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Evening star., 1943-02-17
u. S.-British Cooperation
Held Necessary After War
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. l7-sir
Gerald Campbell, British Minister
to the United States, says the post
war period will require as much
teamwork between America and
Britain as the war itself.
We are in tight corner" he
told the San Francisco Common
wealth Club yesterday, "and we are
going to be in just as tight a corner
when the war is over.
i think Russia and Germany
might possibly change places
Russia will have two important
markets to develop-Europe on one
side and Asia on the other,
Germany might become COM
munistic.
I should not be surprised if Russia
might get worried over the rise of
Communism in Europe"
Evening star., 1943-02-17
Funeral Rites Tomorrow
For Howard K. FERGUSON

Howard K. Ferguson, As, plumb
ing contractor, died of heart all
ment Monday at his residence, ll57
Fourth street NE.
Mr.. Ferguson, native of the Dis
trict, is survived by his father. Will
liam j. Ferguson, prominent plumb
ing contractor; his mother, Mrs
Marion K. Ferguson. piano teacher
and half brother, William T. An
derson.
Services will be held at 2 pm
tomorrow at the residence. George
B. Taylor will officiate. Interment
will be in Glenwood Cemetery.
Evening star., 1943-02-17
N. |. Fouquet, IA, Dies;
Retired Civil Engineer
the Associated Press.

PALM BEACH. Fla, Feb. IL
Morton Leffingwell Fouquet. IA, re-
tired civil engineer of Palm Beach
and New York, died at a hospital
here yesterday after long illness.
He was descendant of distin-
guished French and Scottish fami-
lies and of John Morton, signer of
the Declaration of Independence.
Evening star., 1943-02-17

February is. 1913, ROOSEVELT TANNER,
husband OF Goloie Tanner He also IS sur
Vlved by four sisters, six brothers. several
nIeces and nepheWs and friends. Remains
resting al the MalVan & Scney funeral
home, n. J ave and s., NV
Funera! from CoTinthian Baptist Church
Saturday, February 20. at pm Inter-
ment Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.
Evening star., 1943-02-17

Bonds, like bombs, come in many
sizes. Even the smallest one gives a
jolt to the Axis-if you buy it.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Woman Prosecutor Asks Jury
To Order Henry's Execution
Mrs. Stiles Plea
For Conviction
Sets Precedent

For the first time in the his
tory of the District, woman
assistant United States attorney
today pleaded with a jury for
conviction of q defendant in a
first-degree murder trial.
Mrs. Grace Stiles asked the 10
men and 2 women to find Jeffries
Henry, 36. former White House po-
liceman guilty as charged" in the
killing of his second wife, Lola Jane
Henry. She made no reference to
the electric chair or the fact that
the verdict automatically provides a
death penalty.
Mrs. Stiles, dressed in blue serge
suit, talked calmly to the jury in
District Court. She did not indulge
in the male attorneys prerogative
OF walking up and down before the
jury box and pointing an empha-
sizing finger at individual jurors.
Calls Henry "Ccol Villain"
Lola Jane Henry, whose beauty
was suggested by the fragile beauty
Of her. sister who testified here" was
shot by a pistol "in the cool hand of
this dastardly, cool villain" Mrs.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The Government will an
nounce within a few days an in
crease in the ceiling price of
corn to approximately s1.16
a bushel at Chicago, 9 cents
above the present maximum
price. The action is planned to
free livestock feed for shortage
areas, long advocated by farm
representatives.
Shortly after the announcement
OF the new corn prices the Office of
Price Administration will place other
grains and feeds under control, in
cluding hard wheat, oats, barley and
hay
The new corn price represents q
compromise between the hold the
line policy of OPA and the higher
price views of the War Foods Ad-
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Dirksen Announces Candidacy
For Presidential Nomination

other person than myself" He is
At, a native and resident of Pekin
ILL.,, and a veteran of the World
War. Mr.. Dirksen is ranking minor
ity member of the House District
Committee and long has been active
In District affairs.
The formal statement did not
mention whether he would enter
the Illinois presidential preference
primary next April. The Republi-
can Nationalist Revival Committee
plans to circulate petitions to draft
Col. Robert r. Mccormick, pub
Usher of the Chicago Tribune, as a
candidate in the State primary. Col
Mccormick has not commented on
the move.
Wendell Willkie, Republican
standard bearer in 1910, told re-
porters last summer he would get
into the Illinois primary if the pub
Usher did. Gov. John w. Bricker
Of Ohio, another contender for the
Republican presidential nomination
(see DIRKsEN, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Bill 10 Widen Power,
OF Commissioners
Receives Approval
House Subcommittee
Orders Favorable
Report on Hebert Bill
BY DON S. WARREN.

Favorable report on the He
bert bill to broaden the powers
of the Commissioners over rou-
tine operations of the municipal
government was ordered today
by a House District Subcommit-
tee after a final hearing on the
measure which was introduced
last May.
The action was announced BY
Representative Hebert, Democrat, OF
Louisiana, subcommittee chairman
after he and Representative Murphy
Democrat, of Pennsylvania hac
heard protests from spokesmen o.
the Master Plumbers Association
and the Washington Building Con.
gress over features of the bill per.
tanning to the work of the District
plumbing inspector.
William H. Collins, J. H. Nc.
Carthy and M. r. Colbert argued
that the plumbing inspector shoulc
not be made subordinate to CHIEF
engineer under the director of in.
spection, as they said was contem.
plated; that builders be permitted te
deal with but one man-the plumb.
| ing inspector
Report to Note Objections.
Representatives Hebert and Muir.
ply contended, however, there wa!
great need for Capitalization of au.
thority, and responsibility of thu
Commissioners and their designated
agents and that elimination from
the bill of the sections opposed by
the trade spokesmen would moi
lSee HERERT BILL, page 40
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Chinese Tighten Moose
Around Japs in Human
By the Associated Press.

CHUNGKING, Dec. 2-Chinese
troops were reported to be tighten
ing moose around a japanese force
in Northern Human today after oc-
cupying six towns and driving the
enemy out of the important city of
Changteh in fierce fighting.
The Chinese high command said
the towns of Tell. Taoyuan, Wang
maotan, Chihchiaho, Tehshan and
Shihmen were retaken along with
Changteh South Station, across the
Yuan River from Changteh proper,
into which the japanese had forced
an entrance Monday.
Heavy casualties were inflicted on
the Japanese who had penetrated
into the northeast corner of
Changteh, an announcement said.
1t was disclosed that the Chinese
defenders of Changteh were aided
Tuesday by American fighters which
dropped food and ammunition into
the besieged city and also destroyed
japanese supply barges on Tungting
Lake.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Mother and Two Bows
Die in 15-FIoor Fall
Bride of RAF Officer
Reported Despondent

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-The bride of
an Raj flight officer and her two
sons by previous marriage plunged
Is stories to their death today.
The three, whose bodies were
found close together on a one-story
extension of the Henry Hudson
Hotel, were identified as Mrs. Mary
Lindsay Tomlinson, "a, and her sons,
Michael Hiddingh, 8, and John
Hiddingh, 6.
Police of the West Fifty fourth
street. station said Mrs. Tomlinson's
first husband, Guy Hiddingh, was
killed in action some time ago with
the British forces in Africa. She mar
ried Flight Officer David Tomlinson
two months ago, they said, and was
respondent because she and the
children ~ere unable to join him in
England.
Detective Edward Houlihan said
1T had not yet been determined
whether the woman pushed the two
children from the hotel window and
then followed them or whether one
child went first and she plunged a
few seconds later with the second
boy in her arms.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Recrin1inotions on News Leak
Rife on Both Sides of Atlantic
Elmer Davis Irked
Over Lisbon Story
Thut Jumped Gun

The brand of censorship exer-
cised over the Roosevelt Church
ill-Chiang conference had every
body mad at everybody else
today.
American press and radio, in full
possession of the facts of the meet
ing for 36 hours before they could
be publicized adequately, were pay
ing their respects to Elmer Davis
Office of War Information and Reu-
ter's, the British news agency which
jumped the gun with a brief dis
patch from Lisbon Tuesday morning
announcing the meeting, while news
sources in this country were sitting
on their hands waiting for 7:30
o'clock last night, when an official
announcement from the White
House was released
The Owl came in for criticism
although the official release time
was given out here by the White
House-not Owl. Mr.. Dals ex-
planned that his agency had nothing
to do with the the White House
communique. He pointed out his
office was bound by that timing, in
Continued on Page AS, Column -
Evening star., 1943-12-02
BY the Associated Press.

Representative Dirksen, RepubN-
can, of Illinois, who is serving his
sixth term in Congress, announced
today he would be a candidate for
the Republican presidential nomi-
nation next year.
Attached to his formal announce
ment was copy of a petition signed
by 36 members of Congress, includ-
ing IL from Illinois, urging him to
submit his name to the 1914 Repub-
llcan convention.
"The effort to seek recognition
on the national ticket is dedicated
to a complete and speedy victory
over our enemies, victorious peace,
a sound program for the dispoition
OF postwar domestic problems, the
preservation of freedom, the resto-
r. ton of balanced government, a
militant, united party and a Re-
publican victory" Mr.. Dirksen
stated
He also remarked, II am pledged
to the support or interest Of no
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Brucken Placed on
Carpet in House
Of Commons
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 2.-Brendar
Bracken, British Information
Minister, answering questions in
the House of Commons today
aimed at placing responsibility
for the world wide news leak
age on the North Africa confer
ence, said that in his opinion
such meetings Ought to be alb
solute security conferences in
the future"
Apparently he meant that abso-
lutely nothing should be printed
about conferences from any source
until the official news is'released.
Mr.. Bracken was put on the carpet
with questions regarding both the
ministry and the British Broadcast
ing Corp, which is under his super
vision
Questioned about press arrange
mentS and the fact the BIC broad
cast news of the conference to Eu.
rope "a hours before it was released
to British newspapers, Mr.. Bracker
explained the BIC report was based
Evening star., 1943-12-02
OPA Plans to Raise Corn CeiIino
To $1.76, Control Other Grains
Proposal Comes After Compromise
With Food Administration Officials

ministration. Both agencies, 1t was
said, nave reached agreement on
major points of the new regulation
and only few minor details remain
to be determined
Decision Expected This Week.
Sterilization Director Fred M.
Vinson has been the arbiter in the
corn price controversy and probably
will announce a decision before the
weeks end. The new prices are far
below those sought by farmers and
farm State members of Congress.
Farm ceiling prices for corn will be
fixed for each county in the produc-
ing area. Officials said the approx
mate range will be from 81 107 to 81 10
a bushel. When corn is shipped from
one area to another, the maximum
price will be the ceiling in the orig
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Allied Worships Blast
Gosmoto and Modono

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS, Dec. 2 LP,.-
Light naval craft of Vice Admiral
Thomas C. Kincaids command have
hammered Gasmata on New Britain
Island and Madang on New Guinea
for the first time from the sea, bold
ly carrying the American colors
onto Japan's Southwest Pacific door
step.
Many times these two prime
enemy air and ship bases have felt
the smash of tons of Allied aerial
bombs, but the seaborne attacks
presumably by destroyers the night
Of November 20 and dawn next day
brought the japanese a new kind OF
bad news which was hurled with
craftsmanship described as "ef-
fective."
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com
(See PACIFIC. Page A-5.D
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Airport Worker Held
In Ration Counterfeitinu

A 29-year-old civilian employe of
the air cargo detachment at the
Washington National Airport, was
held in Alexandria Jail today in
connection with the counterfeiting
of 12,800 c gasoline ration coupons
The man was arrested after an in
vestigation by the Secret Service
the Office of Price Administration
and the Army Air Forces.
A conference on the case is sched-
uled this afternoon in the office OF
the United States district attorney
at Alexandria. According to the
Secret Service 200 sheets of stamps
with "a stamps to a sheet, were
seized
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Huge Nazi Reserves
Attacking All Along
.600-MiIe Red Front
Russians, However, Said
To Be Holding Coins
Against OnsIouehts
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Dec. 2.-Huge forces
of German reserves are attack
ing all along the 60O-mile eastern
front in a desperate bid to re-
gain control of vital communi-
cations and supply lines and halt
the surging Russian drive to the
old Polish border, Moscow re-
ported today.
The Russians declared, however
that they were holding their lines
against the fierce Nazi onslaughts
and even announced slight advances
in White Russia and in the Dnieper
bend. There was no mention in the
Russian communioue of develop
ments in the Kiev bulge, where the
Germans previously had recaptured
the rail functions of Zhitomir and
Korosten to regain control of a As
mile long stretch of the important
Leningrad-Odessa railway west of
the Dnieper River.
Intensity of Fighting Heightened.
But the intensity of the fighting
was heightened, front dispatches to
Moscow newspapers indicated, as
both sides sought to improve their
positions. Eddy Gilmore, Associated
Press war correspondent who has
just returned to Moscow from the
Korosten-Zhitomir-Kiev area, wrote
II saw one of the fiercest fights of
the war, with both sides expending
great numbers of men and machines
and fighting in some of the years
worst mud"
Apparently the Nazis held the
advantage in communications, since
they we're using well-equipped trunk
lines in bringing up reserves from
the west. The Russians, on the
other hand, were using railways only
recently retaken from the enemy
most of which were wrecked in the
German retreat. They were further
handicapped by muddy highways
back of the front and the longer
distances from which to bring ur
reinforcements.
Is Counterattacks Repulsed.
German defenses southwest OF
Kremenchug in the Dnieper bend
Moscow said, were crashed by Red
Army troops, who held their gains
against Is massed counterattacks
At the Cherkasy bridgehead. north
OF Kremenchug, Soviet forces bat.
tied their way toward the rail juno
ton of Smela, beating down German
countersmashes, capturing many
prisoners, 16 planes and 26 tanks
the Soviet communique declared
More than 1900 Germans we're re-
ported killed in these actions.
In White Russia, Soviet troops
plodded steadily ahead through in.
termediate German defenses north
west of Gomel to capture several
villages on the road to Zhlobin
Other white-clad Red Army SOL
diers crossed the Pripet River te
the south to capture Narovl, Il
miles east of Yelsk, Russian -helc
town on the Leningrad-O Odesss
railway, between Ovruch and Mozyr
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Flyer Crashes
|On Ronge; 10,002
| Shots Miss Him
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SAN DIEGO, Calf, Dec. 2.-Lt.
N. E. Jacobs of Little Rock, Ark, a
Navy flyer, lived through l0,002 mar
row escapes-all in three hours, the
Army reports.
His plane crashed and he found
himself, suffering severe shock, at
the wrong end of Camp Callans
mountainside rifle range.
The 51st Training Battalion fired
10,002 rounds of machine gun am
munition while 1t. Jacobs, unable to
indicate his presence, covered di-
rectly behind the targets.
AS the soldiers prepared to move
on, 1t. Robert Harley of New York,
battery commander, saw a spot Of
color on the mountainside, investi.
gated, and found 1t. Jacobs semi
conscious. He had not been hit.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
|Ger|nansSpeed
Reinforcements
To Italian Front
British Take 1000
Prisoners; Germon
Casualties Heavy
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. AL.
giers, Dec. 2.-Driven from the
Adriatic end of their heavily
fortified winter line, the Ger
mans were in retreat before the
British 9th Army today, aban-
doning great quantities of equip.
ment after suffering heavy cas-
ualties and losing more than
1000 prisoners.
At the same time, It. Gen. Mark
w. Clark's 5th Army continued to
advance after throwing back two
determined German counterattacks.
In general, the repulse allowed the
5th Army to consolidate it's positions
east OF. the main road to Rome.
"On the 9th Army front our troops
have broken through the enemy
positions. The Germans are in full
retreat" said special communique
from Allied headquarters.
"Reinforcements are being
brought up by the Germans from
Northern Italy," in an effort to halt
the break-through, the communiqus
added.
(The Algiers radio announcer
said, I'm fierce hand o-hand,
yard-to-yard fighting the 9Th
Army is dislodging the enemy on
a 25-mile front and pressing him
back toward Pescara. They are
mopping up enemy resistance
centers.D
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
British, Indian and New Zealand
divisions smashed forward as much
as 3 miles yesterday despite re-
newed rains, thick minefields, heavy
demolitions and wire entanglements
left In their path by the enemy.
Town Is Overrun.
The town of Rocca San Giovanni,
2 miles inland from the Adriatic and
more than miles beyond the San
gro River, was oyerrun in Gen.
Montgomery's colossal crack" at the
Nazis across battlefelds Uttered with
Nazi guns and great quantities OF
smashed equipment.
In addition to more than 1000
ablebodied prisoners already count
ed, Gen. Montgomerys headquar-
ters announced that the Germans
left behind many dead and large
numbers of wounded now being
treated in British hospitals.
The entire Sangro Ridge from
Fossacesia to Romagnoli is now in
Allied hands after heavy fighting,
the Allied communique said, with a
| particularly fierce" engagement
having been fought for Fossacesia.
Eight miles inland. the Germans
still fought desperately to retain
! the town of Castel Frentano, 5 miles
beyond the river. after the British
reached the outskirts.
Advance in Other Areas.
Farther inland, official dispatches
said, 9th Army units pierced Ger
man defenses and were very near"
the important town of Casoli, IA
miles from the Adriatic on the
main lateral road which has been
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Food Price Boosts Feared

Price Administrator Chester
BOwles told the Senate Bank
ing Committee today that if
Congress abolishes food sub
sides, living costs might 20
up 10 per cent within a year
the equivalent of a 10 per
cent sales tax on the con-
sumer."
Evening star., 1943-12-02
u. 5. Heavy Bombers
Blast RhineIand CITY
Of SoIingen Again
II Big Craft Missing;
Rocket-Firing Fighters
Put Up Stiff Defense
BULLETIN.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers (P.-Flying Fortresses
OF the Northwest African Air
Force attacked the submarine
base and docks at Marseille in
Southern France today, a
special communique an
nounced.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 2.-Striking
through rocket-hurling forma-
tions of Germans fighters, waves
of American heavy bombers
pounded the Rhineland indus
trial city of Solingen for the
second straight day yesterday
while United States Marauders
bombed Nazi airfields in North
ern France and Belgium.
The Air Ministry announced today
that RAF bombers laid mines in
German-controlled waters last night
but there was no indication of any
major activity. Two of the British
planes were reported missing.
The third American attack on
Germany in as many days was
marked by fierce sky battles and q
Flying Fortresses and. Liberators
failed to return to their bases.
Thirty-three German planes were
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Nazi Spokesman Busy
Trying 10 Counteract
Results Of Stain Talks
German People Warned
Allies May Attempt to
Incite Reich Rebellion
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 2.-Nazi spokes-
men were feverishly building a
bomb shelter of words today to
ward off the explosive effect on
the German home front and Axis
satellites Of any pronouncements
that may come from a confer
ence of President Roosevelt,
Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stain.
Asserting that Mr.. Churchill and
Mr.. Roosevelt were meeting the
Soviet leader in Teheran, capital of
Iran, the German radio said the
purpose of such meeting was to lay
the groundwork for gigantic
propaganda campaign to draw the
German people away from their
Nazi leaders, even though "the enc
my stands perfectly united as far as
their desires for annihilation of the
German Reich Is concerned"
Effort to Force Rebellion Seen.
Germany expects" wrote one
Berlin correspondent of Spanish
newspaper, that the general line of
Allied propaganda will be this-the
promise of peace If the Nazi regime
is abandoned"
Other dispatches to Spanish news
papers quoted German spokesman
as saying, soon after the announce
ment of the North African confer
ence of Mr. Roosevelt, Mr.. Churchill
and Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
that Premier Stain had already left
to meet the leaders of Great Britain
and the United States "for a new
manifesto la Wilson,"
Only IS minutes after the an
nouncement of the North African
conference was released in Allied
countries, the Berlin radio was put
ting out large section of the text.
What Churchill, Roosevelt and
Chang Kai-shek have failed to
achieve on the battlefield, they will
try again by propaganda" the Ber-
lin radio quoted an official German
spokesman as saying. But the
German people know the facts and
propaganda will not succeed where
bomb and terror has failed"
Declared a Sop to China.
japanese reaction to the North
African conference came in Berlin
broadcast quoting a Foreign Office
spokesman in Toxic as saying that
the whole affair was a political
maneuver, stage-managed for the
purpose of diverting attention of the
public from the latest Allied defeats
lin the Pacific" and as "a SOP to
Chungking because China was not
represented at the Casablanca meet
ing last January"
Berlin commentators also turned
to their time-worn policy of at
tempting to divide the Allies in
specializing on a future meeting OF
the United Nations leaders.
Stain has by far the greatest in
terest in the negotiations, said one
commentator. Since he failed to
achieve his cardinal aim of emplov-
Ing the maximum amount of British
and American manpower on the
European theater of war, he now is
tempted to use this opportunity for
bringing direct pressure to bear
upon Roosevelt and Churchill"