. Mouth entered the Air Forces
in 1942, shortly after leaving Rice
Institute at Houston, Tex. He has
been overseas since September. His
father is a retired secret service
employe.
Philippines
(Continued From First Page.)
ed this advance fiercely even as the
77th some 20 miles south of them
was on the point of slamming shut
their potential escape port at Ormoc.
United States Shipping Founded.
The Japanese air force, whose
nine-hour attack on the American
convoy after the 77th’s landing was
a terrific demonstration of the ene-1
my’s still potent striking power, kept!
pounding away at shipping in Leyte!
Gulf.
The raid on the east side of Leyte *
cost the Japs 14 planes and five
more were shot down over West
Leyte, headquarters said today.
Although Japan has lost more
than 1,000 planes in the t,eyte cam
paign her air force still is capable
of hitting hard.
COMMUNISM ON THE MARCH IN EUROPE—Huge crowds fill the Domitien Stadium ruins on the Palatine in Rome, Italy, for
the Communist-Socialist mass meeting, held recently to celebrate the 27th anniversary of the Russian revolution.
In Athens. Greece, crowds mass in Constitu tion Square to observe the 26th anniversary of
the Greek Communist party. , _'_!
Members of resistance groups and the Communist party
march through the streets of Brussels, Belgium, carrying signs
protesting against the Pierlot government. —A. P. Photos.
'Amnesia' Victim Is Revealed
As Youth With Flair for Acting
A 19-year-old youth with a fan
ciful imagination and a flair for
acting today' assumed his real-life
role—Francis D. Hatfield, of Shir
ley. Mass., who was released on pro
bation two months ago from the
Industrial Home School there.
Since November 25 when he was
found “wandering aimlessly” in
Union Station, the youth had been
in Gallinger Hospital undergoing
treatment as an “amnesia” victim.
He told psychiatrists he could not
remember his name or his past.
But yesterday a slip of paper with
the name Hatfield was found in his
clothiftg and a check with police
revealed his identity. Confronted
with the evidence, he quickly
dropped his amnesia victim pose.
He said he had feigned amnesia,
“but only to get a new start in life.”
On August 1, he said, he was ar
rested in Albany; N. Y., as a
suspected spy, after he had assumed
a German accent and a Nazi strut.
He was released after he confessed
he adopted the pose to get into a
concentration camp to get informa
tion from German prisoners.
He returned to his home in Shir
ley and was commit tad to the In
dustrial School as an “incorrigible,”
remaining there until October when
he was released on his promise to
get a job.
When he arrived in the District
intent “on mailing a new start,’
he shifted roles and became an
“amnesia victim” with a clipped.
British accent. To further confuse
authorities, Hatfield said, he placed
a card in his pocket with the name
“Lord Ashley” written on it.
Hatfield is being held at Gallinger
while authorities check with Massa
chusetts officials to see if he is
wanted. Hatfield is undisturbed.
“I guess there’s a little too much
of the actor in me, ’ he said.
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Act Extending Powers
In War Emergency
Goes to President
By the Associated Press.
Congress has completed action on
legislation to continue the adminis- i
tration’s broad war emergency au- !
thority through 1945.
By a voice vote, the Senate late;
yesterday passed the House-ap- i
proved extension of the Second War I
Powers Act. The bill now goes to'
the White House.
The act is the legislative corner-:
stone of the War Production Board's
authority over the Nation's wartime
economy, and carries the Govern
ment's powers to impose rationing.
It also gives President Roosevelt
the authority for the War Food
Administration and various other
emergency agencies.
The Senate accepted a House
amendment giving Federal courts
power to review and enjoin WPB
orders suspending individual allo
cation, of critical materials.
The administration did not op
pose the judicial review rider, but
its opponents in the House con
tended it might hamstring the WPB;
at a time when the agency is at
tempting to hike war production in
a number of fields.
Supporters of the amendment said
it would protect individuals against
“abusive and tyrannical-’ adminis
trative rulings.
Enactment of the measure was
another step in the drive of the
78th Congress to finish up “must”
legislation and quit for the Christ
mas holidays.
Churchill
tContinued From First Page.)
were about 35 who were seen in the
building.
The breakdown of those who sup
ported the government—including
two tellers, whose votes are not of
ficially counted—was 229 Conserva
tives, 23 Laborites, 10 Liberals, 10
Liberal Nationalists ancj 9 Inde
pendents.
Many Members Away.
While there are 615 seats in Com
mons, the attendance did not come
anywhere near approaching that
number. However, dozens of mem
bers are in the armed forces or in
other war jobs overseas.
Sections of the British press,
agreeing that Britain had barely
escaped being plunged into a polit
ical crisis, asserted today that Prime
Minister Churchill's speech on
Greece yesterday did nothing to re
lieve public anxiety about the lack
of a unified Allied political strategy.
The conservative London Times
maintained that the situation “sup
plies good reason” for an early meet
ing of the big three.
Most of the British press, with the
exception of the Communist Daily
Worker, agreed that Mr. Churchill
made “a good speech,'’ but they
found in it nothing to give hope for
an early solution of the Greek crisis.
Sforza Explains Actions
Since Return to Italy
ROME, Dec. 9 UP).—Count Carlo
Sforza declared today he abandoned
a pledge given the United States
State Department to support Mar
| shal Pietro Badoglio because the
: former premier was unable “to re
jvive a military spirit-’ and because
j under his regime a new form of
j Fascism was being created in Italy.
In an interview, Count Sforza,
I who is vigorously opposed by Brit
ain for any prominent place in a
I new Italian government, said he had
given the pledge “in order to over
come certain oppositions raised
from abroad to my return to Italy."
Commenting on Prime Minister
! Churchill’s statements in the House
I of Commons yesterday, Count
Sforza asserted “it was my sacred
duty to oppose Badoglio, which I
did, not with intrigues but with an
1 open fight during which all the na
j tion was with me.’’
Correction
In a story in The Star Wednesday
about the conviction of James F.
Cotrell, 22, colored, for eight traffic
violations, it was erroneously stated
that Cotrell had been granted a pa
jrole from Lorton Reformatory. Ac
tually, Cotrell was granted a condi
I tional release after having served
jtwo years and three months of a
jone-to-three-year sentence for the
| unauthorized use of an automobile.
| Cotreil’s application for a parole was
denied by the District Board of In
; determinate Sentence and Parole on
’January 20 of this year.
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