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Miss Ora Smith 10 Take
Veterans Agency Post

Miss Ora Smith, who has been
concerned with soldiers and vet
Grams affairs since the World War
and during this war was with the
War Departments ONCE of De-
tendency Benefits at Newark, N. j..
Is going back to the Veterans Ad-
ministration in an administrative
post.
Miss Smith will be assistant to
the chief of statistics of the budget
and statistics Office, Veterans Ad-
ministration. Before accepting a
wartime appointment as chief clerk
of the ODDS legal branch, she had
served for "a years with the Vet
Grams Administration and its pred
eceSSors.
While with the Veterans Admin
istration, Miss Smith studied at the
Washington College Of Law and
received her bachelor of laws degree
in 1941. Her family lives at 1911
Twenty-eighth street Sc.
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New Clubs Formed
AT ChiIdren's Museum

The Children's Museum Of Wash
ington will be open from 3 to pm
Sundays, visitors day, from today
through August IL, it was announced
yesterday The MuSeums located In
the Villa Rosa at 4215 Massachusetts,
avenue NV, will be open from II
am. to pm. Tuesdays through
Fridays until August II. 1t will be
closed on Mondays and Saturdays
the announcement said.
Two new clubs, the Junior Film
Society and the Falconer's Club
have been added to those in opera
ton last summer which will be
active this year. The Junior Film
Society will study the great silent
movie actors known to youngsters
only by reputation. The Falconer's
Club. meeting at 4:30 pm. Sundays
will learn about the ancient sport
of falconry. Clubs carried over from
last year are Creative Dramatics
French. Clay Modelling. Art, Min
erals, Puppets, Pigeon, Zoo, Boxing
Stage and Costume Design, TheateI
Makeup and Radio.
The Children's Museum, the an
nouncement stated, will be at its
present home until September
Admission is free.
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Army Spokesman Lays
ChennauItRe signation
To Supply troubles

An Army spokesman, commenting
here on the resignation of Maj. Gen
Claire Lee Chennault. commander
of the 14th Air Force in China, de-
clared that "it is well known that
Gen. Chennault has been operating
for a number OF years in China
under the most difficult of circum-
stances"
The answer was made in response
to inquiries from the press, and the
spokesman Stoutly contended that by
difficult circumstances" reference
was made wholly to the tremendous
supply difficulties and lack of suf-
ficient flying equipment encountered
by the 14th Air Force until recently
other sources in Washington at
tributed Gen. Chennault's decision
to a long-standing disagreement
with his superiors in the Army. 1t
also was predicted that he might
be named as adviser to the Chinese
Air Force, in a similar capacity to
his services before the United
States entered the war against
Japan.
Gen. Chennault'S name was linked
with reported friction with Gen.
Joseph w. Stilwell at the time the
latter relinquished his command OF
United States forces in the Asiatic
theater when GeneralisSimo Chang
Kai-shek made representations to
this Government.
The War Department statement
last night added: In recent months
much air force personnel and ma
terial have been moved from In
dia into China with a cutting down
of our air forces in the India-Bur-
ma theater and resultant increase
of our air forces in the China the
alter.
LIT. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer.
commanding general, Army Air
Forces, India-Burma theater, was
transferred with his men and ma
terrell to the China theater. AS
the senior air officer in the China
theater, he became the command
ing general of the Army Air Forces
in that theater.
Friends Of the 55-year-old former
leader of China's Flying Tigers
against the japanese said there was
more to it than a tired general
seeking relief from a job that is
closest to his heart.
Gen. Chennault, with more actual
combat experience than any other
air officer employed against the
japanese, it was claimed, has never
been given the recognition he de-
serves from the War Department
He is still a major general and has
seen other AAF officers given higher
rank.
Gen. Chennault, Texas born
Louisianian, had retired from the
Army in 1887 for physical disability
having obtained the temporary rank
of major the year before. Despite
the brilliant record he made in
China as head of the American
group of volunteer flyers, he was
belatedly recalled to active duty ir
the United States Army on April
IS, 1912, as temporary colonel.
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timid opposition" The warships
were in plain sight of the coast for
three hours before the two-hour
bombardment and for some time
afterward.
(Tokyo radio quoted an impe-
rial headquarters communique
announcing the Smelling of Ka-
maishi, but did not mention
damage0
Haunting Jap Fleet.
No reports of damage to the
American ships had been received
at the time Mr.. Lindsey sent his
dispatch.
The dramatic noon-time strike
by fleet guns ranging from battle
ship 16-inchers which >hurl one ton
shells to the 5-ineh batteries of
the destroyers, was taunt to the
japanese imperial feet. Admiral
Halsey was hoping for a fight. Be-
fore taking his Sd Fleet into Japa-
nese waters he was asked if he
thought remnants of the enemy
navy might come out as a gesture.
He replied:
81 wish they would, but they've
got damned little left to gesture
with"
The Sd Fleet has steamed far
beyond key bases of Japanese war
ships remaining after the enemy's
defeat in the sea battle of the Phil
ippines last October and the Amer
lean naval air blows which sank
the big battleShip ,Yamato and
other japanese ships off the Ryuk-
yus April Z.
Ships in Admiral Shafroth's bonn
bardment squadron included the
battleships Massachusetts,, Indiana
land South Dakota; heavy cruisers
Chicago and Quincy, and destroyers
Switzerland, Herman, Erben and
Black. The Massachusetts and In
diana were among ri or more Sd
Fleet warships damaged in ty-
phoon June 5, southeast of Japan.
The Kamaishi steel mill received
coal from mines on Hokkaido
Island, which was hit yesterday in
the naval air pounding. 1t was the
first attack on Hokkaido, bleak fog
covered island separated from Hon.
shu by Tsugaru Strait.
Completely Surprised.
The Navy pilots from Vice ADJ
miral John S. McCain's carrier units
of the Sd Fleet achieved complete
tactical surprise in their strikes,
starting at dawn, against Honshu
and Hokkaido, the communique
said.
+ Hokkaido has about Is operational
airfields and Northern Honshu an
equal number.
Throughout the day the Yank
fighter and fighter bomber planes
attacked ships and rail ferries which
transport coal to Honshu factories
such as the Kamaishi steel mill
across Tsugaru Strait from the port
of Hakodate.
While there was no immediate
reports of enemy aerial opposition
to the American air and surface
ship attacks, Hokkaido and North
ern Honshu Islands contain many
of the enemy airdromes not yet
brought under attack by United
States raids.
Fleet headquarters report of the
damage done in the Tuesday Naval
air strike at Tokyo's airfields said
100 Japanese aircraft were destroyed
on the ground. 231 more damaged
lon the fields. The flyers encountered
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Army Corpora, Bound
Home for Discharge,
Dies in Ships Crash
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July IA. - An
Army corporal returning from
England for discharge was
killed today and three other
Servicemen were injured when
the Liberty ship James Cald-
well, on which they were pas
sengers, was in a collision in
a dense fog in Lower New York
Bay.
Names were withheld pend
ing notification of next of kin.
Police and Navy spokesman
said the outbound British
freighter- Papanui struck the
Caldwell amidships and shat
tered the messroom where six
servicemen we're at breakfast.
One of the injured was an
Army sergeant and two were
Navy seamen, first class.
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no Japanese planes over the targets,
but two were shot down near the
feet.
Several Factories Damaged.
The Yank pilots also damaged sew
eral factory buildings at Koizumi.
Five American fighter planes and
five torpedo planes were lost, with
seven pilots and six plane crewmen
listed as casualties.
indication of damage done
cities in the Tokyo area in re-
cent Marianas- based Super Fort
ress raids was disclosed in the
Japanese radio report that Kofu,
an industrial center, has been
smashed to smithereens.
Meanwhile, land-based naval air
power ranged over other fragments
Of the enemy's war-torn empire.
Seaplanes Of Fleet Air Wing l
sank a small coastal cargo vessel
and damaged four others off West
ern Korea yesterday.
Corsairs Of the End Marine Air
craft Wing, also based on Okinawa,
blasted airfield installations in the
Sakishima Islands of the Southern
Ryukyus, and at Kikai in the
Amami group, north of Okinawa.
They strafed small craft near
Yokoate Island Friday.
Avengers of the same wing, with
fighter escort, rained high ex-
plosives on radio installations of
Amami Island. Corsairs of the
End Wing struck Kanoya Airfield
on Kyushu Thursday.
From April 7 to July Is, Admiral
Nimitz'S communique reported,
planes of the Okinawa-based tacti-
cal air force shot down 625 enemy
planes. OF this total, 496 were shot
down by the I'd Marine Aircraft
Wing and 129 by Army fighters.
Nine ships were destroyed and 81
damaged.
The Okinawa- based pilots were
the first to maintain continuous
combat air patrols over the Japanese
mainland, the communicate acknowl-
edged.
Once-feared Truk, in the Central
Carolines, was struck again Friday,
as were the Palaus.
Army 18th Air Force Mitchells
bombed small-ship convoy in
Paramushiro Straits but results were
unobserved.
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facilities at Toshien while attack
bombers destroyed many rail re-
pair installations on the east coast
and fighters beat up airfields, Gen.
Macarthur said.
Weather forced cancellation of
Far East Air Force operations
against Japan from Okinawa, a
cofnmunique said, but Gen. Mac
Arthur's planes continued to range
far and wide along the Asiatic coast
and over the Southwest Pacific.
The strafing run over Annoy was
perhaps the most spectacular air
operation reported.
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Air passenger fares in Scotland
are to be cents mile.
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politics." said one of Gen. Chen
nault's subordinates, who are al
ways eager to point out that Gen.
Chennault has become victim to his
own wholehearted purpose to help
build strong Chinese military eS-
tablishment at a time when there
is a growing feeling in higher eche-
Ions of American policy that this
may be none Of our business.
Gen. Chennault, for example. is
known to have adamantly resisted
pressure to diSband the Chinese
American composite wing which has
an enviable record as an air fight
ing organization and now is large
ly Chinese manned. Gen Chen
nault is known to have looked on
CACW as the clear promise of a
strong Chinese air force.
Headquarters Worried.
The whole 14th headquarters has
been between a chill and a sweat
since the reorganization scheme
cropped up last spring. At one time
movement of the headquarters to
another base actually was started
only to be called off. At least two
different widely separated places
have been considered as the new
location.
1.-The future of China plainly has
not been considered in this reor-
ganization." (Three lines CEN
Sored)
One of the greatest shortcomings
of American policymaking in China
has been the persistent failure to
assess and reckon with inherent
difficulties of doing business with
and in nation which in the west
ern sense is only coming OF age
and does not see eye to eye on all
Americans methods. Gen. Chen
nault, more than any other Ameri-
can military man, had learned to
be patient and understanding and
at same time play strong hand
in the strange battle of China.
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$500 Jap Mines
Cleared From Path
OF u. 5. Invasions

More than 5000 square miles of
water in inlets and harbors of the
Philippines and Borneo were cleared
by the minesweepers of the 7th
Amphibious Force, Vice Admiral
Daniel e. Barley, commander of
the force, told a press conference
at the Navy Department yesterday.
During those sweeps, the ships
picked up $500 mines to clear the
way for the American landing
forces.
Admiral Barley described this as
one of the greatest mine-sweeping
operations of the war. He said the
job was done by about IS vessels,
IL of which were lost during the
operations.
The Jap mines were not par
ticularly good, he said, adding that
American mines which had been
laid in the areas were more diff
cult to eliminate, and that some of
our ships were lost from contact
with the American-laid mines.
Admiral Barley disclosed that in
Lingayen Gulf and other Philip
pine ports, the mine-sweeping force
received much valuable help from
the guerrillas, who used fishing
boats and other craft and dived
into the water to cut the mines,
later to be exploded by gunfire.
Admiral Barley. who is SIS, made
Sc amphibious landings between
June 30, 1943, and July l, 1915. The
first was at Woodlark Island and
the last at Borneo.
AS a result of his experience, he
said, the United States forces can
land with success either on the
Japanese or China coasts. Both
have pretty good beaches, he con-
tinue6.
With the gun power Of our ships
and our air power, it would be abb
solutely impossible for defending
force to bring enough power to
stop U.S." he said.
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American U. to End
World Affairs Institute

American University's Institute
on the Position of the United States
in World Affairs will hold its final
session. July 81. DR.. Pitman Potter,
chairman of the university's de-
partment of international organiza-
tion, will address the meeting.
More than 100 social science
teachers from more than 80 States
have been attending the four-week
program.
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Fleet
Continued From First Page.)

e:35 am. Japanese time)-(8:35
pm, Saturday, Eastern War Time)
The new bombardment force is
commanded by Rear Admiral o. c.
Badger.
admiral Badger, a native of
Washington, maintains home
at 1914 Connecticut avenue NW0
In Confined Waters.
The target, Muroran, is at the en-
trance to Uchiura Bay on Southern
Hokkaido, in confined waters which
the feet showed amazing temerity
in entering.
Results of the Smelling were not
Immediately available.
Fires started by yesterdays she'll
ing of the steel city of Kamaishi,
275 miles north of Tokyo, ragged on
today and spread to the harbor.
A communique from Admiral
Nimitz said that today Operations
are continuing in strength" with
heavy surface units and fleet air.
craft engaged"
The carrier planes yesterday
ranged from Hokkaido, 400 miles
southwark to near Tokyo.
Preliminary and incomplete re-
ports showed that despite bad
weather yesterdays carrier strikes
destroyed "a grounded japanese
planes and damaged 81, sank Is
Ships-including two railroad ferries
and a destroyer-and damaged "a
other ships, including train ferry
and 10 medium tankers or cargo
ships.
Twenty-seven locomotives were
DESTROYED in the airmen'S savage
smashes at Southern Hokkaido,
mainly at the Japanese refugee
port" of Hakodate, where dock and
rail facilities were heavily damaged.
mo opposition to our forces was
reported" Admiral Nimitz said.
A single enemy plane was shot
down ''in the vicinity of our sur
face force" the communique noted.
1t listed the following enemy ship
ping destroyed by carrier planes:
Two train ferries destroyed at sea,
10 small cargo ships, old destroyer,
2 picket craft.
Other shipping Damaged.
Other enemy shipping was
damaged.
Marine and feet aircraft from
Okinawa sank or damaged another
half-dozen enemy craft.
Most of the parked enemy air.
n,o e. ,r,ara found m falde Of Mat
sushima, Matsudo and Misawa, on
HonShu.
Yesterdays surface bombardment
of Japan-flrst of the war-con-
tinued unhindered almost within
rife shot Of shore for two hours,
blasting and firing Kamaishi's great
steel mills.
While Admiral Halsey's chal-
longing armada threw tons of
shells into Kamaishi, on the
northeast coast of Honshu, 1000
carrier planes beat the area and
neighboring Hokkaido Island to the
north.
Huge Explosions Reported.
The air and surface ship strikes
were the Sd Fleets second assault
on Japan within four days, the car
rier planes having hit airf1elds in
the Tokyo area Tuesday, destroy
ing or damaging 342 enemy planes.
The bombardment of Kamaishi,
with a prewar population of A.
600, caused "Sky-reaching explosions
and started roaring fires which
blanketed the area with smoke, =
reported Associated Press Core
spondent James Lindsey from the
battleship South Dakota.
Striking under the direct COM
mand of Rear Admiral j. F. Shat
roth, the squadron left the steel
mill, one of Japan's largest, demol-
ished and the coke ovens heavily
damaged and burning fiercely, said
a Pacific Fleet headquarters COM
munique.
Mr.. Lindsey said the squadron
"swaggered back and forth almost
within rife shot of Honshu, draw
ing only meager and apparently
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The most expensive book ina
the University of Chicago PIess ;,
has nrinted is "Ancient Egyp'lai'
paintings" It sells for $l75.
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Victory Offensive

March 15-U. S. Seventh Ar
my went over to the offensive
on a .5O-mile front in the Saar
and Palatinate.
March 16-U. S. Third Army
broke across the Moselle riv-
er south of Coblenz, outflank-
ing the Saarland and Palatin-
ate.
March 17-U. S. Third Ar
my captured Coblenz, seat Of
American occupation forces in
the First World War.
March gu. S. Third Ar
my crossed Rhine between
Mainz and Worms.
March 23-British Second Ar
my, with Canadian First Ar
my units, crossed Rhine west
of Vessel.
March 24-U. S. Ninth Army
crossed Rhine south of Vessel.
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Fund Okehed For Meet
Shortage Investigation

WASHINGTON, March 24.-tR)-
Price Administrator Chester Bow
les in a last-minute appearance
before. the Senate Appropriations
Committee today win approval OF
a special $565, 900 fund to investi-
gate the meat shortage.
The fund, in a $2,612,000,0 900 de,
ficiency appropriation bill, will be
used to check small, unlicensed
slaughterhouses which supply meat
to towns and villages. BoWles tolo
the committee his purpose was te
equalize the supply over the ma
ton, eliminating conditions which
make meat plentiful in some 10
calities while it is scarce in others
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COL. ". M. GREASY
FLIES OVER HUMP

CHARLOTTE, March a. He
flew over the hump" seven times
maybe eight, and he's followed the
winding, zig-zag, up and down
snake-like curves and graded
straightaWays of the Ledo ana
Burma roads, lifelines to China
and the outside world.
But. Col. william M. Greasy. ma
tive of Wilmington, member OF
the planning staff Of Admiral LORD
Louis Mountbatten, commanding
the Southeast Asia and India thea
ter who recently spent a short
leave in Charlotte, was hedged
in by restrictions and he could
not discuss these vital war traffic
lanes in detail or in any manner
that would be revealing.
Nevertheless, Colonel Greasy
did say, and with emphasis, that
to fly over the worlds most rug
ged scenery from India to China,
Is thrill worth remembering.
Nowadays the trip is not so hazar-
bous, as the flyers can travel
farther south and at lower altl-
tudes, but during the period when
the Japs were stabbing necessarily
at the route, the pitfalls were
many.
Colonel Greasy said that traffic
h.
Ledo road last January. This lie
line, a bit perilous in some re-
gions, as it frequently ascends to
5000 feet, and skirts great spurs
Of massive mountains, starting at
Ledo, in Assam, joints the Burma
road at Wanting, and the highway
continues its meandering way to
RUNNING, China, 900 miles away.
Colonel Greasy, son of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Greasy, Of
Wilmington, has returned to India.
His headquarters are at Handy,
Ceylon, although during his first
months in India he was stationed
at New Delhi, headquarters Of the
India-Burrna theater. He wGs re-
stricted from discussing internal
Indian questions. The external hav-
ing to do with midas age-old
poverty, has not changed war or
no war. nor has the attitude of
some Indians toward their sacred
cows changed, either. They still
revere the brutes and probably will
do so through countless ages to
come.
Lord Mountbatten is person
able, outstanding gentleman, and
he often jokes that he is half
American, because his wife is
American, Colonel Greasy recall
ed. As for what the British, Ameri-
can and Indian forces are doing in
Burrna-well, that was out, and
inform alton on that must come
from front line correspondents.
Colonel Greasy and Mrs. Greasy
have spent two tours in Hawaii.
They recalled pleasantly Schofield
barracks, social functions at the
Royal Hawaiian hotel, bathing and
surfing at Waikiki beach and hap
ny life generally in the archipelago.
He met Mrs. Greasy at the Moana
hotel at Waikiki beach, and they
were married at Haleiwa, one OF
the most beautiful and tropical
spots on the island Of Oahu.
Colonel Greasy is a brother OF
Mrs. Ernest B. Hunter, OF Char
lotte. and he and Mrs. Greasy were
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dog. Then these animals were sent
against Russian tank formations.
If one of these dogs was seen to
be in front of an advancing Rus.
sian tank German sniper tried to
shoot the dog SO he would lie in the
path of the oncoming tank. Some
tanks would run into the dogs as
they ran over the countryside-then
both dog and tank would be de.
stroyed.
While this brutal usage Of Ger
man dogs at times slowed up the
Russians it failed to keep them
from advancing.
SPRING AND YOUR DOG
Spring officially arrived or
March 81; not the balmy spring o.
wild flowers and dandelions, but
Of mud and chilliness and occasion
al cold rains. Still, in sense,
it is spring Your dog knows II
whether you know 1t or not.
It is the season when his an
cestors million years ago crawl
ed out Of their damp, ice-bound
caves and found their way no long.
er obstructed by snow drifts. They
could splash through the mire to
where new grass awaited thei1
grass starved system and where
they could have fair chance o.
running down a deer or Of talking
a migrant bird.
Your own dog does not remem
Der that, yet the ancestral urge lies
in the back of his brain. To him 6
new season has dawned and it mus
be greeted. Give him the outdoor
exercise and the long country run!
he Graves. Let him have chance
to stretch winterbound muscles, tt
find new grass, to revel in tn
thrill of it all. He has lived YOU
cramped life all winter, so let hin
Head his own life as much as pos
sible in the weeks to come. 1t i
only fair
A SPRING DANGER
Every spring hundreds of dog
are needlessly killed; this Sprin
many more will die. Here is why
At this time of year shade an
fruit trees are sprayed. The chic
element in most of these spray
is acetate of lead, a deadly poison
The spray is pumped onto the tire
but much of it is blown by the win
onto the grass for many yards j
every direction. Much of it drop
from the trees to the grass below
Then along comes a dog, happy c
the chance to chew fresh Sprin
grass one more after a grassles
winter. He may swallow enough al
etate of lead to make him DEATH
i'll or enough to kill him.
Enough dogs die each year