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Evening star., 1944-01-15
British Flyer Balls Out,
browns in Ohio River
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. MARYS, w. Va, Jan. Is
Two British flyers en- route to
Washington yesterday took to para
chutes when their plane got out of
control and burst into flames, with
one landing safely near here and
the other losing his life in the ice
clogged Ohio River.
The British Air Commission in
Washington withheld details tenn
porarily.
West Virginia State police said
the plane crashed into a mountain
side on the Ohio side of the river
moments after both men had para
chuted out.
A group of men attempted to res
cue the flyer who had fallen into
the river, but because of its Icy
condition they were unable to reach
him in time. They recovered hi
opened parachute. The Ohio high
way patrol at Marietta said the
river was being dredged In an eff.
for to find the drowned flyers body
Evening star., 1944-01-15
BY the Associated Press

Ds tIc hsooSldlcu ltcsS.
The Army takes the view that the
Allied cause would be weaker"
now If Russia had not attacked Fin
land in 1899 and overrun the Baltic
States.
An official guidebook states this
as military fact" without any
attempt to pass moral judgments"
on Russia's action. The book was
issued for the guidance Of informa-
ton officers, editors Of soldier pa
pers and personnel in charge Of
orientation courses.
One aim Of the book is to impress
American soldiers with the need
for cooperation with foreign COL
leagues in combat. There is cau-
ton to avoid "tale-bearing such as
would create doubt of any ally"
Much of the advice is directed to-
ward the Russian situation. The
guide comments that lit is not nec-
essary or desirable to defend COM
munism in order to enlist the SYM
pathetic interest" Of the American
soldier and that though we do not
agree with their political ideas (and
they do not believe in ours) we be.
lieve utterly in the defense of the
principle for which they are fight
ing" the right to determine how
they shall be governed.
At another point, the guide says
THE ultimate military conse.
quences are the best evidence o.
whether the USSR's 1899 attack OF
Finland and subsequent overrun.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
D. c. Suffrage
Continued From First Page.)

to go into the subject. I am in
favor of national representation for
the people Of the National Capital
and I would like to see the details
of the plan considered. While the
question. of allowing District resi-
dents to elect their Commissioners
is under consideration, think the
question Of national representation
also should be considered"
The Senate District Committee Is
expected to be called into session
shortly to act on the McCarran
home rule" bill, on which extensive
hearings recently were concluded
A majority Of suffrage advocates
testifying on this measure spoke In
interest of national representation
declaring there was no conflict be-
tween the questions of local and
national suffrage. District Commit
tee Chairman McCarran explained
at the local suffrage hearings that
national representation was not be-
fore his committee and should be
treated as q separate matter.
Chairman Summers Of the House
Judiciary Committee and Senator
Capper, Republican, of Kansas, CO.
authors Of the proposed national
representation constitutional amend
ment, both voiced qualification late
yesterday oyer the prospects Of &C.
ton by the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee on the joint resolution.
Senator Capper, while declaring
that the fight for national repre-
sentation would 60 forward. EN-.
phasized that right now, it seem,
to me, an important thing Is to try
to bring about fair treatment oi
servicemen from the District while
Evening star., 1944-01-15
More Homes in District
Must Burn Soft Coal,
Dealer Declares

AS a consequence of Washington,s
continuing coal shortage, a substan-
tial number of householders now
using anthracite will soon be burn
ing soft coal, A. p Brown, head of
the coal section of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association, said
today.
Meanwhile, the Solid Fuels Ad-
ministration announced today that
emergency action to meet serious
coal shortages in Northeastern
States will absorb the entire pro-
duction of Northern West Virginia
high-volatile mines the first two
working days next week.
The West Virginia producers were
ordered to fill all outstanding or
ders from aJl-rail dealers and dis
tributors in Maine, New Hampshire
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland
Delaware and the District from the
two-day output reserved to meet
the emergency.
The remainder Of their output in
domestic sizes was ordered held for
shipment at the direction of STA to
meet any local emergencies.
Mr.. Brown said the switch from
anthracite to soft coal on the part
of Washington consumers would re-
suit from the recent STA ALLEGATION
Of 100 extra cars of soft coal q
week to Washington.
OF the 100 cars, he asserted, 90
will be of low smoke content btu
minous, while only 10 cars, or ap-
proximately 500 tons, would be OF
the smoky, high-volatile type.
Mr.. Brown said many Washington
householders already have switched
from anthracite to bituminous and
are finding it a very satisfactory
substitute. It's heat output is good,
he said. The 1ow-volatile types
throw off little smoke, and the only
difficulty Is that furnaces require
more attention, Mr.. Brown asserted
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Nazis Say New Plane
Can Climb 44 Miles
lin Two Minutes
BY the Associated Press.

STOCKHOLM, Jan. IS. Last
nights heavy Raj assault on
Brunswick forced the Nazis again
to put up their rocket-propelled
fighter planes, which they uncov-
cred for the first time in Tuesday S
historic American assault, the Ber-
lin correspondent Of the newspaper
Aftonbladet said today.
The Nazi rocket-propelled type is
similar to the newly announced AL
lied jet-plane, but driven from the
rear by explosive fuel instead of
from air sucked in from the front
and then superheated and super
compressed almost to the explosive
point as in the Allied type.
The rocket power was said by the
correspondent to enable the new
|Nazi fighter to climb ~ miles in
two minutes instead of the usual Is
minutes.
However, only top-notch pilots
were said to be able to withstand
the sudden change of pressure ex-
perienced In the climb, which was
described as more terrific than that
undergone by dive-bomber pilots.
1t also was reported that the Nazis
are building a new type of automatic
machine gun which continues to fire
on the target after the gunner i!
killed or wounded. It was described
as having a rate of fire much fastel
than ANYTHING now used.
A traveller from Halberstadt, ont
of the targets hit in the Tuesday
American raid on Central Germany
said the city was under attack fol
As minutes, when between so and II
per cent of the factory producing
Nazi fighters and planes was wreck.
ed and other plants manufacturing
machine guns for the fighters were
badly damaged.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Mile 0 Dimes. n S. Stand
|At Capitol Theaier
Does Brisk Business

The Mile o. Dimes stand in front
OF the Capitol Theater reported q
brisk business today as officials APP
peared optimistic that this years
drive would better the record Of
$4,000 in dimes raised last year
to fight infantile paralysis.
Placing two dimes ION the line"
for President Roosevelt and herself,
Mrs. Roosevelt yesterday afternoon
officially opened the Districts Mile
o. Dimes stand while a group of
newsreel photographers took pic
lures of the event.
Proceeds will be used in the Ma
tion-wide fight against the disease
so per cent going to the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
and SO per cent being retained here
to finance the care and treatment of
local cases.
Stressing the Importance Of the
research work being done to combat
infantile paralysis, Mrs. Roosevelt
said that ability to quickly .recog-
nize the symptoms and prompt
treatment are the most important
factors in fighting the disease.
Mrs. Roosevelt said the war had
made the Nation more conscious
than ever of the welfare of its chill
dren. "We must give afflicted chill
dren fair start in life by aiding
them in every way we can," she
said.
Commissioner Guy Mason and
screen glamour girl Patricia Mori-
son joined Mrs. Roosevelt in ap-
peals for public support of the
campaign. The program was broad
cast over five radio stations.
Special broadcasts will originate
from the Mile O. Dimes stand until
the conclusion of the campaign on
January 30 Newspapers will list
the daily programs. The stand has
been equipped to afford movie stars
coming here for the Presidents cele-
bration an opportunity to broadcast
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Delinquency in Baltimore
Laid 10 Parents, Police
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 15.-Blame for
the recent wave of waywardness
among young Baltimoreans, which
|necessitated the creation Of a Juve-
nile Delinquency Bureau in the
police department, was placed today
on the shoulders of both parents
and police officers by Hamilton r.
Atkinson.
The police commissioner disclosed
that an 11-year-old boy had roamed
the city unquestioned by police for
a month.
He told of two girls, members OF
a gang of youngsters who committed
a series of seven burglaries, who
went shopping with some of the
proceeds and came home with sew
eral pairs of expensive shoes. Yet
their affluence apparently did not
excite the least curiosity or concern
on the part of their parents, Mr.
Atkinson stated.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Army and Press Kept
Rocket Plane Secret
Two and Half Years
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
The Army told yesterday how 1t
kept the secret of the propulsion
plane for two and a half years-in-
cluding the fact that the first pilot
model was built at a. secret plant on
one seaboard, but given its test flight
on the opposite side of the country.
The plane, the Army said, is still
without official designation, but has
acquired such nicknames as putt
putt" squirt" ''hush-hush," "
Siberia" and super secret" Some
refer to it as rocket plane"
AT one time" the War Department
said, ''the hangar concealing the
plane produced rumor that it
housed a project involving a major
Improvement in the sewing ma
chine"
The prime difference in the out
ward appearance of the jet-propul-
sion plane in contrast with others is
that it does not have a propeller
Once when the plane was trans
ported by truck from one testing
site to another dummy wooden
propeller was attached, successfully
cloaking it's identity.
"The plane and its engines have
been protected always by 24-houl
guard system"
The department said the keeping
Of the secret was striking illus.
tration In a free country of tn,
safeguarding of security by press
civilians and the military"
The department declared thai
throughout the development of thu
plane executives and many work.
ers Of the General Electric Co
(bulders of the engines) and of Bel
Aircraft Corp. and military per.
sonnel in Washington, at Wright
Field, Dayton, Ohio. and othe,
points had knowledge of the jet.
propulsion plane. A number ol
newspaper, magazine and trade
paper, writer's and executives alse
are known to have come into in.
formation concerning the plane.
The department added:
1T was due to the sound security
judgment of all of these individual,
that when the formal announcement,
OF the jet-propulsion planes sue.
cessful development was announced
1t came as a surprise to the Natior
at large"
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Army Declares Soviet Attack
On Firms Aided Allied Cause

ming of the Baltic provinces were
barehanded aggressions, motivated
by greed for territory, or were done
to strengthen the USSR's western
frontiers against attack by Ger
many.
THE possession of this buffer
territory did greatly facilitate the
USSR defense when the attack duly
fell. Without attempting any
moral judgments on the matter, it
is enough to state the military fact
that had the USSR not acted so,
the Allied cause would be weaker
today"
OF Britain, the guide advises:
"As long as the war continues, and
as far beyond that as the years of
reconstruction may carry us, no
single condition seems to be more
vital for victory and the ultimate
restoration of peaceful and civilized
ways of life than the maintenance
of an uninterrupted friendship with
England. -
People who have their own pri.
vate reasons for not liking the Brit
Sh should remember that this j.
not their private war and that, ever
if it were, Britain is not the enemy.
The war aim of the armed force.
of the United States, the guido
says, lis the total defeat OF tn,
Axis powers. There is no room
for discussion of anything short O
total military victory over tn
enemy" and peace feelers do no
interest u.s." It asserts.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
-Four Hurt in Crash
Of Streetcar, Autos

-Four persons were injured when q
streetcar, a Navy station wagon and
an automobile collided at Fourteenth
street and Constitution avenue NV.
last night.
Admitted to Emergency Hospital
were Leonard Jackson, A, and his
wife, Mrs. Elsie Jackson, operator
OF the automobile, of 2601 Davis
street, Alexandria. Mrs. Jackson
suffered cuts on her head and pos
sible conclusion. Her husband re-
ceived a fractured right ankle and
cuts.
Others treated at the hospital were
Mary A. Gray, "a, of COLA Seventh
street NV, a passenger on the
streetcar, cuts on scalp, and Harry
M. Pollock, rs, Of the naval base at
Solomons Island, Md, operator OF
the station wagon, minor injuries.
Police listed Howard C. OVERLY, 80,
of 4535 Iowa avenue NV, as the
motorman of the streetcar.
The crash occurred, police said
when the station wagon, going east
on Constitution avenue, was struck
by the automobile going south on
Fourteenth street. The streetcar
northbound on Fourteenth street,
was hit by the station wagon.
In an earlier accident, Mrs. Sally
Gibson, SO, wife Of Capt. E. B.
Gibson, U. S. NJ, Of 1900 Thirty
eighth street NV, was struck by an
automobile while walking across the
car tracks at Wisconsin avenue and
Tenley Circle NV. She was taken
to her home, police said, where she
was treated for a broken right arm
and cuts and bruises by a Navy
physician.
Police listed Tommy w. Ray, II,
of 2414 Thirtieth street NE, as the
driver Of the automobile, which was
travelling north ON Wisconsin avenue
at the time of tloe accident
Evening star., 1944-01-15
D. c. Man Held in 81 900
Robbery Case Threat

David Histon, 80, of the 600 block
OF K street NE, was held for grand
jury action under $1,000 bond yes
terday on charge of threatening a
a complainant in a robbery case.
He pleaded not guilty before Judge
Thomas D. Quinn in Municipal
Court. =, .-
Police said Charles P. Kinery,
POI Eighth street NE, was robbed
Of $38 in taxicab by Gordon w
Conover, %, of the 300 block of
Sixteenth street NV. According
to police, Histon threatened to beat
Kinery If he testified against Cofi-
over.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Treasury Counsel
Would Simplify Tax
For Common Man
BY the Associated Press.


PROVIDENCE, R. l., Jan. 49,
Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul
checking the issue of income tax
simplification back to Congress, ex-
pressed sympathy last night with
the common man who would like
a tax law that is easy to under
stand.
Most lawyers and accountants u
said Mr.. Paul in an address before
the second annual Institute on Fed
eral Taxation, have lost touch with
the homely thoughts of Joe Doaks
who frowns over his record keeping
who cannot multiply by decimals,
who finds mere words unbelievably
tricky-which they are-and who
would like tax law which reads
like a pill advertisement.
ITO reduce tax laws to the limits
of Joe Doaks' mental processes is
unreasonable, you say. 1t is reach
ing for the moon. That may be
true. But Joe deserves every con-
sideration, since he is the man who
files and pays"
Mr.. Paul suggested to business
that it might find some postwar
simplification relief by means of q
flanking attack against the corpo-
rate tax structure, the whole OF
which he said needs overhauling.
He added, "the tax which promises
to give us the most trouble after the
war is the corporation income tax
Even before the war, he said, the
corporation tax was believed to be
rough on equity owners; it has fire.
quently been blamed for frightening
potential venture capital into safer
investment outlets"
Although a frontal attack on the
corporate tax may have little chance
of success, there remains a method
of bunting its edge. In 1912 the
public utility industry succeeded ir
reducing the effective burden of the
tax not by working on the rate, but
rather by attaining an adjustment
in the base The deduction of pre-
ferred dividends from surtax net
income of the utility companies Is
more than straw in the wind
Where preferred dividends have led
common dividends may follow"
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Russia
Continued From First Page. }

of Kotsury, 16 miles west of Kahn
kovichi, on the north bank of the
Pripet, were liberated in the fourth
day of the advance, the bulletin
added, and 5000 Nazis were killed.
Front Broadened.
South of the marshes, Gen. Vatu-
tins army broadened its front along
the KievWarsaw trunk railway and
crossed the Horyn, 10 miles west of
Sarny.
The twin offensives of Gen. Vatu-
tin and Gen. Rokossovsky were roll
ing westward approximately 60
miles apart along the only two rail
|routes serving east-west traffic
through the Pripet Marshes.
The Germans stiffened their re-
sistance in the area between Rovno
and Novograd Volynski, SIS miles to
the east. Despite this, the Russians
continued to advance, dispatches
said, killing 400 Nazis and wrecking
II tanks and guns.
In the lower Ukraine, where the
Germans repeatedly are launching
their heaviest counterattacks, Gen.
Vatutins left wing continued to re-
pulse strong enemy tank and in
fantry forces east Of Vinnitsa in the
Ukrainian Bug River sector.
Tremendous Losses.
Here the Germans are attempting
at all costs to halt the Soviet drive
for the Dniester River and Rumania,
and the tremendous losses they are
suffering is expected to have an i'm
portant effect on the further de-
velopment of the campaign in that
area.
In one sector alone, the Soviet
communique said, the enemy sent
more than 100 tanks and guns into
action, but the Russians destroyed
26 tanks and dispersed supporting
infantry columns.
In another savage attack the Ger
mans lost 1000 men killed, many
captured and IS tanks and % ar
mored cars were destroyed by Gen.
Vatutin's troops. Large stores Of
German war gear were taken, the
communique said.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Pacific
Continued From First Page J

down at least five and probably three
others.
From Rabaul, the raiding line
swung both northwest toward
Kavieng, where a 7,OO0-ton cargo
ship in convoy probably was sunk
by 1,000-to ton bomb hit, and south
east toward Bougainville, which was
bombed at both ends.
The bulk of these actions occurred
Wednesday and Thursday.
Ground successes were reported on
both sides of the narrow waters
separating New Britain and New
Guinea. At Bergen Bay, New
Britain, marines battling up the
slopes of a strategic hill have slain
500 more japanese to raise enemy
losses there to nearly 5000 since that
sector was invaded last December 26
On New Guinea, Australians wind
ing up the Huon Peninsula cam
paign captured Nambariwa and
moved their artillery within shelling
range of the enemy barge base of
Sio
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Detroit Mayor Names
RuciuI Committee
By the Associated Press

6y the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Jan. 15.-Mayor Ed.
ward j. Jeffries, informing the city
council that racial tension still
exists" in Detroit, has appointed
a permanent 11-man racial rela-
tions committee. The COMMITTEES
was allocated $4,000 for its work.
The Mayor reported that "rela-
tions between racial groups in De-
troit have somewhat improved since
the race riots Of last June" but
added that tension probably will
continue as long as the war lasts
and for some time thereafter, be-
cause Of overcrowded living condi-
tions and other factors created by
the war effort" Three of the COM
mittee members are Negroes.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Beechon BIunes
| Music Decline
ION Thinking
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Jan. is. - Sir
Thomas Beecham, British conduct
or, attributes the decline of music
in the Goth century" to this: Mu-
sicians think too much nowadays.
Sir Thomas told a Town Hall
audience yesterday, ut is quite
right that creators of music should
not think. The fact is when they
begin to think they go wrong"
He added: Lets please pray our
creative artists to be socially stupid
intellectually puerile, to shut them
selves upstairs in an ivory tower
and be as they used to be: out
rageous, preposterous, impossible
and almost outlaws from society
but to recover the pride in their
craft and the faith In its all-su-
preme importance"
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Mary Pickford to Launch
Liberty Ship Today
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the AsSoclated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. is. Mary
Pickford, former motion picture stal
and chairman of the women's di-
vision Of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, was to spon-
sor a Liberty ship, the Samnid, to-
day at the Bethlehem-Fairfielc
shipyard.
The vessel, 278th to be constructed
at the shipyard and the fourth
launched this month, will be turned
over to the British government.
Miss Pickford's visit, part of 6
national appeal tour for the fund.
raising campaign to stamp out in.
fantile paralysis, opened Baltimore!
1914 campaign.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Jops Claim Destruction
OF ~ RubouI Raiders
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A Japanese imperial headquarter:
communique, broadcast by the Toxic
radio and recorded by the Asso-
ciated Press, said today that Jap
anese naval planes shot down At
and possibly 18 more, out of approx
imately 160 Allied bombers which
bombed Rabaul yesterday morning
but there was no Allied conflrma-
ton.
Three Japanese planes were listed
as lost. Formations of Japanese
naval planes bombed Allied posi-
tions at Torokina Point and Munda
last night and early today. the COM
munique said.
Evening star., 1944-01-15
Railroads
Continued From First Page.)

the President. provides for an early
meeting of those involved to work
out details on vacations, with the
President authorized to arbitrate
any disagreement.
Happy to Approve"
But, he said, the other three nom
operating unions believed the Presi-
dent should not be burdened with
any dispute over the vacation pro-
vision and that the matter should be
left to arbitration under the Railway
Labor Act.
In reply, Mr.. Roosevelt advised Mr..
Pelley that the engineers and train
men had agreed to the vacation pro-
vision proposed by the other three
unions, and that Sterilization Direc-
tor Fred M. Vinson had told him
the proposed contract with the fire.
men, conductors and switchmen con-
formed with the sterilization pro-
gram.
Il am, therefore, happy to approve
the disposition of the matter set
forth in your letter." the President
said, land thus bring to an end the
unfortunate controversy between
the five brotherhoods and the car
riers."
A three-man presidential board
expected to conclude hearings to-
day and begin consideration of a
recommendation in the nonoperat-
ing case. The carriers planned to
argue theory" intended to show
that under the stabiliZation policy
the maximum increase permissible
is to 10 cents an hour, including
overtime as well as corrections for
substandard conditions.
The unions contend they already
have accepted increases Of 4 to 10
cents as corrections of substandard
conditions. They are demanding in
dependent consideration of further
increases in lieu of overtime after
40 hours week. They ask an ag-
gregate sliding scale of increases Of
11A to 1914 cents an hour.
Meanwhile, legislation stripping
Mr.. Vinson of all authority over
railway workers wages was ap-
proved yesterday by a House Inter.
state subcommittee
The bill would give the Railway
Mediation Board exclusive jurisdic-
ton over railway wages, provided
that any of its orders granting in
creases contained finding that the
boosts would not interfere with the
stabilization program.
No other agency would have au-
thority to set aside the boards
orders.
The subcommittee action Is SUBJ
ject to final consideration by the
full committee Tuesday.