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Evening star., 1943-12-04
Strategic Jap Town
In New Guinea Tofter,
Before Australians
Two Advancing Forces
Are Closing In on
Enemy at Woreo
(Tara,Du Pictures on Pages
A-8 and A-9)
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL
LIED HEADQUARTERS, Dec. 4.
|-Wareo, strategic juncture of
jungle trails forming the line of
japanese retreat, is tottering
before Australian forces press
ing a campaign to drive the
enemy from the Huon Peninsula
of Northeastern New Guinea.
Australians advancing from the
south have reached point within
half mile of the native village
and old mission station after in
vesting the outlying settlement of
Kuanko.
simultaneously, a second Aus
tralian force made fresh progress
against Wareo, a mountain redoubt
resembling captured Sattelberg, by
pushing along river bank from
captured Bonga, miles east on
the coast. Wareo is more than 10
miles northwest of Finschhafen.
Stiff fighting was reported by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters
today. The Australians brought up
artillery to blast defensive positions
Supporting the ground operations
score of Mitchells and Marauders
pounded the enemy supply area near
Kamlagidu point north of Bonga on
Thursday.
That same day, more than SO
Mitchells, covered by Lightnings
heavily bombed and strafed Berger
Bay on nearby New Britain Island
Flying in formations of six to nine
they set fires among barges and
supply dumps with 63 tons of bombs
In the Northern Solomons more
than 100 Dauntless dive bombers
and Avenger torpedo bombers struck
southeast of the American beach
head at Empress Augusta Bay al
two airdromes which Japanese engi-
neers had managed to get back in
shape. Fifty-seven tons of bombs
hit the Kara Field on Bougainville'
south coast and the nearby island
strip of Ballale.
Fields Out of Action 40th Day.
The bombers, participating in zoo
sorties on Wednesday, during which
no enemy interception was encoun-
tered for the 10th successive day
thus kept Bougainville's fields out
of action for the 40th day in a row
In the face of antiaircraft fire
which cost one dive bomber, other
Dauntlesses and Avengers blasted
gun positions south of the beach
head in the same sector where ma
rines staged two-day destructive
raid on enemy supply concentrations
and killed more than 200 Japanese
Evening star., 1943-12-04
Senate Unit Increases
House-Cut Deficiency
Bill by $140,000,0
Funds Of $l00, 100000
For War Housing and
46 Million for FSA Added
5y the Associated Press

6y The Associated Press.
The sharp ak which the House
welded on the $214,252,00O def
cheney appropriation bill a
month ago was blunted in spots
today by a Senate subcommittee
report recommending that the
fund be increased by approx
mately $140,0OO,OOO.
The House had slashed the origi-
nal bill almost 81 900, 100000 below
Budget Bureau requests for various
war-related purposes. The chief in
creases and additions recommended
by the Senate Appropriations Sub
committee, headed by Senator Nc
Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee
would set up a $4,000, 900 fund
for the Federal Works Agency for
community facilities in war areas
and S50,000,000 more for the Ma
tional Housing Agency, bringing the
total supplemental grant for war
housing TO $lOO 600 900.
The subcommittee recommended
to the full committee an amend
ment which would prohibit the War
and Navy Departments from using
apy surplus funds for any purpose
not directly authorized by Congress
Would Restrict Spending.
That provision, which Senator
Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma
said was designed to prevent in the
future such projects as the War De-
partment's S130,00O 900 Canol oil de-
velopment in Canada through intra-
departmental fund transfers. also
would require departments ano
agencies to report unused appro-
priations to the Treasury and tc
Congress.
Senator McKellar said that pro-
vision was aimed to insure that ap-
preparation surpluses. such as the
Sl3 loo, 100000 recently reported by
the War Department, be turned
directly into the Treasury and not
(See DEFICIENCIES, Page A-2J
Evening star., 1943-12-04
Kelly Orders Strict Night Watch
For Drunk Drivers Enterinq D. G..

Meanwhile, District Traffic Di-
rector William A. Van Duzer said he
lis planning a program whereby
Maryland and District traffic off,
cials can cut down on traffic hazards
resulting from drinking in nearby
Prince Georges and Montgomery
Counties. Mr.. Van Duzer said he
will confer with w. Lee Elgin, Mary
land commissioner of motor vehicles
and county officials in the near fu-
ture, having already been assured
of their cooperation in the prob
lem.
One traffic official said there has
been a recent rise in drunken driv-
Ing on week ends. He added that
many drivers have been observed
going into nearby Maryland after
the midnight District liquor curfew
on Saturday nights.
Another official stated his belief
that the current shortage of whisky
is indirectly involved in the increase
in drunkenness. He said more per-
sons are drinking brandy, rum and
wine without realizing the delayed
effects such drinks fan have.
Evening star., 1943-12-04
Byrnes Will Go on Air
In Support Of Subsidies

The controversial issue of food
subsidies to hold down living costs
will be discussed by War Mobiliza
ton Director James F. Byrnes in q
radio address at pm. Tuesday, il
was announced today at the White
House.
Mr.. Byrnes will speak over the
Columbia Broadcasting System, and
the subject of his address, which was
described as important, will be
Unity Abroad Should Inspire Unity
at Home"
The House already has voted q
ban on food subsidies, and the legis-
lation is now pending before the
Senate Banking Committee.
Mr.. Byrnes will discuss the SUBJ
sides as a necessary factor to be
employed in holding the line against
imitation.
Evening star., 1943-12-04
100000 in War Tools
Ruined in Baltimore Fire
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 4.-More than
$200, 900 worth of precision tools, dies
and machinery were ruined in a
four alarm fire last night which
swept through the three STORY Mary
land Tool Co. in downtown Balti-
more.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents began an investigation, since
the company was busy on Govern
ment contracts.
Police were informed the fire
broke out when workman plunged
a container of red-hot metal tools
into vat of oil in heat-temperine
process.
The mechanism became jammed
however, with the result the con-
tainer was not entirely submerged
IN the oil. Flames broke out at once
and spread quickly throughout the
] building.
Evening star., 1943-12-04

Maj. Edward Kelly, superintend-
ent of police, today ordered COM
manding officers of all police pre-
cincts adjacent to the Maryland
line to pay strict attention" to
drunken drivers crossing into the
District tonight and hereafter.
The move came after seven fatali-
ties in the District last month were
found to have involved motorists
who had been drinking. Four of
the seven persons were reported to
have purchased drinks in nearby
Maryland taverns.
Maj. Kelly said his order starts
an intensified effort on the part of
the Police Department to cut down
on traffic fatalities by whatever pre-
ventive measures that are necessary.
Police have been advised to take
prompt" action in the case of
drunken drivers, he said.
Altogether, Is persons were killed
by traffic in November-the worst
accident toll in the District since
December. 1886, when 10 persons
! were killed for an au-time high.
Evening star., 1943-12-04
Army to Free 25, 900 Officers,
Shift rs 900 Others to Field
Cutbock in Enlisted Strength Makes
Slash Possible, House Group Told

and a shifting of emphasis from
training to operational activities.
With its training and procurement
programs well over the hump. the
Army finds itself with a surplus OF
administrative officers and an abun-
dance of field leaders to meet present
and projected requirements.
The officers to be discharged will be
men over the draft age, who were
commissioned as specialists, and
officers called from retirement early
IN the war when there was a short
age Of men with Army administra-
tive ability. None of those returned
to civilian life will be men who
otherwise might be drafted.
Surplus officers of draft age will
be retained for other duties for
which requirements may be neces-
Sary in the future
Evening star., 1943-12-04
Bidd|e Proposal Won
End McNabb Ru|inu
Confusion, Hobbs SAYS
Representative Asks Bill
Be Enacted to Validate
Confessions in Crimes

The judicial confusion grow
ing out of the Supreme Court
decision in the McNabb case
would not be remedied by Attor-
ney General Biddles proposal
Tor legislation to standardize
arraignment procedure in Fed
eral Jurisdictions, Representa-
tive Hobbs, Democrat, of Ala
bama said today in urging en-
actment OF his bill to validate
voluntary confessions in crimi-
nal cases where arraignment of
defendants had been delayed.
Mr.. Biddle yesterday went before
a House Judiciary subcommittee
considering the Hobbs BILL and urged
as an alternative proposal that
Congress supplant the varying stat
utory requirements as to time of
arraignment with a uniform law
providing for bringing prisoners be-
fore magistrate within a reason
able time"
Expressing hearty accord" with
the principle of uniformity. Mr..
Hobbs said that, Notwithstanding
he felt that such a statute should
supplement rather than be substi-
tuted for my pending bill"
Explains Attitude.
MY reason for this attitude is
that the pending bill would i'm
mediately, upon becoming law. dc
away with the rule of evidence pro-
mulgated by the McNabb decision
and thereby stop the flood of ac-
quittals caused by the McNabb de-
cision, while leaving the law exactly
as 1t was before that decision with
its ample safeguards of the rights
OF every prisoner" the Alabaman
said in statement.
The enactment of the bill pro-
posed by the Attorney General
would make necessary years of in
depreciation by the courts, in many
different cases, to reach a working
conclusion as to what would con-
stitute reasonable time since each
court decision would depend on the
facts of the particular case, and
(Seo N6cNApp pooo oI
Evening star., 1943-12-04
Early Expects
Delay in Details
Of Conference
Davis Asks Inquiry
Into Soviet Release
OF Announcement
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
White House Secretary Stephen
T. Early told reporters today he
did not expect any announce
ment to be made soon on the re-
suits of the Roosevelt Churchill :
Stain conferences at Teheran
Iran.
Commenting on press and radio
reports from abroad that some Off
cial announcements were expected
momentarily, Mr.. Early said
Frankly, I don't see them as
coming that quickly. If they were
I think / would know about it,
When his attention was called to
a statement by Elmer Davis, direc-
tor of the Office of War Informa-
ton, expressing surprise over the
official Moscow announcement that
the Big Three" had met and agreed
on military and political questions
without simultaneous disclosure in
other Allied capitals, Mr.. Early said
I'VE knew nothing about it."
Mr.. Early opened his daily news
conference with this brief remark
There is nothing I can tell you
with respect to any further pro-
nouncements on the subject of war
conferences
Mr.. Davis today requested the
State Department to make inquiries
into the official (Tass) Soviet news
,agency's announcement of the con-
ference.
Mr.. Davis said any official an
nouncement here must come from
the White House. He added, in re
sponse to a question, that he had
no information about the confer
ence.
Mr.. Davis statement follows:
Il have asked the State Depart
ment to make inquiries in Moscow
as to the circumstances of publica
ton by the Russian government
(See CENSORSHIP page AL
Evening star., 1943-12-04
New Barrage I'm Nerve War,
Nozi Radio Reverses
Its Story of Allied
Conference in Iran
Ey the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 4.-The Ber-
lin radio, which yesterday re-
ported that President Roosevelt.
Prime Minister Churchill and
Premier Stain had completed
a conference in Iran, reversed
itself today in a broadcast init
mating the meeting was still
under way.
Quoting competent quarters
in Madrid" as an authority, the
German news agency DNB said:
Churchill and Roosevelt in
tend to submit a plan for an
invasion OF Europe to Stain for
his approval. Immediately after
Stalin's agreement has been re-
ceived, this plan will be put into
effect"
Evening star., 1943-12-04
Thieves Break Safe
To Get Rution Books

Thieves early today broke into the
Force School Building, 174O Massa.
chusetts avenue NV, ripped open
the safe in ration board headquar-
tiers and carried off nearly 100 ration
books.
1t. Aubrey Tolson Of the police
general assignment squad said en-
trance was gained by smashing a
window. Rationing board authori-
ties are making an inventory to de-
termine the types Of ration book,
stolen.
Evening star., 1943-12-04
Big Three Talks
Concluded, Says
Moscow Radio
MAP on Page Az
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 4.-The Moscow
radio announced today that the
long-awaited Stain Roosevelt
Churchill conference has been
concluded at Teheran, Iran, and
in London it was expected that
historic decisions, applying both
to the battlefield and 20 political
questions, would be made public
very soon.
The declaration, which will surely
present faltering Germany the
choice Of unconditional surrender OF
certain bloody defeat by history
greatest land and air offensive
awaited only completion of arrange
ments for its simultaneous release
at all three capitals.
British and American authorities
were understood to be in conference
on the arrangements.
ASSOCIATED Press Correspond
ent Eddy Gilmore reported from
Moscow today that the Russian
people, informed of the tri-power
conference by press and radio,
acclaimed the news as the best
sign yet of ever growing friendly
relations among the three ma
tions)
New Barrage in Nerve War.
MoscoW's broadcast that the con-
ference actually had been held was
the opening gun of what is expected
to be the biggest barrage yet aimed
Evening star., 1943-12-04
By the Associated Press.

Ds INC hsootIdlcO fIeSS.
An estimated $4,000 officers
whose services the Army no
longer needs will be returned
soon to civilian life, it was
learned today, while another
$4,000 will be shifted from ad-
ministrative positions to opera
tiOns jobs.
The figures came out of a meeting
held this week behind the closed
doors of the House Military Affairs
Committee, with Brig. Gen. Miller
G. White, assistant chief of staff
in charge Of personnel. The reduc-
tion in officer strength from approx
mately $4,000 to 625,0 900 was made
possible, committee sources said, by
a cutback in the planned enlisted
strength Of the Army from 100000
men to 100000 by the end of 1943
Evening star., 1943-12-04
Russian Forces Push
Closer 10 zhIobin,
Key Rail Junction
Southern Units Plunge
Further Ahead in
Kremenchue Area
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 4.-Red Army
troops, sloShing ward
through knee-deep snow and
mud, were closing in from two
directions today on Zhlobin, i'm
portant German-held rail and
communications hub at the
juncture of the Gomel-Minsk
and Leningrad-Odessa railways
in White Russia.
Far to the south, other Soviet
forces plunged deeper into German
lines west of their Dnieper bridge
head below Kremenchug. and hurled
back fierce counterattacks aimed at
the up-river Soviet positions in the
Cherkasy area, a Russian communi-
que said.
There was no mention In the
Soviet bulletin regarding develop
ments in the Kiev bulge, where the
Germans sit astride newly-recap-
tured Zhitomir and Korosten on the
Leningrad-Odessa line, but Berlin
broadcasts said there had been no
clash of major importance in that
rain-soaked area for the past 80
hours.
100 Towns Captured.
Gen. Constantin Rokossovsky's
white clad troops were reported
raising havoc with the German rail-
way network northwest of Gomel,
and the Russian communique said
more than 100 populated places were
overrun in Fridays steady advance
Keypoints taken in this two-pronged
drive, aimed at enveloping Zhlobin,
were Sverjen and Dovsk to the north
and Soltanovka and Staraya Rudyna
to the southwest. The latter town
is only miles from Zhlobin.
Dovsk is a junction on the Gomel-
Mogilev and Rogachev-Roslavl rail-
ways, 18 miles northeast of Roga-
chev. Sverjen lies miles farther
west The Nazis, fighting tena-
ciously to hold these guardian
strongpoints of their important rail
lines. lost heavily, the Soviet bull
letin said, recording TOO enemy dead
in one salient alone An additional
800 were killed in fighting elsewhere
In the area. while more than 10000
Soviet civilians earmarked for slave
labor inside Germany were liber-
ated, the communique said.
In the Dnieper bend, Soviet
troops were said to have blasted
their way westward Is miles from
(See RUSSIA, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1943-12-04

by the Allies at the apprehensive
Axis in a nerve war offensive.
AS result of the Thursday night
broadcast by United States Senator
Connally and the subsequent Mos
COW announcement that the confer
ence actually had been held, the de-
clslonS doubtless will be published
earlier than originally intended.
Considerations for the safety OF
Premier Stain, President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill, the
main reason for delaying an an
nouncement, were obviated by the
Moscow radio statement. 1t said the
heads of the three great Allied pow
ers met "a few days ago."
The Soviet monitor here said full
details of the conference might be
announced between noon and 2 pm
eastern war time) today.
Made in Official Broadcast,
The first announcement, made in
an official Soviet news agency
broadcast for provincial Russian
papers, said:
"A few days ago, in Teheran. a
conference took place between the
leaders of the three Allied powers,
President Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Churchill and Premier Stain. Dip
lomatic and military representatives
took part in the conference.
"At the conference, questions on
the conduct of the war against Ger
many were discussed as well as a
number of political questions.
corresponding decisions were
adopted which will be made public
later"
The announcer introduced the
statement thus: II am about to
broadcast statement to be inserted
in every newspaper" He read it at
dictation speed twice, and then once
at ordinary speed for checking pur-
poses.
president Ismet Inonu of
Turkey, accompanied by Foreign
Minister human Menemencioglu
and Marshal Fevzi Cakmak, COM
mander in chief of the Turkish
Army, left today for a conference
with Mr.. Churchill and Mr..
Roosevelt at either Tabriz or
Cairo, the Berlin radio said, cred
iting Turkish political circles" at
Istanbul for the report.)
News SCOOP" for Moscow.
The Moscow scoop" of an event
which had been expected since the
Quebec conference in August ano
the October meeting of United
States Secretary of State Cordel
Hull, British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden and Soviet Foreign
Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov in
Moscow, caught both official Lon
don and Washington flatfooted
Neither capital had any official news
for immediate release.
The Soviet monitors prediction
on announcement of the conference
details was based on the customary
routine of the Moscow radio con-
cerning future broadcasts. The
monitor did not take into account
any special arrangements which
might have been made to release
such an important announcement
The prediction, however, was a
purely personal observation.
In the absence OF an official com
munique, it was believed that these
(See CONFERENCE, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1943-12-04
London Papers P|oy Up
Big Three Conference
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Dec. 4.-London morn
ing newspapers published the Mos
COW announcement of the big
three" meeting in Teheran under
big headlines in their final editions
today.
Moscow Radio Announces Mill
tary and Political Decisions at
Teheran,' Beat Germany Problems
Thrashed Out" and big Three in
Teheran" were typical heads.
The London press previously had
been scooped on the North African
conference by a quirk of censorship
Evening star., 1943-12-04
Long-Ronge Guns
In Dover Strait Duel
BY the Associated Press,

10y lIlt ASSUCldl6Q PreSS.
LONDON, Dec. 4.-British and
German long-range guns on op-
pcsite sides of Dover Strait engaged
In spirited 45-minute duel begin
ming at 3 am. today. Shells fell in
the Dover area, but first reports
said there were no casualties.
The exchange was begun by
British batteries, which opened up a
bombardment apparently directed
against enemy ships on the other
side of the strait, where the seas
were stormy. High-velocity German
guns on the French coast quickly
replied.
Evening star., 1943-12-04

(See McNABB, Page ABB
Evening star., 1943-12-04

(See ITALY, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1943-12-04

(See RAIDS, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1943-12-04

(See RUSSIA, Page A-2.)
The Apache sentinel., 1943-10-01

Some of the incest M.P.,s any,
Where are in the Post Military Po-
lice Detachment. They're not all
Slx-tooters; but the shortest of 'em
can swing a wicked stick-when the
occasion demands. How about that
Estrica Mczekkashing? And on
these frequent nights of unofficial
black-outs and Involuntary dimouts
who makes it safe for lone female
Scrloes to burn the midnight oil and
be assured of safe return home
ward?
Pvt. H. Hayes will be missed now
that he's assigned to regular gliard
detail.
There's plenty of talent and no
small amount of pulchritude among
feminine civilians employed in the
Station Hospital No. j Laboratory,
The American Society of Technoi-
pgists (Lab. Technicians to the un-
Initiated claims the membership
Of this attractive and brainy quar-
tette: Clotide Durham, Lola Allen,
Ethel Randolph and Jane Hinton.
What we've been wanting to see
The Apache sentinel., 1943-10-01
Capt. John P. Browning
Leaves for New Station

Capt John P. Browning. a men,
No. 2, was recently transferred to a
similtar position at Camp Sutton,
NC, after serving Is months at Fort
Huachuca.
Promoted to captain last March,
he served as assistant to Capt. Louis
Cans in Dental Clinic No. l; and
for one and one-half months was
chief in that department Later he
was transferred to Dental Clinic No.
2 where he remained until his duties
at this Post were terminated. Dur
ing this time he served as Dental
Supply Officer Of all three of Fort
Huachuca's dental clinics.
Capt Browning is graduate of
Central high school. Galveston and
Fisk university, Nashville, Tenn,
where he completed ihs pre-dental
training He completed his dental
work at Meharry Medical College.
During the past year he practiced
dentistry in Bay City and Calves
ton, Texas. Active in fraternal Or
ganizationS, he is one of the found
ers and secretary treasurer of the
Gulf State Dental Association of
Texas, Inc.
One Of the speediest dental oper-
ators at Fort Huachuca, Capt.
Browning was also one of the most
popular dental officers. He is look
ed upon as one of the greatest oral
surgeons in the South and had a
lucrative practice before entering the
BACK TIE " ATTACK
The Apache sentinel., 1943-10-01
Enlisted Men from Several
Outfits Sign for Typing

Glasses in typewriting and short
hand for enlisted men were started
Thursday evening, Sept. 9, with an
enthusiastic group of men in attend
ance.
The class, which is taught by w.
o. Emmett j. Stringer, meets each
Monday and Thursday evening at
1900 O'Clock on the second floor of
the Special Service Building.
These men have registered for the
class: Sgt. Hampton Wall, Sgt.
James c. Way, T/Sgt. Lawrence Hill,
Cpl. Whitstone, Thomas Saunders,
Henry A. johnson, James Brown,
Julian, Nicholas, Cpl. Douglas L.
Weir, Cpl Herman w. Turner, Cpl
Andrew johnson, Pvt. James Lorry,
T/Sgt. Charles McHorter, T/Sgt.
James PORTER, SfSgt. Clarence
Tynsley, T1Sgt. Mython Parsons,
Cpl. Oscar P. Grear, Sgt. Pierre, Sgt
Bait, John H. Colman. Mark A. Rob-
erson, Willard Harper, S/Sgt. T. j.
Porter, T/4th Benjamin Hudson,
T/5th Walter M. Miller, Pvt. Ralph
Crawley,. S/Sgt. Nathaniel Robin
son, Sgt. Henry Fransioli, T/5th
John o. Coleman and Pfc. Eugene
Victor.
The tipping and shorthand classes