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Tito Opens Offensive
As Part of Allies'
Drive in Italy
Bs the Associated Press,
NAPLES. May 11 (Delayed*.—
Yugoslav authorities announced
today that the Partisan forces
of Marshal Tito had opened an
all-out offensive as part of an
Allied onslaught against Hitler’s
fortress Europe.
(Presumably this dispatch was
delayed pending the opening of
the Allied offensive in Italy
Thursday night.)
The Yugoslavs said troops of the
Army of Liberation have opened at
tacks against the Vardar and Ibar
Valleys—the two main escape routes
of German troops now in Greece.
Meanwhile, Greek patriots were
reported harassing four German
divisions in that country.
Tito Reports Battles
In Croatia and Bosnia
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 13. — Yugoslav
troops are battling German in
vaders in Croatia and Bosnia, but
hold the initiative on other sectors,
Marshal Tito declared today in a
communique which made no men
tion oi a Naples announcement that
the Partisans had opened an all
out offensive.
Tito’s broadcast war bulletin said
more than 2,000 German troops had
been killed in fighting in Monte
negro and Southern Sandzak from
April 5 to May 5. Partisan losses
for the period were reported to be
000 men.
Several thousand German troops
were reported exerting powerful
pressure on Partisan positions in
Western Bosnia, but there were no
indications they were making much
headway.
In Slavonia, the communique said.
Tito’s forces had ’’taken the initia
tive in their own hands.”
It declared Tito’s units were con
tinuing offensive operations in Her
zegovina.
In Croatia, the communique con
tinued, fierce fighting was reported
from all sectors of the front and
particularly in Lika, where the
enemy had penetrated into liberat
ed territory.
”As a result of the latest success
ful attack of Allied aircraft on Pod
gorica the enemy sustained heavy
losses.” the communique said, add
ing that ’’two enemy bases in the
vicinity of Podgorica were de
stroyed.”
The Berlin radio declared the
German air force had raided Tito’s
island base of Lissa and described
Partisan anti-aircraft fire as fierce.
Berle Says Good Neighbor
Policy Must Be Pursued
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 13.—Assistant
Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle
declared today that the good neigh
bor policy must be the foundation
of United States foreign policy
throughout the world.
"So far as the United States is
concerned,” he said, “no policy can
be sound unless it takes account of
this basic reality.”
Speaking before the Inter-Amer
ican Development Commission. Mr.
Berle praised plans to industrialize
Latin-America so that eventually
"no country will be limited to agri
culture or mining.”
The United States has completely
abandoned the idea of using Ameri
can capital and technicians to ex
ploit Latin American farming coun
tries, Mr. Berle said.
He also urged progressive em
ployment security, health, educa
tion and housing programs as the
joint responsibility of private enter
prise and governments.
School Patrolmen to Meet
Schoolboy safety patrolmen will
be guests of the American Automo
bile Association at 7 o’clock tonight
at the Uline Ice Arena, where a
series of boxing matches by mem
bers of the Police Boys’ Club will j
be presented. A unit of soldiers, un- j
der command of Col. James W. !
Rankin of the Military District of
Washington, will demonstrate in
fantry weapons and training.
Housing
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operate through a District govern
ment agepcy.
"I wonder, if our plan is not
adopted, whether there will be any
slum clearance in the District of
Columbia for some time,” he said.
"If it hadn’t been for the war,”
Mr. Lusk declared, "public housing
would be a dead duck today.”
Calls for New Housing Code.
Mr. Ihlder insisted that a new
housing code was needed in the:
District and recommended the en-'
actment of one which he said al
ready had been drawn up.
Adequate housing is such a great
problem, he said, that its solution
"will require the best efforts of both
private and public housing agencies.”'
"We have not enough houses, good
and bad combined," he added. "We
need many more moderate rental
houses. These moderate rental
homes—$35 to $40 a month—offer a
challenge and opportunity to the:
private builders. Because of lack
of these moderate rental houses,!
our blighted areas and slums are,
increasing with unusual rapidity.”
Declaring that his agency had
shown how’ slums can be reclaimed, j
Mr. Ihlder said that, if funds are \
provided, "we are ready to work on
a large scale.” In its demonstration
of the method adopted NCHA has I
reclaimed 27 slum squares, he said,
predicting that this number would
be multiplied during the next five
years.
Replying to several criticisms of
the NCHA. Mr. Ihlder denied the
projects under his control pay no
taxes.
Tax Issue Discussed.
"Taxes are included in the rents
of NCHA tenants,” he explained.
"This tax money is then used as the
District's contribution to slum
reclamation, supplementing a large
Federal contribution.”
Taking issue with this point, Mr.
Lusk later declared private housing
projects paid actual taxes, while
the NCHA plan was a "peculiar ar
rangement whereby the tenant pays
taxes and the Government does not
get them.”
The question of subsidies was
discussed by Eugene H. Claber,
architect.
The Rev. Francis McPeek of the
Washington Federation of Churches
presided at the meeting.
Maj. Bong Flies to Chicago
For Reunion With His Parents
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker (left), top American flying ace
of the World War, and Maj. Richard I. Bong, Poplar, Wis., first
American flyer to break Capt. Rickenbacker’s record of 26
enemy aircraft shot down, compared notes sitting on a curb
stone in front of the Pentagon yesterday. —A. P. Photo.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 13.—Maj. Rich
ard I. Bong looked forward today
to a pre-Mother's Day meeting with
his mother, in Chicago with her
husband from their Poplar (Wis.)
home, to greet their hero son.
Maj. Bong arrived by plane from
Washington, but his parents, ap
parently because of the early hour
of his arrival, were not at the air
port. Mrs. Bong was scheduled to
appear on radio programs in Chi
cago tonight and tomorrow morn
ing.
The 23-year-old ace Army fighter
pilot, who downed 27 enemy planes
in the Southwest Pacific, was met
at the airport by Army officials,
who announced he would hold a
press conference later today.
Maj. Bong, who arrived in Wash
ington this week for conferences
with War Department officials rela
tive to his assignment as an in
structor in the Pacific battle zone,
stopped off in Pittsburgh last night
for a brief visit with the widow of
his friend and superior officer. He
gave Mrs. Rosemary Lynch, widow
of Lt. Col. Thomas J. Lynch, a pic
ture of the colonel, who was killed
in action over New Guinea March 8.
Earlier, in Washington, Maj.
Bong met Capt. Edward V. Ricken
backer, whose record of 26 enemy
planes made him America's top ace
in the World War. Maj. Bong was
the first Army pilot of this war to
break Capt. Rickenbacker's record.
They compared speed — Capt.
Rickenbacker’s best was 130 miles
an hour in a Spad. Maj. Bong’s
around 400 in a P-38 Lightning—
firepower, effective firing range and
tactics in the two wars.
It was an impromptu meeting.
And the case of Scotch which Capt.
Rickenbacker offered the first Army
pilot to break his record was writ
ten off. Maj. Bong is a teetotaler.
On the Roll of Honor
Flyer, Once Too Small for AAF,
Is Prisoner After 5 7 Missions
Capt. I. s. K. Reeves, U. S. N., re
tired, 5306 Worthington drive, West
gate, Md., was informed by the War
Department yesterday that his pilot
son. Second Lt. Kendrick U. Reeves,
bailed out over Hungary when his
B-17 plane was shot down April 13
and now is a German prisoner of
war.
Lt. Reeves, 28. “shortest American
pilot,” his father said, was co-pilot
of a bomber
which was hit
over Austria
February 22. The
pilot and seven
other crew mem
bers bailed out,
but Lt. Reeves
remained alone
in the plane to
try and crash
land.
He either bail
ed out or made
a crash landing
in German - oc
cupied Italy,
Capt. Reeves Lt. r«vh.
said, and returned to his post, with
the aid of Allied sympathizers, the
next day. Lt. Reeves was the only
:rew member to return; five were
oaptured by the Germans and three
others still are missing, Capt. Reeves
said.
Lt. Reeves was then made first
pilot. On his next three missions
each of his planes w-as so badly shot
up that they couldn’t be used In
combat, his father said. After he
had completed 50 missions, Lt.
Reeves was taken out of combat
April 11 and served as test pilot for
new planes in Italy. His mission
April 13 was his first when returned
to combat duty.
Capt. Reeves was notified his son
was missing on May 7.
Lt, Reeves, 5 feet 2 inches, was
refused admittance to Annapolis in
1936, after two years’ training, be
cause he was “too short.” The Air
Forces, too, rejected him because oi
his height. He worked in the South
Carolina National Bank in Charles
ton until 1941, when he was in
ducted and placed in the Finance
Department.
His father still doesn’t know how
his son arranged it. but he won his
pilot's wings at Dalhart, Tex., last
June. He went overseas in October
and later joined the 15th Division in
Italy.
Capt. Reeves, who had 38 years
of active service in the Navy Med
ical Corps, had three aviator sons.
Comdr. I. s. K. Reeves, jr., who
commanded a squadron at Pearl
Harbor, died November 26, 1941
after returning from a flight. Lt!
Comdr. Malcolm Reeves, 30, flew
with the cruiser Northampton for
29 months and has one Japanese
plane to his credit. He now is in
command of a training squadron
at Pensacola, Fla.
Less Fede/al Regulation
Of Agriculture Demanded
Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 13.—A demand I
for less governmental regulation of j
agriculture was sounded yesterday!
by speakers at a hearing conducted!
by the Republican Postwar Advisory
Council Subcommittee on Agricul
ture.
The committee, headed by Gov.'
B B. Hickenlooper of Iowa, also;
heard the Nation’s farm program
criticized as confusing and discrim-1
inatory in drawing the farm plank
in the Republican platform.
Sherman K. Ives of Thomaston,
Conn., representing granges in Con
necticut, New York and New Jersey,
advocated, decentralization of what
he called Government control.
S. McLean Buckingham of Water
town, Conn., representing the New
England Council of Agriculture, de
scribed himself as fearful of concen
tration of power in Washington.
Arthur H. Packer of Jericho, Vt.,
president of the Vermont Farm Bu
reau, declared farmers “would like to
get rid of all unnecessary regulations
such as ceiling prices, subsidies and
production control.” He said the St.
Lawrence seaway project would help
Northeastern in agriculture.
Sedition
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Government and the defense each
had the right to excuse seven more
prospective jurors on peremptory
challenge when the trr.l was ad
journed Thursday night until 10 a m
Monday. There remained, in addi
tion, two challenges for the defense
and one for the Government in the
selection of two alternate jurors.
Justice Eicher, meanwhile, has set
for hearing at 4 p.m. Monday, after
adjournment of the trial, a hearing
on the complaint of Robert Noble,
who is in custody, that preparations
tor his defense have been hampered
by interference with mail he has
written and received at the District
Jail.
The hearing was started some
three weeks ago and adjourned to
await the return of James V. Ben
nett, director of the Federal Bureau
of Prisons, who has been out of
town. Mr. Bennett was summoned
by Noble’s attorney, James J
Laughlin. District Jail officials tes
tified previously that Noble’s mail
was forwarded promptly to the Bu
reau of Prisons for clearance, and
they were not responsible for any
delays. Noble said some local let
ters he had written in connection
with his defense had required eight
or nine days for delivery.
End of Secrecy
On Clark's Visit
Pleases Wife
Mrs. Mark Clark, wife of the
commanding general of the 5th
Army in Italy, is relieved that her
husband’s secret visit to this coun
try is no longer a secret.
In Morehead, Ky„ to address stu
dents at a State teachers college,
Mrs. Clark told the Associated Press I
last night that she was glad the!
secret was out now, and revealed
that she had canceled two weeks’
engagements to be with him.
The fact that Gen. Clark had
visited President Roosevelt and Gen
George C. Marshall, chief of staff,
to discuss plans for the new Allied
offensive just launched in Italy
was disclosed in The Star yesterday.
Mrs. Clark said her husband
“never looked better, his spirits were
high and he had gained weight.”
She added: “I hope the same thing
can be said of the men in his
command.”
Ramsay House Restoration
Committee Organized
A permanent committee known as
the Ramsay House Restoration Or
ganization has been established in
Alexandria, and will work with the
City Council to make plans for the
future of the old landmark, recently
purchased by the city.
^ Roger Sullivan, city treasurer, has
been elected permanent chairman,
with Mrs. Charles E. Thompson as :
secretary and Talbott Sinclair as
treasurer.
Mr Sullivan said a meeting will
be held with the City Council next
week to determine the future use
of the building as well as to discuss'
plans for its restoration.
Mr. Sullivan has appointed a com
mittee to organize a campaign for
funds to restore the house. Serving .
on the committee are Mrs. Robert
Reese, Mrs. Harrison Cruikshank,
Charles Henry Mason, Thomas C.
Graham, Jones Cox, Mrs Mary
Duncan Brock and Mr. Sinclair
The house, built in 1748 by Wil
liam Ramsay, the first Lord Mayor
of Alexandria, was purchased by the
city for $9,500 recently when it was
threatened with destruction to make
way for a modern office building,
Its restoration has been suggested
as a fitting bicentennial for the city,
which will be 200 years old in 1949
Make idle dollar* fighting War
Bond dollars! f
i4
GOP in Tennessee
Latest to Join in
Drive for Dewey
Ey the Associated Press.
Tennessee Republicans are the
latest addition to the ranks of
Dewey supporters.
The Tennessee Republican State
Convention yesterday indorsed Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York for
the Republican presidential nomi
nation, but selected four national
convention delegates-at-large with
out instruction. The State also will
have 15 district delegates, four of
whom are pledged to Gov. Dewey.
While the New Yorker added this
new Southern strength to his big
lead in preconvention delegate sup
port, the anti-fourth term Amer
ican Democratic National Commit
tee, through its new chairman, an
nounced it is prepared to support
Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio if
he is the Republican choice to op
pose President Roosevelt. Gov.
Bricker, in Lincoln, Nebr., on a
speaking campaign, expressed grati
fication “for the support of all
people and organizations who be
lieve as I do.”
Other political developments yes
terday:
Democratic and Republican lead
ers agreed to put the House on a
stepped-up schedule to permit a re
cess of Congress by June 20 so mem
bers may attend the national politi
cal conventions in June and July.
Majority Leader McCormick told the
House “we are anxious to dispose of
major legislation by June 20,” and
Representative Michenger, Repub
lican, of Michigan assured him of
“complete co-operation.”
Mr. McCormack said the recess
might run into late July or August.
Col. Robert R. McCormick, pub
lisher of the Chicago Tribune, said
here that “there is a feeling of re
sentment in the Midwest” because
that section is not represented by a
speaker on the Republican National
Convention program. He said the
signs seem to point to the nomina
tion of Gov. Dewey, but added “Re
publican conventions are frequently
rigged.”
Gov. Hickenlooper of Iowa, chair
man of the Republican Postwar
Advisory Council Subcommittee on
Agriculture, told a New York gath
ering that agriculture was being
“thrown into an increasing state of
confusion” by regulation from
Washington.
At a “draft Roosevelt” dinner
sponsored by the Kings County
American Labor Party in New York
Senator Kilgore, Democrat, of West
Virginia cautioned the American
people against “substituting un
trained leadership for trained lead
ership.”
In Omaha, Gov. Bricker assailed
the New Deal and called for Gov
ernment economy.
Hallanan, West Virginia,
Sure of Convention Seat
CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 13
MP).—A seat with the West Virginia
delegation in the Republican Na
tional Convention has been assured
National Committeeman Walter S.
Hallanan with tabulation of late
returns from Tuesday’s primary.
Trailing in eighth position—seven
delegates at large to be elected—the
Republican national vice chairman
moved into sixth place yesterday,
with returns reported from his own
county of Kanawha (Charleston)
and other southern precincts.
Mr. Hallanan had been embroiled
throughout the primary campaign in
a feud with Raymond J. Funkhouser
of Charleston, who was defeated for
the gubernatorial nomination by
Mayor D. Boone Dawson of Charles
ton.
Raids
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yards were hit heavily again last!
night by the RAF along with the!
yards at Hasselt.
An Air Ministry announcement
said Hasselt and Louvain, 10 and
40 miles, respectively, from the Ger
man border, were believed to be im
portant entrance points for war ma
terial from the Ruhr Valley.
The Paris radio, quoting Brussels!
reports, said the Louvain Cathedral!
was almost completely destroyed
yesterday and other severe damage |
was caused in the city.
Great Swarms of Fighters.
The huge American sky-fleet
yesterday smashed its way through
great swarms of German fighters in
one of the war’s fiercest aerial bat
tles to strike at four oil refineries
in the Leipzig area and a fifth in
Czechoslovakia.
A communique today said photo
graphs showed severe damage to all
five of the refineries and that at
the Brux plant, in Czech Sudeten
land, fires were out of control in
several units.
ine Brux plant Is one of the
largest in German-occupied Eu
rope, the bulletin said.
Fires were visible also in the oil
rpfinery and gas generating plant
at Bohlen, near Leipzig, the com
munique said, adding that “large
fires were seen at the big Leuna
plant at Merseburg, where concen
trations fell in the center of the
works.’’
At Zeitz another gas plant was
hit and oil tanks at Lutzkendorf
were ablaze.
Another 1,000 British-based planes
hammered at other anti-invasion
targets as the Allies continued their
ceaseless pounding of the Conti
nent in preparation for the coming
assault by land troops.
Airmen returning from the as- :
sauits on the oil refineries, so des
perately needed by the Germans to
meet the coming invasion from the
west, said the air battles were more
terrible than any fought in the
great daylight, attacks on Berlin,
with the German fighters viciously
attempting to break up the bomber
formations before they reached
their targets.
Wilmington Plans Steps
To Check Venereal Disease
Bv the Associates Press
WILMINGTON, Del, May 13.
A plan to double police vigilance in j
Wilmington’s curfew law for minors !
and to increase supervision of dis
ease sufferers will be presented
Monday evening at a conference
called by Maj. Albert W. James to
forestall a military order declaring:
the city out of bounds.
Military authorities have threat-'
ened to declare the city “out of
bounds’’ unless steps to “clean” the j
city of venereal diseases are taken
before May 19
Thomas Donaldson, president of
the Wilmington Chamber of Com
merce, named yesterday a commit
tee of six physicians and State
health authorities, a minister and
four businessmen to investigate the
vice conditions reported by the mil
itary authorities, who issued the
ultimatum, ^
NEW 'iORK. SETS NEW RECORD — The P-51 Mustang fighter plane piloted by Col. Clair
Peterson is flagged in at La Guardia Field here yesterday at the end of a record-breaking
transcontinental flight from Los Angeles. Col. Peterson’s time of 8 hours 31 y2 minutes low
ered the previous record by 26V2 minutes. (Story on Page A-l.)
--A
Reds Battle Fiercely
To Retain Bridgehead
On Dnestr at Tiraspol
Bj the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 13.—Russian
and German troops were locked
in a fierce struggle on the west
bank of the Dnestr River north
west of Tiraspol today, with the
Germans hurling strong forces
against the Soviet in an attempt
to wipe out the bridgehead.
A Russian communique said that
in two days of fighting 4,000 Ger
man soldiers and 100 tanks had
been knocked out by Soviet troops
defending the bridgehead which
provides the Russians with a poten
tial jumping off place for another
big push westward.
Announcing that the last rem
nants of Axis forces trapped on
the Crimean Peninsula west of
fallen Sevastopol had been elimi
nated, the Soviet information bu
reau in a broadcast recorded by the
Soviet monitor, said that in the five
week Crimean campaign 111,687
German and Rumanian troops were
killed or captured.
191 Axis Ships Sunk.
In addition, the broadcast said,
Russian planes and ships of the
Black Sea fleet sank a total of 191
Axis ships, including 69 transports
and high-speed landing barges
which the enemy was using for
evacuating their trapped forces,
adding greatly to Axis casualties.
The information bureau reported
that 20,000 Germans and Roman
ians were killed in the final three
day assault which toppled Sevasto
pol last Tuesday, and that more
than 50.000 were killed in the over
all campaign which began April 8.
In addition to the Axis troops
killed, 61,687 were captufied along
with huge piles of military supplies,
the announcement said.
Reds Call for Support.
A Soviet communique said Red
Army troops fighting on the lower
Dnestr bridgehead were being at
tacked by numerically superior en
emy forces and had been forced to
call for support from Russian war
planes. The communique declared
"the enemy did not achieve any suc
cess, although suffering heavy losses
in men.”
The German high command
claimed, however, that Nazi troops
had smashed the bridgehead, which
was established last month, dis
persing seven Russian rifle divisions
and parts of one artillery and anti
aircraft division.
Elsewhere on the long Eastern
front there were no essential
changes, the Russians said.
28 Registrants Leave
Silver Spring for Army
Twenty-eight registrants from
Selective Service Board No. 2 at Sil
ver Spring left today for active duty
in the Army. Five were pre-Pearl
Harbor father volunteers over 26
and one w’as a former ensign in the
merchant marine who resigned to
enlist in the Army.
Leonard P. Angerman, 23, of 18
Woodland avenue, Takoma Park,
was in the merchant marine service
almost seven years before he de
cided he wanted to “stop plowing
the seas for a while and plow
through the mud.” His ship was
torpedoed in the Gulf of Mexico in
August. 1942, and he was picked up
later from a lifeboat by a fish
trawler. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Leon Angerman, and his wife live
at the Woodland avenue address.
John M. Barr, a pre-Pearl Harbor
volunteer, a close friend of Pvt.
Angerman, enlisted at the same
time. Other fathers who volun
teered are Moffett C. Moyer, Robert
N. Taft, Joseph F. Ashley and
Glenn A. Hawkins.
Other fathers include Haskell L.
Bee, John T. Smith, Kenneth H.
Emmerson, Roy E. Morelock, John
P. Gray, William F. Groff, Charles
L. Howe, jr.; Bruce G. Hannah,
Charles H. Crouse, Leo F, Weber
and Harlie E, Johnson.
Nonfathers, besides Pvt. Anger
man, are Richard T. Pumphrey,
Lloyd L. Simmons. James H. Skin
ner, Edward F. Mayne, John O.
Ford, Eugene W. Curtiss, Thomas
F. Garvey, John F Thiel. John P.
Hull, Charles N. Clifford and Nor
man H. Miller.
Parran Reports 'Epidemic'
Of Tuberculosis in Europe
B.v thf Associated1 Press.
CHICAGO. May 13.—The war has
brought tuberculosis to the "epi
demic” stage in Nazi-occupied
Europe and has accelerated exposure
to the disease in this country, Surg.
Gen. Thomas Parran of the United
States Public Health Service said
yesterday.
He asserted that in more than
half the United States, the followaip;
of men rejected by the armed forces \
because of tuberculosis "has not been 1
good, largely because available re- j
sources in personnel and facilities i
in health departments are not ade-l
quate for the task.”
Addressing the National Tubercu
losis Association, Dr. Parran said:
"Tuberculosis is raging with epi
demic force in the conquered coun
tries of Europe, and, although no
Nation-wide increase has as yet oc
curred in the United States, the in
crease in certain parts of the country
indicates that a rise may occur.”
The expansion of industry, with
its accompanying increase of women,
older men and under-draft-age
boys, has accelerated exposure in
this country, he added.
Lt. Col. Jack Carter (left) shakes hands with Col. Peterson
in Los Angeles yesterday morning before taking off on their
record-breaking flights. Lt. Col. Carter, who also piloted a Mus
tang across the country, arrived In New York eight minutes
after Col. Peterson. _A. P. Wirephotos.
Mustangs Cut Across Nation
To Set tViMow Flight Record
By tbe Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 13.—A new
transcontinental flight speed record
—6 hours, 31 minutes and 30 sec
onds, set by Col. Clair Peterson in
a sleek P-51 Mustang fighter plane
carrying full battle equipment—
was written into aviation annals
today.
Col. Peterson, a resident of Fargo.
N. Dak., made the spectacular flight
from Los Angeles to New York yes
terday, arriving at La Guardia
Field eight minutes before another
mustang, which had taken off from
Los Angeles a minute ahead of
him, landed.
The second plane was piloted by
Lt. Col. Jack H. Carter of Pasadena,
Calif., whose time was 6 hours, 39
minutes and 30 seconds.
±sotn snips, stock models fresh
from the production line of North
American Aviation Corp.’s California
plant, eclipsed the previous cross
country speed record made last
month by Howard Hughes in the
huge, four-engined Lockheed Con
stellation.
Mr. Hughes flew the transport
from Burbank, Calif., to Washing
ton in six hours and 58 minutes.
Col. Peterson, 34, personal pilot
for Gen. Henry H. Arnold, Army
Air Forces commander, stopped at
Kansas City. Kans., to refuel. He
averaged about 378 miles an hour
for the 2,470-mile flight.
Col. Carter, 30, flew non-stop and
averaged about 370 miles an hour
for 2.464 miles.
La Guardia Receives Medal
For Wide Aid to Music World
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 13 —Mayor F.
H. La Guardia received yesterday
the Henry Hadley Medal of the
National Association for American
Composers and Conductors, award
ed for "outstanding services to
American music.”
In presenting the award at the
organization's annual reception.
Chalmers Clifton, Awards Committee
chairman, cited the Mayor as a
"sincere music lover” whose "energy
and enthusiasm have been most
helpful in establishing the City
Center of Music and Drama.
Citations from the association
also were presented to Newbold
Morris, president of the New York
City Council, for his promotion of
the City Center; Samuel Barber,
composer, for a new symphony and
other works composed while ip the
armed forces; Richard Rodgers,
composer, for the "Oklahoma!”
score and earlier works.
Also Uleonard Bernstein, conduc
hour Prime Ministers See
Invasion Rehearsals
By the Associated Press.
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND.
May 13.—Pour prime ministers of
the British Commonwealth of Na
tions—Winston Churchill of Britain.
Mackenzie King of Canada, Jan
Christiaan Smuts of South Africa
and Sir Godfrey Huggins of South
ern Rhodesia—saw new, modern
and terribly lethal invasion weapons
yesterday in a visit to British troops
in thus great military area.
These men—their colleagues, John
Curtin of Australia and Peter
Fraser of New Zealand, did not
make the trip because of other en
gagements—saw five grim re
hearsals of what is to come.
The first was an exhibition of |
weapons of enormously lethal qual- ]
ity. At other points they saw en
gineers throw assault bridges over-j
swamps, mines bursting in a nearby j
highway, booby traps exploding in
a reproduction of what the officer;
in charge called a “billet in Eu-j
rope" and finally the evacuation of j
simulated wounded down the sheer1
side of a high hill.
Gen. Price Gets Award
SAN DIEGO, Calif , May 13 UP).—
Maj. Gen. Charles F. B. Price, re
cently named commanding general'
of the Fleet Marine Force, has been
awarded the Legion of Merit for out
standing service in defense and de
velopment of the Samoan area,
where he was commanding general
from April 28, 1942, until March 1,
1944. The award was made in Hon
olulu by Admiral C. W. Nimitz.
There is a curse in your purse
and a wallop in your wallet. Let.
the Axis have it—through an extra
bond.
tor, for his work with the Philhar
monic-Symphony Society of New
York and for composing and con
ducting the ballet “Fancy Free" and
the symphony “Jeremiah"; Andre
Kostelanetz, for his radio presenta
tion of the works of American com
posers, commissioning original com
positions and his effective arrange
ments of American music; Quincy
Porter, for his direction of the New
England Conservatory of Music and
encouragement of younger American
creative talents; Erno Balogh, pian
ist, for his interpretation of Ameri
can compositions; Abram Chasins,
musical adviser of Radio Station
WQXR, for furthering the presenta
tion of American compositions.
Alfred Newman, composer, for the
musical scores of the films "The
Song of Bernadette.” “How Green
Was My Valley,” "Wuthering
Heights" and others, and Eleanor
Steber, soprano, and Leonard War
ren, baritone, as "outstanding among
the young American singers of the
year "
Nazi Quarters
In Berlin Left
To United States
By lhe Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 13.—Nazi party
headquarters in Berlin are the prop
erty of the United States Govern
ment under the will of Albert Eck
stein, his attorney said today as he;
filed the will for probate.
Under the terms of the will, Mr, j
Eckstein, an importer, who died!
May 4, instructed the executors to
notify the State Department that
“all of my property located In Ber
lin becomes the property of the
United States of America.”
Sylvan Gotshall, lawyer, who sub-1
mitted the will for probate, said the j
property is “a wonderful house and!
grounds which the Nazi government
recently took over for the headquar
ters of the Nazi party.”
U. S. Expert to Study
District Water Supply
William E. Holy has been as-!
signed by the United States Public!
Health Service to the Bureau oil
Sanitation of the District Health;
Department to study the District’s
water supply and cross-connections.
Dr. George C. Ruhland, District
health officer, announced today.
Health officials said Mr. Holy’s
work would include study of cross
connections which, they explained,
involved unsafe fixtures that may
affect the water supply. They said
preliminary studies show a number
of “faulty conditions in cross-con
nections.”
Mr. Holy, who will start work
Monday, will be under Maj. William!
H. Cary, director of the Bureau of I
Sanitation, who is also assigned by!
the USPHS. I
MacArthur’s Bombers
Push Air Warfare
Nearer Philippines
By the AatoclaUd Ptttt.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, May 13.—
Moving the air war nearer the
Philippines, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur listed the Palau area today
for the flist time in his commu
niques. v
Palau, which stands like a gateway
to the Philippines a little more than
500 miles west of it, is the big Japa
nese naval base which underwent its
first attack of the war March 29 and
30 by carrier planes of a huge task
force.
Now it is within range of Gen.
MacArthur’s land-bleed bombers 800
miles southeast at Holtandia, Dutch
New Guinea, and today he reported
that a patrolling Liberator caused
bomb damage Wednesday to a 1,000
ton enemy ship 300 miles east of
Palau.
Truk Hit Again.
fThe almost casual reference to
the setting up of regular air pa
trols in the Palau area undoubt
edly means the finishing touches
have been completed on Hol
landia's four captured airdromes
and that land-based air attacks
on both Palau and the Southern
Philippines may be in the offing.)
Headquarters today also ampli
fied accounts of a destructive strike
at Truk and reported a raid 200
miles west of it at Puluwat. Truk,
Puluwat and Palau lie along a 1,175
mile stretch of the Caroline Islands
now being pounded by South and
Southwest Pacific bombers.
The communique said Liberators
which flew to Truk on Wednesday
caused "severe damage” to ware
houses, hangar and repair shops
with 96 tons of bombs, destroyed
two grounded planes and shot down
6 to 8 others of 30 enemy inter
ceptors.
Liberator Lost.
Loss of a Liberator previously
was acknowledged.
Other bqmbers set fires at Mok
mer Airdrome in the Schouten
Islands and poured 150 tons of ex
plosives on Wakde Island on Thurs
day. More than too tons were ex
pended in the Wew&k area.
A spokesman said the enemy
forces routed at Hollandia were at
tempting a stand on the southeast
shore of Lake Sentani but were un
der heavy attack. Forty-five more
have been slain and an equal num
ber captured. The unprecedented
bag of enemy prisoners in the Hol
landia-Aftape operation is ap
proaching 350.
Army Planes Deal Truk
62-Ton Blow at Dawn
PACIFIC FTJgET" HEADQUAR
TERS, Pearl May 13 UP.—
Truk, against whtei£ land-based
bombers have stepped up. an offens
ive since carrier planes 'blasted it
with 800 tons of explosives W late
April, was dealt a 62-ton blo#*t
dawn Thursday by two flights of 7fti
Army Air Force Liberators, the
Navy announced yesterday.
It was the sixth announced raid
this month by bombers in a two
way strike from the Central and
South Pacific during which 248 tons
of bombs have pounded the Jap
anese naval base in the Carolines.
All planes returned after crater
ing airfields, starting fires and ex
plosions and downing one, possibly
two, out of 11 interceptors.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s com
munique today reported that bomb
ers from his theater in a raid
Wednesday, Truk time, tangled with
30 interceptors, downing six, pos
sibly eight, and getting two more
grounded planes during a 96-ton
bombing attack. One Liberator was
lost.
The interception offered the sev
enth AAF in the Thursday raid
(Friday. Truk time) was the most
spirited of any that the Marshalls
based airforce has encountered this
month.
Kuhn Trophy Presented
To Mrs. Perry and Bishop
The Oliver Owen Kuhn Trophy
for outstanding ?ivic achievement
in the Bethesda area was presented
jointly today to Randolph Bishop,
president of the Suburban Hospital
Association, and Mrs Walter E
Perry, head of the hospital women's
auxiliary.
The award was made by B, M.
McKelway, associate editor of The
Star, during the Montgomery
County Hour broadcast over Sta
tion WMAL.
In making the award, Mr Mc
Kelway said Mr. Bishop and Mrs.
Perry had been instrumental In the
erection of the new Suburban Hos
pital. He added that Mr Bishop,
in addition to his civic work in
Bethesda, headed the Red Cross
War Fund drive for the Metropoli
tan area which placed Washington
among the leaders in the Nation,
BoniMr. Bishop and Mrs. Perrv.
in acceptog t$e trophy, gave credit
to supportqjtc organizations in the
drive to secifre' the hospital
The award, estabilsheif'iiy the late
Mr. Kuhn, who was managing editor
of The Star, Is presented each year
through the Bethesda Chamber of
Commerce to the person or persona
who have made outstanding contri
butions toward civic improvements.
Moley Calls on Voters
For Democratic Defeat
By the Associates Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 13.—Ray
mond Moley last night declared that
America has reached a "grave turn
5f events” in which effective gov
;rnmental power soon may be seized
sy political labor groups, and added
hat defeat of the Democratic party
;his year was necessary.
Mr. Moley, editor of Newsweek
Magazine and former Assistant Sec
retary of State in President Roose
velt’s cabinet, told the Ohio State
Bar Association that "it may take
i great defeat to bring the Demo
-rat.ic party back to the principle
)f group interdependence which it
ieserted in 1933, But, since this
iort of major operation is necessary,
,et us not delay too long.”
“We have reached the point,” he
idded, “where there is real danger
)f the continued dominance of a
aarty based upon economic classes
Avhat is more, we are in danger of
•he continuance of a party in which
effective power may be seized, before
ong, by political labor groups. This,
[ submit, Is a grave turn of events.”
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