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FBI Warns Citizens
To Watch for Three
More Nazi Saboteurs
(Continued From first Page.)
in Nazi propaganda or espionage
activity in Latin America prior to
their repatriation.
Schneemann is a former Nazi
party member and SS man reputed
to have been a Gestapo agent in
Colombia. A trained wireless tele
grapher. he is said to have traveled
in Mexico and to be acquainted
with mining operations in Brazil.
He was brought from Colombia
to San Francisco in April, 1942. and
sent to Jersey City. N. J„ for re
patriation ' aboard the SS Serpa
Pinto in July of that year. He has
dark eyes and graying brown hair
cut in Prussian style. One of his
large ears is clipped at the bot
tom and he sometimes wears a
moustache.
Speaks Poor English.
Schneemann. who lived for a time
in the wilds of the Amazon Valley,
is of athletic build, an excellent
swimmer, diver and bareback rider.
He dresses well, prefers dark suits
and may be earning a living as a
gambler, since he is proficient at
cards. He has a handclasp tattooed
on his right arm.
He speaks poor English, but is
proficient in French, Portugese.
Spanish and German.
Zuehlsdorff, a world traveler who
has spent most of his life in Latin
America, was brought to San
Francisco from Colombia in April.
1942, and was held at Grove Park
Inn, Asheville, N. C., and the
Greenbrier Hotel. White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va., before he was put
aboard a ship for Germany in New
York City in July of that year.
On his return to Berlin, he sang
on the radio and broadcast Nazi
propaganda in English. He appar
etlv lacked a pleasing radio per
sonality, however, as he has a
habit, the FBI lookout said, of
cracking his false teeth loudly and
frequently.
The man sometimes wears a very
black moustache, along with dark
classes. He likes to perform sleight of
hand tricks, prefers flashy clothes,
and is an excellent horseman.
sent to liermanv on unpsholm.
Wilms, said to have worked in
Germany with one of the two Nazi
agents who landed on the Maine
coast last November, is another
world traveler, having made frequent
stops in the United States before the
war while bound between Germany
and Latin America. He was brought
to the United States from Nicaragua
in May of 1942 and interned at Camp
Kennedy until he was sent to Ger
many last February' aboard the
Gripsholm.
Known to have been a member of
the Nazi party, he was considered a
leader of the Germans in Nicaragua.
He is 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighs 127
pounds and has blond hair and gray
eyes. He has a high forehead, cleft
chin, ruddy complexion and good
teeth. He is very' active, dresses like
a conservative businessman, speaks
English with only a slight accent
and is proficient in Spanish and
German.
The FBI once before put the pub
lic on the lookout for three German
spies expected to arrive here to
sabotage vital war installations. On
July 25, 1942, the FBI distributed
several hundred thousand posters
with photographs and descriptions
of Walter Kappe, Joseph Schmidt
and Rheinold Rudolf Barth after
ascertaining that the three had re
ceived extensive training in sabotage
and were under orders from the
German high command to come to
the United States.
Others Still Sought.
An FBI spokesman said today its
agents were still on the lookout for
the three, but as far as was known
they had never entered this country.
The trio, headed by Kappe, were
said to be associated with the eight
would-be saboteurs who landed by
submarine and were tried by a mili
tary commission. Kappe, the FBI
said, is a lieutenant assigned to the
German Army’s intelligence section.
A one-time resident of this country
who even applied for American citi
zenship, Kappe was an instructor in
a sabotage school operated by the
German high command near Berlin,
the FBI said. Information reaching
the FBI had it that Kappe was to
come to the United States to take
charge of a contemplated German
sabotage organization with head
quarters in Chicago.
Churchill
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dared that “there is no single poli
tician more capable of distorting the
facts than the Prime Minister.” He
asserted secret commitments by Mr.
Churchill were a factor in “the
Greek tragedy.”
Mr. Eden again called for more
frequent meetings of the big pow
ers—"not necessarily of the heads
of governments who have heavy
charges to bear and cannot con
stantly meet"—but at least of for
eign secretaries.
Representatives of all factions in
Commons expressed hope that the
forthcoming “big three” conference
would compose differences among
groups inside Britain as well as
among the Allies.
White Papers to Be Issued.
Mr. Eden told the House that a
government white paper dealing
w'ith guerilla bands in Greece was
being prepared.
The British government has never
opposed the EAM'S becoming the
government of Greece, but has in
sisted the decision must be reached
“through the medium of the ballot
box.” he said.
Now, the foreign secretary added,
“the EAM does not exist any more.
What is left is a hard Communist, or
if you like, Trotskyite, core.”
For the second day in a row gov
ernment spokesmen thus moved to
absolve Moscow Communists of
blame for the revolt in Greece.
“Problems now confronting us in
liberated Europe have not come al
together as a surprise,” Mr. Eden
said. “The advance of the victorious
Allied armies is going to present us
with many more such problems.
“I only pray that each one of them
Is not going to arouse quite the ln
• tensity of {Mission which this Greek
issue developed. If so, I shudder
to think how we shall be able to play
our part in Europe.”
Has Nothing to Hide.
Mr. Eden said the government had
“nothing to hide” and that if mem
bers of Commons had seen what the
Prime Minister and he saw in
Athens many criticisms raised today
would never have been made.
Mr. Churchill's denunciation yes
terday of the left-wing ELAS forces
in Greece as Trotskyites and “dirtier
than Germans.” came in for partic
ularly heavy fire from the opposi
tion.
The Liberal party leader, Sir Percy
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DRIVES ON THE WESTERN FRONT—Arrows show Allied drives
today along the northern sector of the western front (broken
line i. The British captured Hongen in a drive into Germany
from Southern Holland. Americans were blocked in a push
toward St. Vith in the Belgium bulge, but to the south the Amer
ican 3d Army advanced in the Diekirch-Echternach sector, cap
turing Rosport. Shaded area is German-held. —AP Wirephoto.
Harris, in opening debate, accused
the Prime Minister of “oversimplify
ing the issue by giving us lurid pic
tures of these armed bands as mere
Communist organizations.”
Harris said some Communists may
have “cashed in" on the ELAS. but
he conteneded that up to the libera
tion of Greece the ELAS was “a pop
ular movement drawn from all sec
tions in Greece and all parties.”
“Our Allies should share responsi
bility in liberated countries," the
Liberal leader said.
Dissent Voiced.
Cries of dissent arose from the
House when he asserted that “oui
prestige in the United States if
lower than for many years Hast.
He quickly explained he meant only
“political prestige.”
Leslie Hore-Belisha. Britain’s War
Minister at the outbreak of tlie w ar
brought cheers when he declared
that to take the stand that “our in
terest ceases the moment Germans
have been driven out of a country is
to maintain that we have merely
* * * a negative mission—the
beating of an enemy—and anybody
who has sufficient weapons can
come along and rob the fruits of our
victory.”
Hore-Belisha. an independent, de
manded that all who worked with
the Germans in Europe and all the
principles of Fascism “be expunged.’
“They are more likely to be ex
punged if we get responsible gov
ernment rather than mob law',’’ he
said.
“We do not know what the policy
of the EAM and its counterpart. in
all countries is, but we do know its
methods. We know it stands for
robbery, murder, the taking of
hostages, the maltreatment of hos
tages, and for the complete disre
gard of all human rights.”
Wants War Bill Cut.
Sir Richard Acland urged House
members to express disapproval of
the government s policy by cutting
a $4,000,000,000 war credit bill,
Technically the debate was upon this
bill.
Mr. Churchill’s address was de
clared by Acland to ha^ been "an
electioneering speech designed tc
disintegrate one of the Greek po
litical parties which has been one
of the main pillars of the govern
ment.”
“I think he was a little mean tc
try to tear down the military ex
ploits of the EAM," said Acland
the leader of the Commonwealth
Party, which has three seats in the
House. “The government policy has
been wrong from the start.”
The House was thrown into an
uproar as Mr. Bevan castigated the
Prime Minister, charging that his
“picture of ELAS forces marching
dowm on Athens to massacre some
of the inhabitants was a character
istic piece of Churchillian .rubbish.’
“There is no single politician more
capable of distorting facts than the
Prime Minister,” the Laborite de
clared.
l harges secret Commitments.
Cries of “oh" were heard about
the chamber.
Mr. Bevan declared “the Greek
tragedy” was brought about because
Mr. Churchill had been allowed tc
“make commitments in secret.” He
said that “up until quite recently
the Greek King (George II) was
still intriguing in London.”
Mr. Bevan said Mr. Churchill had
“the worst record of intervention in
other peoples’ affairs of any states
man,” adding:
“It Is clear from what the Prime
Minister has said that between the
U. S. A., the Soviet Union and our
selves the arrangement was reached
which has compelled Britain to as
sume unilateral obligations which
ought to be carried out by all the
United Nations together.”
There were shouted protests and
cries of “shame.” Attempts W'ere
made to interrupt Mr. Bevan, but
he refused to yield the floor.
Landing Rules Tightened
After Airliner Crash
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19.—Stricter
landing regulations for passenger
planes have been imposed at Bur
bank Air Terminal since the crash
of an Ame lean Airlines plane last
week which cost the lives of all 24
aboard.
Robert V. Keeler, district air car
rier chief for the Civil Aeronautics
Administration, declared yesterday
at an inquiry into the crash that
no more instrument approaches to
the field will be permitted until
radio location facilities are im
proved.
He said that under the new re
strictions, airliners may land there
only if they have a 2,000-foot'ceil
ing and visibility of two miles by
day and three miles at night. He
said that previously the landing
ceiling was 601 feet in daytime and
702 at night.
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Western Front
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seized Heide, a half mile north of
Echt.
German infantry in battalion
strength launched several attacks
I yesterday between Echt and Schil
! berg, but were beaten off.
Far north in the flooded no-man's
land 2 miles north of Nijmegen, a
I strong German fighting patrol at
i tacked British outposts and held
j their ground overnight, renewing the
assault at dawn. This was not be
lieved to be a major thrust, how
ever.
Snow again fell on the northern
half of the western front. Rain
j felt in the south.
Diekrlch Virtually Encircled.
Third Army infantry won control
of a third of the picturesa.ue Lux
embourg town of Diekirch (popu
lation. 3,700) in a pass leading 4
miles into Germany. The old world
town, nestled in snow in a deep
1 valley, was virtually surrounded.
Gains in the new attack averaged
s around 2 miles.
Other troops of Gen. Patton's
armv pushed east of a junction of
jthe Sure and Our Rivers at the Ger
man border, just west of the Sieg
fried Line. They fought inside
Erpeldange and Bettendorf, 3 miles
on either side of Diekirch.
Inside Germany itself, the enemy
recaptured Butzdorf, 13 miles south
j east of Luxerbourg City.
The capture of Rosport and Was
serbilling, also on the German bor
der, oroadened the Allied front
pointed at Trier, pivot of the Sieg
fried Line. The battle was fought
in a slowly deepening wedge be
tween the Moselle and Saar Rivers
on the distant approaches to the
Rhine city of Koblenz .
On the north side of the Ardennes
salient, there was heavy but incon
clusive fighting for St. Vith. Lt.
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' 1st Army
was clearing a defile south of On
denval, north of the road center.
Clearly the Germans were trying
to gain more time, and they could
only do that by attack.
Allied blows which were falling
with increasing strength were de
signed to keep Von Rundstedt on
the defensive and to maintain the
initiative which was wrested when
the tables were turned in the Ar
dennes.
Some at supreme Allied headquar
ters viewed the situation as a race
between the Allies in the north and
the Germans in the south to see
which side could get its offensive
into gear the soonest.
For it was in the south that the
Germany Army was hitting its only
aggressive blows. The Germans
| there might at any time burst into
another all-out effort.
Nazis Held in Bitche Salient.
In the Bitche salient, the only
place where the Germans have
breached American positions in the
old Maginot Line, the enemy kept
trying to infiltrate through the
woods, but were being held.
The Americans held firm in three
fourths of nearby Hatten against
attacks by German tanks and
grenadiers.
The Colmar pocket south of Stras
bourg remained quiet. The Ger
mans, however, had enough force
there to pose ever present ganger.
Court Frees Mrs. Allen
After Lunacy Hearing
ilrs. Eleanor Allen, 43, secretary
| to Representative Priest, Democrat,
of Tennessee, was freed from Gal
linger Hospital today when visiting
Judge J. C. Collet ruled in District
Court that the Government had
failed to make a case at a lunacy
hearing.
Judge Collet gave his ruling after
Mrs. Allen’s attorney. Miss Eliza
beth Young, argued a motion for a
directed verdict. Several days ago
| a jury which sat in at the lunacy
hearing was unable to agree wheth
er Mrs. Allen wras of sound mind.
In his ruling today Judge Collet said
the case really should not have gone
to the jury because of the weakness
of the Government’s case.
During the lunacy hearing several
days ago Mr Priest testified Mrs.
Allen had served him competently
over a three-year period. He said
that for several months she had
been nervous.
:Jap Navy Reported
| Planning New Strike
By the Associated Press.
Domel Japanese news agency
broadcast a report today that the
Japanese Navy has been “quietly re
organizing its forces” and is “lying
in wait for another opportunity to
annihilate the backbone of the en
emy task forces.”
The assertion was attributed to
the Tokyo newspaper Yomluri Hochi.
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Yanks on Luzon Blast
Jap Concentration,
Take Highway Town
By the Associated Press.
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 19.—
American mobile guns, mortars
and armor, smashing a cleverly
concealed concentration of Jap
anese tanks and artillery in a
24-hour battle, captured the
Highway 3 town of Urdaneta
early yesterday in the first bit
ter fight of the Luzon invasion.
Seizure of the key town on Gen.
MacArthur's left flank opened the
northern section of the main
Manila-Baguio highway to the
Yanks.
Meanwhile, an American column
20 miles south along the same vital
Highway 3 captured the road and
railroad junction of Paniqui in a
5-mile gain and pressed on toward
the important city of Tarlac, 70
road miles from Manila. Another
infantry force approaches Tarlac
obliquely down another road from
Camiling.
All advances were supported di
rectly by American planes operating
off the Lingaven airdrome. For
mosa and even parts of the China
coast now are within reach of long
range fighters.
(The Formosa domestic radio
warned today that large scale
enemy air raids “will be intensi
fied henceforth.” In a broadcast
picked up by the Federal Com
munications Commission the
Formosa announcer said “the
ferocity of the war now raging is
unprecedented in war annals of
the world, and the Japanese Em
pire is really facing a crisis.”)
At Urdaneta, 27 miles southeast
of Lingaven Gulf, the Luzon Japa
nese made their first determined
effort to stand and fight. The tank
led American column encountered
Japanese artillery and camouflaged
armored vehicles hidden amongst
trees and shrubbery on the town's
outskirts.
Urdapeta was ablaze as both sides
were pinned, down for hours at a
lime by mortar fire.
A1 Dopking. Associated Press war
correspondent, WTote from Urdaneta
that "when the Japanese failed to
stop our tanks with their own * • *
their infantry made fanatical
charges at the American armored
group. Two Japanese with dyna
mite strapped to their sides ran at
an American tank. They were
mowed down by machine-gun fire."
For a time the Americans held
half the smoking town and the
Japanese the other half.
Mr. Dopking said Yank artillery
fire poured upon the enemy-held
portion and the Japanese "could
be heard groaning and screaming
as American shells exploded among
them. Before dawn all was quiet.”
Hardly a house was left standing
as the infantrymen moved through
to find twisted and mangled Japa
nese bodies, but not a live enemy
soldier.
The remainder of the Japanese
garrison likely was pursued south
westward during the night, head
ipg ••for the low Cabaruan hills
wherd' an’ enemy force is believed
entrenched.
Capture of Urdaneta, which cleared
the Japanese from positions com
manding the northern portion of
the Manila-Baguio highway, will
enable the 6th Army's right wing
to start rolling southward again
after 49- hours of marking time
waiting for the left wing to catch up.
After bringing up equipment, this
right wing took Paniqui on Wednes
day to consolidate command of twp
western highways leading toward
Manila, 79 road miles to the south.
Gen. MacArthurs already over
wdielming war machine on Northern
Luzon gained additional striking
power Wednesday when Far East
Air Force fighter planes began oper
ating off the Lingayen airfield, which
was captured within a half hour of
the January 9 invasion.
This meant American land-based
planes were flying from a Luzon base
for the first time in more than
three years.
Fred Hampson. Associated Press
correspondent, said several hundred
fighters, including Lightnings of the
‘Dirty Dozen" squadron which has
been knocking down the enemy all
the way from Guadalcanal, were
poised on the new’ airdrome only 350
miles south of Formosa.
On the north end of the 50-mile
beachhead the 6th Army was mov
ing northward from Damortis to
ward Agoo and was pressing east
ward toward Rosario against stiller
opposition along a mountain road
leading to Baguio, summer capital
of the Philippines.
xoaay tne Americans were re
ported on the outskirts of Rosario,
around which the Japanese have
battled subbornly and skillfully for
four days. Seventh fleet guns bom
barded Japanese positions and in
stallations in the town.
American planes raked Japanese
communications, supply areas and
airdromes throughout Luzon, and
night reconnaissance bombers re
turned to Formosa to bomb the
Okayama airdrome and Toko sea
plane base on the southwest coast.
Talisay airfield in the Visayan Is
lands took a 96-ton bombing as
American bombers ranged through
the Central Philippines, Celebes, the
Moluccas, Borneo, New Guinea and
the Bismarck Archipelago hammer
ing airdromes, shipping and water
front facilities.
-if.—*
Democrats Likely to Name
O'Neal as Publicity Chief
By the Associated Press.
Sam A. O’Neal, a member of the
Washington staff of the Chicago
Sun, is expected to be named di
rector of publicity for the Demo
cratic National Committee.
The committee plans soon after
President Roosevelt’s fourth-term
inauguration tomorrow to step up
its publicity activities to consider
what it regards as a lag in public
interest in politics between elec
tions. Republicans have announced
plans for similar activity.
Mr. O’Neal will succeed Paul
Porter, who directed Democratic
publicity in the last campaign and
who since has become chairman of
the Federal Communications Com
mission.
Mr. O'Neal is 45 and long a
friend ■ of Democratic National
Chairman Robert E. Hannegan and
Vice President-elect Truman, both
Missourians.
Curtin to Resume Duties
CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 19
(JP).—Acting Prime Minister Francis
Forde announced today that next
Monday John Curtin, who has been
ill for three months, will resume his
duties as Prime Minister and Min
ister for Defense. Mr. Forde is War
Minister.
Novel Exhibit Shows How Navy
Moves Supplies Across Pacific
An American submarine rises
slowly from the ocean; an LST
glides toward a Navy supply depot
on the California coast, loads up
with jeeps and ducks and oil and
takes off again; across a 12,000-mile
expanse of ocean a C-2 unloads its
supplies and ducks carry them to
the advanced supply base on a South
Pacific ocean—you can stand around
and see it all happen any afternoon
this week or next.
It's a Navy exhibit, mounted on a
table 28 by 34 feet, and now in the
Commerce Department auditorium.
Open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., the
exhibit depicts the supply lines to
iour ships and troops in the Pacific
and how it works. Spectators can
punch buttons around the table that
control the movements of the ships,
submarines and land operations go
ing on atop the table.
Down to the minutest detail, It
shows the life of the Navy supply
men. Trains inch along tracks and
Jeeps career around a muddy road
on the Pacific island. Little native
hula dancers crowd around native
huts, and sailors—one-eighth of an
inch high—clean up the debris from
wrecked Jap planes.
Sponsored by the Navy Bureau of
Supplies and Accounts, the exhibit
was made for showing at thfe Chi
cago Sixth War Loan show, and;
after leaving Washington the end
of next week goes to New York and
Philadelphia.
Peyton Fletcher, 66, Dies;
Globe-Wernicke Manager
Peyton B. Fletcher, 66, of 2226
Wisconsin avenue N.W., died of a
heart attack last night at his home,
Mr. Fletcher was assistant man
ager of the Washington office of
Globe-Wernicke Co., office furniture
firm. A native of Washington, he
had been with the organization for
27 years. He was past master of
Dawson Masonic Lodge. No. 16, and
a member of the Kiwanis Club.
Son of the late George and
Adeline Fletcher, he received his
education in the District public
schools and the old Linthicum In
stitute.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Margaret E. Fletcher, and a daugh
ter, Mrs. Margaret A. Wise, both of
the Wisconsin avenue address; two
sons, Peyton B. Fletcher., jr., Be
thesda, and John S. Fletcher, Ar
lington, and three sisters, Mrs. Julia
Woodward and Mrs. Maude Collins,
both of Washington, and Mrs. Eliza
beth Harty, Miami.
Funeral services will be held at 2
p.m. tomorrow at St Alban's, Episco
pal Cnurch. Burial will be in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
FBI Arrests Four
In $20,000 Hijacking
By the Associated Press.
The FBI announced today the ar
rest of four Baltimore men on a
charge of hijacking a $20,000 load
of whisky in Baltimore Decem
ber 27.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said
the men were arrested last night
and early today in Newark and
Baltimore.
He identified them as F’rancis
Edward Martin Walsh, 29, a driver
for a Chicago trucking firm; Harry
Augustus Taylor. 39, truck driver;
Joseph Bach, 42, a former truck
driver, and Max Dubin. 26. a filling
station proprietor.
Walsh and Taylor were arrested
in Newark. Waish, in addition to
the hijacking charge, was charged
with failing to report for a pre
induction physical examination at a
Baltimore Draft Board January 8.
Dubin and Bach were arrested in
Baltimore on a charge of receiving
a part of the 500 cases of whisky
taken.
Mr. Hoover said the truck disap
peared after being driven from a
Baltimore terminal by Walsh. It
was taken to Hampton, Va„ where
the whisky was sold on the black
market at $45 to $47 a case, he
added. The truck was found aban
doned later '
Mr. Hoover said three Hampton
men. Stuart Alfred Alexander, C.
Woodrow Miller and Leonard D.
Smith, had been charged with re
ceiving some of the whisky.
Mr. Hoover said the other four
were to be taken before United
Stages commissioners today.
Draft
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ties, the registrants they can replace
should immediately be put into 1-A.
The selective service director re
minded draft boards that the effect
on war production of the latest step
up in draft calls will be influenced
by the number of men made avail
able from agriculture and the num
ber of older men and those dis
qualified for military service who
seek employment in war-supporting
activities.
as of January 1, he reported. 340.
000 men in the 18-25 age group were
deferred as farmers and 107,000 men
in the youngest age group held
occupational deferments, including
65.000 men in the merchant marine
and almost 10.000 men in Allied
forces.
■ In discounting older men as a
source of supply, he told draft boards
that men over 30 regularly engaged
in activities in support of the na
tional health, safety and interest
should continue to be deterred.
Gen. Hershey told the draft boards
they were faced with their most
difficult and important task ar.d that
their selectivity would have an im
portant bearing on the ability of war
agencies to keep up production
schedules.
_
Maverick Opens
Drive to Abolish
Term of 'GI Joe'
! By the Associated Press.
| An old hand at crusading set out
ion a new crusade today aimed at
! abolishing the expression "GI Joe."
It's beneath the dignity of the
American soldier, Maury Maverick
insisted, to be called “GI Joe,” par
ticularly since soldiers do not use
the expression in referring to
themselves.
Mr. Maverick, a vice chairman of
the War Production Board and
chairman of the Small War Plants
Corp., recently returned from his
second trip to the' European
battlefront.
In addition to abolishing “GI
Joe,” Mr. Maverick wants “less
hooey” about soldiers saying “motn"
and “pop.”
All the boys he talked to, Mr.
Maverick reported, said “mother.”
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Dr. Skinner Leaves
Post in Agriculture
Dr. J. J. Skiimer, 62, senior bio
chemist with the Agriculture De
partment Bureau of Plant Industry.
Soils and Agricultural Engineering
at B e 11 s v ille,
Md., retired to
day after 41
years of Govern
ment service.
Dr. S k i n n er
was presented
with a wrist
watch by Dr.
Frank W.Parker,
assistant chief of
the bureau, in
behalf of 75 pro
fessional friends
and co-workers
at a luncheon in
the cafeteria of
the Bureau Of Dr. Skinner.
Plant Industry Station. The retired i
scientist now plans to live on his,
1,200-acre estate near Hertford,1
N. C., and raise hogs and essential
war crops such as soy beans and
peanuts.
Dr. Skinner was born in Hertford
on June 20, 1882, and received his
Bachelor of Science degree from the
University of North Carolina in 1903,
and the degree of Doctor of Philo
sophy from American University
here in 1917. He was appointed a
scientist in the Agriculture Depart
ment, bureau of soils, in 1904, and
was made senior biochemist in the
bureau of plant industry in 1935. j
In 1919 he was awarded the Long-j
jstreth Medal by Franklin University,
for his work in biochemistry, and in1
1930 received the Chilean Nitrate of
Soda $1,000 Award for studies on,
fertilizer nitrogen. He is a member
|of the American Society of Agro-j
nomy.
Maj. Roger Broome Dies;
Wounded on Saipan July 8
Maj. Roger G. B, Broome. 29.
U. S. M. C. R.. died yesterday in the
Naval Medical Center. Bethesda. of
• wounds received on Saipan. July 8.
the last day of the battle for that
island.
His wife, Mrs. Jane Leininger
Broome, who came here from Char
lottesville. Va„ to be near her hus
band, lives at 827 South Ivy street,
Arlington.
A native of the State of Wash
ington, Maj. Broome was an aide to
Maj. Gen. Harry J. Schmidt, who was
in command of 4th Marines, during
, the invasion of the Marshall Islands.
At the time he was wounded Maj.
j Broome commanded the 24th Regi
mental Weapons Company, 4th Di
vision.
Besides his widow he is survived
bv his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. W.
Broome, Charlottesville, and two
children.
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Red Cross Volunteers
ro Inspect Students
Health Officer George C. Ruhland
mnounced yesterday that he had
•eceived assurances of co-operation
from the District Red Cross Chapter
for the plan to have home nursing
volunteers inspect school children.
Dr. Ruhland made the statement
after conferring with Nat C. Wilson,
manager of the District chapter, and
Mrs. Robert Hibben, chairman of
the chapter s home nursing service.
Graduates of the Red Crass home
nursing course will be asked to make
examination of school children for
several hours at the beginning of
each school day. The program is
designed to aid the medical inspec
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The inspection staff was short- j
handed in recent months and the
Board of Education protested against
what it termed inadequate medical
[•are. Two doctors have been named
to the staff in the past month, but
there is still one vacancy, health of
ficials said.
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Treasury to Aid Italy
In Printing Currency
Ey thf Associated Press.
The Treasury Is co-operating with
the Bank of Italy in arranging for
the printing of Italian currency by
private firms in this country.
A Treasury spokesman explained
yesterday that facilities for painting
money in Italy have been destroyed
in the war,
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