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Evening star., 1944-05-14

A preinduction course In Judo, q
streamlined version of jiu jitsu, will
be opened to men anticipating in
duction, in classes starting at Gen.
trail High School at $3.50 pm
Wednesday.
Other courses include markham
ship, swimming, first aid and calls
thentics. The whole program is
sponsored by the District Recrea-
tional Department, the Red Cross
and the National Rifle Association.
Men who plan to enroll In the
hand-to-hand combat course will
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be required to take physical ex-
animation from to 10 pm. Tues
day at Central High School, it was
announced yesterday.
Registrations for the markham
ship course will be accepted only on
May Is, 18, % and Is. Because the
instruction in effective rifle firing is
a progressive course, no enrollments
will be accepted after those dates.
Glasses will start shortly thereafter.
Men interested in enrolling in any
of the classes are invited to tele-
phone Adams 2050 or Republic $500,
Branch 95, for further information.
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Preinduction Course in Judo
Offered to Potential Druftees

Hand-to-hand combat tao
tics such as these will be
taught In the pre-induction
course opening Wednesday at
Central High. When executed
in earnest against an onrush-
ing opponent, this deadly
knee blow fatally crushes the
throat.
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Problems
Continued From Page CID

and Naziism would make our future ex-
tremely precarious.
And peace cannot be brought to Eu-
rope unless it is based on the principle
OF self determination of nations. The
war began when these principles were
trampled under the feet of Hitler and
Mussolini. Another war will start if
they are trampled again by any other
dictator.
This country has contributed greatly
to the movement to defeat Hitler. With
out our participation as an arsenal of
democracy and without our manpower
Hitler might have won the war hands
down. 1t is only just that we have a
strong voice in the European peace.
To make a just peace it is essential
that the political cards be placed on
the table soon. The United States has
no selfish interests in Europe. We can
be fair arbiter in the settlement of
Europe's problems. The principles of
President Wilsonsin 1917 still hold good
if applied honestly.
A so-called peace dictated by one
power alone, based on selfish quid pro
quos, will have as result not only an
other series of wars and revolutions but
eventually complete detachment of
this country from the problems Of Eu-
rope regardless Of the consequences Of
this country.
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European Front

The air attack on Germany and Ger
man occupied lands along the Channel
was carried on with undated fury all
last week with Berlin hit again and
Ludwigshaven, home of the German
poison-gas industry, practically oblit-
Grated.
Stettin, Baltic seaport vital to the
supplying of the German troops in Fin
land, also was badly hammered.
Berlin was bombed Sunday and with
the fires still burning Monday the Raj
returned to the attack for the tenth
massive assault on the German capital
Hitler's luxurious new chancellory was
one of the buildings bombed and reports
late in the week indicated that there
had been many casualties among Hit
ler's staff. The fax was so thick as the
British bombers roared over the city
one sergeant described it by saying that
If the planes had let down their wheels
they could have ridden on it.
American Marauders went after the
rocket gun sector around Pas de Calais
on Tuesday in series of raids in which
5000 planes carried destruction also to
Kiel and Muenster.
Stettin was hit Wednesday night by
huge force of British bombers and as
a diversion and nuisance, Mosquitoes
struck at Berlin, IS miles away. Stettin
is not only important as port of supply
for the troops in the north but has been
an emergency relief spot through which
food and other essentials were moved
into staggering Berlin.
Airf1elds at Tours and Bordeaux were
also attacked and Thursday many I'M
disclosed detectives were visited by both
American and British bombers who kept
up continuous round the clock attack.
Friday came the devastating raid on
Ludwigshaven and It's huge chemical
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The Germans, who marched right up
through the Baltic states in the summer
of 1941, are apt to march right back
down again in the winter of 1914. They
advanced by frontal assaults, but it is
pressure on the flank rather than at the
point Of their original offensive which
is counted on to force them into re-
treat. Blows from the east are due to
send them fleeing south.
Estonla, Latvia and Lithuania, ar
ranged handily in alphabetical order
from the Gulf of Finland to East Prussia,
form sort of chin to the huge Russian
face turned toward Scandinavia and the
Baltic Sea. East-west rail lines cut them
up conveniently in layers ready for Sic
ing. AS the Russians near the Luga-
Pskov- Daugavpils- Wilno railway, the
Germans are expected to start pulling
out of the Leningrad corner before it
becomes pocket.
Hitler attacked from East Prussia
northwest and north through Riga and
around both sides of Lake Peipus to
Tallinn, Narva and Novgorod, and also
toward Wilno and Daugavpils Dvinsk) :.
Taking the road back, the Russians will
bore in from the sides. Staraya Russo
is the key to Pskov Vitebsk controls
Polotsk, Daugavpils and Riga. The
Orsha-M ogilev line is the base for push
that would overwhelm Minsk, Wilno,
Kaunas and Koenigsberg And there is
always the possibility of some bold leap
frogging along the shore line to cut in
behind the foe.
Except for marsh and swamp lands,
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania offer no
natural barriers to Red drives down to
the sea. The greatest elevation in Es-
tonia is $50 feet, and no point In the
other two is more than 1000 feet above
sea level, The principal rivers, Daugava
and Niemen flow parallel more than
athwart the push to the west, and most
other streams are shallow.
Except for rich oil shale in Estonia.
and some shipping and transit facilities,
the countries are mainly agricultural,
and vast areas are forested The popu-
lations total about 55O0,0O0.
All three won their independence after
World War I. Soviet Russia signed her
first treaty with a neighbor state when
she recognized the independence of Es-
tonia in 1920.
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Russian Front

Action was rapid all week on the Rus
sian front with the first indications of
disaster for the Nazis plainly evident as
the week started. The capture of Poy-
ask, last fortified place held by the
Nazis on the Kiev-WarsaW railway,
brought the old Polish border almost
within sight on Sunday and the follow
ing day the Reds took the border town
of Olevsk and pushed on into Poland,
reaching point only $50 miles from the
point of penetration in the German
1941 invasion
The whole line from Korosten, impor-
tant railroad junction, down to Berdichev
seemed to be crumbling. 1t was reported
by the Russians that large numbers of
tanks, field guns and trucks and huge
ammunition dumps were being aban-
doned by the Nazis in their retreat while
prison cages behind the Russian lines
were said to have been rapidly filled.
Up on the Latvian front, the Russians
had moved to within As miles of the
border, where another serious threat
faces the Nazis.
With hundreds of towns retaken in q
series of brilliant successes and Germans
reported slain by the thousands, the Red
steamroller moved forward along sew
eral paths stemming out from the gen.
eral area of Kiev, and on Wednesday a
German military spokesman admitted
that the winter defense line had been
split with two fronts now existing, one
of 800 miles and one of 480 miles. The
lower front developed new difficulties
when Gen. Konev's I'd Ukranian Army
made contact around Kirovograd pen
ming the defenders into the city while
another part of his army turned toward
Gen. Vatutins LIST Ukrainian Army with
units Of the two only Sc miles apart.
German Marshal Won Mannstein with
drew his troops into the Pripet Marshes,
where he sought to reform his defense
line along the old Polish border.
The fall OF Berdichev on Thursday was
a serious blow and brought the Reds
within striking distance of the Bug
River, the next to the last natural bar
rier to Besserabia.
AS the week ended the Reds we're
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i. S. Fights for Radio RIGHTS

and Chungking, but no wireless tele-
phone. Sixteen out of 20 transatlantic
cables are American owned and oper-
ated, with nominal American control of
terminals in the British Isles Five OF
the cables are owned by Western Union,
five are operated by Western Union un-
der lease from the Anglo American
Telegraph Co. and six are owned by the
Commercial Gable Co. Two are the
property of Gable 81 Wireless, Ltd, and
two, owned by the French Cable Co., are
no longer in operation.
In other parts of the globe, American
communications are hemmed in to a de-
gree which will surprise many readers.
All cables from the United States to
Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal,
Fire, Russia and Turkey pass through
British control posts in London or the
Azores. There is an American cable
from New York through the Panama
Canal to the west coast of South Amer
lea, with land wires from Peru or Chile
to Buenos Aires and up to Rio de Janeiro.
The more direct route to the east coast
OF South America uses United States
land wires to Miami and American cable
to the West Indies, where it passes into
British hands for further transmission.
Before the war there was an American
operated cable from San Francisco to
Honolulu, Midway. Wake, Guam, Manila
and Shanghai. 1t now ends at Midway.
The ownership Of this cable was and
continues to be half British and
quarter each Danish and American. II
for reasons OF security it is desired to
cable American commanders in China or
India, the messages must pass through
British control posts. They may 20 by
way OF London, Gibraltar, Oran, Cairo.
British-owned islands of Mauritius and
Leychelles, of the east coast of Africa:
Calcutta and Chungking. Or they may
60 to Australia, Mauritius and so on.
Obtain Some Channels.
BY using strong pressure, the American
Government recently obtained direct
radio channels to Australia, New Zea-
land, British Guiana and the African
Gold Coast, but only for the duration of
the war and at the old discriminatory
rates. 1t has been found impossible thus
far to acquire similar channels to South
Africa and India. This is true also,
strange to say, of Jamaica, Barbados and
Trinidad, and other sections of the
British Empire. There is nothing 50
gross as blunt denial of such facilities.
In the case of South Africa, the needed
apparatus was set up, but tests" were
made and it was pronounced to be "un-
satisfactory"
To call South Africa by radio tele-
phone it IS necessary first to call Lon
don, where the message is plugged in to
Cape Town. The procedure opens op-
portunities for what Is known as COM
mercial espionage. There has been COM
plant by one American firm that an
option offered on property in South
Africa was held up in London until the
time limit expired, whereupon a British
rival stepped in and seized the prize
From which it appears that the Amer
lean authorities will have much to dis
cuss with Sir Campbell Stuart.
Printed by special ARRANGEMENT with the st.
Louis Post Dispatch
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Balkan Front

Fresh defeat was dealt out to the
Nazis in Yugoslavia where the Partisans
made considerable progress toward the
capture of Banjaluka in Central Bosnia
before withdrawing with their mission
complete" Banjaluka is the staff head
quarters of the I'd Garman Tank Army
and is an important mining and agricul-
tural center. Despite the efforts of the
Nazis who used considerable number
of tanks and heavy guns the Partisans
chung to point of entry into the city
they had obtained in surprise attack
on New Year eve and by heavy fighting
had expanded into hold on about half
the city during the week.
AS the week progressed the Partisans,
who are particularly adept at house-to-
house fighting, pushed the Nazis back
until the entire city was almost in their
hands. However, they withdrew from the
city Thursday.
1t was also reported that the entire
Cetina Rivey Valley had been cleared
of Nazis. This river courses through the
Dalmatian Plain emptying into the
Adriatic below Split.
In Greece, it was reported that 600
Nazis had been killed by patriots, who
struck suddenly in the Province of
Epirus at German motorized group OF
1000. Later 1t was stated that the
Nazis had executed 1000 Greeks In re-
taliation.
The situation in Bulgaria is clouded
with some reports that the pro-Nazi
government is tottering. In Turkey
there were many predictions that
peoples movement in Bulgaria and Ru-
mania would take over and GUST the
pro-Nazis in an effort to extricate their
countries from the war.
Nazi troops have virtually taken over
control of Bulgaria and the situation is
said to be tense.
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Amid some signs of weakening morale
among the Japanese troops opposing the
American and Australian forces in the
Southwest Pacific, Allied aircraft went
ahead with the softening process which
is expected soon to reduce Rabaul to the
point OF uselessness and which may be
softening the Marshall Islands for early
invasion.
Just to remind the Japs of the poten-
tial threat which points down from the
Aleutians to the north, Army bombers
last week bombed Paramushiro, Jap base
on the northern tip of the Kurile
Islands. All of the planes returned safely
from the attack, the fifth on the strong
point guarding the northern approach
to Toxic.
Toxic, incidentally, will be reduced to
a pile of rubble before the war is over,
In the opinion of Admiral Halsey, who
Is back in this country for a brief rest
and for consultation.
In the ground fighting on New Guinea
and New Britain, additional gains were
made, although the progress is slow.
A surprise landing at Saidor, on New
Guinea, during which the port and air.
Held were seized, resulted in pinching
of number of Japs in the jungle be-
hind and undoubtedly sealed their fate.
The landing was made by Michigan and
Wisconsin troops, which found no oppo-
sition. Saidor is just about $50 miles
across the straits from Cape Gloucester.
where American marines are continuing
to expand their control of that impor-
tant port on New Britain.
group OF American carrier-based
planes struck at the port of Kavieng, on
New Ireland Island, northwestward
from New Britain, and damaged and
possibly sank two cruisers and a de-
stroyer Monday.
In bombing attack on the Marshalls
on Wednesday, the American planes
were attacked by 80 Zeros, of which 10
were shot down without loss to our
force. The Japs retaliated with a light
attack on Apamama, in the Gilberts.
Maj. Gen. Ralph J. Mitchell, in COM
mand of Allied air forces in the Sol
onions, predicted during the week that
the air assault on Rabaul, with total
destruction its objective, will be under
way shortly, but he expects that more
than three months will be required be-
cause OF the strength Of the defenses.
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Italian Front

The hard-pressed Nazis in Italy have
established new defense line termed
the Siegfried Line. which now runs
roughly from Pescara on the Adriatic
coast to Minturno on the west coast
passing through Casino, which now is
facing heavy attack by the American
5th Army following the fall of San Wit
tore.
Movement had been slow for some
time on the Italian front because of the
rugged terrain and because of the
weather conditions which varied from
billiards. in the mountains to heavy
rains with resultant deep mud in the
lowlands.
Canadian troops in the British 9th
Army Slugged their way forward until
by Monday they had come within 9
miles of Pescara, which means, of course,
within artillery range. German casual
ties were said to be heavy and reinforce
ments, which apear increasingly diff
cult for the Nazi high command to find,
were used piecemeal wherever the
situation appeared unduly threatening.
Taking time out from their tactical
bombing, American Flying Fortresses on
Tuesday sped to Villa Perosa to blast
a ball-bearing plant and further Grip
pie the Nazi ability to construct new
planes and other mechanical equip
ment The plant normally supplied about
8 per cent of German requirements for
bearings. The railroad yards at Turin
also were Well-pepnered
Thursday American and British units
of the 5th Army battered their way into
San Vittore, which was described as a
maze of pill-boXes. and by noon had
half the town under occupation. After
three-day battle of unusual fierceness
San Vittore was finally reported COM
pletely occupied Friday and the way
paved for the drive for Casino, which
is expected to be even more difficult to
subdue AS the week ended the Ger
mans were trying desperately to build
up their reserves and strengthen their
defenses on the southern Siegfried Line.
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Disaster Faces Nozs Cumbes Reds Push Forward
Americas 10th Week of War
Nth Week of World War II
By Howard p. Bailey

The Russian winter offensive
entire 'front.' gained
losses IN men and equipment which
likelihood OF which
ing into the probable
AS last week ended undetermined
others went Keeling back abandoning their
titles which fallen
have
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poised to strike all along the huge front
with the possibility of further dividing
and surrounding large groups of Nazis
in the Dnieper Bend and in the Pripet
Marshes.
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works which was left a blazing sham
bles and undoubtedly eliminated for a
long time to come.
Evening star., 1944-01-19
Tenth TembIor Shakes
San Juan During
PRAYER for Dead
By the Associated Press. .

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 10.-The
stricken city of San Juan last night
experienced its tenth minor earth
quake since a major temblor leveled
virtually all its buildings, killed
more than $500 and injured more
than 5000 persons during the week
end.
The new shock came Just as Presi-
dent Gen. Pedro Ramirez, addressing
survivors and broadcasting to the
nation from a square amid the
ruins, called for a minutes silence
in respect for the dead.
The quake cut the wires connect
ing the microphone and caused some
confusion, but President Ramirez
was one Of the first to ask for order
and he then completed his address.
A Chilean Army truck caravan
bearing medical supplies is expected
to arrive at San Juan today and
Brazilian Red Cross workers also
are expected to arrive by air to join
Chilean and Uruguayan doctors and
nurses who are assisting Argentines
at the scene. A United States offer
OF assistance was gratefully accepted
by the Argentine government yes
terday
The total number OF dead and
injured still Is uncertain.
Evening star., 1944-01-19
L. c. Wade, Arizona RAF Ace
Credited With rs Planes, Killed
Small Croft Spins
To Ground Behind
Italian Battlefront
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
gierS, Jan. 19-Wing Comdr. Lance
C. Wade. American ace of the Raj
who had the highest score OF any
fighter pilot in the Mediterranean
theater-25 enemy planes destroyed
crashed to his death January II
in Italy, it was announced today.
The 27-year-old veteran of three
years of combat flying, a native of
Reklaw, Tex, and who lived In
Tucson, Ariz., met death when q
small communications plane he was
flying spun to the ground many
miles behind the front. The cause
Of the accident was not known.
He was regarded as one of the
wars greatest fighter pilots.
Shortly before his death Wade
was promoted from squadron leader
to wing commander, which is
equivalent to lieutenant colonel, and
placed on the staff Of Air Vice Mar
shall Harry Broadhurst, commander
of the Desert Air Force, which has
retained that name even In Italy.
Credited With Many Probables.
In addition to his Is confirmed
kills, Wade had credit for many
probables and damaged enemy air.
craft.
When the American Air Force
entered the desert war Wade was
offered the opportunity to switch
to it, with higher rank and more
pay.
Thanks" he replied, but I'd
Evening star., 1944-01-19
New York Publishers Praise
A. P.'s Decision to Appeal

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 19 R).-Di-
rectors of the Associated Press were
congratulated today by approx
mately 100 editors and publishers
attending a convention of the New
York State Publishers Association
for deciding to appeal to the United
States Supreme Court from the
Federal court Judgment in the Gov
ernment's civil antitrust suit against
the nonprofit news cooperative.
The resolution was passed unani-
mously after talk by Richard j.
Finnegan, editor of the Chicago
Times. Mr.. Finnegan, who has
actively urged the appeal by the
Associated Press, told the editors
that a fundamental security of the
American way of life is involved.
He said Court decisions reaching
far back into the common law safe
guarded freedom of the press, which
is threatened by an attempt OF the
Federal Government to control news
gathering and distribution"
Evening star., 1944-01-19

rather string along with the guys
I've been with so long now"
Wade had been decorated with
the British Distinguished Flying
Cross and two bars. He fought
with the Raj all through the Mid
die East campaign and had many
an adventure in the desert. Once
he was rescued after 27-mile walk
after his plane had been shot down
in combat.
He narrowly escaped death many
times. Perhaps his closest call oc-
CURED last November 4 In Italy.
With a fellow Spitfire pilot, Basil
Thornton Of London, Wade was pa
trolling '. forward positions for the
9th Army. They sighted an enemy
formation and discovered them
selves pitted against 20 Focke- -Wulfe
1905 and Messerschmitt 1O9s. Wade
damaged three and Thornton de-
stroyed one.
Chased by Seven Planes.
Suddenly Wade found himself
being chased by seven foes. He
dropped into a valley and streaked
along for miles before the enemy
planes gave up the chase, presum-
ably because they had run out Of
ammunition.
Wade and Sidney Muhart. his
companion in civilian flying around
Tucson, went to Canada in the first
year of the war and joined the air
force there.
After training in Canada and
some service in the battle of Brit
ain," they were assigned to the Mid
die East in 1941.
Muhart was burned fatally when
attacked while flying across enemy
lines to reach Tobruk in December
1941. He bailed out and was taken
to Cairo, where he died a month
later.
Wade continued with the Raj in
the desert, first flying hurricanes
and then Spitfires, and steadily
adding to his record Of victories over
enemy planes. Eventually he was
given command Of his squadron,
which fought across the desert with
the 9th Army and later in Tunisia,
Sicily and Italy.
His squadron was one of the most
successful and best known in the
Mediterranean theater and Wade,
who was quiet and unassuming, was
one of the best liked flyers. He was
admired by the men under him,
mostly British and Canadians, and
was close friend of many corre-
spondents.
One of his plans was to settle in
the western desert of Africa after
the war and introduce a modern ir-
|rigation system. Having fought over
the desert for more than a year, he
knew it well and, like many other
desert veterans, was fond of it de-
spite its sandstorms, flies and other
discomforts.