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Evening star., 1945-04-04
Second Chaplin Trial
To Open Today

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 4.-Retrial
of Joan Berry's paternity suit
against Charlie Chaplin opens today
In Superior Court.
First steps in the second quest
for a father for Carol Ann Berry,
now 18 months old, will be designa-
ton of a court and judge by Pre-
siding Judge Samuel r. Blake. Then
will begin selection of another jury.
The jury in the first trial, which
ended in January, deadlocked, with
six women and one man for Chap
lin and four men and woman for
Miss Berry. The 24-year-old mother
testified she was intimate several
times with the 55-year-old come
ian-producer, and that he is the
father of Carol Ann.
Much discussed at the trial was
Hans Ruesch, writer, to whose
apartment Miss Berry repeatedly
had access. Ruesch, who testified
at Chaplin's trial last year on Mann
Act charges, did not appear in the
paternity suit hearing, but written
deposition questions have since been
sent to him in New York.
AS retrial proceedings started,
neither counsel for Miss Berry nor
Chaplin was certain whether Ruesch
had answered the deposition.
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Capt. Eusberg, Salvage Expert,
|Retires FromNovyDueto Health
Won National Fame
For Fight to Roise
Submarine S-51

The Nays foremost salvage ex-
pert, Capt. Edward Ellsberg, who
occupied the national spotlight for
weeks when he fought to raise the
sunken submarine S-51 of Block
Island In 1925, has been retired at
his own request because OF Ill health.
the Associated Press reported today
from Cleveland.
The captain, who returned to
active duty Immediately after
Pearl Harbor, had been stationed
at Cleveland as a supervisor OF
shipbuilding. He gained fame and
the Legion of Merit in this war for
raising a 10O00-ton floating dry
dock which the Italians scuttled
when they were forced by the Brit
ish to evacuate the Massawa ma
val base in Eritrea. Working with
inadequate equipment, he accom-
plished this feat in nine days.
Later he aided in constructing the
secret floating harbors used in the
invasion of France last June.
Born OF Russian-Jewish immi-
grant parents in Hartford, Conn.,,
So years ago, Capt. Ellsberg was
from the Naval Academy
with high grades and became a
naval engineer. During the World
War he refltted number OF in
termed German vessels and super
vised construction OF the battle
ship Texas.
His rise to national fame came in
1925, however, when the Navy
placed him in charge of efforts to
raise the S-5l, which was rammed
by the steamer City Of Rome and
sunk in 1876 feet of water. For days
the Nation watched his fight to save
the imprisoned men. The salvage
work, in which pioneer methods had
to he improyised. could not be COM
Evening star., 1945-04-04
II Cases of Whisky Stolen

Three colored men who broke into
the Capitol Gardens Cafe. 24o Sec
ond street NV. this morning and
stole IL cases Of whisky, are being
sought by police. A passerby said
they fed In a taxicab.
Evening star., 1945-04-04
BY HOWARD COWAN,
Press War Correspondent


ASCHAFFENBURG, April A.
The die-hard Nazi garrison in this
German barracks city on the banks
of the Main River surrendered
yesterday to the 45th Infantry Divi-
sion OF the American 7th Army after
a fierce week-long battle in which
both German civilians and soldiers
fought the Americans.
Shortly after am. the ruthless
German Maj. Won Lambert, who
had hanged two of his officers in
the streets of Aschaffenburg during
the peak of the fighting, led his
troops in white-f1ag parade from
the old four lowered castle in the
heart of the city.
And here, in the flaming, smoking
rubble heaps of a city that once
had sheltered 10000 Germans, the
GIs found an answer to the Oft
repeated question, Why do these
guys keep on flghting?"
1t was not, as some had guessed,
those 10000 cases of cognac and
liqueurs stored in a big German
Army warehouse down by the Main
River. The fancy potables had been
stolen from the French and some Of
the cases still were labeled for New
York importers.
1t was not because of the Ger
man Army's supply dump, with its
more than 1000, 900 food rations. The
Germans kept on fighting after both
these prizes had TALENT into Amer
ican hands.
Answer Is Found.
The real answer was found in the
heart of the business district-at
No. Herstallstrasse, to be exact.
There in front of a wineshop hung
the body of young German lieu
tenant. His hands were tied, but he
was not bhndfolded He swung from
a rope twisted tightly around his
neck, with the other end of the
rope tied to steel support for a
sign.
Civilians said he was hanged on
the orders of Won Lambert, who had
dictated this text of a garishly
painted placard tackled to the front
of the wineshop:
"Cowards and traitors hang!
"Yesterday-An officer candidate
from Alsace-Lorraine died a hero's
death in destroying an enemy tank
He lives on.
"Today-Here hangs a coward in
officers garb because he betrayed
the fuehrer and the people. He is
dead forever"
Surrender Suggested.
The hanged officer had dared to
suggest the prudence of surrender
when the full fury of American dive
bombers and heavy artillery fell on
the city.
German women who crowded be-
fore the body prevailed on some
soldiers to cut it down.
All over town prisoners kept
coming in by ones and twos. Pfc.
Donald Garner of Denton, N. c.,
who took charge of two who wanted
to surrender to me, said that by
mistake he almost went to bed with
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Promotion Of vandegrIh
To 4-Star Rank Approved

The Senate late yesterday con-
firmed the promotion Of 1t. Gen.
Alexander A. Vandegrift, Marine
Corps commandant. to the four-star
rank Of general.
Approval also was given to the
advancement to full admiral's rank
of Vice .Admirals Richard s. Ed
wards, deputy commander in chief
Of the United States Fleet and dep
uty chief of naval operations: Henry
K. Hewitt, commander Of the 9Th
Fleet and Of naval forces in North
western African waters, and Thomas
G. Kinkaid, commander of the 7th
Fleet and naval forces in the South
west Pacific.
The promotion of Vice Admiral
Russell r. Waesche, commandant
OF the Coast Guard, to full admiral
is expected to be approved today.
Evening star., 1945-04-04

The dove Of peace hovers near-do
your part. Buy one extra War Bond
today. X
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Brutal Major Forced Germans
To Hold Out at Aschuffenburq

one Monday night in cellar but
cleared out when the German COM
planned there wasn't enough room
for two sleepers.
I'VE took over a thousand pris-
oners yesterday by ourselves" said
Maj. Gus Heilman Of Charlottes-
vile, Va, commanding the I'd Bat
talon Of the 157th Regiment, and
We got another $50 today"
(Col. Walter p. OBrien Of 3l33
Connecticut avenue NV. is
commanding officer OF the 157th
Regiment)
THE German commandant said
he hadn't surrendered sooner be-
cause he couldn't find a ladder long
enough to run a white flag up on
the CASTLE" Maj. Heilman said.
1t. Irwin Block of Cleveland said
he and his platoon of 18 men had
got into a fire fight in a barracks,
with the Americans at one end Of
the building and the Germans bar
ricaded in the other.
Girl Leads Surrender.
There was a wounded German
out in the yard near our end Of the
barracks" he said. "and q big blond
German girl wearing a Red Cross
came out of the German end of the
building and asked II she could take
care Of him.
I'VE told her sure and asked II
the others at the other end of the
building wouldn't like to surrender.
"She started back to see, after
asking us not to shoot, and In about
five minutes she came out with 4
white flag leading $50 German SOL
diers. Besides that there was q
cellar full Of wounded, so We left
her to stay and take care Of them.
"A lot of the troops here were
convalescent wounded in the first
place." said Maj. Heilman, but this
German major made them report
to him for defense assignments any
way. One air force captain didn't
show tup and the major had him
hanged.
In their defense here the Germans
used two American M tanks on
which they had whitewashed Nazi
crosses. American artillery knocked
out one of them and a tank de-
stroyer team destroyed the other.
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Womon's Relief Corps
Plans Memorial Rites

The Woman's Relief Corps, De-
partment of the Potomac, will hold
memorial services at the Benjamin
F. Stephenson monument. Seventh.
street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV. at noon Friday.
A Grand Army Day memorial
dinner will be held at 7 pm. at
$500 Sixteenth street NV. James
G. Yaden, president of the Me-
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Two Navy FLYERS Killed

PENSACOLA, Fla, April 4 P.-
Ensign Donald E. Gerrety, Ashta-
bula, Ohio, and Ensign Donald F.
Bradford, Yakima, Wash, were
killed Monday when their plane
crashed during a takeoff. officers 1T
the naval air training base here an
nounced yesterday.
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Surrender Appeal
By Vatican Reported
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 4.-The Luxem-
bourg radio reported yesterday that
the Vatican newspaper Osservatore
Romano had Launched an emphatic
appeal to the German nation to
cease this slaughter"
The broadcast quoted the Vatican
paper as declaring even the Ger
man propaganda service admitted
Germany has lost the war and yet
Germany continues this slaughter.
The ultimate result will be the
destruction Of the nations youth
and strength. - From a political,
humane, Christian point Of view
such a conception Of honor is
satanic lunacy."
Buy more War Bonds on all fronts
thu ~Lv L. v.o< fh> limit
Evening star., 1945-04-04

Buy more War Bonds on all fronts
the sky Is not the limit.
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Roanoke Alumni to Hear
Dr.. Ernest S. Griffith

DR.. Ernest S. Grifath, director Of
legislative reference service atx the
Library OF Congress, will spean on
Social Science" before the WASH
ington Chapter Of the Roanoke Col
lege alumni at pm, Friday at ne
Ebbitt Hotel, Tenth and H sire s
NV.
/ DR.. Charles Smith, president Of
Roanoke College, will attend. In q
news item in Sundays STAR the
day Of the meeting was errone lsly
announced for tomorrow.
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Krug Predicts Flow
OF Civilian Products
Year After We Day
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
The Capital climbed back on the
reconversion bandwagon today-the
one that stalled in December at
Germany's Westwall.
Within a year after We day, the
War Production Board now predicts
civilian goods will be coming out of
factories at pace reminiscent of
1889.
Every civilian product - including
automobiles, refrigerators, washing
machines and radios, missing for
three years-will be back in produc-
ton. And most will have reached
the market, WPB Chairman J. A.
Krug predicted last night.
Not overlooking the possibility
that Japan might fold quickly after
her Axis partner does, Mr.. Krug de-
clared:
Il think the Government should
get out of the way Of industry on
the day after that happens"
Tax Relief Pressure Starts.
Meanwhile, pressure on Congress
developed for an immediate start
on legislation to ease the postwar
tax burden on business and thus
encourage investments in expanded
peacetime enterprises. This came
in an unanimous resolution of the
Civilian Advisory Panel-represent-
ing labor, management, agriculture
and the pubhc-of the Once of War
o~l Dann,,uarcinv
Reconversion will be slower
paced, at the start, than was plan
ned last fall. Officials then spoke
of days or weeks. Now it is months
and quarter-years.
Mr.. Krug cautioned in outlining
WPB's reconversion program that
the Japanese war would have first
claim on the country's resources.
He said it will impose "tremen-
dous strain on our productive cap
acity" and that many shortages will
continue for months in clothing,
leather, lumber, chemicals and some
other lines.
But two additional developments
bespoke complete official confidence
that this time the rush toward We
day could not be set in reverse by
any prolonged stand by the Ger
mans. These developments were:
ReconversIon Conference.
The planned departure of WPB's
top command for Detroit tomorrow
to confer on reconversion and war
production with automobile manu-
facturers. The motor industry pre-
sents the biggest reconversion prob
lem of potential unemployment and
plant shutdowns during the transi-
tion period. Mr.. Krug and his chief
of operations, Hyland G. Bacheller,
will head the WPB group.
Creation within WPB of cop
the alphabetical symbol for Com
mittee on Period l" period l is Off
cial jargon for the days when Japan
is the only enemy still f1ghting) i
COP, with II subcommittee, will
manage a relaxation of business
controls while protecting arms pro-
duction for the Pacific war. Its
Chairman is j. B. Small, Mr.. Krug's
executive officer.
The call for equitable tax legis-
lation by the OWMR Advisory
Board said:
Bold decisions must be made
soon by investors and businessmen
If they are to develop concrete
plans for the largest peacetime pri-
vate payrolls in our history.
But the extent to which expan-
sion is justified, and risks reason
able, must be determined partly in
relation to tax policies which have
not yet been established. Full
knowledge of such policies is needed
to provide firm base for business
planning"
Evening star., 1945-04-04

pleted soon enough to save the VIC
tins, but Capt. Ellsberg succeeded
in raising the ship. For this he was
promoted by special act Of Congress
and awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal.
In 1927 he was called from retire.
ment by the Navy again to aid in
raising the submarine S-4 which
was sunk in collision with Coast
Guard cutter of Provincetown,
Mass. He was personally COM
mended by the Secretary OF the
Navy for his work. In 1899 he was
an adviser to the Navy salvage
crew assigned to raise the subma-
rine Squalus.
Evening star., 1945-04-04
Doing Double Duty

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essential product in bringing
to you the news of today.
It remains an essential
product in the Double wv
Waste Paper Salvage Cam
paign. v to speed victory-V
to aid veterans.
Save it and all other paper.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04

being criticized. Acheson replied
that Macarthur had the power
to say what was done In Japan.
Questioned further on the point
as to who told Macarthur what
to do, Acheson replied that this
was up to the President.
Less than a week after Ache
son made this statements, Gen.
eral Macarthur as supreme
commander in Japan announced
that only 100000 troops might
be needed for the occupation
within six months. Acheson
cracked down on him, and this
time q different answer was
forthcoming. A State, War and
Navy committee co-ordinated
American policy on japanese
occupation forces through mill
tary channels from the Presi-
dent. Macarthur wasn't men,
toned by name, but there was
no doubt as to who was meant.
Macarthur has been severely
criticized for his soft policy Of
occupation and the apparent
slowness with which the Japs
have been made to feel they lost
the war. With Acting Secretary
of State Acheson's new state
ment, however, 1t now becomes
clear that il the occupation pol
icy in Japan isn't working, It
may not be SO much the fault
of General Macarthur as it ID
the fault of the State, War and
Navy bright boys who made the
plans in the first place.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

operations In the Pacific were
planned by the Combined Chiefs
OF Staff in Washington, it was
discreetly suggested that the
copy be changed because II
Macarthur ever saw the story
he would protest the idea that
anyone planned his operations
for him.
This same Difference to the
general was carried over even
after the surrender of Japan. Of
ficials in Washington who were
asked about detailed plans for
the occupation of Japan gave
the reply that it was not In
their handsLthat the broad
principles were lead down at
Potsdam and after that 1t was
up to General Macarthur.
Such an answer did not make
sense on its face for the simple
reason that the detailed plans
for occupation of Germany had
been carefully worked out in
Washington and were handed
complete to General Eisenhower
cor execution. And 1t was known
that a Joint Committee of State
War and Navy department ex-
perts had been working for over
a year on plans to occupy Japan
and break up the old Imperial
government. Officially, how
ever, the fiction was maintained
that General Macarthur was
Mr.. Big in the Pacific.
ACHESON EXPLAINS WHO
IS BOSS
Shortly after Secretary OF
State Byrfes went to London
for the Big Five conference OF
foreign ministers, Dean Ache
son held his first press confer.
ence as Acting Secretary OF
State. He was asked about the
occupation policy in Japan be-
cause Macarthur already wal
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA staff Correspondent


HOLLYWOOD - For some
time now people have rushed
up to Joan Caulfield and asked
her the strangest questions. First
it was, "Can you paint scenery
Then: "Can you develop sexy
walk" Or: "Can you model
house dresses?" Or: will you
90 to Hollywood"
But the last fellow who rushed
up to attractive, blonde 22year-
old Joan really floored her.
Miss Caulfield. can you sing
with Bingo Crosby and dance
with Fred Astaire?" he asked.
After coming out what film
writer's call a double take" {"
Miss Caulfield said, Eyes"
What's more, she did.
You'll be hearing a lot soon
sbout Joan, an Orange, N. j..
girl, who got the break thou
sands of film newcomers dream
about as leading lady for Fred
Astaire and Bing Crosby in
Paramount's technicolor filmus-
ical, Blue Skies"
AS a matter of fact, Joan has
been getting similar breaks ever
since she left Columbia Univer-
sity, where her dramatic coach
met her in the hall one day and
said, Can you paint scenery"
She could and did.
Later, a fellow from a mail
order catalogue asked, Can you
model house dresses?" So she
became a Conover model. Then
she started haunting the offices
o, Broadway producers seeking
a stage role. One of them, George
Abbott, had seen her photo
graphs.
"Can you develop sexy
walk" he asked her. Joan said
she could, and did.
STRICTLY FROM CORN
1T was for the role Of a gold
digger in BEAT the Band = The
show opened in Boston. Her par
ents, non-theatrical people from
East Orange. were in the second
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
sELF.HELP OR NONE At ALL

There was nothing particularly surprising in
dispatch from village in Americon-occuped Ger
many recently 1t related hot residents Of the place
were making little or effort to help themselves.
aThey seemed to take it for granted that Americans
would offend to such matters os the rebuilding OF
homes planting Of crops and provision Of cool tor
next winter
We do not pretend to know whether this ottitude
is typical Of Anericon-occupied Germany But every
one Of experience knows the habit Of, Let George
do it, is cosy to form. Unless sterny discouraged,
the Germans almost certainly will form the habit OF
expecting Uncle Sam to do everything that needs to
- be done for them.
So it is port Of the Job Of the occupation forces
to do as hos been done according to the news dis
potch in the porticuor German vil|oee. The report
said the voeers are being told in effect. thot Uncle
Sam will be inclined to help only those who help
themselves. The viIIoeers ore being given blunt
warning that the bed they ore to occupy in the fu-
ture will be as they make it for themselves. Similar
odvics to the whole Of Amerieon-oceupied 0ermony
xq1d not be omiss
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
BY PETER EDsON
NEA washing.en CerrsspenSsns

NEA WAshingsen Cerrespendsnt
WASHINGTON - If there Is
one man who has had official
Washington buffaloed all
through the war, it is General
of the Armies Douglas MacAr-
thur. But things have come to q
showdown now and it's possible
to see a little more clearly who 5
who in JapuL and why.
Macarthur entered the war
ss a symbol. In that respect he
was a soad bit like General De
Gaulle. You either clung with
hope to the symbol or there
wasn't anything to cling to.
Any man who becomes q SYM
Dol is in danger Of falling into
the belief that he's pretty impor-
tant. Macarthur was no excep-
ton. War correspondents began
to bring back reports-stories
they were kind enough not to
print-tnat this mans arrogance
was pretty hard TO take. It was
reflected in a seven-stanza bit
of doggerel called, "Doug's
Communique," circulated all
over the Pacific.
One sample stanza ran:
my battleships lombard the
Nips from Maine to Singa-
pore;
My subs have sunk a million
tons - they'll sink q billion
more;
My aircraft bombed Berlin last
night" In Italy they say,
"Our turns tonight, because It's
right in Doug's communique."
WASHINGTON KOW-TOWED
TO THE SYMBOL
But the need to maintain Mac
Arthur as a symbol was reflect
ed in Washington by official
kow-towing. When one cores
pondent wrote war review
story saying that the amphibious
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
D IN HOLLYWOOD

row. Joan made her entrance in
a black bra and black filmy pam
ties. The men whistled and the
boys from Yale screamed.
my mother" Joan said, "all
but tainted. Then she practically
tainted again when l started my
lines. They were decidedly Off
color. And believe me, I was
pretty corn-fed myself. Even /
didn't know what some of them
meant. l was so dumb, in fact,
that the stage manager gave me
q large key to keep for him and
said it was the key to the cur
tain and I believed him."
Mr.. and Mrs. Caulfield were
much happier about Joan's stage
career in her next role, as Corliss
Archer in kiss and Tell" the
part Shirley Temple just played
in the movies. The play ran IA
months and both the play and
Joan were terrific hits. 1t was
then that a man asked, will you
so to Hollywood" Joan said yes
and signed Paramount con-
tract.
SHE LEARNS QUICKLY
FIRST thing Paramount did
with Joan was cast her with
Sonny Tufts and Veronica Lake
in Miss Susie Slagle's," still un-
released.
But the big break. Of course,
came with Blue Skies Things
were pretty hectic for a while.
The director-producer, Mark
Sandrich, died suddenly.
The new producer didn't like
Joan and she was out Of the
cast several weeks. Then she was
back in and the new producer
was out. She started dance re-
oearsals with Paul Draper. Then
Draper was out and Fred Astaire
was in. Joan and Fred work
smoothly together.
I'VE learned one number to-
gether in 30 minutes" she said.
Learning things quickly is
Joan Caulfield's specially.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
. BARBS

A locomotive will be used for
the first non military trial OF
atomic power. What q sweet
dream-all trains being on time.
General Macarthur promises
mo kid glove policy" for the
Japs. We're for bare fists, our
selves-right on the chin!