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Marriage License
Applications

Under d. c. laUs, couples must
apply for marriage license on
one day, 1Ddit three Jul days and
receiue their license on the fifth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
Harry Liu, 25, 1901 v. st. NV, and Con-
Emeason ssaaSe koone e. For orh ss Myei e*
Marjorie Kaiser, 80, 271s North PERISH
r, ing ns. dTi, T,,r. Arlieston liz Ono ,ons - s
Dorothy Morrison. ss, Bethesda.
Lillian Mccain. %. 41o4 srd I'd. North
Hairy Wolfe, as, 1901 9th st. NV, and
sylvia Damn. 21. l35 Ingraham st. NV.
Lloyd stdks. Miner x h,.so1 coGnel Ill., and Grace
W. l. Timmons, %, Highland Park, Mich,
and Emma Conway, %, clarksville, Ark;
'osa Sissf %? laf hlp T ~ s. ns s1a
William Harris, q, Greensboro. N. C.. and
s.aas.a Hazel Tho%pson r. s1a1 90 soot s94 St
NV, and Hattie Hail, 27. 7s9 Merton
Pink Little. 90, BOG Randolph pl. ne. and
James jenkins, %, $50 Dixon st. s.w., and
Mary Campbell, 26, 1852 4th st. s.w.,
Frsncis ,ts BLANK nj q, and Mary Reckline'
Thomas Dimmins, jr:, and Leila Smith, IS,
Charlie williams, "a. Fort Belvoir, and
Margaret McCray, 21, 92Q P st. NV.
Jack Rice, 49,. Fort Bragg. and Evelyn
Banner 90, 4SO9 Sth st. NV
Harvie Brown, so, and Honoria Walker,
81, 1010 25th st. NV.
Alan Day, 81. Dayton, Ohio, and Evelyn
Davies, 25. 1885 Lanier p1. NV
Robert Morris, 10, Camp Davis, and Retha
Simmons, 21, 194S Calvert st. NV
Nick Susick, 27. Export, Pa, and Mu-
riel Craig. 20. 519 Oakwood st. Sc.
Jonah Coley. ~, 1919 Girard st. NV, and
Esther Aycock, 26, Pikeville, N. C.
James Marshall. %, Fort Meade, and Jean
Luckino. 49, Alexandria.
Ralph Thomas, 80. and Johnnie Little
- ton, 2!, both of 2296 Champlain st. NV.
Raymond Heffernan. %. % Hamilton st.
NV, and Lois Smith, 21, 1901 Kalo-
rama rd. NV.
NV, and Pearl Mason. "a, 1913 10th
Harold Tf.. MMss:K1Iay, Ms:1I, 60. Fort gelvoir. and
Locke wallace, a., 1885 Rhode Island
Robert tssane aheeS Ssss Is. sie Maryland ave me-,
and Lauella Stumpf, %, Vienna.
KstheTlne 1den. g, a5.''Gs1 ISIS I1 Insleside Sac
ter. NV.
Earl Wright. s1, Camp Pickett, and
Gladys Anderson, 80, 11O6 L st. NV
and Nancy Morgan, 81. 41O7 Legation
John Doherty, 90 Cherry Point, n C.,
and Nancy Moran, 81, 4107 Legation
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5 Rooming Houses Fined
For Lacking Licenses

Five persons were fined SIS each
in Municipal Court yesterday on
charges of operating unlicensed
rooming houses.
They were Olin Bell, 1928 Park
road NV; Melissa c. Evans, 48
street NE; Margaret Tolson, 81 De-
frees street NV; Annie Williams,
l412 Eighth street NV, and Lucy
Harper, 1414 Eighth street NV.
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jects, for outstanding work In the
North African campaign.
The decoration was pinned on
the son Of the President by Air
Chief Marshal Trafford l.. Leigh
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wing, has been awarded the British
CBE Commander of the British
Empire Order, third highest recog-
milton of merit for non British SUBJ
Evening star., 1944-05-24
Elliott Roosevelt Awarded
Hiqh British Decoration

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 24-Col. Elliott
Roosevelt, commander of an 8th
Air Force photo reconnaissance
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WILKES WIFE
ACTS RELIEVED

OMAHA, April 5-R-Mrs. Wen
dell Willkie attitude was one of
relief here tonight when her hus-
band announced he was Withdraw
ing as Republican presidential
candidate.
Intimate friends said M r S.
Willkie declared all she wanted for
herself and her husband was
peace and quiet"
Mrs. Willkie, who accompanied
he--, husband during his Wisconsin
and Nebraska campaign. was de-
scribed by those who have been
travelling with the Willkie party as
a wonderful trouper.'
She was constantly watching out
for the health of her husband, and
expressed concern when the pres
sure of the campaign began to tell
on him.
In Omaha toaay, she substituted
willingly for he husband at pub
lie reception, shaking hands with
hundreds of persons as she stalled
for time while her husband pre-
pared the announcement of his
withdrawal from the race.
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flee of Senator Reed R-Kas),
who said he was Strong for's
speeches she had made about
taxes.
The Postoffice Department may
be asked about the mysterious way
these letters were obtained" Reed
volunteered
Miss Keuems gave this version
OF her acquaintenceship with count
Zedlitz:
IT have written to Count Zedlitz
since 1885. 1 have never denied
knowing him. 7 met him in the
United States. But 1 haven't writ
ten to him since I found that my
letters were finding their way into
Mr.. Pearson's hands via Argen-
tina"
In the course of the interview,
Miss Kellems denied that she
ever advised anyone not to pay
income taxes"
II did not refuse to pay the in-
come tax" she declared. II said
my com any manufacturing
equipment for the Army and Navy
didn't have the money to make the
Dec. IS G943) payment. If Mr..
Morgenthau is willing to accept
few million feet of wire, or some
machinery, we'll be glad to turn
it over to him."
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DOUBTS
FIR TO RUN AGAIN

WASHINGTON, April 5 - R -
Senator Bailey D-NC) expressed
doubt tonight that President
Roosevelt would seek a fourth
term and proposed Byrd arley
ticket for the November election.
The veteran North Carolina
Democrat suggested James A.
Farley, former Democratic ma
tional chairman. as ''fine run
ming mate for Senator Byrd
D-Va).
"I seriously question whether
President Roosevelt will seek a
fourth term" Bailey told news
men. IT think most of the dele
gates probably will be for him, but
I question whether he will run"
Asked about letter he wrote
John U. Barr. chairman of the
Byrd For President southwide
movement, New Orleans, assert
ing his support for Byrd for "the
nomination for President with I'M
served confidence" Bailey
said:
IT wrote that letter. meant it.
I'll stand bv it.
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DRAFT MAY FORCE
FARMERS TO QUIT
Nets Forecasts Closing OF
Many Sub sistence
Farms

RALEIGH, April 5.-tRLThe
rapid movement of men under 26
years of age into the armed serv-
ices within the next three months
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. farms
in North Carolina to cease opera
tons entirely, Brig. Gen. J. Van
B. Nets, state selective service
officer, told group of dairymen
and poultrymen here today.
While the draft status of more
than 80, 900 unmarried men now de-
ferred in agriculture will be left
to the discretion of local draft
boards, he advised farm operators
and others whose employees are
expecting to be drafted. 'to pre-
sent to their local boards clear
picture of the work you are doing
on your farm or in your industry
so that they may act according
ly."
Nets said that the state is re-
Uu1IG W lQl IllSll lCo NIOId VI y OCliS
fighting men, and that Its re-
sources of manpower already have
been drained to the point where
only young men available are
those who become 10 and those
deferred in agriculture and indus
try.
He expressed the opinion that a
large part of these quotas will be
drawn from men now deferred in
agriculture, ''since very few farm
ers have been Withdrawn during
the past years operation under the
unit system of deferment. Recent
quotas have been filled in part by
men drawn from industry and the
number deferred in this category
mas dwindled to 1000 unmarried
registrants, he added.
"Local boards in agricultural
sections will have no alternative,
he said, but to fill their calls and
furnish their proportionate part OF
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Woman Plant Executive
Denies Loving Nazi Spy

WASHINGTON, April s. R -
Miss Vivien Kellems, Connecticut
war plant executive, today de-
nounced as lies charges made
by Rep. Coffee D.-Wash.) that she
had been the lover Of Hitler
fifth column spy in Argentina"
She likewise denied that she had
played the Nazi game" as Coffee
had contended on the house floor,
and she told an interviewer:
They are lies. l haven't any
idea why Mr.. Coffee should attack
me-perhaps it is because of what
l stand for, opposition to the New
Deal"
Miss Kellem5 said she had cor
RESPONDED since 1885 with Count
Karl Won Zedlitz mentioned in Cof-
fees speech, but she said the count
had never been a member of the
Nazi party She said he had been
stationed in Argentina as a repre-
sentative of a German metal firm.
Miss Kellems said her chief con-
Germ was to find out how letters
she wrote fell into the hands OF
Coffee and Drew Pearson, a news
paper columnist She said she had
not received replies to letters she
wrote Coffee and Postmaster
General Frank C. Walker demand
ing an explanation.
She received reporters, in the Of
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BIG BILLS MONEY
IS STILL SOUGHT

CHICAGO, April 5 -lR- The
hunt for riches tucked away by
former Mayor William Hale
Thompson yielded $3.50 in Sec
urities today - a find that in
creased to $1,6O1, 25o the value of
assets uncovered since his death.
And the end of the search was
not yet in sight.
The latest cache was a safety
deposit box in the First National
Bank. 1t was crammed with stocks
and bonds that had a face value
of S125,0OO,
The repository was unlocked by
James w. Breen, attorney for the
Thompson estate, State Treasurer
William G.. Stratton, and an ex-
aminer for the Illinois inheritance
tax department. They reported the
hoard included a number of util-
ties stocks. and $4,000 in World
War 1 Liberty bonds.
Time consumed in an inventory
of the stocks and bonds forced
postponement until tomorrow Or
later the opening of anothe box in
another bank.
The safety boxes rented by the
onetime cowboy mayor were open
ed March 30, They contained ST.
466, $50 in cash - of which S36, 900
was in gold certificates of the type
the government called in 1888
and $40, 900 in securities. He died
March 10. +
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CHAPLIN FACING
ASEC0ND TRIAL

LOS ANGELES, April 5-(RE
Charlie Chaplin acquitted by a
Federal jury last night OF two
counts of Mann Act violation
which grew out of a trip to New
York by Joan Berry, faces a Sec
ond trial arising from his assocl-
alton with the girl who wanted TO
be movie star.
The man who unsuccessfuly
prosecuted the Mann Act charge
u. S. Atty. Charles H. Carr was
emphatic today in his declaration
that Chaplin will go to trial on
charges of conspiracy to deprive
Miss Berry of her civil rlghts'
Carr made this statement Just pc
fore leaving by air to visit his
mother ill in Memphis, Tenn.
Joan was arrested last year on
vagrancy warrant in Beverly
Hills where Chaplin lives. The
Federal government alleges that
her sentence was suspended on
condition that she leave that sub
urb.
The Mann Act jurors - seven
women among them - reached
their verdict after five hours con-
sideration. Chaplin, overcome with
emotion, gasped, 81 believe in
A~,oricap il1Stire
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Major General Lewis B. Hershey,
selective service director.
At the same time, it was learned
the inter-a gency deferment COM
mittee is considering whether men
in the 1926 age group already in
the merchant marine should be
made subject to the draft.
This committee, headed by Man
power Chairman Paul V. McNutt,
is studying the general question OF
which industries should be per-
mitted to retain key personnel I'M
der 26.
The War Shipping administrator
was represented as particularly
anxious that captains and other Ii
censed merchant marine officers
be exempted from the draft. The
maritime service has about 1875,
900 men and about half of them
are between Is and 26.
The decision not to enlist men
between IS and &c in the future
does not apply to licensed officers
or radio operators.
The general uncertainty over the
manpower outlook as a result OF
the unsettled questions over the
draft and over use of 4-F's was
emphasized, meantime, in a report
by the War Production Board on
copper production.
It said the present rate of out
put was satisfactory but predicted
Eat best small surplus of cop
per" by the years end and said
labor shortages could produce a
deficit instead.
Selective service said there hao
ben no policy decisions as vel
on the status of At college stu
dents when the program of forcing
4-F's into essential work gets into
full swing.
Deferment from the draft is now
granted a restricted number of stu
dents in engineering and scientific
courses.
Selective Service Director Her
shey has made clear, however
that he favors fairly broad lis
of activities in which 4-F's coulc
engage without being subject to in
duction into an Army work corps
His general definition is "jobs
which are contributing materially
and substantially to the war eft
fort"
A more specific definition ane
an answer to the question of what
to do about At College students
may be included in Legislation
which a House Military Subcom
mittee is drafting to implement the
general policy of forcing those I'm
fit for military service into jobs
aiding the war effort.
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robson WOMEN
FIND BABY GIRL

LUMBERTON, April San
abandoned black haired baby girl
about one month old was found
early this morning on the front
porch at the home of Mrs. ]. B.
Regain here.
The Robson Welfare Depart
ment has taken charge of the baby
and she has been examined by
DR.. E. R. Hard1n of the Health
Department anc found to be ap-
parently normal and healthy.
The baby was well wrapped and
sleeping in a pasteboard box when
Miss Elizabeth Clyde Regan and
Mrs. John s. Fennel, who live IN
the house started out to work this
morning and found her.
A complete supply of three-cor-
nered pants, two bottles of milk
an extra can and other articles
needed in the care of baby, IN! IN
GLIDING powder cotton, oil, milk
of magnesia and even a baby DOOR,
were in a paper sack besides the
founding. There were no clues as
to the identify of the baby.
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UMBERT0 READY
TO HELP FATHER

NAPLES, April -tR- Crown
Prince Umberto said tonight he
was prepared to act as deputy for
his father King Vittorio Emanuele
as king thereby clearing the way
for coalition war government of
all the major political parties.
In Commute audience TIMBER
to. Prince of Piedmont, confirmed
reports of the kings proposal a
fortnight ago to hand over his
powers to his son as his lieuten-
ant.
"The king is old and ready to
retire." the Prince said. HE has
had a full life"
His father had intended to retire
when the Allied armies reached
Rome and appoint him as his
lieutenant to exercise the preroga-
tives of the Crown, Umberto said.
Whether the King might act sooner
he was unable to say.
The Kings pledge to withdraw
from public life, however, was oil
Continued on Page Three; Col. ~
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WAR STARTED Il
YEARS AGO TODAY
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Twenty-seven years ago today the
United States declared war on Ger
many-in World War One.
Congressional action on the war
resolution was completed shortly
after 3 am. A weary house ap-
proved it 373 to so after II hours
Of imprisoned debate
1t was the following October,
however, before the first American
soldiers got into combat in France
-. and the first casualties were
suffered.
On this anniversary, the United
States is in the third year of an
other war with Germany. Eighteen
months after this nation entered
the first World War, Germany sued
for peace.
No American foot soldiers are
yet fighting in France-our base
in World War One-but thousands
are poised in the British Isles for
an invasion-for months the enemy
has been pounded by an American
air force whose single squadron
carries more bombs than the en-.
tire Allied air force In the First
World War.
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BY LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor

Associated Press War Editor
New triumphs for American air
forces in the Pacific were reported
today as japanese troops, driving
deeper into India, increased their
threat to the railway supplying
United States soldiers in Burma.
Fresh from smashing the Japa-
nese air force at Hollandia in
Dutch New Guinea, Southwest Pa
cific bombers returned to the at
tack on Wewak, which only a
month ago was a powerful air
center on northeast New Guinea.
Thirteen parked planes were de-
stroyed in a huge explosion. 1t was
the first mention this month of
Japanese planes at Wewak. Not a
single antiaircraft gun was fired
at the raiders.
Twenty five Japanese planes
were shot down out of a force Of
go interceptors in Sundays raid or
Truk by South Pacific bombers
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Russians Cut Escape Route
Of 200, 900 German Troops;
u. S. Bombers Hit Pl0esti
japanese Increase Threat
ToSupply Lines nBurma

General Douglas Macarthur an
nounced in revised report.
Originally only seven had been list
ed as brought down against an
American loss of five Liberators.
Other air strikes were made
from Timor in the Dutch East
Indies to Kavieng. New Ireland.
On the ground Australian troops
pressed to within nine miles OF
the enemy New Guinea outpost of
Bogadjim. American troops are ID
miles from the town.
Enemy infantrymen control a
15-mile stretch of the Manipur road
between the British Indian bases
of Imphal and Kohima. To the
north and east the main invasion
force is probing strongly toward
the railway supplying 1t. Gen.
Joseph StilwelPs troops in North
Burma. This column apparently is
cutting across the jungle covered
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RAIL CENTER TAKEN
Fast Swinging Russian
Army Slashes Further
Toward Odessa

LONDON, Thursday, April g.
P)-Red infantry and mechanical
troops, aided by crack cavalry.
captured the Ukraine rail juno.
ton of Razdelnaya today, cutting
the main escape route of an esti-
mated 200, 1000 Germans still group
ed around Odessa as a fast-swing-
ing Soviet crescent slashed turth.
err down towards that great Black
Sea port.
Marshal Stain announced cap.
ture of Razdelnaya in an order Of
the day, and last nights Soviet
communique added more than 100
other populated places to the list
of liberated towns, including YAM
ovka and Antoine Kodintselo, 80 and
"a miles north and northeast. res
pectively, of Odessa.
From the east the Russians drove
to within 10 airline miles of Odes-
sa with capture of Stariye-Belyary.
The communique also listed
Kubanka among captured towns
but did not specify its location.
Large-scale maps show a village
Of that name IA miles north Of
Odessa but no other communities
in the vicinity were included in the
Russian list.
Northwest of Odessa, captured
villages included Strassburg and
Baden, 80 and 80 miles distant.
Razdelnaya, SO miles northwest
of Odessa. is astrfde the railway
through Tiraspol to Rumania, and
by taking it the speeding Russians
forced the Germans to fall back
on Black Sea lanes or combina-
ton rail and ferry route for es-
cape from the Odessa region.
Flight by sea was unlikely, with
the Soviet Black Sea fleet in con-
troll of those waters. while the rail-
ferry line crosses the wide Dnies-
ter river estuary close to the coast
under easy fire of the fleet in adj
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BIG OIL CENTER HIT
Towns Two Freight Yards
Said Main Target OF
Attacking Planes

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, April 5. -(R- The great
oil center of Ploesti, Rumania, was
raided again today by U. S. Fort
ress and liberators against heavy
opposition and this time it was
the towns rail yards rather than
the oil fields which were the tar
gets.
Aiding Red armies whose spear
head was approximately 200 miles
to the northeast at Iasi, the Amer
lean bomber fleet and escort of
fighters blasted Ploesti's two
freight yards gorged with long
strings of loaded cars, firing oil
filled tank cars and ripping tracks
with explosives. Smoke rose more
than three miles high.
Ploesti is town .of 10000 popu-
lation in an area of about IS square
miles. Oil facilities are so thickly
spotted in the vicinity that some
of them may also have been hit.
CA large oil refinery adjacent
to the rail yards was set ablaze,
the British radio said in a broad
cast recorded by NBC.
(The Berlin radio declared, with
out Allied confirmation, that 81
American bombers were shot
DOWN.
The assault followed within "a
hours of the first American blow Of
the war at Bucharest, Rumania' S
capital 80 miles to the south, and
obviously was part of a well-plan.
ned air campaign by the U. S,
18th Air Force to assist Russian
ground forces pounding into the
Balkans s. .-- --..---,s
It was the fourth major Amer
lean attack in seven days against
Balkan communication centers
Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, receiv'
ed its latest blasting March 80 anc
the Bucharest bombing was pre-
coded on Monday with two attacks
on Budapest. capital of Hungary
by U. S. heavies in daylight and
by the Raj at night.
One report in Italy was that Hit
Ter had been visiting Hungary a
the time of the raids on Budapest
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way patro1men reported las t
night.
Patrolmen said that on informa-
ton received from two Negroes
and Bill Alexander, anothez, white
man, who were riding in the pick
up truck the vehicle had stalled
on the tracks which cross a side
road, approximately 40 feet from
the highway. They thought they
had time to push it off the tracks,
and were attempting to do so.
Webb was on the opposite side
from which the train was approch.
ing.
When the engine struck the truck
the vehicle was spun around, cut.
ting Webb left arm and both legs
off, Highway patrolmen said.
The other passengers were I'm.
injured, reports disclosed. 1t was
reported that tire rain stopped al.
most instantly.
A Coroner inquest is scheduled
for 3 pm. Tomorrow.
Webb is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Sallie Webb; two sons, Lewis
Webb and Archie Webb; one
daughter, Mrs. Hattie Covell, all
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