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Chiang Army Reported
To Have Broken Reds'
Lines in 2-Day Battle
By the Associated Press
MUKDEN, April 6, — China’s
new 1st Army, breaking through
Chinese Communist lines after a
two-day battle, have driven with
in 70 miles southwest of Chang
chun, Manchuria’s capital, pro
government reports here said
today.
These accounts said the Ameri
can-equipped government army of
40,000 men had reached the out
skirts of Szepingkai, key railway
city which the Communists seized
last month after overwhelming a
small government garrison.
There was no indication of the
resistance to be expected at Szep
ingkai, which the battle-hardened
1st Army must hurdle quickly if
it expects to reach Changchun be
fore the scheduled departure of the
Russians April 14.
First Real Battle Fought.
Delayed dispatches said, however,
that the first real battle between
the rival government and Com
munist forces in Manchuria had
been fought earlier this week at
Kaiyan, 45 miles south of Szeping
kai, and was a victory for the 1st
Army.
The dispatches, coming through
government channels, said the 1st
Army suffered 500 casualties and
the Communists 4.000.
Chinese Communists were re
ported surrounding Changchun in
great strength, ready to enter the
capital when the Russians leave.
(Progovernment dispatches to
Chungking said Marshal Rodion
Y. Malinovsky, the Russian com
mander, had left Changchun for
Harbin and that the government
garrison was erecting defense
works as more and more Com
munists—some from Harbin—
closed on Changchun.)
(Tass, official Soviet news
agency, said the Russians had
refused a request of the Chinese
military mission at Changchun to
keep Red Army troops in certain
areas until government forces
arrive.)
Truce Team Believed Delayed.
Observes here said the govern
ment was delaying the arrival of its
truce team representatives to give
Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek’s
forces a chance to reach Changchun
before cease-fire orders halt the
advance.
(Chungking has maintained all
along, however, that the truce
does not restrict the movement of
government troops in Man
churia.)
American and Communist mem
bers of four truce teams were here
and ready to take the field, but the
four government representatives
were believed to be still at Chin
hsien, 120 miles southwest of Muk
den.
Best information available in Muk
den was that the government had
only 2.000 air-borne troops in
Changchun and could count on
help from 5,000 police and puppet
troops—too small a force to hold off
the Chinese Communists without
the aid of the 1st Army.
New Task Force
To Be Activated
By the Associated Press
Sailors and Marines will combine
in the Caribbean area next month
in the first amphibious training ex
ercises since V-J day, the Navy an
nounced yesterday.
The participants, designated Task
Force 100, will go through about 15
days of training particularly for
men in the crews and Marines in
ducted since the war.
The fleet will include escort de
stroyers converted to transports.
The flagship will be the light cruiser
Huntington. Other ships already
assigned are the escort carrier Min
doro. several destroyers and the con
verted transports Burke Odum,
Jack C. Robinson, Schmitt, Tollberg
and Burdo, the announcement said.
Rear Admiral M. E. Curtis will
head the task force to be activated
April 29. Brig. Gen. D. R. Nimmer of
the Marines will be in command of
the first special Marine brigade
which will make the landings.
The Navy also announced that
midshipmen of the Naval Academy
will train at sea this summer aboard
two battleships, a carrier and eight
destroyers.
In addition, assault transport and
landing craft will be employed in
an amphibious training schedule for
both second class Annapolis and
West Point trainees in August.
Mrs. Mankin to Speak
To Women Lawyers
Mrs. Helen Douglas Mankin. new
Democratic members of the House
from Georgia, will address a dinner
of the National Association of
Mrs. Mankin.
Women Lawyers
at 7 p.m. Wed
nesday at the
Hotel Statler.
Mrs. Laura
Miller Derry,
Louisville, Ky.,
president of the
association, and
Miss Adele I.
Springer. New
York City, first
vice president,
will attend the
dinner. Also in
vited to be pres
ent are Senator
McCarran.
Democrat, of Nevada, and Repre
sentative Sumners, Democrat, of
Texas, as well as other members of
Congress, and members of the Su
preme Court. Court of Appeals, Dis
trict Court and the local bench.
Mrs. Irene Kennedy is chairman
of the reception committee. Others
on the committee are Miss Annice
Pearle Mount, Miss Elizabeth V.
Franzoni, Miss Mary-Frances Glenn,
Miss Agatha O. LaLonde, Mrs. Ida
Simrall Als. Mrs. Sara Mero Wil
liams and Miss Mary M. Connelly.
Reservations may be obtained
from Miss ivy Lee Buchanan at Ex
ecutive 4700.
Eastern Shore Society
To Meet Tomorrow
The April dinner meeting of the
Eastern Shore Society of Washing
ton will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow
at the Fairfax Hotel, 2100 Massa
chusetts avenue NW.
Frank Bentz of the Maryland
Commission of Game and Inland
Fisheries, will address the society,
a
Coal Mines at Fushun Stripped
Of Vital Equipment by Reds
(Associated Press Correspond
ent Tom Masterson has reached
Fushun. one of the first Ameri
can newsmen to visit that Man
churian coal producing center
in years.)
By Tom Masterson
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
FUSHUN, Manchuria, April 6.—
Russians turned this coal mining
city into another Mukden by strip
ping from its huge collieries and
plants essential machinery and
equipment and leaving this key to
industrial Southern Manchuria vir
tually dormant.
After the Russians seized the
mines of this "Scranton of the
Orient" from surrendered Japa
nese, the output of vital bituminous
coal from four mines—two of them
open-pit canyons — dropped from
10.000 tons daily to 1,000 tons a day.
Some evidence of the Russians
stripping was observed by five
American correspondents, the first
to visit this large mining commu
nity in many years.
Heavily armed Chinese govern
ment soldiers escorted the corre
spondents on the rough 30-mile
truck road from Mukden to Fushun
through territory reported infested
with bandits and Communist troops.
Lt. Gen. Chao Kung-wu. com
mander of the government's 52d
Army, which drove the Communists
out of Fushun 13 days ago. said his
troops were engaging daily in
pitched battles with the Chinese
Reds.
He estimated his forces were op
posing some 40,000 Communists in
six brigades.
The Russians added a new twist
in denuding Fushun. After evacu
ating the city at a time Chinese
Communists could come in, the
Soviets left a key group of Russians
in the city to continue operating
mines, creating a ticklish situation
for government forces.
Correspondents saw the world's
largest open-pit coal mine. Only a
few power shovels and coal cars—all
often idle—could be seen in the huge
ditch. The pit, gouged out like a
canyon, is 4V4 miles long, five
eighths of a mile wide and 560 feet
deep.
At the Fushun power plant, work
men showed correspondents where
5 of 12 mammoth boilers had been
removed. Also taken were eight
generators, including two qf 50,000
kilowatts. Workmen said the Rus
sians smashed huge holes in the
plant's walls to remove the ma
chinery.
Gen. Chao reported 23 Russians,
who live in a compound across the
street from his headquarters, refused
to yield direction of the coal mines
‘until they received instructions
from their government.”
He said the Russians maintain
that since the mines are the prop
erty of the Changchung railroad—
placed under joint Sino-Soviet ad
ministration by the Sino-Soviet
treaty—the question should be set
tled by negotiation.
The Chinese contend the mines
were the property of the Japanese
government and as such should go
directly to China as reparations.
Gen. Chao said he had not per
mitted the removal of any equip
ment from mines or factories since
his troops took Fushun.
Chemists at Hopkins
To Phone Heat Signals
Via Infra-Red 'Eye'
By »h* Associated Press
BALTIMORE, April 6.—Transmis
sion of heat signals over telephone
wires from Baltimore to Atlantic j
City will be attempted Tuesday, us
ing the supersensitive infra-red
"eye” announced last month by |
Johns Hopkins chemists.
The three men who discovered the
super-conducting bolometer, as it
called, said heat emissions would be
picked up in Baltimore, then tele
phoned and reproduced for the na
tional meeting of the American
Chemical Society in the Atlantic
City Convention Hall.
The bolometer, which can op
erate in total darkness, records tiny
quantities of heat and the instru
ment variations can be transformed
into sound and images.
Dr. Donald H. Andrews. Dr. War
ren De Sorbo and Dr. Robert M.
Milton, the discoverers, said a;
heated iron plate and a man would
be used in Tuesday's experiment.
Dr. Andrews will describe the ex
periment from Baltimore and his
words will be piped into convention
hall by loudspeaker.
Heat signals will first be picked
up Irom the iron plate and when
the bolometer starts functioning, a
high-pitched whistle will be heard
over the loudspeaker. This sound
will then be translated into an
image on a scanning device.
Only sound will be used in the
experiment on a man. A turning
mirror will aim the extremely small
heat signals from a man 100 feet
away into the bolometer’s “eye.”
These will produce a series of
clicks.
The chemists said heat pictures
of a man, automobile and other ob
jects—in darkness, if necessary—
could be recorded on a wax cylin
der and played back for study.
George U. Harvey Dies
NEW MILFORD. Conn., April 6
•fl*).—George Upton Harvey, 66. for
mer president of the Borough of
Queens. New York City, died today
in New Milford Hospital a few hours
after he became ill while watching
a small neighborhood fire. Mr.
Harvey came here in November,
1941, a few days after he was de
feated for re-election.
Men, 17-34! Add to your years of
Army service a career that will in
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20 years’ service. Enlist now in the
Regular Army. Secure full details at
the Army Recruiting Station, 403
10th St. N.W.
William E. Torrens, 48,
Post Office Employe, Dies
William Earle Torrens, 48, post
office employe for more than 25
years, died yesterday after a short
illness at the home of his brother,
Paul S. Torrens, 4115 Garrison
street N.W.
A native of Washington. Mr.
Torrens was a registered mail clerk.
He lived at the Garrison street ad
dress and his brother is the only
survivor.
Funeral services will be held at
the Chevy Chase funeral home,
5103 Wisconsin avenue N.W., at 8:30
a m. tomorrow’, followed by mass at
St. Ann's Catholic Church. 4400
Wisconsin avenue N.W. at 9 am
Burial will be at Mount Olivet
Cemetery.
Rites for Harris Krick
To Be Held Today
Funeral services for Harris Krick
76, Georgetown jeweler who died
Thursday at his home, 3116 Dumbar
ton avenue N.W.. will be held at 11
a.m. today at the Birch funeral
home, 3034 M street N.W. Burial will
be at the Adas Israel Cemetery.
A native of Russia and a District
resident since 1890, he had been in
ill health for several years. Active
in civic and church affairs, Mr.
Krick operated a jewelry establish
ment at 3053 M street N.W. for more
than half a centuy.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Olga Krick; a daughter. Miss Rose
J. Krick; a son. Dr. Jerome J. Krick,
and two grandsons, all of Washing
ton.
Decentralized Reich
Is Seen Costing U. S.
$200,000,000 Yearly
By Wes Gallagher
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
BERLIN, April 6.—The contin
ued decentralized rule of Ger
many by the Allies is likely to
cost American taxpayers $200,
000,000 a year in the judgment
of authorities here.
The figure is the estimated budget
cost of supply the American zone
with food and oil sufficient to main
tain a subsistence standard of liv
ing.
France is the chief opponent of
centralization, and there is no sign
that she is receding from her posi
tion.
Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay and his
military government staff have been
making the utmost effort to slash
this American zone budget, pruning
such essentials as school books,
films, etc., for re-educating the Ger
mans, and confining the budget
purley to food and transport ne
cessary to maintain a minimum
standard of living. But $200,000,000
remains the rock-bottom figure of
the project.
Lacking in Natural Resources.
Gen Clay said: "The American
zone has never been self-sufficient;
by itself. It is lacking in natural
resources except wood and potash, ;
It connot raise enough food to sup
port itself, and most of its industries j
were of the assembly-line type with 1
raw material coming from other
zones.”
With a decentralized Germany ]
these raw materials are not coming
from other zones. As a result the
American zone has a permanent
deficit that must be made up by
America or the Germans will face
starvation.
Under the industry level—a low
one—recently adopted by the four
occupying powers, Germany was en
visaged as an economic whole and
made self-supporting with an esti
mated living standard of about
2,900 calories daily for all four zones.
The free exchange of goods under
a central Allied control would put
thousands now idle in the Ameri
can zone to work manufacturing
from incoming raw materials, pro
viding the necessary exports to pay
for needed supplies and exchanging
the finished products for food from
the Russian zone and coal from the
British zone.
Small Trickle of Goods.
But the French stand blocks such
a central control, and the current
makeshift exchanges from one zone
to another are providing an insig
nificant trickle of goods.
France points out that she was
not at the Potsdam conference
where Russia, Britain and America
worked out the Allied occupation
policy for Germany: therefore she
is not bound by its decisions. Many
Americans believe the omission of
Fre«ice from the meeting w'as a
major diplomatic mistake.
Meanwhile, the question of Ger
many has become a hot domestic
political issue in France, and the
leaders of the various political par
ties are not in a mood to compro
mise before the elections next June,
if then.
But the longer the German zone®
remain as separate “countries.” the
more it is going to cost American
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taxpayers. Conversely, a centralized
Germany with the new low-level
industry would remove this burden!
wdthin a period of two to three
years, Gen. Clay’s economic experts
said,
'fine British tone also is a heavy
snffaier under dwontraUzation be
cause of the lack of food. But in a
matter of two to three years it
could be made to pay its own way
through exports of vital coal re
sources and industry.
Russian Zone Richest.
The Russian zone is the richest
of all zones with both natural re
sources in coal and factories and a
food surplus. Thus it is on the
credit side of the German ledger.
The French zone, much smaller j
than the other three, also is a debit
area for much the same reason asi
is the American zone. But it also
could be made self-supporting if it!
were tied into the economy of
France as it used to be tied into a |
united Germany.
But if the American zone were I
tied into the economy of the United
States, it would have to manufac
ture textiles and other products j
that would compete with goods al
ready being made in America and
it would involvp a costly transpor
tation procedure.
Theoretically the Germans them- j
selves are paying for the American
food and fuel they are using, but
they are doing so in blocked marks
that are useless without exports.
Talmadge Again to Seek
Georgia Governorship
By tht Associated Press
ATLANTA, April 6.—Eugene Tal
madge, three times Governor of
Georgia, announced today he would
run for the office again this year on
his old platform of “w'hite suprem
acy.”
Retention of the State's Demo
cratic white primary was made the
principal plank in 61-year-old Mr.
Talmadge's platform—in a race in
which the Supreme Court said last
week colored persons could vote.
Mr. Talmadge, whose 20-year ca
reer in Georgia politics has been
filled with ups and downs, was beat
en for the first time in a Governor s
race four years ago by Ellis Arnall.
Mr. Arnall, youngest chief execu
tive in the United States, is pre
vented, under the State constitution,
from seeking a second term.
No date has been set for the pri
mary.
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Personnel Conference!
Called to Make Study i
Of Postwar Problems1
The Council of Guidance and
Personnel Associations will hold a
regional conference next Saturday
at George Washington University
on "Mobilizing Community Re
sources to Cope With Postwar Prob
lems of Personal Adjustment,” it
was announced yesterday. The
conference will hold two sessions,
one at 10 a.m. and the other at
2:30 p.m.
A panel discussion on how differ
ent agencies and groups could con
tribute to a w^ll organized com
munity counseling program will
feature the morning session. Speak
ers addressing this meeting, and the
agency or group they represent,
will be Harry Jager of the United
States Office of Education, Govern-'
ment agencies: J. F. Mohan. jr„ of
American Rolling Mill Co., business
industry; Dr. Alonzo G. Grace,
Connecticut State commissioner of
education, educational agencies:
Robert E. Bondv, director of the
National Social Welfare Assembly,
New York, private and public wel
fare agencies: the Rev. Harold Bos
ley, pastor of Mount Vernon Place!
Methodist Church, Baltimore, the
church, and Edgar A. Schuler,'
United States Department of Agri
culture, rural youth.
The opening address at the session
will be made by Herman 6. Het
tinger of the Crowell-Collier Pub-;
lishing Co.. New York. Mitchell
Dreese, director of veterans’ educa
tion. George Washington Univer
sity, will preside.
Speakers at the afternoon meet
ing and their subjects will be Dr.
Clarence Pierce, director of Social
Survey of the District, “Surveying
a Community’s Resources”; W. H.
Burnham, Department of Labor,
"Organizing a Community Coun
seling Program "; Lt. John G. Dar
ley, U.S.N.R., Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery, Navy Department,
"Training Personnel for a Commu
nity Counseling Program.” and Lil
lian S. Alexander, “Aids for Coun
seling Personnel.”
Dorothy C. Stratton, special as
sistant to the administrator, Re
training and lie-employment Ad
ministration, Department of Labor,
will preside.
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administrator, announced yesterday
that benefit payments authorized
under the Government’s old-age
and survivors insurance program
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1940, through February this year
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retired workers in monthly benefit
payments; $84,000,000, or 8 per cent,
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payments.
Negro Colleges Report
Record Enrollments
Student enrollment in Negro col
leges and universities has reached an
all-time high, with 108 institution,?
reporting a total of 43.868 resident
students during the fall terms of
this year for an increase of 16 per
cent over the corresponding term a
year ago, it was reported yesterday
by Howard University's Bureau of
Educational Research.
The survey, prepared by Dr. Mar
tin Jenkins, of the University’s De
partment of Education, points out
that veterans account for an "ap
preciable” part of the increase, but
that male students constitute only
22 per cent of the undergraduate to
tal as compared with 45 per cent in
prewar years.
Japan Lacks Minerals
For Industry, Experts Say
!> tho Associated Pros*
Japan, shorn of her stolen empire.^
lacks most of the Important metals:
and minerals needed to make a
modern industrial state.
This is the conclusion of Govern
ment experts in a report on Japan's
mineral resources, issued yesterday
by the Bureau of Mines.
Instead of being “on the road to
world domination,” as would have
been the case had Japan been given
time to exploit the natural re
sources of ^countries she overran,
Japan lacks* almost everything nec
essary to keep a modern industrial
machine operating, the report said.
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