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Evening star., 1944-03-26
Cafe Entertainer
Found Asphyxidfed

Robert Alvin CAD Norton, 50,
master Of ceremonies at the Merry
Land Club, 14o5 L street NV, was
found dead yesterday, slumped over
the stove in the kitchen Of his gas
filled apartment in the London Hail
Apartments, 1888 Thirteenth street
NV.
Clodies Earle, janitor, found Mr..
Norton about 5:45 pm. He said
that the window and door In the
kitchen were closed.
Miss Olivia Davis, owner of the
Merry-Land, said she saw Mr.. Nor
ton about Q am. yesterday when he
left the club for home. He was "in
good spirits" at the time.
When Mr.. Norton failed to appear
for work at pm, Jesse Follin,
manager of the club, called the
apartment. After failing to receive
an answer the janitor was asked to
investigate. Z
Formerly an entertainer at. the
Lotus Club, Bamboo Club and Mary
land Club Gardens here, Mr.. Nor
ton gained reputation for his
quick wit and bass viola playing.
Miss Davis said he was a native
OF Baltimore and that his mother
and q sister live there.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

Congress.
Other delegation members are
Archibald MacLeish, librarian of
Congress; John w. Studebaker,
United States Commissioner of Ed
ucation; Grayson N. Kefauver, a
Stanford University dean and con-
sultant to the State Department,
and Ralph E. Turner, assistant chief
of the State Departments division
of science, education and art.
Mr.. Fulbright said the delegates
will leave for London this week.
They will return to this country
about May TO-
Il am very pleased to see this
further development of the spirit
and practice of cooperation among
the United Nations" Mr.. Fulbright
said In a statement.
"Co-operative experience in any
field of endeavor will, believe, con-
dition the world for the acceptance
of the ultimate goal of security
founded on collective action. OF all
the elements to be considered in
bringing about decent and orderly
world, none is more important than
sound education"
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Gunner
Continued From First Page.)

there would be 200 of our transport
planes over about 10 pm. About
20 minutes before our planes came
over, the German bombers came
in. The ship was still burning
Our destroyers had tried to sink it
and made things worse as the oil
spread all over the water, burning
making it look as if the whole sea
were burning; and, as I say, there
was a solid blanket of smoke over
most of that part of the coast.
when the Germans came in,
guided by the fire, they dropped
the sky full of flares until they
spotted us. Then, boy, that is
where things really began to happen.
1 knew there must really be war
on, then. Anyway, bombs we're
dropping like hail this time, knock
ing some of the boys off their
feet when they burst.
Planes Came Over.
Right in the middle of all of
this our planes came over, the first
we knew they were there.
MY eyes were every place at once.
I would glance at the water every
second or so, watching for E boats,
Evening star., 1944-03-26
"A. P. Wirephoto.

as this is the time they come and do
their dirty work. During one of
those glances I spied a plane that
looked as large as the Columbia
Tower Gn Memphis) about 30 feet
above the water headed right into
the side of our ship All of us that
saw it opened up on it. When we
shot him down, he was less than 100
feet from the ship.
There were no paratroops on
that one and all of the crew of 10
were saved. Also our boats picked
up many of the troops that bailed
out.
Now, Eldon, think I know as
night as any one there, as I really
had ringside seat, and that Is
just exactly how the whole thing
happened. No one can blame the
Navy gunners, for we were just a
watch tick from death that night
and were shooting to live to shoot
another day.
boy, 1 am ON a quad A. A. gun
We were shooting so fast that night
that there were rings of fire coming
out of the barrels. Well, you can
imagine just how we felt the next
morning when we found what really
had happened. But that is Just
one of those things that happen
in these lovely wars.
II made it my business when /
got back to Africa to talk to some
of the pilots, and I talked to sew
eral of them. They all seemed to
agree that 1t was the smoke. Some
said they had seen the fire from the
burning ship and thought 1t was
that famous fire on the side of the
hill at Celia.
"All of them thought the smoke
was large cloud bank. Most of
them went around it. They are the
ones who lived to fly another day.
I also talked with quite a few of the
paratroops that went over that night,
but, fellow, sure can't write here
what. they said about it. In fact, I
did not let them know I was there.
They put few questions at me.
told them l was on shore duty at
Algiers. They did not blame the
Navy; they blamed the ones that
sent them over u.s.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
British Suspend Air Mail
For '0perationaI Reasons
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 25.-Civil air mail
service between Britain and more
than dozen countries in and near
continental Europe has been sus-
pended for operational reasons, the
postmaster general announced to-
night
The reason was the same given
last week for a ban on civilian
movements in the 700-mile strip of
the British coast facing occupied
France, the Netherlands and Bel
GUM
Both civil and military air mail
was suspended to Gibraltar. Other
places affected included Portugal,
Spain, the Azores, Switzerland, Cape
Verde Islands, Madeira, Canary Is
lands, French and Spanish Morocco,
Tangiers, Algeria, Tunisia and Cor
sica.
Air mail service to prisoners of
war and internees in Europe also
was suspended except to Sweden.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
House Expects 10 Pass
'GI Bill Of Rights
Before Easter Recess
Ry the Associate,I press.

BY the Associated Press.
The American Legion's q bill
|of rights" providing broad benefits
for millions Of veterans Of this war
should be on the Presidents desk
before the House starts its Easter
recess next Thursday, Representa-
tive Allen, Democrat, OF Louisiana
a ranking member of the House
Veterans Legislation Committee
predicted yesterday.
The Senate passed similar legis-
lation Friday, 40 to 0.
Mr.. Allen said an executive COM
mittee session would be held to-
row, and he expects the measure will
be hurried Immediately to the
House floor for consideration.
Sponsored by the Legion and the
Veterans Of Foreign Wars, the legis-
lation provides disqualification, edu-
cation and vocational training,
loans for homes, farms and busi-.
nesses, employment service and un-
employment benefits for veterans.
The cost is estimated at between
$500, 100000 and $4,000, ,000, 600.
Authorization is given for construc-
ton of additional disqualification
facilities up to $500,000, ,000
Usually legislation must go to the
floor through the Houes Rules Com
mittee, but 1t can be considered If
two-thirds majority of the House
votes to suspend the rules for the
purpose.
Mr.. Allen said he had heard no
opposition to the bill in the House.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Grocer Reports $1,000
Loss 10 Two HoIdup Men

Abraham Yaloms proprietor of a
grocery at Eleventh and M streets
Sc, reported to police last night
that two colored men had robbed
him of $4,000.
Inspector Robert j. Barrett, chief
Of detectives, said Mr.. Yalom told
police two men entered the store at
about 9 pm, and that one Of them
drew pistol and told him to hand
over two paper sacks in which he
kept his money under the counter.
One sack, Mr. Yalom said, contained
one hundred $40 bills; the other the
same number of $40 bills.
The money, Mr.. Yalom told po-
lice, was on hand to cash checks for
employees of the Washington Navy
Yard nearby. The cash register, ac-
cording. to, Inspector Barrett, con-
tanned $125 and some change when
police arrived.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
IL. 5. Chamber Group
Urges Allied Setup
Ito Maintain Peace
~ the Associated Press,

~ thc ASSoCldteQ FTeSS.
Prompt creation of a United
Nations commission to develop a
plan for a postwar international
Organization to maintain peace was
recommended yesterday by the
United States Chamber of Com
.merce's Committee on Postwar
Problems.
The proposal was one of seven
advanced by the committee and
submitted for consideration to the
chambers 1000 members. Harper
Sibley, Rochester, N. Y, heads the
committee.
Other recommendations, which
the committee suggested the cham
ber adopt as its policy, include:
Immediate consideration by the
United Nations of social, economic
and political questions which can
be solved before hostilities cease.
Exercise of interim powers by the
United Nations to prevent the Axis
taking up arms again and to help
maintain law and order between
the cessation of hostilities and
establishment of general inter-
national political organization.
Participation by the United States
in the early establishment of Gin
strumentalities" for peaceful settle
ment of international disputes by
Cancellation and conference.
Reaffirmation of the chambers
advocacy of United States member
ship on permanent court of in
ternational justice.
Maintenance of the permanent
court of arbitration, making its
services available to all nations.
Creation of a permanent interna-
tional institute to study and report
to international and national groups
ION the problem of developing the
principles and procedures of inter-
national justice"
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Russia
Continued From First Page.)

tacking southwark along the Lwow-
Odessa Railway cut the Pervomaisk-
Byeltsi escape railway with the cap
ture of Slobodzeya and Ksendzovka
and began fighting their way into
the outskirts of the big city of
Balta, few miles east of the rail-
way, ITO miles northwest of Odessa,
and rs miles from the main Ger
man escape route, the Odessa Ii
raspol line which extends into Ru-
mania to imperilled Iasi.
Reds Move to Complete Trap.
Fighting their way into the out
skirts Of Kamenets Podolsk, in the
southwestern corner of the Ukraine,
the Russians moved quickly to try
to trap thousands of beaten German
troops retreating down the railway
and highway from fallen Proskurov,
IS miles to the northeast.
The Germans above the Dniester
were squeezed into a fast-narrowing
2,000-square-miles area just above
the river, and Russian troops which
took Mogilev Podolski week ago
were moving westward on both banks
of the Dniester to complete the trap.
The two Russian forces advancing
to meet each other on the north
bank of the Dniester were reported
only 40 miles apart
German Salient Caved in.
The fall of Proskurov to Marshal
Gregory K. Zhukov's 1st Ukraine
Army caved in the top of the Ger
man salient above the Dniester.
Premier Stain, announcing the vic
tory in an order of the day, ordered
IL salvos from 124 guns. Then the
regular communique told of the cap
ture of Derazhnya, % miles south
east of Proskurov, another station
on the Odessa-Lwow railway, as the
Russians swept on southwark towards
the Dniester.
Far to the southeast Gen. Rodion
Y Malinovsky's 3d. Ukraine Army
captured !, three heavily fortified.
strong points just outside NikoIaev,
at the mouth of the Bug River, and
also seized Kulbakhino and Vo-
dopoi rail stations, the latter just
3 kilometers 0.8 niles outside the
major German stronghold.
Nikolaev, on the vulnerable east
bank of the Bug, is the last Ger
man position on that side of the
long river in. Southern Russia. It's
fall appeared to be imminent, now
that it is surrounded on three land
sides. The Germans also face the
danger of being trapped by Rus
sian troops crossing the river above
Nikolaev in a drive toward Odessa,
main Black Sea port rs miles south
west of Nikolaev.
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2 Raj Flyers, 3 WAAFS
Missing on Miami Hop
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A British Embassy attache an
nounced yesterday that two Royal
Air Force wing commanders and
three WAAF officers are missing
and believed killed after they failed
to complete Charleston Is. CO.
Miami Fla) airplane flight Friday.
A member of the Embassy staff
said Wing Commander H. G. Gau-
bert, together with another wing
commander and three WAAF Of
flcers, took off from Charleston.
When they failed to complete the
flight, London was officially notified,
he said, that they were missing
and believed killed"
The other four occupants Of the
plane were not further identified.
Wing Commander Gaubert, air
attache to Columbia, was holder
OF the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Hull
Continued From First Page. }

listers refused at the Moscow con-
ference to discuss Mr.. Hull's plans
for defeated Germany.
There has been some criticism in
Congress of the outward failure of
the nations signing the Moscow
pact to hurry creation of an in
ternational organization, and Sen
ator Ball. Republican, of Minnesota
said he was highly encouraged by
word that the State Department
has made sufficient progress to be
ready soon for congressional con-
sultations on the proposal.
Senator Ball said it was his in
formation preliminary conversations
have been held with Great Britain.
Austin Backs Plan.
Senator Austin, Republican, of
Vermont, a Foreign Relations Com
mittee member with liberal views
ON international questions, said he
believed early establishment of a
world organization to preserve peace
would help to shorten the war.
~ 40 FCi y lilhSCl td1lb tlldl We, our
selves. don't sag back into isola-
tionism," he said. Also, it is i'm
portant that the United States,
Great Britain, Russia and China
agree on specific objectives as soon
as possible.
IF these four nations had a def
mite policy toward the German peo-
pie which said, in effect, that those
leaders among them who were re-
sponsible for violations of interna-
tional law were to be punished, it
might inspire them to revolt. II
they can contemplate nothing but
slavery themselves, they are not 60
ing to revolt
The administration has moved
slowly thus far in discussions of the
proposed international organization
and Mr.. Hull has made it plain he
feels such questions as boundaries
must be left for negotiation after
the war.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
WiIIkie
Continued From First Page)

with a letter, and tonight read ex-
cerpts from a reply in which the
historian described himself as a
tired New Dealer"
Mr.. De Voto said "Your (Con-
cord speech is at, or very near, the
heart of the problem and I agree
entirely with its general burden.
The fear of peace is in large part
due to our loss of confidence in our
selves, in our ability to manage our
society, in our ability to master our
economy.
Sees Democracy Disregarded.
''In fact" Mr.. De Voto stated
"as tired New Dealer, am willing
to go farther than you DO in this
speech. voted for the New Deal
three times and I have agreed with
perhaps 40 per cent of its thinking
and perhaps so per cent of its ad
hoe measures. Well, over the years
I have come to believe that the
administration do not mean Mr.
Roosevelt alone but rather the
whole complex of effective power
does not truly accept democratic
postulates on which it is supposed
to be based"
Il think 1t has been increasingly
cynical about them" Mr.. De Voto's
letter continued, Increasingly dis.
dainful not only of democratic pro-
cedures but of basic democratic be-
liefs as we'll. I find too much will
ingness not only to circumvent con-
stitutional procedures but to ignore
the popular will and to be dishonest
with the people"
Mr.. Willkie said "there are liter.
ally millions Of tired New Dealers
in the United States and the Re.
publican Party can have them fol
the asking If it pursues the right
policies" He said he never has
met Mr.. De Voto, but considers him
a type of independent intelligent
thinker.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
1900 Attend Opening
OF Club at AImas Temple

More than 1900 persons attended
the official opening last night of
the Sphinx Club in the Almas
Temple, 1915 K street NV.
The ceremony was featured by the
cutting of ribbon across the en-
trance by Mrs. James A. Councillor,
wife of the potentate. The Almas
military band and the Almas Orien-
tai band gave a concert for the
mobiles and their ladies.
Located on the third floor. the
new club will be used for social
functions.
Last nights program was under
the direction of George A. Ford.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
$4,000 Capsule Of Radium
Missing From Firms Vault

BY lhe hssoClated FreSS.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Mar. 25.-An
inch-long capsule of radium sui
phate, valued at $4,000 and capable
of causing fatal burns to a person
carrying it, is missing from the Bison
Casting Co. vault, Police 1t. Paul G.
Marohn announced tonight.
The pear-shaped capsule is used to
detect flaws in metal, 1t. Marohn
said, and within 25 minutes could
cause flesh burns which, though they
might not become evident for three
or four days, would be fatal
He said the capsule is leased by the
company from Canadium Radium &
Uranium Co., New York City, and
would be useless to an individual.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

t1onal resources
destroyed by the
Axis, the State
Department an
n o u n C e ment
said.
Representative
F u | b r i g h t,
D e m O C r a t, of
Arkansas w i'll
head the delega-
ton. Mr.. Full
bright, q former
Rhodes scholar,
was president Of
the University of
Arkansas before
his ! election to
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Oak Spring Group to Elect

Adoption of a constitution and
bylaws and election of officers will
feature the first annual meeting
of the Oak Spring CMd) Civic As
ISOLATION at pm. tomorrow at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. M. r. Ritter,
1910 Blackfoot road.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Weather Report

District of Columbia, Maryland
and Virginia: Fair and warm, cloudy
and slightly cooler in afternoon,
much cooler tonight. Tomorrow
fair.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
muddy at Harpers Ferry, Potomac
very muddy at Great Falls.
Report Until IN PM Saturday
Evening star., 1944-03-26

The American Red Cross in India
provides recreation kits containing
books, games, candy and cigarettes,
which are parachuted from planes
to troops at advanced positions
along the Burma border.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington D
SUNDAY MARCH
Hull Names Fu|bright,
Sfudebaker, MacLeish
For London Talks
0y the Associated Press.

Secretary of State Hull named a
flve-member American delegation
last night to attend the conference
OF Allied ministers of education in
London.
The conference will consider res
toration of intellectual and educa-
Evening star., 1944-03-26

to 10 o'clock tonight at Uline's.
Downtown sales will be resumed to-
morrow at Almas Temple and at
Ballaro's, 1340 G street NV.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

Record Until 10 PM. Saturday.
Highest, SO, at pm; yesterday, year
ago, 66.
Lowest, 3s, at 7:20 am; yesterday,
year ago, AZ.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 80, on March 16.
Lowest II, on January 2.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Tide Tables.
The Sun and Moon.

Monthly precipitation in inches in
CAPITAL (current month to datel:
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Former Sanitorium Head
Advocates Electi0nN Now

~ John C. VESSEL, for more
SON 30 years head of the tuber-
'iiq nar sanitorium in New Hanover
ru UNIV which was recently aban.
r ,oueG with the construction OF
qn1y"'ethenthal Airbase, has assem-.
I|od data from North Carolina
po .IN and turned his report over
IeE tbe local health department in
~ ,nnort of his belief that the
n supr of County Commissioners
p lSo,IId adopt resolution calling
s su' public election, instead of
W. iUoldefinitely postponing action.
nr VESSEL stated Monday, fol-
,on,ing action of the Board of
Commissioners postponing the
LECTION. that the matter of a new
tnhercslar sanitorium, which has
Loon ss in the offing for some
roonths. should be left to the peo-
I nls 10 decide whether or not the
t;me was ripe for such an under
Liking. Commissioners voted three
~ two. to defer action until
~mue favorable time"
Dr VESSELS report shows that
N 1913 there were 1853 deaths
irom tuberculosis in North Caro-
lima According to statistics of the
limited States Public Health Serv..
ire and the National Tuberculosis
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GILLESPIE HEADS
MISSION SCHOOLS

DR.. Arthur S. Gillespie will head
the faculty in a School of Mis-
SONS to be conducted at Temple
Baptist church March to 10 in.
elusive, it was announced Thurs.
day. ~
DR.. Gillespie will preach at both
morning and evening services on
Sunday, March 5, at Temple
church. Each day during the week
alere will be classes for the var
lous age groups in the Temple
Woman's Missionary society. At
o:15 pm. each night DR.. Giles
pie will bring a missionary adj
dress.
DR.. Gillespie was for - years
a missionary of the Southern Bap-
list Foreign Mission board in Chi
ma. He was acting president of
the China Baptist Theological Sc
mlnary at Kaifeng. The school
was moved from Kaifeng about a
year and a half ago to Shanghai.
Dr. Gillespie continued to serve
there as acting president and tea
cher of New Testament interpre-
tatlon until he was interned by the
Japanese about year ago. The
missionary returned to America
on the Gripsholm last December.
Other members of the faculty
ct the School OF Missions are the
fev. and Mrs. David Shelton, mis-
sionaries of the North Carolina
Baptist State Board of Missions;
Mrs. Harry w. Weeks of Rich
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association, any given locality
should have two hospital beds for
each annual death from the dis
ease. North Carolina has 2.485 hos.
pltal beds for tuberculosis pa
tlents, says DR.. VESSEL.
Divisions of these beds are al
follows: North Carolina sanitori.
UNI, $50; Eastern N. c. sanitori.
UNI, 220; Western N. c. sanatori.
UNI, 800; Insane Asylums and Cas-
well Training school, 1856; and 959
beds in other county hospitals.
DR.. Vessels figures show that
this state is short GIL hospital
beds for tuberculosis to reach the
required statistics.
The former sanitorium in New
Hanover county averaged "a pa
tlents during 1913, and SO patients
for the years 1871 and 1912. The
daily cost of tuberculosis patients
in 1912 was $1.96. Much of the
time there were patients on the
waiting list. Many new cases are
found at induction centers and in
mass X-raying of defense workers
and in large industries by United
States Public Health Service and
the State Board Of Health. DR..
Vessel states.
P. P. Mccain, superintendent of
state hospitals, states that accord
ing to a nationally accepted for
mula on the disease. there are
from eight to 10 times the num-
Der OF existant cases from the
number of annual deaths from tu-
berculosis.
DR.. VESSEL states that from a
humane standpoint, far advanced
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'nond, Va; and Mrs. L. c. John
son Of Wilmington.
China will be the subject OF
study throughout the School OF
Missions. Classes for Sunbeams,
Junior Royal Ambassadors and
Girls Auxiliaries, intermediate
Girls Auxiliaries, Y. w. A., and
Adults will be offered. Evening
classes start at 7:4O pm. with
the general assembly and mission
airy address by DR.. Gillespie at
BIB pm. The public is cordially
invited. -.
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cases, and cases showing no i'm
provement in 10 months, should
receive special attention. These
cases are the richest source Of
injection to other people and
should be separated from the gen.
eral public by disqualification. he
states.
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ANCIENT KNIFE UNEARTHED

Archeologists found a pocket
knife with a folding blade, esti-
mated to be more than 1000 years
old, in excavations near Arnau.
East Prussia.
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Pencil marks once were erased
with bread crumbs.
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PRANK PURIFIERS SCIENCE

Casein was found to be valuable
IN making photograph records
when a workman, while eating
lunch, flippled a piece of cheese at
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81 Chem-set plates for longer
life. Selected Port Oxford cedar
separators. No-spill safety vents
prevent damage from overflow
ing acid.