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Evening star., 1944-07-16

lake BULLS who runs Wally's Wagon No 2 over by
j the Army camp. telln me OF OF loves
labor lost
Seems downhearted GI soldier the other day
This ol' boy was sadder'n baboon during a banana
shortage.
He had been the Captains orderly all last Sunday
The Captain of the day the soldier just
sits around, KILN time.
Finally he gets fooin with the Captains portable
Typewriter and key time, he writes his
heart letter.
81 KEPT maxim mistakes when | almost through"
the CT tells Jake 80 would have to start all over.
Took me three hours, but when finished that letter
beaad.'
WELL" Jake asks him, did you finally send it to
your grip
"Yep" the soldier says Il signed it with the Captains
fountain pen typed the address the envelope an
wrote free where the stamp place is = all strictly
accordn' to regulations Then mailed it,.
Like was sayin this CT is low in his mind He
got an answer hack from his lady-ove an 1t don't
give him happiness whatever.
''She got that typewriter letter, the CT says AN
it burned her up Here's 3hat she wrote back.
With that he fps Jake piece of geranium-f favored
pink stationery an across it wrote Since when,
sucker have you taken to debating love letters to
Wac stenosrapher?" -WAIY DoRN
Evening star., 1944-02-07
u. ). Rushes Airfie|d.
And Bases on Isles
aiken in Marsha||s
Three More Islands
Of KwojoIein Group
Captured From Jops
Sy the Associated Press,

UNITED STATES PACIFIC
FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl
Harbor, Feb. 7.-American troops
and marines have won all but a
small part of Kwajalein Atoll
after capturing three more is
lands from resisting japanese
and occupying other islands
which were not defended.
The occupation of the Marshall
Islands atoll, once formidable jap
anese plane and naval base. lis
nearly complete Armiral Chester
w. Nimitz said yesterday in a COM
munique which also announced that
Gugegwe, Bigej and Ebler Islands
had been captured after moderate
resistance"
While the invaders were driving
the japanese off the remaining is
lands of the atoll, Navy Seabees were
pushing their huge bulldozers over
the rubble of what had been a ruge
alrfield and installations on Roi and
Namur Islands. A powerful Ameri-
can alrdrome and naval base were
taking shape on these islands at the
northeastern tip of the atoll.
Truk Within Bomber Range.
On Kwajalein Island, the tough
nut cracked by the 7th Army Di-
vision on the southern end of the
atoll, engineers were putting the
airfield into shape for bombers and
fighters.
"All the Marshalls and the East
ern Carolines have been brought
within range of our bombers. in
Guiding Truk which is on. the fringe
of our bombers' new effective strik-
ing radius said Maj. Gen. Willis
Hale, commander OF the 7th Army
Air Force.
CTruk, with its big naval base,
is believed to be Japans strong
est Central Pacific bastion and is
938 airline miles from Kwaja-
lein.D
The capture of Gugegwe, Bigej
and Ebler Islands gave the Ameri-
cans control of two more channels
in the huge lagoon, which already
is the anchorage for units of the
United States fleet.
Other Islets Overrun.
In taking the three islands the
Americans have gathered in 81 OF
the 80 principal islands of the atoll
and in addition have overrun num-
erous other islets which are un-
named.
(Tokio radio was not in agree
ment with Admiral Nimitz' an
nouncement that the conquest of
= "a y
Evening star., 1944-02-07

Feud Settled as
.3Aides Resign
owl Chief Appears
Victor on Revomping
Of Overseas Service

Elmer Davis, the white haired
press warrior whose career as
chief of the Office of War In
formation has been marked by
a number of political skirmishes,
today apparently had won a
major battle for the reorganiza-
tion of the overseas service of
Owl.
Joseph Barnes, James P. Warburg
and Edd Johnson-officials in the
New York office of Owl, charged
with responsibility for the dissem-
ination of news abroad-have re-
signed on request, it was learned
authoritatively.
dispute over the dismissal OF
these men, with Mr.. Davis urging
it and his aide, Robert Sherwood,
playwright and director of Owls
overseas branch, opposing it, had
been taken to the White House, and
reports were current here that Mr..
Davis would resign if President
Roosevelt did not upholds his au-
thority to select his own personnel.
Sherwood Going to London.
Under the arrangement worked
out here after the issue was taken
to the White House, The Star was
reliably informed, Mr.. Sherwood will
go to the London Office of OWL. His
duties there have not been an
nounced.
Mr.. Davis is en- route to New
York by train. his secretary said,
and could not be reached for COM
ment. The directors aides declined
to discuss the new arrangements.
Mr.. Davis was represented as
feeling that the New York Office
of the overseas branch has been
running away with OWL by max
ing independent decisions on propa-
ganda policy. A broadcast to
Europe last summer, arranged by
the office, in which King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy was referred to
as the moronic little King" was
regarded by some Washington off,
cialS as ill-advised
sherwood opposed reorganization.
Consequently, the director pro-
posed reorganization of the New
York office, including the dismissal
Of Mr.. Barnes, Mr.. Warburg and
Mr.. johnson and the centering Of
responsibility for foreign news policy
in Washington. Mr.. Sherwood,
/ personal friend and literary adviser
of the President, strongly opposed
/ the move.
T When the clash in policy between
Mr. Davis and Mr.. Sherwood appar-
emily reached an impasse the matter
was referred to the White House.
/ Mr.. Barnes is a veteran newspa-
perman who for many years was
on the staff of the Council for
Pacific Relations and later was chief
of the New York Herald -Tribune's
bureau in Moscow. Mr.. Warburg,
son of the well known New York
banker, was closely associated with
the so-called brain trust" in the
early days of the New Deal. but
later wrote articles critical of the
President and his associates. Mr..
Johnson was a radio executive be-
fore joining Owl.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Thousands Evacuate
Finnish Capital After
Two Russian Raids
38 Reported Killed
And 232 Injured in
2OO-PIune Attack
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Feb. Fires
still were burning in Helsinki at
noon today from two Russian
bombings yesterday which hit
200 buildings and killed 38 per-
sons, the Finnish Legation in
Stockholm said.
The attacking bombers dropped
mine bombs and incendiaries, it was
officially announced at the Finnish
capital. The announcement listed
232 persons as wounded.
CA Finnish communique re-
corded in New York said more
than 200 planes took part in the
attack
(Advices reaching London said
telephone communication between
Helsinki and Stockholm had been
cut again today, suggesting the
possibility of third raid in what
apparently is a concentrated ef-
fort to drive Finland out of the
war;
Thousands of women, children anc
elderly persons began to evacuate
Helsinki.
The refugees were reported max
ing use of every available means o1
travel in their hurried exodus.
A Moscow radio announcement
Evening star., 1944-02-07
81 Pct. Of Miners Work
In Anthracite Pits Sunday

BY the Associated Press.
SCRANTON, Pa, Feb. 7.-Between
100000 and 1875 900 tons of anthra-
cite we're added to the Nations S
depleted stock piles yesterday be-
cause "a per cent of the industry's
10000 miners needed Secretary
Ickes' request for production on
Sundays
The Bureau of Mines, whose es-
innate of the number of men work.
ing yesterday was confirmed by
operators, said the output was about
So pei cent of the weekday normal.
Mr.. Ickes has asked full production
on all four Sundays this month to
relieve the shortage
Miners who had worked all six
days last week received double time
pay for work YESTERDAY.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Discharged Veterans, Recovered From Wounds,
Being Called for Reinduction by Draft Boards

be drafted again as soon as he has
recovered from wounds, and the War
Department said this had happened
in some cases.
An Army spokesman explained
that the limited service" category
had been twilight zone" in the
armed forces. He said there had
been "lot of discrepancy" between
discharging authorities. Men con-
sidered unfit for one service were
discharged only to find themselves
back in another service.
Recent War Department orders
call for commanding officers to ex-
haust all possibilities before dis
charging men, but in the meantime,
thousands of men have been dis
charged for physical disabilities that
today would not stand in the way of
their induction.
The ex-Servicemen must report
back to draft boards because of their
change of status and in some cases
the whole draft process begins again
Evening star., 1944-02-07

just as though they had never been
in the service.
Acknowledging that "many such
cases have come up," War Depart
ment spokesman pointed out that
men with overseas service who find
themselves back in uniform again
probably would not be sent overseas
a second time under the recent War
Department shake-up orders.
Under draft board procedure, ex-
servicemen are supposed to 60 be-
fore selective service medical ad-
visory board which recommends
whether or not they are fit for serv-
ice again. The draft boards, it was
said, usually follow the medical
boards communications.
Sometimes, it was learned, draft
boards skip the medical advisory
board procedure and simply call the
ex-servicemen for induction. Men
who know enough about procedure
(See DRAFT, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1944-02-07
By MIRIAM OTTENRERC

Soldiers and sailors discharged
from the services for injuries suffer-
ed in action have been drafted again
under seiective service regulations
permitting draft boards to call ex-
servicemen, it was learned today.
Men discharged as corporals or
sergeants were being drafted again
as privateS until complaints grew
SO strong that the War Department
finally issued instructions to give
redrafted men their former rank
as soon as they demonstrate their
fitness for assignment.
Changes in the armed forces
physical standards, together with
varying discharge policies and the
eagerness of draft boards to tap all
available manpower sources, have
combined to put ex-servicemen back
into uniform.
A National Selective Service
spokesman conceded that a man
wounded at Attn or Faid Pass co,,ld
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Senators 0. K. Hutcheson
To Succeed Judge Way

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate Judiciary Committee
unanimously approved today the
nomination of Sterling Hutcheson
to be judge of the Eastern Virginia
Federal District Court, succeeding
the late Judge Luther B. Way.
Mr.. Hutcheson, now district attor-
ney for the Eastern Virginia district
was Endorsed by the two Virginia
Senators and his name went before
the committee without opposition
A Judiciary Subcommittee two weeks
ago recommended his approval
Early confirmation by the Senate is
expected.
Assistant District Attorneys Harry
Holt, jr.rand Russell Bradford are
considered most likely appointees to
succeed Mr.. Hutcheson as district
attorney.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Red Army Eneirc|es
) More Nazi Divisions
In Dnieper Bend
Moose Also Being
frightened Around 10
Trapped at Cherkosy
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON. Feb. 7.-Triumphant
Red Army forces have encircled
five more German infantry divi-
sions at Nikopol in the Dnieper
bend, Moscow announced last
night, and today the Russians
were reported cutting these units
to pieces while Tightening a
moose around the remnants of
100000 Nazi troops previously
trapped near Cherkasy.
Moscow dispatches indicated a
total Of perhaps IT'S 900 of Germany's
finest troops faced certain death,
capture or starvation in the two
Ukrainian pockets. A captured Ger
man officer, revealing the soldiers
in the Cherkasy trap are eating but
one meal daily, declared that Hitler
had ordered them ito hold to the
last man." as he did just year ago
before the debacle at Stalingrad.
Capture of the key rail junction
of Apostolovo, "a miles west of
Nikopol. by troops of Gen. Rodion
Y. Malinovsky's Sd Ukrainian Army
virtually sealed the fate of the five
Nikopol divisions.
Climax to 4-Day Drive.
1t climaxed a four day drive from
the northeast which ripped 81 miles
through the German lines on 100
mile-long '"cnt between Nikopol
and Krivoi Rog to occupy Marganets,
a town less than 10 miles northeast
of Nikopol.
Seven Nazi divisions were routed,
a Russian communique said. The
enemy abandoned tremendous guam
Titles of war equipment besides leav-
ing $4,000 dead on the battlefield.
Two thousand more were cap
tured as Gen. Malinovsky's infantry
and tanks, covered by fleets of low
flying Stormovik dive bombers, rolled
forward, liberating $50 towns and
villages. One of these, Devladovo, a
rail station, was only % miles north
east of Krivoi Rog.
Soviet triumphs in the last week
the entrapment of 10 divisions at
Cherkasy and Gen. Malinovsky' s
drive on NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the
liberation of all Southern Russia,
Moscow advices said.
Mlinov Is Captured.
One hundred and fifty miles to
the northwest, the forces of Gems.
Nikolai Vatutin and Irvan S. Konev
were Systematically whiting down
the survivors of the 100000 Germans
trapped at Cherkasy, while in old
Poland, 430 miles to the west, Gen.
Vatutin's center captured the town
of Mlinov in a 30-mile drive from
Evening star., 1944-02-07
2 Flyers Adrift II Days
Rescued From Pacific
y the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ADVANCED SOUTH PACIFIC
BASE, Feb. 6 CDelayed) "A rescue
plane picked up two crew members
of Navy torpedo bomber Febru-
ary 3 after they had spent q days
afloat in a rubber boat and an ad-
ditional IA days on a tiny island
off New Ireland.
1t. q. g. H. c, CARLY, pilot, and
C. A. Marken, gunner. survived a
crash landing after their plane was
disabled during carrier strike at
Kavieng, New Ireland, Christmas
Day.
1t. CARLY said Radioman r. c..
Reynolds, injured by gunfire during
the raid, was killed in the crash
anding at sea.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Individual Bond Sales
OF S1,600,000 Reach
Half Of Drive Quota
Small Investors Troll
As Weekend TotuI
Hits $3,l00,000 Mark

War Bond purchases by small
investors were still tagging today
as the latest report from the
Fifth Federal Reserve Bank in
Richmond, Va, showed individ-
ual buying in the Fourth War
Loan campaign touched the
halfway mark over the week
end.
With only 81 600, 900 added to the
total for individual purchases since
Saturday, War Bond officials here
repeated their warning that the
Districts part in the drive will be
a failure unless small investors
substantially increase their buying
Exactly $26,5OOOOO, or so per cent,
of the $53,000,O00 quota for individ-
ual buyers was reported, although
the overall total went up to $72 ,200,-
900, or 76 per cent of the general
$95 100000 quota here.
Sales of E bonds stood at sl6600.-
O00-about SIS per cent of the goal.
Corporate buyers have acquired
S45, 100000 or nearly 109 per cent
of their $42,OOO,00O quota.
War Optimists Warned.
Total sales since Saturday were
reported at s3,100,000.
Speaker Sam Rayburn of the
House, in broadcast yesterday
warned Americans not to place toe
much faith in an early end of the
war. Along with War Production
Board Chairman Donald M. Nell
son, Mr.. Rayburn urged civilians
to do their part in the bond drive.
Sales were spurred yesterday when
$50 messengers attached to the air
raid warden service in the Lincoln
Park and Trinidad areas paraded
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Surprised Defenders Fire Wi|d|y;
Yanks Win Back Positions in Ita|v|
No U. S. Ships
Hit; Planes
Follow Up
BY NORMAN BELL.

Associated Press War Correspondent.
ABOARD A UNITED STATES
DESTROYER IN THE NORTH
PACIFIC, Feb. 4 CDelayedD.-
American warships bombarded
Japanese home territory-the
northern stronghold of Paramu-
Shiro Island-for the first time
today and caught the enemy by
surprise.
A bombardment lasting about 20
minutes battered the harbor and
land installations of Kurabu Point
on the southern tip of the island.
Paramushiro Island, one of the
northernmost of the fog -shrouded
Kurile Islands, is 1890 miles from
Toxic and 100 miles from Attu in
the Aleutians. The japanese MAIN
land is part of the Kurile chain
The Russian Peninsula of Kam-
chatka lies northeast of Paramu-
shiro.
Gunners Fire Into Air.
Enemy gunners, either surprised
or attempting to put out star shells
which preceded the heavy blast
ing, fired into the air when the at
tack first started. Then, giving evil
dence of becoming more ratified,
they fired along their own beaches
and at the Pacific Ocean and Sea
of Ohkotsk.
No ship of the attacking force,
which steamed under bright moon
light within miles of the shore
batteries, was hit.
(The Navy Department in
Washington, expanding on Core
spondent Bells eyewitness story,
said aircraft followed up the
Paramushiro shelliug with a
sharp attack, and that all planes
also escaped without damage.
(The Navy also disclosed that
a naval attack was made on the
east coast of the island.
(The shelling attacks were
made at 9 a m, Eastern war time,
February 4, the Navy said-corre-
spending to 10 o'clock that night
by Toxic Uime.
(On the same night, American
aircraft also bombed Paramu-
shire and Shimushu, the small
island lying in the strait be-
tween Paramushiro and Kam-
chatka.
CA number of fires were started
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Japanese Speculate
On u. S. Landing in
KuriIes in Sprinq
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
A Toxic dispatch broadcast
by Berlin speculated today that
American forces may attempt
landing 'in the spring in
the Kurile Islands.
The newspaper Yomiuri
Hochi said United States naval
units in the Northern Pacific
had been reinforced lately"
and the American forces in
clude strong formations
air. borne troops"
Recent appointment of Vice
Admiral Frank J. Fletcher as
commander of the North Pa
cific area also revealed the
Importance which the enemy is
attaching to this portion of the
war theater," it added.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
BIC Broodeosts Appeal
To Frenchmen to Resist
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. THE British
Broadcasting Co. today broadcast an
appeal from the leader of the Haute
Savoie patriots urging all French
men to rise against the German op-
presSors.
The appeal, repeated at intervals
throughout the day, outlined a four
point program to be followed by
French citizens. 1t urged those
possessing arms to join French guer-
rilla bands, appealed to all French
workers to strike, encouraged ma
tion-wide sabotage without undue
risks" and asked that records be
made of the names and descriptions
OF members of the German-con-
trolled militia and leading Vichy
police figures.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Administration Wins
Service Ballot Test
BY Two-Vote Margin
Supporters of Federal
Plan Defect Overton's
Move for House Bill

The administration today won
by a two-vote margin in a new
test of strength as the Senate be-
gan its third week of debate in
the battle over Federal or State
control of soldier voting.
BY a record vote of "A to AZ. the
supporters of compromise Federal
ballot plan defeated another move
by Senator Overton, Democrat, of
Louisiana to get before the Senate
the State-control bill that passed the
House last week.
The administration made a slight
ly better showing than when the
Overton motion was beaten FriCay,
by tie vote of AZ to AZ.
Ten Republicans and one Progress
sive Joined with 33 Democrats to
beat the Overton move. Nineteen
Democrats and % Republicans sup
ported the Overton motion.
Even If the motion had carried
however, administration leaders were
prepared to seek a showdown with
a motion to attach the compromise
Federal ballot to the House meas
ure, which would have forced the
House to consider the Federal ballot
issue again.
Time for Showdown Uncertain.
Although this first roll call of the
week showed the administration still
holding the upper hand by slender
margin, there was no certainty as to
how soon they could get either the
Federal or State control bill to a
final vote
Confident they have the votes to
win, administration forces were de-
termined to push the Green-Lucas
Federal ballot bill through final
passage in the Senate. If success
full, their next move will be to at
tach the measure to the States
rights bill, thus tossing the whole
controversy back to the House.
The Federal ballot proposition
would nullify the whole intent OF
the States-rights bill which rolled
through the House by top-heavy
vote last week.
The two theories on soldier vot-
ing-Federal ballots VS.. State bal
(See SERVICE VOTE. Page A-5D
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Japs RepuIsed in Burma
After Capturing Town
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCldleQ Press.
NEW DELHI, Feb. 7.-Japanese
troops striking back on the Arkan
front in Southwestern Burma cap
tured the town Of Taung Bazaar
February 4, an Allied communique
reported today.
Enemy attempts to advance
southwest of Taung Bazaar the next
day, however, were repulsed by the
Allies with heavy casualties.
American-trained Chinese troops
routed several japanese patrols
east and west of Taipha Ga.
In the air. RAF fighter -bombers
ranged, blasted a Japanese camp
and supply dump at Sitsawk, 80
miles east of Imphal, and an enemy
headquarters unit at Falam, south
of Tiddim. Others fighters destroy
ed II small enemy river boats.
Evening star., 1944-02-07
Carrier 1iconderoga
Launched at Newport News
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Feb. T.
Bearing name made famous in the
Revolutionary War. the big aircraft
carrier Ticonderoga splashed into
the James River today from her
building ways at the Newport News
Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. plant.
Sixth carrier of the Essex class
launched here since the United
States entered the war, the Ticon-
deroga was chrstened by Sarah Pell.
Pelham Manor, N Y, daughter of
Herbert T. Pell, State Department
official, and granddaughter of
Stephen H. P. Pell, through whose
efforts Fort Ticonderoga was re-
stored to its original status.