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Evening star., 1942-05-10
6. W. u. Will Offer
Refresher Courses
For Ex-Teachers
Glasses Will Begin
June ] and Lost
Three Weeks

Because the war Is causing q
shortage of qualified teachers.
the George Washington University
school of education has established
"refresher" courses for former
teachers.
Dean James Harold Fox of the
school OF education has announced
three-week course, beginning
June /, in elementary and second
ary education.
The summer staff Of the school
Of education, assisted by two mem
bers Of the university's department
OF psychology, will cover the lat
est developments In educational
psychology, mental hygiene, in
structional methods, curriculum re-
vision, testing and school organiza-
ton.
The classes will meet from Q TO
II am. daily, except Saturday and
Sunday.
The elementary school program
will be under direction of Ruth E.
Coyner, assistant professor, who will
be assisted by DR.. Sidney B. Hall
and Dean Fox of the school of
education and DR.. Mitchell Dreese
and DR.. Charles Cofer of the de-
partment of psychology. The sec
ondary school program will be un-
der direction OF Dean Fox. He will
be assisted by DR.. Hall, DR.. Dreese
DR.. Cofer and DR.. Burnice H. Jar
man, assistant professor of educa-
ton.
States Approve Courses.
The "refresher" courses have been
approved by Virginia, PENNSYLVANIA
and Maryland, and will be accepted
toward the renewal of teaching GER
ancates in those States.
Parents who wish to know more
about the education Of their chill
dren may likewise attend these
classes as auditors.
Students representing the Begin
ming classes in public speaking at
the university will compete In the
DR.. Harry Cassell Davis speaking
contest, at 8:l5 pm, Friday, In the
hall OF government.
This is the sixth annual contest
Tor prizes established by DR.. Davis
secretary of the university's Board
OF Trustees and a graduate in the
class of 1878. The contest carries
prizes OF SIS, SIS and $40. and is
held twice year. Contestants in
the competition are selected by a
vote OF their classmates in each
OF the beginning public-speaking
courses.
Zeta Tau Alpha Triumphs.
The senior class of the university
is collecting war savings stamps
with which it plans to buy a war
savings bond as its parting gift to
the university. A box into which
seniors may deposit stamps has been
established in the Student Club.
Leta Tau Alpha sorority and Phi
Sigma Kappa Fraternity were the
winning teams in the annual inter-
sorority and inter-fraternity de-
bates which were concluded this
week. zet Tau Alpha, represented
by Virginia Jones and Grace Rid
dell, defeated Delta Zeta in the
nnals, and Phi Sigma Kappa. rem
resented by Nash Castro and Pascal
Frazier, defeated Acacia in the last
round.
The topic Of the debate contest
this year was: Resolved, That
the three-year college plan shall
continue during and after the war"
Evening star., 1942-05-10

the Postmaster
General would
deliver the ad-
dress to the
graduating class
at the exer-
cises May rs.
The commence
ment will be
held two weeks
earlier this year
because summer
s e SIS ions will
start July 6 un-
der the accel-
Grated academic
program.
Seniors in all
Evening star., 1942-05-10

dS dSSlSCdIlL So
licitor Of the In
terror Depart
ment. In 1885
he was named
general counsel
Of the National
Labor Relations
Board, and was
appointed Solic-
ttor General in
l94l. Mr.. Fahy
also attended
the University
of Notre Dame
before studying
law.
Tha Gaorue-
Evening star., 1942-05-10
Georgetown u. 10 Give
Honorary Degrees
To Walker, Fahy
Commencement Address
Will Be Delivered by
Postmaster General

Postmaster General Walker and
Solicitor General Fahy will receive
honorary degrees of doctor Of laws
from Georgetown University at its
143d annual commencement.
The Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary,
s. j., president, also announced that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Comb Hurled Into Meeting of LavaPs Coaborationsts
Fog Ba1ks
Raj Gift
For Hitler

LONDON, April 20 .tUP).-
Mists over most of Europe tempo
rarily stymied Britain's continu-
Gus aerial offensive today and pre-
vented the Royal Air Force from
dropping bombs on Germany as
present to Adolf Hitler on his
fifty-third birthday.
The weather afforded the
bomber crews an unwelcome night
of. They had been planning fol
a long time to give Hitler a birth.
day greeting that he would re.
member.
Several squadrons of fighters
and at least one wing of bombers
crossed the Channel yesterday ir
the eighth day of the nonstop
offensive. although the days &C,
tivities were comparatively light
The Germans struck back feebly
bombing and machine cunning z
southeast coast district yesterday
Afternoon and attacking a trair
and bombing a south coast towr
this morning.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Hunt Subs
Smelling
Curacao

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, April
20 (INS).-United States naval
and air patrols today were re-
ported securing the southern
Caribbean along the approaches &c
the Panama Canal in an intensive
hunt for the submarine whose
shells fell wide Of petroleum in
stallations at Bullen Bay on the
island of Curacao. 1t was the
second time in the war that the
rich American-guarded oil prop
critics of the = Netherlands West
Indies had come under attack.
All the shells missed their
mark. Shore guns promptly
opened fire, forcing the submarine
presumably German, into a crash
dive.
An official communique issued
in Willemstad said the brief sub
marine bombardment was aimed
at the Bullen Bay installations OF
the Royal Dutch Petroleum Com
pdny.
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Romnne| Moves
.Libyd Troops Up

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY
IN THE LIBYAN DESERT, April
Is (delayed (UP).-Brftish mill.
tary leaders today interpreted
German Col. Gen. Erwin Rom.
mers drive. into mo mans land
as a probable indication of a heavy
Axis attack toward the Egyptian
frontier.
They said Rommel has moved
up new tank squadrons while
whiting the width of the area
separating the opposing forces in
an apparent effort to limit British
patrol activities.
But British patrols. going as far
as 100 miles behind the Axis front
lines, are continuing their night
raids, wrecking enemy airdromes
and attacking desert forts estab-
lished by the Germans and Italians
following their last eastward
sweep across Cyrenaica.
In the air, German Messer.
schmitt fighter planes are being
replaced by a new type of Italian
fighter. the Macchi C-202. tending
to confirm the impression thai
Germany is reserving many of heI
own fighters in Europe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Marshall Gives
Report Of Trip

WASHINGTON. April 20 (UP).
President Roosevelt today sum-
moned Gen. George c. Marshall.
army chief of staff. 10 an i'm
portant White House luncheon
conference with other high gov
eminent leaders. A report on has
confidential mission TO London
was to be given by Marshall
Marshall and Harry l.. Hop
kins returned yesterday, accom-
panied by four British representa-
tives.
Mr.. Roosevelt asked Secretary
of State Cordell Hull and John G..
Winant, American ambassador TO
Britain. 10 join the meeting with
Marshall and Hopkins.
Plans for expansion OF TIL
American war effort in the Euro
pean theater were expected TO BE-
taken up at the conference.
The meeting today marks
Hulls first day back at work
since he was forced 10 take an ex-
tended rest early in the year.
Winant is expected to return
to his post in London in the near
future and has conferred several
times recently with the Chief
Executive
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Rdbau| Hard Hit
In Allied Air Raid

GE ERAL MACARTHUR S
ADQUARTERS. Australia,
April 20 (UP).--United States
and Australian planes damaged
ships. airdrome installations and
anti-aircraft emplacements and
destroyed or damaged numerous
japanese planes in heavy attack
yesterday on Rabaul, in the Bis
marck Island invasion zone, a dis
patch from an advanced Allied
air base said today.
Several heavy bombing planes
and four Navy-O fighters were de-
stroyed aground and two more
were damaged by near misses
Hits were made on runways and
airdrome buildings.
A medium sized transport in the
harbor was believed damaged and
several smaller vessels, suffering
direct hits, were set afire.
Big bombing planes. possibly
flying fortresses, made low level
machine gun attacks on three
moored flying boats and a navy
bomber.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Submarine Lost,
Rome Admits

ROME, April 20 (By officia
Italian wireless) (INS).-Loss o.
the 1,036-ton submarine Michele
Bianchi was announced today b,
the Italian high command.
The vessel. commissioned Dec
3, 1889, dived to a depth of s.
fathoms 1878 fee) during test
trials. She was Isl feet long with
beam of % feet.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Palestine Port
Hit by Ndzi Sub

BERLIN, April 20 German
broadcast, recorded by UP al
New York).-The German high
command said today that a Maj
submarine had heavily damaged
the power station at the Palestine
port of Jaffa with artillery fire.
(Jaffa is the port closest 10
Jerusalem on the eastern shores
of the Mediterranean. lying
northeast of the land bridge 10
Egypt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20

!, mint cane for fire cents
and nee can both 60"
Lord o maSSy, Willie,
dat Is an idea" said
Tommy, apparently taken
by complete surprise.
So Willie and Tommy stood
in line at the gallery entrance
of the theatre and rushed up
stairs when the doors were
opened and got themselves
front seats and looked down
out of the clouds at the tops
of the heads of the actors per-
forming their various parts
on the stage far below.
IT1HEY saw the Shaugrun
doing his deeds of dar-
- ing and saw the cruel
landlord exposed and the col
leen rescued and the red coats
evaded.
Willie admitted that the
view from the gallery was
wonderful.
And 1t WAS-because it
matters not so much where
you sit as what your mind
and heart enable you to see.
On the whole, it was a fine
Irish day for the boys.
And was it not q good
American day too?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
u. 5. Coasts Ready
For Axis Bombers

WASHINGTON, April 20 (UP).
Civilian defense officials were
confident today that volunteer air
raid workers are ready to swing
into immediate action if Axis air.
planes attempt to attack coastal
cities in retaliation for the bomb
ing of japan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Big Thdw Sets in
onRussianFront,
Nazi Army Stuck
Thousands Of Bodies
Of Germans Turned Up;
Reds Continue Drive

KUIBYSHEv, Russia. April &c
(UP).-The long-awaited spring
thaw is turning the Russian battle
front into q sea of mud and un-
covering thousands of German
dead, press dispatches from the
front said today.
The dispatches told of scattered
fighting in which 1,500 Germans
were killed, but said that the thaw
was making operations extremely
difficult for both sides, especially
on the central or Smolensk front
Russian. forces are advancing
steadily despite increasing Finnish
resistance on the Karelian 18TH
mus, north of Leningrad. and have
shattered two German regiments
in heavy fighting south of the city,
dispatches from the front said
Firms RESISTING
(The Helsinki newspaper Hell
singin Sanomat said Finnish
troops were being seriously
tested" by the new Russian
Karelian offensive. It quoted q
Finnish communique that three
Russian attempts to seize
power-station at Svir had been
frustrated since Saturday and
that near Pertjaervi. the Films
dispersed q Russian unit which
penetrated Finnish positions.
South of Leningar three regi.
ments of reserves assigned to the
crack adolf Hitler German divi.
sion were annihilated by the Rus.
sian offensive and more than hall
the Naxi Goth motorized division
also reinforced with spring ne.
serves" weer wiped out, military
reports said.
The Red air force was active or
the central front, where mass
attacks were started against the
trapped 18th army of Germany
Col Gen. Georg Won Kuchler al
StaRaya Russo.
START FLOWING
Today's dispatches indicated
that q month or six weeks OF deer
mud had started and said thai
Russian women and children hac
begun spring blowing behind the
front lines.
The dispatches also said that
each of the thousands of enemy
corpses uncovered by the snow
were now being given six feet of
Lebensraum (Hitler's cry for iiv-
ing spaced on Russian soil"
The mud badly disrupted mech
anized warfare on the central
front, according to front line re-
ports, and military experts said it
would probably be impossible for
the Germans to open any big
scale offensive in Russia until the
end Of May.
There are now a considerable
number of American-built Boston
bombers in Russia and travellers
reported that many fresh young
troops as well as new tanks and
mortars are moving up to the
fronts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Graft Trial GriIIs
CoIburn on PAYMENTS

On the stand for cross-examina.
ton, Harry Colburn, former CHIEF
investigator for the prosecutors
office, testified briefly today at the
grand jury trials of 81 politicians
former policemen and gambler
before Judge Earl c. Pugsley ant
then was excused.
Colburn was asked about pay
ments of money to him and how
he had disposed of ii.
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and Hitler's official heir, went evr
further.
The bold strategy which led
to the destructive battles against
the Soviet masses was exciu-
sively the work Of Adolf Hitler"
he said.
HINT NEW SACRIFICES
Both Goebbels and Goering
worked through their messages
the thought that Germans would
be willing to undergo new sacri-
fices to strengthen Hitler's hand
for victory which, as Goering put
III, will assure greater Germany's
might and glory for all the future"
Weekend birthday" announce
mentS from Germany included one
that two-thirds OF Germany's &c
Icigaret factories would be closed
within the next two weeks in order
TO release workmen for war work.
1t was added that 300 of the exist
ing 500 brands of cigaretS would
disappear from the market.
II was said, however. that the
factories closed would be the
smaller ones and that total pro-
duction would remain the same be-
cause bigger factories would
receive large quota Of tobacco.
Bulgaria announced the sboli-
ton of Potato Day" To save
bread. Bulgarians had been eating
potatoes instead one day week.
Now, ii was explained. the potato
shortage is so acute, potatoes are
not available.
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SO SoIIy, Adolf,
You Look Older
Hitler, So, Congratulated on '57th
Birthday by Manchukuo Emperor
ny United Press

Adolf Hitler was So today, and
one of hts first birthday presents,
according to the Toxic radio, was
a message from Emperor Pu vi
|of Manchukuo:
Congratulations ON the &C.
casion Of your fifty-seventh
birthday"
1t was assumed that. as Hitler
like other dictators. Is sensitive to
the encroaching years. he would
receive the message in corrected
form.
The German radio said Hitler
was spending his third war birth
day on the Russian front.
From the Polish government in
exile in London, Hitler received
the birthday announcement that
Poland was making up a list OF
more than 100000 German Of.
lficialS throughout Poland "for ar
fragment after the war"
HIGH OFFICIALS
Included are all the high German
officials in Poland and those who
have aided them in shooting
hostages, maltreating prisoners
and starving Jews in ghettos.
Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi
propaganda minister. broadcast in
a birthday message that Hitler
was Germanys great and unique
man"
Hitler, he said. is a man who day
and night gives instructions for
the conduct of the war In Russia
Hermann Goering. Nazi No. Z
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
WHILE pondered and
w then said:

Tommy, IRE got an ided."
you HAS" said Tommy
inH0cently.
Yep" said Willie. eve
can get ttco seats in the gal
lery for a dollar and ttCo
bottles Of soda pop for
t1Uentg cents and a pepper
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
+ THLIE rode down il
. T0mmy's; elevator.

on yOW 10 pttty
baseball dis afternoon on de
LOTT" Queried Tommy.
mo Tommy, replied WI
lie, "I'm going to the the
atre. Tue got a dollar for a
seat tn the balcony and a
quarter for a hot time.
II iOish you could come
along Tommy, but / haven't
got the price"
"Um umm," murmured
Tommy, II shuh iCish /
could"
"Where is IL you're goin'
to sit at WiUie?" asked
Tommy.
I'm the balcony" SAID
Willie. 1T costs too much
downstairs"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
Jdps Hdmmering
AT Corregidor
From All, Land
Other Manila Bay Forts
Under Heavy SheIIfire
as Defenders Hit Back
By JOSEPH A. BORIS

Int1 news service otah Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 20.-Dive
bombers swooped over Corregidor
today as the enemy's aerial and
artillery assault continued I'M
abated but the forts guns blasted
truck and troop concentrations or
Bataan.
On Mindanao, an American
Filipino patrol ambushed two bus
loads of enemy troops, infiicting
numerous casualties.
Corregidor was shelled, and the
Japs also were directing their fire
on other Manila Bay forts, today's
war communique reported.
"Our guns returned the fire,
silencing at least three enemy
batteries and breaking up three
truck and troop concentrations
In Bataan," the communique
said.
SHORE GUNS STILLED
This brought to seven and pos
sibly eight the number Of Jap
shore guns put out of action
within the last few days.
A band of American guerillas in
Luzon killed or wounded a large
number of Japanese and destroyed
quantities of military stores in
surprise raids on enemy outposts
The war department also proudly
announced that the Stars and
Stripes still flies over Corregidor's
she'll pocketed battlements despite
an enemy bomb hit that shattered
the halyard and damaged the
islands towering flagpole.
KEPT FLAG FLYING
Three of Corregidor's heroic
|defenders-Capt. Brewster G. Gal
|lup of Cornell, Cal: Technical Ser
|geant Ezra r. Smith OF Sumner
M, and Honorio Punongbayen, q
Filipino, braved bursting shells ia
repair the pole and halyard before
the American flag could touch the
ground.
'The flag soon was waving
proudly and defiantly ut the top
of the island, proclaiming to
friend and foe that Corregidor
still stands" the communique
declared.
Luzon's guerrilla raiders struck
at japanese positions at San Nj
cola, Natividad and Tayug in Pan
eastman province, 100 miles north
of Corregidor.
On the islands of Cebu and
Panay, heavily outnumbered Amer
ican-Filipino armies still battled
thousands of enemy troops that
were seeking to tighten Japan's
grip on the rich, central areas of
the archipelago.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
One Man Injured
In Paris Blast,
London Reports
Moscow Says Germans
Are at Toulon TO Man
Bio French Warship
By RALPH HEINZEN
Ual,oS Press stan correspondent


VICHY. France, April 20
Paris greeted with a bomb las
night the first collaborationis
mass meeting since Pierre Lava
assumed power SatHfaay-as heaC
of a government pledged to CO
operation with Germany.
: The Paris radio announced today
that an unidentified man threw
bomb in the Rennes Theater while
500 PERSONS were listening TO q
collaborationist meeting at which
Jacques Doriot. a leader on Tho
Laval side, presided.
SILENT ON CASUALTIES
Paris did not say what casual
ties there were, If any.
Gas heard in London. Paris
said that one person was
wounded when the bomb was
thrown from the second gallery
while Doriot was speaking.
(London also reported unrest
IN Vichy France and said heav-
fly armed patrols were guarding
the streets of the great Toulon
naval base on the Mediterranean.
moscow asserted that Ger
man naval experts had arrived
at Marseilles TO take over the
vichy battleship Dunquerque,
26,500 tons. and heavy cruiser
Duplex, 1888 tons.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20

Three Comic Pages every day
In Daily Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-20
FRENCH REPLACED


ct quoted Stockholm sources
that German crews had replaced
Frenchmen in the cruiser Joan
Of Arc, 6,496 tons, and two de-
struyers, and said Laval has
undertaken to hand over the
entire feet.")
Chief of Government Laval
called his cabinet TO meet in the
presence of Marshal Henri Philippe
Petain. and to make a declaration
on his foreign and domestic
policies in national radio speech
&C 2 p. m. tEWTD
Laval announced that he had
removed George Mondanel. chief
OF the political section of the
secret service, who arrested him
Dec. Ii. 1910 when his first col
laborationist ministry fell. Mon
danel will be assigned to duties
outside Vichy, il was said.
GETS AIR POST
Air Force Gen. Jean Jeannekeyn,
who had been stationed in Algeria,
arrived in Vichy last night and
accepted the post of secretary OF
state for air.
< Laval took pains to emphasize
that he had taken Office under
Petain and said in a statement
that he must lean on Marshal
Petain's wisdom and experience.
4 Petain. in national radio
speech yesterday lin what London
listeners said was a quavering
voice., said outgoing Vice Premier
Admiral Jean Francois Darlan
continued as his official heir and
was in command of the armed
forces.
s APPEALs FOR SUPPORT
en-. Laval will exercise under
NV authority direction Of do
I nestle and foreign policies" he
said.
cit was with NJ. Laval at the
most tragic moment Of our dis
ast1r I founded the new order
which must assure French re-
covery. Today, I'm q moment rs
decisive rs that Of June, 1910
(the collapsed. find myself
again with him TO resume the
national and European organiza-
ton effort for which we to-
rether laid the bases"
He appealed for popular sup
port
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1OMMY thought awhile
and then said:

"Of course, and den
you can't see nothing doaon-
stairs hardly at all.
And you can't see so
powerful good IN the bal
cony, either continued
Tommy.
Hare yOu erer been IN
de gallery, Witlie3"
Willie admitted he haC
never been in the gallery.
We'll WeH,' continued
Tommy. "ddt's too bad,
cause dUfS 1Chore you Shuh
see de shoe"
Hon much are seats IN
the gallery, Tommy"
queried Willie.
FIFTY cents said
Tommy indifferently.
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quarter (Which he had labO-
riously accumulated) and
with the fixed purpose of go
ing to the matinee and rev.
cling in the exploits of Conn
the Shaugrun, as delineated
by Mr.. Dion BOucicault.
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IN THE NEWS

Continued from Page One)
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Adolf Hitler was SO today, and
Evening star., 1942-08-30
The Far East

Japan appears to- have been defeated
once more in the Solomons.
Smarting under the recapture of sew
eral of these occupied islands by Ameri-
can amphibious troops, especially Qua
dalcanal Island where an air base was
taken from them, the foe made at least
two separate attempts to recoup the
losses.
First fleet of destroyers and light
cruisers was directed specifically on
Guadalcanal. 1t was beaten off, suppos-
edly with rather heavy losses, by Ameri-
can land-based aircraft. This was fol-
lowed by more powerful force, contain
ing at least one battleship and two air.
craft carriers. 1t was met by American
naval and air units and fierce battle
has resulted in at least temporary Jap
anese withdrawal
The results of this action remain in