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Evening star., 1944-01-26

Reynolds enlist Admiral Reynelds.
ed in the Coast Guard when he was
l8. He was commandant Of the
service from 1919 to 1924.
Made rear admiral in 1923-the
first Of the Coast Guard to receive
the title-he was raised to the rank
Of vice admiral when he retired.
Admiral Reynolds served in the
Spanish-American War, the World
War. commanded the bark Chase
Coast Guard training ship and
was skipper Of numerous other ves-
sells during his active career.
At the time he took command of
the training ship there was no other
school for Coast Guard cadets. He
was transferred from command of
the Chase to the Itasca, an aux
iliary steam and sailing vessel, in
1907.
Neither of Admiral Reynolds two
wives survives.
Evening star., 1944-01-26
Judge Takes Vacation,
Also Check Signers' Ke,

By the Associated Press.
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - Please
don't mention Judge George Mont
gomery's vacation around the court
house
He went to New Orleans and took
the key which operates the check
signing gadget.
Judge w. L. Yost and Ben Nord-
berg, county clerk, are doing the
job 500 signatures each-by hand.
Evening star., 1944-01-26
Woman Badly Burned
By Mattress Fire

Tony Lopez, 81, colored, 500 block
Of Columbia road NV, was seriously
burned early today when the mat
tress of her bed at the Logan Hotel,
Thirteenth street and Logan Circle,
was ignited, police said, by a burning
cigarette.
At Emergency Hospital, her con-
dition was said to be critical.
Evening star., 1944-01-26
Barber Troubles Worry
New Mexican Town

MOSQUERO, N. Mex.-Men in this
cowtown are mubling In their boards.
The only barber moved away. An
other moved in, but the draft board
whisked him to the Army.
Townsmen cagily imported .
woman barber from Texas. Before
she could finish the job the State
Evening star., 1944-01-26
Col. Sir John Leslie Dies

GLASLOUGH, Fire, Jan. rs R.-
Col. Sir John Leslie, S6-year -old
Irish baronet, died yesterday. His
late wife was an aunt of Winston
Churchill. Heir to the title is John
Randolph Leslie, So, author and
journalist, who uses the pen name
of Shane Leslie,
Evening star., 1944-01-26
Dog Clears Tuble

HERK1MER, N. Y. R.-Fire-
men didn't take Jiggs, English bull
mascot. when an alarm called them
from their spaghetti supper. Re-
turning, they found q full dog but
an empty table.
Evening star., 1944-01-26

Guard and was
the branch's first
re ar admiral,
die d yesterday
at the Marine
Hospital.
The 84-y e ar
old omcer, who
had been In Ill
health for two
years, died of
heart disease and
broncho = pneu-
monia.
A n tive Of
M o n t g omery
County, Admiral
Evening star., 1944-01-26
Admiral Reynolds,
Former Coast Guard
Chief, Dies at "a
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 26.-vice Ad-
miral William Edward Reynolds,
who was retired January, 1924, as
the ranking ofiicer Of the Coast
Evening star., 1944-01-26

~ z. OUuUeHIy, UH uSSUBy,
January %. 1914, at his resi-
dence, 730 10th st. Sc,
OTTO E. ROSE, beloved ship
mate of Branch 4, Fleet Re-
serve Association. Friends
may call at his late residence,
where services will be held on
January 81, at 1::30 pm.
Branch 4 are invited to at
Evening star., 1944-01-26

WILLIAM H. HINSON. Master.
CHARLES F. RIECKS Secretary.
HUGHEN, KEENER NJ. On Monday,
January "A, 1914, at Providence Hospital,
KEENER M. HUGHEN, the beloved hus-
band Of Christine v. Hushen, and father of
Grace E. Hughen.
Services at Chambers funeral home, SIT
11th st. s.e. on Thursday. January 81,
at 1890 pm. Interment in Arlington
National Cemetery.
LovEJoY. MILDRED THELMA. On
M!gonddsy,. January a. 1914, MILDRED
ard w. Lovetoy mother of Judith Fay
Lovejoy, daughter Of John g. and Mamie
sartlemes and Charles W. Marshall.
Services at Chambers funeral home,
1400 Chaplin st. NV, on Thursday jan
uary 27, at 2 pm. Interment Fort Lin
coin Cemetery.
MACRAE, MARY ELIZA. On Monday.
January "a, 1914. MARY ELIZA MACRAE
81 2S04 14th st. NV, daughter of the late
John Robert and Hannah Tomlin Macrae
- Services at the S. H. Hines Co. funeral
home: home 29o1 l4th St NV on Thursday,
dngton National Cemetery. 26
Evening star., 1944-01-26

BUCKEY, 1t. NORMAN LAWRENCE, c.
A. P. Suddenly. on Saturday, January %.
s14 RssE hHcREY sG5tSs Vs Ii p N4RMA q as
oliver ST., Hyattsville. Md, brother of j.
A. Buckley and Mrs: Hazel Johnson;
Services at Chambers Riverdale funeral
home on Thursday, January 81, at pm.
Interment George Washington Memorial
Cemetery.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-08
Roosevelt Orders
Textile Mills Seized
WASHINGTON, Feb. S ms

WASHINGTON. Feb S (INS)
President Roosevelt ordered
Secretary Of War Sums0n today
10 take over the operation Of
seven textile plants in The Fail
River. Mass area because OF labor
disturbances.
--tiile- action hEcauG uECESSaT "a
White House announcement SAID,
as a result Of a labor disturb
ance' that caused IAN Interrupt
ton Of the operation of The plants
and facilities
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-08
Hotel Theft Case
Nears Jury Action

The case Of Jack Pomerantz Is.
of 22l r. Willis, charged with
having received $500 stolen from
Fred Scaife a California auto
U65ieT by mo young women IN a
downtown hotel was 10 go 10 a
iury In Recorder Judge Brennan 5
The two girls %ho have a.
ready pleaded sullty tolarceny IN
hotel and are 90 be sentenced
Feb rs acted aS states witnesses
against PomerantZ
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-08

Versatile . comfortable :. and inexpensive
Make your room appear larger, more modern
with Hollywood .Weil-constructed, with
soft mattresses, plumply filled with fluffy
white cotton felt layers that won't lump or
shift Resilient pre-war coil box springs sup
port the mattresses and substantially increase
their buoyancy and serviceability Both have
prebuilt borders and durable striped covers.
3o-inch widths
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-08
O-(IaN 40 RIrhmOnd

INKICY--Grnnd River az IoS Road 4
hNNLh Onen 5 49, sherlock Holmes
Fsces Death" 7.16. gas. what a Man. -
J6TFNV ITTWUF-F W. SZa and III %
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-08

II Mt--f-yffii nHrfrvuiV II 2-ENio
hLUHh open f-41 wee plsres.
tsaaref SANDERS. hrenaa Aar-nall. "fhHs
aftrr DARK pms 'Thr GoldfelipA A.
Evening star., 1944-09-12

Withdrawing them In time to help
him fght the battle Of the Reich,
he must .gravely doubt that he can
do that now, for like his forces in
Italy-but even more so-they ap-
pear doomed to stand where they
are or be cut to ribbons trying to
get out.
1t Is not clear how many troops
are In this predicament, but reliable
estimates have placed the number
as high as 250,000. The Allied VIC
tory now apparently in the making
in the Balkans is accordingly one
OF the first Importance. With such
a prospective loss of trained fighting
manpower, coming on top of all the
other German losses since June 6,
1t Is small wonder that the Nazi
high command has begun to send
grammar-school children into war
plants and to put boys and old men
in the army in a desperate effort
to hold back our Allied forces now
pounding at the gates of the Reich.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
By Mai. Georfe

Evidence that the Germans are play
ing for time at any price. As pointed
out in yesterdays article. continues to
accumulate.
Among the items OF such evidence may
be included the following:
% The determined German resist
ance in all seaports, including Brest,
Lorient, St. Nazaire, st. Malo (where
fighting continued on the Isle de Ce-
zembre, guarding the mouth Of the har-
Dor, even after the citadel had fallen
Calais, Dunkerque, Boulogne, and in
the port areas of the big cities OF
Marseille and Toulon. OF all these
ports, only Marseille, Antwerp and st
Malo have been cleared of the enemy
and Antwerp remains useless until we
have also cleared both banks OF the
Scheldt, while st. Malo is Of small Ca
pacity. ...
Thus the Germans have been willin.
to lose great numbers Of men and con-
siderable amounts of equipment in order
to deny US, for time, the possession OF
seaports which would increase our abil-
ity to drive home our offensive thrusts
into the Reich Note that they could
not hope to deny us ultimate posses
sion of the ports the eventual fate of
their isolated garrisons was quite GER
tain; they paid calculated price. and
are continuing to pay 1t, only for delay
20 The continued German resistance
in Italy, where upward OF Is German
divisions. probably now reinforced from
the Balkans, are holding the Gothic
Line and have concentrated hex3ly to
prevent an Allied break-through along
the Adriatic coast. If the Allied offen-
sive can just gain five more miles, our
armor will break out into the Emelian
Plain with results similar to that OBJ
tanned by the break-through at Av-
ranches in July.
Obviously the Germans are willing
to gamble these good troops in Italy on
the chance Of winning a little more
time-the chance Of holding our 5th
and 9Th Armies we'll away from the
border of the Reich instead Of having
them added to the other forces now be-
setting their country-and that even
though the barrier of the Alps would
be far more easily held than the Gothic
Line.
80 The German intention-frus-
trated. it is true but nevertheless,
proven to have existed-to try to delay
our forces on the Seine and again on
the Somme, even though this might in
the end, almost certainly would have
entailed the loss of the German forces
assigned to these tasks.
"a The desperate efforts which the
Germans are putting forth to mobilize
every available man for a final fight
at the Reich frontiers, even at the cost
of wrecking their industrial production,
their civilian services and their internal
security organization.
4
This, too, is move which can win
them only delay and which entails such
risks as to be almost certain OF produc-
ing internal collapse within a few
months unless it is quickly followed by
military victory which will restore
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Mother of q Boy Turned II

kne,U, of course, he pould be II.
And yet his birthday brought sud.
denness
OF sharp alarm. a painful catch OF
BREATH
It's been Just half that many years
or less,
1t seems. that he's been n,ine-a ,isp
OF days
Since hare rocked him in mn arms
And since he secured the neighborhood
to find
Homes for stray dogs Wouldn't let
him keep.
So many times ,oithin the night / knock
At Heavens door. Somehow / UNDER
stand
That though my goinos there are tre-
Quent.
Shall neuer leape that door ,Dith
empty hand.
Each time 90 feel strengthening
calm,
The pressure Of Ones hand against mn
rctm. ROSE MvRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Chino the Dark SPOT

The swelling tide of victory in
Western Europe. the eastern front,
the Balkans, the Pacific and South
eastern Asia should not blind us to
the increasingly grave plight OF our
Chinese ally. From every aspect,
China's position steadily deteriorates.
The most serious aspect OF the situa-
tion is. OF course. the seemingly in
exorable progress of Japanese arms
in South Central China, where the
Tokyo high command continues to
throw in men and equipment with
which the ill-armed Chinese troops
cannot cope.
Ever since early summer the Japa-
nese offensive launched southwark
from their mid-Yangtse bases has
been rolling forward. The fall of
Changsha was but the prelude to the
even graver disaster of the fall of
Hengyang, the junction of the main
rail line leading to Canton and the
branch line which runs southwest
ward almost to the border of Japa-
neSe-held Indo-China. Along that
branch line are situated some OF the
most important bases Of our air
force. One of these, Lingling, fell
few days ago, while the even larger
base at Kweilin is now menaced.
Without those bases, effective air
operations in Southern China cannot
be maintained, and the chief aid to
the Chinese forces there will be
withdrawn. That would accentuate
the likelihood of a speedy junction
between the japanese driving south
ward and their comrades coming up
along the trunk railway line from
Canton. The two forces are report
edly less than l40 miles apart, with
relatively easy country lying In be-
tween. Once that junction is made
and firmly cemented, China is def
initely cut in two, and the isolated
coastal provinces from Shanghai to
Canton might be rapidly overrun by
the japanese, thereby rendering i'm
practicable projected landings of
Allied troops and supplies, together
with the establishment OF air bases
for large-scale operations.
Indeed, the likelihood of such jap
anese successes may cause a shift in
Allied grand strategy. Instead OF
aiming at footholds in coastal China,
the objective may be direct blows at
the heart of Japan itself. Such
campaign might be more costly in
the immediate sense, but the ejec-
tion OF the Japanese from most of
China could be so prolonged and
time consuming that, on balance, it
would be less desirable. A reopening
OF the Burma road would not basi-
cally change the overall situation,
since the amount of equipment and
supplies transportable over that
route would be insufficient in volume
to transform the strategic picture.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
The Dying Luftwoffe

News of yesterdays battle over
Germany-one Of the greatest yet
fought by American fyers-serves
to remind us that the Luftwaffe,
though groggy. is not entirely out.
The action apparently involved the
strongest opposition from enemy
planes since D-day on June and
may conceivably mark the beginning
Of last desperate effort by the
German air force to break up our
Allied bombing offensive, an often
sive which promises to grow ever
more deadly now that we have scores
of new bases in France.
Whatever the significance of yes
terday's battle, however, the results
seem to have been more auspicious
for us than for the NaZis At least
13O Of the enemy interceptors were
shot down, swelling the American
bag to total of 255 within two days,
125 planes having been destroyed
the day before-119 of them on the
ground. 1t has long been suggested
that the Nazis might suddenly ap-
pear with special reserve of air
power when their own country be-
came the active theater of war. II
so, and if we are now seeing that
reserve being put into action, there
appears to be little reason to believe
that it will be able to stand up very
long against our overwhelming AL
lied superiority.
1t may we'll be, as two American
aircraft engineers have just reported,
that the Luftwaffe still has some of
the finest planes in the world But
the fact remains that Germany it
self, both as an air base and as
producing center, is exposed in every
corner to attack by virtually limit
less fleets of Allied bombers and
fighters. More than that, apart from
its synthetic output and whatever
stocks it may have on hand, Ger
many is land in the process of
being completely cut off from all
outside sources of fuel and lubri-
cantS. 1t is seriously deficient, too,
in such vital items as ball bearings.
not to mention its myriad other
troubles and wants on a home front
now on the verge of becoming an
active battle-ground.
The German situation thus being
what it is, it is difficult to see how
the much-battered Luftwaffe can
stage a real comeback at this late
date, no matter how excellent its
equipment. It probably has consid-
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Our Masters
From the London Sunday Express

from ehe LONDON Sunday Express
having surmounted the perils that
FACED us from without, let us consider a
peril that confronts us from within
Mr.. Steers. the Cambridge geoerap pher.
mas completed on behalf of the Min
lstry OF Town and Country Planning
survey OF the coastline of England and
wales. He has addressed the Royal
geographical Society on his conclu-
SONS. He proposed that the coast
should be regarded as unit and should
be used and enjoyed under the aegis of
the Ministry Of Town and Country Plan
ming" In other words the conditions
under which you could have a seaside
holiday would be decided not by what
you desired or what the coast towns
would like to give you, but what a group
OF civil servants prescribed for you. That
Is simply totalitarianism. Let us be yery
wary. We are risking and spending our
lives, our money, and our liberties to
smash autocracy and tyranny abroad
We are utterly unwilling to find that
the day Of victory establishes them here
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Dr.. BuII's Retirement

At eighty-one, the Rev. DR..
John Compton Ball.. pastor of the
Metropolitan Baptist Church at
Sixth and A streets Northeast. has
announced his retirement. If this
meant that his ministry were An
ished, it would be a matter of regret
for the whole community of Wash
ington. Fortunately, however, no
such def1nitive conclusion of his
services is indicated. He simply is
relinquishing that portion of his
burden which he reasonably sup
poses younger man might bear
with less arduous exertion.
DR.. Ball will continue to be avail
able to teach and to preach In one
place or another as long as his
powers abide with him. Any arbi-
trary decision to the contrary would
be unnatural to an expounder Of
the Word for whom that sacred
privilege is the breath of life
itself. None of his more youthful
contemporaries is prepared to sur
pass him in zeal or earneStneSS. His
mission is as compelling as it ever
was, II not more so. The tremendous
times through which humanity now
is passing are rife with challenge to
religion. Especially in the Capital
of the Nation there is great need
for spiritual idealism. The fine
buildings which the Metropolitan
congregation owns are ready for the
work Of reconstruction which will
follow after victory and the restora-
ton of peace In the important
local aspect of postwar social and
cultural expansion they will play
their part.
But DR.. Ball has other monuments
than those OF brick and stone. In
very particular respect he has been
a mentor and guide for many Wash
ington families. During the four
decades since he came here from
Pennsylvania, he has shepherded
three generations Of people. Not all
have been Baptists, not all have
attended his church. not all have
remained in its neighborhood more
than few days or weeks. Indeed,
they are scattered all over the earth.
Yet they are of the same flock, and
they do not forget.
Evening star., 1944-09-12

IN a still more extreme form. when
every party to prepared agreement
stands pat and refuses to yield any
individual right or privilege" he OBJ
serves, there is no agreement" In
short, he drops the word sovereignty"
and begins pummeling his own words
Whereupon Mr.. Willkie delivers a long
sermon, not against sovereignty or
Dewey or Roosevelt, but against "jeal-
ousy,' ''stand-patism" and "selishness +"
rms device to put an opponent in a
bad light is one of the oldest and easiest
tricks in the politicians repertory. And
yet Mr.. Willkie begins his article by
sneering at politicians
The argument about sovereignty can
be cleared up by simple definition
Of the word, which Mr. Willkie either
does not know or which he pretends not
to know. The most eminent authority
on political theory in America, Prof.
r. w. Coker of Yale, gives this one: I:
In international law, sovereignty is gen.
orally held to be an essential qualifica-
ton for full membership in the family
of nations" So, sovereignty is the very
quality that enables a nation to particle
pate in peace organization. If the
nation were not sovereign, 1t would have
no power to join league or association.
1t could not make a contract of itself.
When we say that man should re-
main free, We do not mean that he
cannot marry. The right to make con-
tractual obligations is the essence of
freedom. And the right of sovereignty
is the very quality which enables q
nation to do what Mr.. Willkie wants If,
in his torrents Of words. Mr.. Willkie
has ever specifically said what he wants
tReieased By the Associated Newspapers)
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Mr.. Wilkes LOqic
By Raym ond MoIey

Mr.. Wendell Willkie has a trick of
arguing which is familiar to juries in
every hamlet in the land. 1t can best
be shown by simple series of letters.
The lawyer with this Willkie trick thun-
ders to the jury. The witness for the
other side says x" Then, few min
utes later, he adds something to what
the witness says and shouts. II cannot
believe that Ky is true" Then, later,
he adds qualification to Ky and asks
the jury if it believes XYZ. Finally he
says solemnlv, Il cannot believe that
this jury will accept the proposition
w" Since no one can deny x, this
trick enables the lawyer to fill the jury's
mind with proposition which he, not
the opposition, has created.
This method of arguing is not the
old device of setting up straw men and
knocking them down. Its method is to
cover man with straw and then to try
to convince the people that nothing but
straw stack is there.
Let us see how Mr.. Willkie does this
in current article in Golfers in which
he denounces both parties, their candi-
dates and platforms He is talking
about sovereignty, word used by both
parties in describing our participation
in an international organization. Mr.
Willkie quotes Mr.. Dewey's America
will participate with other sovereign ma
tions" and so forth. He next quotes
Mr.. Roosevelt's words ito use the armed
force Of the sovereign nations" These
statements Mr.. Willkie then interprets
as follows: I'VE are jealously to guard
our sovereignty" Thus, he adds the
horrid word "iealously" to his opponents .
statements.
Later he restates what they have said
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Strikes Comino?
rom the Topeka Capital.

Prom the Topeka Capital
Since D-day, there have been fewer
strikes. But when the war in Europe
ends, strikes are expected to break out
all over the country as labor unions fight
to retain high-paying jobs, even after
war needs are reduced.
Until the November election the Presi-
dent Is expected to avoid a showdown
on strikes, on industrial reconversion,
and on all other controversial subjects.
This means the administration will not
risk any bold plans for getting the
country back to prewar channels in
anticipation Of the end of the war with
Japan.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
In the Balkans

Though still somewhat indefinite
reports from the Balkans leave little
room for doubt that the Nazis gar
rlSoned there face the prospect of
being cut of and smashed as a
fighting force at time when Hitler
could we'll use them inside Germany
Driving through Bulgaria and Ro-
mama, the Russians are reported to
be IN or near Greece and to be
effectlng junction with Tito's Par
tlsans in Northeastern Yugoslavia.
Meanwhile, it has been disclosed in
Rome that Allied land forces of the
Adrlatlc" presumably commando
like troops specializing in demoli-
tion work-have staged at least one
hit-and-run invasion from Italy to
help the Russians and the Partisans
in sealing off the enemy in the lower
Balkan Peninsula
In addition, in concert with these
entrapment operations on the
ground, our Allied fighters and
bomberS have been hammering hard
for several days past at key enemy
communications. This air offensive,
which has received little attention
because of the overShadowing i'm
portance of events in France and
the Low Countries, has been so ef-
fective, according to the American
18th Air Force, that all main Ger
man escape routes and supply lines
running northward from Greece and
Bulgaria through Yugoslavia to
Vienna and Budapest have become
impaSsable
With this combined land and air
action, and with the Mediterranean
wholly under our control, it thus
seems more than possible that all
the Nazis in Greece and on the
islands of the Aegean, including
Crete, will be so bottled up that
precious few of them will be able to
get back to their homeland before
Germany itself is knocked out of
the war. II Hitler ever counted upon