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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1944-11-17

Ii ma rece Jangtse. PAX bonn
bardovala BIO cinske mesto
sanghaj, nejvetsi cinsky pr1-
stav a krone toho ma japon7
ske ostrove Kyusu mesto No
mura, kde mali Japonci velke
letecke tovarny. Jedno americ-
Ike l6tadlo Sc nevratilo, ale by
la sestrelena tri japonska leta-
ola a dals1ch jedenact posko-
ZenO.
Re stabu admirala Nimitze
Sc oznamuj1 nalety americkych
letadel v celem TichomoTi cd
Kurilskych ostrov1 ma severn
az do Noveho Irska ma jihu.
General Macarthur oznamil
re pTi japonskych pokusech o
vylodeni POSI- u Ormocu ma
Leyte potopila americka leta-
ola a americke lodi sedm ia
ponskych torpedoborcG a tri
transporty z velkeho konvoje,
ktery posily dopravoval. Mic
meme Sc Japoncdm podarilo
posily asi 10000 umz1 vylodit,
take celkem mali ted ma Ley
tie ma zapadnim pobrezi asi
$4,000 nebo $4,000 muzd. To
znamena, re Sc Japonci neho-
dlajf ostrova vzdat, a re Sc
tam vyvinou pozemn1 boje, k
iakym jeste v TichomoTf, kde
dosud bojovaly jen mensf po-
zemnf skupiny, nedochazelo.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1944-11-17
ItalSka frOnta.
Snih zvolnil operace ma obou
italskych frontach.

Sn1h zvolnil operace ma obou
italskych frontach.
Trupy 8. armady, tahnoucf
nynf severn1m smerem cd do
byt6ho m6sta Forli v Italii, ma
rally ma silnou nemeckou O.
braun tankG a infanterie podel
kanalu, b6zfciho cd severoza-
padniho rohu silnice Bologna
Rimini.
Snfh napadl ma terenu, kde
operujf 5. a 8. armada, a to V
nekterych mfstech az do WISE
dewitt pallet. Ma fronte 8. ar
mady prudke vanice a zaveje
pTeruSily take mnoho komuni-
kacn1ch prostTedkG zvlaste V
hOrnate oblasti.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1944-11-17
JEDI CHLAPCI, JEDI.
(Lidova p1sen z Velke.)

Jedi chlapci, jedi
Trencansk1 s%ilnicd,
az Jim tax sablenky
ma bokoch liboc1.
Hoja, chlapci, hoja!
al ia p6jdem S wanna,
abych ia YAM setkym
kosulenky prala.
De bys ty, ma mila,
tolko vody vzala,
abys ty nam setkym
kosulenky prala?
Budem skoro stavat,
z rama rosu ranat,
a tax ia yam budem
kosulenky pravat.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1944-11-17
Polaci potopili ponorku.

Polska telegraph tiskova
kancelar oznamila, re polsky
|torpedoborec Garland nedavno
potopil nemeckou ponorku pr
hlfdce ma Egejskem mort. cast
nemecke posadky byla zachra-
In6na. :.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1944-11-17
Obuv nemajici kIzzi volna
k prodeU.

Washington (OWD- OPA
oznamuje, re nekozena obuv
at zde vyrobena nebo sem i'm
portovana je bez prldelu a
mIze Sc volne prodavati.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1944-11-17

General George S. Patton Jr.,
jehoz 3. armada vede nyn1 o.
fensivu kolem oblezeneho opev
neneho mesta Met, oslavil IL.
listopadu tise sve SO. narozeni-
ny.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

The matter had been forgotten
until an half hour later when the
other workman returned.
Where is Bill? he asked, a sur
prised look coming over his face.
"Up there, I guess" said some one
pointing to the gaping hole in the
ceiling.
The workman climbed the ladder
and stuck his head in the hole.
bill, Where are you?" he called
loudly. An echo, and nothing more
replied.
Bill, Bill, come out of there!
Where are you, Bill?", shouted the
workman who finally bolted the
trap door, climbed down the ladder
and departed with a perplexed air.
No one knew what became of Bill.
He may have gone out through some
exit or he may still be there, tired
and hungry and lost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Sir John Scissor Named
Aide 10 Gen. Ira {. Eaker
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 8.-Air Marshal
Sir John Scissor, head of the Brit
ish Coastal Command since No
vember, 1912, has been appointed
deputy to 1t. Gen, Ira C. Eaker
commander Of all Allied air forces
in the Mediterranean, it was an
nounced today.
The Air Ministry said Air Mar
Shall Scissor would direct the ac-
Invites of all Raj units in that
theater.
His successor in the Coastal Com
mand is Air Chief Marshal Sir
(William) Sholto Douglas, who has
commanded the Raj in the Middle
East for the last Is months and
before that led the Fighter Com
mand.
Air Marshal Scissor, IS. was the
man behind the RATS brilliant VIC
tories In the Atlantic battle against
submarines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Army DiscIoses
Powerful New
Night Fighter

A new, powerfully armed. swift.
climbing fighter aircraft, designed
specially for night fighting ano
dubbed THE Black Widow" because
of the lethal sting it carries, was
announced last night as the new
est combat plane of the Army Air
Forces.
Details of "The Black Widows
performances remain secret, but the
War Department described it as
having "a fairly long range and pos
sessing effective speed and climb
characteristics
Officially designated as the Pei
the plane is described by the Army
as heavily armored and armed
and powered by two Pratt and Whit
ney engines.
The Black Widow" the Army
said, lis the outgrowth of intensive
research and development on the
part of technicians of the AAF and
Northrop directed toward produc-
ton OF a. powerful and effective
aerial night combat weapon, equip
ped with the latest devices"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Where's BiII?' Is Pentogon's
Latest Missing Man. Story

7 where's Bill?", question asked
repeatedly yesterday in connection
with the latest mystery of the Pent-
agon, remained unanswered last
night.
AS a matter of fact, Bill, work.
man, may still be crawling in the
"catacombs" between floors of the
worlds largest Office building, trying
to find an exit. When last seen, his
head, shoulders, then his feet dis
appeared through a trap door in
the ceiling of the pressroom on the
second floor.
Bill and fellow workman en-
tered the room to repair the air
ducts between floors that have some
thing to do with making the Penta-
gon an easier place to breath in. AS
his companion steadied a ladder,
Bill climbed up and unfastened the
trap door. With fashlight in hand,
he disappeared into the blackness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Byrnes Lays Down Strict Rules
For terminating War Contracts
Profits on UncompIeted Work Limited
To go; Conversion Costs to Be Excluded

In the first important move to
establish definite procedure for
ending war contracts, War Mo-
bilization Director James F.
Byrnes yesterday ruled that war
contractors will be limited to 6
per cent profit on all work start
ed but incomplete when fixed
price contracts are terminated
and that expense of converting
facilities will be excluded in CAL
culating the contractors cost.
For Impressed inventory in the
hands of the contractor, the profit
margin will be 2 per cent, Mr.
Byrnes said.
These maxima were fixed in &C
cordance with regulations proposed
by Bernard M. Baruch and John
Hancock for a uniform termination
clause applicable to both old and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Norfolk Men Confess
kidnapping Of Woman
And Airport Driver
Pair Coueht in New York
Viewing Mystery Movie
Claim They Were Drunk

Two Norfolk (VaD young men
in leather jackets, arrested yes
terday while viewing mystery
drama in a Manhattan movie
theater, have admitted abduct-
ing a young woman and a linn
CUISINE driver from the National
Airport Thursday night, New
York police said last night.
The men blamed their sensational
escapade on bad liquor" according
to Detective John Coleman of the
New York police.
Il guess we were drunk" he quoted
them as saying.
The men were being questioned
last night, according to the Asso-
ciated Press by both New York de-
tectives and FBI agents.
Police later charged both men
with assault and robbery and carry
ing concealed weapons. They will
be arraigned in Brooklyn felony
court tomorrow morning. Detective
1t. James Key said he had been
advised that the FBI would charge
the men with kidnapping at that
time.
Place of Trial Undetermined.
Whether the men. who gave their
names as David Keith, "a, and John
r. King, %, were to be returned to
Virginia or the District for trial
remained a question.
A representative of the United
States Attorneys Office here said
the place of trial was up to the FBI.
The kidnapping began on the
Mount Vernon Memorial boulevard
between the National Airport and
the Highway Bridge This is in the
"no-man's land" of disputed terri
tory between the District and Vir-
ginia.
The crime of kidnapping, an as
sistant United States ATTORNEY
pointed out, is covered by a Federal
statute, the Lindbergh law and
can be prosecuted in any of the
States travelled in the commission
of the felony. Virginia or New York,
he said, would be the logical places
to prosecute this crime.
Smarting under the revelation
that the airport limousine with Dis
(See KIDNAPPING, Page A-l4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Police Question Boy, 4,
In Infant Cousins Death

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. Estates At
torney Marvin 1. Anderson said to-
day he had been informed by county
police that 4-year-old boy had
admitted taking his baby cousin
from her crib and placing her on the
ground outside her trailer home.
One-month-old Ellen Charlotte
Dollerty died in Baltimore hospital
one day after she was found Tues
day outside the trailer, her skull
fractured, her face scratched and
her nose bleeding. Her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Doherty, were away
at the time.
Police 1t. Wilbur Wade said that
the boy, who lives with his parents
IN an adjoining trailer, told him he
took the child outside, but did not
drop her on let her fall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Pole on Red Radio Suggests
I oking erritory From Reich
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. ga spokesman
for the Union of Polish Patriots"
speaking tonight over the Moscow
Radio, implied that the solution of
the postwar Polish boundary ques-
ton lay in giving Poland part
of Germany.
The Union of Polish Patriots
has been set up in Moscow with
Soviet permission in contrast to the
Polish government-in-exile in Lon
don.
In a Polish-language broadcast
recorded here by Reuters, the
spokesman said:
Polish troops grasp far better
than these professional politicians
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Nazi Blockade Runner
Sunk in South Atlantic
U. S. Naval Attuche in Rio
Makes Announcement
s, the Associated Press

os the Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. Jan,
I8.-American planes and warships
sank German blockade runner in
the South Atlantic few days ago,
"a United States Naval Attache an
nounced here today.
The Brazilian government news
service, Agencia Nacional. said that
Brazilian ships and planes partici-
pated in the action. '..
There was no amplification of the
brief announcement by the Naval
Attache who said he had received
permission from the Navy Depart
ment to release the statement.
The Agencia Nacional account,
date-hned from Recife, said the
ship was carrying war supplies to
Germany from Japan, and an Amer
lean officer was quoted as saying it
was OF the same type as the block
AIDE runner sunk by the British in
the Bay of Biscay December ~.
The naval officer. Capt. C. E.
Braine, chief of staff of the United
States South Atlantic fleet at Recife.
said patrols located the ship after an
extensive search by surface and air
units and that both planes and
warships participated in the en-
gagement that sank the German.
He said survivors had been i'm
prisoned in Northern Brazil.
The dispatch did not give the
date, place or other details of the
sinking, but said the story had been
known for several days in Recife
and that Capt. Braine called a con-
ference Of newsmen to thank them
for complying with security officers
and censors in awaiting the release.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

that Poland must be rebuilt in fra
ternal alliance with White Russians,
Ukrainians and Czechs--that Is, the
nations with whom we share a FROM
tier with the Soviet people. The
Polish soldier understands that
frontier problems must be settled
once and for all.
He appreciates that Poland
firmly entrenched on the Baltic and
enriched by the economically valu-
able territory taken from the Ger
mans can build its peace or happi-
ness"
The speaker also denounced per-
sons whom he described as London
'Fascists treading In the footsteps
Gee POLISH, Page A-5.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
$1,000, Subsidy
On Grapefruit Juice
Due This Week
Administration Expected
To Toke Step Despite
Opposition in Congress
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

In the face OF a returning Con-
gress which already has ex-
pressed strong opposition to con-
sumner subsidies, the administra-
ton is expected to announce this
week a new program-one de-
signed to prevent rise in the
retail price of grapefruit Juice.
The subsidy will be administered
by the Commodity Credit Corp. at
an estimated annual cost of ST .OOO,-
900. 1t has the approval of Stab
llization Director Fred M. Vinson.
Officials said the alternative to
the, subsidy designed to relieve a
squeeze on professors of canned
grapefruit juice was a q per cent
rise In the consumer price of the
product. The fruit juice was made
ration point free" last month and
now is purchased in considerable
quantities by housewives.
Stamp Plan Opposed.
Meanwhile. as Congress prepared
to convene tomorrow, no sign of a
break appeared in the stalemate
over the controversial subsidy issue,
and Republican opposition devel-
oped to the proposed food stamp
plan to help low-income families
pay their war-swelled grocery bills.
Senator Taft, Republican. of Ohio
said Congress would in effect be
creating another WPA" if it au-
thorized stamp plan such as pro-
posed by Senators Aiken, Republican
OF Vermont and La Toilette. Pro-
gressive, of Wisconsin as a substi-
tute for. the present system of gen.
eral subsidies to hold the line on
retail food costs.
Senator Bushf1eld, Republican. of
South Dakota said the stamp plan
would put the country back on
relief" and added:
The talk of low-income families
needing the help of the Federal
Government to pay their food bill
is foolish. We don't have any low
income families any more and
won't have as long as the war con-
tinues."
In the grapefruit juice plan, the
(See SUBSIDIES. Page A-I01
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Air Ministry Reported
Bombed Out of Berlin

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 8.-Reliable
informants said tonight that bomb
ings have forced Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering, who boosted
that the Raj never could penetrate
Germany's air defenses, to move his
mammoth air ministry outside Ber-
lin.
One reason for the extensive de-
struction in the German capital.
they said, was due to the fact that
the British air raids knocked out
the city's fire department, with
many firemen killed or wounded
and many of the recruits unframed
for their jobs. They added that
there was a constant shortage of
water"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
American Subs Sink
10 More Jap Vessels,
including Big Tanker
Score of Underseu Croft
Roised to SAG Ships
Hit or Sent to Bottom
MARINES IN NEW BRITAIN CAP
ture strategic hill, killing 200 Japa-
nese. Page AS.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
American submarines, whose
ship-sinking figures, as Admiral
Ernest j. King says, speak for
themselves" have destroyed an
other 10 ships of the steadily
dWindling japanese merchant
fleet.
That was reported by the Navy
yesterday in communique which
said the sinkings were accomplished
in Pacific and Far Eastern" waters,
but gave no indication of whether
the submarines followed previous
daring examples and took the battle
into coastal waters of japan.
A large tanker and large
frelghter were included in the newly
reported bag of the American SUBJ
merslbles. Both may be considered
of Importance, for the Japanese
cargo fleet has been hit so badly that
barges are being used to move men
and materials among the Pacific
islands.
The new total also included a
medium sized transport which NAV
have been carrying troops - five
medium sized freighters and two
small freighters, all badly needed by
the enemy in keeping supplies NOV
ing to scattered bases in the Pacific.
With the new sinkings, the score
for American submarines in Pacific
waters now totals 546 enemy ships
sunk, probably sunk or damaged
In that total are included several
Nipponese ,warships, but the greater
part is made up of cargo-carrying
vessels. Definite sinkings number
396, while So japanese craft prob
ably have been sunk and ia dam
aged,
Against that total American losses
of undersea craft have numbered II
since the war started. Two of the
losses in the Atlantic did not result
from enemy action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Draft Order Prohibit.
Job Deferments for
Men in 1871 Group
Selective Service Move
Also Will Affect
College Students
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

Selective Service last night an
nounced a general ban on occu-
pational deferments to men in
the l8 through 81 age group and
sharply curtailed deferment of
college students.
Effective February /. the new pro-
cedure will affect the 1880 men
now holding industrial and student
deferments and will release thou
sands of men-fathers and nom
fathers alike-to the armed forces
At the same time, Selective Serv-
ice Director Lewis B. Hershey dis
closed that draft boards failed by
SOC. 900 men to meet their calls dur
ing the last three months of 1943
He also disclosed that 10000 fathers
We're drafted in l943 instead of the
$4,000 fathers he had predicted
would have to be called by the enc
of the year.
Exceptions to the 10 to 81 defer
ment ban are men in the Merchant
Marine or the Army Transportation
Corps or in training for those jobs
men whose deferment is approved
personally by State draft directors
and limited number of college stu
dents in scientific and professional
fields. H.
Farmers Not Affected.
Untouched by the ban since they
are deferred by law are the 405, 68G
men between the ages of Is and q
who hold deferments as farmers
OF that group, only 1880 are IA
theirs. Included among the l33,75C
men now in IA and 2-B are l1.25C
fathers.
! In announcing the change OF
policy on students, who have been
deferred literally in the past, Gen
Hershey explained that Army and
Navy specialized training programs
now furnish enough scientific and
professional personnel to meet the
needs of the armed forces and stu
dent deferments should now be
limited to a number sufficient to
meet civilian needs in war produc-
ton.
Gen. Hershey cautioned a news
conference against interpreting the
ban on occupational deferments oil
younger men as "a solution of the
father draft" since some of the mer
will continue to be deferred ano
others will be rejected for physical
reasons. On an average, the rejec-
ton rate among the youngest selec-
tees is 26 per cent.
The ban was being placed on de-
ferring the youngest draft eligibles
he said, because fewer of them have
dependents, their skills are not as
highly developed as that of Older
men and the armed forces want
younger men.
Asked If the ban would be ex.
tended to men up to Is, Gen. Her.
shey replied that that depended or
the demands of the armed forces.
Although fathers in the younges,
draft age will be drafted behinc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

new prime contracts, and ordered
by Mr.. Byrnes hereafter to be
used by contracting officers. ito
the fullest extent practicable.
The Baruch- Hancock statement
yesterday was not concerned with
aspects of the reconversion problem
other than contract termination pro-
jcedure. 1t did not recommend any
range Of policy to be followed, or
deal with the administration of in
dustry transition from war to peace.
1t is expected they will draft sub
.sequent reports regarding other
phases of the problem.
The termination principle was i'm
plemented with a cost statement
specifying the factors to be allowed,
and those to be excluded, in comput-
ing Government obligations. 1t was
fCoo CnNTD (TC nora 10 -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Maj Units Surrender in Mass
As Reds Drive Into kirovoqrod::
u. S. Tanks Push Ahead in ItoIv
Troops Near Casino
After San Vittore,
Porchiu Victories
BY the Associated Press.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Jan. 8.-American infantry
and tanks, forging relentlessly
forward through a maze of Ger
man fire from every conceivable
fertilization. punched into the
Casino Plain today to follow ur
their fiercely won victories at
San Vittore and Mount Porchia
The fall of these two enemy
Istrongpoints controlling the APP
proaches to the town of Casino
6 miles down the broadening val
ley, came at the end of days OF
bitter fighting and was announced
officially in today's communicate.
Associated Press Correspondent
Don Whitehead, with the 5th Army
at this sector of the Italian front,
said the fighting for the hump
backed Mount Porchia. 900 feet
high and miles southwest of San
Vittore had been of great intensity
with tanks joining in support of the
infantry more closely than at any
time since the battle on the beaches
of Salerno.
Fierce Tank Duels.
At times the duelling between
tanks and the Germans antitank
and self-propelled guns had ragged
so heavily that the ground action
had to be temporarily halted he
wrote.
He said the Germans poured hun
dreds of shells at the tanks over a
three-day period but that the arm
ored units had forged ahead with
slight losses.
They knocked out pillboXes and
machine-gun nests embedded in the
base of the mountain and plunged
onto the Casino Plain with the
ground forces.
Headquarters said the Americans
were fighting in the streets of
Giusto, a small village more than
half a mile beyond San Vittore.
which was completely taken Thurs
day.
Hight Near Viticuso Taken.
From the captured $500 foot
Mount Maio in the northern section
of the 5th Army's 10-mile-wide
offensive, Allied forces advanced 500
feet higher through deep snow and
took a 4,0o0-foot height just south of
Viticuso, thus starting the northern
arm of pincers aimed at Casino.
Although the Germans recaptured
Mount Raimo, north of viticuso, this
setback had little bearing on the
Casino offensive proper.
Casino, 10 miles airline from
Rome. now has been brought well
within range of Allied big guns. but
ahead of the ground forces there
stretches a great system of defenses
which the Germans have built in
thorough fashion, fortifying every
house IN every village and farm
community along the way.
Ahead of the ground offensive
ranged American planes, Invaders
and Warhawks, pounding German
defense areas to smooth the way for
advancing troops. American heavy
bombers slashed at the arteries feed
ing German armies OH both sides of
the Adriatic.
Fortresses Bomb Fiume.
Fortresses of the 18th Air Force
with Lightning escort took advan-
tage of clear, cold weather to bomb
freight yards at Fiume, important
Italian port near the Yugoslav bor-
der. whence main lines run into
areas to the south and east where
the Germans are battling Yugoslav
Partisans. These Forts shot down
one German plane.
Other Fortresses, also escorted bv
(Sen TTAJU Dono .