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Evening star., 1944-02-15
Nickel Tells Senators
Public Housing Costs
Twice Private Figures
FoirIineton, Mclean
Projects Singled Out
As Typical Examples

Charges that public housing
here has cost about twice as
much as corresponding dwellings
erected by private enterprise
were made today by Hal S.
Nickel, president of the Realty
Service Co., in testimony before
the Senate District subcommit-
tee investigating housing con-
ditions here.
darlington and Mclean Gardens,
both erected by the Defense Homes
Corp, were cited by Mr.. Nickel as
examples of the high cost of public
building. darlington cost more
than $1,000 unit, whiSe comparable
housing by private enterprise has
been built for only $4,750 a unit,
Mr. Nickel said.
Mclean Gardens, he maintained,
was erected at an expense of $l1 ,45O
a unit, while like private develop
ments in the lower Connecticut ave-
nue. area near the Kennedy Warren
Apartments have assessed valuations
averaging approximately $500.
Private Interests Ready.
Mr.. Nickel told the subcommittee
that private builders and private
capital, are ready and willing to do
the slum reclamation work that is
necessary in the District. He pointed
to the cost comparisons as evidence
that private builders could handle
the work at less expense than the
National Capital Housing Authority
or any other public agency.
This testimony brought a remark
from Chairman Burton of the sub
committee that ''if private builders
can be induced to do the work and
do it at cheaper cost we'll all be
better off"
Senator Burton observed, however
that private enterprise has done
little toward slum reclamation in
the past, and said: I'VE want to
accomplish more in the next lC
years than we have in the last TO-"
John Ihlder, executive offic OF
the NCHA, answered Mr.. Nick by
pointing out that the two hot une
developments specifically cited were
not built by his housing authority
He asked that Mr., Nickel submit
definite figures for the costs Of pri-
vate housing here. Mr.. Ihlder told
Senator Burton that he has been
trying for months to get such fig
ures, but he has been unable to OBJ
tain them from the private builders
Brown Urges New Board.
Another high light on today s
hearing was proposal by Charles
S. Brown, 1918 Irving street NE.
that the present three membe.
board in charge of the National
Capital Housing Authority be re-
Evening star., 1944-02-15
Finnish Leader in Conference
With Soviet Envoy to Sweden
Russians Reported to Have Asked for
Unconditional Surrender, Use of Bases

Finland that she has no drastic de-
signs on Finnish territory, but that
if the Firms want peace they must
surrender unconditionally and grant
Soviet forces use of all their air and
sea bases, as well as internal COM
munications facilities.
The London News Chronicle in a
dispatch from Stockholm said these
terms had been "intimated unof
ficially' to Finnish leaders who ar
rived recently in the Swedish capt.
tai, presumably for the purpose of
sounding out the Russians on the
subject of peace.
At the same time Walter Farr
Stockholm correspondent of the
London Daily Mail, said in a some
what similar dispatch:
The impression I get is that Fin
land will be out of the war in a
matter of weeks and possibly days"
There was no immediate con-
Evening star., 1944-02-15
u. ). Plans al Least
One Army Cemetery
For Each Of 48 States
House Appropriations
Unit Reports Supply Bill
For Civil Functions
By the Associated Pres,

~ NAAS <hSSoNIoect EiCss.
The War Department is round
ing out a program for a very
considerable number" of new ma
tional cemeteries, with at least
one for each State.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee reported that today in sub
mitting an $86,911,440 supply bill
for l945 civil functions of the
War Department:
1T will be necessary in the not
distant future to provide additional
burial areas for the interment of
the remains of soldiers" the COM
mittee said in reference to 81 ,224,-
900 allotment for cemeterial ex-
penses The war adds materially
to the cost of this function. and the
cost, obviously, is unpredictable."
Bulk Goes to Engineers.
Except for s9,17O,OOO for the
Panama Canal, $1,177,500 for maint-
enance and operation of the SOL
diers' Home, s227,840 for the Alaska
communications system, and the al
lotment for cemeterial expenses, all
the money in the bill is allocated
to the Corps of Engineers.
OF the $75,1l2, 100 earmarked for
the engineers, s46.80O, 900 is for river
and harbor work, $25 5,500,OO0 for
flood control on the Mississippi and
its tributaries, s2,800,000 for flood
control in the Sacramento River
valley in California and $4,000 for
miscellaneous civil works.
The river and harbor fund in
cludes $4,000 900 for work on the
Missouri River from its mouth to
(See APPROPRIATIONS, page -
Evening star., 1944-02-15
Eniwetok Airfie|d Hit
6 Times in ; Days
By American Flyers
Jops Strike Roi Island
In First Raid on u. 5.
Positions in MurshuIIs
he ASSnciat1ci press

i~s 'iic ASSOCldlSC fTeSS-
UNITED STATES PACIFIC
FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl
Harbor, Feb. 15.-The Ameri-
cans and japanese have traded
aerial punches in the Marshall
Islands, with the Americans get
ting In the hardest licks by a
three-day pounding of Eniwetok
Atoll and its important airfield.
The Navy said United States car
rier planes, in six separate strikes.
caused severe damage to the air base
which the enemy used to feed planes
into the Marshalls from the Caro-
lines. The Japs' big base of Truk is
in the Carolines. There was no
ground fire or fighter opposition.
Eniwetok previously was attacked
heavily by carrier planes on Janu-
airy 80 and February S.
Roi Island of Kwaj jalein Atoll was
the target of the japanese, making
their first raid on American posi-
tions in the Marshalls.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz said
the enemy attacks, made Friday
night, caused only moderate dam
age and casualties"
1t was believed that the japanese
raiders flew over Ponape or Kusaie
IN the Carolines, because it seemed
unlikely the japanese are able tc
put planes in the air from positions
they still hold in the Marshalls
American bombing has ruined theil
airfields.
While planes were smashing Eni-
Wetok, other American aircraft
Evening star., 1944-02-15
Reds Halt Nazi Tanks
Attempting 10 Rescue
Forces al Cherkasy
German Losses Heavy
In Fierce Fighting;
Russians Nearing Pskov
By EDDY GILMORE.

wa
MOSCOW, Feb. 15.-The Red
Army has halted a heavy tank
attack launched by the Germans
northwest of Zvenigorodka in an
unsuccessful attempt to rescue
large Nazi forces hopelessly
trapped in the Cherkasy pocket,
the army newspaper Red Star
said today, while at the north
ern end of the front two Soviet
armies are moving closer to
the held stronghold of
PSkov.
Red Star declared that the Ger
man tank attack in the northwest
corner of the Upper Dnieper bend
was exceedingly fierce and that
Marshal Fritz Won Mannstein ap-
parently was unmindful of the
amount of men and machines he
was losing. 1t was hurled against
narrow sector and was stopped
after slight, wedgelike penetration,
the paper added.
Trapped Ranks Being Reduced.
Fighting was most violent north
west of Zvenigorodka and west of
captured Korsun, core of Nazi re-
slstance in the Cherkasy death ring
Zvenigorodka is Is miles southwest
of Korsun. Red Star pointed out
that the ranks of the enemy within
the trap have been markedly reduced
and that even if few tanks crashed
the Red Army lines the Germans
great losses would in no way COM
pensate them for what they would
find
Of the 100000 to 10000 Germans
originally reported trapped by the
Red Army, there is reason to be-
lieve that not more than $4,000 re-
main, Red Star said. The capture
OF Korsun, where resistance was
especially fierce, saw many Nazis
die, dispatches said. while the battles
OF the last few days have greatly
increased the enemy death toll, as
the Russians mercilessly slaughtered
all those who refused to surrender,
~~~-~
Describing the unsuccessful Ger
man attempt at rescue, Red Star
said that Soviet Stormovik dive
bombers turned the rolling land
northwest of Zvenigorodka into a
field of flaming tanks, while Rus
sian artillery fired over open sights
at the waves Of German armor bat
terlng at the Red Arrny's outer
Gordon.
7S Tanks Destroyed or Captured.
A Russian communique said that
at least 1000 Nazis were killed and
73 tanks and % self-propelled guns
destroyed or captured in the abortive
attack.
In storming Korsun the Russians
said they killed 1000 Nazis, isolated
another enemy unit and reduced
the German position to an area of
(See RTJSSIA Dooo A1ON
Evening star., 1944-02-15
Possible Clash Of |ckes
And Moore Postponed

Congressional procedure today
postponed possible clash between
Secretary of Interior Ickes and Sen
ator Moore, Republican, of Okla
homa before a Senate Interstate
Commerce Subcommittee.
Senator Moore, a persistent critic
Of the Secretary, and Mr.. Ickes were
scheduled to appear before the COM
mittee with a resolution, introduced
by Senators Moore and Brewster,
Republican, of Maine to dissolve the
Petroleum Reserves Corp, which Mr..
1ckes heads. But a second resolution
by the same Senators, calling for an
investigation Of the entire foreign
oil problem, resulted in cancellation
Of today's meeting.
Evening star., 1944-02-15
Gun Fight in Dupont Circle
Follows Chase of Stolen Car
Auto Leaps Curb and Stops Near Fountain;
Two Arrested, One Shot; Third Escapes

Bullets whistled across Dupont
Circle early today as police en-
gagged in a running gun battle
with three persons in a stolen
car, pursued by half a dozen
scout cars and motorcycles,
which smashed through park
benches and shrubbery and came
to halt in the center of the
park.
Late pedestrians scurried for cover
when police opened fire on the three
who jumped from the car as it
crashed, and fed in different di-
rections. Sergt. william Godsell,
British soldier attached to a war
agency here, who lives at 3618 T
Evening star., 1944-02-15
| 1865 U.S.. Workers Dropped
In Capital Area in December

Federal employment in the Wash
ington area was 263,881 at the end
of December, 1943. decrease of
1885 paid employees compared with
the preceding month. Both salaried
and wage full-time workers de-
creased, while tho total of part
time workers increased slightly.
The District area employment de-
cline was in keeping with the ma
tional trend. Total civilian en-
ployment in the Governments ex-
ecutive branch fell from 1892, ,727
to 2,811,813 as of December 81, 1943.
The year-end figures reflected a
continuation of the downward trend,
employment dropping from 5000 ,453
in June to 2,811,813 in December
within the continental United
Evening star., 1944-02-15
Late Bulletin
Six District Bills Passed

The Senate today passed
six local bills, including a new
restaurant sanitary code,
power to regulate fire insur-
ance rates, revision of the
procedure governing tax sales
OF real estate and making
minor changes in the super
vision of fire and casualty in
surance. The House passed
three bills, one regarding the
appointment of notaries pub
lie and one on return credit
to the District of S10,927 for
the sale of District land
enormously credited to the
Government.
Earlier Story on Page B-1.)
Evening star., 1944-02-15
Liberators Raid Targets
In Northern France
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. Is. - American
Liberators today attacked German
Notifications in northern France
for the fourth time in five days,
after earlier smashes against tar
gets in the same area by American
Marauders and RAF medium fighter
bomberS.
The assault followed a night in
which no Allied operations were re-
ported and Britain enjoyed its first
raid-free night since last Thursday.
The dispatch said Won Wedl COM
planned the Germans would not be-
lieve the accounts which sought to
give the impression that the recent
raids on London have been COM
parable to the British attacks on
Berlin.
Evening star., 1944-02-15

States. excluding Alaska and the
Panama Canal Zone.
A noticeable feature of the report
is that employment of men fell
from 1882 ,658 to 1,673,573 in the six
months period, while the number of
women employed registered slight
gain, from 96O,50l in June to 967,-
371 in December.
Biggest changes occurred in the
War and Agriculture Departments
War slicing 1883 from the pay
rolls and Agriculture separating
1,131 from the Federal service. On
the other hand. Navy Department
was adding 3,115 employees to its
roster. The net employment de-
cline Of all Federal agencies was
1924.
Evening star., 1944-02-15

street NV, narrowly escaped in
jury when the fleeing persons, ap-
parently mistaking him for a po-
liceman, fired two shots at him at
close range.
Held on charge of unauthorized
use of an automobile are Thomas L.
Faison, 1o. colofed, and James Him
pie, Is, colored, both of the 17OO
block Of Seaton place NV. A third
colored person who fled the wrecked
car escaped, but his identity is
known to police.
The chase started when a scout
car parked at Foxhall road and @
street NV. started in pursuit of a
car as it flashed by shortly before
tSee AUTO CHASE. Page A-4O
Evening star., 1944-02-15
Thompson, OPA Chief,
Gets IA Classification

Robert K Thompson, director Of
the District OPA, has been reclassi-
fed IA and expects to be called
for his pre-induction physical ex-
animation some time next month.
The 33-year- head of the local
agency said he received his notice
yesterday from the Hyattsville draft
board. He is the father of two pre-
Pearl Harbor children.
Mr.. Thompson described the no.
tice as "a Valentines Day present"
He said he had no plans for appeal
ling the classification.
His home is in University Park,
Md,
Evening star., 1944-02-15
Veto Support
Sought in Move
To Save Subsidy
Foes of Food Bounty
Counter With Drive
To Cut Off Funds
By the Associated Press.

~ '4Ac noSoCldttC pIeSS.
Despite repeated defeats, ad-
ministration leaders on Capitol
Hill voiced confidence today
they could muster enough
strength to sustain a presiden-
tlal veto of legislation ending
consumer food subsidies.
They believe veto is certain. II
sustained, it will save probably until
June 80 the subsidy program that
president Roosevelt set UP as a KEY
stone of wartime economic stabiliza-
ton. Mr.. Roosevelt last year vetoed
a measure killing subsidies.
Congress probably will shuttle the
antl-subsidy bill to the White House
by tomorrow night.
The antisubsidy leaders, Senator
Bankhead, Democrat, of Alabama.
and Representative Wolcott, Repub-
llcan, OF Michigan, must corral two
thirds of the membership of both
chambers to override the President.
OPA to Be Involved.
II they fail they are ready to
continue the fight in an effort to
deny appropriations for subsidy
purposes. The issue also is virtually
certain to enter the approaching
battle over extension of the Office
OF Price Administration law, which
expires June 30.
The measure banning subsidies
passed the House, 278 to 1T. The
Senate vote was 43 to %. A con-
ference committee probably will pol
lsh up the bill today.
Price Administrator Chester Bowles
has warned that elimination of sub
sides, running approximately ST.
O00,OOO,OOO a year, would breach the
dixie against initiation and result
IN an immediate per cent rise in
food costs. Subsidies have been
used to depress the price of butter
by cents pound, cut meat prices
as much as or cents a pound
and hold down retail prices of
other foods.
Rise Would Help Farmer.
Subsidy opponents argue that the
public has plenty of money to pay
higher prices for food and that
rise in prices not only would COM
pensate the farmer for increased
production costs, but would encour-
age larger production
Also at stake is the life of the
Commodity Credit Corp, a Gov
ernment agency established to aid
farmers, which seems to have gen.
eral favor in Congress, except for
its consumer subsidy phase.
There appeared. to be no general
opinion as to what will happen tt
the CCC if the veto is overridden
1t is more than likely, however
it will be given new lease on
life. regardless of what Congress
does about food subsidies.
Evening star., 1944-02-15
Servicemen Robbed;
Kill Thief With Auto

BY the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15.-Two
servicemen used their automobile to
run down and kill one of two men
they said robbed them of $25 few
minutes before, Police Inspector
Martin Lee reported today.
The second of the holdup suspects
was injured when the car swung
onto the sidewalk, but limped away
and escaped capture.
The servicemen were George Ar
ris. "a, an aerial gunner, and Arthur
Battaglia, %, boatswain's mate.
Evening star., 1944-02-15
MAP on Page A-4.)
, the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 15.-The
Finnish leader, Juhu Kusti
Paasikivi, has conferred with
the Russian Minister to Sweden,
Nine. Alexandra Kollontay, and
expects to meet with her again,
a Finnish Legation source said
today.
Paasikivi, a former Finnish cab
met minister, has been a leader in
the faction seeking peace with
Soviet Russia.
There were rumors that Russian
terms for an armistice were being
sent to HelSinki today, but no con-
formation of these reports could be
found.
LONDON, Feb. Is (P.-Russia
i
Evening star., 1944-02-15
Allied bombers
Blast Railway
Hubs in Italy
Comparative LuII
Continues in Anzio
Beuchheud Area
MAP on Page A-3.)

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
gierS, Feb. 15.-Allied heavy
bombers, in widespread attacks
designed to relieve pressure on
the Anzio bridgehead below
Rome, struck at six auxiliary
railway hubs in Northern Italy
yesterday, it was announced to-
day.
The escorted four -engined bomb
ers pounded Modena, Brescia, Fer
rara, Mantua, Verona and Arezzo-
important points through which the
Germans move supplies to their en-
battled troops.
In all the Allies flew about $500
sorties yesterday, shooting down q
German planes, against a loss of
one plane.
CThe Rome radio said Rome
was bombed at 1O:30 am. today.
Allied planes dived down to ma
chine gun the population" the
broadcast asserted
Allied ground troops maintained
pressure both in the Casino and
Anzio invasion bridgehead areas. an
Allied communique said, adding that
small German attack against the
bridgehead was repulsed.
Small Attack Repulsed.
The Allies threw back the enemy
attack in the Carroceto (Aprilia) J
area, and repulsed Nazi patrol in
the Clsterna area northeast of Anzio
Artlllerymen broke up a German at
tempt to bridge a stream 10 miles
above AnZio at Vellemaldeta. head
quarters said
Indicative of the bloody fighting
in the Casino sector to the east
240 German dead were found in the
Mount Castellone area north OF
Casino. The Germans yesterday
asked for three hour truce in
order to bury their dead. Patrol ac-
tivity and artillery exchanges still
marked this front.
Snowdrifts restricted activity on
the 9th Army front.
In the invasion area, despite the
Allied pressure, relative lull in the
lighting continued with mainly pa
troll actions, three days after a ma 10,
German effort to pinch off the
beachhead had ended in what a
headquarters officer termed costly
failure.
The Nazis still clung tenaciously
to factory buildings in the Caro-
ceto area, buildings which have
changed hands four times.
Nazi Planes Driven OFF.
Eight German planes attempted
10 strafe troops in the bridgehead
but were driven off by antiaircraf,
flre which doWned two of them.
Allied medium bombers attacked
the Perugia railyards, and port fac
ilities in Leghorn.
For the third consecutive nigh
Raj heavy Wellington bombers fol
lowed up American daylight raid
on German communications anc
troops south of Rome. These attack
were spread over a 1O-hour period
effectively hamstringing Nazi suppl,
lines throughout the night.
Both Liberators and Flving Fort
resses attacked the rail yards a
strategic Verona, which also is s
junction for east-west lines between
Venice and Milan. The Bologna
Milan lines were hit by Fortresse,
at Brescia and Modena. Other Flv.
ing FortreSses attacked airfields a
Pontedora.
The Vatican radio announced last
night that evacuation of the papa
summer residence at Castel Gan.
dolfo, below Rome, had begun, but
declared there still were some TO-.
600 refugees who had not yet beer
able to move from the papal village
that is part of the estate.
The broadcast said that "conse-
quently any warlike action against
the village would be not only an of.
Evening star., 1944-02-15
BY the AssociatAd press


LONDON, Feb. 15.-The Ad-
miralty today declared danger
Gus to shipping" a 7,OOO-square-
mile area skirting the French
and Spanish coasts, including
most of the Bay of Biscay and
the southwestern approaches to
England.
The sector, presumably mined, ex-
tends roughly from a point 200
miles west of Cape Finisterre, east
ward to the French-Spanish border,
running about 20 miles off Spain's
northern coast. It extends 200 miles
westwardly into the Atlantic after
following the French coast ana
reaching a point between Lands
End and Ireland's southern tip in
st. Georges Channel.
Knox Says Move Seeks
To Bar Goods for Nozis
Secretary of the Navy Knox, COM
menting today on the British en-
Evening star., 1944-02-15

The Vatican radio announced last
night that evacuation of the papal
summer residence at Castel Gan
dolfo, below Rome. had begun, but
declared there still were some TO-
600 refugees who had not yet been
able to move from the papal village
that is part of the estate.
The broadcast said that "conse-
quently any warlike action against
the village would be not only an Of
fensive against the extraterritorial
rights of the village but also would
be directed against hundreds of de-
fenseless country people, including
women and children"
The Allies said Saturday that Ger
man troops were installed in the
Castel Gandolfo grounds and warned
that the property would not be
spared by Allied bombers if they
remained.
Evening star., 1944-02-15

(See HOUSING, Page A-120
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(See FINLAND, Page A-4.)
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LONDON, Feb. Is (P.-Russia
was reported today to have advised
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(See PACIFIC, Page .A-2D
Evening star., 1944-02-15

Secretary Of the Navy Knox, COM
menting today on the British en-
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(See RUSSIA, Page A-12D
Evening star., 1944-02-15

See WAR BONDS, Page A-2D
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