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Evening star., 1944-07-20
Darden Is Chairman
OF Virginia Delegation
BY the Associated Presa


CHICAGO, July 2O.-Gov. Darden
was named chairman OF the Vir.
ginta delegation at the Democra tic
convention yesterday and E. r
Combs Of Richmond, national com.
mltteeman, was named vice chair.
man. The two nominations were
advanced at 4 delegation caucus BY
Senator Harry r. Byrd.
Gov. Darden also was chosen tc
serve on the Platform and Reso.
lutions Committee together with
Mrs. Raymond Guest of Warner
County.
Completing organiza ton, the dele.
CATION named J. Frank Wysor, Pu-
laski, to the Credentials Commit
tee; State Senator Burgess Nelson
Shenandoah, Committee on Perma.
nent Organization; Senator w. Stu.
art Mofett. Augusta, Rules and Or
der OF Business Committee, and IT
B. Fugate. Lee County, to the Com
miJtee which will notify the presi.
DENTAL nominee. State Senator r
c. Walden, Gretna, was selected a.
member OF the committee to no.
tify the presidential nominee.
Miss Genevieve Boguess of Rich.
mond was named honorary vic.
president of the convention, anc
George B. Hardit Of Gloucester wa.
named honorary vice president.
T. Nelson Parker of Richmond
was elected secretary. J. Frank
Wysor OF Pulaski was named to tn,
Credentials Committee and Senate,
Burgess Nelson Of Shenandoah wa!
named as Virginia's Representative,
| ON the Committee for Permanen
Organiza ton.
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Three Soldiers Sentenced
For Laxity With Prisoner
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 20-Three SOL
dier guards have been convicted at
an Army court-martial Of laxity ir
allowing q German war prisoner tt
leave an Illinois branch camp. and
have been sentenced to serve from
six months to Ave years at hard
labor, the 9Th Service Command
announced yesterday.
The Army listed the soldiers, all
members OF the l,674th Service Unit
at Camp Ellis, Ill.,, and the sentences
as follows:
Pvt. Mike P. Guarino. 20, Cleve-
land, five years at hard labor and
dishonorable discharge
Pvt. James E. Childers. %. Whit
mire, S. c.. six months at hard Ia =
Dor and forfeit of 3l4 q month of
his pay for six months.
Pvt. Ernest w. Honebrink. 10
Sauk Rapids, Mimi, five years at
hard labor and dishonorable dis
charge.
Evening star., 1944-07-20
| Table Shows
Lineup in Race
|For Second Place
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 19.-With $685.
votes still unpledged and unclaimed,
here is table on the Democratic
vice presidential nomination race
$3.50 needed to nominate):
Pledged to Vice President Wallace
of Iowa: Connecticut, 18; Iowa. 40:
Minnesota, "a; Oregon. Il; South
Dakota, 7 (out of g.; Warrington,
l8. Total, 10l.
Claimed for Mr.. Wallace: Cali
fornia, n (out Of SO ;: Colorado, IL;
Delaware, 8; Florida. ID; Georgia.
Is; Michigan, 50; Montana, AZ;
Pennsylvania, II; Wisconsin, 26;
District Of Columbia, 8. Total 20eh
Grand total pledged and claimed
for Mr.. Wallace, 307h.
Pledged to Senator Truman of
Missouri: Missouri. 80.
Pledged to Gov. J. Melville
Broughton of North Carolina: North
Carolina, 80.
Pledged to Gov. Prentice Cooper
of Tennessee: Tennessee, 26.
Pledged to Senator A. W. Bark
ley of Kentucky: Kentucky, "a.
Pledged to Senator Bankhead Of
Alabama: Alabama, "a.
Pledged to Gov. Herbert r..
OConor of Maryland: Maryland, IL.
| Pledged TO Senator Thomas Of
Utah: Utah, 10.
Pledged to Senator OMahoney Of
Wyoming: Wyoming, 3.
Evening star., 1944-07-20
dc. May Join Forces
with Territories in
Demandsto Democrats
By : Stan corre.pondent,

BY . Stan Correspondent.
CHICAGO. July 20.-District dele
gates to the Democratic National
Convention were prepared today to
join forces with Hawaii, Puerto Rico
and Alaska in . tight for . COM
bined plank on territorial problems
II they find that the final draft of
the party platform does not contain
q separate Endorsement Of suffrage
for Washingtonians
Melvin Hildreth, District member
OF the Platform Committee, who has
been stressing the voteless status of
permanent residents of the Capital
at every opportunity, announced last
night that he had conferred with
the delegates from Hawaii. Alaska
and Puerto Rico with view to hav-
ing them pool their strength in q
last-minute effort to obtain Joint
recognition If their pleas are not
dealt with separately.
Such a plank, If accepted, would
consist Of general reference to the
aspiration of the people of these
several jurisdictions.
As member OF the Platform
Committee, Mr.. Hildreth will be
present today when the committee
takes final action on the platform,
which is due to be presented to the
convention for ratification before
evening.
The Democrats set a precedent
four years ago by indorsing District
suffrage for the first time, but this
year the District, like many other
groups, have had to combat the
general desire of party leaders to
keep the declaration of party prin-
ciples as short as possible.
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Investigating Group
Is Doing Fine Work, :
She Declares
By the Associated Press.


KANSAS CITY, July 20.-The o.
year-old mother OF Senator Truman
OF Missouri doesn't want her son to
be Vice President. She thinks he
should stay In the Senate, where "he
can do more good"
His investigating committee is
doing fine work." she says. He
ought to stay there"
Mrs. Martha E. Truman, who will
be 90 November Is, recalls that she
told her son last week, just before
he left her home in suburban Grand
view, Mo-, for the Democratic Ma
tional Convention in Chicago. that
he should remain a Senator. She
adds:
Harry said, I'd rather be- And
he meant It,"
The sprightly mother OF the man
who is reported to be President
Roosevelt's second choice, behind
Vice President Wallace. for a running
mate in the November elections sat
in her old-fashioned rocker last
night and listened to the conven-
ton by radio.
Il listened to all the Republican
convention, too" she unused. Il
listened to them all and tried not
to hate them. I'm a Democrat. But
l listened to all they had to say
about US during their convention.
They keep predicting thai
Roosevelt will die in once II he'l
elected The Republicans hope h
will. They keep saying that II
die, too. and I'm almost 81. hop<
Roosevelt fools EN-"
Mrs Truman lives with hel
daughter, Miss Mary Truman, in ,
small, one-story bungalow. She
fell in April and fractured her lef
shoulder and hip, but she recov.
cred fully and Is able to get aroun<
the house unaided. The Senatori
father, John A.. Truman, died II
1914.
Although she thinks her sor
should stay in the Senate. If 'hel
nominated for Vice President. III
be for him I'm not too old Il
campaign yet. don't care whai
people say about US old folks"
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Former Bund Leader Held
On Espionage Charge
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
The arrest last night by Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents at
Knoxville, Tenn, Of Waldemar
Othmer, IS. naturalized citizen
on an espionage charge was an
nounced today by the Justice
Department.
FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover said
Othmer, a former leader of the
German-American Bund at Trenton
N. j., went to Germany in 1888 and
was trained as an espionage agent
Mr.. Hoover said Othmer admitted
that he was trained in writing and
developing secret ink messages. that
he was furnished names and ad-
dresses of persons in four European
countries to whom he was to report
and that the Germans gave him
$500 in cash when he left.
Evening star., 1944-07-20

Pfc. W. c. sunier. fore his induc-
ton into the Army in March, 1913.
Mrs. Sunier said she has re-
ceived several letters from her son,
written with his left hand, as he
said his right arm had been wound
ed. A brother. Pfc. Henry Sunier,
"a, is now in France with the Sig
nal Corps. Mr.. Sunier is employed
at the Western Electric Co. in the
installation department.
Pfc. Allen p. Gately, IS, was
wounded in italy while fighting with
the infantry, his mother, Mrs. Mil
dred Gately, Ills Potomac avenue
Sc, has been notified by the War
Department..
A letter from Pvt. Gately said
he had been wounded by shrapnel
in the neck. Mrs. Gately said, but
he is back in action now.
A native OF Washington, Pvt.
Gately attended Eastern High
School and worked at the WASH
ington Gas Light Co. and Kanns
warehouse. He joined the Army in
September, l94l. and has been over
seas two years. Mrs. Gately said.
His father. James H. Gately, Is a
retired city fireman.
Pvt. william M. Hamefdinger, 20,
Evening star., 1944-07-20

Serbia. In 1915, she was stricken
with the disease but recovered
After the war, she was one OF the
organizers in providing homes and
taking care of Yukoslav war orphans
In 1926 at the Conference of World
War Invalids and Veterans, she was
elected an honorary member as re-
suit of her work in this field.
DR.. Kozlova -Rabinovich came to
Washington in January, 1912, after
escaping from Yugsslavia in the
spring Of l94l. when the Germans
invaded She went to New Jersey
in March and remained there until
her death.
She received medical degrees at
the University of Paris and the Uni
versity of Leningrad before the last
war
In addition to her husband. she
leaves a son, Peter. Father and son
live at 1852 Hall place NV.
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Robot Bomb Bases Deep:
In France Believed in Use
By the AssoriAted PrAss

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 20.-Belief that
the Germans now are launching
their flying bombs from bases we'll
inside France which thus far have
largely escaped Allied air assaults
vas expressed here today as the
robots continued to rain on London
and Southern England.
It was noted that many of the
robots seemed to be coming from a
more easily direction than hereto
fore. suggesting the employment of
bases other than those in the Pas
de-Calais area.
Last nights assaults were some
what less violent than those of
yesterday and the preceding night,
when the barrage reached a record
peak.
Prime Minister Churchill COM
mented that the figure would dis
appoint the enemy, who expected
more"
Evening star., 1944-07-20

and was en- Pvt. Hamerdinser.
ployed at Bonat's Restaurant, 1922
Vermont avenue NV. A brother
Randolph Hamerdinger, is sailor
stationed In Mississippi, Mrs. Ham,
erdinger said.
Pvt Hamerdingers father, Harry
Hamerdinger, 2l9 Ninth street Sc
is retired from the Navy Yard. Pvt
Hamerdinger's wife is an employe
Of the Census Bureau here.
Pvt. Howard Friedman, 80, in the
infantry. husband of Mrs. Dora
FRIEDMAN, 200 Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE. was wounded in action In
his left leg, May 30, in Italy, Mrs.
Friedman said she had been notified
by the War Department.
Pvt. Friedman attended school in
Nebraska, where his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. Friedman, now live.
Pvt. Friedman's wife works at the
National Labor Relations Board
here.
1t. Harry J. Cooksey, 81, OF 1893
Meridian place NV. son of the
late George r. Cooksey, assistant
to four Secretaries of the Treasury
and member Of the Federal Farm
Labor Board, was wounded when
his paratroop company landed In
Normandy on D-day, June 6.
One leg was broken and the other
badly sprained, his wife, Mrs. Doro-
thy A. Cooksey. said. He is re-
cuperating in hospital in England.
The 3l-year-old paratrooper, who
has received the Purple Heart for
these injuries, went overseas last
February. He is a graduate of
Gonzaga High School and George
town University, and formerly
worked in New York as an as
sistant bank examiner.
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Grozioni Is Reported
Asking to Be Relieved
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 2O-The Swiss
radio. quoting reports in the Fascist
press, said today that puppet Ital-
ian War Minister Rodolfo Grazi-
ami had asked to be relieved of his
post because of Field Marshal Al
bert Kesselring's decision to sub
ordinate Italian Republican Army
units to German commanders"
The German-language broadcast
was reported by United States Gov
ernment monitors.
Evening star., 1944-07-20

house in the Trumans' maidless
Iseven-room Connecticut avenue
apartment in Washington where
they speak Of maids in hushed
tones.
She says the family has many a
quiet evening there because that's
the only time dad has to rest-and
sometimes I have to study"
Mrs. Truman was born Bess Wal
lace, but claims no kinship with
Henry A., for whose job her husband
is chief contender now.
In Washington Mrs. Truman
heads the Finance Committee of the
Congressional Club and devotes sew
erl hours a week to USO canteen
work.
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Missing Mail Socks
Nav Be Natives Dresse.

By the Associated Press.
SPOKANE, Wash.-A solution to
the mystery of missing mail sacks
is given by John D. Hardy. general
superintendent Of the railway mail
service.
He knows they have been used
for tents and sandbagging. but adds:
4 figure that in North Africa and
the South Pacific some OF the ma
tiyes have turned them into dresses" J"
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Berlin Reports Patton
Hos Role in Invasion
By the Associated Press

= By the Associated Press.
a LONDON. July 20.-The Berlin
, radio, in an unconflrmed reference
Ito 1t Gen. George S. Patton, jr.,
!, said today:
= Further divisions of Patton s
army, which consists of Canadians
and Americans, are now being en-
gagged on the invasion front. New
Allied formations brought up to the
front include replenished Cana
dian I'd Division which carried out
the raid on Dieppe."
Supreme headquarters has not yet
defined Gen. Pattons role in the
invasion.
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Mrs. TiNeH Denies
| Administration Could
Have Prevented War
By the Associated Press.

~ tAAS 4se~0SiAS0A 1855
CHICAGO, July 20.-Mrs. Charles
w. Tillett asserted last night that
the hope OF American women for an
enduring peace would be fulfilled II
the Democratic administration re-
mains in office.
Speaking from the same platform
where Republican Representative
Clare Boothe Luce recently raised
the question Of whether American
craftsmanship during President
Roosevelt's tenure could have kept
the Nation out of the world conflict,
she contended that this war could
not have been avoided"
Mrs. Tillett, head of the women's
division Of the Democratic National
Committee, told delegates to the
party's nominating convention that
we were winning the war abroad
and producing on an unprecedented
scale at home.
| Presidents Planning Cited.
"At the center of the stupendous
undertaking. directing, organizing,
planning, winning" she said, 'is our
matchless leader, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt"
THE American woman . knows
that there never will be a peace that
will last until we organize that
peace" Mrs. Tillett asserted. This
is the hope that will be fulfilled if
the Democratic administration re.
mains in ONCE.
"Organized world peace is a COM
plex undertaking. The Democratic
administration has already laid the
base for it. I believe that the Amer
lean woman will recoil with fear II
the actual construction we're sud-
denly placed in unframed, unprac-
ticed hands"
Apparently taking issue with Mrs.
Luce's remarks before last months
Republican convention, Mrs. Tillett
said:
Our women know that
on account of the rise to power of
Hitler, Mussolini and the insanely
ambitious Japanese imperialists,
and because of the events that fol-
lowed, over which We had no con-
/ eAOi' IAiLS wal COuiO lloI lldfC UCCll
avoided"
Says COP Lacks Solution.
Mrs. Tillett contended the Re-
publican platform failed to offer .
solution for the problems Of re-
turning service men and women.
True. they have set traps to
catch votes" she added. But I
don't think the traps they've set
will catch many women's votes We
women are not so ignorant
in the realm Of economies that we
don't know that the Republican
program-if translated into law
would bring down on these boys
and girls tragic postwar imitation
that would mean for them more
suffering. needless deprivation. The
Democratic administration will see
that these boys and girls have
jobs"
Evening star., 1944-07-20
South Loses in Move
For Two-Thirds Rule,
But Fight Is Averted
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, July 20.-The Demo-
cratic National Conventions Rules
Committee rejected, % to 10. today
Southern demand for restoration
Of the two-thirds nominating rule,
but averted a convention floor fight
on the issue by recommending a
study Of delegate reapportionment.
Southern delegates had threatened
to file 4 minority report and carry
the fight to the floor this afternoon,
but agreed to drop that plan when
the committee unanimously recon-
mended that the National Commit
tee make study and report within
two years on reapportionment.
No Particular Form Specified.
A reapportionment plan advanced
by the Southerners would give
Southern States more convention
delegates. However, the committee
did not specify any form OF reap
portionment in it's Recommendation
to the National Committee.
As the Rules Committee turned
them down, the Southerners faced
another losing fight over their racial
demands before the Platform Com
mittee. That committee was re-
ported to be considering a plank de-
claring that racial minorities. in
cluding Negroes, have the right to
vote equally with all citizens"
Should that plank be finally writ
ten by the committee, there was a
prospect that the Southerners
would carry the platform fight to the
convention floor and record their
protest tonight by casting 100 or
more votes against the denomination
of President Roosevelt for fourth
term.
Only one non-Southern State, Ne
braska. supported the motion of j.
Y Sanders. Louisiana State legis-
lator, for restoration of the two
thirds rule, discarded in 1899. Ala
bama. Florida, Louisiana. Missis
sippi, New Mexico, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee and
Texas also voted for the proposal.
Opposing it were Colorado, Cali
fornia. Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana,
Iowa. Kentucky, Maryland, Massa-
chusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New Jersey. Ohio. Ore
gon, Pennsylvania. Rhode Island,
Utah. Vermont. Wisconsin, Hawaii,
Puerto Rico and the Canal Zone.
Limit on Speeches Rejected.
The committee also recommended
that in the future each State be
allotted one woman member Of the
Rules Committee to give women
more representation in convention
procedure It turned down a pro-
posal to limit to 10 minutes the time
allowed for speeches for vice presi-
dental nominations and otherwise
adopted the same rules Of the 1910
convention.
Mr.. Sanders told the committee
that while failure to restore the two
thirds rule would not affect the vote
OF his State and many others in the
South for President Roosevelt, 1t
might cast a possible doubt on the
outcome" If Vice President Wallace
were renominated as Roosevelt's
running mate.
Seconding the Sanders motion,
William Ritchie OF Nebraska called
for united democracy in the fu-
ture" and assailed nominations made
by A few men In closed room"
It's not a two-thirds rule but a
one-third rule declared Homer
Cummings Of Connecticut. opposing
the motion. 1T permits a minority
to frustrate a majority"
Evening star., 1944-07-20

MOIudy III MOI =
ristown, N. j.,
after a long ill
ness. She was
the wife of DR..
Leo Rabinovich,
medical adviser
to the Yugoslav
Embassy here.
A native of
Sevastapol, Rus
Sia, DR.. Kozlova-
Rabinovich left
her native coun-
try early in the
last war to help
combat typhus
W h ic h W a s
sweeping across
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Todoy's Broodcosts
From Convention
eastern War Time }


Regular sessions to all net
works:
p.m.-Address of permanent
chairman, Senator jackson of
Indiana; platform report and
probably nominations.
10 p.m.-Addresses Of Helen
Gahasan Douglas and Quen-
tin Reynolds, with President
Roosevelt also expected to
speak to the convention via
radio.
Other broadcasts:
l0:45 am, MBS-Repre-
sentative Mary Norton Of New
Jersey addressing woman dele
gates.
1880 am, MBS-Session pre-
view.
4:45 pm. CBS-Secretary Of
Labor Perkins.
6:15 pm. NBC-Summary
and interviews.
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Lost Purse SwindIe
Costs Woman $l79

: Two colored women last night
. persuaded Miss Hardlean Murry,
+. 80, colored. 306 K street S.W., to
part with $179 as evidence of good
. faith" in the sharing Of the con-
. tents OF a purse containing $500
. which the pair said they found on
. the street.
Police said Miss Murry gave the
swindlers $ll0 from her purse and
withdrew $50 from savings ac-
count to participate in the proceeds
OF the ind" She was left standing
On corner holding an empty purse,
police said.
Evening star., 1944-07-20

I a n try, " a s
IS e r | o u s | y"
wounded in ac-
ton in Italy, his
parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. H. Su-
nier, 1887 Spring
road NV, have
b e e n informed
by the War De-
partment.
A graduate Of
Western High,
P v t. S un | e +
W ork e d a S q
ra t t sman at
Fort Myer be-
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Wounded in Action

Staff Sergt. Herbert L. Nowlin
"a. of Blunt Lane. Alexandria, was
wounded in action June 6 while
fighting with the infantry in Nor
mandy. his mother, Mrs. Ethel N
Huntington of the same address
Was informed by the War Depart
tment.
A native. of Alexandria. Sergt
PNowlin attended the Lee-Jackson
High School in Fairfax County and
was carpenter by trade
Selgt. Nowlin has been overseas
,2l months and was inducted May
IIas4l. A brother, !Corpl. Warren g
|Nowlin, 81. in the Quartermaster
Corps, is somewhere in the South
Pacific, his sister, Miss Fanny Now
lin. said
. Pvt. Nicholas E. Ellis, Is. of 1904
D street NE. was wounded in the
right arm May 81 while fighting
with the infantry on the Anzio
Evening star., 1944-07-20

DeaCnnedQ ! n
Italy, his wife,
Mrs. Mary Ellis
of the same ad-
dress. has been
notified.
An employe of
t he CAPT t a |
Transit Co. be-
fore he went in
to the Army last
August. Pvt. Ell
lis a t te n d e d
school In New
York and came
to Washington
four wears ago.
He has been
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AiACAit tCACSA d1AA
to his wife.
Mrs. Hazel u.
H a m e r dinger,
253 K e n t ucky
avenue Sc.
A native of
w a S h n 6 ton.
p vt. H q m e r.
dinger has been
In the Army
since last Sep
t e m b er q n d
overseas sin c e
F e br uary. He
attended Tech
High s c h ool
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Killed

0nAiA, AAA0 0A-
e n IS, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles A.
Shelor, $50 ALI
son street NV,
have been noti-
fed by the Navy
Department.
Corpl. Shelor
enlisted in the
Marine Corps In
April, 1912, and
had been over
seas since Janu-
ary, Mrs. Shelor
said. He was in
he MarShalls
invasion and
Evening star., 1944-07-20

serst. R. H. Herndon. don was lying
on a rock on a coral island in the
Carolines group taking a sun bath
when an unusually large wave picked
him up, dashed him against the rock
and cut him severely. The under
tow took him into the surf. but
he swan out to escape the surf and
stayed in the water 40 minutes
while waiting for a patrol boat to
come. The patrol boat came too
late. and Sergt. Herndon. weakened
by loss of blood, had drowned.
Sergt. Herndon was gradua ted
from Central High School and
worked as clerk in the War De-
partment's aircraft section before
enlisting in the Marine Corps in
November. 1912 He trained at
Paris Island. S. c.: Memphis, Tenn,
gunnely school In Oklahoma
Jacksonville, Fla, and Ell Centro,
Calf. before going overseas in
March, 1914.
Evening star., 1944-07-20


son of Henry A,
H e r n d on, sr.
1905 N o r t h
@ u in n street
Arlington, Va.
was drowned In
an accident In
the Southwest
Pacific June 2,
his father has
learned. He was
a Marine Corps
tail gunner with
a m e d ! u m
bomber squad
ron.
Sergt. Hern-
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came through without a scratch, she
said.
A graduate of st. Paul's High
School, Corpl. Shelor attended the
Holy Name Grade School and
worked at Carl's Mems Wear Shop,
62l9 Georgia avenue NV.
Sergt. Roderick H. HerndOn, 81,
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Dr.. Koz|ova-Rabinovich,
Noted Pediatrician, Dies

DR.. Ljuba Koslova -Ra abnovich, 81,
we'll known pediatrician and social
worker of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and
former Washington resident, died
Evening star., 1944-07-20
Two District Area Marines
Lose Lives in South Pacific

was wounded in the shoulder while
fighting In Italy with the infantry
May %, according to War Depart
Evening star., 1944-07-20

Around the-cloek bombing re-
quires around the month War Bond
buying!
Evening star., 1944-07-20
On the Roll Of. Honor

One District marine has been
killed In action in the invasion Of
Saipan. eight area soldiers have
been wounded and a Virginia ma
rine has been drowned accidentally
in the Caroline Islands.
Killed
Corpl. Charles E. Shelor, jr. IS,
U. 8. NJ. c., was killed In action on