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Evening star., 1944-06-01
) Medical Officers
Honored for Work
In Typhus Research

First awards Of the United States
Of America Typhus Commission
Medal were made yesterday to three
high-ranking medical officers In
recognition of their work with the
commission for the control of typhus
among our armed forces overseas.
The recipients of the awards, pre-
sented by Secretary of War Stimson,
We're: Rear Admiral Charles s.
Stephenson, U. S. N, the commis-
sion's first director; DR.. Rolla E.
Dyer, assistant surgeon general of
the United States Public Health
Service, and Brig. Gen. James S.
Simmons of the Secretary of Wars
ONCE.
Established in 1912.
The commission was established
by executive order on December "a,
1912, and is charged specifically
with the responsibility OF preventing
the introduction Of typhus fever into
the United States, as well as protec-
tion Of the armed forces against the
disease. While its work is one Of the
most important undertaken by medi-
cal authorities in connection with
the war, little information about 1t
has been permitted to be made pub
lie.
Rear Admiral Stephenson, who re-
sides at 4457 q street NV, was o
captain when appointed first direc-
tor Of the commission, and helped
formulate plans of the original
group. He led the first group to
Cairo, Egypt, where he arranged for
a. suitable laboratory and organized
extensive surveys in the Middle East.
While engaged in these labors he
suffered an attack of illness which
made it necessary for him to relin-
quish the position of director. ITO
his devotion and effective activity
Is due the energetic initiation of
work of the commission in large and
extensive foreign theaters of opera
tion," the citation said.
Years Of Personal Research.
DR.. Dyer of IL North drive, Be-
thesda, Md, is a noted authority on
typhus fever in this country. He
brought to the commission the bene-
fit of years Of personal research and
methods employed by the Public
Health Service in combating the dis
ease. He also Is one of the original
members of the commission.
DR.. Dyer also placed at the dis
posal of the commission the invalu-
able laboratory accommodations and
research assistance of the National
Institute of Health. Through his ef-
forts an unexcelled collection Of
typhus material has been sent back
to this country.
Brig. Gen. Simmons Of 3507 Rod
man street NV. Is rightly called
the founder" of the commission.
Then colonel In the Army Medical
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an originality OF thought OF unusual
flavor In national music. In the
lively and sentimental character
which gave variety to the four
selections the vigor and genuineness
Of the basic nationalism was well
depicted. Unannounced and sung
in CzechoSlovakian, their individual
themes could not be known to one
unfamiliar with the language except
through what the music itself ex-
pressed. Nine. Delmar presented
them however in such a manner as
to win the appreciation Of the audi
ence which applauded the singer
heartily.
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Hendrix Essers, conductor Of the
Victory symphony, added another
interesting feature to the program
by playing for the first time In this
city Martinu's Memorial to Lidice.'
The music Is unique in that it is
deeply felt and. while sorrowful in
its representation Of the great trag-
edy, holds q particular note Of SUBJ
Unity and courage that stresses the
unconquerable spirit of the people.
Bearing distinctive earmarks of the
composers style, the composition
though short, is one OF the best from
his pen.
The orchestra's first number was
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musicianship and authority Ia pro-
ducing artistic colorine. further In
|cluded in the program the '.Furiant"
from Weinberger's opera, "Schwan-
|da," Dvoraks aSlavonic Dances NO.
VIII and H. and the Overture to
lSmetana's The Bartered Bride"
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the Dvorak symphony familiarly'
known rs From the New World"
In this, the group showed q mellow
tone and excellent training espe-
cially In the Largo and Finale which
we're played with good intonation
and dynamic effects. Mr.. Essers,
who demonstrated throughout his
Evening star., 1944-06-01

Corps, he realized fully the extreme
hazard that typhus fever presented
to American troops serving IN many
foreign lands. "It. was due to his
vision and broad conceptions that
the commission was developed as 4
united undertaking between the
Army, Navy and Public Health Serv-
ice" the citation said.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-15

ST. LOUIS - Soundphoto - Re. -rets? We hardly think these were tae thoughts of Cpl. Johnny Spill lane as he stood alone looking out over the field at Sportsmans Park, Here, during the World Series. .'ohnny rejected a Cardinal contract to sign up with the Marines and lost his right arm tossing back Jap grenades at Tarawa. The Cardi- nals won the World Series = 4
 "mes to the Browns 2 games.
The Nome nugget., 1944-11-15

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The Nome nugget., 1944-11-15

COM M AN D ER-Tbis pho. tOgraphic study of Gen. Dwight ID. Eisenhower, commander of all Allied forces on the western front, is the latest formal picture
 of the general.
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DE. CAULLE CONFERS
WITH EISENHOWER

cEN EIsENHOWER'S HEAD
CHARTERS IN FRANCE, Aug. 20.
-IHLAnticipating the liberation OF
Paris by the swiftly moving Alfred
armies, Gen. Charles De Gaulle
and his deputy, Brig. Gen. joseph
Pierre ,Koening, conferred WIFI
General Eisenhower today.
De Gaulle and Koenig conversed
in English with the supreme COM
mander, who speaks little French,
for more than a half-hour in E1sen-
hower's field tent.
Details of their conversation
were not disclosed officially, but
hearty laughter punctuated the ses-
sion and all appeared in high good
humor as the two French generals
climbed into their automobile tc
speed back to the nearb FAIRFIELD
where they had landed in mid
morning.
Signing of the document return
ing the civil government to liber'
ated areas in the rear zone tenta
lively is scheduled soon. De Gaulle
will lsign for the French, Eisenhow
er for the United States and For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden fol
Great Britain.
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Marseille, Toulon Threatened
TROPICAL STORM
STRIKES JAMAICA

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 90, up -
Jamaica was struck by the 60-mile-
an-hour winds of a tropical storm
today and the federal storm warn
ing service here issued a hurri-
cane alert for the south coast OF
western Cuba, the Isle of Pines and
the Cayman islands.
The storm warning service, in
cooperation with the national OBJ
servatory of Cuba, advised all in
terests to take precautions against
severe storm which is expected
to reach full hurricane force OF
rs miles an hour within the next
SO hours.
At 10 pm. E. W.. T. the storm
center had passed over Jamaica
and was centered in the Caribbean
sea about 40 miles north of Negril
point, at the western tip of the is
land. 1t was continued to move
west northwestWard about II to Is
miles an hour.
indications are for continued
west .northwestWard movemnet and
increase in size and intensity
probably reaching full hurricane
force Monday the warning serv-
ice of the weather bureau stated.
The present direction of the
storm would take it into the Gulf
of Mexico. The center at the time
of the advisory was nearly 600
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With wide divergence of views
between the House and the Senate
over machinery for surplus war
property disposal, the former will
continue tomorrow consideration of
a measure that would set w an
agency under single admins
traitor for disposition of $50, 900, OOO,-
600 to $120, 900, 900 worth OF govern
ment-oWned commodities and real
estate acquired for war purposes.
Senator Lister Hill Of Alabama,
Democratic whip, said the Senate's
version of the bill, yet to be re-
ported, is expected to be ready
when the upper body reconvenes
Tuesday after a weekend recess.
Members of the Senate Military
Affairs committee, headed by North
Cardinals Senator. Robert r. Rey-
no1ds, are believed to favor, in the
majority, a measure that would
create a board of several members
to handle surplus property dispo-
sal.
While the surplus property issue
is under debate, the House Ways
and Means committee, under the,
veteran Rep. Robert L. Doughton,
Of Laurel Springs, will have con-
sideration the so-called George re-
conversion bill, steered to Senate
passage by Sen. Walter F. George.
Democrat, Georgia, and providing
for administration of reconver-
sion period postwar unemployment
compensation fund by the states.
The measure won enactment as
a substitute for the so-called Muir
ray-Kilgore measure, which would
have set up distribution system,
centralized in Washington, of up
to $35 per week for former war
workers unemployed during the
period of transition from war time
to peace time operation of indus
try.
Supporters of the more liberal
Murray-Kilgore bill, authored JOINT
Nv by Senators James E. Murray,
Democrat, Montana, and Harley w..
Kilgore, Democrat, West Virginia,
contend that the policy of war
spending' should be continued dur
ing the transition period to pro-
vide unemployment compensation
Continued on Page Two; Col. -
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lrate Woman Slabs
Mate Through Heart
With Butcher Knife

Stabbed through the heart
with a butcher knife after an
ice pick had failed to stop
him, Joe Hall, alias Pompi,
Negro, of 1872 Brooklyn Alley
was killed yesterday afternoon
at his home.
City Police Sergeants Hayes
and Rourk arrested the slain.
mans wife, Virginia Hall, who
they said admitted the killing.
They quoted her as saying she
and her husband had quarreled
all day and that she knitted him
when he pulled a gun on her.
Police labeled the woman a
two-time killer, saying she had
served time before for murder
of another man.
A preliminary hearing for
the woman in recorders court
today is to be postponed pend
ing outcome of an inquest.
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FLIER KILLED
NEAR LELAND

Second Lieutenant Richard L..
Mulroney, %, was instantly killed
when his ship dove to earth during
combat training flight Saturday
afternoon, near Leland, the pub
lie relations office at Bluethenthal
field announced last night. The
accident occurred at about 6 pm.
Lieutenant Mulroney only re-
Gently had been assigned to duty
at Bluethenthal Field. His home
was in Mallard, Iowa. He had been
law student at the University
Of Iowa before joining the AAF.
He is survived by his father,
Leo S. Mulroney; his mother, Jen-
ME Mulroney; and sister, Kath-
crime Mulroney, all of whom make
their home in Mallard, Iowa.
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NELSON MISSION
BRINGS ON TALK

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. -(P-
Presidential conversion of Donald
M. Nelson into an emissary to
China for several months - just
when he appeared to have won a
round in his fight TO get limited
civilian production resumed -
stirred surprised conjecture today
among congressman and others.
st looks like a kick in the teeth
said one associate of the War Pro
duction Board chairman.
Speculation stemmed chiefly
from President Roosevelt's specifl-
cation that it would take Nelson
and Maj. Gen. Patrick ], Hurley
several months to finish up their
assignment of discussing military
and economic problems with Gen
eralissimo Chang Kai shek.
Some of Nelson's associates call
ed that time the critical period OF
his reconversion program and said
they were positive that Nelson, I'm
til the White House announcement
last night, had believed his entire
mission to China, including travel
time, would be completed in about
three weeks.
Most Democrats in Congress
withheld formal comment on the
situation, but Senator Wherry R'
Neb) declared: :,
IF ever there was time when
we need a man of Mr.. Nelson
experience, it is right here on the
home front at this time, ,
But Chairman Manasco tD-Ala)
of the House Committee on Expen-
ditures. who has been directing
House consideration of surplus pro
pertv legislation, asserted:
sI don't think the shift IN MIR.
Nelson's work will have much Ell
feet on reconversion because we
have Just about completed rarange'
ments for this job
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Big City,. Port Reported
Virtually Isolated By
Allied Drive

ROME, Aug. 20.-REVanguards
of the Allied Seventh army in a
sweeping drive across southern
France have crossed the Durance
river at several points and are on
the outskirts of Aix-En-Provence
in a lightning drive that has virtu-
ally isolated the great city of Mar
seille and the naval base at Tou-
don, Allied headquarters announc-
ed tonight.
French troops of the Seventh ar
my were officially reported clos
ing in on Toulon following heavy
air and naval bombardments of
targets in that vicinity.
AT the same time Well-organiZed
Maquis forces in a full-scale Of
fensive behind the German lines
have trapped a German force in
the town of Pertuis on the north
bank of the Durance some 80 miles
north of Marseille.
AK is an important junction of
seven roads Is miles due north of
Marseille and between the Medi-
terranean port and Pertuis. Not
only do these highways lead
straight into the Rhone valley but
they also are the main escape
routes for the German forces trap
ped in Marseille and Toulon.
Headquarters did not reveal ex-
actly where Allied spearheads had
crossed the Durance which is a
tributary of the Rhone.
Brushing aside weak resistance
which only added to it's bag OF
$4,000 prisoners in five days of in
vasion, the American Seventh Ar
my and French-manned tanks seiz-
ed the town of Rian3, Is miles
northeast of AK and q miles
northeast of Marseille.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O-lA
A iurisdictional dispute in
volving the Dies committee and
the House committee investl-
eating campaign expenditures
was in the making today as
both groups laid the ground
work for an inquiry into OPP
erations of the CLOS Politl-
cal Action Committee.
While heads of both COM
mittees expressed belief there
would be no clash, the very
nature of their investigations
indicated the probability OF a
collision before many days
have elapsed.
The campaign investigating
committee, headed by Repre-
sentative Anderson (D-NM),
opens hearings tomorrow, with
members of Congress invited
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Hatfields And McCoys "
Feuding With Hitler

ON THE ROAD TO PARIS, Aug.
2O.-tR-The Hatfields and the Nc.
Coys were feuding again today. but
not with each other, as U. S. pa
trolls reached the vicinity of Paris
and the suburbs at Versailles.
They were Phillips Hatfield, Of
Sprigg, w. Va, and Homer L. Me-
Coy, Avondale, W. Va, who said
they were kin to the original feud-
lists. p
This time we got a mad on
against Hitler and are not QUAR-
reling among ourselves" said Nc.
Coy.
Meanwhile, the Americans pick
ed up between Charities and Paris
a German prisoner named Goering
but he claimed no kinship with
the Reichmarshal. This Goering, a
private in the German army, sur
rendered to unit commanded by
Maj. Donald K. Acher, Greenwood,
Wis. .
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to express their views, behind
closed doors, on activities OF
groups or individuals in con-
nection with the congressional
elections.
Next week the Anderson
group will quiz Sidney Hill
man, head of the Political Ac-
ton Committee, in open ses-
sion. 1t also will hear from
his assistant, C. B. Baldwin,
former head of the Farm Sc
curity Administration.
Both Hillman and Baldwin
probably will be called to tes-
tify before the Dies commit
tee, which has underway a
separate investigation of the
CLIO group.
The Dies committee inquiry
is being directed by Represen-
tative Starnes DALAI, who re-
Gently was defeated for renom-
ination in the face of CLIO o2-
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 20-lR
Ambassador Andrei A. Gro
myko flew in from Moscow to-
day bringing Russia's plans
for a postwar world organiza-
ton to preserve peace He
Immediately expressed con-
viction that in the four-power
meetings starting tomorrow
his country, the United States,
Britain and China can mesh
their differing plans into a
single master blueprint.
81 am most optimistic about
the success of the coming con-
ferences," he told reporters at
the National airport where his
plane, marked with the red
star of Soviet military forces,
brought him and his delegation
in to a military reception.
His optimism is shared ex-
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JAP AIR FORCE
ABANDONS BASE

SEVERAL HEADQUARTERS,
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Monday,
aug N.-lR-Heavily punished
japanese air forces are withdraw
my from Halmahera to bases west
ward beyond Allied bomber range,
zen Douglas Macarthur reported
III communique today.
This vii make possible an ad-
vance westward without the neces-
SI'y of cost yfrontal assaults to
wear the way" the official pro-
Houncement added.
Halmahera, 200 miles west OF
New Guinea and 300 miles south
VI me Philippines, had been under
1l'host daily attack by Allied bonn
'erS IN recent weeks.
Nearest major Japanese strong
nolds west of Halmahera are Cele
oes and Borneo islands. Both con
IAN many airdromes as yet I'm
touched by Allied bombing.
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position. The other two COM
mittee members handling the
inquiry are Rep. Costello 3D.
Calif), who also went down to
defeat before CLIO drive, and
Rep. Thomas (R-NO, who
weathered CLIO attack. They
will be aided by Chairman
Dies D-Texas), who decided
not to seek reelection.
IT don't anticipate there will
be a conflict" Anderson said,
because tn e responsibility
for investigating elections
clearly is lodged with our COM
mittee. So long as the Dies
committee confines its opera
tons to Investigations of sub
versive activities, there should
be no conflict. Should it IN
quire into violations OF the
Hatch act or the corrupt prac-
tees act, that will be another
matter"
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Am E RICAN GENERALS
HAVE NARROW ESCAPE

WITH THE SEVENTH ARMY
IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, Aug.
N.-R-Three American generals
Maj. Gen. John K. Cannon, 1t
Gen. Jacob L Devers and Maj.
zen. Ira c Eakers - on a visit tc
ms beachhead narrowly missed
oelng hit by bomb during a Ger
man air raid a few night ago.
Inc generals were returning to G
snip some miles out to sea wher
ule bomb fell close to their small
Ooat' 1t exploded as it hit the sea
ana Sent up a water spout which
oeluged them.
H. Gen. Alexander M. Patch
C,o.lnmander of the 7th army, wa:
distressed over the close call of the
ulIee generals. It was on his ad
VICE that they went out to sea fol
ue night in view of the likelihood
VI German air raids on the beach
head
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decentralization
ForWorld Security Talks

pressly by both Undersec-e-
tary of State Edward R. Stet-
tinius, Jr., American delegate,
and Sir Alexander Cadogan,
the British representative, who
arrived a week ago. But it is
potentially more significant
because it apparently means
that Gromyko knows of no
points in Soviet world security
plans on which there cannot
be agreement with Britain, the
United States and China.
The British already have
publicly endorsed the basic
American plan for world as
-sembly of nations, a council
including the big-four, plus
elected smaller nations, a
world court and a strong COM
mitment to use force when
necessary to prevent aggres-
sion.
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American Bullfighter
Makes Great Comeback

SAN ROGUE, Spain, Aug. 20
Ho) = Sidney Franklin, American
bullfighter who retired 10 years
ago, made a triumphant comeback
today at a performance before an
invited audience.
Franklin and the Matadors Nino
de. la Palma and Pope Gallardo
disposed of three bulls SO smooth
ly they were awarded the ears and
tails as trophies. . .......
Franklin showed the enthusiastic
crowd his entire repertory with
cape and muleta and won especial
applause for drawing the bull past
from a kneeling position.
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Brazilian Soldiers
Part Of Fifth Army

ROME, Aug. 20-R-The Bra
lillian expeditionary force unde.'
General Joao Batista de Moreas
Mascarenhas has become part
of the Fifth army in Italy, it was
announced today.
It was thus clear that the Bra
zilians will not for the present par
ticioate in the French operations.
The Fifth army front on the
banks of the Arno in the Tyrrhe-
MAN coastal area has been COM
paratively quiet for the past two
weeks.
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Superfortresses
Hit Japan Again

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. -R-
Japan rocked again today with
the thunder of a BIG attack. ap-
parently one of the heaviest thus
far, directed against important in.
dustrial centers on Kyushu. one
OF the four islands composing the
heart of the empire,
Twentieth Airforce Headquarters
acknowledged only that the Super
fortresses were sent over Kyushu,
and said additional information
would not be available until re-
turning raiders had filed their re-
ports.
The Japanese rushed to the ra-
dio, however to broadcast the story
OF the attack hours before official
word was received at the War de-
partment. They asserted that II
giant bombers took part in the
offensive against five cities on
Kyushu and claimed 10 of the raid
ers were downed, three of them by