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Evening star., 1944-12-14
Litten Says BiddIe
Lied on Reasons
For Discharging Him
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-Norman
Littell, former Assistant United
States Attorney General, dismissed
recently by President Roosevelt for
INSTRUMENTATION" charged yester-
day that Attorney General Biddle
lied when he said my testimony
before Congress had nothing to do
with my discharge"
At a press conference, Mr.. Littell
declared President Roosevelt could
not possibly known the details" of
his controversy with Mr.. Biddle and
said the Attorney General "bom-
barded the White House every day"
in his attempts to bring about the
dismissal.
In Washington Mr.. Biddle de-
clined to comment.
Contending Congress was "en-
titled to full and frank disclosure
of the facts" in all its investiga-
tions, Mr.. Littell said the publicity
attending his testimony was of the
greatest value to the Government"
Says Testimony Scrapped Contract.
The testimony to which he re-
ferred, he said, concerned the Elk
Hills naval petroleum reserve con-
tract between the Navy Department
and the Standard Oil Co. of Cali
forria, return of the Breakers Hotel
at Palm Beach, Fla, from the Army
to private owners, and disposal of
surplus goods.
Mr.. Littell said his testimony was
responsible for scrapping of the
original Elk Hills contract and it's
replacement by another, adding:
at was definitely in the public in
terest to expose that (originaD con-
tract in every detail"
Mr.. Littel said he had referred to
aspects of the Elk Hills proceedings
as another Teapot Dome case" but
declared he never meant any i'm
plcation that the late Secretary of
the Navy, Frank Knox, had any
black bag"
Corcoran Case Second Phase.
He was fine and fortnight citi-
zen," Mr.. Littell continued, "but he
did sign the contract and prevailed
upon the President of the United
States to sign the contract"
Mr.. Littell told reporters the
question of whether 1 am being
disciplined for testifying fully and
frankly" was only one phase of his
controversy with Mr.. Biddle. the |
other being the Corcoran case.
In connection with the latter, he
accused Mr.. Biddle of having made
statements containing "improvisa-
tions and extreme inaccuracies" and
said he planned to tell his story of
the case to the Mead War Investi-
eating Committee in the Senate in
the near future,
Evening star., 1944-12-14
Child Believed Bitten
BY Mad Dog Hunted

Police and Health Department
officials today pushed a city-wide
search for an unidentified child be-
lieved to have been bitten by a
rabid dog yesterday before the ami
NAL was dubbed to death by an
other victim.
Donald Bauma, Falls Church, Va,
who had his trousers torn by the
animal, told police he saw the dog
attack a child near the Statler
Hotel Mr. Bauma said the child
was placed in an automobile and
taken away, presumably by its
parents.
The dog was killed by Lem E.
Miller. Berger, Tex, who also was
bitten after it had attacked Ernest
Evening star., 1944-12-14

AAA tAAS
Palaus, d u ring
October, accord
ing to word re-
ceived from the
N a w Depart
ment by his par
ents, Mr.. and
M RS. jeremiah
A. OLeary, 1922
Quincy s tr e e t
NE.
In a recent
| e tier to his
family s erg t.
O'Leary assured
them the wound,
on his left hand,
Evening star., 1944-12-14
Russian Siege Guns
Lay Down barrage on
Budapest 5 Suburbs
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated PreS6.
MOSCOW, Dec. 14.-Russian
siege guns laid down a heavy
barrage on Budapest's closest
suburbs today as Soviet armored
columns advanced slowly 7 miles
north and 10 miles east of the
Hungarian capital.
Shells plastered Ujpest and Rako-
spalota, north of the city, and the
big suburb of Kispet, east of Buda-
pest. from positions gained with the
capture of two strongholds on the
heavily fortified approaches to Pest,
sector of the capital on the east
bank of the Danube.
The midnight Soviet communique
announced the capture of these
strong points-Kisalag, 7 miles
northeast of Budapest, and Isaszeg,
10 miles due east, in the stepped
up drive by Marshal Rodion Mali
novsky's I'd Ukraine Army.
Vienna Next, Reds Say.
AS the Red Army pressed the at
tack closer to Budapest other Soviet
forces struggled for a better foot
hold for the campaign westward to-
ward Bratislava and Austria, Izves-
tia reported.
After Budapest, the fate of vi
emma will be decided" the paper
said. "The war is on Austria S
threshold"
1t was still not clear whether an
aIl-out frontal assault on Budapest
had begun, but at the rate the Rus
slams were going 1t appeared that
Pest itself might soon be under fire.
Front dispatches have indicated
the Germans have an unusually
strong ring of antitank defenses
about the capital, built largely by
forced labor working around the
clock under Gestapo orders. Be-
tween main points the Nazis have
studded the territory with machine
gun and smaller antitank weapons.
Mine Fields Slow Reds.
Red Army sappers today were
reputed graphing with the problem
of mine fields laid ahead of the
antitank belt by the German and
Hungarian defenders.
Some of the sharpest air clashes
since Sevastopol were reported TAX
ing place as the Luftwaffe sought
to check the Red Army big guns
with constant bombings.
The Soviet communique also an
nounced the capture of seven towns
In the fighting arc around the cap
tured rail junction of Hatvan, one
town (SzurdokpuspokD IL miles
north Of that city and on the rail
line leading north to Losonc In
Slovakia.
Also, the communique listed the
capture of IL towns along the Slo-
vakia frontier. north Of Miskolc, in
the drive aimed at the East Slovak
communications stronghold of Kassa
tKosice).
Resistance Is Tough.
With the capture OF Abod in thi.
sector the Russians were only II
miles south of Szepsi (Moldava). 6
three-way road junction on the
Bodva River 13 miles southwest Of
Kassa.
The communique emphasized thai
the drive on Budapest from tht
northeast was encountering thu
toughest resistance. Kisalag fel
only after tank-supported infantry
had smashed a German counter
attack and moved forward step BY
STEP" the bulletin said. -
In taking Isaszeg the Russians had
to blast the desperately resisting
Germans out of blockhouses and
pillboxes. The Russians said they
wiped out two battalions OF German
infantry there, destroyed eight tanks
nine big guns and % mortars.
Evening star., 1944-12-14

Lang said. His left arm was par
alyzed. Corpl. Lang was overseas
two years. He joined the Marine
Corps in october, 1941, and previ-
ously attended the Ashland (Ky0
Junior College and worked for the
Postal Telegraph Co. in that town.
His wife, Mrs. Mildred Frances
Lang. lives In Ashland. They we're
married at the Navy Hospital Oc-
tober 4.
Pvt. Guy r. Miller, %, husband of
Mrs. Helen Miller, Branchville, Md,
was wounded in action September
"a while fighting in France, the War
Department said today. He has re-
turned to duty, his wife said.
Evening star., 1944-12-14

w. Davis, 3615 Minnesota avenue
Sc. Mr.. Davis started taking
Pasteur treatments yesterday, and
MIR. Miller, who left for his Texas
home. has been notified of the
danger, according to DR.. George
c. Ruhland, District health officer.
Mr.. Bau1na's clothing was torn by
the rabid animal, but he was not
bitten, police reported.
DR.. Rutland stressed the i'm
portance of locating the child so
that Pasteur treatments could be
started Immediately.
Evening star., 1944-12-14
Shepherd Speech Cancelled

The Howard University Alumni
Association, through Mrs. L. R.
Smith, president, today announced
that the speech tomorrow night of
DR.. Marshall L. Sheppard at Rankin
Chapel is Cancelled. DR.. Sheppard is
unable to attend because Of business
In Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1944-12-14
Harry Richmon Weds
Dancer, ID, in Miami
By the Associated Press.

MIAMI, Dec. 14-Singer Harry
Richman, star at new night club
which opened here last night
slipped into Miami's courthouse
yesterday noon and walked out q
married man.
His bride is Yvonne Day, a 22-
year-old dancer.
The wedding contrasted with his
marriage to the toothpaste heiress,
Hazel Forbes, here in 1888, when a
score OF reporters, 16 photographers
and 300 spectators were present.
Evening star., 1944-12-14

had healed and that he was back
on duty the evening of the day he
was hit. He explained that his mar
row escape from serious injury oc-
Cured when Jap antitank guns sud-
denly opened fire on line of jeeps
moving along road.
Sergt OIeary was a reporter on
The Star staff when he Joined the
marines early in 1912, and had gone
through the Cape Gloucester and
Guam campaigns before the Palau
invasion.
Evening star., 1944-12-14

NEWARK, N. J-PINUP GIRL OF THE u S. S. NEW JERSEY
Defeating rs examples of puchrtude Haroyn Chery
Meyer here in her birthday suit voted their pnup
girl votes of aboard the U. S. New
Jersey photo send to her father 1t H. c.
Meyer Flying Fortress pilot prisoner of in Germany
when she months old Mrs Meyer said she notified
the babys selection by letter from of the batleshps
picture entered in the contest she said
a sort of ioke" A P. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1944-12-14
Rubbit Punch FutuI

GARDEN CITY, Kans. Dr.
Twelve-year-old Billy Orcutt shared
a jack rabbit. 1t took one look at
him and jumped With all its might.
The rabbit hit a fence post-and was
knocked out.
Evening star., 1944-12-14
Former Reporter
For Star Injured
By Jap ShropneI

Technical Sergt. jeremiah A.
OLeary, jr., Marine Corps combat
correspondent. was wounded by
shrapnel during the battle for
Evening star., 1944-12-14
On the Roll of Honor
Killed

First 1t. Lawrence e. Swank, %,
vas killed in Southern France August
Is, three days after he landed with
an advance air-borne detail, the
War Department has notified his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter r.
Swank, 1400 Fairmont street NV.
1t. Swank was awarded scholar
ship to Maryland University on his
graduation from Central High
School. After two years at Maryland
University School of Engineering, he
went to Millard Preparatory School
for a year. He entered West Point
in July, 1910. He was graduated
second in a class of 514 cadets in
June, 1943.
Originally in the Corps of Engi-
neers, 1t. Swank transferred to the
paratroops. He went overseas in
November, 1943 on the same boat as
his brother, 1t. Col Walter D..
Swank, now duty in Belgium. In
a letter from an Allied officer, 1t
Swank's parents learned that 100
French people attended his funeral
in Southern France despite the
Germans. The Star carried a log
of letters from 1t. Swank and 1t
Col. SWank to their parents on
October 1
Evening star., 1944-12-14
Blood Quote
(For District. Pentagon and
AGohila rTp;fs

(For District, Pentagon and
Mobile Units.)
District quota per
week ---- 5000 pints
Donations last week 4,070 pints
Donations so far this
week ---- 2,12l pints
T o d ay's appoint
ments ----7 746 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center
in the Acacia Building, 81 LOU
isiana avenue NV, by calling
District $500 between 9 am.
and $50 pm.
Thus far in this war, 998 men
from the District area have
been reported killed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06
Current Comment

Some of our men have been fight. without . break for five days. They manage to carry on because they realize they're in on the greatest victory of Allied arms in the west -the greatest defat the Germans have ever suffered in Europe.
 Allied ofilcer In France.
 As agriculture will not be in Q position to SC It's prices in the very near future. 1t appears that the only alternative is . continua- ton Of price controls on manufac- tured articles for some time. Joseph W. Fichter, Ohio Grange
 master,
 There, coming down the road, was what looked like ari etnrie company of well-armed KrautS. I stopped the jeep and trained the tommygun on them. The German officer shouts open fire" They opened fir c all right--on him, They surrendered, 97 iii one batch.
 --egt. Robert Becton of Clinton,
 ". O., near ArgentRn, France.
 If the conflicting political issues remain, c new war is inevitable. The harBhneSs Of conditions prc- Eented to the vanquiShed can post.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06
How Soon Is Practicable

Washington newspapermen were final ly, admitted to the mystery-Shrouded pre- cincts of Dumbarton Oaks after week of what Undersecretary of State Stettinius called "reticence" on the part of interna- tional organization conference, They heard statement of general agreements which the delegates had reached, along with Mr. Stettinius' apology for the "re- tlcence."
 They learned that the conference had decided on an international assembly of peace-loving nations, a smaller coun- ell with limited authority, and an in- ternational court of justice, This was encouraging but hardly startling Sub- Stantially the same agreement had been reached in the Fulbright and Connally resolutions and the Democratic and Re- publican platforms It Is good to know that the international conference has started down a logical and obvious road toward world peace. But If these fore gone conclusions sum up the first weeks accomplishments, the conference thus far could scarcely be called fruitful
 Have any further agreements been reached? Apparently "retIcence" would forbid their disclosure. Mr. StettiniuS defended this reticence by invoking other DgCESb 6C9otOtlSD AlOll tlaS SOilSVVbbfOAANA Contention of 17s7 to present-day con- gressional committees and political plat
 form drafters. He emphasized that the enly difference between such sessions and Duinbarton Oaks is that the latter is "a matter of international as well as of do- nestle concerns" But that is a great difference. Platforms and laws are sub- ject to popular approval, either directly 1r fhrnii0h elected representatives, Treaties are subject to open debate. In no case is there danger of secret national commitments.
 This is not to say that there have been such commitments at Dumbarton Oaks. But 1t would have been nice to have had from MT. Stettlnius humping forth right declaration of denial. There was no such assurance. Instead, the under. secretary emphasized the confidential nature of expressed opinions. He implied that there wa sno choice between de- tailed transcript Of discussions and the xerT general statement Issued. He quot
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06
Londoner's View

The transatlantic edition of the Lon don Daily Mail carries the answer of its New York correspondent to a question frequently put to him on his return to London; "How does Britain at war strike you as compared with America at warp"
 Here is the answer; "There is no comparison. The American civilians all of them, not just those with big bankrollS-are living life hardly dis tinguishable from peacetime existence There are mountains of food and acres of clothing for everyone, Rationing is the mereSt pinprick
 "There are plenty of luXuries More money is being made by the entertain ment, catering and clothing industries than ever before, The war is remote. Almost, 1t does not exist in a physical sense, Psychologicaliy it is close for remember there are l0,000,000 Americans or more in uniform, and their relatives belong to nearly ever home in America"
 Exaggerated, would you say? Not a man who has seen wartime London-just the daily living, not the blitz and the TO- bots. It might be well If we would try to look at ourselves now and then through Londoner's eyes-we who gripe and grouse and gouge and strike.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06
The Common Touch

The veil of secrecy was lifted from the Dumbarton Oaks conference long enough to disclose that, on their first weekend, the delegates went to New York. They left their wives in wash ington, saw the sights and went night clubbing. They attended the theater with tickets Ion the house"
 Somehow, since learning that, we've felt better about the whole thing. we still don't like the secrecy. But at least it's good to know that the future Of a world full of ordinary folks is being shaped by a group who, bailirg ovt of the diplomatic stratosphere, can pehave so much like a typical bunch or Am ericaf1 convention delegates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06
Hopeless Refuge

Germany, short of almost everything for her war machine, is even running out of Nazi slogans, Strength through joy" is long since departed. Beauty through work" more recently followed it, But the Nazis must have slogans, so they have fallen back on, of all things, faith and honor." pr. GoebbelS frankly tells the Germans that faith and honor can be dispensed with in good times, "aS they can be replaced by success and victory. In bad times, However, these principles are of importance, as they must make up for setbacks and defeats"
 This hasn't even the frightened honesty of deathbed repentance. pr. GoebbelS is simply admitting that, having run out of everything else, he is falling back on a couple of civilized virtues for eXpedient aid in an extremely bad situation. Obvi- ously 1t won't work, For Il years the Germans have been offered faith in noth- ing but Adolf Hitler by their government As for honor, the NaZis conceived this war in a series of broken pledges and have conducted 1t in an atmosphere of egre- gious lies. And the German people, in condoning and enduring all this, have been but little less faithless and dishon- orable than their leaders Dr. Goebbels once again admits the hopelessness of the Nazi cause by invoking, to cancel setbacks and defeats, principles whose very mean ing he obviously has forgotten-if he ever knew them
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06
Eye Trouble

We had always considered the British pretty level-headed people until we saw a story in The London Daily Mail about postwar housing plans in the village of Eye in Suffolk, which is Britain's smallest borough, The authorities of Eye propose to erect the brick shell of house, then let Eyes housewives come in with tape meas ure and notebook and complete the inter- tor to conform with the house of their dreams The authorities then propose to strike balance, build rooms and windows and fixtures in accordance with the con- SenSuS, and duplicate the model dwelling 40 times-which is all the postwar houS- ing Eye needs This, of course, is mad ness, In the first place, few women have but one dream house. If they did, all these better homes" magazines would have been out of business long ago. One month the periodical will suggest de- lightful modernization or anticipation of the present dwelling, Succeeding issues will offer Georgian, Norman, Latin-Amer- navian houseS-all enchanting visions which leave the housewife in haze of indecision not at all unpleasant,
 But when the time for decision comes --as it often does, even in the most
 
 else. Building, buying or remodeling present concrete problems Money and practicality enter the picture, At such a time women discover that a change of housing, like marriage, is not to be en- tered into lightly, It is time of doubt and hesitation, And, in the case of the housewives of Eye, doubt and hesitation are going to grow when their frozen day dreams are the objects of judgment and comparison
 eAnd what will happen when the 40 identical dwellings of Eye are con- Structed? Pride and envy will be prac- tically extinct. Curiosity will be throt- tied, since all houses are alike And these things just aren't natural. Worse st!ll, Eyes good wives will discover that the kitchen windows, taken from neigh bor's blueprint are in the wrong place, The sink is the wrong height The living room Is too long or too short, or the fur niture won't fit. All this is going to lead to bitter gossip and civil strife. Old friendships will be sundered, childish companionships will be strained, business will suffer. Reflect, elders of Eye, reflect and reconsider! For the sake of civic amity, don't let this thing spread any farther,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06

StettlniuS, jr,, must have been feeling his oats at the National Airport the other day, when he and Q group of other diplomats gathered co receive incoming Chi- nese delegates to Dumbarton oaks .. Here they come, announced Stettinius. "Get all the Brass Hats together" ... Then, blush. Ing furiously, he noticed he'd been overheard by five Brass Hat admlrals and generals En" listed men at Tt. Myer doing laundry detail are burned up over having to scrube uniforms for WAC cnlistces on the post
 MENTAL CASUALTIES OF WAR
 Col, William 0. Menninger, head of the Army Medical Corps neuro. psychiatrie division and brother of the famous psyche. analyst, Karl Mennlnger, has recommended that service veterans discharged for mental reasons be given lump sum settlements rather than lifelong pensions, unless their disease IS one rendering them wholly unfit for normal civilian life. The pen. sion system, Menninger says, iS largely responsible for the average cost of S33,000 for each neuro. psyehiatric casualty Of the last war.
 Col, Mehnlnger believes the knowledge that e pension will al. ways be paid rohS many mental casualties of the incentive to make their own way.
 "VVhen we have Q man Of thlS
 type, . pension tends to make him avoid facing and solving his
 conflict" he says, "A lump EuEn set ." he far bet. ter for the veterans and would
 save the ,ent c good deal Of money"
 Copyright, ie44, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06
Slightly Vulnerable

They couldn't try Thomas De Lorenzo for saying that he would rather see Am orleans de In battle for want of equip ment than see his union lose any of It's rights" at the Brewster aircraft plant, where he is the JAW locals president: But they could try him on the charge Of lying about his police record to get job, and find him guilty.
 De Lorenzos punishment, If 1t survives appeal, Is mild - 30 days and $500 tine' But at least 1t should serve notice to him that he is not inviolate, and that he can not flout the nations laws as he did It's interests and safety during the scandal ous period of Brewster's inefficiency.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06

ton of new habits of thought. Psy. chlatry Is making Q real contribu- ton along this line. But from time inimemoriai the way in which life has been most effectively and per. inanently changed has been through the power of religious faith. This change Is known as conversion. It takes place almost always as the result of some crisis in ones life. The experience is never the same for any two people. In the case of some, 1t iS gradual: of others, abrupt. The crisis Is mild in some peoples lives; in others, intense. But whether the crisis be mild or intense, this trafs- formation Of life which we call coTi- version, this comforting Of new Ideals and Thought patterns upon one who has previously lived 6 life of rest- lensnees or wretchedness or evil takes place when iifel becomes fundn. mentally disturbed. The transfor-
 nation occurs at the point Of
 tuTbulence as the result Of ffustFa-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06
Selected Poem

FURLoUGH
 tFrances Frost In The Christian Science MonitoS First autumn meadows have smell of starlight The grass Is weighed beneath the dew as if we had been here with early dewtall pressing our elbows into earth, the weeds to hollowS Cool and far is the slopins smell of grasses, near and warm lifts the reek of meadowroo1 this crtlmbling elm-trunk In the cricket midnight tits up Q planet one day off from storm Throat -deep in sorre and in tangled vetch, we watch the stars swing over, fade, grow bright and clasp each othes hands against the world and murmur that the Swan is going down.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06
THE GOOD CAN BE HUMOROUS
(Hartiord courant)

A great many persons have the mistaken Idea that deeply religious individuals must necessarily live free from laughter and good humor; that they must wear Q long face at al times as outward evidence Of their inward grace, Archbishop Francis J. spellman Of New York is living evidence that it Is possible to blend true religion with sense Of humor.
 From hte beginning Of this war he has been most active in visiting the fighting fronts and has en. deared himself to thousandSof men oi oil religions by his simplicity ard goodness. But one of the most dee ilghtfui facets of his character came to light the other day when Acting Secretary of War Patterson was rec counting his visit to the Vatican. Ke had become confused by the laby. rinth of corridors and was just about to give up in despair when ArchbiShop Spellman popped out of c door to greet him. extended his hand and said, Welcome, Judge, to the pentagon."