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Shortly before the ministers gath ered in the office of Georges Bidault, president and foreign minister of France, the conference had wit nessed another of the clashes which have bedeviled the peace making. An Australian proposal to establish a subcommittee to collect factual data on the Italian-French frontier was beaten. 13 to 6. in the Italian commission after a heated Aus tralian-Russia.n exchange. The four principal powers rfnd nine other nations voted against the Australian plan. Secretary of State Byrnes. British Foreign Secretary Bevin. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov and Mr. Bidault met in the building contain ing the famous clock room where the Big Four of 1919 framed the treaties which they, too, hoped would end war. Amendments First Task. Their first task, it was believed, was to devise a common ground for dealing with the 300 amend ments to treaty drafts which have snowed the conference under. As they met only the preambles to four of the treaties had been adopted in commissions. The conference Itself had yfct to pass on most of these, having passed on less than 200 of the 55,000 words in the five treaties for Bulgaria. Italy, Ro mania. Finlahd and Hungary. Secretary Byrnes was the first to arrive at the Quai d'Orsay. He was accompanied by his advisers for the meeting. Senators Vandenberg, Re publican, of Michigan, and Con nally, Democrat, of Texas, and his interpreter, Charles Bohlen. Mr. Molotov was last to arrive He was accompanied by his deputies, Fedor Gusev and Andrei Vishinsky. A crowd of several hundred anx ious Frenchmen and women watched them in front of the French Foreign Ministry'. Mr. Byrnes. Mr. Molotov and Mr. Bevln all appeared cheerful as they climbed the stone steps and Mr. Byrnes and Mr. Molotov were smil ing. The four ministers will devise their own means of letting the world know what goes on in the intimacy of Mr. Bidault's office. The meeting was barred to the press. Mont Cenis Award Cited. John A. Beasley, the Australian delegate, took up the award of the Mont Cenis plateau to France in particular in his argument before the Italian commission that a spe cial committee should make a study of all disputed territorial questions connected with the Italian treaty. Referring to papers collected on the question bv a committee of ex perts for the deputy foreign min isters of Britain. Russia, the United States and France, Mr. Beasley ex claimed. “We have never seen these documents.’’ “I’ll tell you more,” he stormed “This committee of experts never went to this place. How can they give us any information?” Replying to the charge by Vishin sky that the proposal for a subcom mittee came from persons “who hadn’t studied” the situation, Mr. Beasley said: “It is because we have studied it that we want more information.” The vote on the question lined up only Belgium, Brazil, Greece, the Netherlands and South Africa with he Australians. Second Australian Setback. This was the second setback to n.ajor Australian amendments in the Conference. Yesterday Aus tralia was beaten in her efforts to have Russia's $1,000.000 000 repara tions bill against the five former enemy states involved here set aside ior six months and made the sub ject 0{ a special commision study. Another argument flared in the military commission over a Brazilian amendment to the Italian treaty which provides for destruction of permanent Italian military fortifi cations along the French-Italian frontier. Gen. Angelo Mendes de Moraes of Brazil proposed that the treaty provide for destruction of instal lations “able to fire on French soil.” Presumably his amendment would have permitted Italy to retain some defensive installations. The commission adopted the orig < See CONFERENCE, PageA-67) Temperatures Dip To 30s in Midwest fty th» A^tocioled Press CHICAGO, Aug. 29.—A foretaste of autumn spread over the Middle West today as temperatures in three States dipped into the 30s or below. Land O Lakes. Wl*„ reported a minimum reading of 26 degrees, ac companied by a light frost. Other low temperatures included 36 at St. Cloud, Minn., 37 at Wausau, Wis., 38 at Spencer, Iowa and 39 at Madison, Wis. The forecast for Chicago, which had a low of 53 last night, was for a minimum of 45 tonight. The Weather Bureau said this would represent the coolest August In the bureau's history in Chicago. The previous record was 46.9 degrees on August 25, 1917. No immediate change was in sight as a mass of cold air from central Canada blanketed the Nation's mid section. Federal forecasters said the cool weather extended from Illinois and Indiana northwest into the Dakotas and Montana and the Plains States. They said the cold mass, moderat ing as it moves southward, was ex pected to extend into Ohio, Ken tucky and Tennessee. A « Col. Kilian Convicted and Fined For Permitting Cruelty to GIs I Lichfield Commander is Fined $500 and Given Reprimand By Hf© Associated Press BAD NAUHEIM, Germany, Aug. 29.—Col. James A. Kilian of Highland Park, 111., former com mander of the United States Army’s replacement depot at Lichfield, England, was convicted today of permitting cruel and unusual punishment of Amer ican soldiers imprisoned in the depot guardhouse. Col. Kilian was fined $500 and reprimanded by the seven-officer military court. Tire court convicted him after two hours deliberation at the end of the 10-week trial. Col. Kilian was acquitted of "aid ing and abetting” cruelties for which nine enlisted guards and three sub ordinate officers hate been convicted. The court-martial cleared him also of charges of "knowingly” permitting cruelties. The colonel had testified that if prisoners at Lichfield were mis treated, he knew nothing about it. The court found that Col. Kilian had .permitted these punishments: Striking prisoners with fists and clubs, kicking them in the body, or forcing them to stand nose and toes against a wall or in other strained positions for protracted periods. More than a score of soldier wit nesses. most of them former prison ers of the Lichfield guardhouse, testified about such punishment. Col. Kilian received the Legion of Merit in October, 1944, for "ex ceptionally meritorious ’* service as a replacement depot commander. More than 200.000 American soldiers had passed through the Lichfield depot before the Battle of the Bulge. COL. JAMES A. KILIAN. -—AP Photo. ■ Col Kilian's former adjutant and a former chaplain at Lichfield were among the men who testified in his defense. The chaplain, Capt. William I. Comfort, said prisoners occasionally got “shoved around," but that there was no actual mistreatment. He said "any man in a guardhouse will say he's mistreated." The adjutant, Lt. Col. Robert Norton of Mountain View, N. J„ testified he never saw any evidence of prisoners being treated cruelly at the Lichfield guardhouse. Col. Kilian himself remarked early in the Lichfield trials: “There must have been something wrong at j Lichfield which was concealed from me. It looks like they have passed the ball to the old man." He is 55 years old. He was born in Nebraska, obtained a degree at the University of Missouri in 1914 and served as an officer in both the First and Second World Wars. * Russian Prejudice On Transjordan's U. N. Bid Charged Australia Assails Stand Attributed to Lack of Diplomatic Relations By the Associated Press LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y„ Aug. 29.—Paul Hasluck. Australian delegate to the United Nations Security Council, today charged Soviet Russia with “prejudice” In refusing to accept Transjordan s application for U. N. member ship because the Soviets have no diplomatic relations with that country. The Council, considering eight applications on the last day in which it may complete action for the September meeing of the Gen eral Assembly, ran into a snarl when Australia, the Netherlands, the United States, Egypt. Great Britain and China challenged An drei A. Gromyko. Soviet delegate, to explain his stand. Mr. Hasluck said the Transjordan application would fail now through the veto because it does not have relations with Russia. Mexico Questions Stand. Declaring that the Council mem bers have a responsibility to all U. N. members and not solely to then own governments, Mr. Hasluck said: “We cannot on grounds that amount . to prejudice” reject any nation. Mexico also joined in questioning Russia’s stand. Mr. Gromyko replied briefly to the delegates with the statement that it seemed to him he was clear I enough on his motives and that he had nothing to add. Gromyko Cites Support. China and Soviet Russia today supported the application of the Mongolian People’s Republic for ad mission to the U. N. and thus dif- ; fered openly with the United States and Great Britain on the second of . eight applications to be taken up by ; the Council. When discussion on Albania, to which the United States was op posed, was completed w'ith a brief parliamentary skirmish in which the Council decided to vote on all applications at the end of the de bate, Outer Mongolia was taken up. Dr. C. L. Hsia, Chinese delegate, said China was prepared to sup port Outer Mongolia “if we ever come to the voting.” China orig inally had recommended the ap plication wait until next year foi the U. N. to know Outer Mongolia “more intimately.” Mr. Gromyko cited support given the Red Army by Outer Mongolia. The British and United States < See U. N., Page A-6.» Band Leader Benter Accused of Auto Sale Above Ceiling Price Former Navy Officer Arrested by OPA Agents; Pleads Not Guilty Charles Benter. former leader of the Navy Band and now direc tor of the Metropolitan Police Department Band, was arrested by Office of Price Administration agents shortly before noon today on a charge of violating maxi mum price regulations by selling a 1946 Pontiac for $1,120 more than the ceiling price. The arrest was made by OPA Agents Dan Jones and Marshall Miller with deputy United States marshals on a United States Com missioner's warrant charging Benter —an honorary police captain—with making the illegal sale yesterday. The warrant alleges that he sold the automobile to Ensign Joseph E. Sisler of the Maritime Service, who is a resident of Colmar Manor. Md. Arraingned before Commissioner Turnage shortly after the arrest. Benter pleaded not guilty and the case was continued until tomorrow to permit the band leader to confer with counsel. Bond was set at $500. The automobile was sold to the ensign for $2,300, the OPA charged, while the ceiling price is $1,179.20. Where Benter obtained the auto mobile could not be learned im mediately. The OPA said the war rant was issued on receipt of a complaint from the purchaser. SS Leader on Trial For Jewish Massacre By th» Associated Pren WARSAW, Aug. 28—(Delayedi — SS Commandant Amon Goeth, ac cused of killing 8,000 Jews in the liquidation of the ghettos of Kra kow, Tarnow and Pleszew. went on trial for his life today before the Supreme National Tribunal at Kra kow. Bulletin Death Sentence Cut LONDON UP'.—The Colonial Office announced tonight that the death sentences against 18 Stern gang members con victed of bomb attacks on the Haifa railroad yards in Pales tine have been commuted to life imprisonment. (Earlier Story on Page A-6.) Ministers Start From Scratch In Effort to End Peace Snarl No Hint of Proposals as Meeting Begins; May Attempt to Trim Treaty Amendments By Newbold Noyes, Jr. Stor Staff Correspondent PARIS, Aug. 29.—The question in every one’s mind as the Big Four Foreign Ministers’ Council met here today was: What can the Ministers produce by way of a plan to speed up the work of the Peace Conference? It is not an easy question to: answer. The truth seems to be that' they are simply going to sit down, together and try to figure out what’ they can do to push things along. So far as is known now, none of them has in mind a project to sell • to the others. However, even a cursory study of w hat has gone on so far in Paris sug gests a few ideas which might pro duce the desired acceleration. The obvious answer—that the thing which would help most is for Russia and the West to agree to get along for a while—may fairly be ruled out in this connection. Hiere obviously is little likelihood that Secretary of I a State Byrnes, British Foreign Min ister Bevin, Russian Foreign Min ister Molotov and French President Georges Bidault, who have been slugging it out for a month now at the Luxembourg Palace, will resolve their basic differences io a few hours of chatting. But it is a good guess that, in the course of their conversation, they will consider at least some of the possible prescriptions for the ailing conference which have occurred to observers of the proceedings in which they have played a leading role. Perhaps the most obvious of these is that it would help the work in treaty commissions a lot if the For eign Ministers went over the list of more than 200 amendments to the treaty drafts which have been pre sented by conference member states, in order to see, even before these 'See rfOYBS, Page A-6.) 1 Stuart Reported HeadingChinese Coalition Move Committee of 5 Said To Have Chiang OK For Peace Effort *y the Associated Press NANKING, Aug. 29.—General issimo Chiang Kai-shek was re ported reliably today to have approved the creation of a com mittee of five, headed by Amer ican Ambassador John Leighton Stuart, to* clear the way for a coalition government taking in all parties. This was regarded here as the most hopeful development in the Chinese situation in recent weeks. It came as fighting in the North increased sharply in intensity, and as the Communists announced they might set up their own separate "national government'’ rather than accept any new constitution in which they did not have a voice. The primary objective of Mr. Stuart's committee would be to bring the Kuomintang and minor parties together in a 40-man state council which would serve as an interim coalition governing body until a more permanent administra tion is formed at the November 12 national assembly. Twaif, vans Ull OLUdl l. Premier T. V. Soong called on Ambassador Stuart today and pre sented the names of the government members—Wu Te-chen, secretary general of the Kuomintang, and Chang Li-sheng. Minister of the In terior—who are slated to serve around the same conference table witn Communists Chou En-lai and Tung Pi-wu. The government choices are sched uled to leave for the summer capital at Kuling tomorrow’ to receive in structions from the generalissimo. The committee probably would not begin functioning until early next week. The most difficult problem be fore the group would be to strike an acceptable voting balance to satisfy Communist fears of being dominated by the Kuomintang. Yenan wants a veto power—two thirds vote instead of a simple ma jority—on all questions affecting decisions reached by last February's all-party political conference. These decisions laid out the course the nation must follow if it is to achieve constitutional democracy. Ambassador Stuart wras said to be optimistic that these procedural details would be disposed of by "men of good will.” Formation of the council presum i ably would bring an end to hostilities and give Gen. George C. Marshall and the Communist and National members of his committee of three a free hand to proceed with the military reorganization of China and the restoration of disrupted communications. Kalgan Fight Likely. A fight for Kalgan. Communist stronghold in Chahar province, ap peared likely as government troops pushed their northern offensives with feverish fury. Government circles, meantime, ex pressed fear that the Shansi prov ince rail hub of Tatung, under Com munist siege for nearly a month, finally had fallen after withstand ing two dozen attacks. Communists at Kalgan were re ported strengthening the outer de fenses of that “second capital” in the face of government movements to the south. Government sources said the Communists had taken the initiative in fighting at Mankou, strategic pass south of Kalgan, and along the Peiping-Kalgan railroad. Casualties apparently were heavy on both sides, said the progovern ment Peiping newspaper Hsin Min Pao. The Communists’ Yenan radio broadcast the wholly unconfirmed report that "another 9,000 Kuomin tang troops were wiped out” on Tuesday near Jukao, just north of the mouth of the Yangtze where three Nationalist regiments have been reported encircled. Yenan claimed one government plane was shot down during the fighting. Durant Conspiracy Charge Thrown Out ' ty th« A«ociot#<J Pre$» FRANKFURT. Aug. 29. - The prosecution concluded today its case against Mrs. Kathleen Nash Durant, charged with larceny and embezzle ment of the Kronberg jewel collec tion. The military court granted the defense a three-week recess to line up its witnesses. The court threw out the con spiracy charge against the WAC captain, approving a defense con tention that evidence failed to sup port it. Prosecution attorneys said the War Department had prepared to send witnesses for the defense by air from the United States next week. The defense has asked for at least six witnesses from the United States. Among witnesses sought are Army officers at Fort Sheridan, 111. The defense wishes them to testify in its effort to show that Mrs. Durant never was reinducted into the serv ice and therefore is not subject to military court-martial. Depositions also are sought by the defense from the defendant's sister, Eileen Lonergan of Hudson, Wis., in whose home jewels owned by the royal houses of Hesse and Hohen zollern were found. The defense wants to show that military police took the jewels without a proper search warrant and obtained from the WAC a waiver of her rights la this respect “by coercion.” Taylor Flying to U. S. LONDON. Aug. 29 (IP).—Myron C. Taylor, President Truman’s rep resentative at the Vatican, left by plane today for New York. I \ D. C. Navy Captain's Wife Killed In Calvert Street Bridge Leap Mrs. Armand J. Robertson Was Mother of 2; Husband, Pacific Veteran, on Duty in Japan <Picture on Page B-l.) Mrs. Armand J. Robertson, 42, wife of a Navy captain now serv ing in Japan and mother of two children, plunged 120 feet to her death from Calvert Street Bridge at 7:30 a.m. today. The coroner’s office said it would issue a certificate of suicide later today. Mrs. Robertson, whose younger child, Jeanne, was bom at George town! Hospital only four months ago. left her home at 3824 Legation street N.W., an hour before the fata.1 plunge, according to members of her family. Police were toid Mrs. Robertson had been under treatment of Dr. Robert H. Groh. 2000 block of R street N.W., for a nervous disorder since the birth of the child. Neigh i bors, however, told reporters the I attractive, red-haired Mrs. Robert son always appeared in good spirits. "She loved that baby girl.” a neighbor said. "She hardly ever let the child out of her arms." Capt. Roberston left Washington about three weeks ago, it was said, to assume command of the cruiser Chicago, based at Yokosuka. Japan. The other child, James, 9, also lives at the Legation street address. .Police were unable to account for Mrs. Robertson's movements after she left her home at 6:30 a m., "to take a walk." An unidentified per son called police shortly after 7:30 a.m. to say that a woman had jumped from the Calvert Street Bridge, but investigators could not locate any one who witnessed the plunge. Commodore A. T. Sprague, hus band of the dead woman’s sister-in law. met Detective Sergt. J. O. Cur tis of the Homicide Squad at the i See PLUNGE, Page A-2. ) Rail Transport Crisis Will Close Factories, ODT Director Says Lines Cannot Handle All Freight Expected In Fall and Winter By Ihe A«ociat«d Presi ODT Director J. Monroe John son declared today that the im pending transportation crisis ‘ will compel some factories to shut down or curtail operations-’ this fall and winter. ‘‘The railroads simply cannot han dle all the traffic which will be of fered them during coming months,” the Office of Defense Transportation i chief said in an interview. ‘‘So when the storage facilities of. industrial plants are filled, they’ll just have to close down or curtail operations until they can move their goods.” Predicting that “it will take a long time to move the freight backlog; which will accumulate during the j fall and winter,” Col. Johnson added: “The railroads will still be moving j this year’s wheat crop when the; next crop ripens. There is pressure on the transportation system from j all sides of the economy. We're try-1 ing to build more of everythin* and to haul lt as fast as possible—from primary to secondary producers and then to the consumers. Col. Johnson said he Is preparing an order “to compel the railroads to handle railroad freight cars with more efficiency.” While ^fusing to specify its na ture, he said the effect of the order will be to make available an addi tional 25,000 freight cars a week. On Tuesday Reconversion Director j John R. Steelman ordered several j Government agencies. Including the ODT, to take emergency action to prevent “a transportation crisis.” But Col. Johnson said today, "AH we can do is to reduce the paucity of freight cars, not eliminate it. We shall be in a terrible fix in trans portation until May.” Charges Filed Against Two Held for Month by Reds By th« Associated Press BERLIN, Aug. 29.—Two Ameri can officers, who were held almost a month by the Russians on ac cusations of spying after they had illegally entered the Russian zone, were charged by the United States Army today with violating an order prohibiting unauthorized travel into another occupied zone. Capt, Harold Cobin of New York City and Second Lt. George E. Wyatt of Oklahoma City will be tried by a general court-martial in early September under Article of War 96. which forbids “a disorder and neglect to the prejudice of good order and military discipline,” the Army announced. Capt. Cobin and Lt. Wyatt dis appeared Into the Russian zone on July 4. Despite American Army representations the Russians dis claimed all knowledge of their whereabouts. On July 30, hpwever, the Russians turned them over to, American authorities. ! 1 Senatorsto Investigate Gifts to Sponsors of 6,,C!D. Wartime Ships Mead Committee Seeks How Much They Cost And Who Paid for Them The size of the bill for Amer ica’s 6,000 wartime ship launch ings. which included such items as gifts of jewelry for the spon sors, champagne for the chris tening, corsages and dinner parties, will be checked by the Senate War Investigating Com mittee to determine who paid for it all. Records of all the launchings and the costs involved in sending this country’s mighty merchant fleet down the ways have been requested by the committee from the Mari time Commission. Names to Be Revealed. Maritime officials said they hope to complete within two weeks an itemized statement, including the names of the feminine sponsors who broke bottles on the prows of the thousands of vessels, along with a dollar-by-dollar account of the ex penses of the ceremonies. The Senate committee's investi gation next month is expected to be followed by another study of the same costs by the House Merchant Marine Committee. Accounting procedures and other fiscal methods of the commission have been under investigation by the committee for several months. At hearings during July, there were (See WAR PROFITS7Pag<TA^6.f Commissioners Move To 'Recapture' Part ol U. 5.-Held Land Here Planners Urged to Study Sites After Congressional Failure to Order Survey By John W. Thompson, Jr. The District Commissioners today urged the National Capital Park and Planning Commission to initiate a study of Federal land holdings here with a view to ultimate “recapture"’ by the District of such land not serving good national purpose. The proposal was contained in a letter to Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III. commission chairman, and of fered the assistance of the Commis sioners and the Zoning Commission, if necessary, to make the survey. The Commissioners' action fol lows failure of congressional actior : of the last session on a joint reso lution introduced by Representa tive Case, Republican, of South Da kota. to accomplish generally the same purpose. Case Outlined Points of Survey. Specifically the Case resolution suggested study of land occupied by the National Training School for Boys, the National Training School for Girls, the St. Elizabeth's Hos pital farm, the Soldiers' Home, the lands of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and that part of the former Arlington experimental farm and Washington-Hoover Airport not essential to the needs of the War Department. Although not federally - owned land, the territory of the Home for the Aged and Infirm and the In dustrial Home School for Colored Children at Blue Plains were in cluded in the Case proposal. The Commissioners also informally rec ommended inclusion of the National Arboretum. Engineer Commissioner Gordon R. Young said the Commissioners’ proposal to the Park and Planning Commission, of which he is a mem ber, was- not limited necessarily to the properties specified in the Case measure. Action in September Urged. Despite the absence of congres sional action, Gen. Young said it was within the legal authority of the Park and Planning Commission now to make such a study. He said Corporation Counsel Vernon West hao looked into the statutes and was satisfied that the commission could act without further legislative authority. _The Conunissioners urged the (See LAND, Page A-6.) French Vote War Probe PARIS, Aug. 29 OP).—The Con stituent Assembly voted today an investigation into the events of 1933-45 to fix responsibility for the defeat by the Germans and to pro pose “political and judicial sanc tions.’’ Leftist parties and President Georges Bidault’s MRP joined in approving the proposal. GIs Used Opposition's Tactics To Win in Poll Tax Skirmish McMinn Veterans Built Up Nonpartisan Support by Paying Levies for Voters Competition in the purchase of poll tax reecipts preceded the Athens (Tenn.) election battle of August 1 which startled the Nation. A Star reporter, sent to find, the causes of the Gl armed revolt which, forced the party in power to concede the election, tells in this second article of a series how the Gl Nonpartisan League of Athens played practical politics and outbought the opposition. By George Kennedy The Athens incident recalls a fiction serial that attracted much attention in a popular weekly magazine just after World War I. It was written by Samuel G. Blythe, a brilliant Washington correspondent of that day. That was in the aftermath of the muckrakers. when the Tammany Tiger and Lincoln Steffens’ “The Shame of the Cities’’ were much on people’s minds. Good government groups com pared their cities to “Philadelphia, Corrupt and Contented" as they debated whether the commission form of government or the city manager plan was the better cure. Mr. Blythe’s story told how a group of clean-cut and upright dough boys returned from Prance to a city of about 300,000 population rv and threw a corrupt political ma chine out of power. Mr. Blythe wrote his .story as a blueprint for action. It described [the techniques of raising campaign [funds, getting out the vote and enlisting public interest. It 'was a hangup story ending with fist fights at the polling places as the ex-soldiers, husky and athletic from their military training, punched the noses of the thugs trying to steal the election. It remained fiction. When the doughboys came home nothing like that happened any where. Athens did happen. The veterans of McMinn County had no political experience but they learned fast. Three of them held a meeting with three businessmen in Athens, the county seat, in April to plan a con teat for the five elective county (Continued on Page A-4, Column 1> 5,075 Civilians Lose Army Jobs Here October 1 War Department Cut In D. C. and Field To Total 53,079 An estimated 5,075 War De partment civilian employes in the Washington area will lose their jobs October 1 as the result of President Truman's economy directive, it was learned today. In all the War Department has ordered its civilian personnel staff reduced by 53.079, according to fig ures released by Maj. Gen. C. H. Bonesteel, president of the War Department Manpower Board. The dismissals were ordered to balance raises granted to a civilian force of 672.579 on the pay rolls July 31. The new ceiling after economy cuts was placed at 519.500 workers, including those in the field. Ground Forces Hardest Hit. A total of 3.937 civilian employes in departmental offices in Washing ton and an additional 1.138 em ployed by the Military District of Washington are slated to lose their iobs. The Washington Military District, one of the separate Army areas, had , 4,304 civilian employes on its rolls j July 31. The reduction of 1,138 will i leave it 3.166 civilian emploves. Hardest hit of all branches of the j War Department is the Army Ground j Forces which will suffer a reduc tion in the field of 34,527 by October 1. At AGF headquarters, however, civilians will be increased from 1.297 ;to 1,498, which means that 201 em ployes are being added to the pay roll. Second Army Cut 8,600. A decrease of 8.600 civilians has been ordered on the payrolls of the ; 2d Army which has its headquar ; ters in Baltimore and includes Maryland and Virginia in its area. Reductions in other components j of the Army Ground Forces are as i follows; 1st Army, New' York, 8.174; i 3d Army, Atlanta, 3,976; 4th Armv, i San Antonio, 3,339: 5th Armv, Chi i cago, 4,361; 6th Army, San'Fran ; cisco, 5,140. Departmental decreases in the va i rious agencies headquartered in j Washington include the following: | Army Air Forces. 464; Adjutant j Generals Office, 2.000: Ordnance, i 239: Transportation, 121: Finance, 16; Chemical Warfare Service. 132; j Engineers . 553: Quartermaster j Corps, 32: Signal Corps, 80; Judge ' Advocate Generals Department. 34: Provost Marshal General, 8, and j Chaplains Corps. 6. Smaller Air Forces Drop. Reductions ordered for the Army .Air Forces, recently announced as ■ 32,000 by the end of this vear. j actually will total only 26.166, which includes the 464 severances in j Washington. Field services of practically all of the Army branches except the Quartermaster Corps are slashed in varying degrees. The Quartermaster Corps, due principally to the work of the Amer ican Graves Registration Services, i will increase its field force by 6.349. That means a rise from 39.546 to 48.895 in the field. ! The adjutant general’s depart ment, although cutting its Wash ington staff severely, will increase jits Held force from 5,595 to 7.632, an increase of 2.055. i Field force cuts. in other Army branches include Chemical Warfare ‘Service from 6,772 to 6,626: Engi jneer Corps from 23,859 to 22,083, apd 'the surgeon general's office from 20,679 to 15,415. Signal Corps Increase. The Signal Corps will make an unexplained increase in the field from 10,990 to 14,172, although it made a very slight drop in the de partmental staff. The Ordnance Corps will decrease its field staff from 77,272 to 76,305. (The Transportation Corps will lose 5,874 field employes, the drop being from 33,766 to 27,892, Another increase of 2,057 has been 'authorized for the Finance Depart j ment in the field. This will increase its staff from 10.545 to 12,602. This Is accountable chiefly for the work of the St. Louis headquarters in connection with terminal leave pay ments. _In other miscellaneous branches (See EMPLOYES. Page A-6.» Major League Games AMERICAN LEAGUE At New York— Cleveland .. 010 000 0 — New York 000 022 — Batteries—Gromek. Lemon C!th) and Heran; (Sumpert and Robinson At Boston— Detroit. 104 0 — Boston _ 012 — Batterie*^-Benton and Tebbetts. Ferrisa and H. Warner. Chicago at Washington. 8:30 P.M. (Only Games Scheduled) NATIONAL LEAGUE At Chicago— Brooklyn ... 000 00 — Chicago - 001 0 — Batteries—Melton and Edwards: Borowr and Livinrston. At Pittsburgh— Philadelphia 001 — Pittsburgh - 00 — Batteries—RalTensberrer and Seminiekt Bahr and Lopez. At Cincinnati— Boston .01 — Cincinnati 0 — Batteries—Wricht and Padrett: Walters and Mueller. At St. Louis— New York... 00 — St. Louis_ 0 — Batteries—Kosto and Cooper, Pellet and Klottz. Today's Home Runs American League Gordon. New York (6th), 1 on, Williams, Boston (3d >, 1 on. 4