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Evening star., 1944-07-26
Alabama Democrats
Organize New Party
BY the Associated Press.


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 90
A group of Alabama antiadminis-
tration Democrats formed a new
political party last night and voted
to call State convention here
August to name presidential cleo
tors pledged ito some Democrat
other than Mr.. Roosevelt"
Fred Rucker of Birmingham, who
said he was chairman of the meet
ing at which the action was taken
declared the party would be called
the American Democratic party.
DR.. Gleason L. Archer, Boston
chairman of the American Demo
cratic Committee, was quoted in 8
release as telling the group the
Democratic party is nothing but
a group OF ONCE holders dominated
by the CIO Political Action Com.
mittee."
The meeting, although not closed
to the press. was held on an of the.
record basis.
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hCl1lllOlc Stl tcl
Arlington, Va,
was killed July
10 in Italy. A
form er m e S.
senger for The
Star and report
er for the Ga
zette, Pvt. Wal
ton was induct-
ed into the Army
in January, l943
and went over
seas in Novem-
ber, 1943. He was
transferred to
public relations
six months ago,
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oSbtOAA al 1tdly
since June IL.
his parents have
been informed.
A native of
Washington, he
attended C e n =
trail High School
a n d Columbus
U n | V e r sity,
where he was a
member of the
boxing team. He
W e n t overseas
about a ar
ago after train
ing at Fort Nc
Clelland, Ala,
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On the Roll Of Honor
Former Star EmpIoye Among 4
From This Area Ki|Iedin Action

Four more men from the
Washington area, including a
former employe of The Star and
the Alexandria Gazette, have
been killed in action, II have
been wounded and one is miss
ing, according to War and Navy
Department announcements and
information received by their
families here.
Killed in Action
Pvt. Lynwood Carroll Walton, 81
son Of Mrs. Lucille Kelly, 3l3 N
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ceived in the in
vasion of France,
his parents have
been notified.
B orn h ere
August 13, 1923.
j ust a fe W
months before
h i S ar e n t S
moved to Chevy
Chase, Pvt. San
ford graduated
from 66lHeSQd-
Chevy c h a S e
High School and
was a sopho-
more at Virginia
p0lyforhy,ic Tn
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U. ). Carrier Raid
On PaIau Island
Reported by laps
tContinued From First Page.)

WOnGlnueo from f1fSt Pa8e.)
seizing; 800 miles northwest Of Hol-
landia, big Allied base on New
Guinea, and an equal distance from
Netherlands Indies islands below
the Philippines.
After the crippling blow at Palau
March 20, a lull ensued until Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's Southwest
Pacific bombers attacked near there
May IS. In June the island was put
on the regular calling list of South
west Pacific raiders, airdromes being
the principal targets.
The attacks tended to neutralize
any japanese attempts to interfere
with Admiral Chester Nimitz's in
vasions of Saipan, Guam and Tin
Ian.
Evening star., 1944-07-26
Mended Destroyer's
Bow Sees First Action
And Stern Its Third
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The bow of the destroyer
Murphy saw action for the first
time in the invasion of Nor
mandy, but it was the third
battle for her stern.
The Navy reported this today
and explained:
The Murphy, veteran of in
vasions of North Africa and
Sicily, split in two in a COL
lision last October. The bow
sank, but the stern was saved.
She was fitted with new bow
in time to screen troops moving
into Europe.
Evening star., 1944-07-26
Six-AIorm Fire Closes
Philadelphia Subway
BY the Associated Press,

PHILADELPHIA, July 26.-A six
alarm fire swept through two mer-
camille buildings at 215-217 Market
street, near the Delaware River
water front, shortly after noon to-
day. menacing historic old Christ
Church nearby.
Traffic in the Market Street Sub.
way was halted. The subway con.
course was filled with smoke.
Evening star., 1944-07-26
Tito's Purtisuns Lund =
.On Isles OF DoImotio
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July ga communi-
que broadcast today from the Yugo-
slav headquarters of Marshal Tito
said Partisan forces had landed on
the islands OF Peljesac, Korcula and
Mljet OH the Dalmatian coast.
In the operations, the war bull
letin announced, more than 10
Germans were killed and 180 cap
tured. Mopping up of the coast
opposite the islands, which are
punched together. is continuing, the
communique added.
Evening star., 1944-07-26

his death until
the family ca
bled him. A ma =
tive of w aShing-
ton and a grad
uate Of Central
High S c h ool
Pfc. MilWit stu
died at George
w a S h i n & t on
University a n q
at B e n ] a m i r
Franklin Uni
versity before he
was indicted in
February, 1912
He went to Eng
land in Septem-
Evening star., 1944-07-26

Ing with a COM
bat engineering
u n ! t in Nor
mandy.
1t. CoSgrove,
a n a t i've of
w a t e r t oW n,
Conn, attended
p r e p a r a t ory
S C h ool before
going to Colo
RADIO coll e G e,
where he was
gr a d u a ted in
1910. He entered
service in No.
v e m b er, 1910,
enr,,;,,~ ,x,,+l,
Evening star., 1944-07-26

"oaAiOSu uuI lllS
infantry fight
ing June 8 in
France.
Pvt. Weadon,
W ho attended
F a / r f a X (Va.)
High S C h o O |,
served two four
year enlistments
in the Navy and
achieved a rat
ing of yeoman,
third class, be-
fore he entered
the Army in
ADril l942. He
trained at Fort
Evening star., 1944-07-26

wounded on Biak
Island, Sou t h
Pacific, July 6,
his parents have
learned.
A n a t i've of
Washington, 1t.
Ward was grad
uated from Nc
K / n ey High
School in 1881.
Serving with the
Regular Army,
he was stationed
a t w h e e | e r
Field, Hawaii,
when the jap
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stitute when he resigned to enlist on
Armistice Day, 1912. He was sent
to England in June, 1943.
In addition to his parents, Pvt.
Sanford is survived by brother,
Evening star., 1944-07-26

Capt. Alton L. Sanford, now on duty
with the Army in Hawaii; a sister,
Ensign Elizabeth M. Sanford Of the
WAVES, assigned to duty here, and
another sister, Mrs. Ralph l.. Hill,
jr., Alexandria. His father is a
physicist with the Bureau of
Standards.
Evening star., 1944-07-26

He was one of the first infantry
men to win the newly authorized
expert infantryman badges.
Evening star., 1944-07-26
Wounded in Action

Pfc. Frederick F. Weadon, 35,
brother of Mrs. May Eubank. 32l
Eighteenth place NE, was seriously
Evening star., 1944-07-26

To protect your country your
family and your job after the
war is. buy bonds now.
Evening star., 1944-07-26

dIleSe dlCdCKeu
IN December, 1941. His wife, Mrs.
Dorothy Armstrong Ward, lives with
her parents in Binghamton, N. Y.
Pfc. Lewis G. Doetsch, 20, son of
Evening star., 1944-07-26
u. 5. Heavy Bomber!
Hammer Vienna and
Refinery in Albania
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, July 26.-Flying Fortresses
and Liberators bombed Vienna
military installations today in bad
| weather which obscured results.
Between $50 and 500 American
| heavy bombers were conveyed by
Mustang and Lightning fighters
which shot down a number of in
terceptors. The armada encount-
cred heavy fax.
Another Liberator formation
bombed the Berat kucove oil re-
f1nery In Albania and Mustangs flew
sweep over the Brod-Zagreb area
of Yugoslavia.
Before dawn, Italian-hased Allied
planes bombed communications in
Northern Italy and Yugoslavia.
Evening star., 1944-07-26
Raj Blasts Stuttgart
For Second Night

LONDON, July 26 (P).-Britisf
bombers, ranging over Germany ir
great strength last night despite
severe electrical storms, pounded
Stuttgart for the second successive
night and attacked a wide variety Of
other targets, including Berlin, Rre-
men, Mannheim and Wanne- -Eicke
in the Ruhr.
Approximately 1000 four-engineo
British bombers and large number
of lesser craft participated in the
overnight assaults, which were
carried out at a total cost of IL
planes
Robot Installations Hit.
Stuttgart, engineering and trans
port city in Southwestern Germany
which had been hit the preceding
night by more than 10000 incen-
diaries and a great weight of high
explosives, was the principal target
of the heavy bombers, but flying
bomb installations in Northern
France also were given a strong
going over
Strong forces of Halifaxes smashed
at a synthetic oil plant at Wanne-
Eickel.
Mosquitoes attacked Berlin for the
third night with many 2-ton block
! busters.
The weather grew worse today
with clouds down to 1900 feet.
Fire Set in Stuttgart.
| Airmen said the Stuttgart assault
was crammed into Is minutes be.
ginning Just before 2 am. Large
fires were kindled.
The Bremen and Mannheim raid.
probably were diversionary. Despite
the feints, the bombers beat off nu.
merous fighters around Stuttgart.
In hitting the Wanne-Eickel OF
plant, the Raj bombed an objective
whose outpost represents con.
siderable part of the entire syntheti,
oil production in the Ruhr. Wei
over so per cent of the Ruhr oil nov
is lost to the enemy through aeria
attacks on the five largest syntheti
plants in that area, 1t was reported
Evening star., 1944-07-26
Missing in Action

Pvt. Bernard E. Jackson, Is, son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Jackson, Fair
fax, Va, formerly of 1863 Monroe
street NV has been missing in
Evening star., 1944-07-26

for three months.
Evening star., 1944-02-02

was graduated from the Naval Acad-
eny In 1908.
Admiral Moreell, who was born in
Salt Lake City, Utah, September IA,
1892, entered the Navy from civilian
life In 1917. He became chief of. the
Bureau of Yard and Docks in De-
cember, 1887.
Admiral McIntire was born at
Salem, Greg, August IL, 1888, and
entered the Navy Medical Corps
April 4, 1917. He served at the Naval
Hospital and Naval Medical School
here from July, 1881, to 1884, when
he was assigned to accompany the
President on q trip aboard the
cruiser Houston. He was appointed
physician to the White House Feb
ruary l3. 1885, and became chief of
the Bureau Of Medicine and Surgery
December !, 1888. 4
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Boys Find Warship Plans
Hidden in Storm Drain
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
SOMERVILLE, N. j., Feb. 2.-Po-
lice Chief Leroy Stevens said today
two boys had found detailed plans
for construction of destroyers and
destroyer escorts in a storm drain
near the Central Railroad of New
Jersey station.
The plans, Chief Stevens said, in
dicated they were for warships un-
der construction at the Federal
shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. yard
at Newark and the Boston Navy
Yard.
Discovery of the plans, wrapped in
a package bearing the words ~. S..
Navy" was made last Thursday, he
said.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton at Newark had no comment.
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Mclntire, Roosevelt Physician,
Among 3 Named Vice AdmiruIs

President Roosevelt today NOM
mated three rear admirals who
head Navy Department bureaus
for promotion to the temporary
rank Of vice admiral.
They are Rear Admiral Ross T.
McIntire, chief of the Bureau of
Medicine and Surgery and personal
physician to the President, Rear Ad-
miral Randall Jacobs, chief of the
Bureau of Personnel, and Rear sAd-
miral Ben Morcell, chief of the
Bureau Of Yards and Docks. The
latter two occupy quarters at the
old Naval Hospital at Twenty third
and E streets NV, and Admiral
McIntire lives at 3647 Forty ninth
street NV.
Admiral Jacobs was born at Dan
vile, Pa, December Il, 1855, and
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Brotcher, Is Others Accused
OfEvoding Draft by DrugUse
FBI Says Bond Leader
Sought to Increase
Blood Pressure

Everett M. "Washie" Bratcher, %,
Washington orchestra leader, was
arrested by Federal Bureau of In
vestigation agents today, along with
l6 other Washington men, on
charges of evading the draft by what
the FBI termed the song and story"
method-appearing for physical ex-
aminations with high blood pres
sure induced by drugs.
Another man was arrested on a
charge of aiding one of the men to
evade the draft by helping him OBJ
tain the drug.
Bratcher was taken in custody at
his room at 1923 Twenty first street
NV. today and brought into the
local headquarters of the FBI at
1435 K street NV. Thirteen colored
men and four other white men also
were arrested and charged
Bratcher and 16 of the other de-
PENDANTS were arraigned before
United States Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage and pleaded not
guilty. Bond was set at 81 900 each
and preliminary hearings for all but
Evening star., 1944-02-02
WeotherChonoe
May Confuse
Groundhoq

This is the day for the ground
hogs annual weather prophecy, and
his professional rivals, the Weather
Bureau forecasters, were wondering
whether he woke up early or over
slept.
If he emerged from his winters
Information during the morning, he
probably couldn't see his shadow,
and according to tradition, there
will be an early spring.
On the other hand, the Weather
Bureau was confident that weather
would be fair later in the day. Any
grounding looking about for his
shadow then, the bureau said, would
unhesitatingly predict six weeks
more of winter.
Fair weather this afternoon was
to be accompanied by slowly rising
temperatures, the bureau forecast.
The temperatures were expected to
reach high of about 40 degrees, in
contrast to last nights low of 23
degrees at 6:55 am. The mercury
will drop again tonight, but will
strike a low Of only % degrees and
the weather will remain fair, the
bureau predicted.
Evening star., 1944-02-02
War Bond Purchases
By Big Firms Raise
Drive 10 50.4 Pct,
Two Weeks Remain as
Sales to individuals
Reach $19,800,000

District War Bond sales today
scared to SAT, 900, 900, or 50.4 per
cent of the city's overall sos ,OOO,-
900 quota. with announcement
that corporations and associa-
tions have added $28, 100000 to
the $19,800,O00 worth purchased
by individuals through yesterday.
The local campaign entering its
final two weeks, was given a tre-
mendous surge when the report OF
big money" orders swept the cor
poration-association bracket to 66 G
per cent of its $4,000, 900 goal.
The District War Finance Com
mittee warned that individual sales
must be emphasized each day. It is
the small money"-assuring wide
spread ownership of Government
securlties-that especially is sought
by $4,000 volunteer workers.
The individual total of SIG 300. .0OC
represented 37,3 per cent of the Dis
tricts $50 100000 quota for this type
Series E Bond sales amount to SILL
900, ,000 or 1872 per cent of a s30,-
000,0 goal.
While the early corporation re-
turns are most encouraging, the
breakdown shows the hardest lob is
to bring the individual quotas up to
par" an official stated. THE last
half of the job challenges our energy
and ingenuity. We won't be satisfied
until Washington goes over the top
30 Per Cent Of National Goal,
First report of "big money" SUBJ
scriptions carried the national drive
to one-third Of the $4,000, 600 ,O0O
goal. OF $4,628, ,O00, 900 subscribed
the Treasury said $2,886, ,000, 900 was
purchased by large investors and ST.
742 100000 by individuals. Stress
will continue to be placed on little
money orders until the drive closes
two weeks hence, the Treasury an
nounced.
Large purchases in the corpora.
tion phase of the drive here include
International Harvester, $1,O65, 900;
(See WAR BONDS PAGE A-40
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Don't Expect Any Miracles,
MurshuIls Correspondent Saws

ful naval units ever assembled. The
nearest comparison is with the fleet
assembled for the invasion of Sicily.
The total of ships and boats of all
sizes employed in the Mediterranean
operation probably exceeded the
actual number being used to assault
the Marshalls and patrolling the
Central Pacific. But the Pacific
force is much more powerful.
This Marshalls fleet includes many
battleships, both post and prewar
classes, and scores of cruisers and
destroyers.
Hundreds of fighters and bombers
are providing an almost continuous
aerial umbrella.
Vice Admiral r. A. Spruance, COM
mander of the Central Pacific, oper-
ating from a warship in the heart of
the Marshalls, has been given a
feet considered capable of over
whelming anything the Japanese
might throw against him.
The greatest threat to the naval
(see McMURTRY. Page A-7J
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Public Told 10 DELAY
1914 Tax Estimates
Advised to Wait Until
New Forms Are Printed

The Internal Revenue Bureau to-
day advised taxpayers to delay filing
their estimates of 1914 income due
March Is and the first quarterly
payment due then under the pay-as-
you-go system until after the new
tax bill has been passed by Congress
"Sit tight and wait until the new
forms are mailed" an official of the
bureau commented Actually, he
said, forms have not been printed
for 1914 income estimates, pending
final passage of the tax bill.
The official stressed that this does
not mean your 1943 income tax re-
turn should be postponed. 1t must
still be filed by March Is, and pref
erably before that date.
There is still possibility that the
forms for 1914 income estimates can
be printed in time to go out to tax
payers before March Is, he said, al
though much will depend on how
soon the Senate disposes of the new
tax measure.
AS the law now stands, taxpayers
under the pay-as-you-go system in
augurated last year are required to
file an estimate of their 1914 tax on
March Is and make the first quar-
terly payment of the tax at that
time.
In addition to not having the new
tax forms, taxpayers will have no
definite idea of the tax basis for 1914
income until after Congress has fin
ished with the bill, the official point
ed out.
The Washington branch office of
the collector of internal revenue said
it had received some requests for
forms but is advising taxpayers to
await their mailing. It was pointed
out that 1943 income estimates were
not mailed out last year until July.
They were due last September Is.
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Robertson Proposes
U. 5. Compute Tax on
Income Under $1,000
Offers Woys-Meons Unit
Plan to Bill 30 Million
For Exoct Amount Due
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative Robert tson,
Democrat, Of Virginia today pro-
posed that the Government it
self be required to figure how
much income tax is owed by per-
sons earning less than $4,000 a
year.
Mr.. Robertson's proposal, which
would cover approximately 30 900 900
persons, was submitted to the House
Ways and Means Committee as that
group began a search for methods
Of simplifying the income tax struc-
ture.
II found practicable. the plan
would AFFECT returns of small tax
payers due between now and March
l5- 1t Is intended as a relief meas.
ure pending a general simplihcatior
and streamlining Of the tax statutes
Would Notify Taxpayer.
The virginian would provide that
those taxpayers with annual income
below $1,000, who elect to file the
optional short form. may report only
gross income, credit for dependents
family status and Victory tax ex-
emption. The collector Of Internal
Revenue then would compute the
tax and notify the taxpayer how
much he owed. That could be paid
within 10 days.
Mr.. Robertson said the practical
bility of his proposal depended on
whether the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau itself is sufficiently stated to
compute the millions of returns.
Harold N. Graves, acting Internal
Revenue commissioner. said he con-
sidered Mr.. Robertson's plan very
impractical" adding that I'VE just
don't have the manpower to do the
job and we couldn't get it in these
times"
Mr.. Graves said it would take
many, many months. possibly a
year. to complete the proposed
computations.
May Not Sign Bill.
In the meantime, caustic admins
tration criticism of the tax bill
nearing final approval by Congress
and the history of what happened to
another tax bill President Roose-
welt didn't like, lent support last
night to a belief that the President
may refuse to sign the $4,000, 900, 900
measure.
There was little expectation OF an
outright veto, predictions running
(See TAXES, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Allies Smash
Several Miles
0fGustav Line
U. S. and French
Troops Advance
Above Casino
BY the Associated Press.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
.giers, Feb. 2.-American and
French troops converging north
of Casino have torn away sew
eral miles of the Nazis' strong
Gustav Line and are advancing
deeper in grim struggle, Allied
headquarters announced today.
To the west, on the Anzio bridge
head, Allied invasion troops threw
back strong German counter
attack west of Littoria supported by
tanks and artillery, and advanced
in some areas.
British troops are fighting hard
near Campoleone, Is miles below
Rome, and American units are at
grips with the enemy near Cisterna
IA miles northeast of Anzio.
A headquarters officer declared
the Germans still are building up a
large force near the beachhead, and
heavy counterattack may be ex-
pected soon.
Allies Pour in More Troops.
Allied reinforcements are pouring
into the beachhead, now IA miles
long and 8 miles deep on the average,
with some prongs running consider
ably farther inland.
On the Casino front, American
and French troops are fighting side
by side as the spearheads of their
attack join in the area above the
Nazi bastion.
They advanced a mile, seizing
more heights, and American units
now are within a mile of Terelle,
some miles northwest of Casino
French forces took 100 prisoners
yesterday, and Americans captured
SO more. A battle now is raging on
Mount Mamma southeast of Terelle,
and German pockets in neraby areas
are being mopped up.
American troops attacking behind
tanks entered the northern half of
some old Italian barracks near Cas-
sino, transformed by the Germans
into bulwark of the Gustav Line
and took prisoners.
French Losses Heavy.
Patrols pushed to within 300 yards
OF Casino Monday night but with
drew under heavy machine-gun fire
from Nazi "sacrif1cial squads" left in
the town to delay the Allied advance
and deny use of the main road to
Rome passing through Casino.
Evidencing the intensity of fight
ing on the Casino front, French
Gen. Paul Devinck, chief of Gen.
Henri Giraud's personal staff, said
French losses in two months in Italy
had equaled their losses for the en-
tire Tunisian campaign. Gen. De-
vinck, returning after visit to the
front, said important casualties had
been inflicted on the Germans but
the French had suffered higher
losses.
No additional details were an
nounced on the bridgehead area
fighting. The sector there in Allied
hands is smaller than the Tobruk
region in Africa which was held
In the western desert for seven
months in 1941 before being relieved
(Radio France at Algiers said
the main coastal railway supply
ing Germans in the Casino area
had been cut by Allied forces
Evening star., 1944-02-02
By the Associated Press.
BY CHARLES H. McMURTRY

~sSSS ''"h SoAAcSfoAoShS.
PEARL HARBOR, Feb. O.
Don't expect any 76-hour mira
cle-capture of the Marshall
Islands.
The Gilbert Islands, taken in
three days, were a different
matter.
It's true Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz sent the worlds greatest
naval force and many thousands of
marines and soldiers into the newest
Central Pacific operation, but weeks
of fierce fighting can be expected
before the complete capture of the
MarShallS.
The Jananese have many times
more bases in the Marshalls than
they had in the Gilberts. They also
have spent more years in fortifying
them.
It's no secret now even to the
Japanese that the hundreds Of ships
involved constitute the most power
Evening star., 1944-02-02
MarshalIs Invaders Battle Japs
For Control Of Kwaia|ein Ato||;
Beachheads Set Up on 10 |s|ets
Strong Opposition Met at
Major Points in Attack
On Munduted Islands
MAP on Page All
By the Associated Press.


lying isets for control of Kwajaen Ato in the heavily
fortified Marshas in mighty coordnated assault the
outer front line of the Japanese Empire
Troops who landed Monday after terrific lombard
ment positions quickly
10 OF the 3o-odd e forming the central largest
chain of mid Pacific bases.
The japanese showed little points
Admiral Chester W. Niz announcing
offensive against the inundated islands, told of strong opposition
apparently at the major islets of long Kwaalen
The 4th Marine Division, commanded by Maj. Gen. Harry
Schmidt landed at Ro the nohenmost Soldiers
OF the AmyS 7h Infantry Division which had captured Au
the Far North warmed ashore at Kwajalen southern
The 7th Division commanded Maj H. Corlett