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Evening star., 1944-09-12
Flexible Highways
Program Is Planned
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Sept. l2.-Post-
war work In Virginia is planned a.
q flexible program to care for both
needed projects and employment
State highway of1icials said today.
Under the contemplated program
the highway department will be
able to undertake first those prof.
ects which would most nearly meet
unemployment needs in various Sec
tions Of the State.
II the war with Germany end.
this fall, highway oficials estimate
that some of this work can get un.
der way during the spring, depend.
ing on the action Of the Fedora
authorities in releasing materials
and manpower
Plans are now on file for som,
S36 ,000, 900 in highway repair anc
building, while plans for $50, 900 .0Ot
In essential obstruction will be com.
pleted by the end Of the year.
The highway department expect.
it will have to expend more thar
5000, 900 900 to correct existing de.
f1ciencies in the highway system
This program would cover a mum.
Der Of years and is distinct from tn,
immediate postwar construction
based on highway needs for ths
first two or three years after the
war. This immediate postwar con-
struction program Is expected to cost
SOC, ,000, 900.
After the war considerable en-
'phasis will be placed on secondary
road development.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
By the Associated Press.

PORTLAND, Me, Sept. H.
Republicans, in another clean
sweep of Maine, handed a State
oftiliate of the CIO Political Ac-
ton Committee a humping set
back in yesterdays State elec-
ton.
. Representatives Robert Hale anc
Margaret Chase Smith were re.
elected in the lst and I'd districts
respectively. by better than 2-to-l
margins over Democrats Endorsed by
the PAC-backed Maine United Labor
Committee. Third District Repub-
lican Representative Frank Fellows
reelection margin was better thar
3 to l.
Republican State Senate Presi-
dent Horace A. Hildreth won pro-
motion to the governorship over
Paul j. Julien, Democrat. with a
majority of approximately 75.00O-
the greatest given any gubernatorial
winner in Maine since 1928.
Vote Larger Than in 1912.
The total vote was approximately
5000 greater than 1925, when Gov
Sumner Sewall. Republican. was re-
elected with a $4,000 majority.
With virtually complete returns
the unofficial tabulation was:
For Governor:
Hildreth, 130,050; Julien, 54,396.
For Representative:
First district-Hale, 47,635: An
drew A. .PettiS. Democrat. q $50
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Russia
Continued From First Page. }

vakia. which at this point is only
48-mile strip separating Poland
from North Hungary.
In the south, the combined Rus.
sian-Romanian offensive Through
the Transylvania hills surged dowr
within 10 miles Of the Danubiar
plains.
200 Localities Captured.
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky'l
troops captured 400 localities yes.
terday, most of them in the Hun.
garian-annexed section Of Transyl.
vania claimed by Romania.
In Romania, Russian column,
climbed from the Danube valley
through the s.000-foot Transylvanii
Alps by way of Vulcan Pass ane
captured Petrosani, 124 miles from
prewar Hungary's frontier and 8!
miles northeast Of Turnu-SevSfin
Danube city on the Yugoslav bordel
which was taken last "wednesday
by the Red Army.
Word of a Russian junction with
the Yugoslav partisans of Marsha
Tito was expected hourly.
The Soviet communique said tw'
German lieutenant generals haa
fallen prisoner In Bulgaria, raisinl
to 43 the Nazi generals bagged sine
June %.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Australia Warning !.
Before Pearl Harbor
Denied by Curtin

Taking direct issue with the
statement made in the House by
Representative Harness, Republican
Of Indiana, Prime Minister John
Curtin of Australia today denied
In Canberra that his government
had warned the United States that
Japanese feet was sailing toward
Pearl Harbor before the attack
December 7. 194l.
This is pure invention. Our
cables had no data regarding the
Japanese fleet" Mr.. Curtin said
according to the Associated Press.
In a speech that was one of a
series on Pearl Harbor the Repub-
licans have delivered within the
last week, Representative Harness
yesterday asserted that "the Com
mander in Chief has concealed the
truth"
He said there appears to be
abundance of evidence" that the
Australian government had served
notice Of the advance of a task
force three days before the Sunday
attack. Yet, he continued, Il am
informed" that Washington failed
to notify the Pearl Harbor military
and naval commanders.
"On whom rests the responsibility
for the Pearl Harbor disaster, If no.
on the Commander in Chief?" h.
asked.
Representative Allen, Republican
of Illinois joined in the discussion
by saying that If President Roose
welt could spend $20000,O 900 for {
political junket" to Hawaii, calling
generals and admirals there from
their fighting stations, then VIII,
could not witnesses be called IL
for trials of Rear Admiral Husband
E. Kimmel and Maj. Gen. Walter c
Short, the Navy and Army com
manders at Pearl Harbor.
Mr.. Harness declared Gen. Shor
and Admiral Kimmel stand Willing
to appear before Congress or any
other Official tribunal
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Philippines
Continued From First Page.

to two small cargo ships and At
least II sampans."
American plane losses were very
light" and there was no damage to
surface ships. the Navy said.
The Nays failure to mention
that japanese warships sought to
protect the convoy and other ship
ping prompted a supposition the
enemy's Philippines fleet was still
licking the wounds 1t suffered in the
sea battle of the Mariannas last
June.
The Mindanao attack dovetailed
with recent blows from Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's bases in the New
Guinea area. The latter had been
hitting in the Davao area and
around Zamboanga, $50 miles west
ward The carrier force took in i'm
portant new targets.
Admiral Nimitz announced new
blows at Paramushiro, north of
Japan, as well as at Two Jima, and
on Palau, east of the Philippines
More than 80 tons of bombs and
many rockets hit Palau Saturday
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Mrs. Tompkins Quits
tuberculosis Post

The resignation of Mrs. Doris
Tompkins, executive secretary of the
Alexandria tuberculosis Associa-
ton, was announced yesterday by
DR.. John Sims, president of the as
sociation.
Mrs. Tompkins, whose resignation
becomes effective October /. will 60
to Portsmouth, Va, as executive
secretary of the Portsmouth Tuber-
culosis Association. She is leaving
because her husband. E. H. Tomp-
kins, an employe Of the Virginia
Electric g. Power Co., has been
transferred to Norfolk.
Mrs. Tompkins became the first
executive secretary of the Alex
andria association in 1887 and since
that time the growth of the asso-
citation has been continuous. Under
her supervision a mass X-ray pro-
gram and tuberculin testing pro-
gram in the schools was inaugural
ed, and the chest clinic service was
expanded from one clinic a month
to bi-monthly tests for both white
and colored
During Mrs. Tompkins' regime
seal sale receipts have risen from
81, 700 to $4,000 last year. When
the, first mass X-ray study was
made in 1899 100 tests were given
while $500 x-ray tests we're given
last year,
Mrs. Tompkins has been active in
the movement of Northern Virginia
tuberculosis associations to secure
sanatorium in the area. ..
No successor has been appointed
and DR.. Sims announced-thata appli-
cations may be made to Howard
Richardson, chairman of the Per-
sonnei Committee, or to its, other
members, DR.. w. A. Browne And
Thomas C. Graham. ~, CAL
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Senate COP Group
10 Fight for Delay on
3-BiIIion Road Plan
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A move to seek immediate passage
Of q bill laying the groundwork
for a 33,375, $50 900 oad-construc-
ton program met sharp opposition
today from group of Republicans
led by Senator Taft of Ohio.
Saying that Congress cannot pass
intelligently on . bill contemplat ting
q Government expenditure in excess
of $4,000, 900, 900 (the States would
supplement Federal contributions
until the size Of the postwar Gov
ernment budget has been deter
mined, Senator Taft told q reporter:
"A number OF other Republicans
feel that this bill should be con.
sidered along with other publie
works programs, such as flood con-
troll, river and harbor work and
public housing, so that We will know
how big an expenditure we are let
ting ourselves In for"
Senator TAFT acknowledged, how.
ever, that Senator Hayden, Demo-
crat. Of Arizona, would have strons
support for motion to take ur
the bill in the Senate this week
possibly today, and Senators Fergu.
son. Republican. Of Michigan, anc
Reed, Republican, of Kansas. sale
they were backing Senator Hayder
in this course.
1T all depends on whether ther.
is good attendance" Senator
HAYDEN said. IF obviously NOR.
than a quorum is present, I'll NOV.
to proceed with debate"
The bill provides annual Fedora
contributions Of $3.50 ,OOO, 900 for thu
first three postwar years to Federal.
aid, urban and farm -to-market
roads. to be supplemented by Stat,
payments on a 60 per cent Federal
40 per cent State basis. Other Fed.
eral expenditures for forest anc
park roads are included.
Senator Taft said he thought the
bill should be delayed until after
the November election to permit
careful consideration" and that
the States should be required to
match Government funds on the old
$3.50 basis.
"A s65O. 1000, ,Ooo-a-year Fedora!
contribution is three times as great
as any ever made" he said. I'm
inclined to think the amount is too
large"
Evening star., 1944-09-12

Eleventh Air Torce Liberators hit
Paramust1po Saturday and Sunday,
brushing 4side interceptors to ct.
tack . convoy. Results were not
detailed.
Lberators dropped 81 tons on Two
Jima. also on Saturday. The day
before Navy search plane attacked
q small tanker near the island. SET
ting 1t afire and leaving it probably
sinking.
Black Widow night fighters frus-
trated japanese air raid on Biak
Island, Gen. MacArthur's important
base OF Dutch New Guinea. Two Of
ten enemy planes were downed.
Gen. Macarthur said bomb damage
was small.
Northern Dutch Celebes was hit
with q l59-ton Liberator raid.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
y. 5. Naval Strategy
Creates Dilemma
For Tokyo Admiralty
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
United States communicates re-
porting further inroads on Japan's
naval and cargo tonnage empha-
sized today the dilemma into which
American strategy is forcing the
Tokyo admiralty.
A Navy announcement reports
that the latest bag of its submersi-
bles operating In the Pacific Is nine
more vessels. including a destroyer
and destroyer escort, two small tank
ers and five cargo boats. This brings
the total score for American SUBJ
marines alone mot including sink
tngs by naval and Army aircraft
and surface ships such as the sue
cessful actions in the Philippines re-
ported last night to 1872 ships, 81 of
them combatant.
Surveying the categories of lost
Japanese ships, naval students re-
late it to the Pacific strategy in
this manner.
There seems to be increasing rea-
son to believe, despite Tokyo asSer-
tions, that the Japanese feet will
not come out to fight, but must be
forced out.
Reasons Are Twofold.
The reason for this, they say. is
twofold j oss of destroyers and
cruisers needed to serve as a screen
for battleships and aircraft carriers;
loss Of fleet tankers without which
the fleet can not move far from
base.
Lacking both the screen and the
supporting train, the Japanese would
be disposed to keep their fleets
within the protection of the bases.
This, however, would mean that
the capital ships, carriers and other
elements would be fixed targets, un-
able to maneuver, when American
naval forces with carrier-borne
planes and heavy surface ship fire.
power closed in.
In studying the possibility of the
Pacific war, naval circles speculate
on the possibility that the final
knockout blow might be launched at
Japan from the west. rather than
from the east and south.
Bitter End Fight Possible.
This idea was predicated on the
possibility that with the enemy in
the Philippines driven out or neu-
tralized, the way would be open to
establish a major military naval
base or bases on the coast of China
from which the reduction of the
Japanese home islands would be di-
rected.
There is a belief In some quarters
that Japan, with much of its in
dustry and economics transferred
to conquered Manchuria, might con-
tinue to fight there even after the
home islands have fallen. Such
bitter lend resistance, however, pre-
sumably would be without the assist
ance of the Japanese fleet which,
even if it survived an initial en-
gagement with the American force,
would be without an edaquate base
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Couple Fined in False
Apartment Deals Here

Florenceinette and Cornelius Bar.
per, colored, of 1435 Irving street
NE. were fined 5000 each and giver
suspended sentences of 24O days ir
Municipal Court today on the pro-
vision that they return money they
admitted taking from persons tc
whom they promised apartments
Judge Brice Clagett also placed
the couple on probation for one
year.
The BARRIERS advertised rooms for
rent and accepted deposits from
prospective tenants for various
types OF accommodations in build
ings with which they had no con-
nection, police said.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
b under : strain" for : protractsd

b under : strain" for . protractst
period.
He indicated some persons ct tha
jail besides the defendants woulf
be happy when the trial finally
ends.
The eight defendants held ct th<
jail are: George Sylvester viereck
Ellis o. Jones, August Klapprott
Gerhard w. Kunze, Hans Diebel
Herman Max Schwinn, Franz X
Ferenz and william Dudley Pelley
Howard B. Gill, general superin.
tendent Of District penal institu.
tions, stressed that the special ar.
rangement for the defendants were
made through the Federal Bureau
Of Prisons.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Western Front
Continued From First Page.

The Americans advanced behind an
artillery barrage
British I'd Army troops wideneo
their breach in the Albert Cana
Line in Belgium. The breakthrougt
there enabled the British to eros,
the Dutch border and head for the
less formidable portion of the Ger.
man defensive system protecting TIT
shortest route to Berlin.
CToday's German communique
declared one British bridgehead
over the Albert Canal near .Geel
(GheeD in Belgium had been
smashed and that Geel was re-
captured.
tThe broadcast bulletin said
German counterattacks had
started. with especially fierce
fighting southeast of Liege and
In the Metz area.
(Americans threw three bridge
heads across the Moselle, Berlin
acknowledged, but one of these
was declared to have been ironed
out Immediately and the other
two sealed up)
At the tip of Brittany, Amer.
lean troops battled street by street
toward the walled inner city OF
the port of Brest. Unoff1cial reports
that Brest had fallen lacked con-
flrmation at supreme headquarters
The Channel coast was clear but
for 10000 to $4,000 Germans put.
ting up a last stand at Boulogne
Calais, Dunkerque and in the
tightly drawn pocket south of the
Schelde mouth.
Wissant and Sangatte, midway
between Calais and Cap Girls Nez,
were captured. Cap Girls Nez is one
area from which long-barreled Ger
man batteries fire into Southeast
England, % miles away.
The Canadians driving north of
Oostende on the Belgian coast
hurled the Nazis back to Blanken-
berge. The net around the Ger
mans frightened there as Polish con-
tingents pushed close to Brugge
and the British liberated Lokeren
population: $4,000 and st. Niklaas
42,000) midway between Gent and
Antwerp and six miles south of the
Dutch border.
Evening star., 1944-09-12

understaffed compared with hos
'pitals in other cities
The total number of permanent
department positions, under the
estimates, would rise from 947 in the
ls45 appropriations to Ills in the
1916 budget.
Would Add Director.
In the department, exclusive of
hospital service, it is proposed to
add a director of psychiatric service
at $500 a year ito organize and
direct mental hygiene program in
the District in both it's preventive
and treatment aspects; to organize
clinical service for this purpose and
to undertake studies of mental hy-
glene programs in the District, and
to prepare reports on the same, with
recommendations for dealing with
the problem.
In the reorganization of the SAN
itary inspection service, plans for
which were approved by the Com
missioners this year. it is planned
to add 2 public health engineers, an
entomologist, public health engi-
neers. 6 supervisors, - inspector
instructors, and Is sanitary inspec-
tors.
Other additions call for an assist
ant medical director, physicians
and IL junior clinical aides for ma
ternal and child welfare, a derma
tologist for school inspection, two
laboratory technicians for tubercu-
losls service, one attending physi-
clan and one medical attendant for
venereal disease work and two new
iood inspectors for Government
cafeterias and restaurants.
Would Use Cadet Nurses.
In the Nursing Bureau it is pro-
posed to have 20 senior Cadet Corps
Nurses for six months, who would be
recruited from local hospitals. After
Six months service they would be
potential candidates for the nursing
service of the city. and $4,000 is
asked for those who are appointed
The department would assume re-
sponsibility for teaching and super
VSlng their work. Two nursing su-
pervlsors are also sought.
A breakdown of the department's
ouoget for 1945 and 1916 follows:
Department 1913 1a4e
(eyo1,,ciya ~ Anu-,.,
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Aerial
Continued From First Page

Chemnitz, so miles southeast Of
Leipzig.
The German radio today filled
European air waves with warnings
of bombers and fighters approach
ing from England, France and Italy
Before dawn, Mosquitoes dropped
many 2-ton bombs on Berlin and
Raj Lancasters pounded Darmstadt
in the upper Rhineland in force.
Forty-eigh American heavy bomb
ers and 20 fighters failed to return
yesterday.
The Raj last night lighted great
fires in Darmstadt, a chemical in
dustry center of 100000 population.
Darmstadt is about IS miles south
OF Frankfort and IS miles east of
Trier, near which, it was disclosed
yesterday. American troops now are
battling the Nazis on German soil.
German night fighters put up
strong opposition to this attack,
said the Air Ministry, in acknowl-
edging the loss of 16 aircraft in all
night operations-which also in
cluded extensive minelaying in
enemy waters. Seven German
fighters were shot down,
Meanwhile, front dispatch dis
closed that three Canadian fighter
squadrons now are flying from
mobile bases in Belgium, taking
q heavy toll of the enemy's Rhine
shipping and road traffic.
Supplementing the two night
penetrations by the Raj. Mosquitoes
of the British "a Tactical Air Force
attacked 100 trucks, so barges and
Z trains in Holland.
Spitfires from the I'd Tactical Air
Force attacked five enemy ships
evacuating troops across the Schelde
to the Dutch Islands. Another
coastal vessel was beached and a
small destroyer and four mine
sweepers were damaged.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
House Investigators
Twill Visit New York
10 Inspect PAC Books
By the Associated Press.

~ saS hssoClAteu TfeSA.
House campaign expense In
yestigators took the unusual
course Of visiting New York to-
day to examine the books OF the
CIO Political Action Committee.
The investigators, headed by
Representative Anderson, Demo-
crat, OF New Mexico, determined on
the special trip after questioning
CIO-PAC Counsel j. J. Abt and G.
B. Baldwin, deputy to PAC leader
Sidney Hillman, in q secret session.
Mr.. Anderson told reporter the
group was unable to obtain .
Satisfactory picture from Mr..
Baldwin and Mr.. Abt about the 81
contributions the PAC is seeking
from CIO members in behalf of the
Roosevelt Truman ticket this fall.
Representative Brown, Republic
an, Of Ohio. told Mr.. Baldwin and
Mr.. Abt at the meeting, it was
learned, that you're just lucky
that the Attorney General is on
your side now."
Attorney General Biddle has
ruled that there was no violation of
the law in MIR. Hillman's Amalga-
mated Garment Workers contribut-
ing 500 900 to the PAC last October,
nor in subsequent PAC activities.
Mr.. Brown has contended that the
contribution from Hillman of the.
garment workers to Hillman of the
Political Action Committee" yiolat-
ed the Hatch Act and ANY court
would view it that way.s
Representing the committee in
the personal examination of the
CIO books are Mr.. Anderson, Rep
resentatives Sparkman, Democrat.
Of Alabama and Church, Republic
an, of Illinois and Counsel J. j. Cad
fdeH. Chairman Anderson said an
Investigator may be quartered in
New York for while to make q
continuing probe.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Prison Food
Continued From First Page. J

1t on the main line prison fare" he
added
AS for the beeksteaks, DR.. Cannon
said they are quite small, weighing
about four ounces and mot exactly
what you would get in a restaurant
About "a. other prisoners are on
special DIET for medical reasons.
DR.. Cannon said that when the
decision on special diets was made
off1cials took into account the pos
sibility the sedition trial would last
some time and the defendants would
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Growing Of Bond Queen
DELAYED by Weather

The ceremony Of crowning the
Districts War Bond queen, sched-
uled for noon today at the south
portico of the Treasury Building,
was postponed until Thursday be-
cause of the weather.
Miss Gloria Haverty, Signal Corps
employe, who sold more than $780,
600 in War Bonds during the last
campaign, has been selected queen.
Twenty-six other District War
Bond Commands will receive
Treasury citations at the ceremonies
Thursday.
To protect your country your
family and your job after the war
/. buy bonds now! -
Evening star., 1944-09-12

To protect your country your
family and your job after the war
buy bonds now! ---
Evening star., 1944-09-12

$5,397,100 $e,723,a75
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-27
Governor Renames Roberts Bank Insurance Trustee
Current RatiOning Regulations
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 PROCESSED FOODS
 
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