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Evening star., 1944-12-24
Veterans in Hospitals
Here Feted With Many
| Parties and Gifts

Veterans throughout this area
especially those In hospitals, are
celebrating Christmas with many
festivities and gifts.
Christmas trees and Santa Claus
feature many ceremonies, and eiab.
crate decorations bring festive at
mosphere of the season to hospitals
and wards where patients still are
confined. Hundreds of veterans were
allowed to go home for Christmas
At Walter Reed Hospital there will
be party in every ward for bed
patients this afternoon, and Santa
Claus will distribute a box of gifts
to each man. The Red Cross han
dies distribution of gifts not only
from its own camp and hospital
council but also from other per-
sons who have contributed. There
will be a Christmas pageant to-
night, followed by a lively party
with games Tomorrow will be open
house in the Red Cross Hall, and
there will be program with a pop
ular orchestra and motion pictures
Last night George Washington
Post, American Legion, entertained
with party.
Marines Win Trophy.
AT Naval Hospital, near Bethesda
lcompetition for Christmas decora-
ton Of wards, which has been under
way for weeks, came to a climax
yesterday afternoon when a COM
mittee of the hospital stan award
ed silver cup to the prize winning
ward, KS. composed of marines
from the tropics. Gifts were dis
tributed to all patients, and each
bed patient was given d stocking
full Of gifts. There will be a show
tomorrow afternoon.
Most of the convalescent patients
at Forest Glen annex to Walter
Reed Hospital have gone home fol
the holidays, but elaborate enter
tainment and gifts are being pre-
sented for those staying over. The
Women's Club of Takoma Park en-
tertained with refreshments yester-
day afternoon. Tonight there will
be an allied party" arranged by
girls from Meridian Hill. Tomor.
row the Elks will present big party
with elaborate refreshments.
Employees of Acacia Mutual Life
Insurance Co. presented two piano.
on wheels yesterday afternoon te
Walter Reed and st. Elizabeth.
Hospitals.
Among several festivities at Mt
Alto Hospital for veterans there vii
be a visit this afternoon by the Guy
v. Henry Garrison No. 8. Army anc
Navy Union, and its ladies auxiliary
which will distribute large quantity
Of cigarettes. The group is headed
by c. H. Nichols, chairman of the
| Welfare Committee.
Evening star., 1944-12-24
Aide Course Planned
For CoIored Women

The Red Cross will begin nurses
aide class and home nursing class
for colored women January 8.
The nurses aide class will meet
from 10 am. to noon Mondays and
Fridays through February % at
Walter Reed Hospital. The 80-hour
course is open only to women living
IN the vicinity Of the hospital who
have free hours for daytime service
The home nursing class will meet
from 8 to 10 pm. Mondays and
Wednesdays for six weeks at Freling-
huysen University, 201 T street NV
Evening star., 1944-12-24

SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS Candleight held at
the Central Union Mission last night with and
in attendance special Christmas services and
held service people throughout the city Shown
singing the hymns Corpl Emma Lee Boyer Marshall Ill.,
u S. NJ C. r. Copl Vivian Crabtree of Bethany No. U. M
c. R., and Pvt Joe Martin of Los Angeles
Evening star., 1944-12-24
Star Staff Photo.

couldn't think of any way to ex-
press her appreciation for what
Tommy's classmates did for him
ITO think that other people would
take time off for a little fellow at a
time like this when everyone is wor-
ried about someone overseas-it's
such a nice thing to do" she said
Tommy's older brother, Robert
Is an aviation machinist's mate with
the Navy in the South Pacific. A
sister, Mrs. Edward Murray, lives
in Baltimore, and another sister
Mrs. Jean West, in San Francisco
Mr., Hickernell is employed at tn,
Agriculture Department,
Evening star., 1944-12-24
Atrocities
Continued From First Page }

pated directly in the crimes, visit
ing the camps several times fol
personal inspection.
LAS a result of this" the report
said, ''the Lwow atrocities of the
German monsters were distinguished
by particular 'reflnements. They
bear the mark of the personality of
Himmler himself"
The German government, said the
report, Systematically sent to the
LwoW camps prisoners of war and
civilians of foreign States from con-
centration camps in Germany, and
then tortured and killed them.
The victims were said to have in
eluded Ukrainians, Poles, Czecho-
slovaks, Yugoslavs, Americans,
Britons, Netherlanders, Italians and
citizens of other States, including
many Jews. The reports were con-
f1rmed, the commission said, by nu-
merous statements of Soviet citizens
and also by French prisoners of war
who had been confined in the camps
and were liberated by the Red Army
Children Used as Targets.
The, commission reported that
children were selected and given
to detachments of the Hitler youth
as targets for shooting practice"
One French witness was quoted:
I'm the camp where I arrived
September 3, 1912, Englishmen were
killed by slow degrees. There was
only one water tap in this camp
for $4,000 people. Prisoners were
only allowed to use it for four or
five hours day.
German guards terrorized U.S.
For the smallest fault we were
threatened with death. We were
not allowed to drink water. We
starved. In the morning we could
hardly stand on our legs. We got
200 grams & ounces of bread a
day. The soup was just water. We
slept on the ground. There were
f1eas and bugs everywhere"
Disease Was Rampant.
In one camp for war prisoners, the
report said, nearly 5000 prisoners
died of dysentery in the four months
from August through November,
1941, and nearly 5000 prisoners died
through typhoid epidemic.
I'm one execution ground in for
est more than 100000 people were
killed" the report said.
The commission reported that
10000 Jews were confined to one
Ghetto camp, and that 10000 were
killed in this camp from September
Z, 1941, to June 6, 1943.
On special order of Himmler and
an S. S. Elite guard major general
named Katzman, thousands of
corpses were said to have been ex-
humed in June, 1943, and then
burned, and the ashes sifted by spe-
cial machines to recover 100 kilo-
grams (about 121 tons) of gold from
watches. teeth, 'etc.
Evening star., 1944-12-24
Cigarettes Pay Fine
BY the Associated Press

by LHt hSsOCIateu PreSS.
PORTLAND, Oreg. A soldier
didn't have the 81 bail for a parking
ticket, but he offered his seven pack
ages of cigarettes to the policeman
who issued the tag in exchange for
dollar bill that the policeman had
The offer was accepted-but fast
Evening star., 1944-12-24
Prints of Police Found
At Scene of Robbery

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. - Buddy's Eat
Shop, just across the street from
police headquarters. where the chief
his officers and men eat, was robbed
Fingerprint experts scattered car
bon dust to pick up any prints the
burglar may have left and lifted
several-only to find they were those
| of department members.
Evening star., 1944-12-24
RiverduIe Party Planned

The annual Christmas party for
employees of the town OF Riverdale
Md, will be held at 7::30 pm.
Wednesday at the Fire House,
Queensbury road and Forty-seventh
avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
MRS. ANNIE ROBERTSON
1854 Culver street.
Dearborn Township.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
MY PROBLEM is not very diff
A'l ferent from that III the let
ter from the 10-year-old Boy
Scout who tried his very best
TO turn in waste fats,
We have been saving paper
for ever so long. In the past
month / called Randolph 82S2
four times TO get some one 10
pick up our waste paper.
II paper is not very much
needed any more. why are we
strongly urged 70 save IL?
DISGTSTFD.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
Education for Usefulness
Urged by University Head

Chinese students could study forestry
at the same time they worked in our
lumber industry. Others might
spend part of their time in the school
of fisheries while they got practical
experience with our fish companies"
DR.. Sieg said the idea of "educa-
ton for usefulness" had first struck
him when he joined the University of
Pittsburgh faculty in 1924 and found
there was no community interest be-
tween the educational institution and
the great industrial center in which
it was located.
1--WE had a good faculty." he said,
"but it was teaching only under
graduates, and / believed our en-
gineers could be better trained if
they didn't get all their book learn
ing before they got any practical ex-
perience.
81 went to the Westinghouse
company and suggested night classes
for its engineers, so they could study
for masters and doctors degrees.
another part of the plan was
that the company should give our
students research jobs.
westinghouse accepted the idea
and Is of its top engineers were
made lecturers on our faculty.
"Just before l left for Seattle we
had 800 graduate students working
for masters degrees under this
plan."
Dr.lSieg said the plan, originated
by, Herman Schneider, dean of the
University of Cincinnati College Of
Engineering and Commerce, was the
pattern for the system which has
been put in effect at the Carnegie
Institute of Technology under the
George Westinghouse Scholarship.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13

UEDUCATION for usefulness
IL the system by which college
students receive practical training
for their careers through alternate
classroom study and work in industry
is destined to play an important
part in postwar reconstruction, in the
opinion of DR.. l.. P. Sieg, president
of the University of Washington.
Few educators are better qualified
to discuss the subject, as DR.. Sieg put
such plan in effect nearly 20 years
ago when he was dean of the gradu-
ate school at the University Of
Pittsburgh before going to Seattle.
DR.. Sieg revealed he has already
taken up with Gov. Arthur B. Langlie
the question of instituting a similar
system at the University Of Wash
ington in connection with postwar
plans for foreign trade.
1--WE could attract a lot of Chinese
engineering students if we could
arrange to have them work part time
at such places as the BOeing plant"
he said. "And there is nothing that
we would do that would cement our
relations with China more firmly-as
it's the engineering students of to-
morrow who'll have the job of con-
verting China into an industrial
nation.
ut would be singularly appropri.
ate for the university to have such an
agreement with the BOeing company
las both c. L. Egtvedt, Boeing
chairman, and Philip c. Johnson,
president, first became identified
with the company while they were
still students here.
'The system need not be confined
to engineering. There is great need
for refOrestatiOn in China - and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
LETTERS
to HE
Editor

TO THE EDITOR:
I WANT TO thank you for the
appeal you put in the Times
for a harmonica for my son,
Peter, in Africa.
I got two and they are ready
10 be mailed. | want TO thank
all the kind people who offered
to give me what they had
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
DISGUSTED.
TO TIE EDITOP.

TO THE EDITOR:
DLEASE accept my thanks for
L the. picture of my son. AYC
VIM. n. Dee. This is a wonder
fully generous gesture on the
part of The Detroit Times.
MRS. HELEN G., DEE.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
The Pacific Problem

taught in academies remote from the
Pacific scene.
Measures have long been pending
in Congress, slong before the present
war in fact, not to supplant but to
supplement the splendid officer
training plants at West Point and
Annapolis with similar West Coast
establishments.
The Hearst newspapers have long
urged the approval of these impor-
tant and logical measures by Con-
gress, not merely since the present
war but long before the first World
w.
1t took no prescient mind to fore
see that Japan was our potential and
probable enemy, and that Japan
would be a formidable enemy and
thus that our ominous danger was in
the Pacific.
LNOR many years, INFORMED Hill
l. tary and diplomatic agencies in
the United States were well aware
that Japan contemplated war against
the United States and was syste-
matically preparing for war.
However derelict we may have
been in our preparations for Pacific
defense, we cannot plead the excuse
of not being forewarned.
How can we better assure our
selves of the essentials and funda-
mentals of national defense than by
having the officer training facilities
of the army and navy on the Pacific
Coast of the United States-adjacent
to all our Pacific ports and all our
vital Pacific bases!
The measures still pending-but
dormant-in Congress to accomplish
this logical and important purpose
should be revived, and should be de-
bated with intelligence, and should
be acted upon and passed with patri-
otto understanding of our basic ma
tional interests.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13

THE wisdom of having permanent
i officer training facilities on the
Pacific Coast, for both the army and
navy and in the best traditions and
according to the high standards of
the West Point and Annapolis acad-
emies, is self evident.
The necessity for such establish
ments is beyond dispute.
The decisive and concluding
phases of the present war will be
fought in the Pacific.
The national defense problem of
the United States after the present
war will be in major sense and al
most exclusively a Pacific problem.
Our great military and naval
establishments will therefore be per-
manently located on the Pacific Coast
of the United States.
Our great military and naval con-
struction bases, shipbuilding, air
craft, munitions, will be permanently
established on the Pacific Coast.
Our great system of transpacific
airfields and aviation bases, both
military and commercial, will be on
the Pacific Coast.
Our vast maneuvering and train
ing areas will be on the Pacific Coast.
All of this is necessary, and wise
and INEVITABLE.
Why should the single exception
be the indispensable and vital officer
training facilities?
WHY, indeed, is it not equally
w important if not most important
of all that the officers of the army
and navy who must conduct the de
cisive and concluding phases of the
present war and who must direct our
permanent program of Pacific de
Tense after the war be trained in the
Pacific area?
Pacific warfare and defense are
not capable Of being effectively
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
Government

These excerpts are from let
fers and oddresses Of Grover
CieVeIand (Is37-f9OS), 22d
president OF the United States:
Public officers are the serv-
ants and agents of the people.
to execute the laws which the
people have made.
However plenty silver dollars
may become, they will not be
distributed as gifts among the
people.
When more of the peoples
sustenance is exacted through
the form of taxation than is
necessary to meet the just obi
cations of government and ex-
Npenses of its economical admin
istration, such exaction becomes
ruthless eXtortiou and a viola
ton of the fundamental princi-
pies OF a free government.
The lessons of paternallsm
ought 10 be unlearned and the
better lesson taught that while
the people should periodically
and cheerfully support their
government, its functions do not
include the support Of the
people.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
In the South Pacific

buildings, no at en- pts 10
beautify, no amusement edifices.
Everything is crude, hastily
assembled, somewhat uncom-
Portable. But when you think
how very much more uncom-
Portable the Japs are now, you
feel very relaxed indeed.
uOW did American ingenuity
II accomplish all this in such
amazingly short order? Well,
this is the way ii was done:
On the first day of the in
vasion, members of Lt.-Col.
Herbert c. Browns aviation
engineer battalion were among
the first Americans on the is
land.
On the second day, their sur
veyors were working on the
captured territory-while up
the line, the Nips were being
pushed closer toward the sea.
On the third day, the men
we're working on the spots the
engineers had surveyed. And
on the fourth day, when the
last Jap was surrendering or
departing in the general down
ward direction Of his honorable
ancestors, the air strip was
ready TO receive its first Ameri-
can plane, ........... u;
The Seabees went to work on
the road that now circles the is
land. while those same engi-
neers concentrated on the ire
mendous air strip that is now
one of the most important in
these highly strategic islands.
They worked II hours a day.
and in their spare time they
built the hundreds OF huts and
offices that now cover the is
land.
What did they use? Every
thing we had-plus all the Japa-
nese materials that were found
on the islands.
So the days turned into
weeks and the weeks turned
into months. The men have
never stopped working-and
they never will stop until the
order comes 10 move onward.
But meanwhile, as the sailor
pointed out, the birds are back
on this island. Birds are very
smart. They know when things
are safe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
Quick Que stions

sO-second mental test. score IS
for starred questions; 10 for others an
swercd within 10 seconds. Average n
weeks scores for n rating and try "a
improve n each week.
What was the first perma-
nent English colony in
America?
2-What name is out of place
among these install, Fire,
Hibernia, New Ireland7
3-For men only: Average size
IN W0mens stockings is
~ s. 81 IL y
4 Would an anoStjc person
lack ca religious feeling
CO. foresight; (c) sense Of
A smell
> Are congressman required
hy law 90 attend any seS-
sion OF Congress-
6-The only tree forbidden in
the Garden OF Eden was -
ANSWERS on opposite psge)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
Special to THE DETROIT TIMES
WITH THE SEVENTH AAF
w IN TIE MARSHALL is.

WITH THE SEVENTH AAF
w IN TIE MARSHALL IS
LANDS, May 4 tdelayed) 1t
was a warm day and very
peaceful and lovely. So /
grinned myself a ride out to one
of the ships in the lagoon and
relaxed on a deck chair in the
cooling wind.
War isn't all hell you know.
There are moments like this,
too.
/ looked out at the island be-
fore me. was fully mile Off
shore, yet 1 could see that the
spot was teeming with life.
Huge planes circled the place
constantly; jeeps on the shore
line raced back and forth like
so many ants.
Only a little over two miles
long, and possibly a mile wide,
the island at which / was look
ing is certainly one of the bust
est spot in the world today.
/ closed my eyes and thought
pleasantly of a cocktail had no
chance whatsoever OF getting.
A sailor stopped beside my
chair and pointed off.
Look there, sir" he said.
l looked there. i didnst see
anything.
What Ii IL 2" asked.
He seemed surprised.
Don't you see them" he
cried. "Over there. The birds.
Two Of them"
Yes, l saw the birds. They
were circling another ship. But
what, L asked the sailor, was
so unusual about that?
well, sir" he replied. as If
he were talking to child, Its
the first time they've been back
since we took the island.
There were thousa d 8
around when we first invaded,
but they all disappeared"
EOR some 30 years the Japs
L played with this territory
that should never have belonged
10 them in the first place.
They played with it in the
only game they really know
preparation for war.
That far back. as we realize
now. they were dreaming of
annihilating us.
Until Feb. / of this year. the
Japs did as they pleased on
these islands. They very evil
IDENTIFY had no notion that we
would drive this way as swiftly
as we did For the defenses
were not the defenses of
Tarawa.
But the Japs were strongly
entrenched nevertheless, and IL
took four days of violent action
to secure the island.
In those four days, the birds
disappeared. They weren't the
only things that disappeared
either-for by the time our
forces were finished, there
wasn't a thing left intact on
some of these strips of sand and
coral.
Not a tree. Not a hut. Not
a road. And, most assuredly,
not Jap.
wasn't here 10 see IL. but
I am told that we have never
done a more thorough job Of
necessary destruction.
ONLY three m on his have
" elapsed since then and
now. as I told you, this is one
Of the worlds busiest spots.
True, there are no large
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
- By Dr.. Sabino H. Connolly

heart Of (a) Benedict Ar
mold tbl Nathan Hale (c)
Abraham Lincoln?
What is the next line.
Home. home on the range
tal Where the heavens are
starry and bright: tb)
Where the deer and the
antelope play Cc) Where
the skies are not cloudy all
day d?
Deaf mutcs tai X" by
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
Should Fighters. Id. Vote?

Do YOU favor lowering the voting IS permit
men who are defending o- country 70 have in how
II 50 sign the petition calling for referendum when the
solicitor calls YOU.
sign The petition on& r. you are registered voter if
you have been registered have voted years
you Will have 20 Ie-regstcr before signing
DO not sign more Than. petition and sign only a
petition that being circulated \osr chs exclusively.
Married women permitted their husbands
names IN signing hgy must tHcr Christian names.
EXanN1e; MIS- Mary @oues, rcf 3Ire }1ur JoupsN
AN signerS must give trEr complete home addresses
including street numbers, cities ard dates Of The signing
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13
KNOWLEDGE Test

score one for the i've questions
snd ave for the last question. score
e-lh; brilliant. -. brighfi t6, aver
ste n-A. dut.
When you say Z a m. the
a m means lal after uld-
day, (bl ammo WuHdi, lc)
ante meTiGICw.
The word AlleMa. is used
IN church services N -6X-
press: ca JOY; co. sorrow,
Co death2
3-Ann Rutledge was The sweet
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-13

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