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Evening star., 1944-11-19
AT JANGO TEA.

AT JANGO TEA.
Miss Helen Je1ries
and Miss Mary EIizd-
beth Blakeney pic
tured at the tea giUen
by Mrs. Allen Han
stein Dhen plans ,pere
made for the open
house at the Soldiers,
Sailors, Marines Club.
Harris & E,Dtng
Photo.
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Evening star., 1944-01-31
Huge Naval Task Force Continues
C|ose-RangeA Attack onMarsha||s;
RAF Bombers Again Blast Berlin
Toxic Reports
Fierce Battle
In MurshoIIs
the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-The Toxic
radio asserted today that japanese
army and navy units have inter-
cepted powerful enemy units which
have been attacking the Marshall
group since the morning of January
80 and fierce fighting is now going
on"
The broadcast, an English-lan-
Iguage transmission beamed to North
America, was recorded by the United
States Foreign Broadcast Intelli-
gence Service.
Tokio's reference to Japanese
army and navy units" suggested the
possibility that American landing
forces may have gone ashore on
one or more of the islands or that
surface warships may have clashed.
On the other hand, it may have
meant only that the air arms of
both services were in action.
Another Toxic broadcast, beamed
to Italy, was recorded by United
States Government monitors at $50
am. today. 1t said:
Strong enemy forces at dawn on
January 80 began an offensive
against the Marshalls. The Japanese
armed forces in this sector are now
engaged in hard fighting against
these forces"
Evening star., 1944-01-31
American Flyer
Bags 6 Planes
In IS Minutes
sy the Associated Press.

SS Ille ASSOCIATED PreSs.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Jan. 31.-During yesterdays
spectacular air battles over Northern
Italy Capt. Herschell H. Green, %,
fighter pilot from Mayfeld, KY, be-
came an ace within the space of Is
minutes or so by shooting down six
enemy planes.
He was top scorer in the fights in
which Fortresses and Liberators
with their Thunderbolt escorts shot
down 63 enemy planes, with many
more probables and damaged, on
their mission to bomb German air.
ports in the area. Six Allied air.
craft were lost.
Capt. Green charged headon and
upward into formation of Ju-88s,
shooting down four Then he
swooped down on a Macchi 202-
one of the few Italian planes seen
in the air in recent months. Aft
erward he got Dornier 217.
Capt. Green is a member of a
Thunderbolt group which started
operations in the Mediterranean
theater in mid-December and which
bagged So Of the total of planes
shot down yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
(See ITALY, Page A-120
Briggs Is Arraigned;;
Pleads Not Guilty

George N. Briggs, former assist
ant to Secretary of the Interior
Ickes, today pleaded not guilty to
three indictments charging him with
forging the celebrated Hopkins let
ter" using the mails to defraud
and obtaining money under false
pretenses.
Arraigned in District Court before
Chief Justice Edward c. Eicher
Briggs was given three weeks tc
file any motions answering the in
dictments. He is at liberty under
SO 900 bond. He told newspaper
men he had no statement to make
Briggs was accompanied by his
Washington attorneys, Richard w
Galiher and Tom ]. McGrath. He
is accused of forging the letter
signed with the name of Harry Hop.
kins, President Roosevelt's adviser
which purported to show a sympa.
thetic link between the New Dea
and Wendell Willkie.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
1943 Liquor Imports
Double Previous Year
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Liquor imports during the last
half of 1943 more than doubled
those of the first half, while the
years total of 26277,OOO gallons
similarly was more than twice the
II ,065, 900 gallons imported in 1912.
December imports, based on a
Treasury report of liquor stamp
sales, exceeded 4,142,000 gallons
compared with $4,000 gallons last
January. The import figures do
not include an additional 6,383,O00
gallons received from Puerto Rico
during the year, as against 2,719,-
900 gallons in 1912.
Domestic Withdrawals, also meas
ured by stamp sales, totaled 1O3,-
900 900 gallons last year, a decline
of more than 100000 from the
previous year. Beer consumption.
however, was up from 64,731 900
barrels to 72,823,0OO.
The report also showed that cigar
production was down nearly 1,O0O,-
000,0 smokes from 1925 $780,
900, 900 total, while cigarette output
jumped nearly $4,000 900 900 to 257,-
TOO 100000.
Stamp sales for colored oleomar-
garine jumped from 1,104,00
pounds to 5.228,OOO, while the more
generally used uncolored product
was up from 64,6sO,OO0 pounds to
496 606, 900.
Playing card production rose
from 47,565,00 packs to 60,899 900.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Bipartisan Drive
For FEC Fund Cut
in House
Possoee Of So, 500, ,000, ,0oC
Independent Offices
Bill Slated Today
By the Associated fress.


The Federal Communications
Commission found itself the tar
get today of the first congress
sional economy drive of 1914.
Aroused over Commission Chair
man James L. Fly's refusal to testify
fully before a special House COM
mittee investigating his agency, a
bipartisan House group moved to
cut FEC funds in the $500, 900. 900
independent Offices supply bill
slated for passage today.
FEC funds for the fiscal year
starting July l already have been
trimmed about 20 per cent by the
House Appropriations Committee,
but that failed to satisfy the
agency's foes.
Taber Calls Agency Liability.
There is room for some more
cutting" declared Representative
Taber Of New York, ranking Re-
publican on the committee. This
outfit is working against the war
effort all the time and is liability
The head of it is a menace to the
war effort"
Mr.. Taber said he believed the
entire fund for the FEC Radio In
telligence Division should be denied
and those functions turned over to
the War and Navy Departments.
The Appropriations Committee
recommended $1,000,0O0 slash in
the divisional funds, suggesting that
the FEC military radio operations be
handled by the service departments
in effect disregarding President
Roosevelt's rejection of recon-
mendation of the joint chiefs OF
staff last February.
This recommendation figured
prominently in hearings by the spe-
cial committee investigating the
FEC. Eugene L. Carey, committee
counsel, claimed at the time, after
Mr.. Fly had refusd to testify on
many matters on the ground they
involved military secrets, that the
FEC head was the cause of the
Presidents rejection of the recon-
mendation. Only last week j. Edgar
Hoover, FBI chief, refused to testify
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Atrocity Investigation
Slated in Australia
BY the Associated Press.


CANBERRA, Australia, Jan. 81
Attorney General H. v. Evatt an
nounced today the establishment of
a special commission under Queens
land Chief Justice Sir William
Webb to investigate Japanese atroc-
tiles inflicted on Australians in the
Southwest Pacific.
At the same time, Prime Minister
John Curtin, commenting on the
disclosures of Japanese barbaa aties
against American and Filipino SOL
diers and sailors, said the facts
were so horrifying they surely
speak for themselves"
ITO relieve prisoners of war ir
japanese hands who include no,
only members of the fighting forces
but also civilians of our own anc
friendly races" Mr.. Curtin said
calls for the earliest termination
Of the war. Resolutions, protests anc
expressions of horror are insufficient
What is needed is earliest victorious
termination of the war and the best
viewpoint Australia can have in this
Is to work all out for complete, early
victory.
1T must be clear that the pro-
tecting power in this matter is not
able to accomplish much. Only
the Allies themselves with all their
strength can effect a change and
the only change will be the earliest
realization on the part of Japan
that she'll be defeated"
Contrasting the Prime Minister'S
statement, a Melbourne spokesman
asserted "the government view is
that such stories lead to vicious
circle of retaliation and reprisal
as well as causing unnecessary dis
tress to relatives of war prisoners. !"
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Ship Workers Told
Program Will Go On
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31.-Ship
construction will continue without
any major reduction in the present
program here, Sam Kagel, acting
War Manpower Commission director
said yesterday.
The announcement was made fol-
lowing a conference between Mr..
Kagel, Rear Admiral H. L. Vickery,
vice chairman of the Maritime Com
mission in charge of ship construc-
tion, and other officials.
Admiral Vickery authorized the
statement that there will be no ma
jor cutbacks in shipbuilding con-
tracts in the San Francisco Bay
area at least before October" Mr..
Kagel said. I'm any event, if the
completion of the ships makes such
action advisable there will be a
shifting of shipyard activities into
ship repair work whic' will require
at least equal numbers of workers" "
Workers were urged to "stay on
the job" There have been rumors
that major reduction in shipyard
contracts soon would be made, with
resultant decreases in personnel.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Senate Seeks
.ToSpeed Action
On Soldier Vote
Compromise Support
Reported Growing
In Both Houses
BY ]. A. OIEARY.

Although the Senate met an
hour earlier than usual-at II
o'clock-to speed a decision to-
day on the controversial Federal
ballot for servicemen, indica-
tions are Senate debate will drag
on until the House takes up the
issue tomorrow.
Supporters of the simplified Fed
eral voting form believe that they
now are in position to reverse the
action taken by the Senate in De-
cember, when it passed the Eastland-
Rankin bill requiring members OF
the armed forces to use the regular
absentee ballots of the States from
which they came.
Signs of Compromise Grow.
The States rights advocates con-
tend the House should have chance
to vote on the bill the Senate passed
before the Senate is asked to adopt
another measure on the same sub
ject. Assuming the Independent
Offices appropriation bill is dis
posed of in the House today, that
branch will take up the soldier vote
issue tomorrow.
Meanwhile, in both houses there
were growing signs of a possible
compromise that would permit linn
tied use of the Federal ballot. Two
such proposals are being given Sc
riouS consideration by Senators.
One by Senator Ball, Republican,
of Minnesota, would give the States
until June l to amend their laws
to make available to servicemen and
women a lightweight State ballot
that could be mailed without pre-
vious registration.
Danaher Plan Outlined.
The other, by Senator Danaher,
Republican, of Connecticut. goes
even further in accepting the prin-
ciples of the administration plan.
1t would give the simplified Federal
ballot to all members of the uni
formed forces outside of the United
States. Inside the United States,
the armed forces would use regular
State ballots, unless their States fail
to make suitable arrangements, in
which cases they also could cast a
Federal ballot
The Danaher amendment would
meet the unusual situation in Ken
lucky and New MeXico-where the
State constitutions prevent absen-
tee balloting. Servicemen from
those States could use the Federal
ballot. In the case of all Federal
ballots, local election officials would
determine the validity of the votes
cast, either under the administra.
ton bill or the Danaher compro-
mise.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Supreme Court UphoIds Barrier
Against Child Tract Statesmen
Conviction Of Jehovoh's Witness Member
Who Supplied 9-Yeur-OId Girl Affirmed

The Supreme Court held today
that the child labor laws of Mas
sachusetts could be invoked to
prevent children from selling
Jehovah's Witnesses literature
on the streets.
THE court split, 8 to l, on the
issue, with Justice Murphy declaring
his belief that "this attempt by the
State of Massachusetts to prohibit
a child from exercising her constitu-
tional right to practice her religion
on the public streets cannot, in my
opinion, be sustained"
Justices Jackson, Roberts and
Frankfurter agreed that the Mas
sachusetts law had been properly in
voked, but disagreed with the rea-
Evening star., 1944-01-31
D. {. Man Pays $3.50 Fine
For Selling NyIons at $3.50

Sale of nylon hose at $3.50 pair
well above the ceiling price of
$185-resulted today in a fine of
$3.50, largest yet imposed in Munich
pal Court for an OPA violation, and
in a windfall of 38 pairs of nylons
for the Fourth War Loan. The
stockings, the defendants unsold
stock, are to be auctioned off to
Victory Bond purchasers.
Judge Almond Scott imposed the
fine. 1t was promptly paid by John
Feiffer, an employe of a beauty shop
in the TOO block of Thirteenth street
NV, who had pleaded guilty to SELL
ing nylons at that price to patrons.
One of the patrons was Policewoman
Pearl D. Phythian of the Women's s
Bureau.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
CoIonists Reported
Fleeing Baltic States
As Russians Drive On
Reds Sweep Up so More
Towns in Rush for
Estoniun Border
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. 31.-German
colonists were reported fleeing
from the Baltic states today as
the Red Army, which yesterday
swept up so more towns and
hamlets between the Gulf of
Finland and Lake Peipus, raced
toward Kingisepp, last rail sta
ton short of the Estonian from
tier on the line to Narva.
Gen. Leonid A. Govorovs Lenin-
grad Army drove to within ~
miles of Kingisepp with the capture
of the rail junction of Veimarn
only II miles from the Estonian
border, Soviet communique an
nounced. The village of Kotly, 16
miles above Veimarn on a spur
line to the gulf, also was taken.
The Moscow radio said German
colonists were fleeing along with
Iretreating Nazi troops.
Drive Toward Railway.
In the Lake linen sector so miles
to the south, another Red Army was
driving toward the Leningrad- -Pskov
railway, after seizing Veliskoe Selo,
II miles southeast of Luga, juno
ton on the vital line Other Soviet
units menaced Batetskaya, from
which spur line runs to Luga, 18
miles to the west.
In the Novosokolniki area still
| fo ytpnr VIZ n
Popov's End Baltic Army was re-
ported to have driven to within less
than go miles of Latvia, in thrusts
west and northwest of Novosokolniki,
which fell Saturday. Moscow said
more than 1000 Germans were killed
in the fighting for Novosokolniki.
The Russian units which cleared
the final stretch of the Moscow
Leningrad trunk line Saturday also
continued to forge westward, seizing
the rail stations of Kastyenskaya
and Yeglino on the Leningrad-Nov-
gorod line.
Nazis Admit Break -Throughs.
A German broadcast said the
Russians had made fresh break
throughs in some sectors below the
Middle Dnieper River in the
Ukraine. The broadcast mentioned
heavy defensive struggles" in areas
northwest of Kirovograd, southwest
of Cherkasy and east and southeast
of Belaya TSerkov.
The Nazls claimed strong Soviet
forces had been encircled in the area
south of Pogrebische in the South
western Ukraine. The Russians said
Saturday that they had given
ground to German counterattacks
east of Vinnitsa, in the same gen.
eral territory.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Hundreds of Tons
Of Explosives
Ruined on AtoIIs
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 81
What may be the greatest naval
task force in history hurled hun
dreds of tons of explosives for
the second consecutive day yes
terday on the japanese defend
erS of the INVASION threatened
Marshall Islands.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz's COM
munique on progress of the attack
said last night that surface forces
presumably battleships, cruisers and
destroyers-had moved within 10 to
20 miles of the heavily defended
atolls to pound shore installations
with thousands of rounds of shells.
Carrier task forces loosed hun
dreds of tons of bombs in their
second days hammering at Kwaja-
lein, Maloelap, Wolfe and Roi
atolls.
The enemy forces presumably were
huddling in underground pillboxes
and bomb shelters similar to those
Evening star., 1944-01-31
American Subs Sink
ID Jap Ships, Some
Bound for MorshuIIs
the Associate Press.


The Navy today reported the
sinking of IA Japanese ships,
some of which may have been
endeavoring to reinforce enemy
positions in the Marshall Is
lands.
All the ships went down
after attacks by far-ranging
American submarines, but the
communique did not disclose
where.
Two large transports, which
could have been carrying troops
for enemy positions in the
Marshalls, were included among
the IA ships sent down. A me-
dunn m-sized transport also was
sunk.
The total also included eight
freighters presumably laden
with badly needed supplies for
enemy bases.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Guffey, Bark|ey Differ
Over Resignation Of
Party Campaign Head
PennsyIvonion Insists
He Was Ousted as Chief
OF Senote Election Drive
BY DON S. WARREN.

Two versions were heard today
on the impending replacement
Of Senator Guffey, Democrat, of
Pennsylvania, as chairman of
the Democratic Senatorial Cam
paign Committee-though there
was no dispute that he would be
replaced.
The Pennsylvania last night de-
clared he had been removed" from
the campaign post by Senator
Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky
the majority leader.
The way the majority leader had
described the case Saturday night
was that Senator Guffey had SUBJ
mitted his resignation and asked
that he be relieved of the cam
paign chairmanship as soon as a
successor was selected.
Suggesting that action probably
would be taken this week. Senator
Barkley told neWsmen at the time
"As soon as 1 can find some one
willing to take the responsibility
for the job, will make the change. y
Declares Guffey Ineligible.
Further softening the blow, the
majority leader had explaind that
Senator Guffey was ineligible to con-
tinue to hold the post for the reason
that under Senate custom the post
cannot be held by Senator during
the year when there is a senatorial
campaign in his State. Republican
Davis is up for reelection this year.
While there has been no formal
decision yet, reports on Capitol Hill
are to the effect that Senator
O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming
probably will be named in the SEN
atorial campaign post.
Senator Guffey, contenting him.
selef with but brief remark about
the issue, promised today he later
would make a full and complete
statement about matters about
which there has been so much con-
fusion and misinformation.
Byrd Made Issue.
The intraparty issue boiled to the
surface Saturday when Senator
Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia made
public a letter he had written to
District Commissioner Guy Mason
denouncing the Pennsylvania Demo-
crat for having threatened Senate
investigation of the District Health
Department for refusal by District
officials to give requested hospital
privileges to his family physician,
DR.. Eugene de Savitsch.
Senator Byrd called the Guffey
threats contemplate" and repre-
hensible" and he urged the Com
missioners to stand your ground, ;
predicting that should Senator Guf-
fey attempt to carry out these
threats made in letters written in
July and December of 1942) that
neither the Senate nor the House
would permit you or your subordi-
mates to be coerced in this manner
Senator Guffey has been unde,
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Army Silent on Report
That JET Plane Was Here

Printed reports that the new
rocket" jet propulsion plane was in
the sky over Washington last week
encountered no official denial from
the Army Air Forces today.
The propellorless plane, the re-
port stated, was demonstrated here
Wednesday before Army, Navy and
other officials and the unusual sound
of its engines while flying over the
city attracted attention and in
uuirieS,
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Italian Kings Custer
Favored by
State Department
U. S. Said to Have Found
Victor Unco-operotive
In Political Setup
By BLAIR BOLLES.

Ihe State Department has in
formed the Combined Chiefs of
Staff Committee that the abdi-
cation of King Victor Emmanuel
of Italy would improve the pros
poets for an orderly development
of the Italian political picture, it
was learned reliably today.
An opportunity for political
spokesmen of the United States and
allied governments to strengthen
their influence in italian affairs
will come February 10, when the
Allied Military Government is slated
to turn Southern Italy over to the
Allied Armistice Control Commits
sion.
The Armistice Commissions juris-
diction will include Sicily and the
boot south of line drawn roughly
from Salefno on the west to Baretta
on the east.
Found Unco-operative.
The AMG administration, which
has supported King Victor, has been
wholly a military operation. The
Armistice Commission is to be re-
sponsible directly to the Combined
Chiefs of Staff Committee, but it
is expected that it will be influenced
also by the Italian Commission
created by the Moscow Conference
and by the desires of makers of
political policy in the countries con-
cerned.
Government have found King Victor
unco-operative in planning the de-
velopment of a reorganized Italian
policy that would represent a
thorough break with the Fascist past
and aid in adjusting Italy sympa-
thetically to the postwar world.
The disillusion of the State De-
partment with Victor Emmanuel has
proceeded more swiftly than that of
the British government or of high
American military representatives
and both those groups are yet to be
convinced that the custer of the
King is the wisest possible move.
Regency Believed Favored.
The State Department has come
to believe that a regency should be
substituted for the King. 1t is said
to think that change to re-
public might bring civilian dis
turbances which would interfere
with the combat operations against
the Nazis in Italy.
No suggestion has been made
that the United States directly in
1rIGEO1, IA "A A AII1RI 10
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Loss Set at $500, 900
In Steel Plant Fire
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. '31.-Fire which
enveloped three buildings Of the
Gary Steel Supply Co. early today
caused damage estimated by COM
pany officials at 100000. No one
was injured.
Flames shot 100 feet into the air
and endangered lumberyard just
west of the plant and a streetcar
barn $50 feet north. The firm re-
processes used steel. There was no
explanation of the cause.
Evening star., 1944-01-31

soning by which the court majority
upheld the State tribunal.
Parents may be free to become
martyrs themselves" Justice Rut-
ledge said in the majority opinion,
but it does not follow they are free,
in identical circumstances, to make
martyrs Of their children before they
have reached the age of full and
legal discretion when they can make
that choice for themselves"
In a separate opinion, Justice
Jackson said the court draws a line
based on age that cuts across both
true exercise of religion and auxil-
iary secular activities"
The case arose out of the arrest of
Mrs. Sarah Prince of Plymouth
County, Mass, for permitting her
(See SITPRENE COTTRT A-Io1
Evening star., 1944-01-31
Warm Spell Ends Here;
tomorrow to Be Colder

Washington's spell of warm
weather ended today as the ther-
mometer dropped to 81 degrees
shortly before 7 am.-the first
below-freezing temperature recorded
in nearly a week.
The Weather Bureau said it would
be warmer through the day but even
colder weather is in store for late
tomorrow.
The lowest temperature yesterday
was 36 degrees at 1885 pm. Sat
urday's low was Al degrees at
11:55 pm.
Evening star., 1944-01-31
D. &. Man Indicted
On Charge of Taking
Navy Yard Gun Siqht

Henderson Robinson, 38, COL
ored, 400 block of B street Sc,
was indicted today on a charge
OF stealing telescope sight
for a 37-mm. landing gun from
the Washington Navy Yard.
The sight was found behind a
radiator in Henderson's home,
it was stated. He denied any
knowledge Of it, according to
police.