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200 Washington Units Will Participate in Massing of Colors Almost every patriotic and vet erans’ organization in the Wash ington area will be represented next Sunday at the 20th annual massing of the colors on the grounds of Washington Cathedral, Wisconsin avenue and Woodley road. That was the estimate yesterday by officials of the Military Order of the World Wars who said more than 200 organizations will dis play their flags and banners in the colorful ceremonies which draw thousands of spectators each year. The celebration will be held in the amphitheater on the Cathedral grounds. A concert from 3:30 to 4 pm. by the Marine Band, con ducted by Maj. William P. Santel mann, will precede the massing of the colors. The Washington High School cadet band will lead the _4 V* a Accomhlv araa Other musical units will lead three divisions of the parade. Dean John Wallace Suter of the Cathedral will preside at the serv ice in the amphitheater. Brig. Oen. Albert L. Cox, commander of the District National Guard, will talk briefly. The Right Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop of Washington, will intro duce the main speaker, to be an nounced this week. Principal Musician Edward Mas ters of the Marine Band will sound taps as flags and banners dip in tribute to the war dead. u Lt. Col. Bertram H. White, master of ceremonies, warned that all or ganizations should be in their start ing positions by 3:15 p. m. Marshals for the procession will be Lt. Col. George O. Weber, Maryland Uni versity; Lt. Col. Paul M. Filmer, USA, of the office of the Chief of Chaplains; Lt. Col. Horace R. Hig gins, Ordnance Reserve, and Capt. William R. Spillman of the Military Order of the World Wars. Broadcasts (Continued From_First Page.) _ tern; Sterling Fisher, of the National Broadcasting Co., and Don Fran cisco, of the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency. The report was made public at the end of a week during which the House refused to appropriate any money to finance the "Voice of America” and other international information and cultural activities of the State Department for the fiscal year beginning January 1. Lack of specific authorization by von *vi v»iv ■ • ‘r as one reason for denying further appropriations. A bill to grant this authorization is being considered sympathetically by a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee. Chairman Taber of the Appropri ations Committee, one of the chief critics hi Congress of the informa tion and cultural activities, conceded at a hearing before the foreign af fairs group yesterday that the pro gram "might" be all right if it is "cleaned up” and the FBI checks the loyalty of those who handle it. The St*te Department's Advisory Committee pointed out that 75 per cent of the earth’s population lives under some degree of censorship. It added: Radi^ broadcasting offers the sur est way’ to reach these people, as well as those living in censor-free countries^ with information about the United States.” Government Obligation. Although advising that most of the Job of informing foreign opinion about this country should be done through private agencies, the com mittee said that where they are un able to act, "It is the duty of the United States Government to see that the voice of America is heard.” For a permanent arrangement, the committee recommended that a public corporation or foundation be set up to handle all international broadcasting from this country. The proposed foundation would get operating funds from Congress. Its policies would be directed by a board of trustees “consisting predominately of distinguished private American citizens." A similar plan already has been submitted to Congress by the State Department. Bentons Qualifications Discussed. Mr. Benton sat with his chin in his hand as Mr. Mansfield asked Mr. Mr. Taber told the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee yesterday that the State Department should obtain its news from the Associated Press and the United Press. , Representative Mundt. Republican, of South Dakota, said the news * services were either "unable or un willing" to supply the department with new;; for broadcasts. Invited to Present Views. Representative Mansfield, Demo crat, of Montana, said both AP and UP had been invited last year to present their views to the committee but that there had been no response Mr. Taber insisted that “a proper approach would bring about their co-operation.” ‘‘Those -services,” he added, “are far more helpful in most regions o! the world than the State De partment broadcasts.” After Mr. Mundt pointed out that some areas of the world are unserved by American news agencies, Mr Taber said possibly a “restricted service" could be obtained for suet Welfare Project Sponsor Finds 'Admiral' Husband Was Private Mrs. Lillian Richards says she doesn't know w'hat to do. Neither, as a matter of fact, do a number of other people who in terested themselves in her plan to promote a welfare corporation for W’ar widows. One of these was Senator Ferguson. Republican, of Michigan, sponsor of a bill intro duced in Congress which would bring that corporation into being. The occasion for the confusion is • the discovery that Mrs. Richards husband, Clarence M. Richards, who Is believed to have died in 1944. was not the Rear Admiral and Navy here he has been represented as being Mrs Richards insisted yesterday she had hot doubted her husband's identity as "the skipper" until three days ago. „ . ., “To tell the truth.’ she said, thought he was a Navy captain, bui a friend told me if he was a captair he would have been eligible to b< called back as an admiral, so described him as an admiral. Mrs. Richards began wondenni about her husband, she ^aid, whe. the Army and Navy Bulletin begat calling her up about the results o some of their investigations ind the -admiral’s” background. Th' Bulletin said yesterday that thi h f Veterans Administration records showed Mr. Richards had been a private in World War I Mrs. Richards added that her husband had ‘ misrepresented him self to her. “I still want to do what I can for the war widows." she said. “I still want very much for the bill to go' through. I would be glad to resign from my connection with the pro ject, but they tell me I am the only person who knows the whole story.” Senator Ferguson was not avail able for comment, but his office said he was investigating and would withdraw the legislation if the investigations showed such ac : tion warranted. Senator Downey. Democrat, of California, who introduced a sim ilar bill into the last Congress and has lent his name with Senator Ferguson’s to the present measure, also was not available. The bill would charter a corpora tion for the establishment of shel tered community retreats for war : widows and their children. In it, i those who desired could be trained i for business life. : One source of revenue for the > organization. Mrs. Richards said • was to be income from inventions • she has developed. * T FESBURG VA-MRS GEORGE C. MARSHALL'S SISTER WEDS-Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Byrd L^?aU«t> are shSSn with the Secretary ot State and Mrs. UtM&£! Lacys at the Marshall home yesterday. The bride is the former Mrs. Allene TupperWilkes^ (Story rm Pacrp D-1 ) ___—--— places as Russia, China, and the Near East countries. "Frankly,” Mr. Taber said at one point, “I don’t see how they (the / State Department broadcasters) get a listening public. Their news broad casts aren't up to what the UP and the AP put out.” Taber directly what he thought of a Mr. Benton’s "capabilities.” Mr. j Taber, hunching his shoulders up c and down, responded: I "He has been in there for a year t and a half. He has not cleaned the £ picture up. Whether he ever will. £ I don’t know. If he stays, I hope he does. I do feel it must be cleaned , up if it Is to go on to be a success.” ‘ Mr. Mansfield declared Mr. Ben ton has done "A good job.” He cited a letter in a local newspaper j» signed by Paul G. Hoffman, presi- E dent of the Studebaker Corp.: Wil- ' liam D. Fuller, president of the j 1 Curtis Publishing Co., and Marion B. Folsom, treasurer of the Eastman I Kodak Co. t Career Reviewed in Letter In the letter, they reviewed Mr. \ Benton's career in business, radio t and education, termed him the “Top t man in the country for the job,” and r added: 11 “And it would be tragic, for the i sake of a political maneuver, to waste the 20 months of experience^ i_t_t mo ctorinn on r ilV — “ - -; - assignment that is as new and as unfamiliar to our country as it is j necessary." t Mr. Taber, his face flushing,; snapped back that it has become 5 “increasingly evident” that the;^ “cry of politics" will be raised every j time an attempt is made to investi-| s gate Government departments. "My interest is not politics,” he ‘ said. :1 Mr. Taber reiterated his criticism: later in a radio debate with Sena- c tor Hatch, Democrat, of New Mex- £ ico. 1 Weeding Out Drones Urged. Asserting that the “drones, the ( loafers and the incompetent must , be weeded out of the State Depart-;, ment setup,” Mr. Taber declared:^ “In my opinion the whole thing j could be done better by private industry. And if it had to be sub-;, sidized by the Government . . . Ij* believe it w-ould be cheaper and t would be better handled.” 11 Senator Hatch, contending the i Government should carry on the program, said “there is a war of; i ideas going on in the world. It is c imperative that our own views be \ presented by us to the people of(£ Lite wunu. He argued that private agencies ( cannot do the job satisfactorily,^ saying that "censorship restrictions s and communications barriers of various kinds in many areas pre vent a full budget of information < from getting through in private 1 channels.” _ ‘ Lincoln (Continued From First Page.) j Labor-Federal Security bill; 21.8 per cent in the Treasury-Post Office bill: 22 per cent in a deficiency ap propriation bill, and 23.3 per cent in the bill for the State, Justice and Commerce Departments and the Judiciary.” The speaker also pointed to the income tax reduction bill passed h\ the House and soon to come before the Senate; the labor bill, which has Datsed both houses and is now ir. conference, and to the portal-to portal pay bill, now a law. Right to Work and Strike. Commenting on the labor bill, Mr. Martin said: "It is our intention and desire to protect the right to work as well as to strike. We believe both these rights are essential to real Ameri canism.” , Mr. Reece, in his letter, said that, Ploeser Says Admiral King Got Sea Pav'While Living on'Yacht' M , By the Associated Press With the words “I was just imazed," Representative Ploeser, tepublican, of Missouri, said yester lay he had learned that Admiral Crnest King and his aides drew ex ra pay for “sea duty” while living iboard a “yacht” in Washington luring the war. “I’ve never been able to under hand a good reason for giving sea >ay for land duty,” he told reporters. Admiral King, now retired, was; Commander-In-Chief of the Navy j md Chief of Naval Operations dur- j ng the war. He was unavailable •esterday for comment. Mr. Ploeser, a member of the louse Appropriations subcommit- j ee on naval expenditures, said that j 'the reason stated to me is that they ranted the Admiral and his officers o be with their job all around the • hock. I was amazed that they ar-! angea it so that they could draw sea >ay while on land.” (The arrange nent was well known at the time.) Officers get 10 per cent extra and mlisted men 20 per cent extra for ;ea duty. Upon Mr. Ploeser's request, the tfavy put in the committee's records his statement of the circumstances. “U. S. S. Dauntless was commis ioned on May 11, 1942, and arrived n Washington, D. C-.-in June, 1942. 5he served at Washington as flag ;hiD of the Commander-in-Chief every one agrees prices are too \ iign.” t He denied flatly th? Demociatic harge that prices are it their pres- 5 nt levels because the OPA and its i ontrols have been eliminated. t Mr. Reece attributed the real { ause of high prices to the policies t f Democratic administration over t he last 14 years, which, he said, ' has been following the well-known t lattern for inflation and high { irices.” 1 He added that the administration , n those years has been on the greatest spending spree in all his- j ory.” He charged the Democrats ( nth over-production of dollars and inder production of commodities. Mr. Reece pointed out that from he time George Washington be ame President to March 4, 1933, ] /hen the late Franklin D. Roosevelt ' ntered the White House, the Gov- i rnment spent a total of $116,000,- t 00,000. From March 4. 1933, down r o the present day, the Government c pent $443,000,000,000. Attack on Two Fronts. t "Most of the dollars we spent j uring the 14-year period.” Mr. i teece continued, "were dollars we , lid not have. We borrowed them s ,nd put them into circulation. It j s a basic principle of economics j hat when a nation produces too , nuch gooas ana too iew uumuo, jrices go down. When it produces ,oo few goods and too many dollars, . jrices go up. We have had a pic- . ;ure of the Treasury pumping out iollars by the billions, while other j jranches of our Federal bureaucracy. ?ven after the war ended, were doing ?verything in their power to hold 3own production of needed com modities.” The Republican Congress. Mr. Reece said, is attacking the problem of the high cost of living on two fronts. The first of these is the $37,500,000,000 budget of the Presi dent and high taxes. The second is the improvement of labor-manage ment relations. “One of the major reasons for many of the bottlenecks and short ages prevailing,” said Mr. Reece, “is the epidemic of strikes, slow-downs and other disturbances under Dem ocratic mismanagement in the past. When our industrial plant is allowed to produce at capacity there will be plenty of commodities in all cate gories, and when that situation pre vails. inevitably, prices will go down. “The administration is fighting desperately against both of these antihigh cost of living proposals. Budget Called Exorbitant. “The President himself has indi-! cated very strongly he will veto any j tax reduction bill passed by Congress: this year. He and his subordinate officials have protested vociferiously against any cuts in his exorbitant budget. At the same time adminis tration spokesmen have been voluble in their predictions that Mr. Tru man will also veto any labor bill mm . : — DIAMONDS Mm compltt* line *f st»"d«r4 ••4 •H-Aw*rko« *«4* vatcbm. . r INTKNATIONAl STCTIING AU PATTHNS Sk* at Hi* to««4»y *»"•— —yvi'n fr«tt«d witfc wm»* M H A_1. ACMlimi * n»»w \ until October 10. 1945. She was de commissioned on May 11, 1946. "From date of her commissioning until decommissioned, the regularly assigned ship's complement consist ing of eight officers and 100 enlisted personnel drew sea pay. “In addition, certain personnel at tached to the staff of the command er in chief were assigned to the Dauntless and drew sea pay for varying periods between June 16, 1942, and August 31. 1945. “The total is 122 officers and about 15 enlisted personnel. Of the 122 officers, four drew sea pay for the entire period, 39 for periods of more than one year, and the remainder 79, for periods of less than one year. “The officers who drew sea pay for periods of more than one yew were designated as serving on the personal staff of the commander ir chief and maintained staff watch or the Dauntless. “They were limited in number and comprised those officers whc would accompany the commandei in chief in case he, himself, were called on to take command at sea— and included those who did in fact accompany him overseas to confer ences at London, Casablanca, Cairo Teheran, Normandy, Yalta anc Potsdam, as well as Hawaii, Mid way and Saipan.” Mr. Ploeser said Admiral Kin? was one of the officers drawing th< extra sea pay.___■ rhteh may. be passed by this Con ness.” Mr. Reece said the situation i! erious because the Republicans dc lot have in either House of Congress he necessary two-thirds majority t< iass, a tax bill or a labor bill avei , presidential veto. It is possible herefore, he said, that President 'ruman "may win a temporary vie ory in his drive to keep prices up.' luch a victory, he predicted, woulc « costly to the Truman administra ion in the long run. Ifh Camp Letts Fiesta fo Be Held Tuesday The eighth annual Camp Lett; Senefit Fiesta, sponsored by th( fMCA-Pan American Club, will b< leld at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday at the irgentine Embassy, it was an ounced by Ramon Ramos, presi ent of the club. The program will include Latin unerican dances by Mrs. Jame; lendrick; selections by Mrs. Gwer icock, Australian pianist; accordior lusic by Miss Stella Werner anc ongs by Representative Kearns tepublican, of Pennsylvania, tenor leurette Joflrie, soprano, and Rob rt Fl-uend, baritone. Proceeds will be used to send boy o Camp Letts, the Washingtoi fMCA boys’ camp on the Rhode liver near Annapolis. Tickets fo he benefit are on sale at the YMCi Central Branch, 1736 G street N.\V The committee in charge include Miss Gladys A. 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I Secret Armistice Reds, Records Show By tit* Auoclatad Praw The Nazis hoped for an armistice with Russia to 1043 which would have been kept secret from the Western Allies and to which the Soviets would have conttaued to draw Lend-Lease from the United sly but unsuccessful move by Hitler came to light last night to captured German naval documents whlcn also cusciw»u. • 1 Bombing of the United States with & new high-speed, long-range,, six-engine plane was ^nshtered Imt was abandoned in July, 1943, “be cause the few airplanes which could get there would be « no significance but would only arouse the will to resist in the population." 2. Admiral Karl Doenits, as com mander-in-chief of the German Navy, wanted to use “the new weapon of the air force,” apparently the V-l robot bomb or the v-2 rocket, to attack Allied shipping at Gibraltar in the summer of 1943. He proposed to launch them from the area of Marseilles, Prance. But Hitler vetoed the plan because of “the risk that some of the new weapons might fall on land at Gibraltar and that the British will find out what they are.” It was not until the following year that they were loosed at London. Documents Released. The official German naval docu ments, including intelligence reports and records of conferences Hitler held in 1943 with his top Naval commanders and others, were re leased simultaneously last night by the Navy Department here and the British Admiralty in London. The reference to the plan for a Russian armistice did pot make clear whether it actually had been submitted to the Soviets. It was mentioned in the minutes of a con ference which Hitler held with his commanders July 17 and 18, 1943, under the heading, “grand strategy.” The complete reference was as follows: "We can hope to win the war only if we can stop expending our forces in the East. So far Japan has not been used for this pur pose, for fear of weakening Japan in the South by engaging her in the North. Also, she might not be able to muster the necessary supplies for both fronts. "The Japanese Kwantung army stands ready with a million men. Japan herself evidently realizes that intervention in Siberia may become necessary. Threat by Japan Considered. "Russia is getting considerable supplies via the Far East. There fore, the question arises whether a threat by Japan that she will enter the war against Russia will help to make the latter accept the Ger man offer of Jan unannounced arm istice on the Eastern front, to be kept secret from the Anglo-Saxons. Russia would continue to accept lease-lend materials. This political goal is worth every sacrifice. “If this fails, the East wall must be built as quickly as possible.” Germany’s defeat was beginning to appear likely that summer, al though none of the high army and navy leaders around Hitler wanted to be the first to say so. Hitler himself was looking for “an unexpected way out” to present itself, as he declared wistfully, it had many times in history. The situation was “Derilous.” he admitted, but he hoped the Allies would fall out among themselves the nearer they got to success. Hoped for Developments. At a conference with his com manders at his headquarters August 9 to 11, he cited “discrepancies be tween the war aims of Britain and Russia,” added that “in North Africa, in turn, Britain and America do not see eye to eye,” and concluded: “Even though today the Anglo Saxons are still determined to anni i hilate us, favorable political develop ments are by no means impossible ! in the future." Among the documents was a re port to the German naval intelli gence from Tokyo on December 10, 1943, saying “there is no doubt” that President Roosevelt at the Tehran conference “insisted upon the use of bases in Eastern Siberia” and that "experts on Russian affairs con sider it unlikely” that Generalissimo Stalin agreed. Nazis Made Estimate. The reports from Tokyo were sup plemented by the Nazi leaders with 5 this estimate of their own: ! “1. Russia’s demand for the open ; ing of a second front is most strongly 1 supported by her threat of seeking [ an understanding with Germany. However, as long as Russia main tains her military pressure on the 5 Eastern front of her own accord, 1 there is no reason for America and 1 Britain to submit to Russian desires, ’ particularly since both powers are ® greatly interested in seeing Russia '• weakened even more. 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