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Evening star., 1943-01-29
lndionu Grid Ace Weds

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 90 IP -
William F. Billy Hillenbrand. the;
Evansville Express" of the Indiana
football team, and Inge Elizabeth;
Pelikan, also of Evansville. were;
married at st. Benedicts Catholie.
Church here yesterday.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
League Hockey

BY the Associated Press.
NATIONAL.
Chicago, 10; New York, /.
AMERICAN.
Pittsburgh, 4 Indianapolis, 8.
No games tonight.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Nurmi Had Peculiar Diet

This. to be sure, does not disoual-
ify Mr.. Nurmi as an authority on
running, except perhaps in the
dietary department. He always was
considered to be little peculiar
about diet.
Legend had it that the flying Finn,
on tour in the United States, sub
sisted entirely on black bread and
fish. have investigated this legend
and found it to be unsupported by
fact. The first meal Nurmi ate in
New York City, at a railroad sta
ton, consisted of five tongue sand
wiches and two cups of coffee. For
breakfast, as rule, he had a triple
oatmeal, burned toast and a pail of
coffee. For lunch he had soup,
roast beef, baked potatoes, rolls,
ice cream and pail of coffee. For
dinner he had more or less what
he wanted. including a pail of coffee
This takes us a long way from
the issue of Rice and Haegg, which
can be determined truly only when
the two runners have a chance to
meet in person, both indoors and
out. The age of retirement is creep
ing up on Mr.. Rice, but he may be
able to set it back year or two
by abstaining religiously from veal
pies.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Miller on Peddie Team

HIGHTSTOWN, N. J., Jan. %
(SpeciaD Edward Miller Of Wash
!ngton is a member OF the varsity
wrestling team at Peddie School
here.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Chronology Fovors Swede

It's almost certain that the Chest
would beat Haegg indoros, under
conditions familiar to him and
strange to the Swedish runner.
Outdoors, there is no way of telling
how fast Mr.. Rice can go, because,
like Haegg, there is nobody around
to push him. He generally laps the
field. Haegg unquestionably is a
great clock runner, but he would
have to be great competitor as
we'll to stand off j. Gregory Rice.
Chronology, of course, is running
In favor Of Haegg He is several
years younger than Rice, who, at 81,
has reached what the boys consider
to be the best age for distance run
ners AT 80, most runners palpably
are on the decline.
The great Paavo Nurmi recon-
n1ends 80 as the age of retirement
for members of his racket. Nurmi
was 27 in 1924, the year he took the
olympic games apart and came to
this country to cash in. He may de-
feated only once here, you may re-
member and then through the CO.
operation of veal pie which he
ate before the race. The pie bit
Paavo halfway around and Paavo
bit the dust.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Veterans Agency Gets Priority
On Personnel to Speed Work

The House Civil Service Commit
tee, which has been conducting a
special investigation designed to
effect wholesale reductions in Fed
eral personnel, now is engaged in an
emergency drive to recruit an ade-
quate force for the Veterans Admin
iStra ton.
Chairman Ramspeck said today
he has found that agency is woe
fully undermanned and in desperate
need" OF personnel to handle serv-
lcemens disability compensation
claims.
+ AS a first step. Mr.. Ramspeck has
obtained from the Budget Bureau
an order giving the Veterans Ad-
mlnistration equal priority with the
War and Navy Departments in OBJ
tanning personnel through evil
service.
This will have the double effect
OF allowing the agency to have first
call with the War and Navy Depart
ments on Civil Service recruits and
preventing the raiding of Veterans
Administration employees by Gov
ernment agencies paying higher
wage scales.
Chairman rRamspeck took this
action after hearing many COM
plants from disabled veterans of
the present war, regarding delays in
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Two Britons Appointed to Head
Invasion Air and Naval Forces
DooIittIe to Direct
All u. S. Air Units
Based in Britain

Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle
new commander of the 9Th Ali
Force, including all United States
air units in Great Britain, takes
over a role in connection with the
forthcoming invasion, the exact
functions of which are still to be
revealed.
Under the assignment shifts an
nounced by President Roosevelt yes
terday at his press conference, Gen
Doolittle's predecessor in the 9th
Air Force command, 1t. Gen. Ira
Eaker, becomes Allied air comman-
der in the Mediterranean area. sue
ceeding Air Marshal Sir Arthur
Tedder, who has been named deputy
to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. who
will lead Anglo American forces in
the invasion of Western Europe.
1t. Gen. Jacob L. Devers. former
tSee GENERALS. Page A-6l
Evening star., 1943-12-29
D. {. Has Light Snow,
3-Inch Fall Nearby
Temperature to Drop
To IS Degrees Tonight

A light snow of brief duration
greeted Washingtonians this morn
ing, accompanied by a low of "a
degrees at am. and brisk wind.
Nearby Virginia and Maryland re-
ported snow ranging from / to 3
inches in depth.
The Weather Bureau predicted
colder weather for tonight, with a
low of about Is degrees expected.
The forecast for tomorrow is fair
and continued cold. The tempera-
ture was rs degrees at II am.
Roofs here revealed traces Of
snow. with an occasional furry
noted in streets. Otherwise the
District escaped white blanket.
Fairfax County had about an
inch of snow. Culpeper reported
3 inches. A light snow fell in Mont
gomery County There was none III
lower Prince Georges County or
Arlington County
The forecast for Maryland to-
morrow is clearing weather, dimin-
ishing wind and continued cold.
The same forecast covers Virginia,
with the exception that snow is pre-
dicted tonight in the southeast por-
ton Of the State.
The brunt of the Virginia snow
fall was centered in the Piedmont
regions, which earlier last night ex-
perienced a moderately heavy rain
fall that froze as the temperature
dropped in the early morning.
Travel was hazardous in the Fred
ericksburg and Richmond areas. The
Lynchburg, Martinsville, Roanoke
and Danville areas were covered by
about 2 inches of snow.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
MeNaughton's S Retirement
Laid 10 Montgomery Clash

WINDSOR. Ontario. Dec. % Ca
madam Press John Marshall par
liamentary writer for the Windsor
Daily Star, said yesterday that one
OF the reasons Lit. Gen. A. G. l.
McNaughton left the command OF
the Canadian Army overseas was
that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom-
cry is not an easy man to get along
with.
The retirement of Gen Nc
Naughton, though necessitated by
i'll health, solves an awkward prob
lem Mr.. Marshall wrote in a dis
patch from Ottawa.
1T ends the clash of temperament
between Gen. Sir Bernard l.. Mont
gomery and himself which has ex-
lsted for the past few years and
which previously had been inter-
rupted by Gen, Montgomery being
placed IN command of the 9th
Army. 4"
With Gen. Montgomery returning
under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to
lead the British Land Army's) on
slaught on the continent. it would
have been almost inevitable that the
differences between Montgomery and
McNaughton would have cropped up
again. ="
Evening star., 1943-12-29

obtaining disability compensation
Investigations showed there is a
backlog of more than 10000 COM
pensation cases and that the Vet
Grams Administration is three anc
four months behind in thousands OF
these cases.
Mr. Ramspeck investigation shows
that in Washington alone, the
Veterans Administration urgently
needs 1000 employees and is "des-
perate' for doctors. All over the
country in veterans hospitals there
is similar need for doctors, nurses
orderlies and other employees.
The Veterans Administration al
ways has been one of the low pay
scale agencies and never has beer
even adequately supplied with per-
sonnel, it was pointed out. The
agency lost about $500 of its en-
ployes to the armed services. Others
went to private industry and the
remainder was raided by other Gov
ernment agencies paying higher
salaries.
There is very critical need fol
clerks and typiSts, doctors and hos
pital attendants. Chairman Rams
peck said. He added that the Civil
Service Committee will concentrate
its efforts on meeting this new
situation.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Nozi Account Follows
Earlier Stories About
Preinvosion Probing
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Dec. 29.-The Ger
mans today said two British
Commando assaults had been
carried out within three days on
Sark, in the Channel islands
which lie athwart the possible
path of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hoWer'S forthcoming invasion of
the continent from the west.
The German account, broadcast
by the news agency DNB. followed
report by the German high COM
Imand Sunday of combined British
Commando raid Christmas eve in
an apparent preinvasion probing of
defenses on the Nazi-held French
coast.
None of the reports was confirmed
by any Allied source
The broadcast said the Sark as
saults failed like all similar at
tempts of this kind" The Germans
claimed Sunday to have wiped out
the Commando force raiding the
Channel coast.
Heavy DetOnatiOns Heard.
"As the enemy approached the
beaches several heavy detonations
could be heard and the glow of fires
observed, presumably due to the ex-
plosion of mines" DNB declared.
TT could be assumed from this
that the mines had done their work
A later checkup confirmed this One
British soldier was found dead. On
the German side there was no need
for the defenses to 60 into action"
/ The Germans occupied Sark and
the other Channel islands at the
end of June. 1910. The islands lie
Is to 80 miles from the west coast
of the Cherbourg Peninsula and are
valuable stepping stones for any
Allied invasion of the French coast.
From their first-class fighter bases,
planes could give tactical support to
allied landings
British Residents Mistreated.
Sark is the widest and most pic
turesque of the Channel islands. 1t
lies six miles west of Guernsey. is
! three miles long, mile and half
wide and is almost entirely rock
bound. It's normal population is $40
After the first small-scale British
raid was made against the island
first information was obtained
of i'll treatment of British residents
Then the British seized a proclama-
ton signed by the German comman-
dant saying all male civilians be-
tween 16 and 10 who were not native
born had been deported to Germany
The dame of Sark, Mrs. Sybil
Mary Hathaway, still was on the
island, according to news reaching
London early this year. Her hus-
band, Robert W. Hathaway, Yale
graduate, was said to have been de-
| ported to Germany.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
McCarran Indorses
Proposal 10 Lei D. {.
Vote on Home Rule
Believes Expression
By District Residents
Would Aid Committee
BY DON S. WARREN.

Chairman McCarran of the
Senate District Committee today
approved the suggestion that
there be a formal. if unofficial,
referendum on a revised plan for
a home rule" government for
the District before it is submitted
to the Senate for consideration
The Navada Senator, author of
the measure debated at the recent
extensive hearings before a District
subcommittee. emphasized details of
the proposed referendum have not
been worked out and that it would
be only of advisory nature. since
Congress will have to determine. if
the form of city government is to
be changed.
Senator McCarran said he felt for
some time that some form of a ref
erendum vote by the people of the
District was the only way to deter
mine if Washington residents really
want Congress to adopt a plan as
may be reported by the District
Committee.
Proposed by Burton.
The suggestion that the McCarrar
home rule" subcommittee woulc
consider a referendum test if a bill
were reported favorably was ad.
vanced last week by Senator Burton
Republican, of Ohio. who has collab.
GRATED actively with Chairman Nc.
Carran in the conduct of the hear.
ings.
/ The two members agree there are
/ problems of mechanics involved ir
calling for referendum, since
Washington lacks established voting
machinery. and that it would entail
some delay in action ON the pending
measure. But such move they re-
gard as perhaps the best answer to
the questions they expect to be asked
in the Senate as to whether the
great majority of Washington resi-
dents would want an elected local
government under the limitations
that Congress will retain exclusive
legislative control over the National
| Capital.
Chairman McCarran indicated the
program likely would be for the
subcommittee. after it completes
studies of the voluminous transcript
of the hearings, to consider the wide
(See HOME RULE. Page A-4D
Evening star., 1943-12-29
BY ]. A. FOX

President Roosevelt is think
ing in terms of postwar America
but while there is little more
than year of his third term
left, he considers "picayune"
the question whether he will
seek a fourth term to press his
plans for shaping the future of
the Nation.
The Presidents news conference
was set straight on both counts yes
terday when he INDUCED in a little
homlly on New Deal accomplish
ments. lkened critics to individual Is
who had forgotten how to spell
cat" and emphasized his conviction
that larger doses of New Deal spe-
cifics would be needed in the postwar
era. though he said the program In
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Duce's Death Reported
In Madrid Dispatch
~ the Associated Press

Ly the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. ga Madrid dis
patch to the London Daily Mail
quoted a diplomatic source today as
saying that Benito Mussolini died
10 days ago in German hospital
from long standing stomach trouble
complicated by acute mental de-
Berlin asserted last night that
Spain had recognized Mussolinis
Fascist republican government las
the only legitimate government of
Italy" but there was no confirmation
from Spanish or other sources.
The broadcast quoted a German
Transocean propaganda agency dis
patch from Rome. Mussolini's pup
pet government was set up after
Italy capitulated to the Allies.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
German Bid to Poles
Reported Rejected
Nv the Assoriated press

os tIie hssoClaleo PIeSS.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-The Polish
underground movement rejected a
Christmas Day bid from the Ger.
mans to join in fighting the Rus
slams, the Polish Telegraph Agency
said today
The Polish underground station
said the offer was made by Hans
Frank, Nazi governor general OF Po-
land, who used the theme that the
danger of Bolshevik success threat
ened the Polish nation.''
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Firm Held Unessentio| by OPA
Supplies u. S. OiIin Emergency

A critical fuel oil shortage at GAL
llnger Hospital, the Navy Medical
Research Center at Bethesda and
the Naval Torpedo Station at Alex
andria has placed Treasury Depart
ment procurement officials in the
peculiar position of being obliged to
obtain oil from L. P. Steuart g. Bro,
Inc, the firm which the OPA has
charged is not essential in the Dis
trict, it was learned today.
According to Treasury officials,
the shortage developed when the
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey,
which is under contract to supply
bunker oil for the buildings, proved
unable to deliver -
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Fourth Term Query 'Picoyune,
Roosevelt Says, Citing Record
Appears NettIed by Reporters Question
After Reciting Administrations Benefits

this country would have to be fash
ioned with due regard to what was
done elsewhere.
The background for the presiden-
tial discourse was the recent dis
closure that Mr.. Roosevelt felt the
phrase New Deal had become out
moded after decade of usage. and
that substitute was in order
something like Win the War"
Yesterday, he was asked if there
was anything further on the matter
The President replied that he had
expected that question. but hesi
tated as to whether he would say
more, for it all comes down really
he continued. to a rather puerile and
political view of things.
Then he launched into a discus
sion Of the things that had beer
-
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Reds Storm Defenses Two Commando Raids
OF Z Junction Points On Island Of Sark in
80 Miles West Of Kiev Channel Reported
Votutin Retukes in Week
Half Of Area Captured
In Nuzi Tank Drive
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSocla ted Press.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-Six days
. after his troops regained the
, offensive, Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's s
] forces today were Storming the
! outer defenses of Zhitomir and
Korosten, strategic elton
points on the Leningrad-Ode
railway, 80 miles west of the
Ukrainian capital of Kiev.
Front dispatches placed one
spearhead of Gen. Vatutins lst
Ukraine Army within 10 miles of
Zhitomir after sweeping through
KoroStiShev and Smolovka. Heavy
Soviet field guns, planted less than
20 miles away, were softening the
city's defense works.
Other advance units smashed
weakening enemy lines and captured
Zlobichi. 5 miles southeast of
Korosten. and Bekhi, an equal dis
tance to the northeast.
Radomysl and Brusilov Retaken.
Thus. in the first week of his new
winter offensive, Gen. Vatutin has
recaptured approximately half the
territory which Marshal Fritz vor
Mannstein took during his abortive
five-week tank drive in the Kiey
bulge. Important towns retaken in
clude Radomysl and Brusilov.
. Reoccupation of Ghitomir and
: KoroSten apparently just matter
[ of days. would nullify almost all the
| enemy's gains achieved during hi:
| costly counterOffensive.
: The Red Army scored on two
other important sectors of the Ions
: front. according to the Moscow wal
: Communique. In Northern White
2 Russia Gen. Ivan Bagramian's 81.
berian shock troops dissipated II
, German counterattacks on the ap
? proaches to Vitebsk. killed more
: than ! 200 Nazis and liberated sev.
| eral villages Dispatches said Gen
Bagramian's Vanguards were within
, five miles of that heavily fortified
: enemy stronghold.
South of the Kiev bulge, in the
Dnieper bendGhe Germans were alse
, falling back. In the drive on Kirovo.
grad. the Russians destroyed 33 Naz
tanks and killed 1000 enemy troops
after shattering a fierce tank anc
infantry counterattack with deadly
artillery barrage. The Germans were
forced back to their original posi-
tionS in this area, Moscow said.
Greatest Gains in Kiev Bulge.
} Greatest gains were recorded ir
the Kiev-bulge fighting, however
The Germans were falling back sc
rapidly in this area that they were
forced to abandon 16 big guns, 10000
: mines, 10000 shells, nearly 1,000.00(
r cartridges and 100 trucks. Russian
l prison cages rapidly filled, Moscow
S said. Red Army guns wrecked 81
: German tanks and propelled
guns and 6 Of the latter weapon.
S were captured intact.
Gen. Vatutins troops forced pas
f sage of the Teterev River defens,
barrier in their swift advance OF
lhitomir. The gains put them les
I than lis miles from the Rumaniar
! border and the former Russian
province of Bessarabia.
The surging Red Army troops cap
tured 60 more villages yesterday be-
: sides Korostishev and Smolovka
: including Nekhvoroch, II mile
I northeast of Berdichev, and Pavo
e loch, 25 miles southwest of Fastoy.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Britain Halves Rates
On War Risk Insurance
D. a.. A....;.l1

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 2o-War risk in
surance rates on shipments to ano
from the United Kingdom have beer
cut in half, effective January /, the
government announced today, re-
f1ecting Allied gains in the fight
against the U-boat.
The new rate will be 10 shillings
(about So per hundred pounds
sterling, compared to the old rate
Of 20.
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Biggest War Supply
Job Is Still Ahead,
Wilson Declares
Previous Production
Held insignificant
By WPB Official
sy the As Soclated Press.

Charles E. Wilson. executive
vice chairman of the War Pro-
duction Board, said today the
volume of materiel shipped for
the invasions of North Africa and
Italy was insignificant COM
pared with the job ahead of
equipping Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hoWer'S all-out assault on West
ern Europe.
L am sure in my heart-as 1
think most of you are-that the
Germans will be smashed, l believe
in 1914" Mr.. Wilson told a meeting
Of executives of WPB's Office of
Operations.
Il will pray with YOU that the
Germans will break-that the psy-
chology will get them and that the
terrific pounding from the air will
help-Ill pray, but I don't count on
1t and l know the military people
don't count on it."
Production to Increase.
Mr.. Wilson told the WPB officials
that the year ahead would be the
most difficult of the war for them
Civilian goods must be increased, he
said, but by comparison with the
NO. l job-supplying the armed
forces-lt is unimportant.'
1 needn't remind you that the
volume of munitions We must pro-
duce in 1914 is greater than in 1874:
Or at least equal if you give ere.
dence to cut-backs reported to be
coming later.
In some categories the increase
must be tremendous if we are t.
keep our Army, Navy and Maritime
lCoo 1xrrI cnAI a :,
Evening star., 1943-12-29

At Gallinger Hospital, the oil sup
ply today was reported so low that
even after an emergency delivery of
$500 gallons from the Steuarts'
tanks this morning, it was doubtful
whether there was enough on hand
to last until tomorrow morning, un-
less further deliveries were made
this afternoon.
I'VE just had to have OIL" Treas
ury spokesman said, explaining the
decision to procure oil from the
Steuart Co. THE Standard Oil Co.
reported that barge had failed to
arrive. The supplies were running
low and if they hadn't been running
low to the point of being critical
(see sTEUART, Page A-43
Evening star., 1943-12-29
President Kept From Office
BY '0Id-Fashioned Cold
(See PACIFIC. Page

President Roosevelt is confined to
the White House with good old
fashioned head cold" William D.
Hassett, presidential secretary, said
today
Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire
the Presidents personal physician,
said the Chief Executive has no
fever, but he will remain away
from his Office and make no en-
gagementS. .n
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Leish-Mo|Iory and
Ramsay Named to
Eisenhower Stuff
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-The over
all Allied high command for the
approaching invasion of Western
Europe was virtually completed
today with the appointment of
two BritonS to command the
naval and air forces which will
operate under Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, supreme COM
mander.
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, who
planned the naval phase of the
Allied North African and Mediter-
ranean invasion operations, was
named naval commander in chief
Air Marshal Trafford L. Leigh-Mal
lory, head Of the RATS Fighter
Command, was chosen to lead the
aerial forces.
These appointments following the
See APPOINTMENTS pape A-61
Evening star., 1943-12-29
Maj. Boyineton Downs
,25th japanese Plane
By the Associated Press.

BY The ASSOClated Press.
SOUTH PACIFIC ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Dec. 29-Maj. Gregory
Boyington, Okanogan tWash.D ma
rine flying ace, downed his 25th
japanese plane over Rabaul, New
Britain, Monday.
Maj. Boyington now is only one
behind the 26-plane record of Mai.
Joe Foss and Capt. Eddie Ricken-
hacker.