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Evening star., 1944-02-26
Wounded Air War Hero
Marries Army Nurse
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Feb. 26.-First 1t. Vic
tor c. Scanned, air hero of raids
over Wewak, and Second 1t. Gladys
Simon, Army Nurse Corps, were
married at Lawson General Hospital
Chapel yesterday afternoon, Chap
lain Sherry performing the cere-
mony.
1t. Scanned, who is from Dallas
Tex, and Miss Simon whose home
Is in st. Louis, met in San Francisco
last November when he was brought
back wounded from New Guinea
and she was returning from duty in
Australia. Since that time he has
been confined at Oliver General
Hospital in Augusta, Ga, and she
has been on duty at Lawson General
Hospital here.
After a weeks honeymoon, desti-
nation unrevealed, 1t. Scanned will
go to Coral Gables, Fla, for assign
ment and the bride will return to
Lawson General,
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Youth Gets IS Years
In Staying Of Man
With an Iron Pipe
Campbell w. Burnett, 18, colored,

Campbell w. Burnett, 18, colored,
yesterday was given the maximum
sentence Of Is years to life by JUS
tice David A. Pine Of District Court
for the second-degree murder last
July of Thomas H. White, &c. of
the First block Of Randolph place
NV.
The sentence was the longest of
a number imposed in District Court
yesterday and Justice Pine indicat-
ed that the youth was fortunate in
having been allowed to plead guilty
to second-degree murder after hav-
ing been indicted on a charge of
first-degree murder.
Mr.. White was slain at night
while on the street near his home
by being struck with an iron pipe.
Burnett was II at the time of the
crime. Indicted with him was an
other colored youth, who authori-
ties found later to be only Is at
the time Of the crime. The case
against the younger boy had to be
referred to Juvenile Court for ac-
tion and was nolle pressed in Dis
trict Court. The greatest punish
ment Juvenile Court can give the
younger boy is to place him in the
National Training School until he
is 81, it was learned
In imposing sentence on Burnett,
Justice Pine said: You have been
permitted to plead to second d-degree
murder. You thereby escaped the
possibility. indeed the probability
of the death sentence"
Then Justice Pine indicated Bur-
nett had been permitted to plead
to the lesser charge of second-de-
gree murder, probably due partly
to his extreme youth. Il think you
have been given every considera-
tion." added Justice Pine.
Assistant United States Attorney
John c. Conliff, jr.. who prosecuted
the case, said the slain mans
pocketbook, which was thought to
have contained $40. had been found
empty after he was attacked.
In other sentences yesterday,
Justice Pine gave Charles w. Har-
ris, AZ, colored, and Napoleon
Sparger, 18, colored, a total of two
to six years on robbery charges.
The pair pleaded guilty to robbing
a filling station and a waiter at
Union Station ,-.--. -.,...-.
Chief Justice Edward c. Eicher
of District Court sentenced Robert
L. Bowers, 80, colored, to serve from
5 to is years on a manslaughter
charge in the Staying of George H.
Brown, 25, colored, In January,
l943. Bowers haF pleaded guilty
to the charge Of Staying the man
oy stabbing him in the throat.
David Shapiro, "a, of the I70O
block of G street NV. was given
a total OF two to six years by Justice
Eicher on housebreaking and lar
ceny charges, after he had entered
guilty pleas. He broke into a res
and tailor shop. 1t was
charged.
Evening star., 1944-02-26

that the Senate had passed the tax
bill over the Presidents veto.
Mr.. Hannegan's statement said:
"The action Of the President in
vetoing the tax bill is further as
surance to the American people that
the President, Notwithstanding his
tremendous responsibilities in con-
nection with the war abroad, is vi
tally concerned with the welfare Of
the people at home.
"His action demonstrates again
that he has the courage Of his con-
victions.
THE subsequent action Of Sena-
tor Barkley-a great American-for
whom I have the highest regard,
and the subsequent action Of Con-
gress Is an assurance that ours is a
working democracy.
The Presidents message to Sena-
tor Barkley indicates his magma
nimity and that we can differ in gov
ernmental affairs without retain
ing personal animosity.
The matter is now closed. It is
my opinion that the overall effect
of the incident will be a stimulus
to the promotion of harmony In the
Democratic party and the country"
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Mrs. Heinz Is Accused
Of Kicking Mother-i r-in-Law

BY the Associated Press.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Feb. 26
"A warrant for the arrest of Mrs
Elizabeth Bald Heinz, estranged wife
Of Clifford Stanton Heinz, grandson
Of the founder of the pickle firm,
was issued yesterday on complaint
of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Sara
MacLean, who charged assault and
battery.
City Prosecutor Charles s. Gala
han said that Mrs. MacLean de-
clared her daughter -in-law jumped
from an automobile, and that in an
effort to take possession of her s.
year-old son, Clifford III, who was
walking with Mrs. MacLean, she
kicked the older woman on the leg,
grabbed her throat and pulled her
hair. He added Mrs. Heinz fed
without the child after her mother
in-law screamed.
Mr.. Heinz and his son are living
here with his mother. Mrs. Heinz
has been residing in Baltimore, Md.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Admiral Hart to Take Evidence
For Use at rial of KimmeI

so that they may be called before
q court-martial when the war stu
alton permits. The courts-martia)
have been delayed because informa-
ton OF value to the enemy might be
disclosed.
Mr.. Knox said the gathering of
testimony was decided on ito see
that the whole truth is revealed
when the case is brought up for
trial"
He told reporters at a news con-
ference that some of the officers
who served at Pearl Harbor may die
IN action, and I'VE want to have the
testimony available" In that event.
Admiral Hart will visit the officers
at their present stations 80 that
their testimony may be preserved
with a minimum amount of inter-
ference with their present duties !"
The Navy did not say whether Ad-
miral Kimmel would be given an
opportunity of cross-examining the
witnesses.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Mrs. Hoover Leaves.
Property 10 Family
In Pefs soneI Letter
~ the Al Hated Press.

~ the As0eiated Press.
SAN JOSE, Calf, Feb. 26.-In q
letter to her two sons, Allan and
Herbert, jr., Mrs. Herbert Clark
Hoover disposed of her property in
"a series Of friendly requests which
I make to you both, and to your
father" the former President.
"You have been lucky boys" Mrs.
Hoover wrote, ito have had such q
father. and am lucky woman to
have had my LIES trail alongside the
paths Of three such men and boys" !"
Mrs. Hoover died Unexpectedly in
New York recently. The will was
filed here today.
Dear Herbert and Allan" the
letter started. II have q will some
where. have not seen 1t in years,
and 1t probably would be very hard
to flnd II wanted suddenly. SO I
will replace 1t with this. just a
series Of friendly requests which I
make to you both and to your
father, intended to dispose of every
thing have except such property as
I have in Washington, D. c."
The estate was described merely
as "in excess of 10000"
ITO your daddy" the letter con-
tinued, Il bequeath all my interest
and rights in the community prop
erty acquired by us during our mar
ried life. My invested funds
which have been in your New York
office for years. bequeath to daddy.
AS also, investments and securities
or invested funds, wherever deposit
ed -.
There probably will not be more
than enough cash in my bank &C
count and the small securities in my
possession at the moment to settle
up the small personal affairs which
l leave. If any should be left over
from these two sources, please divide
1t equally among your children
likely for pocket money"
Mrs. Hoover wrote that "the STAN
ford House and other real estate or
housing properties then in my pos
session, except the Washington
ID. c. property. may be divided er
shared by you boys, If you wish"
The only District property listed
as owned by Mrs. Herbert Hoover is
In the name Of Lou Henry Hoover.
1t is the house at 1900 s street NV,
which the Hoovers occupied when
the former President was Secretary
OF Commerce, and is valued at $ll6,-
BAT,
Evening star., 1944-02-26
BY the Associated Press,

Admiral Thomas C. Hart has
been assigned to the taking OF
testimony Of naval officers ac-
quainted with the situation
pertinent to the japanese at
tack on Pearl Harbor on Decem-
Der 7, 1941."
Secretary Of the Navy Knox made
the announcement yesterday indi-
eating that the department wishes
to obtain as soon as possible any
information which officers may have
concerning charges Of derenction of
duty filed against Rear Admiral
Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. Gen
Walter c. Short.
Admiral Kimmel and Gen. Short,
commanders of the naval and Army
forces in the Hawaii area at the
time Of the attack, who were re-
lieved of their posts, have waived
the statute of limitation regulation
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Poles
Continued From First Page.

a Polish civil administration on the
western side of the line.
The Polish civil administration,
in the governments conception,
would be formed around under
ground groups in Poland led by a
man who calls himself Grot. He
is a deputy vice premier of the
Polish government in London.
Poles Cooperate With Reds.
The Polish exile government has
ordered the underground forces
which look to it for leadership to
cooperate with the Soviet armies.
This is a revision of its previous
order to the underground not to
obstruct the Soviet armies and at
the same time not to cooperate
with them.
The "demarcation line" offer was
made, it was reliably reported, be-
cause the Polish exile government
felt it lacked authority to settle
Polands boundaries. 1t was said
also to be moved by the belief that
the eastern boundaries could not be
settled until the western and north
ern boundaries were settled
Some difference of view is said to
exist among Poles in the exile gov
ernment about the role Mr.. Church.
Ill has decided to play. London re-
ports indicated some Polish criticism
Of his talk In the House of Com
mons Tuesday urging a Curzon Line
settlement, but it is known that
other Poles regard his efforts at
as realistic and offering
some prospect of being fruitful.
Ambassador Clark-Kerr was sent
back to Moscow after confusing re-
ports reached the British Foreign
Once from John Balfour, the
charge d'affaires in the Ambasas-
doris absence. Mr.. Balfour is said to
have gathered the erroneous impress
sion from Foreign Commissar Molo-
tov that the Soviet would welcome
a public British and American offer
to use their good offices in effectine
a settlement between Moscow and
the London Poles.
The British and American govern.
ments made a trial effort on thu
basis OF the reported Balfour sug.
gestion and the Soviets repellec
their good offices. So Mr.. Churchill
took over the negotiations on a les.
formal but equally realistic basis.
Ambassador Ciechanowski has
not been in London since he left
there for his post here in the win
ter Of 194l. Educated at Oxford. he
speaks perfect English and is be-
lieved to be thoroughly acquainted
with the American official point of
view about the settlement Of the
Polish question.
Evening star., 1944-02-26

cident W u1 d
act as a "a stin1-
ulus to the pro-
motion Of har-
m ny In the
Democratic par
ty and t h e
country" .,
Mr.. Hannegan
issued a written
statement after
his arrival here
10 aQQ r e SIS q
s t ate Demo-
cratic party din
ner tonight.
While on the
troiy, .hn 1Aory,AI
Evening star., 1944-02-26
BY TAYLOR HENRY,
Associated Press Correspondent.

| hSsoCldISu fIcSS SOEIcSpOnQenC.
BIARRITZ, France. Feb. % (de-
layed).-The much-touted Atlantic
wall designed to protect Europe
from an Allied landing is not i'm
pregnable and landing is possible
the Germans themselves admit.
After a year-long propaganda ef-
fort to convince the German people
that 1t would be suicide for the AL
lies to attempt landing in force in
Europe, the Nazis suddenly changed
their tactics early this year and ad-
mitted both openly and by implica-
ton that their coastal defenses are
not as strong as had been thought
and that work was being rushed to
strengthen them.
The first admission came from
the official party newspaper, Das
Reich, controlled by Paul Joseph
Goebbels himself.
The article, published January IA,
was noteworthy in that it failed to
make any claims Of German air su-
periority and omitted former claims
Of having destroyed airfields in Eng
land just across the Channel.
Fortifications Being Modernized.
Reichminister Albert Speer, head
of the Todt organization which has
the responsibility for construction
Of the Atlantic Wall, admitted that
1t already was outdated in a state
ment made January 26 to explain
the necessity of repairing it on the
basis of lessons the Germans learned
from the Allied landings at Anzio
and Nettuno in Italy.
Speer was quoted in the German
press as saying interesting con-
clusions had been drawn from Italy
on methods Of enemy landings"
Consequently specialists are occu-
pied daily undermining the Atlantic
Wall.
These disclosures came only few
weeks after the Germans had an
nounced completion of the wall
from the northern tip of Norway
2,751 miles to the French-Spanish
frontier.
The announcements said 10000
600 tons Of concrete had been used
in building the wall, enough to flll
a line Of trucks half way around the
earth"
Gaps in Coastal Defenses.
The name Atlantic Wall" Is mis-
leading, because it is line of forti-
ncatiOnS more or less separated
Links of a sort are provided by tank
defenses and barbed wire intended
to hamper beach landings.
I checked all available published
maps and articles from inside Ger
many for more than 13 months and
In leaving Germany passed through
the wall" itself. I gained the i'm
preston that there are three dis
tinct deviations in the line of forti-
f1cations with the 1880 miles from
the German-Dutch border to the
French-Spanish frontier more heav-
lily bulwarked than the $500 miles
Of the Norwegian Coast and with
the shores of German-occupied
Denmark leaving an apparent gap
between.
German sources said there were
more than 5000 pieces of emplaced
artillery between the North Sea
| Canal and the Cnanish fro,,fier
Evening star., 1944-02-26
ItoIy
Continued From First Page J

torpedo boat stabs at shipping
of the harbor was reported. The
Allied communique said an E-boat
attack on the Anzio anchorage three
nights ago was broken up by patrol
craft. s4s
Indian troops of the British 8th
Army threw back three separate
night attacks near Orsogna. Allied
artillery fire also broke up an enemy
raid at another point in the Orsogna
area and patrol inflicted casualties
on the Germans in a clash north of
Arielli, between Orsogna and the
Adriatic coast.
Allied planes few more than 800
sorties yesterday, including a heavy
bomber assault on Regensburg. Ger
many, which had been previously
announced.
Fighters and fighter bombers
alternated in patrols over the Anzic
beachhead with attacks on German
troop concentrations. German ac-
ltivity over the beachhead amounted
to four Sorties.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Boy IS Is Charged
with Homicide in
Death Of Playmate
Ry the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Fifteen.
year-old Frank Drury was under,
arrest on a charge of homicide to-
day after police found the body Of
an 11-year-old playmate, Henry
Peterson, in rooming house closet.
Detective 1t. Henry Devlin said
the Peterson boy had been dead two
weeks and that young Drury told
detectives he shot his playmate ac-
cidentally while both were inspecting
new .44-40 rife they had bought
from a mail order house.
Drury lived in the rooning house
and his playmate a few doors away.
Both were members Of poor families
and worked parttime as newsboys.
Police quoted Drury as saying the
boys set their hearts on the. $50
rifle when they saw 1t advertised
in a magazine. and saved their.
money until they could order 1t.
1t. Devlin said the Drury boy told
the following story:
Both boys played hockey from
school the morning of February IL,
and the younger boy went to Drury's
tiny room on the third floor of the
rooming house.
While Drury was showing his
playmate how the gun worked It
went OF and sent a bullet through
the Peterson boys head. It made
4 lot of noise, but apparently no
one heard it. Drury waited, and no
one came. He cleaned some blood
on the floor, covered his playmate's
head with burlap and dragged the
body down hallway to a vacant
room, put 1t in closet and locked
the door.
The dead boys twin sister Pearl
came to ask about him that evening.
but Drury said the boy had not been
there. Five days later, and several
times afterward, detectives came to
the rooming house, and Drury said
he had not seen his playmate.
Finally, 1t. Devlin said, detectives
came across the rifle and were puz.
zled at the Drury boys evasiveness.
Detectives said they had asked the
Drury boy about the room at the
end OF the hall and had been as
sured 1t was occupied, but when
some one told them later 1t was va.
can't they entered and found the
body.
Evening star., 1944-02-26

august II, lS42, With Col. Evans F..
Carlson.
The citation by 1t. Gen. Robert
c. Richardson, commanding Army
forces In the Central Pacific, said
Col. Roosevelt voluntarily sought
out scenes of heaviest fighting.
Throughout the three day period
he continually accompanied leading
elements of the assault, exposing
himself to constant danger. His
calmness under fire and presence
among the foremost elements of the
attacking force was a source of in
spiration to all ranks"
Col. Roosevelt was cited after the
earlier Maxim raid for the rescue
of three drowning men; he was in
the second battle of Midway in
June, 1912, and he was an observer
with the landing force at Kiska in
the Aeutians.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
1l5-Pound Oetoeenorion.
Tokes 356-Pound Bride

BY the Associated Press.
EL1ZABETHTON, Tenn, Feb. 2e.
William c. Buckles, a1-year-old
stoney Greek resident, beamed hap
PLY yesterday as he started house.
keeping with his 34-year-old bride,
the former Mabel Sarah Odell.
Mr.. Buckles, who weighs q mere
lis pounds, married Miss Odell, who
admits to 1856 pounds, in q cere-
mony that attracted hundreds from
miles around to Caldwell Springs
Baptist Church Thursday night
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Doriot Reported Back
From Eastern Front
By tie Associated Press.

By tEe Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Jacques
Doriot. head Of the pro- -Nazi French
Popular party, has arrived in Paris
from "the Eastern 'front.'" the Paris
radio said today in broadcast re-
corded by United States Govern
ment monitors.
The broadcast declared Doriot
would issue a report on the activities
OF French volunteers" fighting with
the Germans on the Russian front.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Earthquake Reported
Felt in Bucharest
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-The Hun.
garian MTI agency said a strong
earthquake accompanied by UNDER
ground rumblings" was felt last
night in Bucharest, Rumanian capi-
tai. There were no other details.
The wireless dispatch, which was
directed to the controlled European
press, was reported by the United
States Foreign Broadcast Intelli-
gence Service.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Fi|ipinos Made Subject
To Farm Labor Droft
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-All able
bodied men and women between the
ages OF is and so in the Occupied
Philippines have been made liable
TO compulsory labor service in az
riculture under a decree signed by
Puppet President Jose p. Laurel, it
was announced by the japanese
Domei agency in an overseas wire
less dispatch reported today by the
United States Foreign Broadcast
Intelligence Service.
Domestic broadcast by the Jap
anese-controlled Manila radio said
$500, 900 Fflipinos would be affected.
Evening star., 1944-02-26
"A. P. Wirephoto.

These ranged. according to the Ger
mans, from rs nm. guns to huge
cross s-Channel pieces which the
Nazis boasted could fire farther thar
the Big Berthas Of the World War
Besides these fixed artillery posi-
tions, the Germans declared they
had thousands of mobile guns OF
armor-piercing caliber.
Only 1,700 guns of medium ia
heavy caliber guard the Norwegian
coastline, however, the Germans
admitted.
Civilian Workers Requisitioned.
Evidence of the frantic efforts of
the Germans to strengthen the At
lantic Wall was noted the day I ar
rived In Biarritz on my way out OF
tnterment. The Germans published
an order requisitioning outright all
male civilians IN coastal commune
ties In that sector who were between
the ages Of Is and 60.
Up to the present the Germans
have considered the Basque coast
one of the least important parts Of
the Atlantic Wall and contented
themselves with placing few pieces
OF heavy and a great deal of light
artillery on hilltops covering inlets
to the Bay Of Biscay and furnishing
cross-fire over the beaches.
Even a hotel on one beach still
is open and is used by German
student ofncers. The usual unusual
activity" was shown by local troops
during the passage Of the American
repatriation group just as it had
been during the passage Of other
groups OF the same character. Guns
fired throughout the day, machine
guns hinged along the coast and
heavy echoes Of gunhre could be
heard.
Armored Cars on Patrol
Townspeople said normally the
Germans fired only few warming
up shots in the early morning and
then did nothing more.
Along the Pyrenees south Of Biar-
ritz German armored cars carry out
a constant patrol Of the Spanish
frontier along a corridor which re-
Gently was made another forbidden
zone for all but permanent inhabit-
ants.
The newly requisitioned French
workers on the Atlantic Wall will be
added to the thousands already en-
ployed on a more or less voluntary
basis by the Todt organization in
France. They, like other foreigners,
work minimum week OF 90 hours
for an average of 750 francs (rough-
ly $l0) in addition to food and bar
racks quarter.
OF several hundred thousand
workers on the Atlantic Wall the
ratio OF foreigners to Germans has
finally reached as high as 10 to l,
since urgent calls by the army are
taking Germans out of labor bat
talions and placing them in fight
units
Evening star., 1944-02-26
Churchill Support
Of BadogIio Regime
Called Dishonest
Hy the Associated Press.

LONDON, Feb. 26.-Prime Min
lister Churchills decision to support
the present italian government Of
King Victor Emmanuel and Premier
Marshal Pietro Badoglo, at least
until the Allies win the battle for
Rome" today was characterized by
the magazine New Statesman and
Nation as neither honest politics
nor sound strategy"
'The idea that the Allies are sup
posed to be fighting for certain po-
litical principles and rights seems
to have been cynically discarded
from his (Churchill's) mind" the
magazine said. Nothing counts
save military victory"
The periodical said Mr.. Churchill,
In effect, asserted that a demo-
cratic government, If set up in
Rome, would prove to be a nuisance
and added:
THAT means, we take it, that
Churchill, In close touch with the
clerical and monarchist forces
around Badoglio, will use his over
whelming influence to delay or pre-
vent its establishment.
This is neither honest politics
nor Is 1t sound strategy"