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NATIONAL NEWS IN
BRIEF

opened Friday night, March 2.
An American Negro theatre pro-
duction, most daily critics were
kind but unenthusiastic.
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NEW PLAY

New York-"Garden of Time"
Owen Dodson's new three act play
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MARRIAGE LICENSES
IN MINNEAPOLIS

Frank l. johnson, 81, 1926 Wash
ington Ave. S., Mary Strong, 3441
Chicago Ave.
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UncOvering
Washington
BY Harry 8. McAIpin

One significant thing has grown
out of the New Boston, Tex,
housing fiasco, resulting from the
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switch OF 200
units Of war
housing from Ne
gro to white &C.
cupancy.
In the past,
John B. Bland
ford, Jr., admin
istrator Of the
National Housing
Agency, has told
n e W 8 m e n and
.,o.,so,,, o-noVi1o
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Lieut. Leroy Bell
Back Home from
Oversees Duty
By VILLA BOZ

By VILLA BOOKER
1t. Leroy Bell, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Bell, 1929 S. Fifth St.,
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CONTRALTO SINGS
AT TOWN HALL

New York-Carol Brice, con-
tralto, was heard in recital at the
Town Hall March 6.
Evening star., 1945-03-31
Mrs. Roosevelt Halls
Women 5 War Work
AT Clio Forum Series

Because their homes have been
spared the devastations of war.
Americans have an extra share of
responsibility for a more secure
world in the future. Mrs Roosevelt
said last night.
Mrs. Roosevelt spoke at the Ma
tional Archives Auditorium on a
program sponsored by the United
Federal Workers of America as one
of a forum series arranged by CIO
unions and auxiliaries in tribute to
women's work on the home front
Commencing the women who
have done their share, Mrs. Roose-
welt said that, considering the war
has mot been on our doorsteps," +"
most people in this country have
done a good job.
| Col. Oveta Culp Hobby. director of
the Women's Army Corps, praised
women's contribution to the war
effort, but said their task in work
ing for future peace would be more
Q1fflcuit.
Other speakers were 1t. Beatrice
Joliet, who spoke of her work as a
Navy nurse aboard hospital ship,
and Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune,
president of the National Council
of Negro Women. Music was pro-
vided by the Howard University
Campus Cavalcades. Henry Belt
scher, president of the District
Council, United Federal Workers of
America, presided.
Evening star., 1945-03-31

8:05 AIM Easter Songs of Majesty"
sung by the Washington Mission.
ary Choir from the Sligo Church.
$3.50 a.m.-"GI Easter Round the
World" with broadcasts from New
York, Chicago, Washington, Guam
and Rome.
VOL, 1880 am. - Services from
Camp Kilmer, N. j.. with a chorus
Of 80 voices. Two Army chap
lains will conduct the program.
lis p.nn.-Easter services from st,
James, Picadilly, London, con-
Quoted by Archdeacon Charles
Lambert.
WWDC, 10 pm.-"The Story Of the
Resurrection" will be dramatized
by the Mcclure Players.
WINK, 10 am.-Easter at st. AIMS
Orphanage will be broadcast by
Jerry Strong.
4:30 p.m.-A program of religious
music sung by the High School
Sodality Union.
Evening star., 1945-03-31
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.
SATURDAY, MARCH g. Io45.
Faster Radio Programs
Services From Many Ports Of World
Will Be Broadcast by Network

The following is list OF special
Easter Sunday broadcasts to be
heard tomorrow on Washington
radio stations:
WMAL, 7:30 am.-Easter morning
service from the Washington
Cathedral with the holy COM
munion celebration conducted by
the Right Rev. Angus Dun.
8 ANA special service originat-
ing from United States 5th Army
Headquarters In the Appenine
Mountains in Italy. 1t. Col
Lucian Truscott, jr., will read the
scripture.
$3.50 ANA broadcast OF the 28th
annual Easter Sunrise Service
conducted In the hills surround
ing Palm Springs, Calf.
WTOP, 6 am.-An hour long broad
cast of the annual Moravian Easter
Sunrise Service, the 173d Of the
church, from Winston Salem
NJ G.
7 am.-Elder Michaux's service from
the Church Of God in Washington
7:30 a.m.-The 18th annual Knights
Templar service from Arlington
National Memorial Cemetery. Ad-
miral Of the Fleet, Ernest j. King
will participate.
8:15 ANA broadcast of Easter
services from an Army hospital
in England.
$3.50 a.m.-The annual Sunrise Serv-
ioe from the Garden of the Gods
at the foot of Pixies Peak in
Colorado.
WRC, 1880 a.m.-"Easter Dawn In
Radio City from the Music Hall
with the Rockefeller Choristers
and an octette from the Quonset
Naval Base.
Evening star., 1945-03-31
i Eyacuees With Kin
Here Due in U. 5. Soon
From Philippines

Several persons with Washington
relatives were named in a tentative
Associated Press list OF cibilian eyac-
uees due to dock at San Francisco
from the Philippines. Three OF the
persons arrived on ship which
docked yesterday. their relatives here
said.
Those who definitely have arrived
are Mr.. and Mrs. william Burke, jr.
and their son, William Burke III,
Mr.. Burke is the son OF Mr.. and Mrs
William Burke, ST., 1870 Wyoming
avenue NV. Mrs. Burke is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George e
Fleming, 1901 Idaho avenue NV.
Those listed as arriving soon, ac-
cording to the 18th Naval District,
are Richard l.. Line, mining engi-
neer, son Of Mrs. w. B. Hays, 440A
Klingle street NV; Mrs. Louis Scott
Marsh, sister-in-law of Misses Wini-
fred and Alberta Marsh, 1914 Seven
teenth street NV, and theodore
Smith, wife of Matthew Smith
Wardman Park Hotel.
Six other persons On the list
whose next Of kin were listed az
Washington residents, were Thelma
Virginia Whitacre and her daugh-
ters, Mary and Margaret, whose
mother-in-law, Mrs. Paul Whitacre
often visits here with Mrs. Mary E
Evans, l400 Fairmont street NV
Mrs. Paul Whitacre Is not here now,
Also Richard, Michael, Judith and
Robert Mckinley. Mr.. Mckinley Is
from Cincinnati and his mother lives
there, but his next Of kin was listed
incorrectly as John B. Gordon, an
employe Of the Bureau of Raw Ma
terials, a trade association, which in
quired about the MCKINLEY family on
behalf OF Mr.. McGinley's employers
the Proctor & Gamble Co.
Evening star., 1945-03-31
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

WITH THE 9th ARMY ON THE
RHINE, Mar. 3l.--From top-story
window of a shell-torn German
house not 1,500 yards from the river
I watched the artillery preparation
that preceded this Army's bridge
head across the Rhine.
For weeks engineer bridging equip
ment had been moving eastward
closely following the infantry to the
west bank of the river. where it lay
camouaaged awaiting the day. For
days preceding the 9th's jump-off
artillery had been moving under
cover OF darkness. some into areas
under direct observation from the
German side of the Rhine.
Now at last everything was set
In the darkness 7 looked at my
watch and saw 1t was Q minutes to /
1t would be just a matter of seconds
now
TOT (time on target) was / am
I looked at the German side of the
river. silent in the moonlight.
Then it began. Everywhere guns
exploded around me. The building
quivered with the blast. / was con-
scious of the howitzers firing inn
mediately to the rear. In the base
ment beneath me the computers OF
fire direction center we're methodi-
cally phoning data to the gun pits
| Across the Rhine the sky blazeo
with the flashes of the bursts II,
enemy artillery positions and OBJ
servation posts, located by photo
Interpretation and the statements o1
prisoners
Shells burst brilliantly in some
of the built-up areas where the
enemy kept supplies and his COM
mand posts.
"Jeep," gasped a sergeant in the
gloom beside me. "Barnum had the
greatest show on earth-up until
now"
Evening star., 1945-03-31

bright said. For the benefit, there
fore, of those who do not read the
Congressional Record, a few selected
paragraphs are offered here:
There is a common belief, per-
haps a myth, that our people are
anti-British. There are several
powerful newspapers in this coun-
try which for many years have
drilled into the minds of their mil
lions of readers hate and distrust
of the British. The same news
papers and other papers have done
likewise with regard to the Rus
slams, the Jews and, for that mat
ter, all furrinerS,' as one Governor
of sovereign State used to put it.
do not believe the majority of our
people, or the majority of the Sen
ate, subscribes to these narrow pre-
JUDGES. :. On the other hand, If
it be true that we do hate and dis
trust our Allies, then we and they
should know about it. If these
powerful influences in our press
have so far poisoned the minds of
our people that they do not desire
to cooperate positively and con-
cretly with our Allies, then an en-
tirely different policy from that
now proposed should be pursued" !"
Must Make Comparisons.
II realize that it is not popular
even to compare Russia with our
selves and yet it is necessary to get
our ideas straight. When I hear the
unbridled and 1ntemperate attacks
upon Russia by some of our own
people, I cannot help but be troubled.
If these people, who profess such
profound love and faith for our
American system, are sincere in this
faith, then why are they SO afraid
of Russia?
II have feeling that the real rea-
son for their hate and distrust is
their lack of faith in our own sys-
tenn.
II believe firmly in the superiority
of our democratic capitalistic system,
and I desire to preserve it. But we
should remember that capitalism Is
not divine and inviolable. 1t was
not handed down to us by the Al
mighty; and to question it, or test it, is
neither sacrilegious nor reasonable.
We have capitalism, and we can de-
fend 1t, because it has by all stand
ards of decency provided better con-
ditions for more people than any
other system on earth. 1t is of
Evening star., 1945-03-31
Writer Describes Big Borroge
Which Preceded Rhine CROSSING

Minute after minute the blast and
roar continued, punctuated with
semilulls as the sweating gunners of
the batteries changed from one
target to the next. The tubes were
getting hot now. One ignited a
powder bag, and connoneer cried
out with the pain of his burns.
1t was getting close now TO zero
hour-2 a.m.-the time when the
Doughboys were to cross in the as
sault boats. Immediately across the
river from us was a dixie behind
which the enemy was dug In.
During the last few minutes the
heaviest fire Of the barrage was
concentrated on this. To the right
and left OF me fiery tracer bullets
from machine guns joined in with
the overhead covering fire. It was
timed to the second. Just at the
right time the artillery lifted to
targets further out and the first in
fantry wave hit the opposite side.
Six hours later the guns were still
blazing as the infantry made good
progress on the other side and the
engineers took over the task of put
ting in the bridges. But from my
observation post you could see
nothing but an immense pail of
smoke. The big show was nearly
over.
Hours later prisoners and wounded
began to flow back. One platoon
sergeant brought back with him II
prisoners SO deafened by the artil-
lery that they could hear nothing
"The artillery was marvellous" he
said. "All that stuff on the dixie was
just where we wanted 1t and lifted
just as we moved out"
Hours later a program of radio
music in our underground direction
center was interrupted to announce
our crossing. We laughed at the
German broadcasts which said we
had been annihilated in hand to-
hand combat.
Evening star., 1945-03-31
On the Other Hand
If We Hate and Distrust Our Allies,
Then We and They Should Know About 1t

value to us, and is defensible. only SO
long as it maintains that record.
Russia is a great and powerful
nation. She can become either a
good friend and customer, exertine
her influence for peace and sta
bility, or she can become an enemy
using every opportunity to thwart us
The Russia of today is a product
of history less fortunate than ours
I do not believe the Soviets desire to
dominate the world as the Germans
do They have given no evidence
that they believe they are supermen
Russia, like America, is a nation oil
many races, and I can see no real
reason why we cannot get along
peaceably.
Should Resnect Ally"
Our policy should be one of re.
spect and consideration for valian,
ally in peace as well as in war, al
least until some compelling reason
to alter our views intervenes."
THE making of peace is a con-
tinuing process that must 60 on from
day to day, from year to year, sc
long as our civilization shall last
Our participation In this process /.
not just the signing of a charter
with big red seal 1t Is a daily
task, a positive participation in al
the details and decisions which to.
gether constitute a living and grow.
ing policy.
What an empty shell the Dunn
barton Oaks proposals will be, ever
If complete agreement is reached al
San Francisco, if at the same time
or in the near future, we are unable
to agree upon such things as ex-
change and monetary matters, avi.
alton, the free flow of information
trade barriers, cartels, armaments
and oil, and. I may add, a simple
treaty with Mexico on the division
of the waters of the Colorado River
Evening star., 1945-03-31

en- speech often
is, being the ex-
pre- 81 on of
thoughts an d
feelings tn a t
have been stored
up for a long
time, awaiting
proper oppor-
tunity for utter
ance.
Because of the
torrent of war
news that day,
the press was
able to Civ e
little space to
what Mr.. Full
Evening star., 1945-03-31
BY THE HAsKIN SERVICE.


@. What makes the emerald so
costly?-W. S.
A. Flawless emeralds are extreme
1y rare, and it is this rarity of first
quality stones which makes emer-
aids the most costly Of precious
stones. The best gems are worth
between three and four times as
much as diamonds of equal weight.
@. Are women still fighting with
the Russian Army?-E. L. H.
A. Women are serving in various
capacities, for instance, as snipers
and signalers.
@. What was the oon-mark?-
P. B.L.
A. 1t was a line drawn on the
cabin floor in pioneer days to mark
one edge of the patch of light that
came through door or window when
the sun was due south. It told the
noon hour, and clocks were set by it.
@. Is the giant panda a bear?-
LII. H.
A. Though the panda resembles a
bear In outward appearance, studies
of the animals anatomy show that
1t is more closely allied to the rae
coon.
@. What Is the salary of Harry
L. Hopkins?-J. B.. F.
A. Mr.. Hopkins salary is $4,000
year.
@. How many officers and enlist
ed men are in the Navy?-G. G.
A. AS Of December 81, 1914, off,
Ger personnel numbered 300,101 and
enlisted personnel 2,833,904.
@. What are the dimensions of the
old stone wall at Manila in the Phil
ippines?-N. w. G.
A. The wall is approximately 40
feet thick at the base snd from Is
to 20 feet wide at the top.
@. Should the water In radiators
and boiler be drawn of at the end
OF the heating season?-V. r.
A. 1t is not necessary. Adding
fresh water at the beginning OF the
heating season only brings in more
oxygen to corrode the system.
Sometimes it is desirable to draw
little of at the bottom of the
boiler to clean out any accumdla-
ton Of sludge.
@. What is done with the money
paid into National Service Life In
surance?-F r. e.
A. All premiums are deposited into
separate trust fund in the United
States Treasury. The Government
acts in the capacity of trustee of
the fund for the sole benefit of the
poficyholders. No part of the fund
belongs to the Government.
@. Are enlisted men in the Navy
allowed to have calneras?-J. S.
A. Naval personnel are permitted
to have cameras aboard ship for
taking pictures outside naval juris-
diction; while on board, the cam
eras are to be in the custody of
the commanding officer. The use of
cameras within naval jurisdiction
is forbidden unless offlcial perrnis-
sion is granted, and competent su-
pervision Is arranged by the COM
npanding officer.
@. When person has been re-
ported missing In action" does this
imply that he has been killed OF
taken prisoner2-M. R.Y.
A. When person in the armed
forces has been reported missing
In action" 1t has not been deter
mined that he has died, nor has
evidence been found which indicates
that he has survived or that he
has been captured by the enemy.
Evening star., 1945-03-31

Half Of the total resources of the
United States are now being devoted
to waging war. Since Pearl Harbor
war expenditures have amounted to
about $20s, ,oo0, 900, 900. More War
bond money is needed.
Evening star., 1945-03-31

War bonds are the civilians ammu-
milton against the Japs and Nazis.
While the civilian cannot take part
in actual battles. he can do SO vicari-
ously through tanks, guns and other
materiel of war purchased with his
War bond money.
Evening star., 1945-03-31
BY LoweH MeHeff

Young Senator Fulbright of Ar
kansas made his maiden speech in
the Senate one day this week. It
was good speech. A mans maid
Evening star., 1945-03-31
Answers to
Questions

reader can get the answer to any
question Of fact by writing The Eve
ming Star Information Bureau, 316 Eye
st. ne, Washington 2, D. c. Please
inclose cents for return postage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
Americans In Austria
Await Next Operation

WITH THE SIXTH ARMY
GROUP, May 6.-(P)-Peace came
to western Austria and southern
Bavaria on this sunny Sunday.
There is nothing to report, :"
said the official announcement of
the Sixth Army Group, but that
was militarily speaking.
Army equipment lined the roads
and the fields.
American soldiers hung out of
the windows of their billets-the
picturesque houses of the 'Tyrol
and southern Bavaria on which
are painted biblical scenes and
legends lin poetry.
Austrians and Germans alike
were moving back to their homes,
their carts and wagons heaped
high with their personal belong
ings. Some homes were wrecked.
Most of the men wore green
knickers with those quaint shaw
ing brush decorations in their
Tyrolean hats.
Natives in jackets, leather shorts
and embroidered suspenders sun
ned themselves.
An occasional speeding jeep
scattered women, wearing silken
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07

native costumes and walking or
riding bicycles.
Smartly dressed young women
walked in the streets Of cities and
villages, giggling at the soldiers.
The soldiers, outwardly at least,
hewed to the rule of non-frater-
nization.
Old men, drawing on long-stem-
med pipes of porcelain, gossiped
in little knots.
The huge cross of the mountain
towering over the passion play
village of Oberammergau shim-
mered in the sun.
Near the Danube, children swung
on the carriage of shattered
German anti-airraid searchlight.
Lonely soldiers stood guard duty
at bridges and highway sections.
In the billets, in the war rooms,
in the command posts, the one
question was: what now?"
The usual answer was: "Prob-
ably the CHI (China-Burma-In-
dia theater)".
1t is all speculation, and mill
tary security covers any such
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
Last Of Nazii.'
Baltic Areas
Falls To Reds
Soviets Crash Into Edge
OF Slovakian War Pro-
duction Center

LONDON, Monday, May Ia
Russian assault forces captured
the German island seaplane base
of Ruegen, Is miles of Sweden,
and cleared all Germans Baltic
shores yesterday as Soviet forces
in Czechoslovakia smashed into
the outskirts Of the Moravian war
production center of Olmuetz
(Olomouc)
Two Soviet armies in Moravia
and German-amexed Sudetenland
were threatened to trap thousands
of enemy troops in a developing
pocket east of Olnuetz as the
Germans attempted to withdraw
toward revolving Prague-128 miles
to the west.
The escape gap for the, pocket
was narrowed to little more than
IT miles after spearheads burst
into the outskirts of Olmuetz, to-
day according to Moscow's early
morning communique, after driv-
ing within eight miles of the city
yesterday afternoon.
Ruegen, Germans largest is
land and site of three huge sea-
plane bases, fell to Marshal Kons-
,tantin k Rokossovsky's Second
White Russian Army. The entire
northern coast of Germany thus
was cleared of Nazi troops, and
along the Baltic German pocllets
still held out only near Danzig
and in the CORTLAND peninsula of
Latvia.
MoscoW's nightly war bulletin
announced that 1850 enemy troops
had been taken prisoner On Rue
gen island, while Marshal Greg
DRY K. Khukov's First White Rus
sian Army, hopping up a Nazi
pocked between Berlin and the
Elbe river, captured another IT,
120 prisoners and 119 grounded
Nazi planes.
This last German pocket in cen
trail Germany was reduced to
little more than 400 square miles
in area as Zhukov's troops seized
10 towns west of Brandenburg op-
posite American lines. The Rus
sions at no point were more than
10 miles from the Elbe and were
rapidly establishing an almost
continuous 200-mile frcnt with the
Western Allies from the Baltic to
the area northwest of Dresden.
Far to the south the combined
Second and Fourth Ukurainian
armies in Czechoslovakia threat
ened to close a 17-mile escape
gap conferred around Oluetz for
enemy troops in deep salient in
the valleys of the upper Oder,
Becva and Morava rivers.
The Germans admitted that
Nazi troops were attempting to
withdraw from this sector in an
effort to escape from Moravia into
Bohemia, and asserted that rear
guards were keeping open the gap
for the retiring forces in "con-
tinuing battles against the Sow
lets"
Gen. Andrea 7. Yere1nenko' S
lSecond Ukrainisn Army, advanc
(Cnntiuuod m Pare Two. Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07

the success Of the conference. They
did not fear that the conference
would break up even il the Poles
were not seated or the Polish gov
eminent not reorganized in time
for participation in this confer
ence.
The American delegates had a
problem closer home which wor-
ried them. They are concerned ov-
er Latin-American dissatisfaction
with the identical amendments Oh
regional arrangements which the
United States, Great Britain and
China submitted to the conference
secretariat. The Latin-American
delegates feared that the treatment
given such arrangements would
contravene the traditional Mon
roe doctrine which has been the
backbone Of western hemisphere
policies for more than 100 years.
The u. S. delegation, however,
Continued On Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
Patton Takes Pilsen In Drive For Victory
Final Surren%er OF Germany Is Imminent
Russians Capture Seaplane Base Of Ruegen
British Set To Toss
Polish ToStQm
Issue Not Regarded As Paramount To Sue.
cess of Conference; U. S. Studies
Latin-American Problem

SAN FRANCISCO, May 6-W.H--
Official British sources were ready
tonight to toss the whole. Polish
question into Premier Stalin's lap
for settlement at Moscow, convinc-
ed that no solution to this knotty
problem could be worked out in
the United Nations conference
here.
That view was expressed as no
furthur reply came from Stain
in response to requests of Secre.
tary of State Edward r. Stettinius.
Jr., and Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden, heads of the American and
British conference delegations, for
furthur details on the Russian seiz-
ure of is Polish underground lead
ers who disappeared in March.
However, neither the British nor
the Americans, who appeared to
feel only less pessimistic over the
Polish question, regarded settle
ment Of this issue paramount te
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-05-07
Allies May Feed Freed.
Nations For IS Months

scarcely affected by the overall re-
duction. Consequently, the depart
ment said, millions are subsisting
ION as little as three-fourths, two
thirds or even one-half of their pre-
war calories."
European production prospects
are not good due to battle-scarred
agricultural lands, shortages of
supplies and manpewer, depleted
livestock herds, fluid populations,
disorganized controls over produc-
ton and distribution, and adverse
planting weather.
The. department listed these
countries where 1t said nutrition
Continued on Page Three; Col. y