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Corsets
22-Panty Girdles; Of rayon and cotton.
Small and medium sizes. Orig. 1.39, &c
30-Cotton Brassieres; in tearose Soiled.
Orig. 33e
35-Cotton Mesh Back Lace Corsets and
Side Hook Girdles. Broken sizes. Orig.
$50 ---------------- -88e
21-Rayon and Cotton Side Hook
Girdles; sizes rs and ~ only. Orig. 2.95,
LAT
g's-CorsetS-Second Floor
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Domestics

Domestics
14-Bleached Muslin Sheets; size slx99
in. Slightly mussed. Orig. 1.39-69c
s4A yds.-90-in. Bleached Sheetins:
heavy quality. Orig. 79c yd.-39c
z4-Feather Bed Pillows; we'll filled with
one-half chicken feathers and one-half
turkey feathers. Orig. 1.99---99c
13-Heavy UnbIeached Mattress Covers:
twin size only. Orig. 299-1. .49
ls-Heavy Fibre Mattress Protectors;
large size Orig. 89c
7-25G Wool Blankets; in colored
plaids. Slightly mussed. Orig. $40.
l.74
47-Heavy Muslin PilIowcases; sizes AK
SO in. and 45x36 in. Slightly mussed.
Orig. 49c-
3-Heavy Institution Blankets; 25oo
wool, 75fe cotton. Size 66xs0 in. Slight
ly mussed. Orig. 799 80
Goldenberg's-Domest Floor
Window Shades
. Kneeling Pads; oilcloth covered. Orig.
2sc ca. ------------- &c
Is Window Shades; in light blue and
ecru. 16 to 36 in wide. Orig. 69c to
89c 34e
IL Blackout Window Shades; size AZ in.
wide by 71a IT. long. Orig. 89c - -44c
9 Blackout Window Shades; size 48 in.
wide by it. long Orig 100 Soc
IS yds Black Oilcloth; slight irregulars.
.s 15'e o.ss.h sss sd se.rf.; originally lsc elss
7c
Goldenbero's-Windo,o Shades
Third Floor
Evening star., 1944-03-26
War Department Cites
a Generals, Colonel
For Meritorious Work

Awards of the Distinguished Serv-
Ice Medal to four generals and a
colonel of the Army Air Forces for
especially tneritorious domestic and
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Pre-lnducfion School
To Open Tomorrow

More than 100 men anticipating
entrance into the armed forces will
start training courses designed to
prepare them, for active service when
the Washington Pre- Induction
School opens its classes at 7:30 pm.
tomorrow at Central High School.
The District Recreation Depart
ment, the. District Chapter of the
Red Cross and the National Rifle
Association, sponsors of the plan,
have announced that new registra-
tions will be accepted tomorrow
night at the school.
Training will be divided into four
groups-f1irst aid, Workmanship,
swimming and gym work. Since
first aid and craftsmanship are pro-
gressive, it was explained, no new
men will be accepted for those
courses after Thursday. Registra-
tions will be taken at any time until
further notice in swimming and gym
work, however.
Gym classes will open with light
routine and gradually progress to
more strenuous phases. Toward the
last third of the eight-week course,
sponsors of the school said, Judo,
hand-to-hand fighting and combat
tactics will be taken up.
Swimming classes will be broken
down into three groups-nonswim-
mers, fair and expert. Marksman-
ship will include all phases. In prep
aration to the actual firing of the
rifle, men will be schooled in theory
and technique, 1t was announced.
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efficiency, the citation declared.
Brig. Gen. Caleb v. Haynes, Gar
den City, Long Island, was decorated
for conspicuous. services with the
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mrs. Behrens Throws Tuntrum
In Jail, Screams at Countess

Buchanan-Dineen, who with Mrs.
Behrens and others was sentenced
on plea of guilty to a charge of
conspiring to violate the Wartime
Espionage Act.
The countess" seemed undis-
turbed by the screams. She wore
her fur coat over her shoulders and
1t contrasted strangely with her Jail
dress.
They won't put me in with those
other women, will they?" she asked.
The matron reassured her and she
seemed relieved
'I didn't think they would give
me such sentence" she confided
to the matron. I'm very surprised"
Miss Buchanan-Dineen remarked
when they told her she would have
to clean her own cell: "Oh, I didn't
know. I've never done much Of
that"
Mrs. Leonhardt received a SEN
tence of five years. Mrs. Won Moltke
has pleaded guilty but has not been
sentenced.
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i e o, lllluldAy "' AAonsei'
with no air warning systems or
communications, across the worlds
most hazardous and mountainous
terrain, and under treacherous mon
soon conditions" the citation said,
Gen. Haynes inspired his
command to unusual success"
Supervised AAF Output.
Brig. Gen. Kenneth B. Wolfe, Riv-
erside, Calf, according to his cita-
ton, was primarily responsible for
supervision of the entire production
program of the Army Air Forces and
for production of .Lease-Lend ma
teriel from October l, 1899, to March
20, 1943. He was then chief of the
production engineering section and
later production director, materiel
center, Wright Field, Ohio.
He influenced arrangements for
production of certain strategically-
important airplanes by manufac-
turers, 1t was said, and spread con-
tracts among small manufacturers
so that increased production could
be obtained.
Col. John S. Hardy, Shreveport,
La, received his DSM for services
during the rapid expansion of the
9th Air Force in England. From
January I to November 3, 1943,. he
was its assistant chief of staff, A-3.
In that capacity, Col. Hardy's judg-
ment contributed to the success in
the battle of the 9th Air Force, the
citation said.
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Three From D. {. Area
Are Wounded in Action

Three men from the District area
were listed as wounded in action
by the War Department yesterday.
They are Pfc. John c. Robertson,
25, of 4610 West Virginia avenue,
Bethesda, Md; Pfc. Everett r. Far
rell, 11191a D street Sc, and Pvt.
Joseph o. Phillips, 27, of 9504 Wood
land drive, Silver Spring, Md.
Pvt. Robertson wrote that he was
wounded slightly in the right hand
during the Italian fighting, his
mother, Mrs. Catherine Robertson,
said. He. indicated that he had
seen lot of action. 80
A native of Washington, he at
tended Sacred Heart School here
the Blessed Sacrament. in Chevy
Chase and was graduated from St
Johns College. He has been in Italy
since before Christmas.
A story reporting that Pvt. Phil
lips had been wounded in action
appeared in The Star on March II,
after his mother, Mrs. Amanda
Phillips, was notified by the War
Department.
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Soldier Kills Guard,
FIees Fl. Benninq
By the Associate / Press.

By the Associate Press.
FIT. BENNING, Ga, March 25.-A
man-hunt was on here tonight for
d 19-year-old soldier who Army
authorities said powered and
fatally shot his guard with the lat
ter's gun this afternoon.
Capt. Francis Berry, provost mar
shal, said the soldier was a garrison
prisoner at the time he made his
escape. ,.. VEIN. .as-- a44
Il Ft. #t Benning authorities first
learned of the incident late today,
when5a second garrison prisoner,
who similarly had been in detention
in the post stockade, gave himself
lup to military police.
|. Capt. Berry said the prisoner told
MPs that he and Pvt. John j. O'con-
nor were under guard on the main
post this afternoon on a work detail.
The unidentified prisoner, Capt.
Berry continued, said O'Connor had
wrested the guards shotgun from
him and shot the guard in the back.
O'Connor then is alleged by the un-
identified prisoner to have forced
the latter at gunpoint to join in the
escape.s
O'Connor's home is said to be In
MaSpeth, Long Island, N. Y.
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Mar. 25.-If once they
were friends, the women sentenced
today for espionage conspiracy per-
mitted malice and Ill will to inter-
fere tonight.
The sixth floor of the Wayne
County Jail echoed the screams and
cries of one-Mrs. Theresa Behrens,
who was given 20 years.
Mrs. Behrens displayed wrath at
the Jail, where she and the other
two women given sentences will be
kept until their transfer to a Fed
eral prison.
II wouldn't mind ." she
screamed to Mrs. Emma Leon
hardt and Mrs. Marianne Won
Moltke. II wouldn't mind II I had
done something to deserve this.
I'm an American citizen, and they
gave me 20 years, and that skunk
down there isn't a citizen, and she
gets IL years"
Mrs. Behrens obviously was refer
ring to the pseudo Countess Grace
Evening star., 1944-03-26
7 Hurt in Indiana Wreck
OF Spirit of ST. Louis
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Ind, Mar. 25.-
Seven colored dining car employees
were injured when the Pennsyl-
vania Railroads Spirit of St. Louis
was deratled late today 20 miles
west of Richmond.
None of the passengers was in
jured. The track was torn up for
300 yards when 10 of the 13 cars
left the rails, and traffic on the
double-tr line was blocked for
several hours.
State police said a. broken rail
caused the derailment All the cars
remained on the roadbed. Three
wrecking crews were sent to the
scene from Indianapolis, Richmond
and Columbus, Ohio.
The train, all Pullman, was en-
route from st. Louis to New York.
The locomotives, a baggage car and
two Pullmans remained on the
track, and the passengers were
brought to Richmond in those. An
other train was made up here and
they continued their journey.
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Educators Promise
Complete Facilities 10
Returned Seryicemen

Offering of the best educational
opportunity possible to returned
servicemen was promised by both
high school and college educators at
two meetings here yesterday.
Most servicemen already returned
have taken jobs rather than avail
themselves of voca tional training for
disabled veterans, Brig. Gen. Frank
T. Hines, administrator of the Re-
training and employment Ad-
ministration, told luncheon meet
ing of the District High School
Teachers Association at the May
flower Hotel.
Expects Applications Later.
Later, however, he believes, many
Of them will apply to his agency.
In addition, he estimates more than
a million men will apply for COM
munity, State and Federal educa-
tional aids If the House passes the
&c. I. Bill of Rights" already passed
by the Senate. The measure pro-
vides use of existing educational
facilities for all servicemen and
women.
Robert L. HaycocK, superintend-
ent of schools, guest of honor at the
luncheon, promised Gen. Hines the
utmost" that District public schools
could do to train Servicemen.
College educators concluded a
two-day postwar educational con-
ference at the Interior Department
with discussion groups on readjust-
ment of postwar general curricula
to needs of service men and women.
Frank Taylor, mathematics instruc-
tor at Georgetown University, sug-
gested that soldiers be given COM
prehensive examinations upon de-
mobilization to determine where
their military courses and expert
ence place them on the college level,
regardless of how little peacetime
instruction they have had.
Another Conference.
This proposal will be considered
at a second conference some time
before June, DR.. Roy J. Deferrari,
chairman of the sessions, declared.
The first conference was held to
coordinate District educators, he
said, promising definite details of
postwar reorganization at the sec
ond conference.
Others who addressed the sessions
yesterday were DR.. B. w. Frazier,
of the United States Office of Edu-
cation, who read an explanation OF
pending education legislation by DR.
Fred j. Kelly, chief of the division
of higher education of the United
States Office of Education: Harry
J. Jager, chief of occupational in
formation and guidance service, and
DR.. E. v. Hollis, principal specialist
in higher education, both of the
United States Office of Education,
and Dean Charles Pergler OF Ma
tional University.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Two U. 5. Desfroyers Sink
U-Boat After Hours Fiqht
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Destruction of U-boat by Amer
lean destroyers in a twilight battle
lasting more than an hour in, the
Mediterranean was announced by
the Navy last night.
The submarine fought back with
its deck guns after the destroyer
which made the first attack, threw
its searchlight on the surfaced
raider. The destroyer opened fire
with it's main batteries and put the
submarines guns out of action. An
other destroyer joined in the attack
with its guns and depth charges.
THE gunfire was so effective" the
Navy said, that the submarine was
in dire difficulty, and the destroy
ers abandoned their plan to ram it. >
An hour and 20 minutes after the
engagement started the submarine
went down stern first.
The two commanding officers OF
the destroyers credited with the kill
were Comdr Henry R. Wier, 36
Westwood, Mass, and Comdr. Rus
sell G. Williams, jr., Norfolk, Va.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
3 Women and 7 Men
Get Espionage Terms
Ranging 10 70 Years
Ey the Associated Press,


DETROIT, Mar. Is. - Three
women and two men who confessed
they conspired to violate the War
time Espionage Act were sentenced
IN United States District Court to-
day to prison terms ranging from
S to 20 years.
Grace Buchanan-Dineen 34-year-
old Canadian n-born cosmopolite
described by the Federal Bureau
OF Investigation as leader of a
group that sought to furnish Ger
many with information concerning
Americas industrial war effort, was
sentenced to IL years imprison-
ment.
Mrs. Behrens Gets 20 Years.
Others sentenced: Mrs. Theresa
Behrens, 20 years; Mrs. Emma Elise
Leonhardt, 5 years; her husband,
Carl j. w. Leonhardt, and Walter
j. Abt, 10 years each.
Mrs. Behrens, who engaged in a
long argument with Judge Edward
j. Moinet, tainted as he pronounced
her sentence.
Judge Moinet called Mrs. Behrens
"the heart and soul of the espion-
age conspiracy in Detroit"
Yet to be sentenced is Mrs. Mari
anne Won Moltke, wife of a sus-
pended German-language instruc-
tor at Wayne University. Accord
ing to the district attorneys office.
she has volunteered additional in
formation and an investigation is
still underway.
Woman Argues With Judge.
In arguing with Judge Moinet be-
lore he sentenced her, Mrs. Behrens
maintained that when she pleaded
guilty she had not admitted spying
activities. She said she had merely
admitted knowing the others ar
rested with her.
Mrs. Behrens was German-Ameri-
can secretary OF the international
center OF the YWCA in Detroit.
According to the FBI, Miss Bu-
chanan-Dlneen, sometimes called a
countess" co-operated with Federal
agents after her activities were dis
covered. She was a Government
witness before the grand jury and
at the trial of DR.. Frederick William
Thomas she testified he gave her
information concerning explosives
plants in Ohio, of planes that were
being ferried from Detroit to Eng
land and Of Detroit plants that were
making war materials. DR.. Thomas,
an obstetrician, was convicted and
sentenced to Is years Imprisonment.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Man Shot as Police
Break Up Street Fight

One colored man was shot and
two others injured last night when
two policemen attempted to arrest
participants in a street fight in the
600 block of Second street NV.
Police Inspector James F. Beckett
said Officers H. c. Lee and G. A.
Williams, second precinct, observed
several colored men fighting. When
they attempted to arrest one of the
men, who had fed to the basement
of his home, group of onlookers
crowded around the officers.
Pvt. Lee said he fired two shots
William Cunningham. IS, of 2144 H
street NV. was shot in the abb
domen. Taken to Freedmen's Hos
pital, his condition was said to be
undetermined. Two of his brothers
James, %, and Walter, 80, suffered
scalp lacerations.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
50 C|ergymen 10 Join
In Lenten Services
Today at Cathedral

More than so Washington clergy
men will participate in the al-faith
service to be held. at 4 pm. today
at the Washington Cathedral, it
was announced last night by the
World Council Committee of the
Washington Relaxation of CHURCHES
sponsors of the service. The Rey,
DR.. 3Henry P. Van Dusen of Union
Theological Seminary, New York
will give the sermon.
The Lords prayer will be spoken
in seven Languages, with the fol-
lowing ministers reading the pray
er: sthe Rev. Charles Enders in
German, the Rev. Charles Y. Anna
khan in Armenian, the Rev. Floffan
Vurpillot in French, the Rev. Olfndo
Marseglie in Italiana the Rev. @. C.
Hung in Chinese, the Rev. Lewis
Hunter in japanese and the Rev
Oscar Autritt in Spanish. -
Because our prayers are con-
stantly being answered, the Rev.
DR.. Theodore O. Wedel, warden of
the College of Preachers sat the
Washington Cathedral, yesterday
told lenten MONDAY worshipers at
the Church of the Epiphany, 1917
G street NV, ''it is therefore of
great importance; what we, pray
about and to whom we pray" The
Saturday services are sponsored by
the Washington Federation of
Churches. - ~t-
Prayer Universal Experience.
Using the outlines of a sermon
preached by Ralph Waldo Emerson
when he was a Unitarian minister
at Concord, Mass, DR.. Wedel de-
clared man directs his prayers al
ways to some power outside himself.
He does not realize there are many
forms of prayers beside the Chris
tian prayer, for men have prayed
to all kinds of things and beings.
Prayer is universal experience"
The Very Rev. DR.. Sidney E.
Sweet, dean of Christ Church
Cathedral, st. Louis, will address
the monday lenten services
throughout this week, starting to-
morrow. Dean Sweet was one of the
four nominees whose names were
presented for election as the Bishop
of Washington in November.
Dr. Frederick E. Reissig, executive
secretary of the Washington Fed
GRAFTON of Churches, will address the
last OF the lenten luncheons at 1905
pm. Wednesday at the Central
YMCA, 1885 G street NV.
DIR. Dilworth To Speak.
DR.. George G. Dilworth, secretary
OF the Atlantic Area of the Amer
ican Bible Society, will speak at the
18th annual banquet of the Organ
lied Bible Glass Association at $50
pm. Wednesday at the Petworth
Methodist Church, Grant Circle and
New Hampshire avenue NV, Page
NICK; Etchison, president of the as
sociation, announced last night.
The Rev. Ralph w. Loew, associate
pastor Of the Church of the Refor-
nation, will address the Easter dawn
youth service at $50 am. April 8
on the steps Of the jefferson Me-
mortal. Donald Bautz, director OF
the Defense Commission of the
Washington Federation of Churches
announced. An all-youth chorus
directed by Warner Lawson, dean OF
the school of music at Howard Uni
versity, will sing.
Dean Lawson announced that vol
unteers are still welcome at choral
rehearsals, which will be held at
BIS pm. tomorrow and April 8 at
the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, Ninth
and Rhode Island avenue NV. In
event Of rain the Easter dawn service
Will be held at the First Congrega-
tional Church,
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overseas SerV-
ices were an
nollneed yester-
day by the War
Department
M a j, G e n.
John K. Can
non, Salt Lake
City, was cited
for services as
d e putty COM
iflanderTpf 1.-The
T a c tical Air
Force. Hi S
e fl or is were
largely response
BILE, it was said,
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gree of cooperation between ground
and air forces that made possible
the successful landings of troops in
Sicily and Italy.
Maj. Gen. Frank OD. Hunter,
Savannah, was cited as commander
of the 9th Fighter Command from
May ID, 1912, to August %, 1943. He
took the unit overseas and trained
it. He effected the first trans
Atlantic flight of fighter aircraft
without loss of life and equipment.
Rebuilt Fighter Command.
In rebuilding the 9th Fighter
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Air Forces in
China and India.
From M a r C h ,
1912, to Septem-
ber Is, 1943, he
commanded the
Assam = Burma
c h i n a Ferry
Command, t h e
bomber force in
China, the India
Air Task Force
and the Ameri-
can Air Com
mand No. /.
with a mini
mum of facil-
;fiar i,,ifio111y
Evening star., 1944-03-26

G o m m a n d in
England, G e n
Hunter had to
initiate the use
of the PAT air
craft, then un-
tried in combat.
Under his super
visiona the PAT
was adapted to
conditions pecul-
lar to the Euro
pean theater of
operations. His
command W a s
rebuilt to an
e x t r a o rdinary
stains of fighter
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
Editor id|
Might be Unwise

We can't become too enthusec
over the activity IN some quarters
that locks to placing military mar
in the White House. General Doug
las Macarthur is an outstanding
military commander He is doing q
magnificent job in the Southwest
Pacific and nearly everyone re-
grets he cannot be given strong
enough forces to push his cam
paigns to a speedier victory. To
many he is national hero and a
great soldier
That doesn't mean, however, that
he would make good president.
One only has to recall the record
of Grant to realize that outstanding
talents in leading men in battle do
not necessarily imply that the pos
SCISSOR would be equally brilliant as
the political head of nation. Grant
was one of the worlds greatest
generals. He was not shining
light as president.
Much the same comment can be
said of the proposal to make Cen
eral Marshall the Democratic can
didate for president or vice-presi-
1pnt-ac some have suggested
General Marshall is admitted to
be an especially able general He
might be failure as president.
Both these men are performing
a great service for the nation They
are needed where they are. To take
them away from the calling in
which they have been SO ably
trained might prove decidedly I'M
fortunate and disappointing.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
Hike 1000 Miles
To Flee Germans
Two British Soldiers Survive
Terrible Hardships.

LONDON-TWo british soldiers,
captured by the Germans ove.. two
years ago during the fighting at Dun
kirk, have escaped from concentra-
ton camp, walking 1000 miles across
Europe, to safety in Russia where
they are ready to fght again.
This story of amazing endurance
was revealed by one Of the mothers
OF the young soldiers who has re-
ceived word from the British en-
bassy In Russia that her son is safe.
She has also received a letter from
her son, and one from his friend,
telling something of their trip across
Europe.
I'VE were at first asked to say
nothing about it" she explained,
for fear of endangering the people
who helped them. But now it's all
right.
From letters and visitors from
Russia we have pieced together a
fairly complete story of the boys
terrible journey.
lney escaped during the bitter
winter after the collapse Of France
and started on their trek in weather
that made it almost impossible to
live out of doors.
Starving most of the time, they
were sometimes able to get help
from people who risked death to
feed them from their own scanty
rations. But generally they were
afraid to approach any one in case
ne should turn out to be a Nazi."
: The two young men travelled most
~ at night, the mother explained.
They had been captured near the
coast in Belgium, and SO their trip
took them through that country, Hol-
land, Germany and Poland before
reaching relative safety in. the Soviet
Union.
The last part Of their ordeal, all
the more terrible because of wealth
er conditions in northeast Europe.
was lightened somewhat by friends
they found in pnland
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-02-24
A Joundiced View

Some persons seem to look with
jaundiced eye on anything that
America does. They have become
SO enamored with European meth
DDS that they can see no good here.
They yearn to change American
ways to European ways.
That has always seemed a silly
notion to u.s. True, America isn't
perfect but look at Europe That
unhappy land is always in mess.
Aud they have now drawn us into
it. If they are not fighting one war,
they are preparing for the next one.
Their standard of living is much
below ours. They are still strug-
Cling to throw off old out-moded
systems Of long past centuries. They
are cluttered up with class and priv
ilege.
Here the common man has free
dom and opportunity that are found
in no other land under the sun De
spite our critics, America has again
demonstrated to the world that no
one can compare to us when it
comes to production. American
working men are paid more, have
more automobiles, monographs and
radios, more electrical gadgets of
all kinds, have better homes, and
travel more than the citizens of any
other land. Despite all this, there
are many who are constantly striv-
ing to implant here the systems and
practices Of those other countries.
If we must have a change, let's
copy only those governments where
living conditions are better and
production higher than they are
here.