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Evening star., 1944-04-07
laps Expect Offensive
By Allies Before July
BY the Associated Press.


Berlins DNB agency today quoted
japanese imperial headquarters as
expecting that "the so-called enemy
general offensive will still take place
during the first half of this year."
A Tokio-datelined dispatch broad
cast from Berlin said 1t was now
clear that the Allies had given up
their former isle-to-isle strategy
and in its place are applying jump
ing tactics"
Other reports today from Toxic,
as intercepted by United States
monitors:
/. The japanese Ministry Of
Transportation is permitting only
300 of Japan's 895 transportation
firms to remain in business, Ito in
crease the general efilciency OF the
nations transportation setup."
2. Closing of two Soviet consulates
and two japanese consulates in the
Soviet's Northern Sakhalin Island
is expected in the near future.
Russia announced last week the clos
ing of these consulates in connection
with the liquidation of Japanese
coal and oil concessions at Sakhalin.
3. Toxic newspapers, cooperating
with police, will publish special edi-
tions tomorrow to test new plan
for distribution Of easily printable"
newspapers in the event Of air at
tacks.
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Sfassen Gains Fourth
Delegate in Wisconsin
BY the Associated Press.

os LhC ASSOSldtCV TlCoS
MILWAUKEE, April 7.-Late Wis
consin election returns indicate that
1t. Comdr. Harold E. Stassen has
gained fourth delegate to support
his nomination for President at the
Republican National Convention.
On the basis of returns from 1890
of the States 3,076 precincts, the
Wisconsin lineup now stands at Is
delegates pledged to Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey of New York. four pledged
to Comdr Stassen, three to Gen
Douglas Macarthur and two unin-
structed but favoring Gov. Dewey
Wendell l.. Willkie, who failed tc
win delegate, came close in only
one district, 3he I'd, which is just
west and south of Milwaukee, where
two of his candidates placed third
and fourth behind the Dewey
pledged winners. In most of the
other districts his supporters rar
last.
Comdr. s;tassen picked up his
fourth delegst te in the 10th district
where candidate pledged to
Comdr. Stassen had the lead &C.
cording to rsturns from 397 Of the
districts 403 precincts. Only eight
votes behinf was another Stassen-
pledged caFtlidate.
Trailing Sem with 5,343 votes was
an anti-WT;kie candidate, who had
expressed Mipport of Gov. Dewey.
Evening star., 1944-04-07
BY the Associated Press.


PITTSBURGH, April 7.-"Com-
mando" Kelly's mother, deaf and
her sight fast failing, has ap-
|pealed to President Roosevelt to
allow her hero son to come home
to visit her for a few days.
Tech. Sergt. Charles E. Kelly, re-
Gently awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor in Italy, is only one
of seven sons the widowed Mrs.
Irene Kelly has in service. Her
other two sons, 16 and II, are home
Last night, by the Pickering light
of an oil lamp, she dictated letter
to President Roosevelt saying she
was going to offer up another
prayer that you will make a lonely
mothers heart light and happy by
letting her see Charles soon"
Her 16-year- son, Howard, did
the writing in boyish scrawl with a
pencil.
Letters she recently received from
Presidential Secretary William D.
Hassett and Secretary of War Stim-
son, commencing her for giving her
sons to the Nations service,
prompted the appeal to the Presi-
dent, she said
Howard laboriously scrawled the
following while his mother groped
for words to express herself:
Dear Mr.. President:
Il am writing this letter for my
mother who is deaf and whose sight
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Modest Soldiers
Find They Aided
Generoi'sKin

The two modest Army privates
who came to the aid of a young
woman injured in a traffic accident
yesterday may still not believe she
really was a generals daughter.
When Miss Elizabeth Larkin, 81
George Washington University STU
dent and daughter of Maj. Gen.
Thomas B. Larkin, was knocked
down by motorcycle which bound
ed over the curb and struck her
while she was walking at Dupont
Circle, the two soldiers administered
first aid to her while awaiting for
police to arrive.
The motorcyclist, Andrew Ashford
35, colored, was charged with failure
to give full time and attention while
driving. Miss Larkin was taken to
Emergency Hospital suffering from
abrasions to her ear, leg and arm
Her condition is not serious.
Declaring they didn't want any
publicity, the soldiers asked police
not to use their names. When one
Of them called up several hours
later to inquire about Miss Larkin's
condition, police informed him she
was a generals daughter.
Who do you think you're kid
ding" the soldier asked and hung
up.
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Pupils Push Beyond
4,000,00O-Lb. Mark
In Paper Collection

The 1900, ,000-pound mark in The
Evening Star-PTA Salvage for Vic
tory wastepaper collection program
was reached and left we'll behind
Yesterday when a collection of g.
$40 pounds pushed the grand total
to 4,041 ,049 pounds.
A record-breaking week was
marked up with daily collections of
$1,000 pounds, 52,490 pounds, 50, ,140
pounds and 62,570 pounds for a
four-day mark of 261 230 pounds.
Yesterdays collection was some
thing of an experiment for it was
the first time two districts were
covered in one day. The collection
day for schools usually visited on
Friday was moved forward to yes
terday because of Good Friday.
Similar Plan Next Week.
Next week similar arrangements
will be made SO that the first dis
trict schools which normally are Wis
tied on Monday will be included in
the Tuesday collections, thus avoid
ing a lost day because of the Easter
Monday holiday.
The proposal to include nearby
Maryland schools in the weekly COL
lection setup already has born fruit
with the announcement that West
brook School, one of the larger pro-
ducers in the original Evening Star
PTA program, will join up next
week. Schools in Montgomery
County as far as Alta Vista, Glen
mont and Four Corners will be in
cluded in regular weekly schedules
on application.
Trucks Are Available.
Schools in Prince Georges County
within a similar radius also can
have weekly collections, an ample
number of trucks now being avail
able for this service. Similarly it will
be possible to pick up any school COL
lection in nearby Virginia on a
weekly basis If request is made.
Among yesterdays larger collec-
tions were Stevens, 4,482 pounds;
Benning, 2,277 pounds; Hardy, A.
1873 pounds; Mann, 2,229 pounds;
Lafayette, 3,705 pounds; Hearst, s.
COS pounds; Key, 2,250 pounds;
Deal, $3.50 pounds with another
load to come; Murch, 1895 pounds:
Wheatley, 6,870 pounds; Blow, 2,550
pounds; Kingsman, 3,817 pounds;
Deanwood, 1000 pounds, and Gar
net-Patterson, 5000 pounds which
was a second collection at that
school for weeks total Of 1882
pounds.
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Wi||kie Is Cheerful
But NoncommittaI on
Return 10 New York
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 7.-Cheerful
but noncommittal on his political
future, Wendell Willkie came home
today from a campaign tour on
which he staked and lost his bid
for the Republican presidential
nomination.
AS he stepped from his train at
BIS am into the rush-hour crowd
of Grand Central Station, Mr.. Will
kie refused to add anything to the
statement he made in Omaha in
which he said he was withdrawing
his candidacy because 1T Is obvious
I cannot be nominated"
To all questions asked by news
men as to whether he would support
the candidate of the Republican Ma
tional Convention and, specifically,
whether he would support Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey should he be the
nominee, Mr.. Willkie merely smiled.
Il made my statement in Omaha,
he said. "It was completely COM
prehensive and I don't want to
add to It,"
Mr.. Willkie said his national
campaign headquarters here, q
dozen rooms on the second floor of
the Grand Central Terminal Build
ing which were opened while he
toured Wisconsin and which he has
never visited, would be closed i'm
mediately.
Asked if he planned any out-of-
State trips, he said he intended to
devote his time to his law practice
here and added: This is where I
live, you know
AS Mr.. Willkie walked up a stair
way with Mrs. Willkie to- enter q
taxicab, many in the crowded sta
ton remarked There's Willkie, )"
but there was no demonstration.
He was met on his arrival by Ralph
Cake, national committeeman from
Oregon and his campaign manager,
and by Leo Casey, his director of
publicity.
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Red SkeIfon PLANNING
To Wed Film Actress
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April Come
dian Richard (Red) Shelton has a
quip for almost every occasion, but
when he walked into the marriage
license bureau with Muriel Chase
blond film actress, the gag was on
him.
He didn't have the required health
certificates.
But Shelton and Miss Chase
daughter of the late Charles E.
Biedenharn, Evansville Gnd.) cas-
ket manufacturer, filled out their
applications yesterday, each giving
the age as 30. They were told tc
return with the certificates before
the license would be issued.
why, I'm in Al condition, or al
least la" was the immediate Skel.
ton reaction. He explained that he
recently passed his army physical
examination and expects to be in
Quoted soon.
The comedian told newsmen he
and Miss Chase would obtain the
health certificates, required by Cali.
fornia law, today and would be mar
ried in a day or two.
Miss Chase, known professionally
as Muriel Morris, met the comedian
while playing showgirl parts in hi.
movies. He said they had been &C.
quainted about two years, but de.
cided on marriage only about ar
hour before arriving at the license
bureau.
Edna Marie Shelton, the come.
dams first wife, who continues a.
his gag writer, obtained a final de.
cree of divorce from him last Feb.
ruary 18 on charges of menta
cruelty.
Evening star., 1944-04-07
ESQ Planes Hammer
Ho||andia as Pacific
WAR Shifts Westward

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, April IA
250-plane raid against Hollandia
in Dutch New Guinea testified
today to the steady westward
movement of the war against
Japan.
Hollandia was hit with 800 tons
of bombs and 25O0O0 rounds of am
munition from this formidable force
of warplanes. The attack, which
occurred Wednesday, followed up a
great smash at the enemy base on
the New Guinea coast Sunday
when 400 tons were dropped. That
assault wiped out the remnants of
a 2o3-plane fleet gathered by the
japanese at this staging base.
Concentration of Allied air power
against Hollandia seemed to indi-
cate that previous blows against
Rabaul on New Britain and Wewak
on New Guinea, both east of Hol-
landia, had gone far toward rem
dering them ineffective as enemy
bases.
Antiaircraft Fire Tapers Off.
Not one enemy plane rose to fight
the Allied planes in the Wednesday
attack and all the four-engined
Liberators, medium Mitchells and
Boston bombers and their fighting
escorts returned to base. Antiair-
craft fire was moderate at the start
but tapered off quickly.
The attackers set great fires in
fuel and supply dumps. They hit a
ship in the harbor and set it ablaze,
Thunderbolts and Lightnings,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's commu-
nique today added, meantime
strafed islands and shipping down
the New Guinea coast to Aitape and
Wewak.
The wide-ranging Southwest Pa
c1flc fighters started fires at Dill and
koepang on Timor, in the Neither
lands Indies; strafed coastal villages
on Waterfall and Wide BAYS, New
Britain; bombed the Buka airdrome
and seaplane base on Bougainville
in the American-dominated Solo
mons, and attacked installations on
the Hansa-Madang coast on New
Guinea.
Truk Attacked Again.
The only reported ground action
found Australians moving 3 more
miles, to within 6 miles of Bogad i'm
which is 20 miles below Madang, the
latter an objective of converging
Australian and American forces.
Truk underwent its 14th attack In
the current series to remove it as an
obstacle to the westward advance OF
Allied forces. Fires were started on
Dublon, in the Truk group, by
Solomons-b based air patrols.
At Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester
w. Nimitz announced yesterday
that 7th Army Air Force Liberators
raided Truk Monday night and
started fires among Dublons storage
tanks. The enemy sent up night
fighters and one was shot down
Two of the Liberators were 1ost
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Texas Democrat Renews
Fiqht for Iwo-Thirds Rule
BY the Associated Press.


HOUSTON, Tex, April 7.-Chair-
man George A. Butler of the Texas
Democratic Executive Committee
announced yesterday that II am re-
newing my efforts among all of the
State Executive Committee chair
men and Governors of the Southern
States for restoration of the two
thirds rule at national conventions.
II believe more than ever that
restoration of this rule is absolutely
necessary as a protection to our
party rights throughout the South"
Mr. Butler said.
THE response to my original pro-
posal has been very favorable. All
Governors and State chairmen ex-
cept one who have replied have IA
vored the idea"
He did not identify these.
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Dewey Still Insists
He's Not Candidate;
Silent on Willkie
By the Associated Press.


ALBANY, N. Y. April Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey stuck diligently TO
his State duties today after tndi-
eating strongly that he will not be
stampeded into a declaration that
he wants or will accept the Repub-
lican nomination for President.
In his first press conference since
Wendell l.. WILKES withdrawal
from the presidential race, Gov.
Dewey stood last night on his pre-
vious statements that he is mot o
candidate" for the nomination.
The 42-year-old New York Gov
ernor refused to comment on the
Willkie withdrawal, announced
Tuesday night after the Wisconsin
primary election in which Gov.
Dewey won Is to 10 of "a delegates
elected to the Republican National
Convention and Mr.. Willkie got
none.
Long Lead Increased.
The results increased Gov. Dewey's
already long lead over other possible
nominees in delegates pledged or
claimed and whipped up widespread
sentiment for declaration of his
candidacy. Friends Of the Governor
believe he will accept the nominal
ton, If the convention offers it.
But the Governor, announcing
that he was not going to comment
ION any political question:" told re-
poE ters:
II am wholly engaged in attempt-
ing to dispose, in a 30-day period,
of the 900 bills left by the Legis-
lature.'
Then he listened smilingly as q
reporter asked:
I'm view Of Mr.. WILKES with
drawal from the race and your own
long lead for the nomination, will
you become an avowed candidate?"
Repeats "No Comment"
The Governor repeated his mo
comment" but amplified it quickly
with the assertion that II have dis
cussed that subject so many times,
my position on it is entirely clear"
Gov. Dewey has declared repeat
edly that he is mot a candidate for
the Republican presidential nomi-
nation" but has remained silent on
whether he would accept a draft
nomination. Some of his hackers
intimate he may maintain that
silence until the national convention
in June.
The Governor said he has mo
plans" to make any speeches out
side the State, aside from his sched-
Iuled appearance late in May before
the Governors conference at Her
shey, Pa. He will speak April ~
at the meeting of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
| in New York CITY.
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Russian Press WithhoIds
Editorial Stand on WiIIkie
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, April 7.-Wendell WILL
kies withdrawal as a presidential
candidate was noted with interest
today by Russian newspaper read
ers, but there was no editorial COM
ment rejecting the Kremlin's atti.
tude toward the campaign.
Most people here, however, seem to
believe President Roosevelt is sure
of denomination and with Mr.. Will
kie out Of the running they figure
the campaign is all but over.
Gov. Dewey and other possible
candidates, except perhaps Gen.
Macarthur, are virtually unknown
to the Russians.
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Egg Rolling Cancelled
At Soldiers, Home

In line with the decision canceling
the traditional Easter Monday egg
rolling on the White House lawn for
the duration of the war, Maj. Gen
F. w. Coleman, governor of the SOL
diers' Home, announced today that
he has prohibited use Of the home
grounds for this purpose.
Gen. Coleman said residents al
the home regretted that the event
which annually attracted thousands
of children, must be called off in the
interest of national defense.
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Bricker 10 Intensity
Campaign in View Of
WiIlkie Withdrawal
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, April Gov
John w Bricker of Ohio, candidate
for the Republican nomina ton for
President, said last night the results
of the Wisconsin primary election
and the withdrawal of Wendell
Willkie would mean "an intensified
campaign for delegates" for himself
Gov. Bricker declared he would
support the Republican presiden-
tial nominee. whomever he may be" "
4 In an address to the Indianapolis
Press Club Gov Bricker said:
:. Since my arrival in indianapolis
] have been asked by several friends
whether or not the results of the
Wisconsin primary and the with
drawal of Wendell WILKES candi-
dacy for the Republican presiden-
.tial nomination would in any way
change the course of my campaign
1T has been my unequivocal an
swer to all of them that shall in
tensify my campaign Tor delegates
to the Republican national conven-
ton. In the next three months I
shall redouble by efforts to fully in
form the Nation of my position on
all of the important questions con-
fronting the people of the country
today.
Will Visit Far West.
"I have in the past few months
spoken before hundreds of interested
groups of Republicans and real
Democrats alike in the East, South
and Middle West, and in the next
two months will carry my campaign
to the Far West. I have found the
people of our country most anxious
to hear and to discuss with me all
of the critical problems both do
mestic and foreign now facing us
in this perilous time of war and
those that will arise in the postwar
world.
THE people of this country will
demand this year a complete dis
closure of the position of both po-
slitical parties on these important
questions and only the party that
makes its position perfectly clear
will be entitled to the confidence of
the people.
q "I am convinced that the Repub-
slican convention will be delib-
erative one and that 1t will select
as the Republican nominee the man
that it determines represents the
thinking of the Republicans of the
entire country and the man who can
defeat in November the New Deal
philosophy of government"
Cites New Deal Faults.
In a press conference preceding
his talk, Gov. Bricker noted many
objections which he said the people
have for the present administration.
THE bureaucratic system" he said,
(which is the heart Of the New Deal
philosophy, feeds upon its greed for
power.
Another is the subordina-
ton of the legislative to the execu-
tive branch of Government. An
other ""* is the power of the exec
utive over the judicial department
of the Government. BY this I mean
that by the appointment of great
majority of the judges on the Su-
preme Court you get a group
on the bench which are a part of
the philosophy of the New Deal.
TOO often judges have been ap-
pointed to the Federal bench be-
cause of their adherence to the New
Deal philosophy. AS result you
have a transition going on at the
present time which is really alarm
ing. There have been so many
reversals by this court of former
opinions that the lower courts have
no standard to follow . ~
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Sidney w. Lee, ST., Dies

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April7 (P.-
Sidney w. Lee, ST., 80, president and
founder OF the Buffalo Rock Co.,
died yesterday. A native of Monroe
County, Mss, Mr.. Lee was a past
president ff the American Bottlers
of Carbonatetl Beverages.
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Portuguese Envoy to Speak

DIR. Joao Antonio de Bianchi
Portuguese Minister, will be the
speaker at the weekly luncheon of
the Harvard Club at 1890 pm. to-
morrow in the Annapolis Hotel. His
topic will be Portugal and the
United States"
Evening star., 1944-04-07
Vandenberg Compares
WiIIkie Defeat 10 Own

By the Associated Press.
TAMPA, Fla, April 7.-Senator
Vandenberg, Republican, of Michi-
gan commenting on the Wisconsin
preferential primary and Wendell
L. Wilkes subsequent withdrawal
from the Republican presidential
race, said in an interview yesterday
that he knew How Willkie feels.''
y Il ran against Gov Dewey myself
four years ago in Wisconsin, only I
was the absentee candidate then"
Senator Vandenberg said. HE was
campaigning the State. He plowed
me under, but not too badly. I
am proud that 40 per cent of Wis
consin voted for me-"
THE Dewey demonstration" said
Senator Vandenberg, is a spec
tacular testimonial to his 1914 popu-
larity."
The Dutch government ic r,ooLipo
Evening star., 1944-04-07

Load the guns that1l lick the
Japs. Save every drop of waste
kitchen fats. Take them to your
meat dealer.
Evening star., 1944-04-07

The Dutch still control some $50
miles of coastline in Southern Dutch
New Guinea.
Evening star., 1944-04-07

The Dutch government is making
preparations to raise and train an
army to fight the japanese as soon
as the Netherlands Is freed.
Evening star., 1944-04-07

NAZIS COUNTERATTACK IN RUSSIA-German forces have
struck blows widely separated fronts at
ODESSA on the Black Sea- and at Tarnopol 800 miles
northwest Arrows locate Red Army gains reported night
IN MOSCOW Ihe Russians announced capture Skala
more than 100 towns, including Karpovo
Ooessa sector Further reported
front. Broken line marks approximate battle front
A. p Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1944-07-09

Don't confuse this new
sport Of "jjitterboord,ne"
with the comparatively tome
SPORT Of oquopIoneine. Only
ten inches wide. the utter
boord requires o neot bol-
oncing oct os demonstrated
by expert KothIeen Turner
until even on expert is
thrown BY the doneine boord
os the tow boat 9others
speed at Cypress Gardens,
rio. Wide World Photos.
Evening star., 1944-07-09
Me emories

When YOU leaf through the family album there
arc 50 man> good things t" rcmcmher-Nour first
Dutch Masters when YOU were ol for instance.
Yes tune rolls bv. but the nut sweet taste OF this
fine cigar remains the Same the same rich quality
that YOU have en,oved for so many wears.
Evening star., 1944-07-09

Constipation is an ancient
burden that many physi-
clans relieve in a modern
way-with SARAKA. The
action of SARAKA is gentle;
it causes no gripping, no
diarrhea, no embarrassing
urgency. See free rial offer
beI0n.
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Miss Jean Frost
We'd Yesterday
To Mr.. Gable

Maj. and Mrs. Frank Akers Frost
announce the marriage of thei,
daughter, Miss Jean Frost, to Mr.
Richard Bennitt Gable, U. S. A..
last evening in the Francis Asbury
Methodist Church. The Rev. DR.
Robin Gould off1ciated at 6 o'clock
preceded by a short recital played
by Mr.. Lawrence Freude, and the
Misses Irene Wall, Edith Kelly ano
Laura Outterside sang.
Maj. Frost, who is post finance
officer at Indiantown Military Res
ervation, came to escort his daugh-
ter and give her in marriage. Her
wedding gown was white made with
v neckline and she carried white
tulips. Her only ornament was a
single string of pearls, gift from
the bridegroom.
Miss Juliet Frost was maid OF
honor for her sister, wearing laven-
der net and carrying red tulips. The
brides other attendants were her
cousin, Miss Margaret Frost Ramsey
of Port Arthur, Texas, and Mrs.
Winfield w. Barley of Liberty, N. Y,
sorority sister of the bride when
they were students at Ohio Wesleyan
University. They also wore net
dresses and carried lavender tulips
Mr.. Harry N. Watts was best man
for Mr.. Gable and the ushers in
cluded Mr.. David Carney of Colum-
bus, Ohio; Mr.. Robert P. Gumphrey,
Staff Sergt. Allen Porter of Nevada,
Iowa, and Mr.. Eldon E. Sweezy of
Saltwater, Okla.