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vania buck private as saying, Something in our history makes us different. Why aren't we taught about it at school?" It is my sincere hope and belief that this soldiers children will be taught more about it at school. At least I hope we don't have to wage a foreign war every quar- ter of 9 century so our sons can go see how comparatively poor other people are.
 Our fighters have begun to realize that something goes on in America which encourages and promotes better living than peo- pie in foreign countries can en- joy. Farmers sons in the invasion can't help but see that France, for example, has fertile soil, fav- orable seasons, and abundant crops but poor people. There's a reason. It's a long story but an
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interesting one.
 AN EDUCATORS JOB

Undoubtedly Uncle Sam has some tall, blonde fighting men who used to say, proudly, My grandfather came from Prussia" But when they get back they will be ready to add, Leaving that past-blighted country was the smartest thing he ever did. It gave him chance and me too" History shows how taxes and customs and castes keep many noble race of people hungry most of their lives.
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PAGE THREE

I wish I might plead with every honest teacher to help keep the United States an oasis in this desert of human oppression An impersonal objective, attitude is admirable until it points toward slavery. If however, it forbids telling students that representa- tive, constitutional government is better than dictatorship, or that a successful, economic system like Private Enterprise is better than communism, let's tell the truth even if we have to be unortho- dox.
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men have to study history and learn it's good from it's bad. A PATRIOTIC DUTY

American history, and I don't mean sketchy catalog Of wars and elections, should be required study in every American school. How can the youth of the United States be proud of this country's success and prosperity without some knowledge of their back ground? Decisions and struggles out of which our institutions have grown will tell the important why" of Americas power in the world.
 Many encouraging stories have come back to America from the European theatre of war recent ly. Not one of them has shed more hopeful light on Americas future, however, than a feature article in the New York Times relating that American soldiers in foreign lands are calling for books on American history. They want to know what makes them different from people they see over there.
 WHAT DO WE HAVE?
 The article quoted a Pennsyl-
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LOOKING AMAD
HISTORY
" GEORGE $. BENSON
Fkskaexts XasuIxy Eoklfye A He0srE Hcxassas

Most of the things that really matter in your life and mine are events that took place before we were born. Whether we are rug ged or frail, rich or poor, happy or miserable result in large part from decisions and struggles that somebody made long ago. The old saying, Life is what you make it, is partly true. Life is what you make it from what you had to begin with.
 Of course men and women are free moral agents and can do a great deal with their own lives if they will, but the past influences every generation. It affects every body more or less and has more to do with some peoples lives than they do themselves. In or der to take from the past what helps us and avoid what flinders,
Evening star., 1944-09-07
Funeral Services Today
For Mrs. zuIa B. Smith

Mrs. Zula B. Smith, 81, of 2015
Fifteenth street NV, who died
Monday at Emergency Hospital, was
to be buried today in Mount Hebron
Cemetery, Winchester, Va, after
funeral services at the Hysong fu-
eral home here.
A native of Brandon, Miss, Mrs.
Smith spent the greater part of her
married life in Gore, Va. She moved
to the District two years ago and
was member of the First Baptist
Church and the Central High School
parent-Teacher Association.
She is survived by son, William
E. Smith, and daughter, Miss Zula
H. Smith, both of Washington; one
sister, Mrs. B. Farr. Washington.
and three brothers, Roy Berryhill,
Portsmouth, Va; Guy Berryhill,
Galveston, Tex, and Warrant Off,
Ger H. B. Berryhill, U. S. N.
Evening star., 1944-09-07
-Four Years in Hidinq
End for n. Y. Woman,
Underground Heroine
BY KENNETH L. DIXON,

BY KENNETH L. DIXON,
Associated Press War Correspondent.
SOUTHERN FRANCE, Aug. 80
Oelayed.-In the tiny town OF
Thnaron, shortly after dawn on
August Is, Southern Frances D-day.
D. parachute sergeant was in . bad
fix. He and Is men had been
dropped 10 miles from their assigned
landing zone. had fought a quick
battle and captured a dozen Ger
mans, but finally were cut of and
surrounded. Three wounded needed
quick attention.
Suddenly the townspeople started
shouting. Striding toward a street
barricade came a slim, athletic
woman, her face deeply tanned, a
flashing lock of pure white standing
out in her brown, bobbed hair.
The girl with the blond meche
clock OF hair. Fredericka!" ex-
claimed the French. Its Miss Pell!"
speaks Pure EnfilSh.
She wore the tricolored brassard
of the FIJI, but she spoke to the
sergeant in pure American.
"Okay, kid" she said. Its all
right now"
She stood a moment. Tears rolled
down her smiling face, then Isabel
Townsend Pell, 43-year New
Yorker who looks 10 years younger,
ended four years in the French un-
derground by showing is fellow
Americans how to get safely
through the German lines.
Those four years included all
kinds of mercy work, two arrests
by Axis agents and two months in
the dread Puget Thenier prison.
They we're high lighted by her al
most legendary organization and
leadership of many Maquis groups
on the French Riviera, and cN-
NAKED by a fantastic D-day race to
elude the Gestapo.
Story Will Live.
As long as tales of France are
passed on from generation to gen.
Grafton, the story of this American
woman will live. Already, every
where you turn, the French tell you
more of the legend.
She is best known as "the girl
with the blond meche." Frederick
was her secret underground name.
Friends simply call her Miss Pell,
their acceptance Of the miss"
rather than the French "mademoi-
selle" being an indication of their
high regard.
Today she is serving literally as
unoficial chief of staff" for the
American general whose troops are
fighting eastward along the Riviera.
She is organizing both resistance
and rehabilitation work.
She is an amazing woman" the
general said. "She keeps going day
and night. I send word to her and
she gets things done in about a
tenth the time it would take any
body else. The French are crazy
about her and do anything she tells
them"
Refused to Return Home.
This doesn't surprise Miss pell,
daughter of the, late Osgood Pell, So
cially prominent New York real es-
tate man. She refused to return to
her apartment in New York four
years ago because of her faith in the
French.
Their faith in Americans" she
said, never faltered during the
worst times of Gestapo tortures,
starvation, freezing conditions in the
hills and constant terror. .-- Why
shouldn't they do everything We
need done to win the war now? The
Americans have come and every
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To Win Peace u. S. Must
Keep People Here At Work

San Francisco, Feb. - U.P0 -
America will win the peace only
If we keep the people of our coun-
try at work. Vice President Henry
A. Wallace declared last night in
an address in which he said he
wanted to kill the myth" that the
gigantic war debt will stand in the
way Of postwar prosperity.
The lone great test Of states
manship after the war; will be "our
ability to maintain the maximum
useful employment over long per-
iod Of years, and at the same time
preserve our Democratic liberties. -
Wallace told crowd Of 10000 In
the San Francisco Civic auditor
ium.
I'VE can and must give our
poorer people a chance to work pro-
ductively If we are as serious about
total peace as we have been about
total war;" he said.
People talk about acres Of dia-
mond or gold mines in the back
yard" he added. 1.-THE real gold
nine In our national backyard Is
he ten million poorest families who
| before the war bought only about
1--WE billion dollars worth of stun a
year. but who can easily furnish a
market for SIS, 900, OOO, 900. u they
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WARShIPS SHELL PARAMUSH|R(J
First Surface Blow On Jap Home Ground
Reds Reported Nearing Final
Victory In Annihilation Fight

Moscow, Feb. - (U.P) - Red
Armies of the Ukraine were report
ed nearing final victory today in
one battle Of humiliation against
10 trapped German divisions while
swiftly developing another against
five more divisions clamped in an
unbreakable wise.
The remnants of an estimated
175,0OO German troops faced what
front dispatches called inevitable
determination in the battles west of
Cherkasi and around Nikopol, 100
miles apart.
The second Soviet trap was
sprung on five German divisions at
the nose Of the Dnieper Bend Sa-
lent even while the 10 divisions in
the Cherkasi pocket were being
shredded by artillery fire and con-
centric Red Army attacks.
The entire southern front was on
the move as the Russians drove to-
ward the Carpathians, the Dniester
river and the Black Sea in one Of
the biggest concentrated offensive
moves of the entire war.
Field dispatches described the
Cherkasi pocket as boiling caul-
dron.' The earth and air vibrated
with tremendous bombardment
going on day and night. Hundreds
of Russian guns ringed the $50
square miles into which the NaziS
had been compressed.
Nothing even approaching the
holocaust ever had been witnessed
on the Russian German front, one
front report said.
Their nerves shattered the hun
cry Germans were reported fighting
with incredible desperation, coun-
ter-atacking dozens of times day
in wild attempts to escape their
fate.
But each counter attack was fol-
lowed, as If by mathematical pre-
cision, by a fallback deeper into the
interior of the pocket. AS the Rus
SLAMS frightened the moose. they
found the muddy fields damned
with abandoned guns and equip
ment.
Meanwhile the five divisions in
the Nikopol pocket were reported to
have lost all hope Of escape as the
Red Army strengthened its lines
shutting off their escape routes to
the west. Military sources said they
had the alternative of being smash
ed on the right bank of the Dnieper
where they stood, or crossing to the
left bank to be smashed by another
Soviet Army.
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Mips No1u Charge
Allied Atrocities
By United Press

A Japanese spokesman said today
that Japan was doing everything
in its power" for war prisoners and
countered charges of atrocities with
claim that japanese prisoners
had been tortured and murdered in
American, New Zealand and Phil
ippine camps.
The spokesman, Sadao Iguchi, ac-
cording to DNB agency dispatch
quoted by the Berlin radio, said del
egates of the Red Cross and the
Vatican had repeatedly confirmed
that Allied war prisoners are treat
| ed quite correctly by Japan"
The U. S. Army Navy joint state
ment on atrocities recently said that
the Red Cross had been denied &C
cess to the Japanese prison camps.
1guchi charged, the Berlin radio
said, that:
Four Japanese nationals were
murdered N California, another in
the relocation camp at Topaz, Utah,
as well as in "other internment
camps"
Cases of i'll treatment had oc-
CURED in Fort Bliss, Tex, and there
have been horror" acts of Ameri-
can soldiers on the Philippines
where $4,000 Japanese had been
interned at Davao and held there
under most atrocious conditions"
"A group of 1900 men, women
and children was herded together in
a school courtyard for four days
without protection. They received
no food for two days. Numerous
rapes occurred there"
ION Jan. 20, ten Japanese were
tortured to death by Americans.
Boiling water was poured over them,
(COntinlIed on Pape AZ
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Cape Hoskins
Roided Hard

Advanced Allied Headquarters,
New Guinea, Feb. 7.-(UP)-Allied
planes subjected the Japanese barge
point of Cape HoSkins, New Bril-
tain, to its heaviest raid of the war
and destroyed seven planes and sank
at least two merchant ships in new
blows at Rabaul and the northern
New Guinea coast, 1t was announced
today.
Fighter-escorted Liberator heavy
bombers dropped 167 tons of bombs
at Cape HoSkins. las miles east of
American positions at Cape Glou-
cester and $50 miles southwest Of
Rabaul, Saturday. leaving the STr-
drome covered with flames. Cape
Hoskins, formerly a strong Japanese
air center, has been neutralized to
some extent recently by the pr0xim-
ity Of American planes.
Medium and heavy bOmbers ana
fighters hit the Vunakanau and
Tobera airdromeS at Rabaul with
coordinated daylight raids Satlir-
day and met weak air opposition
for the secon straight day. Four
enemy planes were shot down for
loss Of two American planes.
At Guadalcanal, a naval spokes-
man said that continued had
weather had delayed Allied raAHes
to neutralize Rabaul, but repaired
air opposition dwindling.
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are given opportunities in the post
war period"
A prosperity can be created that
will carry the national debt easily.
he said. and II want to do what I
can to kill the myth that the gigan-
tic war debt will stand in our way"
I'VE can pay the interest on this
debt and have standard of living
at least so per cent higher than in
the decade Of the 3c's" he added.
But If we allow the thought Of
the national debt to scare U.s." he
continued, lit will hang as a mill
stone around our necks and we
shall all be sunk In a sea Of unim-
aginable difficulties. There Is just
one way TO treat the war debt and
that is to remember that it can be
carried easily If all Of us are able
to work hard and to use our ma
tural resources and human Skills to
the maximum"
The greatest economic sin ID
waste of human labor" Wallace
said. The greatest threat to q
balanced budget Is unemployment.
Unemployment Is the one thing
that can break all Of Us. You can't
beat something with nothing; We
can't beat unemployment with any
thing but positive programs aimed
at full employment"
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Nozis Brog Of
New Weapon

1Stanbul, Feb. -(UP)-Axis cir
Giles asserted today that Germany's
new secret weapon, If ever used, will
turn London into "a fiery furnace,
consuming most Of the population"
The weapon, they said, was $50
horrifying" the Germans would not
use it except in the case of the
opening of a western front which
the Nazis will take as signal that
all hope for q negotiated peace
must be abandoned, these Axis pro-
pagandists said.
The secret weapon must be ap-
piled in two stages, according to
these Axis accounts.
First, a poisonous but very
heavy gas will be laid over London
by bombs dropped by hte biggest
fleet Of planes the Germans can
muster until as much Of the city Is
covered as possible. The gas is so
heavy it will seep into all cellars
and will not be blown away by
slight breezes.
Second, German big guns at Ca
lais will fire shells to ignite the
gas and, Axis circles said, London
will be blown up in huge sheet Of
explosive flame and the ruins will
be consumed by fire. The account
did not explain whether the igni-
ton by the Calais cannon would be
chemical or explosive.
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48-HourWeek
For Essentials

Boston, Feb. 7.-(UP)-ESSential
industries in the greater Boston area
must go on a 48-hour minimum
work week before March 6, accord
ing to the War Manpower Com
mission.
The action, presaging a possible
48-hour week in non-essential in
dustrieS also, was sanctioned last
night by regional VINO AdminiStra-
tor Joseph A. Smith on recommen-
dalton of the local abor-manage-
ment committee. Although many eS-
sential industries already have shift
ed to the longer work week, the or
der was expected to affect more than
$4,000 workers.
AL! war plants in the area will
come under the ruling as will des-
ignated civilian activities including
restaurants, laundries, coal and oil
distributors, and garbage and rub
Dish collectors. Exceptions win be
made where longer work week
would be impractical Of would not
reduce labor requirements.
Because of Boston's labor strin
gency classification, new contracts
have been directed to sections with
more favorable manpower rating
VINO authorities declined to COM
ment on the possible effect Of the
longer work week on the areas labo:
classification, but Mayor Maurice j
Tobfn expressed hope that the move
would aid In Obtaining more con-
tracts for greater Boston indus
tries. =
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Marines
kWoioIein

Peral Harbor. T. H., Feb. 7-(UP)
Victorious American Marines and
Army troops, completing the occu-
patton of Kwajalein atoll in the
heart of the Marshalls, today were
reported rounding up the largest
number of Japanese prisoners taken
in any campaign since the start Of
the Pacific war.
CA japanese communlque broad
cast by the Domei agency said a
Japanese submarine sank a large
American cruiser near Wolfe atoll
in the Marshall at dawn last
Wednesday,.
Navy Seabees and Army construc-
ton engineers already were repair
ing the atoll's two airfelds and a
seaplane base for what Maj. Gen.
Willis H. Hale, commander of the
Seventh American Air Force, i'm
piled would be a powerful aerial
offensive against the Caroline
Islands, possibly including Truk,
Japan's Pearl Harbor."
Officially reports indicated that the
4th Marine and 7th Army divi-
sions had occupied all major islands
and islets in the 66-mile- long atoll
and only few isolated coral forma-
tons, none held in any strength,
remained to be rlopped up.
The fall of the last three strong
holds, Gugegwe. Bigej and Ebler
islands, all at the southern end Of
the atoll, after the quelling Of
moderate resistance" was an
nounced in a communique yester-
day by Adm. Chester w. Nimitz,
commander of the Pacific fleet
More than 1000 Japanese were
believed to have been killed in the
capture of the atoll. Japan's strong
est air and naval base east of Truk.
American casualties were not an
nounced Immediately, but a front
dispatch said the Americans killed
40 Japanese for every man they
lost.
Maj. Gen. Harry Schmidt, COM
mander of the Marines, described
the American casualties as light in
comparison with 1900 killed in the
capture of Tarawa last November.
Richard w. Johnston, United
Press war correspondent aboard the
joint expeditionary force flagship,
estimated the number of Japanese
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Helsinki Blasted Twice In
4 Hours By Russian Planes
(signal Corps Radiophoto from NEA>

Stockholm, Feb. 7.-(UP)-A big
force of Russian bomberS, outnum-
bering even the earlier formation OF
more than 100, blasted Helsinski
early today for the second time IN
four hours in what may be the start
of an offensive designed to knock
Finland out of the war.
Radio Helsinski reported officially
that SO persons were killed and 81
wounded in the two raids, the heavi-
est ever made on the Finnish capt.
tai.
The bombers scattered both ex-
plosive and incendiary bombs over
Helsinki during the attacks, but de-
tails of damage in the second as
sault were delayed, possibly by CEN
sorship or communications difficult
ties.
A Finnish communique acknowl-
edged damage to buildings and fires
"in various parts of Helslnki ano
immediate vicinity" though II
claimed that heavy anti-aircraft
fire forced the bombers to drop most
of their bombs outside the city.
Single raiders penetrated deep
into southern Finland and dropped
bombs without causing noteworthy
damage, the communique said
There were no claims that any OF
the bomberS had been shot down.
A United Press dispatch from Hell
sinki said at least 20 large fires were
started in the first moonlight raid
which began between 6 and 7 p. m
last night and lasted for three
hours.
The technical high school, de-
stroyed in the 1939-1940 Russian
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Washington. Feb. 7-(UP)-Gov.
Thomas e. Dewey of New York is
the leading choice for Republican
presidential candidate in 1914
among c. o. P. senators who were
willing to express choice, a United
Press poll revealed today. Twenty
Of the Senate's 81 Republicans reg
istered their choices.
Next after Dewey in order OF pref
erence were Gov: John H. Bricker
Of Ohio, Gen. Douglas Macarthur
and Wendell L. Willkie.
Gov. Earl Warren Of California
was mentioned most frequently as
choice for the vice-presidential
spot on the 1914 ticket.
Each Republican senator was
asked to give secretly, his first.
second and third choice for G. o. p
standard bearers this year.
Dewey was given is votes by the
senators participating = six first
choice ballots, I'VE seconds and foul
thirds.
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Ships She'll
Shore Guns

Aboard A U. S. Cruiser, Feb. 8
(UP)-American cruisers and de-
stroyers today shelled German ar
tillery emplacementS along the
coastal sector south of Rome.
The Smelling was opposed by a few
coastal guns which fired armor-
piercing shells that splashed water
around us and left dark-stained
Sticks.
The aerial opposition was light,
apparently driven off by our P-40s
and Spitfires, which circled over
head.
Because Of narrowness OF Italy,
warships proved Invaluable in she'll
ing German positions and the army
almost daily gives the navy targets
for elimination troop concentra-
lions, artillery emplacements, high
way functions etc.--targetS well out
of range of army artillery.
Shortly after II this cruiser fired
the first Salvo at the target. The
enemy sent up intense flax, appar-
emily thinking he was being bombed
from the air. The second salvo strad-
died the target, and it took another
salvo to establish the exact range.
At 1l:4O, the shore batteries opened
up, sending a black geyse1 OF water
into the air, uncomfortably close TO
the destroyer aStern us.
Aerial spoilers reported that they
were targets for heavy anti-aircraft
fire over the important target area.
Through my binoculars I saw one
spotting plane plunge to earth smok-
ing. The pilots parachuted.
BY then the range had been es-
tablished, and rapid fire was opened
with six-inchers. with roars which
deafened us and made the ship
tremble.