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Evening star., 1944-04-22
Nelson Says Invasion
Troops Will Possess
Finest Equipment
BY the Associated Press

by tne Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 22.-The finest
war materials of all types, in the
greatest quantities, will be available
to American troops Ito match their
courage and discipline" when the
great invasion of Europe starts,
says Donald M. Nelson, chairman
.of the War Production Board.
Regardless of the dangers and
hardships and loss of life which
must inevitably attend the in
vasion," Mr. Nelson said in speech
last night, they and we have the
comfort of knowing that the quality
of American weapons and equip
ment will be a shield of safety by
which thousands of lives will be
preserved"
Asserting that I'VE are approach
ing the most critical and most dan
gerous and grimmest phase of the
war" the WPB chief said mo ma
ton or combinations in history has
assembled an invasion armada equal
to ours either in size or engineering
and construction.
I'VE have already produced 10000
vessels, and when the present pro-
gram is completed, our armed forces
will have 10000 landing craft at
their disposal, with is special types
to perform every conceivable duty
of amphibious warfare"
OF the postwar period, he told
the meeting of the Chicago Asso-
citation of Commerce, ito recognize
once and for all, that we are still
long way from large-scale read
JustmentS to peacetime conditions.
Eventually, of course, the COL
lapse of Germany will give us the
signal to return a big part of our
resources to peacetime production
But there is considerable distance
to go before that signal is sounded. ,
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Mexican Labor Chief
Named 10 lilo Farley
Credentials GROUP
BY the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, April 22.-The
workers group Of the international
Labor Conference paused yesterday
in the midst of heated debate over
admission of the Argentine delega-
ton to elect Vincente Lombardo
Toledano of Mexico, president Of the
Latin American Labor Federation,
as the workers representative to the
conferences Credentials Commit
tee.
1t was Mr.. Toledano who, a COL
league disclosed earlier, proposed in
the first meeting of the workers
that they refuse to permit the Ar
gentine workers delegates to sit
with the workers group. He urged
they ask the full conference to re-
ject the entire Argentine delega-
ton, which also includes representa-
tives OF the government and of en-
ployers.
The informant said Mr.. Toledano
told the closed meeting OF the
workers group that he considered
Argentina "a Fascist regime"
After hours of debate, John
Brown of Great Britain. general
secretary of the Iron and Steel
Trades Federation, proposed that
the debate over admission of the
Argentine workers delegates be re-
ferred to the officers of the work.
ers' group. That motion was de-
feated.
The several hours of debate so
far have been taken up almost en-
tirely by Latin American delegates.
There has been no poll as yet.
Robert ]. Watt, American dele
gate to the workers group, told a
press conference he believes an at
tempt should be made to arrive at
some statement of principle.
Mr.. Watt said, "I would support
a motion that workers representa-
tives should be nominated by free
trade unions and should be respon-
sible to them" No such motion has
been proposed as yet.
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Censorship Hearing
Opened 10 Public
Favored by Price
BY the Associated Press.

Censorship Director Byron Prizes
today urged that hearings in con-
nection with any congressional In.
vestigation Of wartime censorship
be opened to the public.
Mr.. Price was commenting on
the action of Senator Reed, Repub-
hcan, Of Kansas In submitting to
the Senate yesterday a resolution to
authorize the Senate Post Once
Committee to inquire into the
operations Of censorship with par
ticular reference to the use and un-
authorized disclosure of informa-
ton obtained through such censor
ship"
Mr.. Price said, "I'n be glad to
cooperate and place before the
committee the results Of an in
vestigation begun by the Office OF
Censorship nearly three months
ago. hope the committee sessions
viii be public"
He said he referred to an INQUIRY
his Office undertook independently
after portions of correspondence
exchanged between Miss vivien
Kellems, Westport Comm business
woman, and Count Frederick Kari
Won Zedlitz at Buenos Aires, Argen-
tina, were read in q radio newscast.
Excerpts from some censored mail
are distributed to Government De-
partments as '.intercepts," for the
information Of Federal authorities.
but regulations require that they be
held in strict confidence.
Senator Reed said his Investigation
request went beyond the incident
OF the Kellems letters, and that he
wanted to inquire into complaints"
he said had been made by some
business men that information as
to business contracts, which passed
through censorship, came into the
possession of competitors.
Senator Reed said he would ask
the Post Office Committee to con.
slider his resolution early next week.
Evening star., 1944-04-22
French 'BIuebeurd'
Reported Arrested

MADRID, April 22.-The French
press reported yesterday that an
elusive Paris physician, sought in
connection with deaths of at least
80 persons, had been arrested, but
authorities in charge of the Blue
beard" case denied any knowledge
of his apprehension.
The press reports said the physi-
clan, in whose fashionable home on
the Rue lie Sueur the remains OF
a number of bodies were found
had been arrested in Bordeaux.
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Shirley Temple, Sweet Sixteen
I tomorrow, Directs Own Career
Nv the Associated Press

By ;he Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, April 22-The
greatest child star of them all,
Shirley Temple, will celebrate her
10th birthday tomorrow. No formal
celebration is planned by her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Temple.
The traditional sweet l6 milestone
finds the child who netted $2o,O0O,-
600 for her studio, Twentieth Gen.
tury Fox, during the five years of
her child stardom, again busy at
film work, this time under contract
to David Selznick.
Shirley goes oua on dates, with
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Shriners Hosts Tonight
To Imperial Potentute

More than 1000 mobiles. and their
ladies are expected to attend the
reception to Morley Mackenzie, i'm
perial potentate of the Ancient
Arabic Order, Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine, at the Mayflower Hotel to-
night.
His three day visit here is part of
his official round of calls. The
imperial potenate was the guest of
the Canadian Embassy last night
and was received by Ambassador
Leighton Mccarthy. The program
at the Mayflower starts at $50
O'Clock tonipht
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Broderick Is Sentenced
To 80 Days for Contempt
BY the Associated Press.

Ds the ASSOClhttC fTebS.
NEW YORK, April 22.-Attorney
Edward v. Broderick, counsel for
convicted wife-slayer Wayne Loner-
gan, was sentenced to 30 days in
city prison by General Sessions
Judge John j. Freschi yesterday for
contempt of court during the play
boys murder trial
The fiery counsel was allowed a
30-day stay to permit him to appeal
the decision and sentence or to ask
for review. &
Mr.. Broderick was silent as Judge
Freschi delivered a blistering de-
nunciation, accusing him of inso-
lence and wilful defiance.
Judge Freschi found Mr.. Broder-
lex guilty on four counts and SEN
fenced him to 80 days on each
count, but ordered the sentences to
run concurrently.
The judge said he had been moved
to cite Mr. Broderick summarily
land had been criticized for not do
ing so, but that he had refrained at
the time for fear such action might
prejudice Lonergan's case.
Judge FreSchi was the original
presiding justice at the trial, but
withdrew after dismissing the tales
men and citing Mr.. Broderick for
contempt.
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Heavy Bombers Raid Wake
In 10th Attack of War

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TERS, Pearl Harbor, April % (P).-
American heavy bombers in their
latest attack on Wake, the goth of
the war, pounded japanese installa-
tions on the tiny island with 30 tons
of explosives.
The raid Wednesday night, an
nounced yesterday by Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz, was the north
ernmost blow of the days aerial
thrusts which put bombers over
Ponape Island, in the Eastern Caro-
lines, 1850 statute miles south of
Wake, and deluged japanese posi-
tions in the Marshall Islands with
so tons of explosives.
Liberators visiting Wake, Ameri-
can possession yielded to the JAP
anese in December, 1941, met only
moderate antiaircraft fire.
Ack-ack Weak at Ponape.
Seventh Army Air Force Mitchell
medium bombers hit the airfield and
nearby buildings at Ponape, outpost
of the big Japanese base at Truk,
drawing weak antiaircraft fire.
Ponape has been raided 81 times
this month.
Army, Navy and Marine Corps
flyers manned the medium bombers,
divebombers and fighters which
blasted japanese barracks, gun posi-
tions and air strips in the 50-ton
Marshall bombing
Fleet Air Wing 2 search planes
also bombed Pakin and Ant Islands
near Ponape, and Ujelang Island
west of the Marshalls.
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Flaw in Allied Tactics
Seen by Gandhii's S Son
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, April 22.-The
Hindustan Times, edited by Davidas
Gandhi, son of Mohandas K
Gandhi, asked editorially yesterday
whether the coming monsoon sea-
son would not hamper the Allies as
well as the japanese on the India
front.
"Ihe monsoon has its Importance
and the Japanese are trying to bite
of as big a slice as possible before
the monsoon starts. the editorial
said. But if the monsoon, as is
represented, will hamper so much
the japanese thrusts, will it not
also hamper the proper working of
the air supply system on which
(Allied) forces at Imphal and
Kohima are to depend?"
The editorial declared that the
Allies plainly" were on the defen-
sive at present in India. Reviewing
operations in Burma, it said "the
slow advance of 1t. Gen. Joseph
w. Stilwells troops in the Arakan
area are somewhat relieving fea-
lures"
The newspaper said that there
was "a tendency unfortunately, in
the Allied version of the fighting
Tin India) to exaggerate the jap
anese losses"
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Combat CooIs Flyers Fondness
For Words of Air Corps' Song

shoes and short snorter. See your
operations officer"
You would find this poster in
many buildings around the base,
put up with the approval of 1t. Col.
Marshall r. Gray, the group COM
mander.
Life among the combat men is not
grim. The tension of their day is
terrible. 1t builds steadily from the
time they are awakened in the dark
hours of morning to the time the
bombs are dropped on the days
target and it does not let them
down until the ship touches the
ground at this airport again, usually
late in the afternoon. But their
feeling of relief is tremendous.
Ground Feels Wonderful.
1t. Col. Travis Hoover, one of the
old timers, explains it this way:
There's something about coming
back from successful mission that's
above just feeling happy. You may
be tired. Maybe you are tired to
death and after you've been walking
around for a while you realize it.
But when you first get down and
find that good old ground under
your feet, well, it just feels so won-
derful there's no way to say it,
and everything's o. k"
In spite of the tremendous strain
under which they live, in spite of
the wrenching fluctuations of feeling
to which they are subject, these
fellows somehow manage to live a
pretty normal life. They eat their
supper and go to the movies just
about the way any other rear area
soldier might do. Liquor is avail
able and they drink quite lot.
There is nothing frantic about it
and there is little drunkenness.
They usually go to bed around 10
or II O'Clock, averaging six or seven
hours sleep a night, plus occasional
afternoon maps.
Men PhenomenalIy Healthy.
They are phenomenally healthy.
The majority of them accepts the
bombing of targets in enemy cities
as just one of the things that must
be done in war. They lose very
little sleep worrying about the effect
that their work may have on the
civilians in the cities they hit. Most
of them say they are so remote
from their targets that there is no
sensation of killing.
They are not a very superstitious
crowd either, They knock on wood
about as frequently as ordinary peo-
pie do and they don't go out of their
way to avoid lighting three ciga-
rettes on a match. But now and
then things happen which make
them stop and think. Col. Hoover
led recent raid over Budapest.
The flax was heavy the going was
very rough. Suddenly, loud and
clear, voice came through his ear
phones breaking in on the forma-
tion's interplane radio communica-
tions. Listen, this is Joe in Bari,
would you like me to send some
transportation up there for you?"
To this day nobody knows what
that timely ovice was doing or how
it got there.
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Funeral Services Held
For Winfield Scott MAYO

Funeral services for Winfield
Scott Mayo, 56. Treasury employee
for 81 years. who died Monday at
his home, 1913 T street NV, after
brief illness, were held yesterday
at John Wesley Zion Methodist
Church. Burial was in Harmony
Cemetery.
MIR. Mayo was born In Mobile,
Ala, and received his early educa-
ton there. A graduate of the
Palmer Chiropractic School, Mr..
Mayo was practicing chiropractor
In Washington for many years.
He joined the Treasury DEPART
ment as messenger and at the
time Of his death was supervisor
OF section In the accounting divi-
sion.
Active in community affairs, Mr..
Mayo served at various times as
choir director at st. Luke's Epis-
copal, st. Cyprian's Catholic and
Second Baptist Churches. Before
his death he was minister of music
at the John Wesley Zion Methodist
Church.
Working with the former Com
mmity Center Department, now the
Recreation Department, Mr.. Mayo
helped found the Tempo Choral
Society.
Besides his widow, Mrs. Minnie
Christmas Mayo, he is survived by
three sons, Capt. James A. Mayo,
an Army chaplain in England;
Scotti Mayo, st. Louis, Mo-, and
Prof. Theodore Mayo, Raleigh, N.
c., and three brothers, John Mayo,
William Mayo, ST., and Clarence
Mayo of Washington.
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Bloom Opposes Plan
To Take Over Bases,
Mas Indorses Il
By the Associated Press.

os the nSSOSihtSu TISsS,
Blunt opposition to the proposal
that the United State obtain per-
manent ownership of British LEASED
bases in this hemisphere was voiced
yesterday by Chairman Bloom of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee,
who said it would raise too many
thorny problems and in time prove
extravagant.
The plan, advanced by a Naval
Affairs Subcommittee which visited
South America and the Caribbean
area, on the other hand won the
prompt support of Representative
Mas of Minnesota, ranking Repub-
lican member of the Naval Affairs
Committee.
Favors Renewal Clause.
Mr.. Bloom suggested that the
Government obtain from Britain a
renewal option to take effect when
the present 99-year leases expire
He explained to a reporter:
"By that time we may never need
those bases, anyhow. We don't know
what will happen in the way OF
aviation, for instance.
"It's just good real estate business
to have a renewal clause-I'm an
old real estate man-and I urged II
when the leases were being signed
Mr.. Bloom said there were many
diplomatic problems that would rise
If the United States owned the
bases outright within the realm o1
|another sovereign power. More
over, the Nation may decide scores
of years hence that it wants to droI
any or all of the bases.
Mass Takes Opposite View.
Mr.. Mas, Marine Corps Reserve
officer. took the opposite view:
1--WE been hammering at this for
a long time. have said repeatedly
we should own these bases in the
Pacific and the Atlantic as well
The important thing is that when
we don't own them we are apt to
be drawn into every war that the
owner gets into henceforth.'
Mr.. Mas agreed with Chairman
Hebert of the investigating subcom-
mittee that something might be
worked out with Britain to gain
title to the bases in exchange for
lease lend obligations, but said the
time to have done that was when
we started to give them lease lend"
There still is a lot of lease lend
to be distributed, so it might not
be too late now" he added.
Mr.. Bloom protested, when we
give Britain lease-lend we are doing
it only so that she can fight for us.
We have war to win, and this is
no time to be throwing those things
into the picture"
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Draft Board Refuses IA Rutino
For "a Key Workers Under 26
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOYAL, Wis, April 22.-Fred
Lakosky. chairman of the Clark
County Selective Service Board, said
today the board had refused to
reclassify into Ia "a men under 26
who, the board held, are key men in
cheese factories.
The action was taken, Mr..
Lakosky said, because the board
felt that If these men were inducted,
20 Clark County cheese factories
would be forced to close.
If our action is not upheld by
the State and national selective
service directors" Mr.. Lakosky
added, "the entire Clark County
board will resign as a body" He
added that the five members of the
board had signed a letter sent to
Col. John Mullen, State selective
Evening star., 1944-04-22

groups of four to eight school chums.
Among her admirers is Dale Harris,
fellow thespian aged II, her screen
date in her current film. Young
Harris followed her family to Palm
Springs, camped in a tent to see
her daily.
A year ago responsibility for
Shirley's affairs began to be shifted
onto her own shoulders. She made
the decision on her film contract,
is responsible for gallery sittings,
wardrobe fittings, all the detail of
her professional engagements. At
18 her parents plan she will be indie
pendent of their advice or super
vision. n
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Domengeaux Is Inducted;
Hopes for Overseas Job
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
CAMP LIVINGSTON, La, April
Representative James
Domengeaux from the Sd Louisiana
district, was inducted into the Army
last night and said "the infantry
would suit me fine"
The Louisiana Representative
who resigned his seat in Congress
to volunteer for the Army, was
inducted with group of 60 and
took the oath dressed in sport slacks
and a blue shirt.
L hope the Army finds a job for
me overseas, said the 27-year-old
unmarried Domengeaux boy, I
hope they don't stick me with a
routine job on this side"
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Churchill Says America
Helped Wreck Leoque
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 22.-Prime Min
lister Churchill in his empire speech
in the House Of Commons yester-
day said the Americans helped
wreck the League of Nations "by not
backing its principles with effective
armed force"
We had a pretty dreary time be-
tween the two wars" he said. We've
great responsibilities for the part
we played-all of us-and so have
the Americans in not making the
League of Nations reality and not
backing its principles with effective
armed force and letting the deadly
and vengeful foe arm at his leisure. !"
The House cheered this portion of
the speech,
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Memorial Services
Planned for Serqt. Bort

Memorial services for Sergt. Harry
Bort, Ir., son of Mrs. Lillian E. Bort
487O Cordell avenue, Bethesda, who
was killed in action March Is in
Italy, will be held at 7 pm. tomor-
row at Mount Zion Baptist Church.
In attendance will be two of Sergt,
Bort'S brothers who are serving in
the Army-Anthony Ray and
Joseph Everett Bort.
Born and reared in Bethesda
Sergt. Bort served as a carrier boy
for The Star for more than II years.
He enlisted in the Army engineers
three years ago and had seen con-
siderable action in Italy Just be-
fore his death he was awarded the
Purple HeaN
Evening star., 1944-04-22

service director, telling him of this
stand.
Clark County, with more than
200 factories, is the largest producer
of cheddar cheese in Wisconsin, u
MI. Lakosky declared. These men
all are key employees in these fac
tories, which often have only one
or two workers. II we taken them
out, the factories must close.
IF food means anything to our
armed forces, we must see that these
factories are kept running"
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, ma
tional selective service director
issued orders recently to all draft
boards to classify into la all men
between 18 and 26 who are not key
men in specified essential occupa-
tions. Cheesemaking was not listed
as or4 Of the essential occupations.
Evening star., 1944-04-22
Mrs. Luce Sees. Sian
President May Fear
Weak Postwar u. :.
Bs the Associated Press.
4,

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 90
Representative Clare Boothe Luce
Republican, of Connecticut told q
Republican women's convention
here she would like to know whether
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's es-
ppsual of peacetime compulsory
military training for American
youth indicated a White House fear
that national security would be
tnreatened in the postwar era.
addressing the Ohio Federation
OF Republican Women's Organiza-
tipns at their annual banquet last
night, she said it was only after
the Allied conferences at Teheran
and Cairo that Mrs. Roosevelt be-
gan outright advocacy of compul-
sdry military training for all Ameri-
can boys and girls.
Mrs. Roosevelt. Mrs. Luce as
serted, reflects the views of the
President because she is 'privy to
Mr.. Roosevelt's mind as perhaps no
other person in the world"
Discussing Mrs. Roosevelt's plea
for military training, she said !:
Perhaps we have been given un-
Willingly key to the puzzle. A
clue to what the President, after
Teheran, thinks is in store for post
war America"
She declared the President failed
to see. the significance of growing
military might in the Orient and
Europe.
s"Actually," she said, mo President
In all history has ever misjudged a
World situation more seriously"
."Is Mrs. Roosevelt" she asked,
to-day agitating for compulsory
military training (a) for discipline
fer discipline's sake? (b) to solve
the unemployment problem? Co be-
cause Mrs. Roosevelt thinks the
postwar world that Mr.. Roosevelt
IL taking us into is so dangerous and
full of enemies that it is perilous for
us to do otherwise?
These are pregnant questions.
They should be asked often In this
coming election, for it is the women
above all who will suffer if they go
unanswered. 1t is their sons now
growing up who are faced with be-
Ing cast for time out of mind into
military mold, heretofore alien to
this country"
y Mrs. Luce lauded Gov. John W..
Rricker of Ohio, a candidate for
the Republican presidential nomi-
nation, saying:
: Most Of the credit for a Repub-
lcan victory in 1914 must be given
to Gov. Bricker, not only for DEM
dnstrating to the people, by his own
high record in Office, what Repub-
ltcan government has always stood
for, but for his vigorous analysis
OF fundamental principles"
Gov. Bricker, just returned from
far-weStern campaign tour, said
he expected women to play a promi-
nent part in the coming election.
I'VE expect women to cast so per
cent of the vote this year. he said,
land from what I have seen and
heard on my trip, I am confident
they will not fail u.s."
Evening star., 1944-04-22
|Orotory Contest Won
By Dorothy Robicheou

A preliminary contest opening the
18th annual archdiocesan oratorical
competition for Catholic schools in
the District and Maryland was won
last night by Dorothy Robicheau of
st. Cecilia's High School.
The Archbishop Curley Trophy
will be awarded to the top con-
testant in the finals to be held fol-
lowing sectional contests including
the city finals on May 5.
In last nights contest two other
students were heard with Miss
Robicheau at st. Patrick's Academy.
Tenth and G streets NV. They are
Margaret Jenkins, st. Roses, and
George Crane, st. Paul's.