OPA Probes Car Sales In Black Market Here; Hints at Link to Ring

A District OPA spokesman said today the agency was working on

an undisclosed number of cases of

over-ceiling sales of used cars in Washington and hinted at further action by local OPA enforcement authorities.

At the same time. Enforcement Chief J. Graham Walker disclosed he had received complaints from in- dividuals that ‘‘some new car dealers are demanding prices in excess of ceilings.”

Asked about the arrests in Lees- ville, S. C., yesterday of six men linked with a $75,000,000 ring dealing in automobiles, the spokesman com- mented that "it may well be that some lead will develop here.”

The official recalled the District grand jury handed down indictments here early in July against nine used car dealers charged with over-ceiling sales. The cases have not yet been scheduled for trial.

Refuses Details of Cases. OPA refused to »o into details of;

its current investigation. This is customary in cases which remain secret until arrests or charges are

made formally. Special OPA agents who staged

yesterday's raid in Leesville said the black market traffic in cars reached into 14 States and the District.

United States Attorney Claude N. Sapp was quoted by the Associated Press at Leesville as saying his office would prosecute the cases vigorously. He added:

“These arrests will have a salu- tary effect on all black markets and particularly on the automobile black market.”

The men, ordered held for the No- vember term of Leesville Court, are

under $2,500 bond each and are sub- ject to a maximum penalty of a

$5,000 fine and one year in prison. Special Agents Buy Five Cars.

The special agents, posing as deal- ers. quietly bought five automobiles i at an open-air market jammed with an estimated 80 dealers and 500 automobiles. They paid $12,000 for the cars.

They said the prices they paid were double the OPA ceilings and that if they had had sufficient funds they could have purchased scores of cars at such prices.

Those arrested were all from South Carolina. One, C. Pope Gantt, 31. of Ridge Spring, identi-! fied himself as a former legislator.

Special Agent C. C. Moseley said his men had determined that the: Leesville operation was the “foun- tainhead” for dealers from North and South Carolina, Virginia, the District of Columbia, New York, New Jersey. Ohio, Tennessee, Geor- gia, Alabama, Michigan. Kentucky, Louisiana Florida and Pennsyl- vania.

Arrests Made Quietly. So quietly were the arrests made

that few dealers wrere aware of anything amiss. Immediately after- ward the agents moved through the sales lot copying the license num- bers of an estimated 300 cars.

Mr. Moseley said the numbers would be traced in an effort to learn the sources of most sales.

The Leesville outlet for automo- biles, Mr. Moseley said, operated for at least nine months, and sales I were approximately $75,000,000.

Most market sales, he said, were

confined to Mondays and attracted j dealers from all 14 States. Cars* bought on the market, he added,; were marked up 30 per cent for' resale in the dealers’ home towns.;

The OPA agent said his men had i evidence of $1,850 cars selling for $3,300 and some $2,600 cars selling for as much as $5,800.

Two Face Trial on Theft And Weapons Charges

Two colored youths were ordered held for the grand jury by Munici-i pal Court Judge Thomas D. Quinn! yesterday on charges of unauthor- ized use of a truck and granted jury trials on charges of larceny of a bag of golf clubs and carrying a deadly weapon.

Bond of $2,500 each was fixed for Elmer G. Jackson, 18, of the 400 block of Sixtieth street N.E. and Robert A. Taylor, 19, of the 5000 block of Central avenue S.E.

Policemen T. S. Fletcher and R. P. Herlong of the Traffic Division noticed the truck stalled near Union Station, according to the testimony. When asked for a registration card, the two defendants jumped into the truck and it pulled away with a

third man at the wheel, Mr. Fletch-! er said.

The engine again failed and the three ran toward the station. The | driver has not been arrested, but ] the other two were captured, he cam.

A box containing a .22 caliber re-

peater rifle, loaded and cocked, fell from the truck, according to Mr. Fletcher, and the golf clubs were inside the vehicles. The clubs, val- ued at $150, were reported missing by James Dixon, 2733 E street N.E., after the three earlier had helped him pull his car out of a ditch at Twenty-fifth street and Benning road N.E., he said.

The truck is the property of Harry Prince, 1847 Fourteenth street N.W. according to the testimony and had been left parked at Sixty-third and Clay streets N.E.

Mental Observation Ordered for Kohn

•y th« Associated Press

STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 27.—De- tective Capt. Daniel Hanrahan an-

nounced today that Abraham Kohn, ■who turned up in Milford, Pa., while a search was being made for him and five children in Long Island Sound, had been ordered to a mental hospital for observation.

An order temporarily committing the 45-year-old Stamford auditor to the Fairfield State Hospital at New- ton was signed, Capt. Hanrahan said, by John John S. Poczabut.

The physician, the captain an-

nounced, had told him that this man should be put under observa- tion” after he had questioned Kohn

Capt. Hanrahan said that the order would be executed some time today.

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LEESVILLE, S. C.—SCENE OF OPA ARREST OF CAR DEALERS—Sales were still going on at an open automobile market here when this picture was taken, just a few minutes after special agents of the OPA arrested six men. The agents said the arrests were the first step in a move to crack a $75,000,000 traffic in automobiles at sale above ceiling price. —AP Wirephoto.

Aircraft Carrier s Visit To Greek Port Termed Mere Courtesy Call

The 45,000-ton aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt and three of the latest type destroyers are sched- uled to make a courtesy visit to the Greek port of Piraeus between Sep- tember 5 and 9, the Navy Depart- ment disclosed today.

No comment was made on an earlier report that the ships were,

going there to provide insurance against civil disturbances after the Greek elections to be held next I Sunday.

(Moscow radio charged yes- terday that the Mediterranean cruise of the task force was tied in with the Yugoslav-United States situation and that the United States was trying to put I pressure on the Balkan nation with a display of naval strength.) The Navy indicated that the visit

was purely a courtesy one during a period of "intertype training” in which the American vessels are .par- ticipating now in the Mediterranean aea.

The Navy said the carrier Roose- velt was chosen “because of the great admiration of the Greek people for the late Franklin D.1 Roosevelt.”

The destroyers which will accom- pany the Roosevelt and the cruiser Little Rock will be the Cone, New and Corry.

It was disclosed today that the Navy now has a task fleet of 11 ves-' sels in the Mediterranean area.. This force, in addition to the car- rier Roosevelt, includes three cruis- ers and seven destroyers. As of to- day, the ships were located as, follows:

At Naples, the Roosevelt, the! cruisers Little Rock and Fargo and the destroyers Perry, Warrington, Clone, Noa and New; at Trieste, the cruiser Huntington and the destroy- er Robert L. Wilson, and at Palermo, the destroyer Corry.

The Navy said that visits may be ■nade to other Mediterranean ports Wore the Roosevelt returns to the United States.

Dealer Held New Cars ro Await OPA Prices

A Georgia avenue automobile iealer today explained the storing )f some two-dozen brand-new mod- els in an open field outside Silver Spring as arising from his desire to withhold them from the car-hungry narket during the period when there were no price ceilings.

Answering inquiries from resi- dents of the old Bladensburg road region just outside Silver Spring, where the automobiles are parked! James F. McMahon, president of Mc- Mahon Chevrolet Co., 6323 Georgia avenue N.W., said the cars were de- livered to him from the factory dur- ing the period from July 1 to 25, when there were no OPA ceilings. | “We stored the cars in the field because we didn’t want to sell them1 at the outrageous prices some deal- ers were asking,” Mr. McMahon de- clared. “With no ceilings, we could have sold them perfectly legally for as much as $2,300, but we don’t do business that way. We waited for the OPA ceilings to be announced.”

He said the first Chevrolet was parked in the field July 6 and that about 38 had accumulated between then and the day nearly two weeks ago when OPA established new au- tomobile ceilings 7.3 per cent higher than the old regulated prices. He also said his company has been making steady deliveries from the backlog of cars since the new prices were defined.

Kenney P. Wright Dies; D. C. Employe Since 1917

Kenney P. Wright, 70, deputy dis- bursing officer in the District gov-

| eminent since 1917, died yesterday at his home. East Clifton Terrace.

Born in Mount Sterling, Ky„ he joined the District government 34

I years ago and was employed in the auditor’s office before being named deputy disbursing officer.

He was a member of the Foundry Methodist Church, the Takoma Masonic Lodge and was a 32d de- gree Scottish Rite Mason.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Freda M. Wright.

Funeral services will be held at j H:30 a.m. Thursday at the Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street N.W. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

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5 Children Hurt In Explosion of 1898 Cannonball

By tht Associated Press

HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 27.—Five children of the same family were injured seriously in the explosion of a Spanish-American War cannon- ball they had been playing with in front of their home here last night.

They had found the rusty cannon- balls in weeds near the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry | C. Tharp, and W'ere playing with one on a footbridge when it exploded.

Injured were Billy, 8, badly man- gled left leg and possible shoulder fracture; Bobbie Jean, 5, possible left arm fracture; Melvin, 9, pos- sible fracture of left leg; Wanda Lee, 11, possible internal injuries, and Betty Jo, 13, one foot almost blown off and serious wound in■ thigh. i

Army Denies Blocking Scientists' Letter on

Aberdeen Dismissals The War Department today de-

nied charges by the United Public Workers of America (CIO) that Army officers had prevented Secre- tary of War Patterson from seeing a letter addressed to him by 60 Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground scientists protesting the dismissal of five employes last June for “secur- ity reasons.”

A UPWA spokesman said yester- day the letter was "blocked” by both Brig. Gen. A. B. Quinton, command- ing the proving ground, and Maj. Gen. E. S. Hughes, chief of Army Ordnance.

The War Department Bureau of Public Relations said today Gen. Quinton did not accept the letter because it was in the form of a military document, but rather ad- vised the senders the salutation should be changed and the letters sent direct to the Secretary of War. This, the bureau explained, is proper procedure, there being nothing pre- venting a civilian ̂ roup from having direct communication with the Secretary’s office.

The scientists' letter said it agreed that the War Department could not keep in its employ individuals who owed their allegiance to a hostile power. The UPWA statement de- clared the War Department, how- ever, should not appear to attempt to deny its employes the rights of freedom of speech, press and as-

sembly. The letter urged a reconsidera-

tion of the dismissals. Hie dis- missed employes, meanwhile, re- newed denials that they are mem- bers of the Communist party. A plea for impartial hearing still is pending. The former employes, leaders of Local 250, UPWA, filed separte appeals with Secretary of War Patterson August 2.

20 Planes Entered In Labor Day Race

ly th» Associated Press

CLEVELAND, Aug. 27.—Pilots and mechanics tinkered around stripped fighter-type airplanes today to pre- pare them for dashes around the 30-mile course at Cleveland airport in an effort to qualify for the Thompson Trophy race on Labor Day.

Twenty planes are entered for the 300-mile event, feature of the final day in the four-day National Air Races program being renewed after a seven-year lapse.

Only 12 planes will be permitted to start, and these must earn theii; positions by averaging more than 275 miles an hour for two laps.

Twelve planes will be on the start- ing line also for a smaller version of the famous classic, the Ohio Trophy race to be flown at 240 miles on Saturday.

Speed qualification will not be re- quired for the 2,100-mile Bendix Trophy race from Van Nuys, Calif., to Cleveland Friday, with 27 en- trants reported ready to go. Some of the Bendix competitors also in- tend to fly in the Thompson race.

Jacqueline Cochran, who won the 1938 Bendix event, said in Holly- wood yesterday she may be on the starting line for this year's renewal, and if not, some one else may pilot her P-51.

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By the Associated Press DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 27.—Federal

warrants charging bank robbery were filed today against George (Bugs) Moran, former Chicago gangster, and two companions who were convicted last night of charges of robbing a tavern employe of $10,000 last June.

The warrants, filed with United States Commissioner Charles Ozias by FBI agents, charged Moran, Virgil (Doc) Summers of Hender- son, Ky., and A1 Fouts of Dayton with breaking into the Citizens’ State Bank at Ansonia, Ohio, during the night last November 9, looting the safe and rifling safety deposit boxes.

At the same time the warrants were filed, Federal detainers were served on Dayton County Sheriff Harry A. Kinderdine by the United States district attorney’s office to hold the men in the event a new trial is granted on the tavern em- ploye’s robbery conviction.

i wo timers Named. Two other men, both now serving

prison sentences, were named in the Ansonia bank case. They were Roy Montgomery Foster, serving four years in Leavenworth prison on an auto theft charge, and James Mitch- ell, sentenced to Ohio Penitentiary- last July 12 on another charge.

The new charges against Moran piled up about 12 hours after he failed to convince a jury of 11 wom- en and one man that he had settled down in Kentucky as a respectable businessman.

Throughout the 11 days’ trial Moran, who was known as Bugs by Chicago hoodlums because of his moodiness, insisted that he had been living a quiet, circumspect life in Henderson, Ky., as an oilman. He produced two witnesses from Kentucky who agreed with him and he also offered an alibi that he was some place else when John Kurpe, jr., the tavern employe, was lobbed.

Will Rule on New Trial. Common Pleas Judge Robert U.

Martin announced he would sen- tence the trio after ruling on a motion for a new trial which de- fense counsel prepared to submit today.

Although Moran has escaped prison terms on several occasions, iron bars would be no novelty for the one-time Chicago “Miracle Man,” so-called because he was un- scathed by slugs which killed many comrades. From 1910 to 1918 he served prison terms for robbery aftefr starting a career as a yegg back in 1905, Chicago police said.

Moran joined the Capone-Torrio gang in 1923, then went with Dion O’Banion when Capone and Torrio split.

When O’Banion was assassinated in 1924, “Bugs” took over. Before 1929 he lost three henchmen and in the St. Valentine’s day massacre that year he lost seven. He was accused twice of attempts on Capone’s life in 1925-26.

Shqrtly thereafter he made a quick trip to Canada and on his return he was accused many times but never prosecuted in gang killings, including the deaths of 10 in the 1930 “10 days’ war.”

Veterans' Administration Will Appoint Dentists

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In line with a plan worked out with the American Dental Associa- tion, State dental societies are being asked to make nominations for ap- pointments. •

These dentists will serve veterans jyith service-connected dental con- ditions when VA dental clinic serv- ice is not available.

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WAA Increases Staff At Baltimore Depot to

Speed Surplus Sales By Robert K. Walsh Star Staff Corraspondant

BALTIMORE, Aug. 27.—The War Assets Administration today tried again to break bottlenecks which held to a trickle yesterday the number of sales to 3,500 vet- erans eager to buy from the $5,000,000 worth of surplus goods at the Army Signal Corps Hola- bird depot here.

The unexpectedly large number of flrst-day applicants at the surplus property sale, scheduled to continue through September 6 for veterans, accounted for the fewer than 120 completed sales at an overall total of only $27,384.26 when the outer gates were closed late in the after- noon.

WAA reported about 500 sales totaling approximately $91,000 at the closing of the salesroom at mid- night. The long delays resulted before the cash transactions and delivery authorizations could be handled. Littlejohn Orders Increase in Staff.

At the direction of Administrator Robert M. Littlejohn, who in the morning moved unrecognized for some time through the registration and salesroom procedures, the WAA staff was increased from 130 to 150 and more were being added today.

In the further effort to cut wait- ing time and selling routine during the remaining 10 days reserved for veterans, WAA kept the vast sales- room open until almost midnight last night to care for most of the veterans who decided to stay on the grounds after the formal closing of the gate to the depot. These moves, as well as an anticipated de- crease in' the number of applicants from now on, are expected to ease the situation.

At least three instances of attempted irregularities were re- ported when applicants apparently tried to obtain more items than they were entitled to in the $1,000,000 set- asides of photographic equipment. WAA officials said there were no arrests and that the applicant In each case was not prevented from buying one item.

Complaints Rise in Frequency. Complaints were heard with in-

creasing frequency late in the day. These were directed not at the slow pace of the registration, but at the length of time necessary to get in the salesroom and complete a purchase. Practically all buyers had to wait from one to three hours between the time they de- cided to buy and the time their purchase and delivery certifications were processed for formal com- pletion of the sale.

Among several disabled veterans at the sale was John D. Burroughs, 25, Charlotte Hall, Md. He paid $250 for a power generating unit to use on his farm. Although disabled vet- erans, some of them in wheelchairs, asked for no special consideration, they were allowed to enter the sales- room ahead of others if they wished to buy materials, other than the scarce photographic equipment on the set-aside lists.

Edwin Moore, 3430 Thirty-ninth street N.W., waited from 9:30 a.m. until after 3 p.m. before he was registered and until after 5 p.m. before he entered the salesroom. He said he realized that the flrst- day delays could be attributed to some extent to the arrival of more than 3,500 veterans and to the fact that a “backlog” of 267 appli- cants had been waiting all night.

But the delay experienced by the later arrivals, he said, was being blamed on the slowness of the final sales processing. He was typical of most veterans when he said he did not blame any one in particu- lar.

Quality of Goods Called Better. By 5 p.m. only about 600 of the

1,700 veterans registered at that time had been admitted to the salesroom. Throughout the day such admissions were limited to groups of 50 and 100. And of the 600, not more than 125 had been able to complete sales of items they picked out, in some cases, hours before.

Mr. Moore and many other vet- erans said that so far as they would see the sales layout and the quanti- ty and quality of goods were better than those of earlier site sales for veterans in this area. A few appli- cants said they believed prices were too high for some used items. These complaints were offset by others that there was not enough surplus goods available for all who wanted to buy. Purchases ranged mostly from $5 to a high of $4,000 in total sales up to 6 p.m.

waa omciais were ousy tnrougn- out the day denying rumors that item prices had been changed over- night, that additional goods would be on the tables today,, and that almost everything, especially the photographic equipment, has been sold. Many of the scarce proto- graphic items, however, particular- ly the fewer than 300 cameras, were sold yesterday.

Several sales mixups occurred late in the day. Miss Rebecca Kaminsky of New York City com-

plained she purchased a $250 camera at 11 a.m. and was still waiting for it at *5 p.m. She de- clared that a WAA employe was

using it throughout the day to take official pictures of the sale. Further delay developed when the original sales slip was mislaid in the accounting office.

| Suffocates in Oats Bin ALGONA, Iowa, Aug. 27 (jP).—

Five-year-old Marilyn Tripp sank into the oats in a bin and suffocated yesterday while her father and grandfather were loading oats from

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Jap Crown Princes New Tutor Will Emphasize World at Peace

Author of Children's Books Astonished At Her Selection

• y tht A>iotiot»d Fret*

NEW LONDON, N. H.. Aug. 27.— The Crown Prince of Japan is going to learn about Washington and Longfellow and something about American thoughts and ideals—with emphasis on a world at peace.

These subjects will be the basis of the English-language course of the 12-year-old heir to the Japanese throne under the tutelage of Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining.

The Philadelphia widow, author of children’s books, was happy today, but somewhat astonished, by her se- lection by the State Department to serve as a tutor for the Crown Prince.

She is going to Japan—her first visit to that country—filled with zeal for her unexpected assignment.

"It is a great opportunity and re-

sponsibility,” she said today while vacationing at a farm here. "I feel quite awed, but nappy, and I hope I can contribute to the peace and understanding of the world.”

One of Several Tutors. Mrs. Vining, who has no children

of her own, said she would be only one of several tutors—and that she would teach English and American literature.

Mrs. Vining said that she assumes the Crown Prince knows some Eng- lish.

"I cannot say just now where I I will begin until I find out just what ; stage of study he has reached,” she explained.

"I will teach him the stories every American school child knows— stories of Washington and Long- fellow and of American thoughts and ideals.”

“The emphasis,” she said, “will be i on a world without war and nations working together for peace.

Lecture at Peers’ School. “We all hope he will prove a wise

leader and, as Japan has renounced war, will lead his country in a path of peace.”

Mrs. Vining, who will be the Crown Prince’s only American tutor, said she would co-operate

: with his other instructors and, in

MRS. ELIZABETH GRAY .

VINING. —AP Wirephoto.

addition, lecture at the Peers’ School, where the Crown Prince is now attending.

She is reticent about the details of her assignment.

“I am going to teach him English. That’s what I am going for.”

She will leave for Japan this fall j but she does not know exactly when.

The State Department announced Mrs. Vining’s appointment in Wash-

| ington last night. Dr. George Stod-

j dard, chairman of the American Education Mission which visited Japan last March, requested an American woman toutor for the Crown Prince.

Author of 10 Books. Mrs. Vining's 10 books deal with

j biographical and historical subject i matter for teen-agers. Her books were written under the pen name Elizabeth Janet Gray.

A graduate of Friends School at Germantown, Pa., and Bryn Mawr, Mrs. Vining taught English compo- sition at the Ogontz School for Girls at Rydal, Pa. During the summers of 1920 and 1930 she taught library science at the University of North

I Carolina. Mrs. Vining's husband, formerly

! associate director of the extension | division of the North Carolina | school, was killed in 1933 in an auto- mobile accident.

Oak Ridge Organizer Refuses to Talk With Un-American Prober

By th» Associated Press

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 27.- I Describing Ernie Adamson as “some supersnooper from Snooperville,’ AFL Organizer James F. Barrett said today he would not confer with the chief counsel of the House Un- American Activities Committee as planned.

“If he wants to see me, let him come to my headquarters,” Mr. Bar- rett said, referring to previous re- ports he and Mr. Adamson would confer today on Mr. Barrett’s asser- tion that the AFL was prepared to spend up to $1,000,000 to unionize the Tennessee Eastman Carp, plant at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., atomic bomb reservation.

Mr. Adamson told reporters yes- terday that the House committee was interested in learning how the

! AFL could “spend that much money legitimately.”

Mr. Barrett AFL campaign direc- tor at Oak Ridge told a reporter last week that his union was prepared to spend “up to $1,000,000 to break Tennessee Eastman's hold on their workers.”

In NLRB elections at Oak Ridge last week workers at the Eastman plant voted 2,579 for no union, 1,721 for AFL and 1,531 for CIO. A run- off will determine whether employes want the AFL or no union.

“I don’t remember making the | exact ‘million dollar” statement attributed to me,” Mr. Barrett said. “I may have mentioned a million dollars and I may have mentioned

.Eastman, but I was speaking gen- erally and collectively of the amount we were prepared to spend to break the holds of companies such as Eastman that oppxee organized labor so vigorously.”

Mr. Adamson said yeesterday sev- eral members of Congress had called Mr. Barrett’s statement to hi* at- tention.

“It is of deep interest to Con- gress to know what Mr. Barrett has in mind," he said.

New Monje Regime Is Sworn in Bolivia

By the Associated Press LA PAZ, Bolivia, Aug. 27.—A new

Bolivian government was sworn in yesterday under President Tomas Monje, one of the three justices named to govern the country after the fall of the government of Presi- dent Gualberto Villarroel last month.

Villarroel was one of more than 1,000 persons killed during the bloody revolution of July 23.

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Truman Hopes to Snag Even Bigger Fish on

Expedition Today By Joseph A. Fox Star Staff Corrtspendant

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 27 President Truman headed for dee] water today on his second- Bermud; fishing expedition. On his success ful venture last week on the south west reefs 5 miles from the Wil liamsburg’s anchorage, Presiden Truman used a hand line. Tod a; arrangements were made for earl’ start, and Guide Carl Stubbs plan* ned to take the presidential part]

j into an area where it might tackl< j something bigger than the 6H- : pound rock which the President i boasted made him top man on hii trip Friday.

Mr. Truman expects to return to the Williamsburg in midafternoon.

Correspondents with the Presi- dent got their second batch of daily papers from home off the Williamsburg yesterday, and got their own flllin on what is happen- ing over the world, up to Sunday. Bermuda has a morning daily, the Royal Gazette, which touches sketchily on the international scene, and that is the principal outside contact for those here. Papers from the United States for naval per- sonnel come anywhere from four of five days to three weeks late.

American Ranger Crew Rewarded by Owners

iy the Associated Press NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—The cap-

tain and crew of the American Ranger, who took over the collision- damaged American Farmer from the crew of the British Steamer Eliza- bete, were given cash awards and medals yesterday by John M. Frank- lin, president of the United States Lines and operator of the two ships

Capt. Oscar Johnson received a check for $2,500 and a gold dis- tinguished service medal. The other -47 crew members will receive cash awards ranging from $2,000 tc $220 and gold-bronze medals. The company said the awards would have no bearing on any salvage action taken by any court in the future.

The American Farmer was dam- aged in a collision with the cattle- ship William J, Riddle July 31, ofl Land’s End, England. It was first reported sunk, but the Elizabete threw a tow aboard her. Capt. Johnson said the small British ship was unable to move the Farmer and his crew took over the ship “peace- fully” from the Brtish.

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Army Officer Is Held On Charge of Moving Paintings From Reich

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BERLIN. Aug. 27 —The United States Army’s provost marshal announced today that an Amer- ican Army Officer had been brought back to Berlin from the United States under arrest to face charges of having removed from Germany two paintings valued at $10,000 and quantities of valuable porcelain.

The officer was identified by the provost marshal as Capt. Norman T. Byrne of Hollywood, Calif., who had served as fine arts and monu- ments officer for the Berlin district section of the Office of Military Gov- ernment.

He was arrested in San Francisco August 12 while on temporary duty status by two officers from the Army’s Criminal Investigation De- partment who flew from Berlin to the United States for this purpose. He is now being held under arrest in quarters here pending further investigation and preparation of formal charges, the provost marshal said.

Arrested at Airport. The CID agents were sent after

Capt. Byrne when several art works and expensive porcelains were dis- covered missing from the Berlin col- lecting point for art work, the pro- vost marshal said.

Capt. Byrne was arrested at the San Francisco municipal airport by agents who asserted they found him in possession of a Duerer etching entitled “Das Grosse Pferd” (The Big Horse), an oil on wood painting original by David Teniers entitled "The Smoker’’ and a Peckstein wa-

ter color. The former two were valued at $5,000 by a customs official in the United States, the CID agents

1 said. According to the CID the “Smoker’'

was part of a collection formerly belonging to the Rath Museum in Geneva and "The Big Horse” was from an Amsterdam collection. The CID added that it was believed both were looted by the Nazis and brought to Berlin.

According to the provost mar-

shal Capt. Byrne sianed a state- iment in San Francisco, in which ; he admitted having taken the art works to the United States. But according to this statement Capt. Byrne claimed “The Smoker" was

given to him by a Beleian and that he purchased the water color from a German.

Capt. Byrne also was said to have ! admitted that he had shipped to an address in the United States

1 five boxes of porcelain and a stamp collection which was described by CID agents as valuable.

The CID alleged that both the , porcelain and stamp collection t

were “obtained by Capt. Byrne while acting in an official capacity.” Customs officials in the United States have confiscated these prop- erties, the CID said.

The provost marshal said Capt. Byrne was in the United States on three weeks’ temporay duty leave and that he was scheduled to return here at the end of that time.

Pope Receives Head Of Catholic Veterans

By the Associated Press

ROME, Aug. 27.—Pope Pius today received in private audience Max H. Sorensen of Philadelphia, national commander of the Catholic War Veterans.

Mr. Sorensen was accompanied to the Pope’s summer home at Castel Gandolfo, by Joseph F. Reilly of New York, national treasurer of the Catholic Veterans, and David C. Lee of Jackson Heights, N. Y.

In the cordial interview, the pon- tiff praised the work of the veterans and said he blessed the members of the organization and would pray that they would accomplish much good.

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