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Evening star., 1944-02-14
Finnish Peace Move
Expected 10 Develop
Within 7 or } DAYS
Third Finn Leader
Reaches Stockholm,
Stirring Speculation
Ey tho Associated Press.

SS lHt hssOCateQ Press.
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 14.-An
expectancy of some concrete de-
velopment in Finnish Russian
relations, perhaps within the
next two or three days, was evil
dent here today despite the lack
of any official indication that
Finland actually was seeking a
way out of the war.
From Helsinki came a report that
the Finnish capital was awaiting
momentarily some definite govern.
mental step toward peace as the
Social Democratic party continued
heavy pressure on the nations lead.
ers to seek terms.
Speculation that something may
be afoot was given fresh impetu.
yesterday by the arrival here by
plane of Leo Ehrenrooth, Finnish
Minister of the Interior. He hac
been preceded to Stockholm by Juhr
Paasikivi, who helped negotiate the
peace treaty which ended the Finn.
ish-Russian war of l939-4O, anc
Elias Erkko, former Finnish Foreign
Minister.
Nazi Reprisals Feared.
Ehrenrooth ostensibly came here
on a mission in connection with the
evacuation to Sweden of Finnish
children living in areas which might
be subject to Russian bombing. As
a cabinet member, however, he con-
ceivably could play an important
part in any peace talks.
Meanwhile, there were indications
that Finland probably was feeling
her way cautiously for fear that any
move to get out of the war might
result in German reprisals. This
(See FINLAND, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1944-02-14

Charles E. Wilson, executive
vice chairman of the War Pro-
duction Board, revealed today
that the Army Air Forces alone
by contant pounding of Nazi
production centers, have de-
stroyed more than 40 per cent OF
Germany's capacity to produce
fighter planes.
Mr.. Wilson said the War Depart
ment reported that our air forces
had eliminated 40 per cent of Ger
man fighter plane production even
before the recent attacks on nine
German aircraft centers-Dessau
Brunswick, Halberstadt, Greater
Frankfurt, Fechenheim, Hochst
Leipzig, Offenbach and Ludwigs-
haven.
Previous official announcements
had suggested that German air.
craft plants had suffered heavily
under combined Allied bombings,
but today's announcement was the
first that fixed the extent of the
Evening star., 1944-02-14
(Picture on PAGE BIZ

A four-legged defense witness
leaped on the stand in Municipal
Court today and lifted her paws
in mute testimony that she suf-
fered no i'll treatment at the hands
OF her master.
Convinced by the tangible evi-
dence offered by Trixie, female fox
terrier, jury sitting in Judge
Almond w. SCOTS court quickly
acquitted Vernon Shotwell. 3917
Blaine street NE, a Capital Transit
motorman.
Mr.. Shotwell was accused of tying
Trixie to the rear of his automobile
last week and driving for three
blocks with the dog tagging behind.
Government witnesses admitted,
however, that the car Travelled at
turtle-paced speed. Government
counsel contended Trixie had been
Evening star., 1944-02-14
House Fiscal Group
Rejects Plan 10 Drop
3 Million taxpayers
Would Inteerote Levies
But Keep individuals on
Rolls at Same Figure
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House Ways and Means
Committee today rejected pro-
posals to drop 100000 small
Federal taxpayers in the interest
OF tax return simplification, but
decided to attempt an integra-
ton OF Victory, normal and sur
taxes in such a way as to retain
current individual collections.
Chairman Doughton said the com.
mittee had decided to get as nea,
the same amount as by the present
law from each taxpayer" in proposed
revisions for computing taxpayer liza
bility.
The committee action in effec
rejected, at least temporarily. a pro
posal by Representative Carlson
Republican. of Kansas-and in.
dorsed last fall by the Treasury
that in streamlining the tax lsag.
some 100000 persons be dropped,
These are persons paying thu
Victory tax but having incomes moi
suff1clently large to come under in.
come taxes.
Representative Knutson, Repub.
hcan, OF Minnesota, ways ane
means leader, described the decision
as merely exploratory addins
that in the final ANALYSIS it might
De found that some taxpayers woule
nave to be dropped in the interest
OF simplification.
Representative Doughton empha.
sized that today's action did not ir
any way mean that the committee
would not consider another revenue
bill, but said that in the process OF
simplification, we're not going to
let out a great number of tax
payers"
Earlier, Senator Byrd, Democrat
OF Virginia declared that the excess
pronts tax on corporations should
be repealed when hostilities end 'it
we are going ahead with the free
enterprise system after the war"
In proposing outright repeal, SEN
ator Byrd, a member of the Finance
committee, went further than Chair
man George, who said only that he
thought the super-tax on business
should be "drastically reduced"
interviewed separately, both Sen
ators professed Identical obiectiyes
TO assure the continued functioninp
Evening star., 1944-02-14
.WAAF Murder in Air Raid
Mystery for Scotland Yard
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 14.-Scotland Yard
was given new afraid murder
mystery to solve today with the dis
covery of the partly disrobed body
of young WAAF beneath an RAF'
greatcoat in victory-garden plot in
Ethan, Southeast London.
The girl, not Immediately identi-
fled, had been strangled. A soldier s
glove was found nearby.
The body was discovered near a
footpath frequented by service men
and women and police believed the
girls outcries may have been
drowned out by the noise of the bar
rage during last nights air raid.
She was killed at about that time
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Toxic Reports Attacks
On Wotie and Torou

NEW YORK, Feb. IA P).-The
Toxic radio said last night that two
formations of American B-25 me-
dium bombers had attacked Japa-
nese. installations on Wolfe and
Taroa Islands in the Marshalls yes
terday.
The broadcast, recorded by the
United States Foreign Broadcast
Intelligence Service, asserted that
IL planes participated in the raids
and that three had been shot down
AS usual, the Japanese reported
mo damage"
Evening star., 1944-02-14
(See ITALY, Page A-4.)
President Won't Enter
Primary in Illinois
Nv the Associated Press


SPRINGFIELD, Ill.,, Feb. a.
President Roosevelt's name will not
be entered in the Illinois presiden-
tial preference primary April II
because the President has not re-
vealed whether he wants to seek 9
fourth term, Democratic State
Chairman Edward P. Allen an
nounced today.
Mr.. Allen said last Tuesdays
unanimous decision by so downstate
Democratic leaders to put Mr.
Roosevelt's name on the advisory
ballot without the Presidents con-
sent has been abandoned def
nitely." He added:
After careful consideration con-
corning the resolution adopted at
Springfield and out of difference tc
the President, who has not an
nounced whether he will run again
1t seems to be the consensus of all
concerned that no further action
should be taken"
Evening star., 1944-02-14
|Bombers Hit Rabau|
With 134 Tons; 8 Jap
Planes Shot Down
z Allied Fighters Lost
In Weak Interception
Over New Brituin Bose
Py the Associated Press.


ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Feb
4.-Admiral William F. Halsey's
Solomons-based plane squadrons
continued their attacks against
the japanese base at Rabaul,
New Britain, with a 1884, ton
bombing Friday, Allied head
quarters announced.
In this 18th day of raiding out
Of the last Ia, three enemy planes
were downed and probably five others
were knocked ouDof weak intercep-
ton. while the Allies lost two fight
ers, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
munique said. Rabaul was hit with
l74 tons Of bombs the day before.
Objects of Fridays four attacks
were the Tobera and Vunakanau
airdromes, two of the four fields pro-
tecting the enemy's base, and the
Vunapope supply area, which re-
turning pilots said got the hell
knocked out of it." Besides heavy
damage to airdrome runways and
revetments by Liberator heavy and
Mitchell medium bombers, torpedo
and dive bombers demolished build
ings, hit the breakwater and smashed
six barges.
179 Jap Planes Destroyed.
There were one small and three
large strikes in the series, starting
with Navy and Marine torpedo
and dive bombers before dawn and
eliminating with two successive
smashes by the Liberators and
Mitchells just before noon. One
damaged Mitchell made a forced
landing at sea. but the crew was
saved by a "Dumbo" patrol sea-
plane.
Communicates this month have
listed 179 Japanese aircraft de-
stroyed at Rabaul, with 159 of these
being shot down and the remainder
smashed on the ground. Besides
these destroyed for certain, 78 prob
ables are listed. Allied losses for the
period stand at 81 planes.
American marines, who are ex-
panding their invasion holdings
from their original December 26
landings at Cape Gloucester, North
western New Britain, have taken
large quantities of equipment and
ammunition abandoned by the
japanese in the Bergen Bay area
the communique said.
Plight of the japanese here, after
marine triumps in January, was
depicted in yesterdays communique
which said the leathernecks, rang
ing eastward to Cape Mensing, found
many enemy dead from starvation
or disease.
This was remindful of experience
OF Australian troops in New Guinea
who found hundreds of Japanese
dead from starvation after the AL
lied air and sea patrols had smashed
the enemys coastal barge routes.
Liberators made a 1,8OO-mile
round-trip flight to bomb Kendair
airdrome on Celebes Island, in the
Netherlands Indies, setting fires Wis
ible for 60 miles. Other Liberators
struck at Dill, on Timor Island, 400
miles northwest of Darwin, Austria
Evening star., 1944-02-14
u. ). ThunderboIts
Pound Nazi Fighter
Base in Holland
Other Planes Better
Military Objectives
In Northern France
BY the Associated Tess.

LONDON, Feb. 14.-Thunder
bolt fighter-bombers pounded
the German fighter base al
Gilze-Rijen in Holland today
without loss, after German night
raiders had scattered incendia-
ries over London in an attack
touted by Berlin as made by
several hundred planes"
Raj and Allied Bostons, Mitchells
and Mosquito bombers, with strong
escort, attacked military objectives
in Northern France in another day.
light operation.
The Nazi planes dived low unde,
heavy barrage to drop incendiary
bombs on parts of London.
The Berlin radio, eagerly seeking
to salve the bomb-buffeted German
home front, declared London wa.
sowed with large fires in another
concentrated attack" on the center
of the capital
London crowds milling along tn,
blackened walks and streets in tn,
usual after-theater throngs watched
the aerial fireworks, mostly we'll of
into the suburban areas, and fount
the attack in no greater force thar
last month when the enemy sen
some 30 bombers against Londol
and parts of Southeast England.
Casualties and Damage.
Most of the bombs fell in tn
coastal area, causing casualties ant
damage.
The British estimated the tota
raiding force at so to 60 planes
OF which only some Is reached Lon
don. Six were shot down, five ovel
England, and one after returnin,
to France.
Thunderbolt fighters escorted tn
f1ghter-bombers striking into Hol
land in the 18th operation of tn,
Strategic Air Force in 18 days. N,
enemy planes were met.
The daylight raid followed
heavy attack Sunday on the in
vaslon coast of Northern France
in continuation of two-montl
offensive against Nazi installation
there.
Mystery Targets Attacked.
Escorted by swarms of fighters
Flying FQrtresses, Liberators, Ma.
rauders and Raj Typhoons yester.
day battered mystery targets in tn,
area which Allied bombers nov
have hit on Al days out of tn,
last SIS.
-Four heavy bombers and twt
fighters were lost. Six enemy air.
craft were destroyed in these oper.
atlons and a seventh by RAJ
Typhoons on offensive patrol owe,
another section of France.
The Vichy radio said Alliee
planes bombed several localities il
the area of Rouen during the after
noon and reported SO Persons wer,
buried in debris from one "ver,
violent attack
The blows against the invasion
coast, the first since February il
which both Flying Fortresses ane
Liberators participated, followed ul
similar attacks Saturday by Liberia.
tors and RAF Mosquitoes.
British bomber formations hit un.
(See RAIDS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Munich Newspaper Lauds
Gen. Eisenhower's Ability
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, Feb. 14.-The Munich
newspaper Neueste Nachrichten in
an issue received here printed an
article about Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, praising his personality and
ability without single disparaging
comment.
The American general has an ath-
letic appearance, full health and
strength, well-formed head and
jaw, showing his great will. and is a
man whom his countrymen would
call "he man." the German editor
wrote.
The article praised Gen. Eisen.
hower's great abilities as an or.
ganizer' and said he had demon.
strated great good sense" in lead.
ership and tactics in Africa.
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Nozis Closely Guard
Mediterranean Coost

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 14.-German au-
thorities have placed the entire
French Mediterranean coast under
the same strict military control
which long has been in force along
the invasion coast" of Northern
France, the German controlled
Paris radio said today.
The broadcast said the depart
ments affected are those of the
Eastern Pyrenees, Aude. Herault,
Gard, Bouches du Rhone, Var and
Alpes- -Maritimes.
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Vienna Evacuation Reported

1STANBUL, Feb. II Delayed) up.
The Germans have decided to
evacuate the civilian population of
Vienna, the Budapest correspondent
OF the Turkish newspaper Aksham
said today. The dispatch. said the
decision was taken last Tuesday at
a conference of NaZi leaders.
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Another Allied Hospital
In Anzio Area Bombed

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
giers, Feb. 14.-The Germans bombed
another Allied hospital in the Anzio
area Saturday night, causing cas-
ualties, it was announced here today
Previously the Germans had
bombed one hospital and shelled
another, both plainly marked,
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Committee OK's Mcmahon

The Senate Judiciary Committee
today approved the reappointment
OF Judge John P. Mcmahon to the
District Municipal Court.
Evening star., 1944-02-14
Late Bulletin
Relief Fund Approved

American participation in
United Nations relief in oc-
cupied countries as they are
liberated was approved by
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee today up to an
authorized limit of $780,
000, 900.
Evening star., 1944-02-14

(See TAXES, Page Al
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Earlier story on Page A-2J
Evening star., 1944-02-14

(See RAIDS, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1944-02-14

tSee FINLAND, Page A-4
Evening star., 1944-02-14

(See DRAFT, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1944-02-14

(See WILSON, Page A-4.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-28
B0MBERS SMASH
NAN OIL PLANTS

LONDON, Aug. II ~ Power
full formations of Allied war
planes, striking from bases in
Britain and Italy, smashed again
at Germany's synthetic oil sources
today and strafed and bombed flee
ing units of Adolf Hit1er's once
mighty army.
The big daytime operations fol-
lowed RAJ night assaults on Ko-
nigsberg, Kiel, Hamburg and Der.
lin.
Raj heavy pombers, maxim g
their first daylight assault in the
heavily defended Ruhr, bombed
synthetic oil plants. at Homberg-
Meerbeck, while U. S. Flying Fort.
-esses and Liberators from italy
drove through heavy flax and at
tackled two synthetic oil refineries
at Blechhanmer in. Silesia.'
At the same time some 500 Brit:
ain-based Fortresses and Liberia
tors. with an escort of LOGO Mus.
tangs and Ligntnings, raided mill
tary targets in northwest Ger
many.
More than 200 Marauders j. ane
Havocs flying in nine waves at
tackled German troop and equip
ment concentrations on the ives
bank of the Seine near Rouen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-28
SHOOTING HALTS
PARIS PARADINC

PARIS, Aug. 26.-(P)-(Delayed)
Gen Charles De, Gaulle escaped
death or injury today and thou
sands of Parisians were thrown into
panic as the French capitals great
liberation parade broke up in wild
flurries of gunfire along the four
mile line of March.
Several spectators were killed
and dozens were wounded as the
shooting spread. A few moments
before these peoples had cheered
De Gaulle with a thunderous ova-
ton as he sped along the parade
route at a 40-mile-an-hour clip.
He was preceded by an armored
motorcycle guard and followed by
French light tanks and heavily
armed scout cars.
French patriots in the parade
began firing at roof tops from
which French Fascist militia had
sniped at them. The crackle of gun
fire quickly spread along the route
from the Arc de Triomphe to the
Hotel de Vile dhe city halD-and
the famed Notre Dame cathedral.
Soon thousands of men of the
French forces of the Interior were
pouring rifle, machinegun and pis-
toll fire at the bordering rooftops
and the fighting extended rapidly
throughout Paris as the parade
crowd melted into the nearest shell
tiers.
The victory address was post
poned Thousands of men, women
and children milled about in terror
as rifles and machineguns kept up
a continuous fire which spread ra-
pidly to the other sections OF the
city as though by signal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-28
PARIS WELCOMES
ALLIED GENERALS

PARIS, Aug. 81 -RE Liberated
Paris-that part of it which went
to bed-got up this morning after
the widest Saturday night if years
to touch off another frenzied dem
onstration in greeting Gen. Dwight
D.. Eisenhower. and his British,
French and American staffs.
81 have come here to pay the
tribute of the Allied forces to the
indomitable spirit of Paris" the
Allied supreme commander said
solemnly as the ceremonial tour
of the city by the Seine ended in
the shadow of the Arc de Tri-
umphe.
The Luftwaffe tried to burn
Paris down last night and hand
full of British; Canadian and Amer
lean troops with the help of the
Parisians themselves tried: to
drink the town dry, but this morn
ing crowds standing on tip-toe
damned the Champs-Elysees and
shouted themselves hoarse for the
four-star general with the smile
as broad as the Kansas prairie.
With the. supreme commander
were 1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
commander of the U. S. 18th Army
group; It. Gen. Joseph Pierre
Koenig, commander of the French
Forces of the Interior; Brig. Gen.
Jacques Leclerc, French, Second
Armored division commander; Air
Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder,
deputy supreme commander: and
Maj. Gen. Leonard 7. Gerow,
Fifth U. S. Corps commander.
General Eisenhower wanted
Gen. ST. Bernard L. Montgomery
1t. Gen. George S.. Patton, Jr.. and
Gen. Charles de Gaulle in on the
show, but the exigencies of war
prevented their participation in
the parade which set the streets
echoing anew with shouts of &C
claim. ~.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-28
Fiue Political Parties
Will Divide Radio Time

Prohibition, Republican, Social
list and Socialist-Labor parties
each week between "early Sep
tenber and Nov. L." the Army
said. Failure of party to use
its scheduled time will not pre-
JUDGE any other party's right
to time.
The sequence of events indi-
Gated a relation between today
enunciation of policy, based on
a recent law which permits re-
broadcast of political address
es'' if equal time is offered
each party having presiden-
tial candidate in at least six
states, and the War depart
ment's reversal last week of its
decision to give the Socialist
party overseas broadcast time.
The Socialists had claimed the
time or the contention that the
President Bremerton, Wash,
speech was political.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-28

With Bulgaria awaiting delivery
of American-British armistice
terms and persistent reports that
troops Of capitulated Romania al
ready were fighting the Hungar-
ians in disputed Pennsylvania, the
Free Hungarian council in London
issued an appeal to all Hungarians
to overthrow their government and
turn their weapons against the
Germans.
(CBS quoted the London radio as
saying that Hungarian under
ground stations likewise called on
the Hungarian army to throw the
Germans out of their country and
quit the Russian front'D
The Free Hungarian council ma
nifesto was drafted under the
Craftsmanship of Count Michael
Karolyi, who was briefly president
of the Hungarian republic in 1918.
before that regime was supplanted
by Celia Kun's communist govern
ment.
A Moscow dispatch said the Ger
mans had rushed workers to Hun
gary's borders, particularly in
Pennsylvania where they are es-
pecially vulnerable because of Ro-
mania's sudden capitulation and
declaration of war against Ger
many. King Mihai's new pro-ally
government in Bucharest has an
nounced it's intention Of regaining
Pennsylvania, coded to Hungary
in 1910 under Nazi dictation.
In Bucharest the Romanian gov
eminent issued a manifesto calling
on troops and civilians to chase
the Germans out of that country
and prevent them from destroy
ing the wealth. of our country'''-a
nation rich in oil and wheat.
Gen. Iosif Teodorescu, Bucha
rest military commander, ordered
all Germans between 16 and 60,
troops or civilians, to report to
police authorities by Z p. m. to-
night or face treatment. as spies,
in decree broadcast by Bucha-
rest radio and reported by the
Federal Communications commits
sion. -. ;.>,.@..
(Nazi elite SIS troops or others
changing into civilian clothes will
be treated as spies, and anyone
committing an act of sabotage
against the Romanians will be
shot on sight, the broadcast said).
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-28
Germans Bomb Paris
Planes Make Night Raid
Upon Suburbs; Death
Toll Set At 10

PARIS, Aug. 27-R-The sub
urbs of Paris were bombed by
German planes shortly before
midnight, and early today the skies
were aglow from the light of fires.
(The Paris radio in a broadcast
recorded in London said the. Ger
mans also shelled Paris early
Sunday morning.) .
At this hour there is no estimate
of the damage, and it is not known
whether any historical buildings
or monuments were hit.
The death toll from the raid was
placed at 10, with 719 persons in
jured
With this grim. reminder that
Paris still was in the war zone,
the Paris radio announced all
work would be r ned Monday
morning and summc-ed all of last
weeks nti-German strikers back
to their jobs except in Nazi-con-
trolled areas.
Restoration of telephone and
telegraph communications and
mail services ara to be fastened
in liberated areas. Train service
between Paris and the liberated
provinces is to be resumed early
in the week.
The German planes came over
at II pm. while the people still
were in the streets. singing and
strolling through the warm night.
Merrymaking which began with
the entrance of American and
French troops still was in prog
ress. VII.
Pathfinder planes hung their
flares in the heavens and Their
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-28
Senate Will Get Face Lifting

Senators so far to fail OF re-
nomination in primaries are
Hattie W. Carawya, Arkan-
sas; Bennett Clark, Missouri,
D. Worth Clark, Idaho, and
Ellison D. Cotton Ed Smith,
South Carolina, Democrats;
and Rufus c. Holman, Oregon
Republican.
Other Democrats who will
take their leave of capitol hill
are Senators Samuel D. jack
son of Indiana, his partys
candidate for governor; Homer
T. Bone, named to the Federal
bench; Robert r. Reynolds.
North Carolina, who did not
run for denomination, and Ar
thur. Walsh, New Jersey, SER
wing by appointment who also
is retiring voluntarily.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-08-28

WASHINGTON. Aug. q. -(R
The Army announced today a
policy of equaltime for five
political parties on its short
wave broadcasts to troops over
seas, and Republicans immedi-
ately raised the contention that
any speech by President Roos-
evelt should come out of the
Democratic' time quota.
Senator Revercomb R-W.Va.
summed up the COP view
poin:
"Any troop broadcast time
given to a speech by the Presid-
ent certainly should be a part
of the time allotted to the De-
mocrats.. He is candidate and
whatever he says amounts to
an appeal for support
The Army did not 60 into that
questions.
A specified period will be
available TO the Democratic,