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Evening star., 1945-08-02
Warship and Carrier
Pound Wake; Natives
On JaIuif Rescued
Hy the Associaitd Press.

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GUAM, Aug. 2.-An American
battleship and carrier planes shelled
and bombed Wake Island yesterday,
while 300 miles to the south de-
stroyer escort and several smaller
vessels dramatically rescued nearly
300 natives from the enemy-held
island of Jaluit in the Marshalls.
The battlesnip STOOD offshore to
pound the beaches of the by-passed
former American base of Wake with
heavy guns in an attack, the Strate-
gic purpose of which was not dis
closed in today's feet communique.
Planes from Pacific Fleet aircraft
carriers attacked installations,
Admiral NimitZ said.
There was slight opposition from
shore batteries and antiaircraft
guns" the communique said. but
no personnel casualties were suf-
fered and damage to our ships was
extremely minor"
Nimitz DiscloseS Rescue.
simultaneously, Admiral Nimitz
disclosed the dramatic rescue of 283
natives from Jaluit, south of Wake,
on the same day.
Some opposition from the enemy
garrison was encountered" Admiral
NimitZ said, but the reScuers-light
units of the Pacific suffered
no casualties"
+ Wake last was shelled by a task
force September 3, 1914. when its
coastal guns and antiaircraft posi-
tions were heavily damaged
1t has been raided many times by
Navy planes.
Wake, whose American Marine
garrison was overwhelmed in the
first days of the war, appeared in the
news last month when the Navy dis
closed that the United States de-
stroyer Murray had intercepted an
enemy hospital ship going in to and
coming away from Wake.
Evacuation Recalled.
The officers of the ship, the Ia
gasago Maru, told the destroyer
skipper they intended to evacuate
sick and wounded from the long by
passed and isolated enemy-held
base. The ship was permitted to
proceed.
Intercepted coming out. check
was made and it was found the ship
was evacuating 974 men, many in
such critical condition it was be-
lieved unlikely they could reach
Japan alive. Their condition at
tested to the effectiveness of the
American sea and air blockade of
Wake.
Jaluit is among the few Marshall
bases left to the japanese, The
MarshallS were invaded in January.
1914, with the American invaders
striking at the western chain in a
move which isolated many other
islands to the east.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
Star Reporter Informs
Mother Of Wounding Of Son

A Star reporter calling the fam
lilies of men on the Navy casualty
list today was the first to inform
Washington parents their son had
been wounded in action. The moth
er, Mrs. Louis E. Doyle, 308 Second
street Sc, said she and Mr.. Doyle
had not received word from the
Navy Department that her son,
Marine Corpl. Lou Edwin Doyle,
was wounded.
The Marine casualty branch said
its records showed the message had
been delivered.
Mrs. Doyle called The casualty
branch and today learned her son
had returned to duty after recover
ing from shell fragment wounds re-
ceived on Okinawa, July 7. Corpl.
Doyle, %, enlisted in the Marine
Corps, September, 1912. He has beer
overseas 80 months and taken part
in several Pacific campaigns, in
cluding the Peleliu Island invasion.
Born in Buffalo, N. Y, he attend
ed college in Texas and lived in
Washington with his parents only
few months before joining the
Marines
Evening star., 1945-08-02
Jet Fighter Flies From Ohio
To New York in 81 Minutes

Air Technical Service Command
headquarters at Wright Field, flew a
B-29 here yesterday from Salina.
Kans., where he had completed a
nonstop flight from Honolulu in IT
hours 80 minutes.
The flight originally was sched-
.uled nonstop to Wright Field but
fuel gauge trouble necessitated land
ing at Salina for refueling. The
plane then continued to Patterson
Field near here, completing an over
all fight of 4,076 miles, ATSC Off
cias said.
The hop was the second longest on
record, the first being a recent non
stop flight of Maj. Gen. Curtis E.
LIE May from Hawaii to Washington,
d. c.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
1Unorthodox' Yonk 7 Toctics Won
At 'BuIqe,' Nuzi Colonel Says

| called for a tactical withdrawal of
these divisions to straighten the
line. Such a withdrawal would
have given Won Rundstedt control
of the vital Eupen- -Roetgen road
as a supply line and with plenty of
gasoline he probably would have
been able to push his tanks into
Liege.
But in those terrible winter days,
Maj. Gen. Louis Craig, commander
of the 9th Division, and Maj. Gen.
Cliff Andrus, commander of the 1st,
threw away the textbook. Instead
OF Strengthening the line they
attacked southwark. The Germans
never reached the Eupen-Roetgen
road. All along, the chief nemesis
of Rossberger, as an operations
of1cer, was the 47th Infantry, of
which he is now a prisoner. This
regiment was major factor in
Stopping the drive. 1t became for
few days the "47th Division" when
its commander. COL. George Smythe
OF Washlngton-now brigadier
general and assistant commander of
the 80th Division-attached to his
command whatever remnants he
could pick up of the disorganized
divisions which had taken the brunt
Of the first attack, and every strag-
gler within miles. The rag-tag 47th
stopped the rout and defeated Won
Rundstedt, Rossberger admits.
Without the vital road, he couldn't
get gas to his tanks. They stalled
in the snow The rest of the 9th
and the 1st we're attacking instead
of Withdrawing. Liege was. safe. The
German gamble had failed and the
problem now was to get out with
as few losses as possible. This one
action may have shortened the wal
| by months. 1t was even more i'm
portant than the next big job OF
the 47th when for two terrible days
1t held little toe hold across the
Rhine at Remagen until forces could
be massed to enlarge the bridge
head.
No wonder the cold, austere Ross
berger looks through the fence with
lot Of respect at the jailers wearing
| the shoulder patch of the 47th.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
Japan S Fall Reported
Expected by Vatican
Hy the Associated Fress.

1S LI!B ASSOCldLeQ fIeSSs
VATICAN CITY, Aug. IA Vati-
can source said yesterday that de-
spite Japans rejection of the Pots
dam ultimatum the Vatican expects
Japan soon will realize the futility
of continuing resistance and surren-
der to the Allies"
The source, which cannot be fur
ther identified, refused to indicate
whether the statement was based on
actual information or mere 5urmise.
The source said the Vatican was
surprised by Japan's rejection of the
ultimatum. 1t added that intensi-
fled Allied action must make the
japanese government understand
Japan's hopeless military situation
and that continuation of the war
causes useless bloodshed which cam
not modify Allied victory"
Japan's capitulation would not
greatly increase Catholic missionary
conversion work in Japan, the source
said, because the Japanese have
closed minds and are very jealous of
their traditions"
The Pope is continuing his pray
ers for peace and is unlikely to take
a vacation until the war is conclud-
ed, it was said
Evening star., 1945-08-02
Col. Fred {. FoY Refires;
Awarded Legion Of Merit

Col. Fred C. Foy, director of the
Purchase Division, Headquarters of
the Army Service Forces until his
release from the Army yesterday to
return to civil life, was presented
with the Legion of Merit at the
War Department yesterday.
Col. Foy has been appointed vice
president and director of the inter
national department of ]. Walter
Thompson Co. of New York. He
entered the Army in June, 1912. first
becoming assistant director of pur-
chases He was promoted to direc-
tor in July, 1914.
The citation for his raedal tov-
cred his period of service with ASF
headquarters. Col. Foy's home is
in Scarsdale, N. Y.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
| Anderson Announces
Sugar Subsidy Boost :
To Encourage Output.
BY the Associated Press.

Secretary of Agriculture Anderson
set out today to put more sugar on
the Nations dinner tables in 1946
He acknowledge that little could
be done to increase this years pro-
duction because harvesting of sugar
cane is nearly completed and sugar
beet planting is long since finished.
Looking ahead, however, Secre-
tary Anderson announced an in
crease in grower subsidy payments
on the 1916 crop of sugar beets
and sugar cane.
The Secretary said he was an
nouncing the program early to en-
able growers to plant maximum
crop"
Under the plan, beet growers are
guaranteed national average re-
turn, including Sugar Act payments,
of not less than $3.50 ton of beets
of the average quality of recent
years. This compares with $3.50
for 1945.
Representative Miller, Republican,
of Nebraska and others from sugar
beet areas early this year vainly
requested an increase in the beet
subsidy, stating it would induce
farmers to plant additional acreage
and thus increase the 1945 sugar
supply.
A subsidy of $210 a ton on aver
age sugar cane will be paid to grow
ers of cane for sugar in Louisiana,
Florida, Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands and Hawaii This amount
in each producing area is to be
graduated upward or downward &C
cording to special regulations.
The 1945 subsidy for Louisiana
and Florida growers was s16O, while
for Hawaii it was s121, Puerto
Rico, s1,08 and Virgin Islands. 90
cents ton
The s2l0 subsidy on average SUI
gar cane, a spokesman said, is paid
by the Government in addition to
the price paid for the raw product
by the professor.
The professor, in turn, receives a
separate subsidy, but this has not
yet been announced.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
L1,250,000 Dwellings
A Year Proposed by
Senate Study Group

From Yesterdays Last Edition.J
BY the Associated Press.
A 1O-year national housing pro-
gram aimed at construction of
1,250,0 new dwelling units year
nearly five times the prewar aver
age-Was recommended today by a
Senate postwar study committee.
At the same time, Senators Wag-
ner, Democrat, of New York and
Ellender, Democrat, of Louisiana,
members of the committee, intro
duced legislation calling for extern
sion of Federal mortgage guaran-
tees to new fields and an outright
Federal contribution for housing of
$31 ,000, 900 in the first year with an
nual increases to raise the total to
$133 ,000, 900 at the end of five years.
Embraced in the program are
continued low-rent public housing,
aid for cities to redevelop blight
ed" and slum areas, continued Fed
eral insurance of mortgages on
small homes (the FILA plan). guar
antees of income for investors who
agree to low return on investments
in housing and aid for farm houS-
ing.
Trade Stimulus Seen.
Senator Ellender said he believed
the program would not take more
than $l33,00O,000 from the Federal
Treasury in contributions in any
one year.
Senator Taft, Republican, of
Ohio, who headed the study group,
said the building of a million and
a quarter homes a year would stim-
ulate an expenditure upward of S.
900 900 900 to $6,000,000, 0,000 annually
and, directly and indirectly, pro-
vide for 100000 to 100000 jobs. y
The average number of residential
units built annually during the To-
year period ended with 1889 was
273 900 at an annual cost of slightly
over $1,000 100000.
All Under MIA.
The Wagner-Ellender bill provides
for consolidation of all Federal
housing activities under the National
Housing Administration. They are
consolidated at present but under a
presidential executive order which
holds good only through the war.
The plan for aid to cities redevel-
oping "blighted" areas calls for local
agencies to acquire the land, clear
it and prepare for redevelopment.
The Federal Government would
make annual contributions there
after to enable the city to lease the
land, or sell it, at a figure which
would interest private developers.
There is provision also for Federal
loans to the cities under an interest
formula which Senator Ellender said
worked out to about 2l2 per cent.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
u. 5. Grants Czechs Right
To Try Butcher Of Lidice

By the Associated Press.
FRANKFURT, Germany, Aug. q
Authority for immediate sur
render of Karl Hermann Franck,
the Butcher of Lidice,' to the
Czech government was received
from the State Department in
Washington yesterday by DR.. Bo-
humil Ecer, Czechslovak repre-
sentative on the United Nations
War Crimes Commission.
DR.. Ecer said arrangements had
been completed to transfer Franck
from an Interrogation center at
Wiesbaden to Prague, where he
will be tried by the Czechs on
atrocity charges, probably late in
August or during the first week of
September.
Regardless of the trials outcome,
Franck will be returned to the
United Nations War Crimes Com
mission for international prosecu-
tion at Nuremberg. Dr. Ecer said
in the event Franck should be con-
victed of a capital offense at either
trial he would be returned to Czech
oslovakia for execution.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

WITH 9th INFANTRY DIVI-
SION (By MaiD .-Dachau, the ter
rible civilian concentration camp on
the Danube where once SIS guards
ruled with a cruelty hardly excelled
in human history. has been turned
into a prison camp for the dreaded
Schutzestaffel itself.
Members of the sinister society,
mostly of the military branch, are
coming hourly by truck and train
from other prisoner of war camps
all over Germany. After delousing
they are thrown with little cere-
mony behind the same electrically
charged wire fences they once
guarded while the few civilian in
habitants left look on with gloating
eyes.
The Schutzestaffel men don't look
sinister today as. often dirty and
unshaven with tattered uniforms,
they are taken off the trucks. For
the most part, say GIs of the 47th
Infantry, which now is in charge
of the camp under the command
of Maj. Dan E. Duncan OF New
York City, they are just some more
dumb krauts" The spirit has been
taken out of the once feared and
hated soldier society. Sometimes
SIS men turn pale and faint when
they learn they are at Dachau.
Once behind the electric wires the
SIS men give very little trouble. Dis
cipline is excellent, as is the case in
every purely German military or
ganization. Much of the good order
at Dachau, however, Is due to the
SIS camp commandant, who handles
most organizational details inside
the fence. He is Col Rossberger,
Won Rundstedt's chief operations
officer during the bulge battle last
winter. He is apparently pure SOL
dier." despite his SIS connections.
Rossberger Is very reticent.
Owing to the rule against inter-
views with war prisoners it was
impossible to talk to him. On a
few occasions, however. he has
thawed little in talking with 47th
Infantry guard officers, and his
inside story" of the bulge confirms
what was suspected last winter by
everybody familiar with the Ar
dennes lineup.
The whole move, RoSsberger
says, was planned in the minutest
detail. but Won Rundstedt realized
with a slim margin Of safety. 1t
depended on the American lst Army
moving according to classical mill
tary tactics, and when it failed to
do this the game was lost. German
intelligence was excellent. Won
Rundstedt's staff knew the 1st
Army's line was thinly held and
that in that lire were two green
divisions, the goth and the l06th.
They had almost complete records
of these divisions from the time
they were organized. They calcu-
lated correctly that a major sur
prise push would smash through
them.
He also was aware, in planning
his operations, that on the northern
flank, based around the pictu-
rescue little Eifel town Of Monchau
were two of the crack American
divisions in Western Europe. the 1st
and 9th. Rossberger admits that a
frontal attack against these divi-
sions, even with a vastly superior
force, was almost unthinkable. But
once the center of the 1st Army
was cut to pieces, the textbooks
Evening star., 1945-08-02
F.y the Associated Presk.


NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-The Shoot
ing Star. jet-propelled fighter plane,
yesterday hurtled SIS miles between
Dayton. Ohio, and New York in 81
minutes.
Travelling nearly as fast as sound,
the uperstreamlined craft hissed
over La Guardia field yesterday /
hour and minutes after it left
Wright Field, Dayton. Landing
preparations added 321a minutes
before the trim gray plane touched
the runway.
The pilot. Col. William H. Coun-
Gill, said he had not tried to push
the plane to its greatest speed,
which the Army has not revealed,
saying only that it Is "in excess of
$50 miles an hour. Its ceiling is
more than $4,000 feet.
No smoke or flames was visible
from the kerosene-powered planes
exhaust, but heat waves, like those
rising from a pavement on a hot
summer day, could be seen.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
Lauren BacaII Asks Status
OF Adult in Movie Contract
Ey the Associated Press.

6v the Associated PreSS,
los ANGELES, Aug. 2.-Lauren
Ba,all says the day she married
Humphrey Bogart she ceased to be
a child, at least in the eyes Of the
law
The 20-year-old actress petitioned
Superior Court to revise a movie
contract containing provisions for
her protection as minor. She pre-
sented the argument that under
California law, when girl marries
if she is over 18 and under 81, she
legally becomes an adult.
She asks a refund of 10 per cent
held from her salary for savings
Her petition also asks dissolution of
a trust fund, created for her moth
er, Mrs. Natalie Bacall, under which
another 10 per cent of her earnings
we're impounded.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
Bible School to Hold
Closing Session Tonight

Teachers and pupils of the daily
vacation Bible school, sponsored by
the Lutheran Inner Mission Society
for the past five weeks, will hold
closing exercises at 8 o'clock tonight
in the First Church of Christ Holi-
ness, 1910 Fourth street S.W.
A demonstration of the work done
during the school session will be
given. The program will also in
clude an exhibit of handiwork un-
dertaken by the pupils, Bible quiz,
and dramatic and musical rendi-
tions. The school session was di-
rected by Mrs. Rosalie Lewis.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
Nursing Gloss Planned

A new home nursing course de-
signed particularly for mothers and
expectant mothers will begin on
August IS. at Walsh House, 2020
Massachusetts, avenue NV, it was
announced today by the Red Cross
District Chapter
Evening star., 1945-08-02
War Story:

Thomas r. Henry, Star par
-corresDondent, has Just COM
pleted a tour OF posts occupied
on the American armies in Ger
many. This is the first OF a
series OF stories ,Dr5tten from,
the backWash of the ,Dar, some
OF the Httle-knoUn NGzi prison.
ers ,0ho ,UiH face trial as War
criminals, incidents OF studied
cruelties at the concentration
camps, Hitler's former secret
serptce men, his chauffeur. etc.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
z Privutes Die for Murders

HONOLULU, Aug. 2 Py.-Two
Negro Army privates, convicted of
murder, were executed yesterday at
Schofield Barracks. They were Jesse
D. Boston, 36, formerly of Detroit,
and Cornelius Thomas, %, inducted
at Houston, Tex.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
MISSING

of story in The Star June 10 When
his mother was notified.
Missing
I'd 1t. John II. Jack Nuttmann,
49, is missing in action following a
B-29 raid on Kagamigahara. jap
anese industrial city, June %, the
War Department has notified his
mother, Mrs. Gertrude H. Nuttmann
of 1920 Nineteenth street NV. A
navigator on a B-29, he was with
the 313th Wing of the 504th Bomb
Group. He was on his 18th mission.
In letter to Mrs. Nuttmann, the
chaplain of his unit said his plane
was attacked by enemy fighters
while over Kagamigahara and one
of its engines destroyed, forcing the
plane to drop out of the formation
Enemy planes attacked again and
the pilot made steep dive into
dense clouds to avoid their fire. The
plane was not seen after that dive,
the chaplain said, but other plane
crews who were on the mission re-
ported it was quite possible the crew
of the bomber were able to bail out.
If so, he added, they may be pris-
oners.
1t. Nuttmann is native of
Paxico, Kans.. and he studied aero
nautical engineering at the Univer-
sity Of Kansas before entering
the Army two years ago. He has
been overseas three and a half
months. His brother, Corpl Harold
P. Nuttmann, is an instructor in
photography at Scott Field. Ill,
after 10 months in the Caribbean
area.
Mrs. Nuttmann was postmistress
at Paxico before transferring to the
post Office here about two years
ago-when her sons entered the
Army.
Capt. James X. Chatfield, %, of
the Army Air Forces. son of Mrs.
Evelyn D. Chatfield, 5435 Connecti-
cut avenue NV. has been re-
ported missing in action in the
Pacific since July 10. his mother
reports. He was bombardier on
a Super Fortress. His father was
the late George E. Chatfleld of
Washington.
Capt. Chatfield, a native of South
Haven, Mich, was a graduate of
Michigan State College. He was
commissioned in the Air Forces IN
May, 1943, and served as an in
structor at Deming Field, N. Mex,
until assigned overseas July l.
Liberated
S/Sergt. John F. Costello, whose
mother is Mrs. Mary B. Costello, of
Gil Fifth street NE, is reported
roday nv the War nena rtrnent oSI
Evening star., 1945-08-02
District Blood Donations
Appointments

@HPPOtI40I1IOI1IG
yesterday -- 314 persons
Appointments broken
yesterday -- 90 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center in
the Acacia Building, 81 Louis
ana avenue NV, by calling
District $500 between 9 a m. and
$50 pm. weekdays and 9 am.
to noon Saturdays.
Evening star., 1945-08-02
B-2o Flies From Honolulu
To Kansas in II Hours

DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. Alt. Col.
Orville E. Mohler. former University
of Southern California All-America
haffback football star stationed at
Evening star., 1945-08-02

S/Sergt. John F. Costello. whose
mother is Mrs. Mary B. Costello, of
Gil Fifth street NE, is reported
today by the War Department as
liberated from prisoner of war
camp in Germany.
Evening star., 1945-08-02

of story in The Star June 10 yhel
his mother was notified.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16
YWBC Plons Repuir
To Port Commission
Tennis Courts

At a meeting of the Young
Women's Business club of Pasca-
goula at the Elks club last Mon
day evening. plans were made to
have the Port Commission ten
mis- courts cleaned up and per-
manent nets installed. Misses
Billie Koch and Annie Lee Cole
were appointed as a committee to
attend to this matter.
Among the reports coming be-
fore the president, Miss Ruth
Flowers, was one on the recent
Civic Council meeting given by
one of the club representatives,
Miss Gene Eason, to that body.
Miss Flowers read an invita-
ton from the Girl Service Organ
ization of the USO to attend a
lecture to be given by Mrs. Mar
cissa Shawan of Mobile, repre-
sentative of the National Parlia-
mentary association. Thursday,
March Is, at the USO. AS Mrs.
Shawan has sat in on both Re-
publican and Democratic conven-
tons as an authority on parlia-
mentary law, the lecture offered
a valuable opportunity to learn
more on the subject than is
known by the average club wo-
man.
After a discussion of the need
for new utensils in the kitchen
of the Elks club, Miss Rachel
Flowers was appointed to secure
a list of needed articles and re-
port back to the club.
Miss Bernice Golf will serve as
chairman of the hostess commit
tee for the service mems dance
Friday evening.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-16

MI. Jehu Fletcher on Sunday last,
by his son and daughter-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Fletcher. Mrs.
Cora Mallette of Fort Bayou, has
also been visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Fletcher and her sister-in-aw,
Mrs. Irene Carter. for several
days.
A large number from Mt. Pleas
ant attended the Layman's Day
program and quarterly confer
ence held at Vancleave M. f..
church on Sunday. Those parti-
cipating in the program were
Messrs. @. c. Roberts, Noll Car
ter, J. J. Ware, r. j. VanHorn,
with talks on major points of en-
phasis in the World Crusade, and
Bob Irwin Roberts and Mr.. AL
fred Roberts sang solos.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Taylor were
visiting Mrs. Taylor's brother-in-
law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
ris. in Gulfport, on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Ware and
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Lyons held
"open house" Wednesday eve
ming in honor of their son and
grandson, Sic Robert Johnson