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Evening star., 1943-09-02
Woman Is Released
In WAC Staying
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2.-Naoma
L.. Ridings, 32-year -old WAC cor
poral from Camp Atterbury, Ind,
continued mystery today as de-
tectives admitted, after checking
many clues, that they were unable
to disclose any developments.
A 27-year-old woman. Marie
Simpson, brought to police head
quarters this morning by taxicab
driver who said she told him she
wanted to give herself up as the
slayer, was released after being
questioned. She had been charged
with drunkenness and vagrancy.
Officers also released a 19-year -old
boy companion of the woman.
Investigators in the brutal slay-
ing said today they were entertain
ing a theory the crime was commit
ted by more than one person lin a
moment of blind fury" They cid
not elaborate
Detective 1t Noel Jones said au-
thoritiesa were intensifying their
search for woman in black" whom
a bellboy said he saw in Corpl
Ridings' Claypool Hotel room
short time before she was found
slain Saturday night.
Detectives continued to hold under
81 500 bond, on a vagraney charge,
Robert Wellington. %, another bell
boy. Questioning yesterday pro-
duced some discrepancies" in his
account Of his actions in the hours
surrounding the Staying. 1t. Jones
said. He added, however, that
Wellington was frank, straight
forward and cooperative.
Detective Sergt. Fac Davis, seek
ing continuance of the vagrancy
charge in Municipal Court yester-
day. told Judge John L. McNelis that
Wellington definitely is a suspect
of firstdegree murder" Continu-
ance was granted until tomorrow.
Corpl. Ridings' body, nude from
the waist down. was found in a pool
Of blood in her hotel room. She had
been struck on the head and her
throat and wrists had been cut.
The only weapon found was a
broken, blood stained whisky bottle.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Danish Revolt Gives
Heart TO Subjugated
Peoples, Hull Says
BY BLAIR BOLLES,

The Danish revolt will give
new heart and encouragement
to all the people of Nazi-subju-
gated Europe" Secretary of
State Hull told his press confer
ence today
At the same time. Mr.. Hull wrote
an encourae eing letter to Minister
Henrik de Kaufman in which he
said:
1 shall continue to look to YOU as
the duly accredited representative
IN this country of the Kingdom of
Denmark and hope that in the not
too distant future your relations
with this country may be conducted
against the BACKGROUND of a freed
and happy Danish people"
Conveys Sympathy to Minister.
Mr., Hull conveyed to the Minister
the sympathy of the American Gov
ernment and people for the suffer-
ings already endured and still to
come in Denmark"
Minister de Kaufman was re-
pud1ated by the Nazi-controlled
Danish Foreign Office almost two
years ago.
In a prepared statement for the
press, Mr.. Hull said:
Recent events in Denmark are
an eloquent reminder that German
rule in any circumstance is intoler-
able to free and democratic people.
Ally of United States at Heart.
Germany, on the defensive in
the Mediterranean area and on the
Russian front, has gained another
brutal and Elusive victory over a
small, defenseless country.
The resistance of the Danish
King and people to German domina-
ton will give new heart and en-
couragement to all people of Nazi
subJugated Europe"
Mr.. Hull was asked if the revolt
puts the Danes in the category of
an ally of the United States. The
secretary replied that they have
been an ally at heart during their
entire Subjugation.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW, Sept. 2.-AMG-The
Allied Military Government for Oc-
cupied Territories, formerly called
AMGOT-was sharply criticized to-
day in the Soviet magazine, War
and the Working Glass.
The magazine said The admins
tration itself is of a military gov
ernment based on principles which
have nothing in common with the
principles of democracy"
Divorcing the Soviet government
from any aff1liation with AMG in
Sicily, the magazine said: The
Soviet government does not partici-
pate in this organization"
(Secretary of State Hull. in
answer to a question at his press
conference today as to whether
the Russians were invited to par
ticipate in AMG in Sicily, said
the U. S. S. r. had been kept in
formed on arrangements and de-
velopments in our occupation of
the iSland)
Following its usual style of quot
ing foreign press reports, the maya
zine emphasized the dissolution of
the Fascist party in Sicily and the
dismissal of Fascist leaders from
civilian posts, but said that the dis
respectful name of 'gauleiter
schools had been given to places
Evening star., 1943-09-02
GripshoIm
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prepared by relatives for American
prisoners held by Japan. To many
of these prisoners the parcels will
be the first news they have received
from relatives in this country
To prevent export of critical items
the contents of the parcels were re-
stricted to certain items prescribed
by the Office of Economic Warfare.
Instructions had been sent to rela-
tives by the provost marshal general
on August IA with the statement
that the parcels had to be in New
York no later than September Is.
Rushed by Plane.
The unexpected change in the
sailing date of the Gripsholm neces-
STATED that parcels be in New York
no later than August a. Time did
not permit this information to be
mailed to the relatives of prisoners
SO press and radio facilities were
called upon.
Cargo planes from the Far West
picked up parcels at various centers
and rushed them to New York. On
arrival in Japan the supplies and
parcels will be taken over by Inter
national Red Cross committees and
distributed to the prisoners.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Marcus
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FdRS.b
Allies can hit from many directions.
If worried enough by it. the Jap
anese might be egged into dispers-
ing their available forces to meet
all possible threats, in such manner
that vulnerable hole would be
opened in their defenses.
Indication of Confidence.
The willingness of the Navy to
say anything at all before the feet
breaks its radio silence with details
was another indication of growing
Allied confidence in it's Pacific
might, 1t put an exclamation point
behind the recent statement of Sec
retary of the Navy Knox that
warship day is going into that
theater and translated into action
the word that the Churchill -Roose-
velt conferences are dealing largely
with ways of getting at the Jap
anese for showdown scrap.
The raid was the deepest naval
penetration of the enemy's defense
perlmeter since Maj. Gen. James
Doolittle's squadron bombed Toxic
in April. 1912.
If it was an opening blow in full
scale offensive in the Central Pa
cif1c, then Japan may well expect
strong Central Pacific offensive
concentrated possibly, on the Mar
shall and Gilbert Islands or Wake
Island, and always with the proba-
bility of another strike against
Toxic itself.
The invasion of Paramaushiro,
Japanese naval base on the north
ern tip of the Kurile Islands and
already the target of three United
States Army bombing raids from the
Aleutians, is not unlikely. But the
weather up there is a great handi-
cap.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz. com
mander in chief in the Pacific, of
course, keeps mum on this subject.
Evening star., 1943-09-02

been clear" Moeller said at a
public meeting of the council yes
terday, Then he could have
set up a government which would
have the recognition of ALL
The German controlled Danish
radio said Gen. Won Hannecken had
ordered martial law restrictions
eased
1t said the 9 o'clock curfew, i'm
posed when martial law went into
effect on August 29 would be ef-
fective at II pm. in the future, and
limited telephone and mail service
was ordered resumed within the
country. Food shortages, however,
continued in the larger cities, refu-
gees said.
Gen. Won Hannecken's move to
ease martial law restrictions was
interpreted by the Danish people as
feeling out process to see how
much freedom could be given before
resistance fiared again.
The German radio, in a wireless
dispatch reported by the United
States Foreign Broadcast Intelli-
gence Service, said railway ferry
service between Copenhagen and
the Swedish port Of Malmo would
be resumed today. 1t had been sus-
pended since Sunday
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Nation S Gas Supply
May Run Out Soon,
Ickes Declares

Appealing for curtailment of all
but essential driving. Petroleum Ad-
ministrator Ickes warned last night
that at the present rate of con-
sumption the entire Nation faces
the prospect of running out of gaso-
line and in the East it may be only
"a matter of days
In a radio address Mr.. Ickes de-
clared that motorists are now dip
ping heavily into inventory gasoline
stocks and that unusually heavy
military demands for fuel lie ahead
Painting a dark picture for mo-
toristS, Mr.. Ickes said the East has
and is using more gasoline coupons
than it has gasoline quota. He added
that consumption has been exceed
ing the $4,000 barrels allotted daily
for civilian use by anywhere from
10000 to $4,000 barrels.
Crisis i'm Midwest.
The Southwest and Midwest. he
commented are living on borrowed
time" as far as gasoline is con-
cerned.
The Pacific Coast has com
Portable supply but 'if the people
there could know of the military
demands that lie ahead when the
war in the Pacific really gets under
way, they would know that there
Is anything but comfort ahead"
The armed forces are using 600,-
600 barrels of gasoline day and
need almost third OF the output
east of the Rocky Mountains during
the last half of 1943, Mr.. 1ckes said.
Military requirements will mount to
STA per cent of that production
next year, he added
Explains Easing of Ban.
He said lifting of the pleasure
driving ban in the East was only
change in administrative policy-it
did not mean there was more fuel
available.
Appealing for curtailed driving,
Mr.. Ickes declared that although
you have coupons, you should not
use them at this time for other than
really necessitous driving"
'I ask this urgently so that
there shall be no breakdown in any
activity essential to the prosecution
Of the war or to the maintenance
OF our civilian economy" he said
Evening star., 1943-09-02
PenicilIin Is Released
To Mother in Midwest
BY the Associated Press.

bS tiie associated PreSS.
SHENANDOAH. Iowa. Sept. q
Physicians at hospital here said
today they believe they have the
first case In the Midwest in which
the new chemical penicillin is being
used.
Virtually all of the limited supply
OF this powerful erm-killing chemi-
cal is reserved for the armed forces,
but because of the critical condition
OF the patient, the penicillin was OBJ
tanned from DR.. Chester Kneffer of
Boston, who allocates the distribu-
tion among civilians.
The patient is Mrs. Delbert Rupp.
36, mother of healthy month-old
baby, who is being treated for
streptococcic empyema.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Court Permits Release
Of Frances Farmer
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Sept 2.-Re-
lease of Screen Actress Frances
Farmer from a private sanitarium,
where she has been a patient since
last January, has been authorized
by court order, according to Supe-
rior Judge Dudley S. Valentine
The order, he stated, remands
Miss Farmer to the custody of her
mother, Mrs. Lillian Farmer of
Seattle.
Miss Farmer became wagd of
the division of Superior Court
which handles psychiatric cases
after a series of disturbances fol-
lowing her arrest on a charge of
violating dimout driving regulations.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Scovenius Spurns Nozi Offer
To Form New Cabinet

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 2 (P.-Erjs
Scavenius, Danish Prime Ministe.
VINO resigned when Germany
clamped military dictatorship on
Denmark last week end, has refused
an offer by the Nazis to form a new
government, Danish refugees said
today.
Scavenius, one of the few Danish
political leaders to escape arrest fol-
lowing Sundays bloody revolt. had
been asked by Gen. Hermann Won
Hannecken, Nazi military dictator.
to head new cabinet. Other mem
oers OF the cabinet who resigned in
a body with Scavenius. refused even
TO meet the Germans to discuss the
situation, the refugees reported.
Gen. Won Hannecken is expected
to explore further the possibility of
establishing Danish government.
He is reported to be anxious to have
the Danes handle the civic affairs of
the country with the Nazis retaining
the power. through martial law. to
punish saboteurs and suppress dis
orders
Air traffic between Stockholm and
Copenhagen, suspended since Sun
day, was resumed today. This also
restored air traffic between Stock
holm and Berlin, since these planes
fly via Copenhagen. .,.a
Striving for Compromise.
Danish refugees arriving here to-
day said it was apparent that Gen.
Won -Hannecken is striving to reach
a compromise with the Danes but
that his efforts SO far have been
unavailing. They said that for the
first time in more than 10 days no
German soldiers were seen patroIl-
ing Copenhagen streets and that
disorders appeared to be diminish
ing under the rigid controls set up
by the Germans.
Sabotage was said to be continu-
ing. though on scale smaller than
that OF week ago, and industrial
sloWdowns were reported prevalent
throughout the country despite all
German efforts to speed up produc-
ton
One refugee asserted that while
Gen. Won Hannecken was in con-
troll of the military dictatorship,
Warner Best, German Minister to
Denmark, still was at the head of
the civil authority. He said Danish
newspaper editors who had been
arrested were released and allowed
to resume operations under q strict
Nazi censorship only after they had
agreed to follow Best's instructions.
Gen. Won Hannecken's reported
attempt to win over Scavenius fol-
lowed by a few hours the reSigna-
ton of Johan C. w. Kruse from his
post as Danish Minister to Sweden.
Kruse declared that a constitutional
government had ceased to exist in
Denmark with the advent of the
German military dictatorship.
His announcement. made at a
press conference in Stockholm last
night, was considered significant by
Danes hoping to form an exiled
government afflliated with the
United Nations because the 62-year-
old Minister is personal envoy of
the interned King Christian x.
Kruse said the King, as a pris-
oner OF the Germans, was unable
to perform his constitutional func-
tions. He refused, however. to say
that he was joining the Free Dan
iSh movement.
IN London, the Danish con-
sefVatlVe leader. Christmas
Moeller declared the Free Dan
lsh Council was against setting
up an exile" government at the
present time.
t1f the head of the state of
Denmark king Christian had
been outside the frontiers of the
country our position would have
Evening star., 1943-09-02
WiIkie Will Confer
With Maine Republicans

PORTLAND. Me. Sept. 2 Pr
Republican National Committeeman
William S. Linnell said today that
Wendell Willkie, the partys presi-
dental nominee in 1910, would visit
here next Tuesday.
Mr.. Wilkes visit. Mr., Lirnell
declared, would be of personal
rather than a political nature. But
Mr. Linnell arranged a press con-
ference for Mr.. Willkie and said the
party chieftain would confer with
Republican State leaders while here
Mr.. Willkie is coming to Portland
from Lancaster, N. H., where he. lis
to be weekend guest OF Sinclair
weeks. treasurer of the National
Committee.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Haig Won't Play Kirkwood
For Money or Marbles
3y the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Sept 2.-Walter Hagen
made 1t clear today that neither for
money nor marbles Is he interested
in golf match with Joe Kirkwood
trick shot artist.
What makes sKirkwood think the
public is interested in couple of
dups playing?"s retorted the, Haig,
winner of8dozens Of major titles. to
the latest challenge by Kirkwood.
who expressed bitter disappointment
over being left, off Hagen,s challenge
Squad in the recent Ryder CUP
matches.
~ AS to his chances of beating me.
he's never been able to do it." Hagen
added. even though I've been taking
him around the globe for 20 years.
I'll leave it to the record books as to
who was the better player"
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Allied Pincers Press
Closer to SoIomoua

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept
2 CP,-The coastal jaw of a slowly
closing Allied pincers pressed nearer
the Salamaua, New Guinea. air
drome from the southeast today as
japanese defenses cracked
A spokesman for Gen Douglas
Macarthur characterized the en-
emys crumblirg resistance as rear
guard an indication that the jap
anese are giving way.
On the coast, below the airdrome
and the Francisco River mouth. the
japanese for some time have been
holding out on the western end of
Roosevelt Ridge at its junction with
Scout Ridge, which runs northeast
from that point.
Latest reports indicate the Amer
leans have skirted enemy pillboXes
and foXholes, sent the main spear
head along Scout Ridge and assigned
another force to eliminate the vir-
tuauy surrounded japanese at that
point.
Aussies Near River Mouth.
Out of the mountains and along
the south bank of the Francisco
River Australians have reached a
point within 2 miles. possibly less,
of the rivers mouth. The river flows
south of :he long airdrome into
Bayern Bay.
North of the river considerable
activity indicated that the Japa-
nese, after the first shock of finding
the Allies driving in from above as
we'll as below the airstrip, now are
making determined effort to hold
positions. The japanese are reported
making small local counterattacks
in that sector against Australians
entrenched or Kila Ridge.
In the Solomons there was some
basis for believing the japanese,
emulating their garrison which
pulled out of KiSka in the Aleutians,
have evacuated Santa Isabel Island,
with its Seaplane base at Rekata
Bay, Liberator pilots returning from
a raid Monday on that base north
east of New Georgia reported that
for the first time no antiaircraft fire
was encountered
Holding TO Kolombangara.
Santa Isabel has been outflanked
by American occupation of both New
Georgia and Vella Lavella Islands.
But there was no indication of ia
paneSe intention to yield Kolom-
bangara, now sandwiched between
those two occupational forces. To-
days communique reported destruc-
ton by American PIT boats and
planes of barges and small supply
boats between Vella Lavella and Ko-
lombangara
Surface and air forces also enjoyed
good hunting in the sea supply chan
nels near Salamaua The motor
torpedo boats recently sank 12 sup
ply barges and the communique to-
day told of 10 others destroyed by
low flying Mitchells along New
Britain's south coast, acros sthe Vi
tiaz Strait from New Guinea.
Above New Britain, new attacks
were made on japanese destroyer
and an 8,000-ton merchantmen off
New Ireland. 1t is in the same sec
tor where other planes recently have
bombed a cruiser. destroyer and
several rneidum-sized cargo ships.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Medium Bombing Unit
Of Neqroes to Be Formed

First step toward forming sep
arate Negro medium bombing
squadron on July l, 1914 were an
nounced today by Assistant Secre-
tary of War John j. McCloy.
Within the next month. he said.
Negro flying cadets will enter pilot
training at a B-26 bomber school
either at Fort Dodge, Kans., or at
Del Rio, Tex.
In December Negro cadets will
start training as navigator and
bombardier officers. They will be
trained as such for 18 weeks, after
which they will go to gunnery school.
To complete the crews of the new
bombardment group which must be
activated by July l, 1914, many Ne
gro enlisted men are already in
training.
Evening star., 1943-09-02

The FREEhYs will occupy No. 1408 n St. NV otter ex-
tensve Improvements made This store will be one Of
the largest and most exclusive MEMS and LADIES' tai
orins establishments south Of Fifth Avenue.
For three generations The FREEkYs eoeh year have 3D.
vetised reduction soes in September This September
will not disoppoint customers. The FREEkY'S will
combine the two soes in and strive make it worth
while to take advantage Of this double This
sole includes oil OF our Fall and Winter sutnss, top
eootnss and overcootings, imported we'll domestic
and mode by the finest mills ot home and over there
those that have arrived and will orrve nothing excepted
A tremendous big savings at a timely time.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Col. ZiegIer Is Named
VISA Medical Director

15y FIt NBsOFI6ItO PTeSs.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 1.-THE head
quarters of the Third Civilian De-
fense Region announced yesterday
the promotion Of 1t. Col. Mark V.
Ziegler to the rank of colonel and
his appointment as medical director
OF the War Shipping Administration
with headquarters in Washington
Col Ziegler for some time had
been regional medical officer for the
Third Region.
He has been succeeded by Col.
Arthur j. Lomas, formerly deputy
State chief of emergency medical
service for the Maryland ONCE of
Civilian Defense.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Only Service Couples
With Babies Wanted

BY the Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla Mrs. Jennie
Hutchinson. whose Army son wrote
her of difficulty in obtaining room
for his wife and baby, decided to use
her spacious home to help military
couples here finding the sans
troubles.
She advertised rooms only for
service couples with babies. -Four
couples quickly moved in.
Now, with oldest of the babies only
10 months. shes planning COM
munity kitchenette" for bottle warm
ing and baby food.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Mountbotten Returns
To London From u. S.

LONDON, Sept. 2.-vice Admiral
Lord Louis Mountbatten. newly APP
pointed Allied commander in chief
in Southeast Asia, returned to Lon
don today from Washington and
went Immediately to the headquar-
tiers of Combined Operations.
After the Quebec conferences of
Prime Minister Churchill and Presi-
dent Roosevelt. at which his selec-
ton as leader of the Allied forces
in the Southeast Pacific was an
nounced, Lord Mountbatten con-
ferred with Allied military leaders
in Washington.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
British Censors Ask
'Conteen Film Chances

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 2.-The Board OF
British Film Censors has requested
cuts of what it termed certain OBJ
Jectionable scenes from the film
Stage Door Canteen," which L.
scheduled to open next week in Lon
don.
A spokesman refused to discuss
the particular parts the censors
asked be deleted, but it was under
stood that one main objection was
raised to Oracle Fields singing the
Lords Prayer.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
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4---~A-aa7. l4..sss...s...a
E, Sears, Beverly Hills, Calf, and
Chevy Chase, Md, led flight of
eight patrol bombers northeast of
the Buka area and made direct
hit, as we'll as three misses, on
a japanese destroyer leader which
was last seen smoking and moving
at slow Speed
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Pvt. Aldo Killed in Action

Pvt. George M. Aldo of Washing
ton has been killed in action in the
North African area, the War De-
partment announced yesterday. His
mother Mrs. Katherine Aldo, lives
at 1894 G street NE
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-23

FANTASIA" in It's original YER
sion is back in Detroit The widely
discussed Disney film will open al
the Mercury Theater today.
Deems Taylor. music critic and
composer acts as commentator for
the piece, with Leopold Stokowskl
as conductor The Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra. with over
100 men composing the aggrega-
ton. provides the music.
The sensational film cost more
than two million dollars. with Dis
ney artists drawing more than
100000 celuloid backgrounds.
Fantasia ran on Broadway for
a year. the longest time any talk
ing picture has been presented
there.
Multiple background painting,
as it's called by Disney artists, is
used in the film and is a combina-
ton of air brush mathematics and
oil on glass. In Fantasia the air
brush is used against glass TO give
the illusion OF roundness and soft
ness OF edge to painted outlines.
More than 100000 feet of music