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the Japanese launched their assault on the Philippines in December l94i, and ultimately through the entire Southwest Pacific,
 Although the southern tip Of For- mosa is 225 miles from LuZon, the small islands at the northern end of the Philippines archipelago are separated from Formosa by only the i0c-miis wide BaShi channel.
 Tokyo said the "entire area" of TNkao, Tainan and Taiehu, key points on the railroad extending arosS the island, was the principal target.
 Tainan Is the principal city Of southern Formosa, jApan's fortress base s6 miles off the China coast from which she loosed her attack on the Philippines
 100 Shot Down
 Tokyo claimed approximately 100 enemy planes" were shot down in the first six hours ot fighting The broadcast said the planes were asSaulting the island from "eoth sides" indicating that possibly lana" based craft from China bases have joined with carrier planes In tho at- tack.
 A later Tokyo broadcast beamed at Italy and recorded by the roc indicated that other points along tho Formosa rail line were bombed and said tho attack waS being car. rled out by some 1000 fighter and bomber planes"
 Tokyo radio hoasted in tho hroad- cast that "our war results will in- crease still more" ..
 The JApAneSe report of c 1000
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progressive supervision"
 Both MT. Neill and MT. Wallace have signifled they will make every effort to have introduced in next years general assembly such cofrees tive legislation as will DO necessary to effect broad progressive changes at tho Cheshire institution, .
 Present legislation affecting the reformatory were today said to DO replete with "loop.holes and eva Eiye bylaws" which give too much freedom to interpretation by author itles, It was stated that "supt Erskine wrote many of these rul' ingS originally" -.
 Board members will meet next month ct which time advoeation of the major share of these changes will Do presented and insisted upon, 1t was told today. u.
 we are not blind to the fact that the boys sent to ChoShire are sent there for c definite reason" it was pointed out by Sen. Neill today, "but we are keenly aware tllat they were sent there for corrective pur- poses and not as inmates Of Q prison or tho like" .,..
 superyiSlon and social education of those confined there, were enlu today, to Do unsyBtematle ana with" out any attempt at individual TO-. patriatlon of the boys moral ana mental character.
 "T'herO has been too much har. angulng by authorities, there, of these youths on their past records instead of attempting to create Q proeressiye, valuable future TOT thefli," it was declared by Senator Neili today. "The past Is the past, in such cases, and should DO ioFs gotten except for It's value aB U clinical appraisal" he added
 "ff We can save ono out ot one hundred, We have aecomplAhed something" he stated, "and It iB the boards intention and hope to save many TnoTv."
 "golitaFy confinement bread ana water diets, no speaking at meals rules and tho like, breed only hatred in the mind of any human being" other board members stated today, "euch methods are archaic and not of these times" it was said.
 'TheSe boys arc human and arc going to Dc treated aS such,' t was omphaSised.
 HboiiShment of tho no.spOaking rule ct meals has already been brought about, it was made known today. Also among the changes al" ready effected was the previous ''unWritten law" whereby the Bupor- intendent read his report ct each board meeting and then "declared the meetings at end" Senator Nell has directed that such reports now must bO submitted to each board member 10 days before the meeting and that the Superintendent Is not to attend any meeting unless called for.
 n answer to this Superintendent ErSkine yesterday declared that no attached no significance to this, stating that the new procedure was customary, Mir, ErBkine also praised the directors and said that his ASS Soclatlon with them had been pleaSS eat.
 Jl.st what change Of personnel might Dc effected it was not defiTl- iteIy stated today. The eupeFintends ent is assisted by Leonard CoE1Btock former state police OfnceF who board members today aeclafed t0 Dc ''in charge Of most of tho policies in 0fs feet thoFe fog yeaFa"
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(Continued from Page D forms, Connaily and Austin said congress must anSwer these queS. tons;
 Questions
 i. What power shall tho Afheri- can delegate on the new Security Council have for committing Amer. lean forces which woul dbo allocatod for the use of the counell7
 2. Should no return to congress each time for instructions on how to vote?
 Both hoped that the answer to tho second question would Do Nc"
 The two senators said the United States will have sole authority to decide how the American delegate will bo selected and on whose Aus thority he will vote.
 Washington, oct. l2-(UP)-sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. IT,, calling for frank and unhurriod discussion Of the proposed new League of Na- tkOfBD CtlhEBSu tOuhy bIlbv tilU pVWs CTS assigned to the ii.nation council would turn tho organization Into Q League of Conquerors.
 Bridges said he was gratiflod that the administration had "at last" TO. leased It's entatiVo blueprint for peace machinery. Though ho termed 1t c "step in the right di. rection" no said some proposals in tho draft needed Serious conSidor- atlon."
 one of these, te said, is the status tions, which he said" .. preeludoS tho possibility of creating c genus finely international body in which oil nations would have c propor- tIonately equal share :"
 Ho said the draft implies that the Big Four" will have the final say as to what constitutes q peace loving nation," thus denying the general assembly the right to do. terminO the qualifications of itB own prospective members.
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DEADLINE WEARS ON
 "A GASOLINE BOOKS

Next Monday iS the deadllne for filing applications for new "A" gaS- oline ration books, according to q reminder issue at the local ration. board headquarteFs today. The new coupons will take effect Nov. Q.
 Persons who wait beyond oct. Ie to fiIe applications vii have to wait for theiF books until site. all pres vious applications have been cleaF- cd, t was reported. Those who meet the deadline are assured Of get- ting their coupons by the time they take effect
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Poles Seek Solution
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COW prepared to meet with the Lon- don group. Edward B, Osubka .Mors awski, president of the committee, leads this group which arrived ct Moscow airport yesterday.
 In MikolNjeSyk's party were Prof Stanislaw drabski, speaker of the Polish National Assembly in London who participated in the Polish nego. tiations here two months ago, and Gen. stanislaw Tabor of the poliSll home army.
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Government OpeFatod bwtoaeg shops, with "faiE" meat prices gro being opened in conjOsted sections of Mexico city.
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Mexico and wiiina have just signed 2 fsienqal1ip treaty.
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Congress To Do Deciding

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(cohtinued from Page 1) that cbjective-not oniy te Seeons gtitute Poland ag . strong nation, but aiSo aS 6 representative end peace loving nation. ! wish to stress the latter. 1t is very import. ant that tho New Poland Do oile cf the buiwaTks Of the structure upon which we hope to build . peEnsa- nesit peace"
 Eisenhower said, "and t does not detract in the slightest degree from tho excellent work and courage Of tho sand and lOigt United States AiFbcrne Divisions who came be- hind them. They did beautiful work, and an proud of them aii."
 Me asked that 6 balanced pletsiFe lDe EaaintaiEed concerning tlle waF effort, with neither oveTpesaimlam 7-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
81 Firms Participate
In Apprentice Programs

Reporting unprecedented expan-
sion" in industrial training programs
here during the last year, Area War
Manpower Director Fred z. Hetzel
said 321 District employers are now
participating in apprenticeship pro-
grams.
An inventory just completed by
the Apprentice Training Service, he
said, showed 7 apprenticeship pro-
grams and Is Governmental
short-term training programs here.
There were none of the latter in
1912.
"Short-term training systems"
Mr.. Hetzel explained, ARE designed
to provide speedy training for semi
skilled jobs and have aided immeas-
urably toward adequate manning OF
war plants on production
schedules"
A total of 103 employers here are
participating in the carpenters ap-
premiership program, So in the
electricians, SO in the ironworkers, 6
in the machinists, Sc in the painters
and decorators and SO in the sheet
metal workers program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Compton Sees Blow
Al Morale Of Yanks
In Ban on Esquire
BY the Associated Press,


Postmaster General Walkers rul-
ing that Esquire magazine should be
barred from the second class mails
has been described by Represent
alive Compton, Republican, of Con-
necticut as "a blow to morale that
will be of more concern to the boys
abroad than all the hullaballoo over
the soldiers vote"
From another member Of Con-
gress, Senator Chavez, Democrat, of
New Mexico, came the suggestion
that Congress perhaps should make
more specific the regulations under
which publications can be thrown
out of the mails"
Mr.. Compton said in a statement
yesterday he didn't believe it was
necessary for him "to defend Es-
quire, its jokes or the Varga girls"
Warns Of Blitz.
GAS matter of fact" he added,
II think the boys of our armed
forces will come to their defense
with the same gay vim and vigor
that characterized all of their fight
ing tactics. Most of them get a real
laugh and a smile and sometimes a
sigh from Esquire and, hu,4an
nature being what it is, Postmaster
General Walker had better look out
lest the service boys blitz him along
with Japs."
Senator Chavez said Mr.. Walker
acted on governmental authority
and not as an individual, but he
is biting off a pretty big chunk"
BE it Esquire or some other
publication, this thing of putting q
publication out of the mails Is Of
sufficient Importance for Congress
to take action on" he added.
Court Action Planned.
Mr.. Walkers decision was an
nounced Friday after the majority
opinion of a thre-man Post Office
Department trial board held by a
two-to-one vote that proceedings
against Esquire should be dismissed.
The magazine has announced it
will go to court to enjoin Mr..
Walkers decision.
Mr.. Walkers decision did not 90
into the question of obscenity, a
point spiritedly discussed in hear
ings. He simply held that Esquire
wasn't the type of publication en-
titled to special rates as instruc-
tive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
japan Has Lost Her ADVANTAGE
In Pacific, Soviet Journal Saws

pushed Japan into impeachment
with Hitlerite imperialism"
After the fall of France, the
article continued, Japan made the
mistake in deciding that the strate-
gic positions of the democratic
countries, mainly Great Britain,
were SO weakened that it would
pay Japan to cast off her policy of
noninterference in the World War"
War"
The article said Japan had
counted on Germany to tie up Allied
forces while Germany expected
Japan to attack the Soviet Union.
But, the article said, sin its rela-
tons with the Soviet Union Japan
showed common sense"
The magazine said both Germany
and Japan were dissatisfied with the
action of the other but declared that
while they are losing confidence in
each other the fear of the conse-
quences keeps their military union
strong.
"At this stage of the war" it con-
tinued, Germany and Japan both
are interested in the prolongation of
military operations"
The new-year 1914 will be the year
of final victory" the article pre-
dicted, and said the Allies were en-
tering the year with a firm resolu-
ton to do everything necessary for
the complete and final dissolution of
enemy hopes of prolonging the war"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
18th Year Of Service
To Latin America
Is Started by A. P.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE Asso-
GATED Press today began its 25th year
of operations in Latin America.
Kent Cooper, A. P. executive d.
rector, set up the Latin American
service January l. 1919, for pub
fishers who shared his views that
the entire Western Hemisphere
should have an independent and OBJ
jective news report. Up to the time
of the World War, Latin American
papers had access only to subsidized
European agencies.
Today Mr.. Cooper exchanged silver
anniversary messages with publish
ers OF four leading Latin American
newspapers which entered the A. p.
setup Is years ago and have con-
tinued without interruption.
They are DR.. Luis Mitre, La
Nacion, Buenos Aires; DR.. Aurelio
Miro Quesada, FL Concrete, Lima:
j. Santiago Castillo, Ell TELEGRAPH,
Guayaquil, Ecuador, and T. Gabriel
Duque, the Star & Herald, Panama
City, Panama.
Sharing the A. P. report with them
today are more than 100 newspapers
and radio stations in Latin America
and the British and Dutch possess
sions in the Western Hemisphere.
Coincidentally with A. P.'s Latin
American silver anniversary, Ell
Mercurio of Santiago, Chile, one of
South Americas greatest news
papers, enters the A. P. family to-
morrow, along with four afiliates-
Ultimas Noticias and Segunda of
Santiago, and FL Mercurio and La
Estrella of Valparaiso. -
Rodolfo Michels, Chilean Ambas-
sador, in statement said that this
development was cause for great
satisfaction" He praised Ell Mer-
curio as dean of the Chilean press
and said that its association with
the Associated Press honors both"
Ell Mercurios "invariable co-opera-
ton with inter-American unity is
well known" said Ambassador
Michels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
France Must Be Freed
By July, Patriots Told
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-Fernand
Grenier, a French deputy, issued a
broadcast appeal tonight to French
patriots in France to stay in the
homeland and organize themselves
into resistance groups, adding that
Frenchmen must liberate their
country within the first six months
of 1914"
In his statement, broadcast by
the Algiers radio of the French
Committee of National Liberation
and recorded by United States Gov
eminent monitors, Grenier said:
"You will serve France by remain
ing where you are and joining pa
triot groups. Do not leave France
at the present time. At moment
when decisive fighting is approach
ing, leave only if you are entrusted
with a specific mission by the fight
ing organizations. Do not weaken
the forces of the French front by
your departure"
He also called on French prisoners
and deportees in Germany to fell
their Nazi guards and get back to
France or go over to the Russian
army or to guerrilla groups in Yugo-
slavia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Naval Planes Ferried
By New Service

The great volume of naval fight
ing planes being turned out has re-
quired establishment of new serv-
ice to assure their quick dispatch to
the fighting fronts. The new service,
to be known as the Naval Air Ferry
Command, will operate as wing of
the Naval Air Transport Service. It
is headed by Capt. John w. King,
with headquarters at the Naval Air
Station, Floyd Bennett Field, New
York.
For the time being, the Nevy an
nounced, the new service will have
three ferry squadrons and one serv-
ice squadron. The present ferry
operations are confined to the con-
tinental United States, but over
seas operations are contemplated
when production of large, multi
engine aircraft, such as the Con-
solidated Navy Liberator, reaches
a quantity production stage.
The new organization now has
more than TOO pilots on its roster.
They are flying approximately 200
planes a day en- routs to their desti-
nations, usually In formations of
three to six.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
w. and @. D. HEARINGS
.SheIyed for Duration

The 6-months-old hearing by the
State Corporation Commission on
the question of increased passenger
service on the Washington & Old
Dominion Railroad in nearby Vir-
ginia appears shelved for the dura-
ton.
In its latest order, according to
an Associated Press dispatch from
Richmond, the commission stated:
In view of the operation of rail-
roads being taken over by the Fed
eral Government, the commission
deems it advisable to continue this
case =" until further orders ."
Other reasons for continuing the
hearings which began last July, in
clude delays by the railroad in OBJ
tanning equipment, a breakdown of
newly acquired equipment during a
trial run and the death of Judge
William M. Fletcher, a member Of
the commission.
Residents of the area now served
by the line are seeking additional
passenger service between Rosslyn
and Leesburg and between Leesburg
and Purcellville,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
New Year CeIebraior, Is,
Fatally Shot in Salt Lake

BY the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. IA 49,
year-old boy celebrating New Year
was shot and killed early today.
Patrick McGrath, AZ, disturbed by
a group of young celebrators, was
arrested for questioning.
The victim, Leon E. West, was
struck by a 20 caliber bullet.
Detective William Heninger gave
this summary of the shooting:
Young West and four other boys
and four girls were shouting and
|giggling near the McGrath home.
Mrs. McGrath asked them to be
quiet or leave> The disturbance
continued and McGrath remon-
lstrated with the group. The boys
lcursed him.
Angered, Mr.. McGrath fired sew
eral shots as the boys and girls lied.
Only the West boy was struck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
Representative Smith
VIII Back District
Housing Program

Il II IL
Support for an adequate slum
clearance and negro housing pro-
gram in the District was promised
yesterday by Representative Smith,
Democrat, of Virginia. member
Of the House Rules Committee and
formerly a member of the House
District Committee.
Representative Smith told report
ers he was prepared to support any
sensible program for improving
housing conditions here since he
was convinced the cost of such a
program would be far less than the
expenditures made necessary be-
cause of overcrowding and insani-
tary conditions whieh breed disease
and crime.
His statement came as Senator
Burton, Republican of Ohio, chair
man Of a subcommittee of the
Senate District Committee, which
has been surveying the work and
program of the National Capital
Housing Authority, was planning
early hearings on the future ac-
tivities of the agency.
Problem Is Pressing.
Representative Smith said that
while Congress will be faced with
many difficult problems this year he
hoped the time and energy would
be found to deal with the extremely
pressing" problem of elimination of
District slum conditions and pro-
vision of proper housing for. colored
residents in the low-income brack-
cts.
THE best way to elevate our COL
ored population is to provide health
full surroundings, adequate shelter
and means of helping themselves, u
Mr.. Smith said Foul slums in
which any portion of the popula-
ton is compelled to live necessar-
lily lowers the standards of the whole
community.
1T is in crowded, filthy living
quarters that epidemics start and
spread. We all know that over
croWding breeds tuberculosis, for
example. Slums act as deterrent
to the rise of the whole Negro race
here. We need only remember that
children housed in slums and sub
Ject to the diseases of dirt and
overcrowding pass them along to
other children attending the same
schools.
Cheaper Than Crime.
There is much talk of the expense
OF slum clearance and the building
of substitute housing. My long ex-
perience as prosecutor showed me
very clearly the relationship between
crime and undesirable housing con-
dltions. The cost of clearing slums
and substituting decent housing is
plcayune in comparison to the costs
OF crime and disease that slums
breed. Add in the cost of extra
police and fire protection and other
factors related to the existence of
slum housing and the cost becomes
staggering.
In Alexandria we can see the
blessings of a rehousing program,
IN a relatively small way. There
are two blocks of good brick dwell
ings with back yards and plenty of
air and sunlight, which replaced
former slum housing. 1t is crafty
ing to note the pride and self re-
spect which decent housing has en-
gendered in the occupants. They
are better citizens for having been
given decent place to live"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
-Four Killed, Six Injured
lin Florida Bomber Crash

Py the Associated Press.
AVON PARK, Fla. Jan. -Four
airmen from the Avon Park Army
Air Field were killed and six injured
today in the crash of their heavy
bomber near here, 1t. Col. Clint T.
Johnson, commanding officer, an
nounced
The dead were listed as:
Second 1t. Henry F. Nelson,
Salem, N. Y; Staff Sergt. Ted F..
Harbut, Hammond, Ind; Sergt.
Walter G. Kruger, Amsterdam,
N. Y, and Pvt. Pasquale j. Pal
jumbo, Ozone Park, N. Y.
The injured:
1t. Jerome L. De Jaco, Fort
Thomas, KY; 1t. Chester Cierlak,
Muskegon, Mich; Flight Officer
wilbur. o. Hamilton, Emporia,
Kans.; Staff Sergt. Henry c. Waters,
Salt Lake City; Pvt. Russell L.
johnson, Melrose, Mass, and Pvt.
Richard J. Reamon, Canajoharie,
N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
BY the Associated Press.


MOSCOW, Jan. 1.-The Soviet
trade journal, war and the Working
Glass;" asserted today that Japan
had lost the strategic initiative" in
the Pacific and her temporary adj
vantage is thing of the past"
The article, reviewing Japanese
German relations, said Japan must
now recall the Oriental proverb
He who mounts tiger cannot
easily dismount."
I'm any case" the article con-
tinued, Japan cannot count now
on effective assistance from Ger
many"
The comment was the most out
spoken yet made here on the Pacific
war in which the Soviet Union is
neutral.
The magazine said the capitula-
ton OF Italy was "a smashing blow"
to the Axis and that is why the
Germans are advertising now with
greater frequency the unchange-
ability of Japanese-German rela-
tons and shouting that Germany
and Japan will be together to the
end"
The article recalled that Japan
never has been vassal of Hitherto
Germany" but her aggressive plans