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Evening star., 1944-06-25

ferret out s0methmg that passes Tor nlgnt lie
after IL. He may be able to get into one of the
l3 bottle party clubs, the only drinking
places still open. These, however, are men,
bership affairs. and unless he knows some
body with an entree, he can't get in. If he
does, he gets the privilege of paying highly
exorbitant sum for bottle of liquor to be
consumed - perhaps with the aid of hostesses
- on the premises. Hardly any enlisted men
are numbered among the patrons of these
establishments, though few officers get rid
of their money there.
Asleep Before Midnight
IT MUST be admitted, too - since this is
factual report - that London has certain
amount of street night life The women who
cluster in certain spots after midnight -
known to the MP's as ''Piccadilly Comman-
dos" are often thieves as well as prosti-
tutes, but they are women. And some soldiers
do get mixed up with them.
But, generally speaking. London goes dead
before midnight. Even the MP radio patrol
cars come in by 2 am and sometimes earlier.
1t would be just waste of gasoline to stay
out longer.
But even though lack of opportunity un-
doubtedly is part of the reason our soldiers
have not been going in for spectacular ways
of letting off steam in this war, don't believe
it is the only reason. Frankly - and l was
with the AEF in France in 1918 have
strona hunch that the average CT Joe of 1914
is just naturally little less rambunctious,
little more sober minded than was the aver
age Johnny Doughboy of 1913.
am not comparing fighting qualities.
The L. S. soldier was an Al fighting man
in 1918; he is an Al fighting man today.
But this is different time in history, and a
different kind of war; and today's soldier, it
seems to me- reflects those differences. One
of nv colleagues said the other day, This is
the most homesick army in history" The men
prize home, and the things of home, above all
else. That is what they are fighting for; that
is why they are deadly serious about this
business of war; it is also, think, why they
behave as they do when they are not fighting
They have no sense of elation at being freed
from the restraining influences of home; what
they want is to do the things that will make
home seem less remote.
You would be surprised, think, at the
number of men who pass up London entirely
ON their leaves Many of them enjoy spending
their time in the country. They 60 fishing,
flop on haystacks beside the road for a snooze,
eat in the village pubs, take snapshots to send
home They get big kick out OF castle with
a moat, and many CT on leave in Scotland
has rugged himself out in tartan and kits and
had his picture taken, for the home folks.
Witt Dxitish Families
BRIrsH families have been very generous
.A...4 o,4ox,<l;x,rr invitation to American sol
Evening star., 1944-06-25

them. Men coming from combat duty, well
supplied with money, hungry for good time,
and inclined to think everybody is their
friend, are now and then relieved of their
bankrolls - usually after they have had few
drinks. Fortunately, cooperating with the
British police, we have been able to keep this
sort of thing pretty well in check.
And 50 say again, don't spend too much
time worrying about what that man OF yours
over here is doing on his own time. he is
probably doing just what he would be doing
back home - or as near to that as possible.
Unless he is a very rare exception, he isn't
ducking the MP's; he's heading for them, for
the service they will give him. For in this war,
the MP isn't 50 much cop as cross be-
tween an information bureau and nurse.
We have even put them in white helmets,
white leggings and white gloves, so it will be
easier for the men to find them.
And if CT Joe does happen to get little
out of line :. well, those MP's. and yours
truly. will do their best to make sure he
doesn't 20 too far 1t has been easy, so far
The End
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Italian Political Congress
Demands Custer Of Kinu
By the Associated Press.

by -tne ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-The ALL
Party Congress of six italian politi-
cal parties at Bari unanimously
adopted today a resolution calling
for abdication of King Victor
Emanuel, the Bari radio said tonight
in a broadcast recorded by United
States Government monitors.
The resolution said the congress,
while realizing that the present
state OF the country does not allow
of an immediate solution of the
constitutional problem, yet it con-
siders that the moral and material
reconstruction of Italy presupposes
the immediate abdication of the
King responsible for the tragedies
which have overtaken the country -
Later the United Nations radio at
Algiers beamed to Italy the text of
a proposed resolution for drafting
an indictment against the King
charging him with the numerous
violations of law committed by him.
and proclaiming the congress to be
a representative assembly of liber-
ated Italy which would assemble in
Rome at the first opportunity.
This proposal was tabled for the
time being, pending meeting to-
night of party leaders to make sure
that anything adopted would be
unanimous.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 30
More than 1900 tons of bombs
were dropped on Frankfurt, Ger
many, in Daylight yesterday by
more than 800 American Flying
Fortresses and Liberators-the
greatest Armada of heavy Amer
lean bomberS ever sent into ac-
ton.
The bomb tonnage was the great
est ever reported for an American
raid.
The 800-mile round trip to Frank
furt was the third great assault on
Germany in little over 36 hours,
following up sledgehammer blows py
the RAF against Berlin Thursday
night and Friday night.
The unusually heavy Friday night
attack, 18th major raid on the Ger
man capital, was said in Swedish
reports to have been one of the
most damaging Of all.
In the Frankfurt raid, the Amer
lean bombers and their fighter es-
cort, totaling more than 1900
planes, shot down 102 German
fighters, it was announced In joint
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Kennedy Quits Post
AS Head Of Tammany
LouehIin, Secretary to
Pecoro, Named Leader

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-Michael ]
Kennedy, leader of Tammany Hall
resigned tonight and was succeeded
by Edward v. Loughlin, secretary to
State Supreme Court Justice Ferdi-
nand Pecora and leader of the 14th
Assembly District.
The 46-year- Mr.. Kennedy
whose custer had been sought by
dissatisfied Tammany leaders, SUBJ
mitted his resignation to a meeting
of the Tammany Executive Commit
tee, which Immediately voted on his
successor.
Mr.. Loughlin was opposed for the
leadership by Representative James
Fay. The result of the committee
vote was 176 for Mr.. Loughlin to 11e
for Mr.. Fay.
The movement to oust Mr.. Ken
nedy grew out of his part in the
nomination of Thomas A. Aurelio
Ior StaJe supreme Court justice In
an agreement with Republican or
ganization leaders in the interest
of a nonpartisan judiciary. Mr.
Kennedy and the Tammany Execu-
tive Committee sought unsuccess.
fully to rescind the nomination after
disclosure by District Attorney
Frank S. Hogan that Aurelio, later
elected, owed his nomination in
part to Frank Costello, an alleged
racketeer
Mr.. Loughlin, 48, and former
assemblyman and assistant district
attorney, was graduated from Ford
ham University in 1918 and Colum-
bia Law School in 1921.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Dies Report Says Japs
Had u. 5. Spy Network
In Operation 10 Years
Finds Nipponese Used
Commercial Bodies as
Front for Getting Doto

Japan prepared for it's blow at
Pearl Harbor by a decade of in
tensive espionage and propa-
ganda in America, carried on by
nearly a score of seemingly in
nocuous social, commercial and
cultural groups, the Dies Com
mittee reported last night.
The report was a result of a long
investigation carried out on the
West Coast by committee agents.
Directing in detail the activities OF
these Japanese American clubs,
the committee found, was the in
famous Black Dragon Society, an
organization of uper-militarists and
terrorists with headquarters in
Toxic.
AS a result of its findings, the
committee urged legislation:
l. To bar from America alien
minded individuals who come here
only to subvert and destroy"
2. To prohibit the setting up here
of foreign tourist bureaus, informa-
ton Offices and forums which prop
agandize not for Americanism, but
for some cause or philosophy that
would destroy it."
3. To ban from the United States
treaty merchants and commercial
attaches who serve as agents OF
espionage and not of commerce"
Had Specific Purpose.
In broad outline, the committee
concluded that the numerous Japa-
nese cultural, commercial, social and
educational organizations estab-
llshed before the war among the
126,947 Japanese had a clear-cut
purpose-to report to Toxic every
possible scrap of information that
Evening star., 1944-01-30
President Asks Nation
10 Show Unity by
War Bond Purchases
Outpourine of Dollars
Will Assure Equipment to
BIost Foes, He Says

Individual War Bond sales in
Washington approached one
third of the city's quota last
night as President Roosevelt told
the Nation that the outpouring
of American dollars in the
Fourth War Loan campaign will
assure that superiority of fight
ing equipment with which we
shall blast our way to Berlin and
Toxic"
Coupling his birthday message to
the Nation with the war loan appeal
the President declared that "every
one of us has a chance to partici-
pate in victory by buying War
Bonds"
The success of the campaign, he
said, will also serve notice that we
Americans are irrevocably united in
determination to end this war as
quickly as possible in the uncondi-
tional surrender of our enemies.'
The Treasury, meanwhile, re-
ported that sales to individuals in
the loan drive showed an appreci-
able squirt following news accounts
of Japanese atrocities in the Philip
pines. The District, according to
the Treasury Department, was
among the areas reporting sales
yesterday almost double those for
the preceding day.
While figures indicate that the
(Caa yyAD p0NDC noco
Evening star., 1944-01-30

records and called for increased
activities on the part of police and
the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board.
Data submitted by Maj. Edward
J. Kelly, superintendent of police,
showed arrests of Washington youth
for felonies had more than doubled
since the beginning of the 1910 fiscal
year; that there has been an in
crease of about 66 per cent in arrests
for all kinds of offenses, and that
the number of children under 18
arrested for being drunk in public
places had increased some 400 per
cent.
(The figures compiled by Maj.
Kelly do not show to what ex-
tent the wartime rise in WASH
(See DELINQUENCY. Page A-l0)
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Lobor's Report on Living Cost
Disowned by Industry Member:
Release Of Findings of 43 Pct Increase
Since January, 1941, Labeled Premature

b. the Associated Press
Labor members of a presiden-
tial committee studying the cost
of living reported yesterday a
43.5 per cent increase in living
costs since January, 1941, and
were taken to task by industry
members who said the report
had not been reviewed by COM
petent and accepted authorities. ~
There has been no committee
finding on this point" said the in
dustry members, H. 3. Horton, treas
urer of the Chicago Bridge and Iron
Co., and George K. Bait, vice presi-
dent of Dugan Brothers, Newark
N. j.
1T is the opinion of the industry
members of the Presidents Com
mittee," the added in a statement
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Doughton, 80, will Seek
Reelection This Year

Representative Doughton, 80-year-
old chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee, announced
yesterday he will be candidate for
reelection this year.
The North Carolina Democrat said
it had been his intention to retire
in 1910, but gathering war clouds
'impelled me to change my mind
Now, he added, "a great many
people of all political persuasions
and in all walks of life have urged
me to remain at my post"
Mr.. Doughton is now serving his
17th consecutive term in Congress
He has said that one thing he wants
to see done before he leaves Con-
gress is simplification of income tax
returns.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Gen. Beynet to Command
French Forces in Levunt
By the Associated Fress.

By the Associated Fress.
Promotion of 1t. Gen. Paul Etienne
Beynet, chief of the French military
mission in the United States, to be a
full general and his appointment as
delegate of the French Committee
of National Liberation in Syria and
Lebanon, was announced yesterday
by the French mission.
Gen. Beynet, who will be in COM
mand of all French forces in the
Levant, will be succeeded here by
Maj. Gen. Brosse de Saint-Didier.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Doubt Voiced That Jap Officials
Knew About March of Death

Army and Navy charges vicious
enemy propaganda" and counter
charging American "butchering of
our Japahese) wounded soldiers
perpetrated on Guadalcanal," and
brutal assaults on our helpless
hospital ships"
Further and more vitriolic reac-
ton, possibly accompanied by
threats, may be expected from
Toxic.
AS for civilian Japan's possible
ignorance, it is pointed out that the
full horrors her troops committed
in Marking and Many other places
in China were made known to few
Japanese.
Officials who recalled that and
also that the Japanese people never
were told of indignities heaped on
British civilians in 1899 at Tientsin
(See ATROCITIES. page A-31
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Arrests of Juveniles Increase
sc Per Cent Here Since 1Q4O

Declaring Washington has q
Serious and increasing" juvenile
delinquency problem, Representa-
tive D'Alesandro, Democrat, OF
Maryland last night made public
police reports showing a steady rise
in arrests Of children since the
beginning of the 1910 fiscal year.
In the first four months of this
fiscal year, from last July through
October, 2,919 children were arrested
On a full year basis this would
mean more than 8,7O0 arrests and
bring the average for the five-year
period to more than 1900 a year.
Mr.. D'Alesandro, who heads a
House District subcommittee now
holding hearings to seek practical
answers to the problem, said he was
shocked at the size of the police
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Soviet Northern Arm,
Only Il Miles From
Old Estonian Border
Nozi Gains Admitted
In Bitterly Contested
ukraine Bottle
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. 29.-The Red
Army'S great northern often
sives today thrust westward
from Leningrad to the town OF
zagoritsi, % miles from the old
Estonian border, captured. the
important rail hub of Novosokol-
niki, 230 miles south of Lenin-
grad, in a surprise attack, and
struck the last Nazi shackles
from the Moscow Leningrad
trunk line by seizing Chudovo
junction 73 miles southeast of
Leningrad.
While these northern battles fol
communications raced ahead, with
more than 80 towns liberated during
the day, the Germans pressed bitter
counterattacks in the Ukraine. Fo,
the first time in many weeks the
Russian communique acknowledge,
Withdrawals from some populated
places east of Vinnitsa and north
Of Khristinovka.
Berlin admitted that Nazi forces
had pulled out of Smela, advance
rail point in the invaders narrow.
ing corridor to the middle Dniepel
River, and told of a vigorous new
Russian onset driving wedge ir
German lines in lower White Russia
between the Berezina River and the
Pripet Marshes.
Nazi Artillery Routed.
On the Leningrad front, the So
Wet communique, broadcast from
Moscow and recorded by the Soviet
monitor in London, said a column
driving southwark along the rail.
way toward Luga and Pskov. killed
more than 1000 Germans and Gao.
tured 60 big guns in routing a Ger
man artillery force and freed more
than 80 towns.
Another Red Army column
thrusting westward toward Narys
was within % miles of old Estonia
That group seized 40 towns.
Premier Stain announced the
capture of Novosokolniki in an orde,
OF the day to the Red Army com.
mander of the I'd Baltic Front, Gen
M. M. Popov. The city is the juno
ton OF the Leningrad-Vitebsk ano
Moscow-Riga railways and was 8
German strong point.
The Russians now are within 7(
miles of the old Latvian border
A previous Soviet feint in thai
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Philippines Recognition
Is Denied by Vatican

BY the Associated Press
The Vatican has officially denied
Japanese allegations that the Holy
See has recognized the so-called
republic of the Philippines, the
State Department announced yes
terday.
Z Vatican recognition of the Japa-
nese puppet regime in the Philip
pines was, claimed in an enemy
broadcast January 8.
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Compromise Forces
Gain Headway in
Service Vote Fight
Donoher Would Give
SimpIified Federal BoIIot
To Overseas Forces OnIy
BY ]. A. OIEARY

Efforts to settle by compromise
the long fight over Federal or
State control of servicemen vot-
ing gained headway yesterday, as
both House and Senate ap-
preached a showdown on the is
sue this week.
Latest step in that direction was
a new proposal by Senator Danaher
Republican, of Connecticut to give
all overseas servicemen and women
the simplified Federal ballot, but
require those in this country to use
State ballots unless their States
fail to make provision for absentee
voting.
At the same time, an influential
Democratic source in the House in
dicated that some compromise move
might take shape In that branch
also.
Although Senate leaders will con-
vene that chamber at II am. to-
morrow in the hope of reaching a
decision by evening, the outlook for
a Senate verdict tomorrow is not
bright.
The first test of strength may
come in the House Tuesday, when
Administration forces will try to
amend the rules to make a roll call
possible on the Worley bill to give
all servicemen the simplified Fed
eral ballot. In the House, the Ran
kim -Eastland State ballot bill al
ready passed by the Senate. has the
right of way. and unless the rules
to govern debate on that measure
can be amended, the Worley SUBJ
stitute would be decided by teller
vote in committee of the whole.
State rights advocates take the
position the House should express
itself on the bill already passed by
the Senate before the Senate passes
another measure
The Danaher plan makes the
fourth major amendment now
pending in the Senate designed to
modify the administrations support
ed Green-Lucas bill, which is only
slightly different from the Worley
Federal ballot measure in the House
The Danaher proposal, however
goes further than any other in per-
mitting use of Federal ballot. il
recognizes the Army Navy conten-
ton that it will not be feasible to
get numerous different State ano
IL 1a-
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Ey the Associated Press.

Japan's delay in replying to docu-
mented stories of her soldiers bar
barities on Bataan led some in the
Capital last night to believe that
perhaps Toxic of1cialdom itself was
surprised by the details.
That could be true because of the
loose control which the Toxic War
Office commonly exercises over the
discipline of troops afield, and be-
cause the japanese Army tradition
ally has done what it pleases in COM
bat zones, without letting the gov
ernment and people know.
The Toxic radio-after nearly II
hours silence-broadcast a Domei
dispatch beamed to this country
but apparently left the japanese
people, as usual, in the dark.
Domei quoted high military
quarters" as labelling the American
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Carrier Forces Attack Marsha|Is
In Possible Prelude to Invasion;
Frankfurt Raiders Bag 1O2 Nazis
Greatest American Air Armada
Drops More Than ! 800 Tons
81 Heavy Bombers and 13 Fighters Lost;
Berlin Blazing After Big RAF Attack

'communique early today from
United States headquarters and the
British Air Ministry
Thirty-one bombers and 13 fight
ers failed to return.
Bomber airmen themselves shot
down 60 enemy planes and the escort
pilots AZ, new record for fighters
alone, the best previous one-day bag
having been 36.
More than 700 American fighters
were estimated to have covered the
bombers, while RAF and Allied
Spitfires picked them up for the last
lap of the flight home.
The big German manufacturing
and transport center was deluged
with high explosives, invendiaries
and propaganda leaflets.
The leaflets were copies of the
Atlantic Charter printed in German
The attack reverberated through
Frankfurt for hours afterward be-
cause the bomb-loads included de-
layed-action high explosives.
With the two attacks on Berlin
and the one on Frankfurt, the Allies
in little more than 36 hours de-
{Coo EP ANYETIpT pooo A-oI
Evening star., 1944-01-30
Hotels Are Jammed
For Celebration Of
Presidents Birthday
Broadcast Describes
Observance Over U. S. q
Democracy in Action
(Picture on Page BID

The thanks of President Roose-
velt went out last night to
the thousands of dancers who
Jammed Washington hotels and
the millions of others over the
Nation who celebrated his 62d
birthday and added their dollars
to the fight against infantile
paralysis.
AS the President, in a midnight
broadcast to the Nation, called the
celebrations across the country
democracy in action Mrs. Roose-
welt cut a two-t tered birthday cake
at the Statler Hotel.
Comparing the care given chill
dren in the United States with that
OF the handicapped in the lands of
our enemies, the President pointed
out that in Germany and Jsran
those who are afflicted in body or
mind are regarded as unnecessary
burdens to the state.
Strikes Solemn Note.
While he reminded his audience
that it is not easy to celebrate in the
midst OF war, he added: I'VE NAV
thank God that here in our country
we are keeping alive the spirit OF
good will toward one another which
is the very essence of the cause for
which we fight
Democracy was rife in the hotel
bathrooms. Officers and enlisted
men danced by each other. WACS
and WAVES stared curiously at
their civilian sisters and everybody
stared at the visiting Hollywood
stars.
Moving on minute -to-minute
schedule through six hotels, the
Stage Door Canteen and the Lincoln
Colonnade from 10 pm. to l am,
the star attractions were on view
(Soo TIJnAV pATI
Evening star., 1944-01-30
5 Reported Executed
In Puruquoyun Revolt

BY the Associated Press.
FORMOSA, Argentina, Jan. o.
Five persons have been executed
at Asuncion, capital of Paraguay,
for participating in an attempted
revolt there last Wednesday, trav-
elers from Clorinda, just across the
Paraguay River from Asuncion, said
today.
1t was announced officially at
Asuncion Wednesday that an at
tempted dawn revolution had been
put down. A Ministry of Interior
communique said Army reserve off,
GERS were repulsed by loyal govern
ment forces when they attempted
to seize police headquarters and the
telephone building.
Evening star., 1944-01-30

that the committee is under re-
sponsibility not to make a final re-
port to the President and to the
public until careful consideration
has been given to all the relevant
data"
Thomas, Meany Labor Members.
The labor members of the five
man committee are R. j. Thomas,
president of the CIO United Auto
mobile Workers, and George Meany
secretary treasurer Of the AFL,
Their report was prepared by the
AFL and CIO. Its estimate of a
43.5 per cent increase in living costs
compares with the 23.4 per cent
finding by the Labor Department S
Bureau OF Labor Statistics.
Chairman William H. Davis Of
4.