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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-10
Sewers Dragged
For Clue in Park
Staying Case
Reward Boosted
As Erickson Cose
Still Bottles Police

Police, stymied In their efforts to
solve the Staying of Miss Frances
Erickson, 30-year-old architectural
designer fatally stabbed as she
strolled through Rock Greek Park
Sunday. have dragged the sewers in
the vicinity Of the crime in an effort
to locate the killers knife and the
victims pocketbook, but have found
nothing, it was learned today.
The 5000 reward offered by tho
Police Department yesterday also
has failed to produce any leads in
tracking down the colored purse
The reward was increased to $500
later by Arthur Markell, a jeweler
at $40 E street NV, who telephoned
the police to say he would pay the
added 500 to anyone who gave
them information that would solve
the case.
Further Offers Urged.
Mr.. Markell said that he hoped his
offer would be followed by other
businessmen so that the award
would swell to sum so large that
1t would cause some person to turn
informer.
The body of Miss Erickson was
to arrive today at her home town.
Barber, Mont, for burial.
Barrett Reports No Clues.
Inspector Robert j. Barrett, chief
OF detectives, said there have been
no developments in the case. Park
police, In whose Jurisdiction the crime
occurred, also said they had nothing
to report.
Shocked by the crime, the public
was reporting to the police anything
that seemed to have the slightest
clue to the case.
TWO colored men wearing blood.
stained clothing were held for oues-
t1onlng in No. 8 police station, in U
street near Eighth street NV.
Six to Be Questioned.
A cleaners branch store reported
some blood-stained clothes had been
left for cleaning.
Six colored men picked UP for
lettering were to be questioned in
the homicide bureau at headouar-
tiers today in the hope they might
be able to divulge pertinent informa.
ton.
Military police turned over to
homicide detectives battered coin
purse found on one of the high.
way approaches to the Pentagen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-10

ton. She also was first chairman
of the subcommittee on nursing for
the Federal Council Of National
Defense.
Praising Miss Boards work, Mr.
O'Connor declared that almost
$4,000 American nurses were recruit
ed for the Army and Navy Nurse
Corps during her tenure. Her con-
tribution to the war effort has been
tremendous" he said.
Miss Dunbar is a graduate of
Mount Holyoke College and of the
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Earlier she had been active in the
direction Of nursing schools. Before
coming to the Red Cross in 1888 she
was assistant director of the Univer-
sity of California School Of Nursing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-10
Pro Golfer on One Lea
Breaks 40 for 9 Holes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAMILTON, Mont.-Friends heard
Eddie Hoblit,. Hamilton professional
boast he could shoot nine holes OF
golf under 40 on one leg.
Balanced on his left leg, he did II
IN IS. He didn't tell the unbeliever,
he had acquired that skill i. golans
on clutches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-10

CHAIRMAN Basil
O'Connor. H e
said Miss Beard
will be succeed
ed by her former
deputy, Virginia
M. Dunbar.
Director of the
nursing service
for six years,
Miss Beard pre-
Viously served
as associate di-
rector of tn e
interna tdonal
health division
of the Rookie
Teller Eounda-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-10
Save This Newspaper

Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for Army and Navy supplies
shipped overseas. Every pound
of old newspapers and maya
zines Is needed. Notify some
school child In your block to
have your paper picked up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-10
Miss Beard Resiuns
Red Cross Position

Resignation of Miss Mary Beard,
director of the American Red Cross
nursing service, for reasons of
health, was announced today bv
Evening star., 1944-09-04
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

The revelations made by American
correspondents visiting Lublins exter-
mination camp, in Poland, now held by
the Red Army, are but combinations of
what we have known for months. Jew
ish committees have smuggled out Of
Poland accounts statistically as horrify-
ing as those reported last week by cor
respondents who went into Poland with
the Red armies
Nevertheless, there is a difference in
statistical and an eyewitness report,
especially when one can presume a
degree Of objectivity in the reporter
Newspapermen are not gullible, and
they are trained in the observation of
evidence. have a high respect for the
profession to which belong, and the
reporting done by American and British
correspondents, during this war, wheth-
er on the air or in the press represents
a high mark in journalism.
Now these American correspondents,
who are not engaged in spreading atroc-
ity stories. give detailed reports of the
most cold -blooded mass murder in hu-
man history. This is not the first time
that American correspondents have told
the world what was going on. They told
of the mass murders being committed
in Germany, in 1888, and the world did
not listen.
No country severed relations with the
Nazi government because 1t was COM
posed Of murderers. The NaN murders
were merely internal affairs and there
were plenty of apologists for the per-
secutions Of the Jews.
Not one of those apologists would have
taken little Jewish girl, stripped her Of
her clothing, sent her into a warm
shower, and then ushered her into a
closed cement chamber and killed her
with cyanide gas or carbon monoxide,
afterward breaking the gold filings out
of her teeth and sending her shoes home
to his own baby.
But the apologists of the prosecutions
are in some measure guilty of what
happened in Lublin. For the moment
any human being can be regarded as an
outcast of humanity, logical sequence
Of acts leads to his eventual extermina-
ton as a cockroach. In the end 1t was
not only Jews who were so exterminated,
but Russians, Poles, Western Europeans
and, of course, from the beginning, Ger
mans-members of the opposition.
1t is not only from Poland that revela-
tions come. Czechoslovakia is not open,
Evening star., 1944-09-04

as one Of the country's elder states
men. As is 80 apt to be the case
under our political system, however,
his taste for national affairs appar-
emily resulted in a lessening interest
in the things which were Of immedi-
ate concern to his Nebraska constit-
uents, and in 1912, when he tried for
sixth term in the Senate, he was
badly beaten.
Senator Norris was shocked and
somewhat embittered by his defeat,
looking upon 1t as a reputation Of
himself and the things for which he
stood. Righteousness, he said, had
been crucfied, and the people OF his
State had condemned the things he
held most sacred. Perhaps, before
his death last week, he had come to
see the error OF this view. But
whether this was so or not, time will
prove that he was mistaken. What
ever the reasons for his defeat, it
was not because the people had re-
pudiated any Of the valid principles
In behalf of which he for so long had
waged the good fight.
Evening star., 1944-09-04
Thunderheud

Noon, and the air Is stu, the sea held
much too stu,
A. OF a picture OF a sea beneath thick
glass,
And In the east t6ntasttc aychitectuYs
OF high cloud:
The thunderhead, all omino1s tplth
oUertones OF brass.
A0dt'st sultrv sky. sidte-dayk NTH
coming storm,
Vast bdttlenents OF cumulus are t,piee.
bright In the gloom;
Ltpid and fabulous the cold cloud noun.
tain scars,
As epen noso the stir OF wtnd presaqes
doom.
And even noD the binding bolt o. hlac
light
Shears doirn NTH clear, apocalyptto
FASH.
And suddenly the sea beneath the harm.
strings OF the rain
Rodrs to crescendo before the than.
der's crash.
FREDERICK EBRI0Hr.
Evening star., 1944-09-04

German propagandists are working
overtime In an attempt to prevent the
collapse Of morale at home and at the
front.
No longer able to conceal the magni-
tude OF the disasters on the western
front and the abandonment Of the Reich
by its former satellites, they are en-
phasizing the fact that there are still
"impregnable' lines separating Germany
from its enemies. The west wall, the
Alps and the Insterborg- -Konigsberg po-
sitions, they say, form barrier which
the Allies will have hard time break
ing II the German armies and the
people retain confidence in the Fuehrer.
Propaganda Minister Goebbels' broad
casters and writers admit that the At
lantic wall has been broken, but they
add that 1t was broken at terrific cost
to the invaders. They 60 on to say the
high command was fully aware that the
strong defenses along the Atlantic coast
could not hold out indefinitely because
of overwhelming Allied naval and air
superiority.
Furthermore they add, the high COM
mand has not thought it advisable to
throw into the battle the whole of the
Luftwaffe for the defense of France.
The Luftwaffe had to be preserved for
the actual battle for Germany which
the NaM propagandists describe as the
decisive battle Of the war. They, Of
course make no mention OF the losses
the Luftwaffe has suffered in Western
Europe.
The impregnability of the west wall
Is being drummed UP even more than
the Maginot Line was in the winter and
spring of 1910 by the powerless French
government of Daladier and Reynaud.
To its natural strength, the German
propagandists say, have been added
many other things which must be kept
confidential.
The Atlantic wall could not be de-
Tended indefinitely because the guns of
Allied warships made such task impos-
sible. However, there will be no naval
guns, but only aircraft, artillery and
tanks facing the Reich super" defense
line. And for these the high command
is fully prepared. the Germans say. Be-
sides some new robot bombs which the
military now has at its disposal and
Evening star., 1944-09-04

but there was not only one Lidice there
At least one village was exterminated in
France. As our armies advance, we shall
see the truth-that the Nazi war has
been no war in the ordinary sense, but
a monstrous organized crime.
But where are we going to fix the
ultimate boundaries Of guilt? To many
persons Marshal Petain is still an ele-
CANT, old gentleman and touching figure.
Yet his government knew what it was
doing when it rounded up. first German
refugees, and later anti-Nazi French
Jews and delivered them over to the
Gestapo. The mass murderers presented
a list, and the Vichy government de-
livered the list. Can their hands be
altogether washed of the blood spilled
in Lublin?
And how about the countries that
barred their frontiers, when these peo-
pie, for 10 full years, before and during
the war. were trying to escape from
doom? Ships full of them fioated like
the Flying Dutchman in an oceanic
void, and no harbor would receive them.
A crime of such dimensions must be
puIiiSlcu ptOpOTIlOIldtClys Lie luluc.
diate guilt can be placed. 1t lies in the
first line with the persons who have
governed Germany for IL years. 1t lies
In the second, with their most willing
torture instrument - the Gestapo. II
the entire Gestapo Is rounded up and
shot, or sent to forced labor in Siberia,
the punishment will still be inadequate.
The guilt lies, third, with those who
actively collaborated with the crime
without indorsing it, privately washing
their hands Of blood and publicly white
washing the criminals.
But how far do the last tiny wavelets
reach of this monstrous lake of blood?
These crimes were committed by human
beings. They can no more be separated
from the human race than their VIC
Tins whom they separated for slaughter
Every individual bears a responsibility
for the whole of mankind. Human
civilization Is based on the recognition
Of that responsibility. The moment any
one denies this responsibility he makes
himself an accomplice Of humanitys
crimes. The moral crisis Of our times
has arisen from the denial Of this res
possibility. The war itself, which
Furnishes us all, Is the result Of that
denial.
(RSleased BY the Bell Dyndicate fne1
Evening star., 1944-09-04
'Know-How' Against Jopon

The Tokyo war lords must be
watching with the keenest interest,
and with considerable misgivings,
the course of our Allied armies in
Western Europe. What is happen
ing there, after all, foreshadows
what must one day happen in the
Pacific-Asiatic theater as well.
For just as our amphibious blows
against such places as the Solomons
and Marshalls contained valuable
lessons applicable to the invasion OF
France. so our French operations
will give us additional "know-how"
but to a much greater degree
for the large-scale offensives in the
making against Japan.
There is no better teacher than ex-
perience. Brigadier General Don G..
Shingler, who played an important
role in our European amphibious
operations, has indicated that we
have learned much since June s.,
with the result that our techniques
have been improved. Thus, for
example, the battle of France tested
our supply and engineering plans
new plans still largely of a secret
nature-and their success proved to
be beyond expectations. Similarly,
novel and perfected types of equip
ment were employed, and these, too,
proved their worth. And it need
hardly be added, of course, that
the great and victorious French war
OF maneuver has probably led to
some useful and highly important
refinements of tactics, If not
strategy.
All this is bound to have an in
f1uential bearing on plans to be put
into effect against the japanese,
perhaps even before the Nazis are
finally liquidated. Up to now our
operations in the Pacific have been
confined chiefly to relatively small
Islands, but the time is nearing
where our forces will strike at
larger land masses like the Philip
pines, the China coast and possibly
Japan itself. When these become
our objectives, our experience in
France will certainly be of enormous
help. Indeed. it will probably serve
as a kind of blueprint-a blueprint
which has worked so we'll so far that
our Far Eastern enemy must now be
exerting every effort to find some
means to counter it.
Evening star., 1944-09-04
The Phillips Resignation

The charge that William Phillips,
former political adviser to General
Eisenhower, was declared persona
non grata by the British govern
ment and that his recall was re-
quested by the British, has been
denied categorically by Lord Halifax,
Britain's Ambassador to this coun-
try. A similar denial has been made
by our own State Department. These
statements, as far as they go, should
clear the atmosphere and quiet the
fears of those, like Senator
Chandler, who complain of
British interference" in American
diplomatic affairs.
But the fact remains that many
curious aspects of Mr.. Phillips resig-
nation remain unexplained. It be-
came known that he had given up
his post in London after a conf
Dental report which he had pre-
pared for the President on
conditions in India, and which ap-
parently implied some criticism of
the British, had leaked out" to
newspaper columnist. Who was re-
sponsible for this breach of conf
dence. and what was the motive
behind it? If not because of the
publication of this report, why did
Mr.. Phillips, a competent and ex-
perienced diplomat, leave his post
with General Eisenhower at the
peak of the European invasion?
Chairman Bloom of the House
Foreign, Affairs Committee has said
that there was mo connection
whatever" between Mr.. Phillips
resignation and the unauthorized
publication of his report to the
President. Mr.. Phillips, according
to Chairman Bloom, went to London
on temporary assignment for some
special work in connection with the
planning of the invasion. Fog per
sonal reasons" after the Invasion
had begun, and presumably after
his work was finished, he asked to
be returned to this country, and
that was done.
That is a simple and straightfor-
ward explanation. If it be the cor
rect one, it is difficult to understand
why the State Department, or some
one in executive authority, does not
say so, and thereby pull the
props from under those who seem
bent upon fomenting anti-British
sentiment out of the incident.
Evening star., 1944-09-04
GEORGE w. Norris

Few Of our public men have made
as deep an impression on American
life and American thought as George
w. Norris, whose achievements dur
ing forty years as Representative
and Senator from Nebraska are as
handsome a monument as any man
could ask
He will be remembered best as the
ardent and successful advocate of
the Tennessee Valley Authority, and
1t is appropriate indeed that the
great Norris Dam should serve to
keep alive for future generations
the name of the man who was so
largely instrumental In setting up
the power and conservation project
of which it is an integral part. But
IVA, great achievement though it
is, was but one of many accomplish
ments with which the name of
George Norris will be forever asso-
ciated
Beginning his national political
career in the House of Representa-
tives in 1908, he was soon in the thick
of the fight against the czarlike
methods of Speaker Joseph G. Can
non and within seven years that bat
tie had been won. In 1912 he went
to the Senate, and he was one of six
Senators to vote against the entry
of the United States into the First
World War In the language of to-
day, he was then an 'isolationist,"
seeing nothing in the conflict of 1914
1918 that was threat to the lib
eral principles which he espoused.
His views changed, however, when
Hitler came to power and during his
last years in the Senate he was a
staunch supporter of the foreign
policies of President Roosevelt.
1t was in 1882 that his name be-
came linked with legislation of ma
tional significance the Norris-La
Guardia Act, designed to reinforce
the Sherman and Clayton Acts by
substantially prohibiting the use of
injunctions against labor unions
During the next ten years, in addi-
tion to IVA, he was to sponsor and
push through such important legis-
lation as the Twentieth Amendment,
abolishing>the lame duck" sessions
of Congress; the Rural Electrifica-
ton Act and the Farm Forestry Act.
Senator Norris was unconventional
and irregular in his politics. He re-
fused to place party regularity above
his personal convictions, and this
led him out of the Republican fold
and eventually gave him his stature
Is an Independent, and eventually
Evening star., 1944-09-04
This Changing World
By COMsf0Hfins BrOaCn

besides the rocket planes which have
been tested for the last few weeks in
aerial combat over the Reich, there are,
according to Goebbels' agents, many
other secret weapons which are bound
to turn the tide.
A similar situation is reported by them
to exist In the Alps. which separate
Southern Europe front the Reich terri
tory. In the east, the Germans insist
the situation will be even easier since
the Russians are approaching an area
which is far from their main supply
bases. The Eastern Reich border is de-
Tended by fortihcations at least as
strong as the west wall. Moreover,
natural barriers such as the Masurian
Lakes, will make it hard for the Rus
slams to progress.
tators say, the Russian offensive has
been stymied for several weeks except
in areas such as Romania, where the
betrayal Of the government Of King
Michael has made further resistance in
that area impossible.
1t is obvious to those studying these
propaganda themes that Hitler and his
dSSOClhtcS HuSt Uc lEdIltiC, uitiUukIi
still hopeful that II they can get the
soldiers on all the border fronts to put
up stubborn defense, they may pro-
long the war for sometime, possibly
until winter. They lean toward astrolo-
gers and clairvoyants.
American observers doubt the success
OF these new propaganda outbursts.
Although little reliable information
comes out Of the Reich, there are SUM-
cient indications to lead them to believe
that there is dog eat dog" situation
within the Nazi party. 1t is still uncer-
tain whether Reichsmarshal Goering
has been stripped of his many uniforms
and decorations and there are rumors
that he has been stripped of his COM
mand.
There seems to be equal confusion
among the new German war planners.
Only two weeks ago the official COM
mentators declared that the German
armies in France were being regrouped
to form a determined resistance to the
Allies across the Seine in the Marine
sector. Now the same commentators
declare that France is Of no major mill
tary importance.
Evening star., 1944-09-04

The Wallachian Plain between the
Danube River and the Carpathian
Mountains may be described, under
present conditions, as the military key
to the Balkan Peninsula from the
Russian point OF view.
1t contains the rich oil center of
Ploesti and the Rumanian capital,
Bucharest. Both Of these are in Russian
hands and from these two points rail-
ways and roads radiate to the north,
west and south.
The Danube forms the southern
boundary of the great plain, and beyond
the Danube lies Bulgaria, whose mill
tary position now becomes wholly UNI
tenable as long as Bulgaria adheres to
the Axis.
To the west lie the mountains Of
at the Iron Gates. This Is the road to
a junction with the patriot Yugoslav
forces, which have for four years been
resisting the Germans and with some
elements of which the Russians have
maintained a constant liaison.
To the north lies the great central
plain of Hungary, the bread basket OF
central Europe and the most important
strategic avenue to the invasion OF Ger
many from the south. This plain is
separated from the Wallachian Plain
by the barrier of the Transylvanian
Alps, into the southern foothills OF
which the Russians have already
penetrated.
Thus from their central position in
the Wallachian Plain the Russians are
in position to bring direct support TO
the Yugoslav patriot forces; to cut the
communications Of the German army IN
Greece and the Aegean Islands, and
eventually to threaten the invasion OF
Germany itself from yet another direc-
ton.
Just how the Germans will prepare
to meet this new danger or rather series
of dangers, Is not at this moment ap-
parent The crushing losses which their
Sixth and Eighth Armies sustained In
the fighting between the Dniester and
the Sereth do not leave them with
much prospect of making any sort Of
stand to the eastward OF the Iron Gates.
The new Bulgarian government ap-
peals to be even more pro-Allied than
its short<lived predecessor 30 that there
is every likelihood that Bulgaria viii
rot only be out of the war, but will
agree to the Allied peace terms, which
very significantly Include the right
Of free passage for Allied forces through
Bulgarian tefT1tosy. Bulgarian troops
Evening star., 1944-09-04
The Nozis in ItuIy

With the British Eighth Army
smashing through the so-called
Gothic Line, the lull in Italy ap-
pears to have been broken, but the
news seems hardly more than a
footnote to the great overshadowing
story of our Allied forces now ham,
mering at the gates of Germany
itself
How swiftly the perspectives of
the war have changed! Last May
the Italian theater was the main
center of interest. AS recently as
June the liberation of Rome took
the banner headlines. But two days
after that, with the first landings
in Normandy, the entire picture was
transformed, and so reaching
and decisive have been events in
France since then that even the
giant strides of the Red Army seem
somehow less dramatic than they
really are.
Italy, with all of Hitler's fortress"
visibly falling apart, thus looks like
little more than a side show. Yet
the fighting there can be bitter in
the extreme. The Nazis at the
Gothic Line are cut off completely
from France; If they wish to fall
back, they can fall back only toward
the Brenner Pass, their last link
with the homeland. And the fact
that Russian columns are now NOV
ing toward junction with Tito's
Partisans in Yugoslavia, while our
Allied planes bomb and strafe the
roads there, suggests the possibility
that even this escape route is not
an altogether certain one. In the
circumstances, the remnants OF
Kesselring's armies may decide that
the best thing for them to do is to
fight a trapped-rat battle.
Our British, American and other
Allied forces. however, are undoubt-
edly prepared for such an eventual
ity. Only few days ago General
Clark declared that we were ready
once more ito bloody the enemy's
nose" and If the Eighth Army's at
tack really marks the beginning Of
another all-out offensive In Italy,
We can be reasonably sure that the
Job viii be finished fairly fast. Here