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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-08-04

points developed IN studies made
of freight rate determinations
against the South and West by two
governmental bodies-the board Of
investigation and research and the
Tennessee Valley authority.
The review is apparently an at
tempt to influence farmer opinion,
and is in bad taste coming as it
does when the Interstate Commerce
commission has just completed final
hearings in the freight rate equali-
cation cases. It seems to be an at
tempt to undermine the determine
ton of the South to obtain justice,
for it raises broad doubts as to the
wisdom of the South's position. In
effect, it also casts doubt upon the
position taken by President Roose-
welt.
Evening star., 1944-07-07

which Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia
predicted would be followed. The
President brushed that aside.
Then Jay Hayden of the Detroit
News asked the question about the
vice presidency. After that another
reporter chimed in with this: Mr..
President, would you care to say
whether you think Gov. Dewey
would make strong opponent?"
The President joined in the
laughter that followed.
Then he told the conference he Is
making some notes on the White
House Correspondents Association
and he would like to know just how
the members of his news conference
work out the methods of the ques-
tions which are propounded. Is it
possible that lots are drawn for
them and in that way a decision
reached as to who shall ask them?
he asked.
The President said this whole
thing Is matter of great and his
toricAl interest.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
u. 5. Flyers Down
IS Fighters in Great
Battle Over Reich
1000 Heavy Bombers,
With Escort, Hit PIone
Plants and Refineries
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, July Eighth Air
Force fighters, escorting more
than 1000 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators in attacks on airplane
factories and oil refinerieS at
seven places in Central Germany
this morning, shot down Is Ger
man enemy fighters in the great
est air battle since D-day.
Nearly 1000 fighters conveyed the
big bombers.
German broadcasts said another
American force was attacking the
Reich from the south.
The Germans offered the most
desperate resistance in the air in
several weeks, sending up 100 planes
near Leipzig, and one American
Thunderbolt pilot, Capt. Fred Chris
tenson of Watertown. Mass. made
a record for the European theater
by shooting down six enemy fighters
Transports Used by Defenders.
Air battles were fought from levels
five miles high down to the treetops
as the desperate and thinning Luft-
Waffe-apparently split by co-ordi-
mated attacks from north and south
threw up motley assortment of
several hundred planes, including
bombers, night fighters and even
troop transports.
Six American fighters We're lost
Bomber losses were not announced
immediately
The American record of German
fighters destroyed in a single day,
l20 over Brunswick and Frankfurt
on April g. may we'll be broken when
the toll OF the bombers' guns is add
ed to the IS downed by the fighters
Early indications were that the
fighters kept the Germans pretty
(See AERIAL, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Stors and Stripes Officer Ousted
In Row Over Political Censorship

rector of Army public relations, and
followed less than fortnight a
New York Herald Tribune story
dealing with coverage of the Repub-
lican National Convention by serv-
ice papers.
The New York Herald Tribune in
an Algiers dispatch dated June %
said, Unless some provocative dis
cussion Of the presidential campaign
appears in the Stars and Stripes
only a small percentage of the
American troops will vote"
Reporting that Stars and Stripes
devoted a 550-word story to the
nomination of Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey as Republican standard
bearer and high lights of the Re-
publican platform, the dispatch said
this meager coverage is no fault of
the papers staf1, which, under War
Department taboos, is printing only
what 1t gets from the Army News
Service and the psychological war
fare branch"
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Two Congress Members Cross
Atlantic as Tanker Crewmen
Incognito Trip Made
To Get Dutu on
Merchant Marine
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 7.-Republican
Representatives Hugh D. Scott.
jr., Of Pennsylvania and Gordon
Garfield of New Jersey arrived in
London today after working
their way across the Atlantic in
cognito as members of the crew
of a tanker laden with high
octane gasoline.
They said they made the trip with
the knowledge and authorization of
Speaker Rayburn to provide infor-
nation on the Merchant Marine to
Congress and the War Shipping Ad-
ministration. The two sailed June
rs after Congress recessed, and plan
to return before it reconvenes.
Both are members of the House
Merchant Marine Committee. MIR.
Scott said he would discuss postwar
civil aviation with British and
American officials here.
The two visitors said they were
impressed Immediately with the
ability of the British to take un-
flinchingly the heavy attack of robot
bombs. adding that the flying tor
pedoes had been underestimated in
the United States.
On the trip over Mr.. Scott worked
as midship utility man and Mr..
Canf1eld as an after utility man.
They worked in khaki trousers and
undershirts and slept in the fore
castle with the seamen, who were
unaware of their true identity.
Nobody aboard the tanker knew
(See CONGRESSMEN. Page A-5J
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Question on Running Mate
Draws Rebuke From President

President Roosevelt today re-
buked news conference ques-
toner who wanted to know if he
had found a candidate for Vice
President" retorting that that
sounded like an unfriendly ques-
ton and that he would not an
swer it.
The brief exchange came as news
men were making their customary
attempt to get an answer from the
President on his fourth-term inten-
tions-again without any luck.
One reporter asked when the Pres
ident thought newsmen might get
an answer to the questions they
have been posing for weeks. Mr..
Roosevelt replied that he didn't
know maybe around November, or
1t might be this month.
The colloquy started when the
President was asked about the pros
poets for his issuing : statement
announcing his stand, = course
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Policemen Brave Heat
To Get Winter Coots

Inspector Milton D. Smith, assist
ant superintendent of police, picked
wonderful day to have new police
men fitted for winter overcoats.
With the thermometer expected to
reach the middle 90s, score of
policemen trekked to a tailoring
establishment in the 1000 block
OF Eighteenth street NV. and
"sweated it out while they were
measured and fitted.
The weatherman predicted a
maximum of "a degrees for this
afternoon and continued hot
weather tomorrow. Humidity was
expected to rise also, the Weather
Bureau said.
Yesterdays high of 81 was at
4 pm. The lowest temperature
during the last "a hours was re-
corded at 5:45 am, when the
mercury dropped to St.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
BY the Associated Press.

ALGIERS, July 7.-Col. Egbert
White has been relieved of his COM
mand as director of Mediterranean
area editions of the Stars and
Stripes and been ordered to the
United States because of differences
with higher officials over political
censorship, it was learned today.
Army public relations officers will
take over direction of editions of
the servicemen's newspaper pub
lished at Oran, Algiers, Naples and
Rome.
Removal of the New York adver-
tising executive climaxes his efforts
to obtain more extensive coverage
of political and other controversial
news from the United States, either
through the papers own correspond
ents or established news services.
The action was taken within a few
days after the arrival in this theater
OF Secretary of War Stimson and
Maj. Gen. Alexander D. 6urles, di.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
War in China Cause
Of Deep Concern,
President Says

President Roosevelt said today
the war in China Is not going
we'll and that we are a good deal
concerned over the outlook.
Mr.. Roosevelt tempered his
news conference remark, how
ever, by saying the Japanese are
in poor strategic position be-
cause their supply lines are
extended and are being men,
aced by the Allies.
The fighting in China does
not seem to be stopping the
japanese advances, the Presi-
dent said.
He agreed with a reporter
who observed that if the coast
of China is lost the situation
would be serious, but said it
would not be so serious today
as a year ago because we are
now within bombing range Of
Japan.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Threat to Split China Removed
As Siege of Hengyong Is Broken
Jops Driven Back
rs Miles; Liberation
Near, Chang Says
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, July Chi
neSe troops have made a smash
ing comeback in Hunang Prov
ince, breaking the siege Of Heng-
yang and driving back a distance
of Is miles the main body of
japanese troops which had by
passed that vital rail junction in
their drive south along the
HankoW-Canton railway, a Chi
nese Army spokesman declared
today.
The victory, scored with the aid
of reinforcements moving up from
the southwest, has removed for
some time to come" the Japanese
threat to occupy the whole of that
vital rail line and cut China in two,
the spokesman said.
Announcement of the sudden sue
cess came as China entered the
(See CHINA, Page A-2.D
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Mexican Foreign Chief
Meets Press Here TODAY
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel
Padilla, who is spending a week here
es the official guest of this Govern
ment, is expected to reveal some of
the details of the conversations he
is planning to have with Secretary
Of State Hull and other leading
Government officials at a press con-
ference at pm. today at the Blair
Lee House, where he is staying
Meanwhile, he planned a tour of
famous Washington sights-Mount
Vernon, Arlington Cemetery and
other shrines.
After his first important confer
ence with Secretary Hull yesterday,
DR.. Padilla addressed the governing
board Of the Pan-American Union
and last night had dinner at the
Mexican Embassy as guest of Am
oassador Najera.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Wi|no, |mperi|ed
By Reds, Reported
Under Martial Law
Prewor Polish Border
Crossed by Russians
Along Most of Front
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, July German
reports said the Russians were
advancing today within 10 miles
of Wilno, where Moscow reported
the NaZis had declared martial
law.
Smashing beyond the old Polish
baStion of Kowel, the Russians were
approaching the Bug River at a
point about 135 miles southeast of
Warsaw along the main trunk line.
Virtually all the preWar Polish from
tier was crossed save for a section
before Luniniec in the Pripet
Marshes.
Mopping Up at Minsk.
Wilno, city of 207,750 which has
changed nationality six times since
the last war, lies but 81 miles from
the border of East Prussia and is a
rail and highway center. A Moscow
dispatch quoted Yustas Paletskis,
chairman of the Presidium of the
Supreme Soviet of Lithuania. as
saying the German martial law edict
barred persons from the streets be-
tween 8 pm. and am, and for
bade walking in groups greater
than two. Paletskis said there had
been uprisingS in Kaunas, Marian
pole and Vilnius.
While at least four Russian Army
CfYvyo RI
Soviet forces mopped up bewildered
German stragglers east of Minsk
leagues behind the main front.
Moscow said 5000 were killed last
night. The midnight communiuue
listed at least 5000 Germans killed
in all and nearly 1000 captured.
Near Lithuania and Latvia.
Lithuania and Latvian borders
both were within easy striking dis
tance Of Red armies. Forces of Len
ingrad district drove deeper into the
Finnish front. At one place. the
Sovlets were within 18 miles of the
WarsaW-Leningrad railroad.
On the main Minsk- Warsaw rail-
road 81 miles beyond the captured
capital of White Russia, Red troops
laid siege to the important rail CEN
ter of Baranowicze from nearest re-
ported positions IL miles away.
From Kowel deep in prewar Po-
land, the direction of the Russian
offensive appeared to be due west to
the Bug, IS miles away, although
Plnsk, IS miles northeast of Kowel.
was outf1anked and threatened,
Brest Litovsk on the Bug 70 miles
northeast OF Kowel likewise was
under Soviet pressure.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Glenn Dale Sanatorium
/ aces Partial CLOSING
Due 10 Lack Of He|p
Ruhlond BIomes Action
On Failure to Secure
Volunteer Workers

Lack of public response to ap-
peals for volunteers to aid in the
personnel shortage at Glenn
Dale Sanatorium makes closing
OF part of the institution "immi-
nent," Health Officer George C..
Rutland announced shortly
after noon today.
DR.. Rutland made his statement
after conferring with representatives
OF the District chapter of the Amer
lean Red Cross and the American
Women's Voluntary Services. The
meeting was called because only four
of an expected 20 women volunteers
responded this week for training at
Georgetown Hospital.
1t was agreed at the conference
that the poor response was due in
large part to the fear of working
~
Evening star., 1944-07-07
TuqweII Gives Roosevelt
Report on Puerto Rico
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt received a
first-hand report on Puerto Rico
today from ReXford G. Tugwell
governor of the territory.
After the meeting. Gov. Tugwell
told reporters they had just discus
sed things generally because it was
his first meeting with the Chief
Executive here in about year.
1T was simply how is everything
in Puerto Rico?', and everything is
fine, Gov. Tugwell explained
Reporters asked if they had dis
cussed politics, and Gov. Tugwel
replied:
II don't have any political prob
lems-I'm the governor"
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Susebo One of Key
Ports for Fleet;
Yuwutu Also Hit
CIVILIANS ON SAIPAN promised
sanctuary If they surrender.
Page Az

rage Az
B-29 Super Fortresses of the
American Goth Air Force have
just bombed the japanese naval
base of Sasebo and the steel
center of Yawata on the Island
of Kyushu in the second attack
by the B-29s on the Japanese
mainland, Gen. Henry H. Arnold
announced in a communique
here today.
The terse announcement said the
assault occurred Friday night"
Japanese timeD. 1t gave no details
of destruction accomplished or of
losses.
Sasebo. comparable to the United
States naval establishments at Nor
folk, Va, or Bremerton, Wash, lies
just north of the great Japanese
port of Nagasaki and west of va
wata, the japanese pittsburgh"
which was given a terrific blasting
June Is in the first B-29 raid on
Japan's home islands
Gen. Arnold, Army Air Forces
chief, also is commanding general
Of the goth Air Force, which op-
crates directly under the joint chiefs
Of staff.
Third Raid on Mainland.
1t was the third time since Pearl
Harbor that American planes have
rained bomb~ on Japan proper. The
first was the Tokyo raid on April
18, 1912, by medium bombers under
1t. Gen. (then 1t. Col) James H.
Doolittle.
-Four of the B-29s failed to return
to their base in China after the first
strike at YaWata, which produces
about one-fifth of Japans steel One
was shot down by antiaircraft fire
over the target. and operational ac-
cioents prevented two others from
returning. The fourth is listed as
missing
One of Four Main Bases.
SaSebo is one of the four main
home bases of the Japanese Navy,
VIC oIiiCio oClils IOhOouhd, huIc
and Maizuru on the main island,
Honshu. The base includes one of
the most productive shipbuilding
yards at the disposal of the Navy,
turning out large proportion of it's
submarines, destroyers and other
smaller warcraft
Since the outbreak of the war
with China in 1887, Sasebo prob
ably has been the busiest of all the
japanese bases, since most of the
Warcraft used in China waters and
further south have been fitted out
and repaired there
The return of the B-29s to va
wata after a three week interval
follows the pattern of strategic
bombing set in the European opera
tions-an initial attack. with an in
terval during which the enemy at
tempts repairs. then a new attack
to smash the repairs and keep the
muniuons-producing factory out of
full operation.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Broadcast Tonight
From Water Gate

Part Of tonight's Sunset
Symphony program at the
Water Gate will be broadcast
over Station WMAL between
$3.50 and 9 pm.
The radio audience will
hear the Water Gate SYM
phony Orchestra play Tschai-
kowsky's Romeo and Juliet"
and the Piano Concerto in B
Flat Minor, Opus 23," by the
same composer, with 1t. Jorge
Bolet. Cuban pianist, as guest
SOloist.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Al Least IS Soldiers
Die as Train P|unqes
Into Tennessee Gorqe
Engineer, Fireman Killed
As 4 Cars leuve Tracks:
More Than 80 Injured

By the Associated Press.
JELLICO, Tenn, July 7.-At
least II persons, including Is SOL
diers and the engineer and fire
man of a Louisville & Nashville
passenger train, were killed last
night and more than 80 injured
in the trains plunge into the
gorge Of the Clear River, II miles
south of here.
DR., E. P. Muncy, resident physician
of Knoxvilles General Hospital, said
the death toll probably would ex-
ceed 40.
Work of extricating the victims
from the locomotive and four cars
which tumbled down the steep So
foot bank to the shallow stream was
slow, and unofficial estimates placed
(Soo 1Vp a m JIyp pETN noo. o.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Cherbourg Museum
Looted of Its Art
Through Nozi Ruse

BY the Associated Press.
CHERBOURG, July THE
works OF art from this city's
museum were looted and carted
of to Germany through a Nazi
fuse early in the days of the
occupation.
Vichy ordered city officials to
pack the treasures for removal
to the interior of France. The
Nazis waited until the work was
done and then changed the
destination to Germany.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Gen. Vondeqrift on Coast

OCEANS1DE, Calf, July 7 (P.-
1t. Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, Marine
Corps commandant, arrived at Camp
Pendleton yesterday from Seattle for
conferences with Maj. Gen. Charles
F. B. Price, commanding general,
Fleet Marine Force, San Diego area,
and ether marine officers.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Naval Base and Steel Center Hit;
Yanks Open New Drive in France
Americans Cross
Wire River, Gain
More Than Mile

INVASION PROGRESSING slower
than some Of its planners hoped.
Page Az
Evening star., 1944-07-07

(See FIRE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1944-07-07

tSee TRAIN WRECK, Page Az.
Evening star., 1944-07-07

(See GLENN DALE. Page A-3.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
BULLETIN,

CARENTAN, France R.-
American troops advanced
along a widening 35-mile
battlefront today, sending
foot patrols into La Haye du
Puts, crossing the marshes
south of Carentan in the face
Of heavily artillery fire and
smashing several thousand
yards across the Wire River.
Evening star., 1944-07-07
Guide for Readers

IN Associoted Press Newspoper
Evening star., 1944-02-06

With Dirty Faces" he'd take her
over in a corner Of the sound stage
and say, Look. kid. this is the
way to play this. See, you -"
She had good professors: Jack
Benny. Humphrey Bogart, Pat
O'Brien. That's the reason Sheri-
dan is still around and doing better
every day.
She no longer gets a chorus of
whistles every time she walks by.
But she does get good reviews and
wonderful roles - like the part of
Nora Bayes, which she plays in
Shine On. Harvest Moon" and
the lead in "One More Tomorrow" )"
the new one coming up. For a gal
who once had nothing but Oomph,
that's not bad.
LBPTON 4 WILKINSON
Evening star., 1944-02-06
NOTHING But OoAaPH ?

Sultry provocative - bah!
''In the pre-O Oomph days, apart
ment-house owners wouldn't have
me on account of my dog. Later.
they offered to give me and my dog
room and board - free If I'D
let them advertise The Oomph
Girl Lives Here
Then, after Oomph had run
wild and my life was one long mob
scene, a happy landlord hung out a
sign when l moved: Annie Doesn't
Live Here Any More!
UothiA1 New Aaaod
IHAr sort of thing went on for
two years. At the end of it. Annie
was not fat or lazy and had no
tendency to laugh everything of.
But she still possessed all the skills
with which she landed in Holly
wood. The only trouble was that,
Evening star., 1944-02-06

fingers, bulldog steer, light fire
with two sticks, shoot a pistol with
fair accuracy, set type and teach
school,"
She also remembers exactly what
the Official opinion of her was at
Paramount when they fired her
after two years:
This girl is fat, lazy. and has a
tendency to laugh everything of"
Evening star., 1944-02-06


c,,ssed with respectability." Annie
herself has a slightly different def
milton: ''Oomph is what fat man
says when he stoops to tie his shoe
lace in a telephone booth"
1hsoe Sultzy Eyes
NEVER will forget" says Ann,
what one slap-happy Compiler
wrote about me.
"'When she comes before the
camera, he raved, with her eyelids
drooped in that s.lltry, provocative
way, you envisage all the sirens in
history
'And you know what the truth
was? had weak eyes. Those old
Kheg lights killed them. 1t felt just
like needles were being jabbed in
them - haI to droop my eyelids.
Evening star., 1944-02-06

OUTSIDE OF Oomphi-
ness. she had ac-
quired no new ones.
Things like acting
ability. for example.
But Sheridan is a
smart girl and every
body liked her be-
cause she hadn't let
Oomph 60 to her
head where it
wouldn't have looked
so good, anyhow.
Star Ixo6
Her colleagues got
together to see if
they could make a
movie actress out of
her. First teacher
was Jimmy Cagney.
Before shooting
scenes IN "AnueIa
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Who said that about
Ann Sheridan? Just
look at her now ..

II mn SHERIDAN
"a says she had
these talents when
she got to Hollywood
from Texas: Il could
whistle through my
Evening star., 1944-02-06

LAM SWITCHES to another lax
alive which was supposed to be
v<yy mild. But it was like jump
ing from the frying pan into the
FIRE. Instead of bringing relief,
this medicine only stirred me
up and left me feeling worse
than before!
SOME IAxATlVES ARE
TOO AellOI
Evening star., 1944-02-06

Warmers hired
her for no reason
anybody can think
Of. The Oomph Cam
paign was strictly an
afterthought. Annie
recalls it with horror.
But it made a mil
hon-doIlar baby out
of a B-pictme girl.
Oomph did Tor
Sheridan what 1T"
did for Clara Bow;
the low-slung hair,
for Veronica Lake:
the sarong. for La
mom.
One expert re-
marked: ''Oonph is
a feminine desirabil-
ity that can be OBJ
served with pleasure
Evening star., 1944-02-06
DP you NEED 4 LAXATIVE
Wtsgsa YOU HAvE 4 COLD

Don't dose yourself with harsh. up
setting pursatives. Take Ex-Lax! It's
thoroughly sGec tive. but kind and gentle.
A 3 p,seHxtios sss osi1 Hs directed
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-08
Recreational Highlighis OF The Week

The following buildings listed
are open for informal recreation:
All Youth activities have been
moved from 14th street to 18th
street. The building is now open
to people Is years of age and
over between 900 am. and 1000
pm.
18th S~treet-Monday through
Saturday: 900 am. to 500 pm,
7.30 pm. to 1000 pm.
USO-Monday through Satur-
day: 4;30 am. to 1890 pm; Sun
day. 200 pm. to 1890 pm.
Events Of the Week
December Sis. 1874
Each Monday. Tuesday, Wed
nesday and Friday. playground
activities are scheduled at the
18th Street Community House
from 900 to HOO am, and from
$3.50 to 500 pm.
Friday
100000 pm, Game room ac-
tivities, 18th street.
Saturday
800 pm. G.. S. o. Servicemcn's
Dance. USO.
$3.50 pm, Dance, 14th Street
Auditorium.
Sunday
Religious services shown be-
low:
500 to 500 pm, Java Hour
and Birthday Party.
Monday
400 pm. - Boys Program,
Youth Canfeen.
$40 p.m-Young Boys Club
meeting, USO.
7.30-5;3a p.m-Model airplane
activities IL years and over,
18th street.
7:30 pm. - Physical Fitness
class for women, l4th Street.
.~,. 80. Tuesday
1000 am. and 800 p.m.-Girls'
Club, USO.
5:15 p.m.-Hi-Jinx Club meet
ing. USO.
100000 pm.-Game Room ac-
.ivities and Teen Age Social club.
18th street.
Wednesday
800 pm. - Young Married