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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Ydnks BdIk Use
Of Jap Airstrip

GEN MacARTHUR'S HQ New
Guinea. Dec. 20 QNS) - Having
pounded their way approximately
four miles inland from their
landing beachhead, hard
fighting American troops today
were reported by an official head
quarters spokesman TO be nearing
the Jap airStrip at Arawe.
As a result Of the proximity
of the American soldiers. Japa-
nese use of the sole landing and
take-of strip in this sector has
been curtalled, and enemy air
attacks have noticeably dimin-
ished, this spokesman said.
Further new gains by American
and Australian jungle fighters on
the two other island bastions bar
ring the way 10 Truk, Japan
Pearl Harhor-o also were officially
announced earlier today.
Cen MacArthur's communique
confirmed that American invaders
OF New Britain have seized the
key village Of Umtingalu, one mile
east of the neck of Allied occupied
Cape MerkuS (the AraWe PENN
Sula). The communicate reported
considerable supplies and equip
ment we're captured.
ON Bougainville Island Ameri-
can marines and soldiers stabbed
d eper into the Jap infested
iunglcS from the Empress Augusta
Bay beaChhead. Our troops are
advancing eastward with effective
artillery support Macarthur re-
Dorted.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Fighters Yule Told
Bv Times Thursday

This Thursdays Detroit Times will be of special inter
est to and who has the armed forces
All Of Thursdays editions will carry unique full page
map graphically illustrating your boys APO CHRISTMAS
telling what time your in the service will eat his
Christmas dinner and other interesting information about
servicemen's Christmas around the globe.
You order The Detroit Times delivered to your door
by daling Cherry $500, Home Delivery Dept.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Ex-Premier Orlando
Arrested by Ndzis

LONDON. Dec. 20 NS)-Aged
Victor Orlando. former Italian
premier and Italys representative
at the peace conference at the
conclusion of World War I, was
under arrest today.
The Nazi-operated Paris radio
said that Orlando, SO, had been
arrested on Nazi orders but the
reason was not stated.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Hotel Fire Kills 4
In Midtown ChiCdqo

CHICAGO. Dec. 20 INS)-
Authorities today sought TO de-
termine the cause OF fire which
killed four men and destroyed the
Adams Hotel near midtown Chi
cago early today.
The fire, which wrought an
estimated $4,000 damage, started
in an airshaft on the second floor
and swept rapidly through the
top three floors Of the four-Story
building
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
300 Soviet Planes
Hinted With Tito

LONDON. Dec % GNSJ Tic
possibility that 300 Russian war
planes have been sent 20 assist
the Yugoslav Partisan forces oi
Gen. Josip Tito Broz was indi-
Gated today in a Budapest dispatch
10 Stockholm which was reported
by Reuter-.
According 10 the report. tho
planes passed over Bulgarian
territory on north-t0->0urh
course Thursday night and did
not return.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
$4,000 Cheer
As Reds Hang 4
In Ndzi Atrocities

KffARKCv. pet "a delayed
tINSl-Three Germans and one
Russian traitor we're 7SrEed in,
i've market square az this war
Scared city TO-DAY. less than -
hours after their conviction BY =
military tribunal ~ participating
In the mass murder and torture ~
Kharkcv civilians
BY Il o'clock crow d ~ 5000
had gathered IN The snow covered
square. TIE roofs were black With
people and there were many
standing atop lorfleS and others
stamping their feet on the ground
10 Keep warm Fighter planes pa
troled the bleak sky
Fur capped soldiers with tommy
guns made chain around the
square, in which stood members
a the tribunal atrocity ConriS.-
sion and the press.
BUILD I GALLONS
In me center az the square
stood four salloVs built Of fresh
logs with one loop hanging from
each. Under each gsllovs stood
green military truck and on ne
floor Of each truck stood three
stools Of new white brentwood
There vas a general movement
az the crowd when car with
Soviet officials and = truck carry
ing the condemned men arrived. |
The sentence was read into a
nicrophone and then soldiers
placed the loops around the neckS
81 the condemned. II was then OK
actly l1.l5. The crowd cheered
loudly.
Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov. 26.
year-old Russian chauffeur for the
Gestspo. almost lost consciousness
before the truck started 10 move.
LOST BALANCE
Capt. William Laughed of the
Nazi counterespionage divisionl
tried 10 keep his feet on the stool
and his cap fell of, but was put
back on by a Russian soldier.
The four men. making their last |
statements. expressed repentance
and denied their belief in the |
NaZi regime.
Corp. Reinhard Retzlav. a Ger
man secret field police agent. and
HAM Ritz, commander of a special |
storm troopers company, begged |
that their lives be spared Ritz
burst into tears and asked a
chance 10 act against what he
called the real criminals Adolf /
Hitler. Heinrich Himmler and Al
fred Rosenberg.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
STRONGLY FORTIFIED

The complicated system of forti-
fications was laid out in great
depth and dotted with firing nests
embedded in concrete, the dispatch
said. Tanks and armored cars
knocked out last summer were dug
in as permanent pillboxes.
Apparently confident that they
would spend the winter there. the
Germans had installed Dutch
stoves in comfortable dugouts
furnished with mirrors and arm
chairs from the Minsk Ballet
Theater. Pravda said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Russians
Breach
BaIficLine
Continued from Page one)

(Oontinued from rage One)
Russians swung down in a wheel
ing maneuver aimed at cutting
the Vitebsk-Polotsk railroad and
iSolating VitebSk, junction Of the
Moscow Riga and Leningrad-
Odessa railroads.
To the south Gen. Rokossov-
sky'S Army Of White Russia was
poised to strike at German COM
municationS along the Mogilev-
OrSha-Zhlobin line.
A Pravda military dispatch said
Gen. Bagraman pulverized a veri-
table iron wall constructed below
Newell early last summer along
the swampS, rivers and forests
fronting the approaches TO the
German rail and highway trans
port system.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
PARTIsANs KILL OFFICIAL

STOCKHOLM. Dec. 20 up
The Swedish newspaper Aftontid-
ningen reported today that Dr.
Alfred Funk, president OF the
Gestapa special court" for the
Ukraine, was shot fatally by parti-
sans who boldly entered his office
at Rovno.
News Of Funk's death caused a
great sensation" in Nazi circles.
the paper reported. because they
could not understand how the par
tisans were able 10 reach Funk s
office in Rovno, present seat OF
German administration in the
Ukraine and crowded with SIS and
Gestapo agents.
The paper said 100 inhabitants
Of Rovno were executed imnedi-
ately and many more placed in
concentration camps in reprisal
for FInk's death.
NEW YORK. Dec. 20 )INS)-
Ten residents of Milan have been
executed as the result of the kill
ing Of the Milan Fascist commits
sioner, the German-controlled
Rome radio said today.
LONDON, Dec. 20 CINS) - A
Nazi broadcast over the Paris ra-
dio today reported that more than
1000 persons. including bandits.
terrorists, communists and ordi-
nary criminals" have been ar
rested in France in the last two
weeks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20
Write to Congress
Date
Member Of Congress, Capitol Building,

Member Of Congress Capitol Building,
Washington, d. C.
~
call on you to support legislation that will
provide mastering pay clothing and hospitallza-
ton facilities for discharged servcemen Immediately
upon their return TO civilian life.
Let's not have any bemedaed apple peddlers after
this
wish to register my protest against the neglect
Of wounded, disabled and mentally sick men of the
armed forces who have been discharged without any
provision for their care and treatment.
petition you, as my representative in Congress,
10 do all in your power 10 that those who fought
and bled preserve the American way of life will be
assured the necessities Of life upon their discharge
from the armed forces.
This Is urgent please act
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20

The report on Toledo told OF one
place where light hung over the
dial but the agent said that
wouldn't make much difference as
the place was on a quiet street
and the job could be pulled on
Sunday. II was listed as an ideal
spot for a torch lob. y
In a reporDon Detroit the boss
was told that the safe was in the
wall but the wall could be handled
easily with a torch.
EASY SPOT NOT so HOT
In another place the operator
suggested a lumber company that
| had been held up, Al the end Of
the suggestion the informer made
this notation Easy" The boss
made one after II. II was not
so hot
Still in another place the boss
was told that a ieWelry store on
the east side usually had eight
bags of money in the box Csafe)
and that it was kept over night.
Here's what they received for
ration stamps in large lots:
CO. B-2 and A coupons. 3 cents
a gallon; T T, r and CT, IA cents
a gallon.
Some Of the entries OF sales as
made by the boss 2.5l0 CO cou-
pons at 3 cents a gallon, 1850
gallons. S376.5O; 6SS B-2 Al 3
cents a gallon 81 440 gallons. SOB:
1854 A coupons al 3 cents a GAL
lon, $60l: 22652 TT coupons, Ia
cents a gallon. S1139.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20

L. &. SENATORS
Arthur II. Vandenberg.
Homer Ferguson.
u. 9. CoNGREssNfEN
George S. Sadowski. LIST.
Earl Cory Kitchener, ID.
Paul w. Shafer, Sd.
Clare <. Hoffman, 4th.
Bartel J. Jonkman. 5th.
William w. Blackney, 9th
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20

Here is the list Of your Michigan congressman and
their districts, and your senator's Write Wtre your
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20

Jesse Paine Wolcott, 7th.
Fred L. Crawford. Sth,
Albert J. Engel, 9Th.
Roy Orchard Woodruff, 10th.
Fred Bradley, 18th.
John B. Bennett, 18th.
George d. O'Brien, 18th.
Louis Charles Rabaut. 14th.
John D. Dingell. 18th.
John Lesinski. 18th.
George Anthony Dondero. 18th
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-20

Psmper her this Christ
mas with a glamorous Fur
Jacket. SO hstterino and
practical the year round.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-09
GIRL OR WOMAN
GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN

Experience not necessary. good wages. sx-
csiient working conditions, day work. no
Sunday OF holiday work Apply between
. 80 and 2.20-dai!y .---tsrssaaa- BE keFsesg-
Incorporated l2Su Seventeenth ~ Detroit
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Prince William Democrats
Certify Candidates
Special Dispatch to The Star.


MANASSAS, Va. Aug. 23-The
Democratic Committee of Prince
William County has certified the
selection of the following candidates
nominated in the August primary
according to G. G. Cloe, chairman:
C. A. Sinclair, treasurer; R. M.
Weir, commissioner of revenue; J.
P. Kerlin, sheriff; Stanley A.
OWneS, commonwealth attorney;
V. S. Abel, supervisor, Dumfries
district; R, S. Hall, supervisor, Oc-
coquan district: c. B. Roland, su-
pervisor, Gainesville district; j.
Murray Taylor. supervisor, Coles
district; John w Ellis, supervisor
BrentSvilie district, Wheatley M.
johnson, supervisor, Manassas dis
trict; Charles c. Wittner justice
of the peace, Occoquan district
John F. Pattie. justice of the peace,
Dumfries district; John r. Clarke,
justice of the peace, Gainesville dis
trict
The appointment of o. D. Waters
to serve as clerk of the court to fill
the uneXpired term of the late
Leamon Ledmon, was indorSed. The
Waters appointment was made by
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy. Mr..
Waters also was indorSed as can
dldate for the Office in the Novem-
Der elections and Mrs. Leda Sewers
Thomas, present deputy, was in
dorSed to continue as deputy.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
WPB Ban on Priorities
For Lee Boulevard
0verpass Is Appealed
PRA Says Completion
Of Project Will Cost No
More Than Replacing Road

Appealing War Production Board
refusal of priorities for completion
OF the OverpaSs at Washington and
Lee boulevards, Arlington County.
spokesmen for the Public Roads
Administration said that it would
cost as much to put the road back
in its original condition as to COM
plete the project"
The overpaSS was begun by the
bureau under a blanket priority
issued to the War Department.
Later, Slight changes in plan neces-
STATED an additional priority and
this, although requiring a minimum
of steel, was refused by the War
Production Board, halting work
when the job was we'll under way.
Work on a permanent bridge over
Boundary Channel at the end of
Lee boulevard, and changes in the
Fourteenth Street Bridge also have
been halted by priority refusals.
The Arlington County Board is
petitioning the WPB for continuance
of the work after Frank C. Han
rahan, county manager, emphasized
the Importance of the overpass to
clear traffic to and from Fort Myer,
the Signal Corps of Arlington Hall,
Navy Annex, the Pentagon, the
marine housing unit and large hous-
ing projects lying west of the inter-
section
Mr.. Hanrahan anticipates dou-
bling of the traffic load carried by
Lee boulevard six months ago, with
completion of several housing
projects.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Airport Blood Donor
Center Opened 10 Public

For the first time, the Red Cross
blood donor center at the National
Airport has been opened to persons
not employed at the airport, Mrs.
Thomas Reamy, chairman of the
Alexandria blood donor service has
announced.
Previously the mobile canteen was
set up in Alexandria at Christ
Church parish hall on the last We'd
nesday of each month, and at the
airport on the first Wednesday, but
only airport employees were accepted
as donors at that time.
Many requests have been received
from Alexandrians who found 1t
inconvenient to go when the unit
was in the city. and were anxious
to make a donation at the airport,
so the new regulations we're put into
effect.
The unit will be at the airport
September l, and Mrs Reamy said
that appointments can be made by
calling the chapter house, Alex
andria 5952.
The airport donor center Is in an
air-conditioned room in sight of the
incoming and outgoing planes.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Permanent Picket Line
Set Up Against PegIer

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23-TWo pick
cts, described by the National Mar
itime Union (CIO) as the first shift
in a permanent picketing protest
against the writings of columnist
Westbrook Pegler. appeared today in
front Of the New York World -Tele-
gram Building The union said the
piCketing would continue daily be-
tween am. and pm.
One of the pickets bore a sign
reading: ASH merchant seamen
lost delivering the goods, but Pegler
sneers.' During a tWo-hour picket
ing last Thursday, the NMU pre-
sented the newspapers executive ed
itor with a letter demanding that
Mr., Peglers column BE eliminated
In the interests of greater unity of
the American people to win the
war"
Mr. Pegler issued a statement at
that time III which he declared that
''eVeTything that said was true"
Evening star., 1943-08-23
lsWRahoniinq
sSRemiindery@
Blue coupons, Book 2-stamps let

Blue coupons, Book stamps let
tered r. S and T are valid now
and will remain good through
September 20.
Red coupons, Book 2-These can be
exchanged for meats, fats, etc.
Stamps lettered T, U, V and w
are good now and will remain
valid through August 81.
Those marked X, Y and z will
expire October after they become
good as follows: x stamps next
Sunday, Y on August %, and z
on September 5.
War Ration Book No. 3-This book
will be used beginning September
II, when brown stamps lettered A
will become good for purchase Of
meats, fats, etc. Brown stamps
lettered B will become valid Sep
tember 19, and both the A and B
coupons will then remain good
through October 80.
Sugar-For regular allowances Of
sugar for general use coupon No.
ID in book l is good for pounds
through October 81.
Gssoline-No. 6 A coupons, good for
gallons each, are good through
November 81.
B and c coupons, good for "a
gallons each, expire on dates In
dicated in individual books.
Old type B and G coupons will
not be good after September l.
Motorists who still have these
old type books should go to their
ration boards between next Mon
day and September ! and obtain
new type coupons in exchange.
The exchange will be made on a
coupon-for-c coupon basis.
The old type B and G coupons
are those that have the words
Permits Delivery of One Unit of
Gasoline" on their face. The new
type coupons carry only the words
Mileage Ration" on the face.
Shoes-Stamp No. 10 is good for ons
pair through october 81.
Fuel Oil-Period No. l coupons in
new fuel oil rations became good
July Land are valid for 10 gallons
per unit through next January 4.
Period No. 5 coupons of last
seasons ration are valid for 10
gallons per unit through Septem-
Der 30.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Mrs. Hall 10 Sponsor
Warship Alexandra
Escort Vessel Being
Built in Cleveland Yard

When the escort vessel U. S. S.
Alexandria is launched at the Amer
ican Shipbuilding Co. yards in
Cleveland. the sponsor will be Mrs,
John Leslie Hall, jr wife of Rear
Admiral Hall of Williamsburg and
the former Miss Beall Daingerfield
of Alexandria, it was announced
today.
The Navy announced some time
ago 1t would name a ship for
Alexandria,
Mayor William r. wilkins said
today that Secretary of the Navy
Knox had asked hlm 10 name a
sponsor for the ship. On MI VII
kins' suggestion Secretary Knox
last week designated Mrs. Hall as
sponsor and asked her to name her
attendants
The date of the launching is
being withheld by the Navy.
In nominating Mrs. Hall, Mayor
Wilkins wrote to Secretary Knox
that he considered her selection
particularly appropriate because she
Is a member Of family that has
been prominent in Alexandria for
$50 years.
The daughter of the late MI. and
Mrs. William Bathurst Daingeffield
she was born in the family home at
the corner of Washington and Cam
eron streets. An ancestor was Col
William Daingerfield. one of the
first colOnels appointed by the Con-
tnental Congress. A great-grand-
father, Bathurst Daingerfield. came
to the CITY in 1880 as captain of the
Port of Alexandria.
Mrs. Hall is making her home at
Hunting Terrace while her husband
is overseas.
Admiral Hall is graduate of
William and Mary College and of
the Naval Academy. He has taken
part in the landings at Iceland and
North Africa and was one of three
American admirals commanding in
vasi0n units in the Sicilian attack.
He received the Distinguished
Service Medal for his part in the
North African invasion, and later
established and commanded the
naval operating base at CaSablanca
Evening star., 1943-08-23

I 900 block Wythe street: Takes in
four years of high school and grades
from areas as follows: Four years
OF high school from entire city:
grades one to four, inclusive, from
area north of Cameron street. No
fifth or sixth grades. Seventh grade
entire city.
Lyles-Crouch Colored School
Wilkes and Pitt streets: For grades
as follows: One to four, inclusive,
from area south of Cameron street.
Fifth and sixth grades from entire
city.
Seminary Colored School: For
grades one to seven, inclusive. from
colored settlement in extreme north
western section of the city.
Chlnquapin Village and Cameron
Valley pupils in elementary grades
will attend the school on Janney's
lane opposite College Park develop
ment. High school pupils from these
sections will attend the George
Washington High School, 200 block
Mount Vernon avenue.
Other pupils on Janney's lane
may attend either the Janney's
Lane School Or the Maury School or
the George Mason School.
Tuition Required.
Belle Haven pupils attend the city
schools only on payment of tuition
Fifty dollars per session for elemen-
tary and $40 for high school. Contact
the superintendent of schools Office.
Parkfairfax School is expected to
be in operation by October |. 1t is
being built by the Federal Works
Agency. For information as to prog
ress or more definite details contact
the superintendent of schools office
This school draws from ParkfairfaX
only for elementary pupils. High
school pupils attend the George
Washington High School.
George Mason School will not en-
roll either darlington or Parkfair-
fax pupils.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
CCC Asked 10 Supply
Feed and Grain for
Nearby Drought Area
Farm Leaders Ask
Increase in Quotu
For SIoughtering

Requests for aid to drought
stricken farmers in the four States
surrounding Washington today were
placed before officials of the Com
modify Credit Corp.
Meeting with J. B. Hutson, presi-
dent of CCC. in closed session,
committee headed by DR.. T. B. SYM
ons. director of Extension Service at
the University of Maryland. pointed
out that without aid to combat feed
shortages due to dry weather. farm
ers will be forced to liquidate con-
siderable livestock.
Farm leaders requested the CCC
to ship portion of the grain it
now owns into the drought area,
and to subsidize hay purchases in
Western States to enable farmers
In the area to buy forage at ap-
proximately $40 a ton.
1t was also requested that
slaughtering quotas at local markets
be temporarily increased In order
that farmers might receive higher
prices for stock which necessarily
must be sold due to feed shortages.
Dr. Symons said it has been esti-
mated that importation of at least
200, 900 tons of hay and 600 1000 tons
of grain, in addition to normal pur-
chases, will be needed in the area
to prevent wholesale liquidation of
livestock.
AT meeting of farm leaders last
week, Mr.. Hutson gave farmers as
surance of Federal aid in the pro-
vision of essential feeds.
Mr.. Hutson said CCC could re-
lease supplies of corn to the area
and would work out plans for the
purchase and importation of hay.
In addition to DR.. Synaons, the
committee includes B. B. Derrick,
secretary of the Maryland and Vir-
ginia Milk Producers Association;
r. c. F. Weagley, president of the
Maryland Farm Bureau; Gordon
Willis, a director of the Maryland
and Virginia Milk Producers Asso-
citation; l.. M. Walker, jr., Virginia
commissioner of agriculture; w. G..
Wysor, secretary and general man.
ager of Southern States CO.
operative, and G. F. Wise. secretary
of the Maryland Farm Bureau.
Evening star., 1943-08-23


in the Philippines and in Panama,
where in 1890 he was married to the
former Miss Catherine Cosgrove of
WilliamSport, Pa.
Besides his father, he is survived
by his widow, who lives at 6608 Four
teenth street NV, and a son, John
H. Brewer. jr.
Col. Brewer was cited for ''excep-
tionally meritorious conduct in the
performance of outstanding services
in New Guinea from November %,
1912. to May II, 1943"
Signal officer of a fighter COM
mand, he planned and organized the
aircraEs warning service of New
Guinea, the War Department said.
The Legion of Merit also has been
awarded to 1t. Col Milton H. Press
ley, jr., of Arlington. Va. who died
in plane crash near SAKE, Va, last
June. Assistant to the assistant
chief of staff, G-3, Army Ground
Forces, at the time of his death, Col.
Presley was cited for co-ordinating
and planning training programs and
technique for infantry units. His
widow lives at 2513 South Twenty
seventh street in Arlington.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Mrs. WiIIium E. Hurrop
Buried in PhiIudeIphiu

Burial services for Mrs. William
E. Harrop 80. who died Thursday
at her home, 1924 North Twenty
fourth street, Arlington, after a
short illness. were held Saturday
at Philadelphia.
A native of Philadelphia, Mrs.
Harrop had been a resident of Ar
lington for many years and was
active in church and Red Cross work
there.
Surviving is a daughter, Miss
Marion Harrop of Arlington.
Evening star., 1943-08-23
Alexandra Schools Get
S17,806 Lanham Act Funds

Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Fed
eral Works Administrator, today ap-
proved an allotment of S17,806 Of
Lanham Act funds to the Alexandria
Board of Education to help pay the
cost of operating its increased school
facilities. The allotment was made
for the period September l, 1913, to
August 81, 1914.
The influx of war workers has
greatly expanded the school needs
of the city and created need for
more schools thich are completed
or under construction, Gen. Fleming
said.