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for many months to come to keep
the wheels of the most complicated
government in the world rolling,
others know that with the end of
the war many agencies viii die.
And with them go the jcbs VIII CT
brought SO many people here.
Washington's reconversion pro-
gram is unlike that Of. AIRY. other
city OF similar size. The city has
no large factories, no shipyards,
no aircraft plants. ,Reconversion in
Washington means the probable
elimination of some wartime agen-
cies, the trimming down of others
and the return OF numerous nom
war bureaus crowded out of the
capital and dispersed over the
country.
The busting city will never ap-
proach the position of becoming
a ghost town, but such things as
housing shortages, transportation
jams and, other discomforts
brought on by overcrowding will
diminish.
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MRS. ROGERS STILL
IN BOSTON DESPITE
LONDON REPORTS

BOSTON, Aug. II IN u. S.
Representative Edith Nourse Rog-
ers (R-Mass), still is in Boston
despite reports from London that
she arrived there yesterday with
members of the House sub-com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs to sit in
on final sessions of the UNRRA
third international conference.
She said today that she had re-
manned at home because she felt
her efforts in post war planning
should be devoted to this country
rather than to Europe.
Il am not in sympathy with
many of the agency's proposals
particularly those regarding huge
shipments of coal to Europe Mrs.
Rogers said, NOR in a possible
tremendous grant to UNRRA
based on a favorable recommen-
dalton of the conference. We shall
have our hands full with postwar
planning for this country"
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NAN WAR LORDS
HAVE BARE CELLS

NUREMBERG, Aug. 12.-(F-
Notorious German leaders who
once strutted in the stadium of this
Nazi shrine city were housed in
bare cells in Nuernberg's city Jail
tonight.
Battery B of the u. S. 391st
Anti-Aircraft Artillery, which has
been guarding Hermann Goering.
Joachim Van Ribbentrop, Robert
Ley and other Nazis at a Luxem-
bourg hotel, completed the move.
The Nazis will 60 on trial as war
criminals next month.
The trip was without incident
but tight-lipped officers declined
10 discuss any details.
Most of the battalion, command
ed by Capt. Lyman Crothers Of
Newark, N. Y, came in two days
ago. They threw a strong guard
around the prison, where special
cell block had been prepared. The
remainder arrived yesterday with
Capt. Hubert Biddle of Bremen,
Ohio, who has been jailed at Mon
dorf, Luxembourg.
The. Nazis were housed in the
West wing of the Jail, which is
separated from the main section
of the prison by 48-foot board
wall. German civilians and some
American personnel awaiting trial
are kept in the main sector.
While awaiting trial each
prisonere will occupty a small cell
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HEARING SLATED
IN ASSAULT CASE

Preliminary hearing will be held
Monday at 10 a. m. for a Negro
man whom county officials charge
with attempted criminal assault on
an elderly Wilmington woman early
Sunday morning.
The one-armed Negro man was
arrested within an hour after the
alleged attempt was made and was
registered at the county Jail at 6: IS
a. m. Sunday as King David, alias
Kelly.
According to officers the woman
was taken from the yard of her
East Wilmington home, where the
attack was made, to James Walker
Memorial hospital where she was
treated for bruises about her throat
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TRUMAN'S SECRETARY
OUTLINES EVENTS ON
SURRENDER PROGRAM

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-R
This Is what will happen when
Japan surrenders, as outlined
today by presidential secre-
tary Charles G. Ross:
There will be immediate con-
sultation between Washington,
London, Moscow and Chung
king.
The announcement will be
made simultaneously in the
four capitals, with President
Truman calling in reporters to
give them the word here.
Arrangements will be made
for Japan to sign surrender
document officially. This may
take two or three days.
After the signing, President
Truman Will proclaim VI Day
and Immediately address the
nation by radio.
The end of the war will be
marked officially either by
presidential proclamation or
adoption of a resolution by
Congress. In this case, it is al
most certain to be a procla-
nation, since Congress Is not
in session and probably won't
be before the surrender occurs.
Whether the proclamation
that the war is over might come
between Japan's acceptance Of
surrender terms and their Of
fetal signing, Ross was not
prepared to say.
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Thiird Fleet
BIRDS Hit
Big Targets
STRIKE AT DAWN
Military Places Smashed
As Halsey's Fliers
Renew Warfare
(By The Associated Press)

10Y 1uc ASSOC1dVCu IICSSl
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12.-tR
-Japan's Domei Agency tonight
acknowledged that carrier planes
flying 800 sorties by 10 a. M, Mon
day, japanese time, had struck
airfields and military installations
in Central Honshu.
principal targets" Domei re-
ported in an FEC recorded dis
patch, we're in the Kanto area, in
Guiding metropolitan Tokyo and the
nine surrounding procedures.
GUAM, Monday, Aug. 13.-P)-
American and British carrier
pilots, alerted against Japanese
treachery under guise of con-
ditional surrender offer, attacked
the Tokyo area at dawn today
some IL hours after an enemy
aerial torpedo damaged a major
U. S. warship at Okinawa.
Possibly several hundred car.
rier planes launched the attack,
which Admiral Nimitz, communi.
que a short time later reported
was directea against military tar.
gets in the Tokyo area and was
still in progress.
Absence of his familiar phrases
I'm strength or 'theavy attacks
might indicate that Admiral Halsey
had not sent as large a force as
the 1900 to 1900 planes which re
peatedly attacked the japanese
homeland 81 days in July anc
again last Thursday and Friday.
After both Nimitz and Halsey
had warned the fleet to be on the
alert against treachery while
peace terms were being studied
and while the fleet was idle Satur
cay and Sunday, "a major U. S
War vessel anchored in Buckne1
Bay, Okinawa, was struck by ar
aerial torpedo from an enemy air
craft Sunday night" .Nimitz an.
nounced. "The damage has not YET
been dete- mined" he said.
A major vessel is a battleship or
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BEHEADS
WIFE WITH B0L0

SEATTLE, Aug. 12.-R-A war
veteran who said he had a medical
discharge from the armed services
admitted last night that he welded
the souvenir Philippine Bolo knife
which beheaded his wife in two
blows, Sheriff Harlan S. Callahan
said.
The woman was killed as she ran
screaming to a neighbours house.
The victim was Mrs. Ida Jane
Leslie Hartley, about Sc. and Gala
han identified her husband, held in
custody on an open charge, as Earl
Victor Bruce Hartley, At.
Callahan said he asked Hartley
his motive and got this reply: ITO
tell you the truth, Sheriff, I don't
rightly know. Will you step on this
cigarette for me?'
The sheriff quoted Hartley as
saying that he chit her with the
Filipino beheading knife 1 gave
her, and she started to rum"
The first swing of the curved
blade caught Mrs. Hartley at the
top of her head, Callahan said, in
flicting deep wound. Mrs. Hart.
ley ran and the second, fatal blow,
was delivered in the neighbor' S
yard.
Callahan quoted Mrs. Dewey Nc.
Lain as saying she heard a com.
motion and ran out on the porch
and there she (Mrs. Hartley was
with blood streaming all over her. +"
Hartley made no protest when he
was led to a police automobile and
questioned.
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CHINESE ADVANCING
TO CUT OFF ESCAPE
OF JAPANESE FORCE

CHUNGK1NG, Aug. H. U.D -
Chinese forces driving eastward
against the narrowing Japanese
corridor from Kwangsi Province
are within five miles of cutting off
the enemy escape route up the
Kwangsi-Hunan railway, tn e
Chinese High Command announced
today.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek's
Sixth Army troops pushing east
ward from Shining were reported
five miles from the railway city
of Tungan IS miles Northeast OF
Kweilin.
Seventh Army troops, following
up the enemy withdrawal North
eastward along the railway, cap
tured Chuansien, &c miles North,
east of Kweilin, and are pressing
toward Huangshaho on the Human
border.
Mai. Gen. Howard c. Davidson's
10th U. S. Airforce, reported If
action for the first time today, at
tackled retreating japanese troops
and conveys in the Chenghsien area
of Human Friday in support Of the
advancing Chinese.
1t. Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer' S
communique said 10th Air Force
P-51's $destroyed Is trucks and
damaged IS others near Chengh.
sien and on the same mission kill
ed so enemy troops and set two
troop compounds on fire.
Other 10th Air Force fighter
bombers set fire to enemy occupied
buildings at Liling and Paoching.
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Checker Game Prouokes
roughable Question

wasHENGTON, Aug. 12.-(B
,o,-The boys in the White
aouse press room were killing
hit Of time waiting for some
management. on a Japanese
surrender.
The correspondent for lass,
.a;oia, Soviet News Agency,
engaged Chinese service . cor
a.rondent in a game of check
ers.
kibitzer leaned over be-
.-oen the two and inquired:
what are you playing for
Timer Mongolia"
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Wilmington Man Gets
Degree AT Wake Forest

WAKE FOREST, Aug. 1.-THE
Wake Forest College summer term
closed yesterday with the COM
mencement address by the Rev.
DR.. Arthur S. Gillespie, returned
missionary from China, and the
presentation of diplomas to 80
graduates.
Of those graduating, Bryan Dow
Marshburn, of Wilmington, receiv-
ed a Bachelor of Science degree.
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WEATHER
Eastern Standard Time)

eastern Standard Time)
=, (by U. S. Weather Bureau)
chronological data for the "a hours
''s ''5o pm. yesterday.
Temperature
a'So a, "a; 7:30 am, rs; 80 pm, &c.;
';5o pm, 10,
Normal 49, ''''' ''' - N ~
10. Humidity
1880 pm, 10. 1880
Precipitation
A M o.ai Tor the "a houre ending 1880 pm,
''O4 inches. viz
Tides For Today
y IRON the Tide Tables published by
o. coast and Geodetic Survey
W,n,; High Low
ihsloh lila 8:32s
Maso., 1:45p 8:52r
'oHoofo Inlet 11.27a 5:04s
s,,.; 11:31p 5:28I
IN 90 o:32; Sunset, 7:01; Moonrist
'''oa' Moonset 1o:22p.
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At meeting by
Japan surrender offer the President
taken OF and his
left right around
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Secretary
Lewis B. Schweenbach Housing Agency
ford WPB Krug; Director John W.
Chief
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FORECAST.

North Carolina: Considerable cloudi-
Moss with showers and scattered thunder
storms Monday and Tuesday. Not quite
so warm Monday and continued moder-
,te temperatures Tuesday.
The Valley settler., 1945-06-29
HERE 6 THERE

We under stand. that Mir. & Mrs. Harold Moore went on a other suc- cessfu1 Bear Hunt. It is reported that they returned with two bear.
 3/c Gunners Mate Donovan Lent1, who has been home on furlough, Left by Navy Airplane for Treasure .Is1a nd this week. He will have more weeks in the Armed Guard School before going back into active duty. He has one and one-ha1f more years :. tn the Navy to complete his period f Enli tment.
 Apologies to Roland Snodgrass, Carlton Kaiser, and Don Irwin for omitting their names from the Agricultural me eeting of last week wit tn Dean Gasser, the new commi ST: si oner of Agri culture.
 During the week we were paid call from It. Sigmund and It. Be ckl CT of Ladd Field; Commander Ray and Mir. Pet terson of Kodiak. They were on a tour of inspe ctio on of the Co., or storage and processing rooms.
 Mrs. Elmer Hosler, Manager of the Palmer branch of Koslo sky's, reports that she has a cucumber in her green house 5 inches long, tomato plant wi tn seven: tomatoes ,and peppers big enough to eat.
 DONlT~ FORGET THE VEGETABLE GROWERS MEET ON MONDAY EVENING IN THE COMMUNITY HALL AT $500 O'CLOCK SHARP. GRADING STANDARDS WILL BE DISCUSSED. COME. AND ADD YOUR IDEAS
 A =
The Valley settler., 1945-06-29

We are very glad to he reports~"from the All Club have more from more of ,th
The Valley settler., 1945-06-29
CLUB MEET INGs OF THE VALLEY

C10D FthI 1N0o 0r HE VHL1lE1 On Tuesday nj ght, June 2eth, the F2le ct ri c Improv ement Club chec
 tho lighting of thssSchoo1 o1rbomseas Ia study of il1um1 na tion. The aver-
 age of all the rooms was foot |candlepower, the highest Il foot |cand1epower, and the lowest l foot |cand1epower whi oh s inadequate. It
 will be checked again after. 1t has be en painted. It was planned to make a tour of FSklutna Power Plant and have a pio- |nio at Ek1utna Lake on July 22nd.
 The next nee tine will be held at the Mau home on July l7th at $500 o'clock F.M.
Evening star., 1945-01-19
Senators 10 Consider
Gas Shortage Probe
Funds Next Friday
Star Staff Photo.

Chairman Lucas of the Senate
Audit and Control Committee to-
day scheduled meeting for next
Friday to consider the proposed
ALLEGATION of $4,000 to finance the
suggested investigation of the recent
gasoline famine in the District.
The Senate District Committee
last week unanimously approved the
resolution offered by it's chairman
Senator Bilbo, Democrat, of Missis-
sippi, calling for a formal investi-
cation of the cause of the shortage
and how a recurrence might be
avoided. When filed with the Sen
ate, it was referred to the Lucas
committee because it proposed the
$4,000 fund to cover investigation
costs.
Previously, Senator Lucas had
promised to call Senator Bilbo be-
fore the audit group to explain the
need for the fund, but warned that
the committee would want proof oi
the need of the money.
Last night Senator McCarran
Democrat, of Nevada, a former
chairman of the District Committee
urged approval by the Audit Com
mittee, saying he felt the fund was
needed to enable the District Com
mittee to do its job of looking out
for the welfare of the people of the
District"
Evening star., 1945-01-19
llsNRshonmiq
&Remmidery6a

Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4. blue
stamps KS, Y-5, Us, Az through
Ga good for 10 points each indefi-
nitely. Next series will be good
February i.
Meats, ats, Etc.-Book No. 4, red
stamps Q-5 through KS good for
10 points each indefinitely. Next
series will be good January %.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
each pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Book 4, sugar stamp "a good
for 5 pounds indefinitely. Another
will be validated February l.
Gasoline-A-14 coupons valid for 4
gallons each through March 81.
B-5, C-5. Be- and CO coupons
good for 5 gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps 1, 2 and 2
in Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Ol-Periods one, two and three
coupons good for 10 gallons per
unit through heating year. Period
four coupons valid February S.
Old period four and five coupons
from last winter good through
year. Consumers in this area
should not have used more than
48 per cent of their ration as Of
January 1s. a
Evening star., 1945-01-19

tographer called him a Washing
ton Commando"
From All Sectors.
One of them spent two years on
Ascension Island. Another spent
more than his share of the time in
the foxholes of New Guinea. Sew
eral of them were at Pearl Harbor
when it was attacked. One of them
said he had been a months in the
Pacific before he came back on ro-
tation.
"You must have had political
pull" drawled Texan.
He moved over to make room for
a soldier coming off guard duty
The soldier shivered, complained OF
the wind blowing off the Ellipse and
reached gratefully for a steaming
cup of coffee.
well, it's better than a foxhole, .
his neighbor reminded him.
Comparing everything with what
they left, they mind very little
even keeping their belts painted
white and their leggings washed
daily.
MOnOt0nOuS Task.
They find the routine of four
hours on duty, eight hours off, four
hours on again monotonous, but
the very monotony of it has stopped
Nightmares.
I've only had one nightmare
since I've been here" said a 20
year-old who saw action in Africa
Sicily and Italy. "The one I had
on the boat was pretty bad--I kept
hearing the screams of women
A soldier who earned q Bronze
Star for shooting down an, enemy
Evening star., 1945-01-19
Association Asks Revision
Of Voting Rule on Treaties

Prompt revision of the rule by
which two-thirds vote of the SEN
ate is required to ratify treaties was
urged today in report by the For
eign Policy Association, which saw
in it danger to Americas role in
organizing postwar peace and Sc
curity.
The rule, the report said, makes
it possible for a small group of SEN
ators to defeat cooperation policy
by turning down supplementary
agreements" even though the Dunn
barton Oaks plan in treaty form had
been ratified.
The report was written by Blair
Bolles, director of the Foreign Pol
icy Associations Washington Office.
Proposals have been made in Con-
gress for constitutional amend
ment to enable the Senate to act on
treaties by majority vote. Another
suggestion has been that the House
share the Senate's treaty-making
power, each chamber requiring
merely majority vote for ratifica-
ton
Evening star., 1945-01-19
Red Cross Issues Call
For Clerical Help

Red Cross National Headquarters
needs Immediately IA paid stenog-
raphers and secretaries, sc typists
and a number of teletype operators
to help take care of increased in
quirieS and messages for men over
seas, it was announced today.
A $500 per cent increase in well
fare inquiries from American fam
lilies and 500 per cent increase in
messages from overseas during 1914
has created the urgent need for
personnel. Daily the Red Cross in
forms the War Department of fam
lily emergencies which are to be re-
layed overseas. The shortage threat
ems to slow down the work of send
ing the messages, which in many
cases are life and death matters.
Married and unmarried women of
any age, who are American citizens
are asked to call Red Cross national
personnel office, Eighteenth and E
streets NV Mrs. Frances Karrel,
Republic $500, extension 357, will
talk with prospective employees.
Evening star., 1945-01-19
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG

The soldier they call Junior" be-
cause of his round face and curly
hair took his place at the mess table
in the barracks beside the White
House.
Woman came up to me when
was pulling guard" he reported
"She wanted to know why WASH t
overseas"
His sally brought crooked grins
from the men around the table
the military police who guard the
White House They spend most
of their evenings in and out of the
Red Cross canteen in the mess hall
kitchen.
Prisoner of War.
Junior" explained one of the
other men at the table as the youth
full soldier strolled off in search of
a homemade cookie, had been a
prisoner of war for nine months be-
fore he escaped and made his way
to the American lines.
What most people don't know is
that more than 80 per cent of the
men who have been guarding the
White House since September were
picked for their overseas records.
Most OF them were brought home be-
cause they had been overseas SO
long but others are escaped pris-
oners of war. Some of them fought
behind enemy lines with guerrilla
forces before they finally returned
to our lines.
Among themselves they kid about
fighting the battle of the Ellipse, "
but one of then-who wears the
Distinguished Service Cross-didn't
take 1t kindly when street pho
Evening star., 1945-01-19

lied on a baritone horn with the
University of Washington Orchestra.
He was in his senior year when he
entered the service.
The young infantryman landed
with the troops at Casablanca and
moved up through Tunisia, Sicily
and Italy.
Three Wounded by Shell.
Three of his fellow musicians were
wounded by a shell while playing on
the Anzio beachhead On another
occasion enemy shells fell so near
his band the audience scattered to
the shelter of tanks and equipment
in nearby ravine. The band, Pvt.
Jussila said, was so intent on the
musical score, and making so much
noise the musicians didn't hear the
shells until the number was finished.
They thought the conclusion was
applause.
Sergt. Medeiros, whose parents
came from Portugal, has been in
the Army four years. He saw active
duty on Bougainville and Guadal-
canal and served some two years
overseas.
Sergt. Paul j. Lewis, 25, started
playing the drums at the age of 10,
Evening star., 1945-01-19

When, the division engineer was
lost early in the operation, Staff
Sergt. Albright assumed many addi-
tional responsibilities and performed
with distinction many additional
duties which normally would have
been assigned to an officer. He
made a material contribution to the
success of the Allied forces in Sicily
The award has nothing to do with
his physical condition. Halfway
across Sicily Sergt. Albright was
sent to hospital At first his illness
was thought to be malaria. Then
it was diagnosed as multiple sclero-
sis, a disease of unknown cause, a
hardening of all the tissues that
causes fatal paralysis. There is no
known cure.
Sergt. Albright had worked with
the engineer officer on the plan OF
landing the tanks and equipment
building necessary causeways ano
ramps. When the officer was killed
he was the only one who knew the
pldu. ne CdIIleU Oh.
No one who knew Sergt. Albright
would have any doubt of his ability
to do SO. He was an artist in the
advertising department of The Star
before the war He was a skilled
craftsman, drawing pictures of fur
niture and jewelry to illustrate ads
He had a workshop. in the base
ment of his home with power saws
and drills, and the cabin motor
launch he built which used to cruise
the Potomac is on blocks in his back
yard. Most of his days lately are
spent going over plans of other
craft.
Physician Brings Hope.
A private physician has brought
hope to the Albright home. He
thinks the multiple sclerosis dag
nosis was an error, his white haired
mother told us.
The picture of a WAVE on table,
she said, was that Of their daughter,
Anna Barbara, now in Key West.
Beside it was picture of another
son, Capt. Edwin P. Albright, Med
ical Corps, now in France.
"Oh WE'LL" she added, "a lot of
families are like that nowadays. It
was awful lonely here until Johnny
came home"
Evening star., 1945-01-19
Want to Know Why White House Guards
Are Not Overseas? Well, THEY'VE Been There

plane with his machine gun and a
Purple Heart for shrapnel. wounds
balanced piece of cherry pie.
Its all very WE'LL" he observed,
"but sometimes I feel that I'd like
to go back"
The other men at the table sent
up roar OF protest.
Well he explained, "it's because
of the other fellows"
Moment of Silence.
They all knew what he meant
and there was silence at the table
for minute. Finally, one of them
started recalling the day he was
told to pack for home.
They started reading off the
names. There we're so names on
that list but we didn't know that.
Talk about sweating it QUIT was
the 50th name. I asked them to
tack it right up on the bulletin
board so my name wouldn't fall off
the bottom"
He jerked his thumb in the di-
rection of the White House.
Sometimes when I. mount guard
I think maybe the order bringing
me home was signed up there. !"
The men rarely mention the
White House or it's residents by
name. They have been instructed
to keep their mouths shut. That's
why Junior had no answer for
the woman who saw only a healthy
young man in spotless white leg
gings and wanted to know why he
wasn't in the front lines.
"Oh, WELL" said the boy they call
Junior" maybe she had son
overseas"