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Lowell Mellett 'On the Other Hand’ Thinks Republican Senators May Differ With House Colleagues What the country has witnessed in Washington during the past week has been politics in the raw, a drive for political advan tage regardless of consequences. The consequences, if the drive finally.*ucceeds, will be the end of price control and the beginning of disastrous inflation. Here seems to be the thinking behind the drive: If the country is in a desperate fix next November, the Repub Means have reason to believe they* can elect enough new members to take over the House of Represent- ! atives. Therefore they should exert them selves to make sur$ the country is’ in a desperate fix. With the as sistance of a group of South ern Democrats, out to damage the administra tion in any way possible, they have gone far toward achiev ing their pur pose. Only nine R e publican members have Lowell Mellett. refused to go along. Deserve to Be Named. The nine deserve to be named. They are Messrs. Baldwin, New York: Canfield, New Jersey; Pulton, Pennsylvania; Kean, New Jersey; Kunkel, Pennsylvania: La Follette, Indiana; Smith, Maine; Welch, California, and Wolverton, New Jersey. The test came on an amendment offered by Representative Wolcott, Republican, of Michigan and in due course adopted. This would direct OPA to guarantee a “reasonable'1 profit to producer, processor, dis tributor and retailer on every item 1 handled. If OPA had the funds to employ a staff many times as large j as it now has it would still be im possible to do this job. The result j would, be that producer, processor,! distributor and retailer, each in turn, would determine his own ‘'reasonable” profit. There would be no price control whatever. So far as the House is concerned, therefore, price control is wrecked and the mad whirl of inflation can begin. What the Senate will do with the bill remains to be seen. Early indications are that the Senators may undo some of the damage. Even the more conserva tive Republicans among them have expressed serious misgivings over the action of the House. They may join in passing something less reck less and endeavor to obtain a com promise in conference. It may be that these Senators are looking a little farther ahead than their House brethren. Apart from the fact that they really wouldn't welcome the chaotic conditions threatened by the House bill, they may decide that the House leader - . ship is not playing the wisest poli tics. Agreeing that the first result of upsetting the national economy might be the election of a Repub lican Congress, they are not so sure that the next result would be the election of a Republican President tw’o years later. In the past that has happened, but this time a new situation would have been created. Raw Politics of Battle. This time it would be clear which party had put the country into its desperate fix. Under normal con ditions it might be expected that the voters would fail to look beyond the President and that they would un loose their wrath on him. But the House Republicans are proposing to set up conditions so abnormal that even the dullest of voters w'ould be able to understand where the re sponsibility lies. If that should prove to be the case, the Senators may reason, the Republicans will be out again before they’ve got their seats warm. That is the raw' politics of the present battle over OPA and price control. How the Republican Sena tors decide to play it, how willing they may be to take the same haz ardous chance the House members have taken, will be revealed in the next few weeks. Meantime they may hear from the voters. Only last week Dr. Gallup did one of his Nation-wide samplings. He found that 68 per cent of the Re publican voters favor retention of effective price control, while only 28 per cent are opposed. Answers to Questions A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau. 31fi I street N.E.. Washington 2, D. C. Please In close 3 cents for return postage. By THE HASKIN SERVtCE. Q. May an ex-serviceman join the Veterans of Foreign Wars if he did not go overseas during World War II?—W. J. P. A. A man is not eligible to join the Veterans of Foreign Wars unless he served overseas. Q. How many dogs served with our armed forces during World War II? —A. L. M. A. Under the Army Dog Recruit ing Program, over 18,000 dogs were donated to the Army between July, 1942. and August, 1945. Of this total, 10.206 were trained and used for active duty with the Army and earlier in the program with the Coast Guard and Marine Corps. Q. How deep is the foundation of the Empire State Building in New York?—S. E. A. The foundation of the Empire State Building extends about 40 feet below the surface. It is of massive concrete construction, built to sup port the large steel columns which form the framework of the building. Q Do women smoke more cigaret tes than men?—M. W. A. According to a recent survey, women smoke 68 per cent of all cigarettes sold in the United States. Q. Why is it more difficult to fly across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to the United States than in the opposite direction?—P. L. A. The east-west crossing is more difficult because the prevailing winds are from the west. Q. How many members of the Army were court-martialed and executed during the w’ar period? —H. P. A. According to a statement made by the Secretary of War in July, 1945, death sentences imposed by military courts have been carried out against 102 soldiers in the past five years. Only one execution was for a military offense, that of desert ing twice in the face of the enemy. Forty-seven were executed after conviction on charges of murder, 43 on charges of criminal assault on women ar.d 11 in cases where both murder and criminal assault were involved. Q. WRat w’as done with the Dec laration of Independence and the Constitution when the British at tacked the Capital in 1814?—N. A. D. A. Three Department of State em ployes, John Graham, chief clerk, Josiah King and Stephen Pleasan ton, saved these and other priceless documents under orders from Presi dent Monroe. The documents were stuffed into course linen sacks and taken by wagon from Washington via Georgetown and Chain Bridge to Virginia, and stored in Edgar Paterson's barn nearby. From there, they were moved to the house of the Rev. Mr. Littlejohn in Leesburg. Jap Army Officers Reported Preparing New Bid for Power By Frank L. White Foreign Correspondent. TOKYO, April 20.—Many former Japanese Army officers are forming groups, some on government-sub sidized farms, and secreting supplies in the obvious hope of one day re gaining power. This I learned from reliable sources—Japanese, Allied nationals and American occupation officials— during a careful investigation of more than two months. , American officials, rather than looking on it with undue alarm, see in the situation a naturally expected one. In many instances, the identi ties and locations of the groups are known. They are being watched. “To date there has been no evi dence of any subversion on any ex tensive scale,” said an authoritative source at Gen. MacArthur’s head quarters. Former Maj. Robert D. Kirk of Houston, Tex., a public safety officer since separated and back in civilian life in the United States as an at torney, gave the information and the contacts which started the survey. Much of the evidence cannot be Delmarva Fruit Crop Cut Over 90 Per Cent by Frost By the Associated Press SALISBURY, Md., April 20.— fosses of up to 95 per cent in peach and apple orchards of the Delmarva Peninsula resulted from a heavy frost Thursday mornftig, a check of fruit growers has disclosed. The survey showed that fruits in the area between Wicomico and Worcester Counties, Maryland, and Bridgeville, Del., were seriously af fected by the low temperatures, ranging from 24 to 27 degrees. Overall figures for estimated dam ages were not available, but in many cases orchardists said their losses would run higher than 90 per cent. Former United States Senator Tow-nsend of Delaware, said his 100,000-bushel peach crop was wiped out and that about 75 per cent of his apples w-ere lost. Officials of the W. F. Allen Co., largest fruit growers in the area, estimated a loss of from 90 to 95 per cent of their crops. In former years the fruit crops of this area have been valued as high as $2,000,000. K divulged now for obvious reasons, but here are some of the findings: On so-called “co-operative farms,” Japanese Army officers are well equipped w-ith vehicles, maintain formality of rank, are well financed and are on guard for snooping neighbors. One such farm near Tokyo is under close Allied surveil lance. North of Tokyo a former Japanese major and a large staff live in a shrine near a former arsenal and, through connivance with police, have obtained ample supplies of gasoline for their automobiles. A country-wide welfare organiza tion, directed by a former Japanese colonel, abruptly disbanded after an American investigator called at a hospital to check on a report that the organization had protested the delivery there of badly needed medi cal supplies from a Tokyo area ar senal. Japanese sources said the welfare organization had been re ceiving large quantities of supplies, food and clothing from the Japa nese government. Many officers employed by the former welfare organization still live in arsenal quarters. One is re ported to be carrying on chemical experiments. Dues Boost Voted Down Members of the Silver Spring Board of Trade have rejected a pro posal to increase their annual dues from $12 to $18. The increase was to be used to provide office space and to employ a full-time secretary. James McCann is president of the group. Roosevelt's Health At Cairo Shocked Her, Mme. Chiang Reveals By John la Cerda North American Newspaper Alliance TOKYO.—From Madame Chiang Kai-shek has come an Intimate ac count of personal incidents she observed during the last failing days of China’s loyal friend, Presi dent Roosevelt. A group of Americans visited the Chinese first lady in Shanghai re cently. Among thew was Joseph B. Keenan, international war crimes prosecutor, who is now in Tokyo. Members of his party told of their interview with Mme. Chiang. Mr. Keenan informed her that he had known the late President well and she replied that she had been fond of him and thought he was a very great man. Roosevelt Looked III. She said she was greatly shocked when she saw him at Cairo. He had “fallen off” considerably, she said, and she thought he looked quite ill. She noticed that he did not eat much. She told Mr. Keenan it is a Chinese belief that so long as one is able to eat and digest food all else will be well. Mrs. Roosevelt had told her that toward the end of the President’s life all foods tasted the same to him. Madame Chiang talked of times she used to have at the White House. She said she and the Presi dent always would sit up very late in his study and talk. One night everybody stayed up till 1 o’clock. Finally, she got up to go. The President started to move and she said: “Please, don’t get up.” And he said: “My dear child, I couldn't stand up if I had to.” N. Y. Trip Criticized. She told Mr. Keenan she thought it a shame that the American people allowed the President to ride through the streets of New York in the rain in his last election campaign. Mr. Keenan pointed out that Mr. Roosevelt had a heavy cloak and she said she could just hear the President mutter: "To hell with it.” She said she had often heard him say that and it always gave her so much satisfaction since she did not swear herself. The visitors asked Madame Chiang if she knew Winston Churchill. She said, yes. She described him as stubborn, but said that she felt he had done more by far for England than any one else of his generation. Of Wendell Willkie, she said that she had thought him wonderful, but he was no diplomat or politician and had so informed him. Willkie Praised. Mr. Willkie, she said, had the moral courage and strength to stand behind his convictions. She commended that it was “one of the tragedies of our times” that Willkie and Roosevelt had to be on opposite sides. Mr. Keenan asked if she cared to give American women a recipe for keeping their youth. She re plied: "My dear, I have not yet reached an age where I should think of that.” There was some laughter and, ap parently feeling that the 58-year old Mr. Keenan was embarrassed, Mme. Chiang quickly added: "That was unkind of me.” He said: "I can take it,” but she reforted, "but do you like it?” Mr. Keenan said that the gen eralissimo had told him in Chung king that the Chiangs might visit the United States this summer. United States Visit Uncertain. Mme. Chiang said that the inter preter must have misunderstood because that was not so. However, if the generalissimo had made the promise she would see that he kept it. Mr. Keenan said that maybe the generalissimo would like to have his health checked in the United States. Mme. Chiang said she had had his health checked recently and there was nothing wrong with him except a back injury he had suffered in Siam in 1936. She said she though the United Nations would survive and that there would be no move to form a new world organization because “we’d still have the same people in it” and ail the energy expended on U. N. would then have been wasted. Crisis is Seen Next Week In Jap Political Fight By the Associated Press TOKYO, April 20.—Authoritative Japanese today said a crisis is ex pected next week in the enlarging controversy over whether the Shide hara cabinet should remain in office. They agreed anything could hap pen—including possible disqualifica tion of Ichiro Hatoyama, Liberal party president—as the battle for power continues. Hatoyama, whose record is under scrutiny by both the Japanese gov ernment and the Allied command, suddenly has grown silent. But his supporters and officials of the So cialist, Co-operative and Comunist parties called a mass meeting April 28 to demand the Premier’s resig nation. Major labor unions and other organizations have been invited. Premier Shidehara still stood by his statement that he would not resign. Big Ten Nines Bunched CHICAGO, April 20 (£>).—Iowa and Illinois, by sweeping series finales with Purdue and Chicago respec tively, todat’ can tie Wisconsin for the lead in the still infant Big Ten baseball race. Eisenhower's Chef Will Return To Army to Cook for General By the Associated Press CHICAGO, April 20.—To former Sergt. James Martin, 34, an invita tion from Gen. Eisenhower is a command, so it’s back to the Army he left five months ago to resume his job as chef for the chief of staff. After Martin received a telegram from an aide of Gen. Eisenhower telling him there was a place wait ing for him behind the cook stove in the general’s headquarters, he made arrangements to leave his job as chef at the Eastgate Hotel. He also began studying up on i the private recipes gathered while he cooked for Gen. Eisenhower through England, France and Ger I many. But he said how he pre pares “the general’s” favorite dishes will remain a secret. “Why I might be giving away a couple of extra stripes if I let any one know how to prepare the general’s meals,” the stocky Negro chef said. He added, however, that “the general” favored roast of beef, fish “which has to be cooked a special way,” quail, pheasant and other fowl. “One thing, though,” Martin re called, “when Gen. Eisenhower gets a yen for vegetable soup it’s time for the chef to get out of the kitchen. He likes to make that himself, with nobody looking on.” * A Doris Fleeson PAC Galled Target Southern Democrats Seek to Purge Committee. Liberals, Says Observer The dove of peace Is roosting over the congressional Democrats strictly for the Easter holidays. When the statesmen return to their labors, the battered bird will have to seek new quarters. Holding a safe majority on the 11-man liaison committee named at Wednesday’s caucus, Southern Democrats plan to renew the offensive with their own purge of national headquarters. They will politely request National Chair--* man Robert E. Hannegan to meet with the committee and explain . party purposes and plans, where made and by whom. They will ask for the roster of headquarters employes from the top level down. Their tongue-in- 1 cheek explanation of this maneuver : is their desire to find the weak links 1 that are apparently responsible for i the “mistakes" disavowed by Mr. ! Hannegan. Actually, of course, their j1 aim is to ferret out employes with ■ CIO-PAC or other liberal connec- < tions which are avowedly hostile to i the Southern coalition and all it rep- : resents within the party. 1 The conservative plan to screen 1 the committee and purge it of as- i sociations unpalatable to them rep- < resents an unprecedented assertion 1 of authority over the national board < of strategy. It has been the tra ditional privilege of the President of the United States to name his • own national chairman and the ; chairman’s to choose his staff. In ( the party out of power the State . politicos and not its members in,; Congress select the national com-:, mittee. i Truman “Unruffled." President Truman professes to be i unruffled by the recent clashes on i Capitol Hill. He is describing.it to 1 his callers as a case of legislative nerves which the Easter rest will cure. Everybody in Washington, the President has explained feelingly,; is suffering from strain and these; outbursts are nothing to be alarmed about. The liaison committee members counted safe for such disciplinary action as may seem fitting are Fritz G. Lanham, Texas; Eugene E. Cox, Georgia; Howard W. Smith, Vir ginia; Lyle H. Boren, Oklahoma; ; James Domengeaux, Louisiana, and j Roger C. Slaughter, Missouri. De pendable protection of the adminis tration interests will res', ^tth I Australia Winning Support on Plan for U. N. Probe of Spain By lh« Associated Press NEW YORK. April 20. — The United Nations Security Council be gins its second month of delibera tions next week with the prospect that Russia’s demand for dismissal of the Iranian case will be rebuffed and that Franco Spain may be in I vestigated by a Council subcommit tee. The Iranian Issue comes up first when the Council meets at 3 p.m. Tuesday to review a report from its ! committee of experts on procedure, who told the Council they were split, 8 to 3, over the Iranian case on lines, identical with those around the Council table. Meanwhile, an Australian proposal for appointment of a five-member subcommittee to conduct a four-week investigation of the Franco regime inside Spain gained strength, with ! Poland, author of the charges ! against Spain, reported ready to back such an inquiry. Three Dissenters. Russia, Poland and France were the minority dissenters in the ex-, oerts’ report, which ruled that the Council had authority to keep the Iranian case on its agenda as long as it desired, although Iran has withdrawn her complaint against Russia. Senators in private conference with Secretary of State Byrnes in Washington yesterday got the im pression that Mr. Byrnes and other American policymakers believed the U. N. secretary-general, Trygve Lie, overstepped his authority in sug gesting early this week that the Council's jurisdiction in any case ceased with the withdrawal of the complaint. The American and British leader ship against Russia’s demand for dropping the Iranian case has a clear majority of Council votes to keep the matter on the agenda pending re-examination on May 6 of the status of Red Army evacua tions from Iran. When Mr. Lie, in an unsolicited report last Tuesday, suggested that the Council "may well be" unable legally to retain the Iranian case 11 experts from the nations represent ed on the Council were consulted. Their report now apparently will have the effect of a majority recom mendation to the Council. Conciliatory Turn. ! The debate on Spain took a con , ciliatory turn at the end of two long sessions of debate when the Australian delegate, Lt. Col. W. R. Hodgson, proposed that the Council delegate a five-man subcommittee to investigate and report back May 17 with the fullest possible docu mentation. Col. Hodgson’s proposal for a sub committee to investigate is said to j have the support of Dr. Oscar Lange, Polish delegate, who has the an nounced backing thus far of Rus-j sia, Mexico and France for a break; j with the Franco regime. The United States and China re main uncommitted, but their dele gates, Edward R. Stettinius, jr„ and Dr. Quo Tai-chi, have stated their willingness for a full inquiry. Dr. Pedro Leao Velloso of Brazil op poses a break, but he believes the Council should determine whether atomic research is being carried on in Spain. Britain and the Nether lands, aligned with Brazil against a concerted break, are represented as ready to hear and see all the evidence. The Egyptian chairman, Dr. Hafez Afifi Pasha, has not yet spoken on the Franco question. 140 Million Perch Stocked ANNAPOLIS, Md„ April 20 (IP). Gov. O’Conor announced yesterday that approximately 140,000,000 perch fry had been stocked in State waters. The fish were produced at the Severn Run hatchery in Anne Arundel County, as a function of the Maryland Department of Research and Education. RECORDS COLUMBIA. VICTOR. DECCA and many other kinds BALLARD 1300 6 St. N.W. NA. 0414-15 Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas; Ma jority deader John McCormack, Massachusetts; John M. Coffee, Washington, and Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, Connecticut. While some of the more vocal ad ministration supporters are missing from this “harmony” slate, it in cludes able watchdogs. The lunatic fringe is likewise missing from the Southern side of the committee. If this latter group can scare off a Hannegan-inspired purge with their counterpurge they will seek nothing more drastic. Their principal aim is to preserve their franchise as party regulars at least until after the primaries. Some of them face trouble with a militant PAC in their districts, but they are determined to keep their party standing at least outwardly pure. Southern Liberals Aghast. The Southern liberals are aghast at the action of the Speaker and Mr. McCormack in accepting the conservative-weighted slate. They are ready with their candidate for national chairman should a demand go up for a Southerner—Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia. Gov. Arnall! stands well with Mr. Truman, who offered him the post of Solicitor General when Tom Clark took over the Department of Justice. Gov. Arnall is the man who took his State away from red-gallused Gene Talmadge. rammed through repeal of the poll tax and is fight ing a winning battle for more equi table Southern freight rates through the courts. He will soon be out of a job, having lost his effort to repeal the statutory ban against a Gov ernor succeeding himself. However, like Harold Stassen, he is getting ample pocket money from the pub lic’s eagerness to hear him dis course on the state of the Union. The two young liberals get $1,000 per lecture and have all the dates they can fill. French Cabinet Faces Crisis After Voting Left’s Constitution By the Associated Pres* PARIS. April 20.—The French cabinet faced a serious crisis today following approval by the Constit uent Assembly last night of a new Leftist-sponsored constitution which would establish a powerful one chamber legislature. The constitution for the Fourth Republic was adopted by a vote of 309 to 249, over the objection of Rightest parties, including the strong Popular Republican Move ment i MRP) and the Radical Socialists. It will be submitted to the electorate at a national ref erendum May 5. Observers said the Assembly's ac tion was almost certain to result in a bitter campaign over France's organic law, and might split the coalition government at a cabinet meeting next Wednesday, when President Felix Gouin will ask his ministers to indorse the constitution. Some sources predicted that such a request might lead to the resigna tion of Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and other Rightist members of the cabinet, now composed of Communists, Socialists and mem bers of MRP. The Assembly, which was elected last October for the specific job of drafting a constitution, approved the final draft after a series of com promises had failed to please either the Communist-Socialist bloc, which supported the new document, or the Rightists. Twenty-eight deputies abstained from voting. President Gouin, a Socialist, took the floor shortly before adjournment and urged ratification of the con stitution. _____ I Boy Receives Head injuries As He Darts Before Auto John Ebel, 6, w^as being treated at Georgetown Hospital today for head injuries police said he received when struck by an automobile yesterday in front of his home at 5708 Broad Branch road N.W. According to police, the child ran from between parked cars and was hit by a car driven by Amen J. Hil low, 35, of 3346 Stuyvesant street N.W. Mrs. Deborah E. Dunn, 56, of 623 I street N.W. was struck by a street car in the 600 block of Massachusetts' avenue N.W. yesterday, police re ported, and was admitted to Cas ualty Hospital for treatment of head, chest and internal injuries. The streetcar operator was listed as Thomas J. Wahlen of 4055 Grant street N.E. 800 Jews Reported Killed In Poland Since Liberation By th« Associated Press WARSAW, April 20.—Dr. Joseph Tenebaum, president of the Ameri can and World Federations of Polish Jews, said today that 800 Jews had been slain in Poland since the lib eration and that Jews were being murdered and intimidated daily, al though the Polish government is doing everything in its power to give them protection. The federation president charged in an interview that a two-week study of the Jewish situation had convinced him that the Jews were being killed mostly by bandits financed abroad by agents of the former exiled government in London. Tenebaum said the Warsaw re gime was “sincerely well meaning, free from racial prejudice and really a government of the people.” He said the federation had sent $800,000 worth of clothing, food and medi cines to Polish Jews, and added that there are now only 70,000 Jews here. NEW BICYCLES FOR RENT Special Rates For Parties STADIUM BICYCLE CLUB Next to Riverside Stadium 300 26th St. N.W. EX. 9642 RIVERSIDE BUS STOPS AT DOOR Hours: Weekday, 10 A.M.-ll P.M. Sat. and Sun., 8 A.M.-ll P.M. Rise of Greek X-ists « To Power Likened to Klan Alter Civil War By Leigh White Foreign Correspondent of The Star and * the Chicago Daily News KALAMATA, Greece, April 20.— I Here in this southernmost port of the Greek mainland, in the heart of the silk and olive producing country, it is possible to understand why a rich collaborationist like Theodore! Tourcovassilis has been re-elected deputy. It is also possible to understand why a bandit like Evanghelos Man aganas, who also collaborated with the Germans, is regarded by so many people as a sort of Robin Hood, or, at least—as one man put it—a “nec- j essary evil.” The reason is to be found in what happened in this part of the Pele-1 ponnesus during ‘‘laocracy,” the short-lived Communist reign of ter ror following the liberation. If the United States had been in vaded, occupied and ravaged by the Germans and if Communist party; organizers from the north had set up in their wake, in the State of Georgia, a revolutionary dictator ship called “mobocracy,” meanwhile bumping off 10,000 or 15,000 persons who had opposed their seizure of power, the citizens of Georgia might have reacted much as the citizens of the Peleponnesus reacted. “X ’ Organization. As a matter of fact they did, im-i, mediately following our own Civil ' War, when a similar phenomenon , occurred in the South. And just as a certain type of Southerner flocked to join the Ku Klux Klan in the reconstruction era. so the same type of Pelopon-, nesians flocked to join the “X” or ganization in the present era in Greece. i During the last year of the occu pation the Communist-led members of the E. A. M. (national liberation i front) spent far more time fighting rival guerrilla organizations than they did fighting the Germans. Al together, they are believed to have murdered from 5,000 to 7,000 Greeks —many times the number of Ger mans killed by Partisans during the entire occupation of the Pelopon nesus. Otherwise known as “Old Greece,’’; the Peleponnesus is proud, back ward and picturesque. Its people, j traditionally royalists, are so in-1 tolerant of “outside interference", that it is probably safe to say that they would prefer to be misgoverned by local sons than to be well gov erned by outsiders. Lesser of Two Evils. But most of them feel that it was not a question of being well or badly governed following the liberation. They think it was rather a question of being governed by the old gang #f royalist politicals, or being en slaved by “Slav agents” acting un der orders from Moscow. Not unnaturally, the bulk of the people, in the recent election chose what ihey considered, rightly or wrongly, to be the lesser of the two evils. Tourcovassilis (the name means “Turkish king”) is an erratic royalist who was exiled to the islands before the war because of his opposition to the Greek dictator John Metaxas. Out of pique, apparently, he became governor of the National Bank, under German occupation. He even went so far as to write a letter to Hitler suggesting that if he became Prime Minister, Greece could be made to play an important role in the “crusade against bol shevism.” He ended up in jail, however, for leading a secret celebration of Greek Independence Day—in collaboration with the EAM—in March, 1944. Since he was still languishing in prison at the time of the liberation, he was pardoned for his earlier of fenses. Shoots Communists on Sight. Manganas, the 26-year-old X-ist bandit, is a former member of the German-sponspred security battal ions. Whether he joined the Secur ity Battalions before or after being shot, clubbed and thrown into an abandoned well by his Communist! opponents, I have not been able to ascertain. But, either way, the treatment he received is enough to explain why he considers it a sacred duty to shoot all Communists on sight. The British-led gendarmerie has done much to discourage the depre dations of Manganas and his fol lowers, recently having shot several of them and jailed 30 or 40 others. It is a fact, however, that despite a $2,000 reward for his 'apprehen sion, dead or alive, Manganas is still active in the southern moun tains. One of the local X-ist leaders has offered to arrange a meeting for me with Manganas. but I de cided to turn his invitation down. The man I refer to is a local lawyer named Tachis Perotis, whose broth er was murdered by Communists and w’ho managed to escape being executed himself after receiving three bullet wounds. His brother was the local venereal specialist in prewar days. Under the Germans he chose to become the prefect of Messenia Province. (Copyright, 1946.) Harris Hull Granted Divorce in Nevada Harris B. Hull, former Washington newspaperman and son of the late Harry E. Hull, who was commis sioner general of immigration and Representative from Iowa, has been granted a divorce on the ground of ! cruelty, a dispatch from Reno, Nev., 1 today disclosed. Mr|. Bernice Stephens Hull of i Alexandria was named defendant in the court papers. Mr. Hull spent I some time in the European theater | as an AAF colonel. He is under stood to be on his way to the West coast. The Hulls, who were married here May 22, 1936, have one daughter, Joan, 8._ k Styles of Todoy ' Perfect Fitting Most Styles $5-85 to $8 S5 As Advertised in National Magazines FREDERICK'S Men’s Wear Stores CHARGE I 1435 H ST. N.W. accounts I 701 H ST. N.E. N. E. Store Open Evenings ’Til • THE EVENING ST AR, Washington, D. C. ** A—7 SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1946. Polish Repatriates Pour In As Stettin Expels Germans By Larry Allen Associated Press Foreign Correspondent STETTIN, April 17 (Delayed).— The Poles in this once-great Ger man Baltic seaport are working hard to expel the city’s 30,000 remaining Germans to Allied zones of occupa tion, and to speed reconstruction. Almost every day vessels arrive from German ports bringing back upward of 2,000 Poles. Within 48 hours, the ships are headed back to Germany carrying German repatri ates and their families. There now are 40,000 Poles in Stettin (which the Poles have re named Szezecin), but a population of around 100,000 is anticipated be fore the end of the year. Poles say; all Germans will be cleared out by the end of August. The city’s pre war population was about 300,000. Repatriates Healthy. Polish repatriates arriving here appear mostly to be in good health, and they carry with them as much luggage as possible. Each ship dis charges enormous quantities of per sonal luggage. British authorities handling the transfer of Poles from various points in Germany supply all repatriates; with food rations sufficient to last 12 days, although their transport may require only 2. Many of the repatriates are being settled here and in surrounding districts while others go into the southwestern former Silesian terri tories. Germans leaving the crowded port also are permitted to take all they can carry and receive the same food rations as the Poles. While repatriation activity and a stream of shipments from the Unit ed Nations Relief and Rehabilita tion Administration keep the “Polish part” of the port humming, another strip on the western side of1 the Oder to the north also is buz zing. Area Alloted to Russians. That is the area—as an official explained—which has been allotted to the Russians for Soviet ships bringing in supplies for Red Army troops in Poland and Germany— and to take back to Russia whatever the Soviets want to send. The strip, heavily guarded by So viet troops, once contained impor tant electrical works and the former German Stettiner oil works plant. Industrial machinery from this sec tor reportedly has beent sent to Russia. Stettin is one of the most heavily garrisoned cities in Poland, scores of big apartments are occupied by Soviet officers and troops. One in formant estimated there are 20.000 Russian troops here and upward of 100.000 men in all of Western Pomerania. Security in Stettin is none too good. It has its nightly series of sporadic shooting and robberies, much like other Polish cities. Polish authorities estimate that the city is 35 per cent destroyed. Thus far reconstruction seems' to have been confined principally to the erection of temporary’ bridges over the Ober and keeping public utilities functioning. War Prisoners Used. Russia and UNRRA have supplied most of the materials thus far used in Stettin. The Russians are using thousands of German prisoners of war on va Saleslady wanted for better type fur shop Excellent Salary in o permanent position with pleasant working conditions Saks 610 12th Street rious building projects, on the load ing and unloading of Soviet ships. After nearly a year of Polish ad ministration, no permanent bridges have yet been erected over the Oder River but numerous spans for high way and rail traffic are in operation. Most of the steel bridge spans lie in the waters of the Oder, but de spite this, the Poles claim the river is open to barge navigation as far south as Breslau. However long it may take to put Stettin on the map again as a great seaport—the Poles are determined to make it the na tions most important outlet on the Baltic. Most of the city’s hotels are for mer office or apartment buildings taken over and made such by post ing the sign ‘‘hotel.’’ The food situ ation here is far tougher than cities such as Warsaw. 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