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ZION CQlel la1Q GOWN CQlS Principe
in a letter to Senator Maloney Cd
Comm in which he also set forth
these other views on reconversion:
l. "Our policy is to expand CT
william production as it becomes
possible to do so without interior
ence with the overall war pro-
gram"
2. 1t is physical impossibility"
to allow all manufacturers in each
industry to resume production at
the same time.
3. Where it can be "soundly
DONE" he would favor a policy
of requiring firms first returned
to civilian manufacture to market
part of their output through other
companies still working on war
contracts.
Nelson emphasized he was speak,
ing of the initial reconversion pc
riod, saying the government should
not attempt to prevent new COM
petition and should relax its in
dustrial controls whenever they
cease to be necessary.
Maloney concerned over the fu-
ture of Connecticut industries, had
asked Nelson's views on these par
ticular problems.
The war production head will
have chief responsibility for post
war conversion of industry il rec
concentrations of Bernard M. Ba-
ruch, presidential adviser, are car
ried out. Some Congressional
groups, however, are backing es-
tablishment of a new demobiliza.
ton agency which might result in
less ening Nelson's influence.
Nelson's proposal that pre- war
producers get first chance to re-
turn to civilian production would
mean, for instance, that Industrial
list Henry Kaiser, if he wished te
turn his huge war born plants
Ito automobile production, would
have to get in line behind Genera.
Motors, Chrysler, Ford and Other
automobile producers when neces
sary materials are parcelled out
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STATE EDUCATION
WILL Be STUDIED

RALEIGH, March 9-RHA five
member postwar planning COM
mittee to study educational Z ex-
pansion after the war was appoint
ed by the State Board of Educa-
ton today, and at the same time
heard reports of increased opera
tional costs of the states present
system.
The committee, made up Of
board members, is headed by A.
C. Edwards of Hookerton, and in
Guided DR.. Henry Dwire Of Duke
University, Durham, Horace E.
Stacy of Lumberton, Sanford
Martin of Winston-Salem, and
Ryan Mcbride of Raeford.
The board said the committee
would work with the new state
planning commission and with a
similar committee recently set up
by the North Carolina Education
Association.
Also appointed was transporta-
ton committee to handle prob
lens arising anywhere in the state
involving the states fleet of school
carrier buses. On the committee
are Harry E. Eisenhower, A. Mel
Graham and W. C. Dawson, all
members of the board.
Paul W. Reid, acting controller
for the board, reported to the
hoard that tho oneratino coct foy.
the states school system in the
1942-43 school year, including
state and local funds, amounted to
$44, ia, 37622, compared with $685.
062, 266.57 for the 1941-42 year.
The board will meet again on
March % in order that the entire
board membership may attend the
annual meeting of the North Caro-
lima Education Association which
meets March 1924. There will be
no April meeting.
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ONLY 8 PLANES LOST
Industrial Targets In Capri
tai Hit For Second Sue
cessive Day vi

LONDON, March 9. - R -
Strong forces of American heavy
hombers with their fighter escort
roaring through a sky virtually
free of German planes-attacked
Berlin industrial targets for the
second day in succession today and
struck also against a plant in
central Germany in operations
which cost only seven bombers
and one fighter.
The German news agency DNB
said tonight that Hanover, $50
miles west of Berlin, also was
raided by American bombers to-
day. The agency's broadcast said
high explosives were dropped by
the 'bombers on their way to
Berlin"
1t was the fourth time in six
days that the indomitable armada
of U. S. heavy bombers returned
to bomb the fire-blackened Ger
man capital.
An Army communique announc-
ed the losses and said only "a few
of our bombers reported minor en-
counters with the enemy" None
of the crews of the participating
Fcrtresses and Liberators or fight
er pilots claimed to have Destroy
I'd single German plane a
further index of the weakness of
the Germans air defenses.
Mustangs, Thunderbolts and
lLightnings of the U. S. Eighth and
Ninth Air Force and Raj Mus
tangs of the Allied Expeditionary
air force provided the escort and
targets were bombed through the
support.
The communique declared the
overcast by means Of scientific
Instruments The industrial tar
get in central Germany which was
hit was not specified in the war
bulletin.
An indication that the Raj night
bomber fleet was making prompt
foliow-up attack on German tar
gets came tonight when the Frank
furt radio broadcast an air alert.
Continued on Page Five; Col. A.
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50 Couples Who Want
To Be Alone Needed
For Work In Alaska

WASHINGTON, March -
P)-Married couples with a
Yen to be all alone should see
the Civil Aeronautics Admin
lstration about a job in Alas
ka.
The CAA announced today
mat it wants thirty couples
VINO are willing to live at re-
mote outposts of the Federal
anyways. Fifty couples, in all,
VIII be hired. Twenty couples
already are in training at Sc
a'tle, Wash, for the Alaskan
work.
The outposts are used princi-
paily to supply weather infor-
nation to planes operating in
'he Alaskan area. About 80 per
cent of the traffic now is mill
tary.
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ASHEVILLE, N. c.
DAIRYMEN STRIKE

ASHEVILLE, March 9. - R) -
Cutting off the milk supply Of
thousands of persons in Asheville
and vicinity approximately go en-
.ployes of the Southern Diaries,
Inc, plant here, including all the
drivers, went on strike today.
The strike, in which professors
and other members of the plant
force are taking part, was called
by local So, teamsters union, A. F.
of L.
There was no interference with
raw milk deliveries to the plant
today and processing continued to
limited degree, it was learned,
with department heads and cleri-
cal workers assisting in the work.
T. A. Uzzell, attorney for Sou
Continued on Page Seven; Col. 81
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LINES BROKEN

LONDON, March o. Up Mos
COW announced tonight that a new
Soviet offensive had pounded a 105-
mile gap through German lines in
the southeastern Ukraine - threat
ening the big Black Sea ports of
Nikolaev and EMERSON - and that
300 miles to the northwest other
Russian troops had captured the
important strongpoint'' Of Staro-
Konstantinov and battered into the
streets of the strategic junction if
Tarnopol.
Hundreds Of thousands of Ger
man troops in the Dnieper Bend
were menaced by the latest de-
velopments, announced in two or
ders of the day by Marshal Pre-
mier Joseph Stain and in the Mos.
COW communique.
Germans Forced-Back
The new drive, tearing head-on
into the Germans from the east,
was forcing them back toward re.
gions of southern Poland and Ru'
mania already threatened by the
Russians.
Still a third action, announced
by the communique, was drive
southwest of Berdichev in which
the Russians captured the town Of
Ulanov, 26 miles southwest of Ber'
dichev. This drive links with the
easternmost wing of the Russian
forces fighting at Tarnopol ano
Staro-Konstantinov.
4 Capture of more than $40 local.
ties was announced today, 200 Of
them in the four-day action ir
which Stain disclosed that Gen
Rodion Y. Malinovskys Thirc
Ukrainian front forces had broker
through the German front south
west of Krivoi Rog.
'Heavy Defeat
A heavy defeat was inflicted
on nine German divisions, and the
Soviet line rolled westward 10 tc
81 miles across the Ingullets River
capturing Novy Bug, SIS miles
above Nikolaev at the mouth of the
Bug River, and Kazanka, II miles
northeast of Novy Bug, Stain said
fc.A:~voJ nv Do mo Covon. FOL n
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Cupid Finds A Way For Soldier

couple finally got together about
6 pm. Sunday night. In checking
out of the hotel to 60 to the little
flat that Dick had rented foz: his
wife during her weeks stay, they
received the battery clerks tele-
gram, which Dick said only served
to add coal to a fire.
On reporting for duty Monday
morning, Dick Immediately asked
for a three-day pass, Reason: To
recuperate from weekend pass.
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Allied Shipping Losses
Reach Lowest Level
Since u. S. War Began

WASHINGTON, March o.
R-Allied shipping losses be-
cause of U-boat action in Feb
ruary hit their lowest level
since the United States entered
the war, the Office Of War In
formation reported tonight,
with more enemy submarines
destroyed than merchant YES
sells sunk.
Gin actual numbers a few
more U-boats were sunk in
February than in January"
said Owls monthly communi-
que on the battle of the Allan
tic, issued under authority Of
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill.
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CLERGYMAN CONVICTED

UNIONTOWN, Pa, March g.
jR - The Rev. George Elmer
schott, 54-year-old Vanderbilt, Pa.
clergyman on trial for beating his
wife with miniature baseball
bat" was convicted tonight of ag-
ravated assault and battery by a
i,1rv which returned a verdict at
Ter celebrating four and a-half'
hours.
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REPORTS CIRCULATE

WASHINGTON, March 9. -P)-
Reports circulated in Washington
tonight that the United States has
asked neutral Fire to cut her ties
with Germany. The State Depart
ment declined to discuss the mat
ter.
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CLAIM los MILE GAP
Black Sea Ports OF Niko-
laev And Kherson Be-
ing Threatened

STOCKHOLM, March g. Up -
Russian planes tonight bombed
Reva1 Tallinn), the capital and
major port of Estonia, dispatches
from HelsinA to the Swedish press
said.
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Jan Planes Make First
Raid On EniWetOk Isle
By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor

Abrupt collapse Of the entire Japanese position in the
Admiralty Island threatened today American war
ships and supply craft steamed nmolested into Seader
Harbor 5O-meong lagoon large enough to accommodate
the entire United States fleet. While American forces
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Curbs On New Firms
Are Urged yWPBChief

WASHINGTON, March 9-(P-Pre-war producers of
consumer goods entitled to head start FIRMS
Donald NJ Nelson said today, in the postwar to
supply the pentup American market for articles whose
manufacture suspended by the The produc-
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FORECAST

,,rAruER FORECAST
NORTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy
sd 1 ndt quite ae0i So F eoa FxS s
~ Saturday cloudy and rather cool
HEN. !,!i.h occasional light rain in west and
evtreme south portions.
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Evening star., 1944-12-17

such as LIE Havre Rouen, MorIaix and
soon Cthe Army hopes the great 10000
ton day port of Antwerp will be ready
for use and functioning.
The port engineers did one of those
typical American will-to-win Jobs at
Cherbourg. Soon after its capture on
June q they were hard at work clear
ing away the sunken ships, the top
pied freight cars and the other obstacles
which blocked use of the port.
They didn't lose time trying to fix
up some of the docks. They moved in
their pile drivers and their bulldozers
and their men and they built new ones
The Germans had blasted some 200
feet out of the main mole surrounding
the inner harbor. They had that hole
hled and the mole functioning in four
days. I saw sea trains tied I'D there
straight from the United States, on
August 5. On my latest visit the mole
was a congested mass of ships, tied up
rail to rail, moving stuff of war direct
to the rail from ships hold.
We Built New Docks
The port engineers built completely
new docks, hundreds of feet long,
stretching out into the harbor. They
cleared all the basins and in an Army
Chriscraft I toured them all. Even the
inner basins, which the Germans said
never would be used, were crowded and
packed with freighters, Liberty ships
and other craft, all unloading the es-
sentials of war.
The old French guns used by the Ger
mans for harbor defense still poke their
noses seaward, but the gunners aren't
there anymore.
saw lighters piled down almost to
the water line with heavy shells which
would few days later 60 screaming
toward Germany. I saw American
Negroes doing some of the heavy work.
Out in the harbor Negro soldiers drove
empty ducks" the very wonderful 2h-
ton amphibious trucks which were one
OF the secret weapons of the American
invasion and have proven themselves so
well in this war, right up to the sides
OF ships fresh from the United States
where they loaded aboard their flimsy
craft shells, munitions of all kinds, and
food, started the engine and waddled
through the water right up to the docks
where they unloaded the stuff and
started it toward the front.
Twenty-Four Hour Job
The engineers never stop. They work
on at night under bright lights along
the quay sides. They work In relays of
IL hours on and of. One Of the real
problems Is rest. They never get any.
But the main job is work. Cherbourg
never stops feeding the guns and the
men behind them. Driving into the
town one rainy night we topped hill
overlooking the port. After the intense
blackout of Paris and London it was a
treat. For miles along the rim of the
harbor and even out on the water the
lights were bright. Lights are needed
to speed the work of unloading, and Ii
never must stop. But then Cherbourg
now Is long way from the combat area.
Evening star., 1944-12-17

swimming facilities for 3 per cent OF
the total population at one time, one
baseball diamond for each 5000, one
softball diamond for each 5000 one
tennis court for each 1000 and golf
facilities on the basis of one hole for
each 5000.
Based on these figures, Alexandria
would require 800 acres of park area,
l02 acres each of playhelds and play
grounds, 8 swimming pools, 13 base
ball diamonds, 81 softball diamonds, Al
tennis courts and both an 1S and a 9
hole golf course.
Indoor Facilities
In making their recommendations
for indoor recreational facilities, Mr..
Allen and Mr.. Pangburn take into con-
sideration the future acquisition by the
city of the two USO buildings to serve as
recreation centers for white and colored
residents. In addition, the future school
building program is recognized with the
use of school facilities for city-wide rec
reation suggested.
In all instances modern recreation ex-
perts believe in multiple use of all mu-
nicipal facilities, and in the Alexandria
report go so far as to suggest the use of
the historic farmers market in City Hall
square as recreation area for use after
business hours.
While no major construction for in
door recreation is advised, the use of
all available space for indoor athletics,
concerts, lectures, social events and arts
and crafts is strongly urged.
Since Alexandria's recreation depart
ment is less than two years old, and its
personnel now consists only of a full
time director and secretary in addition
to part-time leaders, expansion of the
Evening star., 1944-12-17
i. S. Army Works Miracle at Cherbourg

port" he muttered. 'The general staff
told us that
1t was true. Captured German docu-
ments show that the German general
staff considered the Nazi demolition job
on Cherbourg so good that the Allies
would not be able to use it for the dura-
ton of the war; that even If they were
able to get it in use the supplies going
through would be mere trickle. And
that's the way it looked to me when
went to Cherbourg the day it was cap
tured and on the days thereafter.
The great Care Maritime, where the
Normandie docked, was a shambles
Several large ships had been sunk across
the inner channel entrances, and in the
outer rade, or harbor, mine sweepers
still were decorating mines. All the
docks had been demolished, freight cars
had been toppled over in the inner
basins, all the giant cranes were droop-
ing like wilted cornstalks into the water
the submarine basins had been mined
and blocked with small craft and the
great French naval base had been de-
stroyed.
Cherbourg Today
Today Cherbourg is unloading more
than 10000 tons of essential war ma
terial every day and the figure will be
speeded up until 1t reaches $4,000 tons
Cherbourg is port given over to one
all-consuming purpose, keeping the
sinews of war moving toward the fam
ing front. For weeks after its capture
it was the western terminus of the
Red Ball highway, military highway
down which roaring trucks rolled in
endless procession toward the front,
then still in Normandy and Central
France
The Red Ball highway is historic. 1t
was Lincoln highway, Routes 80, 40
and so, in the United States rolled into
one tremendous military operation,
speeding the materials of war from
ships to the guns and the combat man,
piling up reserves of material in the
fields and hedgerows behind the combat
zones. There have been several Red Ball
highways, where priority was common
ports of Western Brittany, and still does
But although the Red Ball from Cher
bourg through the ruined towns of
Valognes, Mointebourg, Isigny, Caen and
the still-standing towns of st. Mere
Eglise, Carentan and Lisieux functions
1t isn't with the old priority and rush
in the days Of last July and August,
around the time of the break k-through
at st. Lo and the rush to Brittany by
Patton's Sd Army around the corner at
Avranches and into Central France
Today much of the burden has been
taken over by the French railways,
supervised by competent officers and
men Of the United States Army Trans
portation Corps. Their rehabilitation
is another one of the endless epics OF
American skill, organization and hardi-
hood.
So Cherbourg as q port today is the
main life line between the United
States, Great Britain and the front.
To be sure there are subsidiary ports,
Evening star., 1944-12-17
BY John Clagett Proctor.

Tomorrow is day that should cause
us profound meditation, for it was on
December 18, 1899, that the body of our
first President, George Washington, was
inferred in the old vault at Mount Ver-
non, leaving behind record of truth,
honesty, justice and sacrifice for which
a united Nation will ever be grateful.
Indeed, as Shakespeare has so beauti-
fully expressed it, and we can well apply
the bard's words to Gen. Washington,
His life was so gentle and the elements
so mixed in him that nature might stand
up and say to all the world, This was
man."
George Washington died on December
IA, 1893. His last hours are well de-
scribed by his adopted son, George
Washington Parke Custis, who says:
"On the morning of the 18th the gen.
eral was engaged in making some i'm
provements in front of Mount Vernon.
AS was usual with him, he carried his
own compass, noted for observations and
marked out the ground. The day be-
came rainy, with sleet, and the irnprover
remained so long exposed to the in
clemency of the weather as to be con-
siderably wetted before his return to the
house. About 1 o'clock he was seized
with chillness and nausea, but, having
changed his clothes, he sat down to his
indoor work-there being no moment of
his time for which he had not provided
an appropriate employment.
"At night, on joining his family circle,
the general complained Of slight indis-
Evening star., 1944-12-17
Anniversary Recalls
Burial of Washington

of Washington the Great-the Father
Of His Country and the friend of man,
was consigned to the tomb, with solemn
honors and funeral pomp.
"A multitude Of persons assembled
from many miles around, at Mount Ver-
non, the choice abode and last residence
Of the illustrious chief. There were
the groves-the spacious avenues, the
beautiful and sublime scenes, the
noble mansion-but, alas! The august
inhabitant was now no more. That
great soul was gone. His mortal part
was there, indeed; but ah! how affect
ing! how awful the spectacle of such
worth and greatness, thus, to mortal
eyes, fallen! Yes! fallen! fallen
I'm the long and lofty portico, where
oft the hero walked in all his glory,
now lay the shrouded corpse. The
countenance still composed and serene
seemed to depress the dignity which
lately dwelt in that lifeless form! There
those who paid the last sad honors to
the benefactor Of his country, took an
impressive, a farewell view.
O1l bllC O1AioA1CAig dU tllC l1CoA VA CAAC
coffin was inscribed, Surge ad Judicium
about the middle of the coffin, Gloria
Deo-and on the silver plate,
GENERAL
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Departed this life, on the 14th Decem-
ber, 1899, Act. So.
Between 3 and 4 o'clock, the sound
of artillery from a vessel in the river,
firing minute guns, awoke afresh our
solemn sorrow-the corpse was re-
moved-a band of music with mournful
Evening star., 1944-12-17

O

Fairgrounds for use as directors head
quarters, storage space, comfort facili-
ties and limited indoor recreation.
New Swimming Pools
The plan recommends the improve
mentment of the present municipal
swimming pool and construction of two
additional pools, one in the northeast
section at Monticello Park and the other
to serve the colored residents in connec-
ton with their proposed playfeld.
OF particular interest is the plan
for the development of Potomac View
Park to include a neighborhood play
ground and municipal yacht basin
and specialized recreation area
The upper portion of the property
lying between Lee and Union streets
would be a playground for small chill
dren with lower section created by
filling in portion of the river to pro-
vide space for court and lawn games,
a park area, refreshment and dance
terrace and municipal boathouse with
storage space for private crafts, boats
for hire and space for clubrooms where
yacht, canoe and fishing clubs may
meet.
Alexandria has long way to go. par
ticularly in the acquisition of land, if
the recommendations of the report are
to be carried out, At present the city
owns a total of less than rs acres of
recreational space, with very inadequate
development on the existing play
grounds, most of which are on school
property.
Under ideal conditions recreation ex-
perts recommend one acre of open space
for park purposes for each 100 of popu-
lation, one acre of playf1elds and
neighborhood Fairgrounds for each 800,