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the Goth. Gen. Doolittle said that
the decision to date is to have
B-29s and such other ships as are
needed" He was unable to say
whether the Bit, used along with
the B-24s in the bombardment of
Germany, would be part of the 9th
Air Force in the Pacific.
He said the 9th hoped to have
long range fighters as part of its
Pacific organization.
Asked whether he expected to go
over Tokyo this time, Gen. Doolittle
replied:
Il don't think 1t would be ex-
pedient for me to go over there
until the job is done. I should not
like to fall into japanese hands,
he added.
He then explained that there is a
standing order against any officer
who has knowledge of future stra-
tegic plans allowing himself to get
into position where he might fall
into the enemy's hands.
1t was quite apparent that this
was a personal disappointment to
the air leader.
1T is easier for a leader to say
Follow mel than to say There is
the enemy. Go out and get him. -
he said
Gen. Doolittle said he believed
Japan would be easier to destroy
industrially than Germany because:
l. There is a greater concentra-
ton of Japanese industry than was
found in Germany.
2. The targets in Japan are more
infiammable.
3. The Japanese war economy
and industry do not have the re-
cuperative power which Germany
had
4, The japanese have not had
time to put their factories under
ground as the Germans were doing
in the closing months of the Eu-
ropean war
Gen. Doolittle explained that the
9th will be made up of three types
OF personnel, nucleus of expert
enced combat men, some personnel
OF the Goth Air Force, to get the
benefit of their experience with the
B-29s, and the remainder airmen
who have not yet had combat ex-
perience.
Gen. Doolittle said he is going to
Omaha, Nebr, today and later to
Wichita, Kans.: Oklahoma City,
Denver and then on to Colorado
Springs. He said he wanted to see
the plants where his equipment is
being made.
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tary Charles G. Ross. and Col. Harry
Vaughan, military aide.
A 10 o'clock press conference pre-
ceded the fishing expedition.
Freed from White House routine
for the first time since he came to
the presidency, Mr.. Truman is tax
ing life easy-but maintaining his
Washington hours. Always an early
riser, he was up at $50 am. yester-
day, and with Gov. Wallgren. took
a walk over the mansion grounds
which are profuse with flowers and
shrubs.
Then at II o'clock, he presented
the Congressional Medal of Honor
to State hero, 21-year -old Sergt
John D. Hawk of Bremerton, at a
ceremony on the Capitol steps. and
later greeted large group of State
officials and Army officers from
nearby installations.
The afternoon was left open.
The President is occupying quar-
ters on the second floor of the
rambling. red brick, Georgian man.
sion. and can look from broad
portico on to the sound. He has
direct telephone hookup with Wash
ington and San Francisco, but has
not had occasion to use it, according
to Mr.. Ross. 1t was thought the
President might get some mail from
the White House to look over, but
beyond that, no work was planned.
The medal ceremony, at which he
spoke briefly, brought Mr.. Truman
before a gathering Of citizens for the
first time since he became President.
Olympia, for the most part, shut Up
shop while the ceremony was in
progress, and several thousand per-
sons gathered in the square in front
of the Capitol to witness the pro-
ceedings.
Praises States Congressman.
The President. Who recalled that
he last had visited the State during
the 1914 presidential campaign, put
in plug for Washington's two Dem
ocratic Senators - Magnuson and
Mitchell-and likewise paid his re-
spects to the States delegation in
the House.
Il hope you will continue to send
able men, as you have in the past,
to both Of these legislative bodies,
for they are of vital Importance
now" he said.
Mr.. Truman hasn't seen any local
political leaders since he arrived
and Mr.. Ross said he doubted if
he would, as the visit here is purely
social"
Evening star., 1945-06-21
Relaxation in Paper Quotas
Denied by WPB Official
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 21.-Rumors
of considerable relaxation in Gov
ernment regulations that would
permit greater use Of paper are
premature, Col. j. Hale Steinman,
director OF the War Production
Board printing and publishing divi-
sion, said today in warning to
to users of all kinds of paper, in
Guiding newsprint.
In a telegram made public by
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association Col. Steinman said:
"It has been brought to my atten-
ton that rumors of a relaxation in
paper usage restrictions are spread
ing throughout printing and pub
fishing industries. No official de-
cision has been reached by the
WPB regarding any relaxation of
any printing and publishing orders
and none will be made before July !.
Any possible future relaxation will
be dependent upon the continued
maintenance Of high level of pulp
production and paper salvage COL
lections as we'll as any possible
increase in imports"
Evening star., 1945-06-21
Catholic Veterans Honor
Kennedy and Hines
y the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press
NEW YORK, June 21.-Joseph P
Kennedy, former Ambassador to
Great Britain, and Brig. Gen. Frank
T. Hines, administrator of veterans
affairs, last night were awarded the
national commanders citations OF
the Catholic War Veterans for serv-
Ice to the nation.
Edward T. McCaffrey, national
commander of the Catholic Vet
Grams, made the presentation at q
military pageant opening drive to
raise $4,000 for expansion OF the
organizations facilities.
In accepting the honor Mr.. Ken
nedy urged that a crusade be made
''for the immediate appointment Of
returning soldiers currently being
discharged to dominating positions"
on every Government bureau or
committee administering veterans
affairs.
Nine members of the organization
received the national commander s
award In recognition Of their work
on behalf of the organizations ex-
pansion program. They included Ed
ward D. Spedden, Washington.
Evening star., 1945-06-21
Religious Training
During School Hours
Asked by Committee

The Committee on Religious Life
In the Nations Capital has asked
the Board Of Education to allow
$500 white and colored elementary
school children to leave school for an
hour a week for 20 weeks next year
to go to nearby churches for in
struction In the Catholic, Jewish or
Protestant faiths
Committee representatives told
the board yesterday the best way to
give children moral instruction" is
to include it in the regular school
day. The committee offered to pay
for teachers to call for the students
once a week, take them to a nearby
church, give them religious instruc-
ton and return them in an hour.
The board has taken the sugges-
ton under advisement. DR.. Oscar
r. Blackwelder, committee chair
man, said yesterday $500 other COM
munities have similar release time"
from the school day for church
school instruction. The Rev. Leo
j. Mccormack. representing Catho-
hc churches, stressed that parental
consent will be required for the
experiment and that each child will
be taught only his own faith.
Point to Difflculty.
Two colored members of the
board, John H. Wilson and Mrs.
Velma G. Williams, pointed out
that the plan called for separate
instructional centers for white and
colored children. and that board ap-
proval would involve approval of
the policy of separate religious in
struction for colored and white stu
dents. While the public school
classes are conducted separately, the
two members said, they believe re-
ligious instruction carried on sep
arately constitutes denial Of the
principles that Christianity and de-
mocracy are supposed to represent.
The experimental plan now in
wolves only Catholic and Protestant
children from the third to the sixth
grades. but would be extended tol
the Jewish faith and possibly to
other school grades If approved by
the board, DR.. Blackwelder indi-
Gated.
Austin H. Fickling, representing
the GARFIELD School Parent Teacher
Association, asked the board to shift |
the Turner Elementary School at
Stanton road and Alabama avenue
Sc. to a Junior high school status
10 teach about 500 children of Junior
high school age in the area who
now have to go as far as or
5 miles to the nearest colored
Junior high school able to accom-
modate them.
Plane Acceptance Illegal.
The board also heard from Cor
poration Counsel Richmond B.
Keech that it legally cannot accept
the commercial offer Of a Piper
Cub" training plane to teach stu
dents aviation principles.
Board members also: Cut their
superintendents' and principals va
yations from a maximum Of IS to
ze days to conform with civil serv-i
Ice practice. accepted an agreement
with Col. J; D. Arthur, Assistant
Engineer Commissioner, that more
school repair work be given to pri-
vate contractors instead of to the
overloaded District Repair Shop
and sustained the action of school
pfficers in refusing to restore perma-
nent status to Anthony Campanella,
now teaching in temporary
status, on the ground that he did
not present evidence OF war neces-
sity in resigning for few months
service with the State Department..
Evening star., 1945-06-21
Navy Honors EmpIoye
For Secret Invention

Lloyd w. Dorsey. civilian engineer
In the special devices division OF
the Nays office of Research and
Invention, Bureau of Aeronautics
yesterday was given the Disting-
uished Civilian Service Award.
Mr.. Dorsey is credited with the
development of special sighting
techniques of a secret nature which
were used in the invasion of Nor.
mandy.
The award was presented by Ar.
temus L. Gates, Undersecretary Of
the Navy. Mr.. Dorsey lives at 4514
Connecticut avenue.
Evening star., 1945-06-21
Business Association
Reorqunizes and Elects

The Georgia Avenue Business.
mems Association held reorganiza-
ton meeting Tuesday night at which
officers were elected and a program
planned for the coming year.
Harry Wechsler was elected presi-
dent. Other officers are Moses Bord
vice president: G.. F. Fritzen, Sec
ond vice president, and Gene Elgin
treasurer. Reuben Bennett was ap-
pointed counsel.
Evening star., 1945-06-21
Goering Helped Design
Nuzi Comp, Walker Says

BY the Associated Press.
BELTON, Tex, June 21.-Lt. Gen
Walton H. Walker, commander of
the Goth Corps which spearheaded
Gen. George S. Patton's drive across
Germany, told a press conference
here yesterday his corps had found
evidence that Hermann Goering had
helped lay out Buchenwald prison
camp.
Evening star., 1945-06-21
Miss Perkins Attends
lilo Conference
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
QUEBEC, June 21.-Frances Per-
kins, retiring United States Secre-
tary of Labor, will be among those
taking part IN the opening cere-
monies today at the conference of
the governing body of the Interna-
tional Labor Organization.
Miss Perkins has been mentioned
as candidate for the post of ILO
Evening star., 1945-06-21

director, as has Carter Goodrich
United States labor commissioned,
who is chairman of the governing
body.
Evening star., 1945-06-21
DooIittIe
CONTINUED From First Page.)

quarters of the 9th Air Force while
1t is retraining in this country.
Asked whether the 9th would use
only the Super Fortresses used by
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U. S. SIGNS PACT
FOR FRENCH HELP

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. --(P-|
The United States and France sign
ed today a $2,575, 000,000 agreement
designed to strengthen French aid
in the Allied war effort and begin
the economic reconstruction of the
country.
The arrangement calls partly for
direct Lend-Lease 1of civilian sup
plies to France which evidently
means they will be given by the
United States without financial
charge, and partly for system
of Lend-Lease credits useful pri-
marily in enabling the French
to obtain heavy industrial and tran
sportation equipment here.
These credits are being extend
ed under section 3 Co of the act
which allows President Roosevelt
to continue shipping to an Allied
country Lend-Lease items ordered
for that country but not delivered
before the end of the war.
Today's agreement was signed
for the United States by Acting
Secretary of State Grew and for
the French by Ambassador Henri
Bonnet and Jean Monnett, French
economic representative here.
Actually, three separate agree
ments were made. One provides for
continuing shipments of arms and
munitions to the French army 10
maintain it in fighting trim on the
Western Front and to double its
eight divisions already organized
with the Lend-Lease equipment.
The second provides for recipro-
cal aid by the French to the Allied
war effort. Estimates of the total
French contribution, once French
factories are effectively operating.
has run as high as 81 1000, 900, 900.
The third agreement covers civil
ian supplies. =
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MANILA OPENED
TO U. S. VESSELS
Continued from Page One)

Only Is prisoners were captured
on the tadpole-shaped island.
American losses were 1876 kill
ed, 531 wounded and eight miss
ing-a total of CTS.
The American forces which took
Corregidor were the 503rd Para
troop Regiment, the Third Batta-
lion of the 34th Infantry Regiment
and miscellaneous elements, a to-
tai of 1898 Yanks.
Some Is miles east and north
east of Manila, where the mop
ping up CT enemy remnants was
proceeding, Yanks of tn e Four
teenth Corps drove against strong
japanese entertainments on the
Antipolo-Wewa line, encountering
rocket fire in addition to heavy
machinegun, artillery and mortar
fire. ,....
Thirty Third Division troops
pressed into the mountains of the
Rosario-Agoo area due north of
the Lingayen Gulf beachhead,
while the And Division on the 9TH
er side of the head of the central
Luzon plain drove toward the Ba-
lete pass road at Santa Fe.
Aircraft closely supported all
ground action, and swept farther
north to hammer enemy shipping
installations at Vigan, on the
north coast Of LuZon.
Manila Bay, one of the greatest
harbors of the Far East and
vital base from which to mount
new blows against Japan, opened
to American shipping as supplies
came to the war-wrecked city of
Manila for the first time in three
years.
Another heavy force of Liberia
tors struck the Takao area of
southwestern Formosa without op-
position, but the results were OBJ
scured by loW-hanging clouds.
Fighters tore into railroad traf-
fic, DANA ging one train.
Patrol bombers sank a small
freighter and damaged another off
Takao and destroyed a radio sta
ton ID the nearby Sakishima Is
lands.
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BERLIN POUNDED
FOR ninth NIGHT
Continued from Page One)

40 miles northeast of Cologne,
bombing through solid clouds.
There was no fighter opposition,
and the bonbers met little or no
anti-aircraft fire over the Ruhr-
once noted for its intense flax
except at Kassel where the Ger
mans sent it up in wild bar
RACES" Three bombers and four
fighters are missing.
Planes based in Italy struck
communications in southern Ger
many, Austria and north Italy.
The Air Ministry announced that
Spitfires bombed many detectives,
flying through heavy flax.
Some $50 escorting fighters fan
ned out independently over t h e
Ruhr to strafe and dive-bomb
ground targets, including vital
points on the rail network sup
plying coal, iron and other raw
materials to industrial plants of
central and eastern Germany.
The Soest yards are located at
the junction of two main lines.
Schwerte and Hagen have extern
sive repair facilities as well as
important yards. Siegen is on the
main line from the Ruhr to south
ern Germany, with large rail re-
pair shops employing an estimat-
ed 1900 men. Three main lines
leading to the Ruhr, from north
east Germany run through Kassel.
Eighth Air Force losses Febru-
airy Is were three bombers and
10 fighters and February q nine
bombers and five fighters, while
planes destroyed on the ground
yesterday were increased from 70
to 81.
German radio - sounding warn
ings throughout the day-indicat-
ed the 18th Air Force from Italy
was out again in strength over
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BAILEY PLEADS
FOR WORK BILL
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
authorizes War ManpoWer Commits
sioner Paul V. McNutt to make
in-plant surveys to determine man
power ceilings, he continued:
well have won the war with
Japan before Mr.. McNutt gets
through with these in-plant sur
veys. Why, he was over yonder
in Europe that last time I heard
about him. 1 suppose he was max
ing out-plane surveys there
Bailey, his voice now down to
a whisper and then raised to a
shout, reminded the Senate that
1.-The First and Ninth armies are
now marching on Cologne"
Il suppose we can say to those
boys over there, oh, we're doing
a great job for you over here. You
can die while we sit around and
appoint a bunch of committees. ,"
He urged the senate to turn down
the Kilgore bill and then 60 after
the House work of-fight bill and
tear it down or add to it. 'I'll
go along with you on that" he
said.
He warned that some. sort of
tough Legislation was the Senate
responsibility, that it couldn't duck
the issue and turn it over to 1.-The
Honorable John L. Lewis, the Hon.
orable Philip Murray, the Honor
able William Green, or the Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Com
merce." He said he would favor
the House bill even if the 18-45
age limit were made 10 to IS.
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American Forces Drive
To 6 Miles From Goal

way through Sindorf, about two
miles to the north. Still another
force was astride the Juelich-Colo.
gne highway.
First Army troops operating
north of the Linnich-Cologne road
took Tollhausen and Esch.. while
others cleared Berg and Vettweiss
southeast of Dueren. Dickerscheid
and Giesdorf were seized in the
Schleiden area.
A French officer released from
a German prison camp by the
Ninth Army declared the enemy
was using remnants of remnants"
in an effort to check the drive IN
the Rhine, sending even filters in.
to the line as riflemen. Many pris.
oners being taken are members of
Hitler's peoples army, usually
very old or very young and iden-
titled only by an arm band.
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VETERANS GROUP
RECEIVES PRAISE
Continued from Page One)

reaction, now, he said, so that
later the last returning serviceman
should get as effective assistance
as the first.
He divided the optimum pro-
gram of a local committee into
four sections, of which the first
would be the organization of the
community program. Under. this
would fall allotment of functions to
participating agencies, with care to
avoid duplication, immediate pro-
vision Of assistance to veterans
with claims to file against the gov
eminent and preparation for future
expansion of the program, in de-
tail.
Colonel Upton's second division,
subheaded Coordination would
include the establishment of effec-
tive liaison among participating or
CARNATIONS and with helpful "out-
side' organizations, such as ma
tlonal welfare organizations and
local civic groups.
The third division would deal
with the education of the communi-
ty as to what the associated groups
were doing, and would include the
preparation of directory of agen-
cies, to be sued by veterans and
volunteer helpers to avoid con-
fusion.
The fourth phase of whole-com-
mittee activity would be as forum
for the participating organizations,
as their 'front.' vis-a-vis the COM
munity as a whole and as arbitra-
ton board, accessible to veterans
and to their employers.
Col. Upton advised conservatism
in planning, seeing a danger in
being "toc ambitious to begin
with.
Following Col. Upton's address,
the committee moved to authorize
Chairman Emory to appoint a sub
committee to prepare a directory
| dllu dIlOIllGI SuO-SlOuP W uioSooi
additional memberships in the com
mittee.
The attendance included Pete
A. Reavis, United States Employ
ment Service; Tom Keith, New
Hanover Draft board number two
J. Fred Rippy, Jr.. for the Cit:
government; John Walker, Ameri
can Legion Post number ten; Mrs
]. B. Edwards, American Legiol
Auxiliary: Mrs. Mary Buzhardt
American Red Cross; Rabbi M
M. Thurman, Associated Charities
Walter J. Cartier, Chamber O.
Commerce; Bruce E. Davis, Con
gress of Industrial Organizations
George West, Board of Education
Miss Elizabeth Mason, USO Trav
clers' Aid; N. A. Avera, Socia
Security Board; George L. Stearns
executive secretary of the Com
munity Chest and Council and Mr.
Emory.
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a., cleaned out the bitterly-de-
wns enemy stronghold of Calcar
lenu no northern end of the long
s a. 'l, we're SAID to have driv-
ON'l within four miles of Zanten,
eM n;cb in turn is only about four
W.T. nos from the Ruhr arsenal city
U1esel German defense forces
y. ore reported pulling out of the
ondlv narrowing corridor between
I .perican and Canadian spear
heads in hat sector.
Keeping pace with the main
.a.orican onslaught east of the
Dor It, Cen. Patton's Third Ar
NV completed occupation of the
hio road junction of Bitburg at the
Santpr Of its 50-mile front and far
No. south drove within five miles
~ Trier from the southeast.
Despite Bitburg's great strategic
value as center of numerous
roads stretching across level coun-
t,v to the Rhine, the city scarcely
was defended by the Nazis against
the final American assault. Bit
b1rg itself was destroyed, with al
most no living thing in the rubble,
bu4 the highways running through
it were intact.
After taking Bitburg, the Fifth
Infantry pushed on to the Kyll riv-
or five miles to the southeast, tax
inc five villages on the way. The
column approaching ancient Trier,
one of The Germans strongest for
tress cities, gained mile north of
Pellingen. An armored division
made new crossing of the Pruem
river a mile beyond the town of
Pruem.
In all, Patton's forces captured
Is villages and entered another in
advances up to a mile and a half.
Two German counterattacks were
repulsed,
Heavy weather of the past two
days cleared only slightly, blu
American tactical fighter-bombers
resumed their attacks on enemy
positions ahead of the advancing
armies, driving low and pumping
rockets into German tanks and
strafing troops huddled in trench
es. Several hundred fighters joined
this assault after having escorted
bombers over Germany.
In their quick conquest of the
Erft river, the last natural bar
rier before the Rhine some First
Army troops crossed on bridge
captured intact, while others waded
across the shallow stream and
swiftly liquidated enemy defenses
on a ridge rising a few hundred
yards to the east.
The columns smashing toward
Cologne were utilizing both the Du-
eren-Cologne highway through Mo-
drath and the Autobahn super-high-
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CAPTURE
M0T0YAMA0 ON Two
Continued from Page One)

aided by the foes lack of water
and curtailed supplies.
Word that another Marine drive,
launched Tuesday morning after
full bombardment preparation, had
made only limited advances" by
nightfall, came from Adm. Nimitz
in his Wednesday morning COM
,nunique.
These crawling gains were made
in the center of the line by the
Third Marine division and on the
right or eastern flank by the
Fourth Marine Division. There
was no report on the Fifth Marine
Davision, on the left flank Of the
two-mile wide battlefront.
The Nipponese hold natural de-
tense Line, with favorable terrain
and the flanks anchored on the east
and west coasts Of the tiny volca-
mic island. They have taken adj
vantage of every foot of ground,
constructing hundreds of defense
positions linked so their fire can
support each other.
Behind the enemy line lies the
town of Motoyama, largest of the
island. Besides being the hub of
roads radiating out over the is
land it is the site of sulphur
mine and at least two refineries.
North Of the town is Motoyama
airfield No. 3, in the process of
construction when the Marine in
vasion hit the island February 10.
What is left of the enemy gar
rison originally estimated at TO-
600 is compressed in the northern
half of the island. Despite heavy
casualties, the japanese still are
formidable, as indicated by Nimitz'