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Evening star., 1945-03-18
|Warships Shell Isle
In KuriIes, Causing
Big Shore Explosion
By the Associated Press.

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Guam, Sunday, Mar. l8.-
Pacific feet units bombarded
MatsuWa Island in the Kuriles
Friday, causing large explosion
ashore and starting several fires,
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz re-
ported in today's communique.
Meantime, $50 japanese survivors
of Two Jima attempted to organize
presumably for a BanZai charge
but were dispersed with mortar fire
Admiral Nimitz added. The Japa-
nese were discovered on the north
ern end of the island, where or
ganized resistance ended two days
ago with the 5th and Sd Marine
Divisions meeting.
Admiral Nimitz also said Two
japanese attempted to BOBBY trap
American installations.
As is customary while he awaits
details of any naval action, Nimit2
gave only the meagerest informa-
tion regarding the strike at Mat
suwa by warships. The ships en-
gagged in the action probably were
destroyers, although cruisers may
have participated.
Jap Batteries Reply. .
japanese shore batteries .ired at
the United States task force off
Matsuwa, but failed to damage any
American ships.
Matsuwa is an oyster shaped is
land 200 miles southwest of Para
mushiro in the center of the Kuriles
chain. 1t is about 10 miles long and
s wide and its rugged terrain rises
steeply TO a peak of nearly 5000
feet. 1t is LILO miles north of Tokyo
The island has been shelled twice
previously by surface units of the
9th Pacific Fleet, which made Fri
days strike. Matsuwa first was
shelled on June II and Is, last year,
as Army and Navy bombers har-
rassed japanese on Several of the
Kurile Islands.
Bombed Many Times.
Again on November 81, warships
bombarded volcanic Matsuwa, set
ting off several explosions and
large fires.
Matsuwa has been bombed many
times by both Army and Navy
planes, but had been virtually
ignored since last November's shell
ing. Only recorded aerial attack on
it since was a small bombing jan
uary 20. Army Liberators once
last October 12-found and bombed
nine small cargo vessels at Matsuwa
Admiral Nimitz said smashing of
the attempt by $50 Two Japanese to
reorganize occurred at noon yester-
day. Normally japanese make such
attempts at night.
The attempt to booby-trap Amer
ican installations on Two occurred in
rear areas. That possibly meant as
far south as the Suribachi volcano
area, where a sniper's bullet missed
Marine 1t. Gen. Holland M. Smith
by only six inches few days ago
1t was further proof of the Japanese
ability to live many days in holes
or caves and prove troublesome long
after an area has been secured
militarily.
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Dunn Promises u. 5.
|WiII Fight Return
|0f Fascism in Europe

The United States will back with
everything we have" a policy of
preventing the rise Of any Fascist
regime in liberated Europe, As
+sistant Secretary of State James G.
Dunn declared last night.
Speaking on one Of a series of
radio broadcasts arranged by the
State Department to keep the Ma
ton informed about the develop
ment of plans for building the
peace" Mr.. Dunn recalled that the
Big Three powers agreed at Yalta
on joint action to ENSURE that
democratic processes are carried
out" in rebuilding Europe.
That will mean stopping the
setting up Of any Fascist regime, +"
he said. Well back this policy
with everything we have. We don't
intend to let any new crop of Fascist
dictators come to power
MacLeish Also Speaks.
Assistant Secretary of State
Archibald MacLeish and Charles P.
Taft, a special assistant on wartime
economic affairs, participated in the
program with Mr.. Dunn.
Other major points made by the
speakers in general discussion of
policy toward liberated areas in
cluded:
!. The Yalta agreement on voting
procedure in the proposed World
Security Council, under which any
one of five big powers could block
enforcement measures, is based on
the common sense" conviction that
when you come to the use of force
to prevent war, it is absolutely es-
sential that those who possess the
force should be in agreement"
2. Too much emphasis has been
put on the use of force in some dis
cussion of world security organiza-
ton plans. tending to distort the
pattern of the Dumbarton Oaks
proposals "in which there is equal
emphasis upon machinery for the
solution Of disputes by peaceful
means"
3. AS far as United States policy
is concerned, the spirit of the Yalta
declaration upholding democratic
rights in liberated areas will apply
in Asia as we'll as in Europe"
Loans Indicated.
A. Probably some United States
Government loans, as we'll as private
loans from American interests, will
have to be made to liberated nations
to help finance reconstruction in
which this country has a strictly
business" interest as we'll as moral
responsibility.
In defending the agreement to
give the big powers a veto over the
use of force by the proposed World
Security Council. Mr.. Dunn de-
clared that ''if there should be an
attempt to use force contrary to the
wishes Of one or more of the power
ful military nations, you would have
a dangerous situation on your hands
which might lead to general war. y
Mr.. MacLeish pointed out that the
proposed procedure made a distinc-
ton between great and small nations
and said there has been some objec-
ton that this puts the great powers
in a privileged position. He de-
scribed this as common sense
solution however, since big and
small nations ARE not on the same
footing" when it comes to the oues-
tion OF power Of guns and planes.
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Engineers to Hear Talk
On Chinese Industry

DR.. Shou Chin Wang, Chinese gov
eminent official, will give an Off
the-record speech on the Industrial
ization Of China from an engineers
point of view before the Washing
ton Society of Engineers at 8:15
pm. Wednesday at the Cosmos Club.
DR.. Wang is chief of the Industry
and Mining Department of the
Chinese Supply Commission.
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Cub Scouts Collect
Books for Servicemen

Cub Scouts from Dens three, four
five, six and nine in Pack 30 con-
tributed 100 books yesterday to the
United Nations Service Center Ii
brary, 500 North Capitol street. The
books and magazines were collected
from the Naylor Gardens, 1912 Nay
lor road Sc
The library, which is now a year
old, features a "take-along" system
where serviceman may take any
favorite book with him Over 5000
volumes have been distributed.
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Slides to Be Shown

Members of the National Photo
graphic Society of Washington will
show colored slides of Washington
scenes at 8 pm. Wednesday in the
National Museum auditorium, Tenth
street and Constitution avenue. The
public is invited.
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Chicago Alumni Dinner

The University Of Chicago Alumni
Club of Washington will hold a din
ner Wednesday night at the Alex
ander Mansion, 1744 R street NV
Former Senator Guy M. Gillette
chairman of the Surplus Property
Board, will speak.
Evening star., 1945-03-18

get into action,
was killed on
Nv o j i'm a on
February 20-his
second day of
C 0 m b a t, his
father, Frederic
N. Towers, has
been informed.
Word of his
death came just
an our after
the family learn
ed that he was
on the list for
pro m o t i o n to
first lieutenant.
Gov, of Nv
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Red Cross to Train
Cunteen Workers

: The District Red Cross Chapter
is planning a program of training
volunteers for canteen and nutri-
tion work. Trainees will do day.
time service at the Blood Donor
Center Canteen, the District Chapter
Canteen and Army and Navy posts.
Persons interested are asked to call
Republic $500, Extension 266.
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Bright and
sunny with mild temperature today;
high near 70. Showers, cooler to-
night and tomorrow.
Maryland-Fair, little cooler to-
day; showers tonight and tomorrow
Virginia-Fair. mild in north por-
ton today; mostly cloudy with
showers in late afternoon in south
portion. Showers, cooler tonight
and tomorrow.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear at Harpers Ferry Potomac
slightly muddy at Great Falls.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast ano
Geodetic Survey)
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Tired of Troiniino,
D. &. Officer Dies
I'd Day on Two

Second 1t. Francis Frederick
Towers, 81, who wrote his family
he has been training for so long as
a Marine that he was anxious to
Evening star., 1945-03-18
II. Mackenzie Killed
In Italy,; Son-in-Law
OF DR.. 0verhoIser

Three days after going into COM
bat in Italy, 1t. Lawrence Mac
Kenzie. son-in-law of DR.. Winfred
Overholser, superintendent of ST.
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Eeyptiun Prince Dies

CAIRO, Mar. II (P.-Prince Said
Daoud of the Egyptian royal family
died tonight of . heart ailment.
He was Al.
Evening star., 1945-03-18

Greene arrived overseas February
Is, about two weeks before his death
He entered the Army on June %
1914, and had been cited for gen.
eral proficiency, sharpshooting and
hand grenade throwing. He livec
in North Carolina, where he at
tended schools before coming here
He was also brother of Mrs
Madeline Campbell, 1901 Prospect
avenue NV. Mrs. william Cusick
So Chillum road, Chillum; Charles
NJ Greene, 1927 L street NV;
Corpl. George L. Greene, in Italy
with the Army; Jack Greene
Council, N. c., and of Mrs. Harvey
Becker. Welcome, N. C.
Corpl. Calvin Maynard Cauley
%. whose wife, Mrs. Catherine M
Cauley, lives at AIS East Gusts ave-
nue., Alexandria, Va, was killed
January % in Eastern France
while fighting with the field artil-
lery of the 18th Armored Diyi-
sion, according to a War Depart
ment notification to his wife. She
said her husband has been buried
in a cemetery in Eastern France.
He entered service on December
%, 1912, and went overseas last
September. Before going into serv-
ice he was employed at the Naval
Research Laboratory in Anacostia.
Wounded
Pvt. Clyde Coalson Tharpe, %,
was wounded in action
March l3 while fighting in Cologne,
his wife, Mrs. Mary Jane Tharne,
28l1 Lee boulevard, Arlington, has
been informed.
Pvt. Tharpe has been overseas
since March, 1914. He was gradual
ed from Columbia Tech here and
worked at the Navy Yard before he
went into the Army in September,
1943. He was in the field artillery
and tank destroyer outfit before
he transferred to the infantry last
month.
Pvt. Tharpe was born in Perry,
Ga, and is graduate of the high
school there. His wife works for the
Federal Housing Administration.
Pvt. Tharpe has a 7-month-old
daughter. Diana Jane, whom he
has never seen.
Sergt. Estil Eskridge. 30, whose
wife. Mrs. Thelma Eskridge, lives al
5So7 Central avenue. Capito
Heights, Md. was wounded Febru.
ary "a while serving with the in
fantry in Germany.
He is now in hospital in Luxem-
bourg. He went into the service
October, l94l, and was sent over.
seas last November.
Marine Pfc. Edward L. Mooney
%. was wounded during the fight.
ing on Two Jima and is now recov.
erlng in a hospital in the Pacific
the Navy Department has notified
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward L
Mooney, 6726 Conway avenue, Ia.
koma Park. Md.
Pvt. Mooney was employed al
the Washington Gas Light Co. be.
lore entering the Marine Corps No.
vember %. l943. Born in Washing.
ton. he attended Mckinley High
School. He had been overseas with
the 5th Marine Division about three
months when he was wounded.
Pvt. George McNish, 10, son oi
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin G. McNish. 3ll
Essex avenue, Chevy Chase, Md.
was wounded in action on Two Jims
March l. (See story on this page !
Pvt. ]. Odell Beckner, son of Mr.
and Mrs. w. c. Beckner. Fairfa,
Station, Va. was wounded Novem.
Der % in France. He is now re.
cuperating in hospital in England
He went overseas in October, 1914.
His wife. Mrs. j. Odell Beckner
and a small daughter live at Holm,
road, Roanoke, Va.
Missing
Pvt. Bernard d. Defren, 20. Gen.
tral High School graduate. has beer
missing in action in Germany since
November %, his mother, Mrs. L. M
L y u
Evening star., 1945-03-18

Thus far in this 1Uar 1,402
men from the District area
haze been reported killed.
Evening star., 1945-03-18

Speed the day Of peace and
Plenty"-buy IN extra War Bond
today.
Evening star., 1945-03-18

Record Until 10 PM Saturday,
Highest, 81, 3:15 pm; yesterday, year
ago, IS
Lowest, 55, 6:45 am; yesterday, year
ago. As
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 81, on March IL
Lowest. II, on Janusry 25
Weather in Various Cities
Evening star., 1945-03-18
MISSING

Pvt. Bernard d. Defren, 20. Gen.
tral High School graduate. has been
missing in action in Germany since
November %, his mother, Mrs. L. M.
Edelson, 3l5 Decatur street NV,
has been informed.
Pvt. Defren was born in New York
City and came here with his mother
seven years ago. He was graduated
from Central High School in l941
and attended George Washington
University until he enlisted in Feb
ruary, 1943.
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in
Capital (current month to date):
Evening star., 1945-03-18

The Sun and Moon.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30

me down for four chIldren-if
I'm lucky enough 20 have that
many"
Linda began modelling clothes
in Dallas stores. Two years
later a talent scout brought her
TO Hollywood. She was judged
TO be just the least bit too
young that trip, but a year later
she was playing opposite Tyrone
Power-as his wife.
II was only a year. ago. how
ever, when Linda went out and
got herself a bad girl role in
Summer Storm" that she be-
gan to bounce toward the top. In
Hangover Square" she caused
Laird Cregar to turn TO murder,
and I'm IF allen Angel" she
proves alluring enough to Dana
Andrews to cause him to lesgR
Alice Faye their wedding night.
The gorgeous Linda has no
quarrel with the movie people.
They're grand" she i'd.
They've made it possible for
me 20 become independent, for
one thing. And IL i hadn't come
to Hollywood I wouldn't have
met Pew. That's mighty impor-
tant. too"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30
Relations Shown

The author shows the de-
velopment of the Workingman's
party. LocofocoiSm, the Whig
Counter-reformation, the rela-
tion OF Jacksonian democracy
TO law, industrialiSn, religion
and literature; also the be-
ginnings OF the Free Soil move-
ment We see the Bank War in
all It's unbelievable violence; the
struggle over the hard-money
issue; the intensity OF sectional
disputes. Jackson himself, Van
Buren,, Amos Kendall, Fanny
Wright and countless other fig
ures Of the past come 10 life.
From such a standpoint our
democracy may sometimes seem
anarchic and wabbly. but 10 the
thinking. deserving mind
through all these controversies
of yesterday and today there Is
heard one voice-''We desire
more freedomw May IL always
be SOi
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30
Linda Eyes Family Life
BY JOHN TODD

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20.
-FOUR more years and Linda
Darnen Is going TO wrap up
the movie business in a neat
bundle, tie it with a blue ribbon,
and head it back to Hollywood.
When Linda sarted her film
career seven years ago, at the
age OF IA, she announced that
on the day she became 25 she'd
quit. Today, at q, she tells the
same story.
Linda recently finished "Fal-
len Angel" which shows her as
an unpleasant, but completely
fascinating creature. Her bosses
at 20th Century-Fox. who may
be slightly prejudiced. say that
after the folks see this one her
name will be spelled over the
aters in still larger lights.
Actually" Linda explained,
'T'vc worked since / was 12 and
Is years Of toll will be my lucky
number. I've got q wonderful
husband In Pew Marley and
when I'm rs I'm going to start
raising a family. You can put
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30

presence OF something rare
an honest German. His book
is a stencil, but it is an honest
kind of stencil.
Hans j. Moreenthau Of the
University Of Chicago, writes a
good introduction In which he
skins Hauser's Prussianism TO
its CHASTITY skeleton of pure
sadistic instincts. He says:
III this j. all Prussianism Is
able TO offer us We, indeed, owe
no apologies TO the memory of
Thomas Jefferson"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30
Bombs the Answer

So, In a measure, Hauser has
done US a service of warning.
You can't educate a German in
democracy" or international
decency." The only thing we
can do with these people is TO
keep 100 atomic bombs ready
for their third world war.
They only understand force.
Goom-bye. Heinie.
While the Hausers rant we
Americans are digging deeper
and deeper into our history. po-
litical social and economic.
Over against the black shadow
OF totalitarianism spreading
over the earth there is thus a
healthy renaissance OF tradi-
tional Americanism, for II Is
the past that we live in. OF the
future we know nothing. But
In so far as we are loyal TO our
great democratic past TO that
degree shall we Withstand COM
munism. fascism and all the
other utopian blue-printers.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. has
written an exhaustive and in
teresting book. The Age q
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30
Book Praised

A good book even though
you may differ with some Of
Mr.. Schlesinger's deductions.
There never was a time when
so many anthologies poured
from the publishers presses. A
good anthology Is the most faS-
cinating OF books. It's a short
cut TO universal literature and
knowledge. And ! believe in
short cuts"
Here's T. Everett Harre's
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30
Ideals Traced

Writing his book as a warn
ing to Americans, Hauser traces
the decade-old disilluSionment"
Germans with Americans
and the ideals for which America
stands. He repudiates deInoc-
racy Of any kind as an answer
to the problem OF the future Of
his country. He excoriates the
theory Of mass punishment Of
the German people for their
war guilt or their crimes
against civilization, warning
hat the attempt TO mete out
5uch justice will result in the
moral collapse Of the judges
rather than the punishment Of
the judged"
From beginning TO end this
Is an angry book which Is Of
prime importance 10 American
readers. II answers the Ques-
tions Of how the German people
feel about their defeat. and why
they are likely to act again in
the same pattern as the past
II they are allowed the chance.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30
The German Talks Back
Sadistic but It's Honest

DO not know whether Heinrich Hauser really exists
whether he is spool However In publishing his book,
The German Talks Back" Henry Holt & Co. that
this defender Of Germany and hater of democracy exists prints
his picture Ga gestapo face) gives sketch of his life Che
at time crcus and he has lived
six in the u s. A. and is going back to Germany
Heinrich Hauser is real person. then in the
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30

corking The Bedside Treasury
OF Love" tSheridan Housed. It's
a mighty fat book and contains
love stories by Hawthorne,
Conrad, Gautier. Gertrude Ath-
erton. Stevenson. Hardy, Maui
passant, Balzac, Flaubert, Kip
ling and a dozen or two others.
Harre has done a capital job
In the field Of rapture and
tragedy.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30

Jackson" little Brown). In its
pages a whole century comes
TO light; its ideologies, its con-
troversies, its great personali-
ties. We begin with the end of
the Jeffersonian agricultural
era: We see the slow but inevi-
table rise Of industrialism and
its effects on the national
aRpnnrt,u
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Dorothy Dix Says

out to get job. The first ques-
ton that you will be asked is what
school you attended, what grades
did you make, what sort of STU
dent were you? And, unless you
are at least a high school graduate
you will find that there is no OPEN
ing for you except in very menial
capacity. Perhaps you do not know
that many of the big companies that
can give their employees positions
that have a future, apply every
year to the leading colleges for a
list Of the boys who have graduated
with distinction.
And, perhaps, you do not know
that a boys manners and his gram
mar are just as important factors in
his success as his ability. I, per-
sonally, know of one lad who lost a
coveted place in bank because he
gargled his soup and had never read
anything but the funnies in the
newspapers. "He is all right behind
cage in the bank" said his en-
ployer, but we couldn't turn him
loose to represent us in cultivated
society"
So, Jimmie, even If you only want
to be a ''fxer" and make money.
you will find that you need an edu-
! cation to do it.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
BY CasweH adams 5

to welcome the shrill summons. He
put his head under the pillow and
refused to acknowledge the bells
existence.
But the bell shrilled again and
gave every evidence Of being stung
to continuous action by q deter
mined finger. Mr.. Smith groaned,
rolled over and groped. horribly,
for his slippers and robe. In fog,
and mounting fury, he stumbled
toward the door. He threw it open
and there stood his kid" brother,
"a lieutenant in the Marines, home
from more than year in the Pa
cific!
Mr.. Smith just stood there, gap
ing.
The lieutenant, however, banged
his brother across the shoulder with
a brawny arm, hurled his bags past
him into the hallway and proceeded
to make landing on the living
room sofa. Mr.. Smith was too be-
wildered to do more than humble
questions in dazed sort of way.
Everywhere" said the lieuten-
ant, trying to make some sense in
his answers. Flew, no time to
wire, two weeks-just had the luck
to make 1t for New Year"
New YearT exclaimed Mr.
Smith-"That's right, SO it is! Tell
me everything about everything and
then we'll round up the gang for
a welcome home party for you this
afternoon"
And, was that a party! The
spirit behind it made it 20 over
Evening star., 1945-01-01

Dear Miss Dix: You are wrong
when YOU say that an education Is
necessary to get a good job and
make money. Why, the man who
has our town by the tail didn't get
through the fourth grade. Besides
the majority of the prominent peo-
pie in the society column are ig-
norant folks So I'm not going to
bother with getting any education
I am just going to learn to be a
f1xer and make plenty of money.
Money is all that counts these days.
JIMMIE.
Answer-Well, Jimmie, you seem
to be confusing college degree
with an education. They are not
necessarily one and the same thing.
Book learning" doesn't always walk
hand in hand with wisdom or in
sure the ability to make money, but
you will find no man in these days
who occupies place of Importance,
or who draws down big salary, who
is ignorant. He may not have had
much schooling, but he has educated
himself by reading and studying, be-
cause it does not take a man with
brains long to find out that he is
more valuable as a polished diamond
than rough one.
If you don't believe this, start