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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
MacArthur's Airmen
Strike Nine Targets
In 1,000-Mi|e Arc
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQ UARTERS
Southwest Pacific, April 4.-Gen
Douglas MacArthur's airmen have
struck at nine important targets or
a 1,000-mile arc and his foot SOL
diers on Bougainville today claimed
a complete victory over a one strong
enemy garrison on that Solomons
island.
Some of the air strikes seemed
part of the continuing pattern OF
hitting at bases of possible japanese
air strength which might be rushed
to the defense of Palau. This island
group within 600 land miles of the
Philippines was assaulted by a pow
erful United States naval force last
Wednesday.
Part of the job of keeping enemy
air power off the back of this fleet
went to Gen. MacArthur's airmen
who bombed by-passed Truk at
dawn Saturday. Patrol planes fly
ing from the Solomons bombed Dub
Ion, prime base in the Truk fort
resses, and set large fires.
Timor in the Netherlands Indies
was another target This island is
within easy reach of Darwin, Aus
tralia.
On Bougainville the enemy con-
tinued his withdrawal apparently
too weary and too few to keep up
the suicidal attacks against the En-
press Augusta Bay perimeter started
March 8. At South Pacific head
quarters spokesman said: His
defeat is complete" The spokesman
said the latest estimate of enemy
dead on Bougainville since March 8
was 1000.
Other Southwest Pacific command
thrusts noted in today's commune
que included the bombing of Ram
butyo Island southeast of Los Negros
in the Admiralties. an island group
now firmly in American hands. This
control grew stronger with the cap
ture of two more Admiralty islands
-Koruniat and Ndrilo.
Also bombed were Cape st. George
on New Ireland; Rabaul, New
Britain, which caught 80 tons of
explosives; Garove Island and Open
Bay, New Britain; Hansa Bay on
New Guinea, hit by escorted bomb
ers which dropped 1913 tons of
bombs, and Wewak and the Madang
coast of New Guinea.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Il Nazi Destroyers
Believed Total Force
To Resist Invasion
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 4.-Germany has
only about IL destroyers posted
along the European coast from Nor
way to France to pit against the
huge British home fleet when the
expected invasion of the continent
begins, Allied naval authorities de-
clared today.
The remainder of the fast
dwindling German fleet is now sta
toned in the Baltic. where 1t has
lain idle since the sinking Of the
battleship Scharnhorst last Deem
Der. These vessels include the
10,O00-ton pocket battleships Luet-
zow and Admiral Scheer, two or
three heavy cruisers and perhaps
six destroyers.
No Signs of Nazi Carrier.
The battleship Gneisenau recent
ly was reported lying in the former
Polish harbor of Gdynia, dismantlee
after being damaged a year and a
half ago by Raj bombers at Kiel.
There have been no signs of Hitler's
first aircraft carrier. the Graf Zep-
pelin, which was laid down in 1896.
The great battleship Tirpitz,
which the British announced yes
terday had been heavily damaged
by Raj airmen while lying in Nor
ways Alien Fjord, no longer is con-
sldered a menace to the Allied fleet
which will have the task of guard
ing the invasion sea lanes.
1t is believed here that the Tir-
pitt cannot possibly be put into
commission again for many months.
Possibly Coronado Bombers.
The Admiralty, in telling about
the latest attack on the Tirpitz, did
not disclose whether the attacking
planes were land or carrier-based
craft. There was some speculation.
however, that they could have been
American-built Coronado heavy
bombers, which recently have been
put into operation in the Pacific but
which have not yet been reported on
European operations. These planes
are supposed to have a 2,0OO-mile
range.
The German high command COM
munique declared today that Brit
ish carrier planes tried to attack
naval strong point in Norway yes
terday" but "the attack was dis
persed by our defenses and did not
develop fully"
During the course of this action
four enemy aircraft were shot down
by the battleship Tirpitz and two by
an escort vessel" it added
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Captured Jap Broodcosts Plea
To Former Comrades to Give UD
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
HILL l29, BOUGAINVILLE, Sol
ONION Islands, Mar. 26 Delayed -
A japanese superior private cap
tured two days ago made a dramatic
broadcast today TO his former COM
radeS in the 9Th Imperial Division
ito give up the futile fight against
superior American forces and equip
ment"
The words Of the 24-year- old Jap
anese were full of emotion and he
delivered his broadcast with many
gestures. 1t was relayed to the
enemy in opposing lines few hun
dred yards away through two pow
erful loud-Speakers.
He told his former comrades he
was being well treated, well fed and
implied they would be accorded the
same kindness If they surrendered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Miss KeIIems Asks
How Coffee Obtained
Access 10 Letters
BY the Associated Press.

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WESTPORT, Conn, April a
Vivien Kellems, Connecticut war
plant executive. said today she had
written Representative Coffee, Dem
ocrat, of Washington, asking where
he had obtained letters purportedly
exchanged between herself and
Count Frederick Karl Won Zedlitz.
described by the Representative as
a Nazi agent in Argentina. Miss
Kellems also demanded permission
to see the letters.
She said she had also communi-
Gated with Postmaster General
Walker asking the circumstances
under which Mr. Coffee and Drew
Pearson, newspaper columnist and
radio commentator, had access to
the purported letters and asking
where the missiyes were now.
Mr.. Coffee, in a House speech last
week, charged Miss Kellems has
consistently played the Nazi game"
is in constant contact with our
hated Nazi enemies" and was "the
lover of Hitler fifth column SOY
in Argentina"
Asks Coffee to Produce Letters.
In her letter to Mr.. Coffee Miss
KellemS quoted his words from the
Congressional Record and then add
ed: You read on the floor of
the House on March 81 excerpts
from letters which you claimed were
written by me to Count Zedlitz and
an excerpt from letter written
by Count ZedlitZ to me. Will YOU
please tell me where you got these
letters and if you have them in your
possession will you please permit me
to see them"
To Mr.. Walker Miss Kellems wrote
that Mr.. Pearson read excerpts on
the radio from letters he claimed
she wrote to Count Zedlitz and
which the count wrote to her and
referred to Mr.. Coffee's statements.
i have never seen the letters
from Count Zedlitz referred to by
these two men" she saidr@"If the,
letters which they claim were writ
ten by me to Count Zedlitz are au-
thentic the last time I saw them was
when I entrusted them to the United
States mail
Says She Gave Report to FBI.
Il would like to know under what
circumstances these two men have
access to these letters and where
the letters are at the present time"
MI Coffeee's charges originally
drew from Miss Kellems challenge
to make those same statements"
outside the House, where can hale
you into court, force you to prove
them or put you in prison where
you belong"
She said then that she had refused
to make a statement concerning
Count Zedlitz, because there are
some things that cannot be said
until this war is over" adding that
on returning from South America
in the spring of l941 Il made COM
plete report to the FBI, and again
late in 1943 I gave the FBI addi-
tional valuable information regard
ing Count Zedlitz.'
In Washington, Mr.. Coffee said
he had not received Miss Kellem's
request, and could not comply with
it anyhow.
He does not have the letters, he
explained, but only typed excerpts
from them
They are in the hands of the
proper authorities, and that is all
I have to say about it," he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Funeral Rites Tomorrow
For Mrs. Ella N. kaIIey

Requiem high mass for Mrs. Ella
M. Nalley, 3415 Perry street, Mount
Rainier, Md. who died Sunday after
an illness of three weeks, will be
celebrated at am tomorrow at
St. James Church in Mount Rainier
Burial will be in Mount Olivet
Cemetery.
Born in Prince Georges County
Mrs. Nalley taught in the public
schools there for many years before
her marriage to the late DR.. Harry
Nalley.
Active in civic affairs, Mrs. Nalley
was a member of the Prince Georges
County Federation of Women's
Clubs and lecturer Of the Prince
Georges Grange.
She is survived by a daughter
Mrs. Emily Watson, Washington
two sisters, Mrs. Hunter Edelen
Waldorf. Md, and Miss Maria C
Queen, Waldorf, at whose home she
died, and brother, c. j. Queen
New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Postwar
Continued From First Page. }

and one for war demobilization-
with conflicting jurisdictions. The
fusing of these agencies into one
seems TO us reasonable solution"
Senator George advised Chair
man Murray of the action taken by
his group Saturday in urging i'm
mediate passage of a law governing
contract termination while hearings
are continuing on the broader bill
dealing with all rehabilitation
problems
Senator George voiced his great
desire to see relaxed at the earliest
possible moment the wartime Gov
eminent control over the Nations
economy, but said he realized i'm
mediate relaxation of all such con-
trolls would result in chaos"
Those controls that are neces-
Sary must be exercised in such a
way as to aid and not interfere with
free economy and must be re-
Taxed as soon as the absolute need
for them has ceased" Senator
George declared.
Mr.. VOL told the subcommittee
the manpoWer muddle we are in
now is due in large part to the fact
that about 80 Government agencies
are responsible in one way or an
other for labor matters. Labor in
dustry and Government agencies are
In a state of Illustration with all
these overlapping Jurisdictions in
this time Of emergency.
Mr.. VOL agreed with the objec-
tiVes of the George Murray bill for
postwar reconVerSiOn, but said those
obJectlVes are supplemented only "as
far as property protection is con-
cerned." He approved the general
policies outlined in the Kilgore bill
both as far as industry is concerned
and as far as discharged servicemen
and workers are concerned"
Emergency unemployment com
pensation payments would be the
most equitable method of providing
temporarily for discharged workers
during the transition period Mr.
Vol suggested.
Earlier, Senator Murray foresaW
a ScandalouS waste of Federal
funds when war contracts are ter
minated unless there is a better use
OF manpoWer and materials than
there has been in war production.
Senator Murray said his subcom-
mittee had demonstrated a Serious
need for better housekeeping by
Government agencies and war con-
tractors.
Improper planning of war pro-
duction has resulted in a mishan.
ding of manpoWer that is pro.
foundry disturbing" Senator Muir.
ray said. In the same manner
improper planning for postwar ad.
lustment would lead us to an un.
employment crisis Of unprecedented
! proportions" 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Red Cross Woman Worker
Dies in Italian Plane Crash
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The second Red Cross woman
worker to lose her life while on
active service in italy, Miss Ophelia
Tiley Of Essex, Conn, was killed in
an airplane accident there March
25, the Red Cross has announced.
Miss Tiley was assistant director
Of civilian war relief in Italy for
the Red Cross. She acted as liaison
officer with the Italian Red Cross
and it was during mission in con-
nection with this work that she lost
her life.
Miss Tiley joined the Red Cross
service in January, 194l, and served
in Unoccupied France, England and
North Africa before being sent to
italy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Fireman Is Burned
In Fighting BIoze

Fireman Joseph L. Brown, 80, of
"a Webster street NE, attached to
No. "a Engine Company was treated
at Emergency Hospital early today
Tor f1rst-degree burns of both hands,
received while fighting a fire at 38l7
New Hampshire avenue NV. He
was later discharged for treatment
at the police clinic police said.
The fire was on the second floor
OF residence owned and occupied
by Mrs. Rosalind Frisard, police re-
ported. Firemen said the blaze.
thought to have been started by a
cigarette accidentally dropped on a
rug, did extensive damage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Nimitz Awarded DSM
By Act Of Congress
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, COM
mander in chief of the Pacific Fleet
yesterday became one of the few
men in history to receive an award
of the Distinguished Service Medal
by an act of Congress.
President Roosevelt signed a bill
making the award.
Such awards usually are left in the
hands of the Army and Navy. In
some cases, however, Congress takes
especial note of an award by au-
thorizing the President to present
the medal in the name of Congress
Help win the war by saving waste
kitchen fats!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Dr.. Coulter Addresses
Health Forum Tonioht

DR.. Raymond Gautier of Geneva
Switzerland, officer in charge of
health services of the League of
Nations, and DR.. David K. Brace,
Office of Education physical fitness
specialist, will be the guest speakers
at a meeting of the Washington
Health Forum at o'clock tonight
IN Confederate Memorial Hall, 1922
Vermont avenue NV,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
|SwissCounciI Donate,
Fund for Victims Of
u. ). Error Bombinq
BY the Associated Press.

BERN, Switzerland, April 4.-The
Federal Council yesterday donated
100000 francs (s46,600) for relief of
victims Of the American accidental
bombing of Schaffhausen Saturday
and began planning measures to
combate unemployment due to de-
struction of factories.
The Swiss radio announced, mean
while, a second town-Hallau, ap-
proXimately 10 miles west of Schaff-
hausen-also had been bombed, but
said the damage was fortunately
insignificant" Both incendiary and
explosive bombs fell on Hallau, 1t
added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
lowun Decries Luvish
Award of Decorations
By the Associated Press.

by Ide ASsOclated Pres.
"Indiscriminate" awarding of serv-
ice medals and decorations was as
sailed by a member of the House
Military Affairs Committee today as
threatening to destroy their value.
Representative Marin, Republican,
OF Oowa, member of subcommittee
on legislation dealing with awards,
disclosed that approximately 175,O0O
decorations have been handed out
so far in this war, including "a
Congressional Medals of Honor, the
Nations highest decoration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04

Uncle Sam needs your waste
bacon grease, drippings, vegetable
shortening. Take them to your meat
dealer.
Evening star., 1944-12-09
Christmas Seals

FOR the th1rty-elghth time the
District Of Columbia tuberculosis
Association is offering attractive
Christmas seals at penny each
for use on Yuletide mail and gift
packages. The design for 1914 fea-
lures cheerful little postman in
e. gray uniform, marching through
the snow against background
which suggests that he perforce
works nights ION his appointed
rounds" In the upper left-hand
corner of the composition, the fam
ing symbol OF the crusade against
the dreaded white plague" appears
the cross with two bars of equal
length.
Each purchaser of the seals con-
tributes to the maintenance of a
work which long since proved its
worth. The money thus raised is
spent for adult and Junior education,
research, exhibits, cooperation with
other health agencies, medical social
endeavor, ase-flnding and rehabili-
tation. In all of these different
aspects of the campaign vast prog
ress has been accomplished But the
end is not yet in sight. Indeed, there
are reasons to believe that some re-
cessions, some losses, are inevitable
in the near future. The strains and
tensions Of wartime demand heavy
price of men and women of every
class and condition. tuberculosis
has a cunning way Of hurting those
who already are hurt. 1t strikes at
people who are tired or depressed.
Such period as the present season
of worldwide struggle, overexertion,
long continued excitement and
anxiety is its natural opportunity for
mischief. 1t must be fought as
Systematically as any other mortal
enemy.
The little Christmas seals cost so
little, mean so much in their con-
structive effect. For the thirty
eighth occasion, The Star commends
them to its whole family of readers.
Evening star., 1944-12-09
Freedom First. Then Profit

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal
As it was in North Africa and is In
Italy and France, so 1t is in the Phil
ippines-at least at Tacloban, largest Of
cities so far liberated.
There, as elsewhere, liberating forces
were greeted with unrestrained joy and
generosity during the first few day
after arrival. Then, opportunism over
coming sentiment, the city's merchants
made a swift return to realities. What
price freedom? Some of the prices be.
ing quoted by reliable correspondents
include 81 for bottle Of enemy-mads
beer and Is cents for single banana
The good old American dollar has lost
none Of its allure.
It would be grossly unfair, however
to single out the liberated Filipino mer-
chants as profit-makers at the expense
of "GIs" when their innumerable coun.
terparts exist In every area taken over
by freedom forces. For that matter,
they might have taken their cue from
the American home front where, price
control regulations Notwithstanding
some prices have gone far beyond the
limits Of reason or necessity.
Glory for "GI Joe" and continued liv.
ing for great many civilians. have mort
than one price, and all are high.
Evening star., 1944-12-09
John Lord O'Brion

For the third time in busy career,
John Lord O'Brian. general counsel
for the War Production Board, is
returning to private life after
period of Government service char
acterized by the fine achievement
always synonymous with his labors.
Called to Washington from his
Buffalo law office early in 1941 to be
general counsel for the Office of Pro-
duction Management, predecessor of
the WPB, Mr.. O'Brian charted the
legal course for the successive steps
OF Americas arming effort with deep
understanding. Out of long expert
ence. he recognized that efficient
administration does not necessarily
call for the use of a bludgeon, and
constantly sought to encourage CO.
operation rather than to stir ami
mosities in the exercise of the vast
war powers OF the Government. This
course paid dividends. Only once was
the War Production Board brought
into the courts by litigant, and
that challenge failed.
1t should be mentioned. too. that
the retiring official has never ap-
preached his tasks as a partisan. A
Republican, he was in charge Of
Espionage Act enforcement in the
Justice Department under Woodrow
Wilson in the First World War, and
during the Hoover administration he
was Assistant Attorney General in
charge of the departments antitrust
Oykion. As q further tribute to Mr..
Evening star., 1944-12-09
Because They Will 1t
From the Manchester Guardian.

From the Manchester Guardian.
The German western front, says the
"Kolnische zeitung." is very deep: "It
does not only stretch from Anthem to
the Alps but from Arnhem to Bielefeld,
and Aachen to Hamm, from Metz to
Darmstadt, and from the gates Of Bur-
gundy across the Upper Rhine" All
through this great tract, containing q
fifth or quarter Of the German peo-
pie, the Allied bombers roam by night
and day; work and sleep are broken;
houses become fewer and fewer; trans
port and the food and fuel it brings
scarcer. A system that depends on
tightly stretched and stringent or
ganization is being brought to chaos.
Life Is becoming ever more brutal and
brutaliyed; human values are disappear
ing. When will the Germans accept
the inevitable? Or must there, as their
leaders have decreed, be one Aachen
after another? If there is to be "an-
Inhalation" it Is because the Germans
50 will 1t.
Evening star., 1944-12-09
On Bombing Jupun's Gods

Inc nlgn ngnt OF the ADDRESS de-
livered by Premier Koiso on Decem-
ber Z, "commemorating the third
anniversary of the outbreak of the
war of greater East ASIA" was his
angry warning that Should the
enemy in his blind bombing of Japan
damage a remote corner of the
sacred property held in reverence by
the entire nation, the Japanese will
take retaliatory measures that 1t
will be impossible for the enemy to
forget"
With characteristic c&ndirection, the
Premier referred to the Imperial
Palace. lying in the very heart of To-
kyo, the teeming japanese metrop-
oils, yet enshrouded in mysterious
aloofness behind massive stone RAM
parts rising from deep moats. This
is the residence of being whom we
call the Emperor but whom the Jap
anese term "The Tenno," a word
reverently indicating one who is both
human and divine. In Japanese eyes,
their ruler is alike man and god. the
current incarnation of the dynasty,
eternal throughout the ages" which
sprang originally from the Sun God
dess, Amaterasu Omikami, the pa
tron deity of Japan. To the japanese,
Amaterasu is no mere historic myth;
she is a very living presence, watch
ing over the land and her descend
ant, the Tenno. and insuring "Dai
Nippon" Great Japan, that eventual
world supremacy which is it's alleged
destiny. Amaterasu's earthly tab
ernacle is the great shrine at Ise,
inland from Tokyo. T'hither. on
appropriate occasions, go cabinet
ministers, generals. admirals. the
Emperor himself, to commune with
their protectress and imbibe her
inspiration.
Such being the undoubted facts,
Japanese national morale is obvi-
ously based on Emperor worship
and the cult Of Amaterasu. From the
very start of the present war. there
fore, many foreigners intimately
acquainted with Japan have argued
that the best way to shake japanese
morale would be to bomb both the
Imperial Palace at Tokyo and the
great shrine at Ise. According to
this theory, General Doolittle's Or
ders to avoid hitting the palace on
his initial raid over Tokyo was a
mistake, since it gave the japanese
the impression that our flyers were
either overawed by the divine pres
ence or actually inhibited by the
divine power. OF late, Chinese off,
cial spokesmen have stressed the
necessity of such action for it's psy-
Geological effects. 1t is presumably
against such arguments that Premier
Koiso leveled his grim warning.
Such bombings would presumably
result in reprisals by the japanese,
probably against the many American
prisoners in their hands. Such fresh
horrors perpetrated by our barbarous
enemies are to be weighed against
the psychological effects of bomb
ings, which might be deep going. It
is one of the grim problems of over
all strategy that must be carefully
weighed.