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Evening star., 1945-01-27

served in the Senator's private Office
to dozen photographers and news
men and the Office staff. P. Us real
name Is Paul Jon.
MY fathers name was Pleasant
John, so we decided on P. j. for my
son. said the affable 40-year-old
Senator. who won his seat in six
years of trying.
Mrs. Taylor, who acts as clerk in
her husbands office, helped serve
the cake and ice cream and saw that
every one had a napkin. She said
she liked Washington but hadn't
seen much of the city yet.
Little Sightseeing.
The family, perplexed until yes
terday by the housing problem and
still forced to remain in hotel two
more months, has had little chance
to do any sightseeing.
We've only seen the Washington
Monument from a distance" Senator
Taylor said.
Arod went to the Smithsonian In
stitution with a serviceman from
Idaho the other day. he said, and
ever since has wanted to 60 back to
see the Indians" there At present,
P. US chief occupation is playing
Japs," Mrs. Taylor said.
I'm only sorry We had to buy this
cake for the party" she added. II
would have baked it myself if we
had a home and a Kitchen
This was the first birthday party
we ever had with bought cake" Sem
atOr Taylor said, smiling
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Publishers 10 Restudy
Use Of Lighter Paper
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-Discussions
of possible paper savings through
use Of lighter weight newsprint will
be revived soon, the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
announced yesterdays
The discussions will be between
United States publishers and Ca
madam newsprint manufacturers
who last summer experimental
with paper about 6 per cent lighter
than that presently used. Those
tests, the Canadians reported at
the time. showed that while a given
weight of paper contained more
printing area. overall production
difficulties in the changeover cut
output about 7l2 per cent. United
States publishers are restricted on
a weight basis.
The ANPA in its announcement
said Charles Vining, president of
the Newsprint Association of Can
ada, in offering to reopen the ques-
ton of making lighter paper said
there was no indication that con-
clusions from a new study would be
different from those reached last
summer.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Private Institutions
Are Urged 10 Expand
Child Care Facilities
Faced with the problem of finding

Faced with the problem of finding
emergency care for Al homeless
children, the Public Welfare Board
will request private institutions
to consider expansion Of their child
welfare facilities, Miss A. Patricia
Morss. head of child services of the
board, said today.
Several weeks ago the board re-
vealed that is was faced with the
problem of. finding temporary
boarding facilities for 81 babies. The
search for homes was said to be "a
desperate struggle" because private
chfid care institutions are crowded
and the list of $50 temporary homes
in this area had been exhausted.
More May Need Homes.
1t was learned today that the
board may be faced with finding
homes for at least II additional
children These children are now
in three private boarding homes
which may lose their Health De-
partment licenses because their
inability to obtain domestic help
brings them below department
standards.
Some of the children have been
in hospitals for several months be-
cause Of the shortage Of temporary
homes. Others should be placed In
homes, the board feels, because Of
illness in the family or because the
Woman's Bureau feels there has
been neglect of the child in the
home.
Blames Broker Bill.
In requesting the two private in
stitutions to rearrarge their pro-
gram to take more children. the
board has in mind sending children
unoer 2 years of age to them and
taking over itself children over 2
years of age. OF the Al children in
need of care. 20 are under 2 years
of age.
Miss Morss said she considered
the so-called baby broker bill,
passed last year to license in
dividuals and agencies handling
child placements, an indirect
cause for the increased number of
children needing homes She ex-
planned that since the bill pro-
hibited individuals arranging adop-
ton, probably more children were
being referred to private institu-
tions, and the welfare board.
Evening star., 1945-01-27

Meade, Md, and frequently visited
his aunt here. He has been in the
service less than year.
First 1t. James v. Collett, %, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Collett
4213 Thirty-second street, Mount
Rainier, Md, an aerial navigator
was reported missing over Germany
December II, the War Department
has notified his parents.
A native of Washington he was
graduated from the Mount Rainier
High School. He entered the service
IN February, 1943, received his wings
in April, 1914, and went overseas
last August.
Evening star., 1945-01-27

In Washington a month, the
Senator who sang for "a home near
the Capitol dome" has finally
bought an eight-room house-but
he'll have to wait go days to get
possession.
Senator Taylor, Democrat, of
Idaho, cowboy son of a country
minister, who strummed his guitar
on the Capitol steps to dramatize
his homeless plight, said the con-
tract was signed Yesterday.
do you want to know how much
we paid for it?" said Arod, his g.
year-old son. $4,000" The Sena-
tor mentioned no price.
The address is $40 Twelfth street
Sc, Senator Taylor said, and
added, L like to be close to my
work I just can't stand the thought
of riding back and forth from the
outskirts
Living at Hotel.
Right now the Taylors are living
at the Continental Hotel on the
Capitol Plaza. They've already ar
ranged to have some of their furni-
ture shipped here from their home
in Idaho.
Senator Taylor said he originally
planned to buy another house but
that the owner raised the sale price
$3.50 overnight.
News about the home came at a
party. given by Arod for his little
brother, "P j." who was 3 yester-
day. Cake and ice cream were
Evening star., 1945-01-27

they can pass the bill and then de-
feat Mr.. Wallace" Senator Lucas
declared, they will find they have a
fight on their hands"
Senator Pepper said that he would
express opposition to the George
bill, but expected no lengthy fight
on it.
IT want to see Mr.. Wallace get all
of the authority" he said, but as
you recall, he said he would serve
in any capacity that Congress might
flx for the position.
One of Mr.. Wallace's long time
friends in the administration, Sec
retary of the Treasury Morgenthau
yesterday urged that Mr.. Wallace be
given the whole job.
In contrast to Mr.. Jones state.
ment that Mr.. Wallace is not quail
fed for banking job. Mr.. Morgen-
thau said he was Yankee busi-
nessman with the horse sense to rec
ognize that we are living in a worlo
of change
He said Mr.. Wauace's call for 60
100000 jobs and for administration
Of the lending agencies for the good
of all, including small business, hao
done the country genuine serv-
ice" Secretary Morgenthau sale
also that Mr.. Wallace doled out S.
900, 900 900 in loans, as Secretary o1
Agriculture, and that his record was
"beyond reproach."
Evening star., 1945-01-27
; Dead, 7 Missing
In Crash Of Bomber
BY the Associated Press.

by LHt Associated PTeSS.
GRAND ISLAND, Nebr., Jan. 81
Three men are dead, two missing
and II injured as the result of the
crash near Fort Riley, Kans., last
night of four-engine bomber from
the Grand Island Army Air Field
Col. William A. Miller, commanding
officer, announced today.
Col. Miller identified the dead as
Staff Sergt. Francis J. Merdan
st. Paul, Mimi: Corpl. Joe F. Horn
Moline, Kans., and Staff Sergt. An
thony P. Tomaine, Long Branch
N. j.
The missing are: Capt. George p
Erwin, Davidson, N. c., and 1t
Donald c. Tarr. Greeley, Nebr.
Listed as seriously injured were
Second 1t. Edwin E. Courier
Verona, N. j.; Capt. Don w. Beroset
Toledo, Ohio.
Listed as not seriously injured
were:
1t, Charles D. thinner, Huntington
Park, Calf; Lit. Ray A. Jones, Lake
Charles. La; Second 1t. Harlan
E., Fraley, Alexandria, Va; Corpl
Denton o. Calyer, Newburgh, N. Y.
Corpl. George w. Bise, Wilbur
Wash; Corpl. James H. Young, Al.
toona, Pa; Corpl. Paul Wilder, vii.
sonville, Ala; Corpl. Harry v. Hos.
teller, Butler, Pa; Tech. Sergt. Cliff.
ford Glenn, Cleveland Heights. Ohio
1t. Fraley. 10, an Army Air Forces
navigator, is the son of Mr.. anc
Mrs. Talmadge D. Fraley, Tele.
graph road, near Alexandria, He
was graduated in 1910 from the
Mount Vernon High School in Fair
fax County and attended Columbia
Tech here for year before enter
ing the Army last May. He was
commissioned last July.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Letter 20 Feet Long
Written to Sailor
| By Baltimore Girl
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KEY WEST, Fla, Jan. IT,
Seaman Carl w. Svendson
claims the record for "weighty''
correspondence and has evi-
dence to back his claim-a let
ter from his girl that measures
10 feet from the Dear Carl" to
the signature, Helen"
Mr.. Svendson, who is at
tached to the naval operations
base here, proudly displays the
letter, composed of 104 sheets of
writing paper.
Although it took Helen Dick
erson of Baltimore five days to
write 1t, Mr.. Svendson says she
never missed the regular four
page letter she has written
daily since he's been in service.
His shipmates unanimously
agree there should be more
like her"
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Evacuation Of Berlin
Reported Under Way

STOCKHOLM, Jan. q (P.-Three
travellers arriving independently
from Berlin declared that slow,
gradual evacuation of men and
women from the German capital
started this morning.
Shortage of rolling stock because
Of military needs and lack Of hous-
ing elsewhere was expected to- make
evacuation difficult, but Is trains
were reported placed at the dis
posal of the refugees 10 miles south
OF Berlin.
Aftonbladet's Berlin correspond
ent reported that residents of the
capital feel now they are in the
very front area. The atmosphere has
suddenly changed Berlin is holding
it breath watching the east"
The correspondent said that for
the first time morning newspapers
appeared in Berlin as a single sheet.
He said editorials continue concise
and severe" stressing that personal
cares must not be put aside In face
OF the danger menacing Berlin, and
that every one must fight to the BIT
ter end.
Tram and subway trafac was fur
ther 1estrictsd
Evening star., 1945-01-27
B-24 Group in China
Disclosed as 308th
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RUNNING, China. Jan. rs De.
| layedl The United States 14th All
Force B-24 heavy bomber group
known unofficially as the Liberator!
of China" may not be referred II
publicly by its official designation
the 308th.
The group arrived in China March
L 81. 1943. Up to January l of this
year the Liberators had sunk total
of 466800 tons of Japanese shipping
Including $4,000 tons in naval ves-
sells. They had dropped more than
5000 tons of bombs on japanese in
stallations, shot down % enemy
planes and probably shot down a.
The 308th's sea-sweeping activities
produced one of the l4th Air Forces
greatest heroes. Maj Horace S
Carswell, jr., San Angelo, Tex, who
died last october ~ in an attempt
to save his crew after an attack on a
Japanese naval formation.
Col John G. Armstrong. New York
City, is the present group COM
mander.
Evening star., 1945-01-27

Terminal before entering the Army
20 months ago.
Staff Sergt. Albert H. Melcher, 26
member of an armored division
was wounded December II in Bel
GUM, the War Department informed
his family. His wife, Mrs. Gelens
Melcher, and parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Henry A. Melcher, live at 1908 Otis
street NE.
A graduate of st. Paul's High
School, Sergt. Melcher was a CLERK
at the Hub Furniture Co. warehouse
before entering the service almost
four years ago. He was sent over
seas three months ago. He is the
father of 2-year-old twins, Albert
and Emmett.
Missing
Pfc. Elmer G. Fogle, Is, of Shelby
vile, Ind, nephew Of Mrs. Inez E.
Scholten, $50 Milwaukee place Sc,
has been reported missing since
December is in Germany, according
to information she has received
from his father. A. B. Fogle OF
Shelbyville.
A ninfantryman, Pfc. Fosle re-
cetved part Of his training at Fort
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Four Flyers Are Killed
In Army Transport Crash
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. 27.-
-Four Army airmen lost their lives
when a CAT Army transport plane
crashed into the side of hill and
caught fire near the Birmingham
Municipal Airport yesterday, the
Birmingham Army Airfield public
relations Office announced.
Two gliders being towed by the
plane were cut loose before the
accident and returned safely to the
fleld, according to the announce
ment, which said the plane crashed
shortly after taking OF.
Names Of the dead were withheld
temporarily,
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Labor Amendments
lmperil Measure
For Compulsory Work
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

The national service bill for
men 18 to As today appeared
in danger of being blocked by q
cross-fire of amendments affect
ing organized labor when debate
on the measure starts in the
House next week.
Southerners and a substantial
group from other sections want to
restore a provision giving draftees
the right to join or stay out of
union if they are ordered to work
in closed shop.
An equally determined group, sup
porting labor's opposition to the bill,
are ready to meet this anticlcsed
shop amendment with a counter
proposal to give statutory support
to the Presidents Fair Employment
Practices Committee, by stipulating
that no worker could be turned
away on grounds of race, creed or
national origin.
Southern Opposition Expected.
The FEPS amendment is expected
to encounter Southern opposition,
but if it is offered it probably would
carry, in view of the stand taken by
the Republican Party at its last con-
vention in favor of giving the
agency permanent status.
Some administration supporters
in the House, anxious to comply
with the Presidents plea for prompt
passage of manpower legislation,
have urged that the FEPC issue be
dealt with separately in the Labor
Committee, which plans early hear
| ings on the subject.
Even if this hurdle should be
cleared, however, the compulsory
work bill faces a stormy journey
through the House. The rule grant
ed by the Rules Committee yesterday
leaves the measure open to any ger
name amendment on the floor, and
there are expected to be many, both
by the supporters of organized labor
and those who want individual work
ers to be given more freedom Of
action.
| Several Days Of Debate.
There will be several days of gen.
eral debate before the reading of the
bill is begun, and then members may
talk 5 minutes on each amendment
that may be offered. House leaders
will be lucky if they bring the meas
ure to a final vote within week.
Meanwhile, the Senate Military
Affairs Committee has decided to
proceed Tuesday with a study of
the bill in executive session, with
out further public hearings. All
| Government agencies and outside
organizations have been invited
however, to file briefs. The Senate
committee has been holding hear
ings on national service legislation
at intervals for two years.
The extent of the conflict likely te
arise in the House if both the oper
shop and the FEPC amendments arr
Ioffered was indicated by what hap.
ipened in the House Military Affair,
COMMITTEE this week. The right Of
a draftee to stay out of a union hao
: been adopted, but members revealed
yesterday that when an FEPC pro.
!; vision later was approved tentatively
!, the committee reversed itself and cu
both amendments from the bill.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
$4,000 Yunks AWOL,
Provost Marshal Saws

PARIS, Jan. 27.-More than
$4,000 American soldiers are absent
without leave in the European thea
ter, according to figures of the
United States Army provost mar
shals Office published in the Army
newspaper Stars and Stripes yes
terday.
This figure is equivalent to almost
IL infantry divisions and is so per
cent higher than an estimation
made Thursday by Brig Gen. P. B.
Rogers, commanding general of the
Seine section, which includes the
Paris area. Gen. Rogers said more
than $4,000 American soldiers are
AWOL in the European theater.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Mobilization Record
Reported by Britoin
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 27.-Describing
what it termed "a mobilization un-
precedented in history" the British
Ministry Of Labor yesterday said
only 11,000.0 900 persons between the
ages of Il and "a had been left to
carry on in home all over England.
Out Of 81. .250, 900 in this age group,
including women and children, min
istry figures listed a. ,250. 900 Of them
rs mobilized manpower.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Your Part

They did their part. Will
you do yours? You can by
calling District $500 to make
a blood donors appointment.
You can donate blood between
9 am. and 5 pm. weekdays and
9 am. to noon Saturdays at
the District Blood Donor Gen.
ter, Acacia Building. 81 Louisi-
ana avenue NV. And keep
your date They kept theirs.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
|ckes Claims Smear
In Reply 10 Charge
On Income Taxes

Interior Secretary Ickes, chargin,
that he was the victim of smear
ing tactics and politics of a Low
order" denied last night that h,
had filed an affidavit with the Chi
cago Board of Tax Appeals misrep
resenting the income he receive
from an Office building in the mid
western city He added that th'
"hue and cry" was being led by Col
Robert Mccormick, publisher O
The Chicago Tribune.
In Chicago, meanwhile. the AS
sociated Press reported, the state'
attorneys Office announced that al
investigator, Gordon Nash, hae
been named to look into the charge.
against Mr.. Ickes.
S8,548 Deduction Charged.
And Col. Mccormick issued thi.
reply to Mr.. Ickes statement:
He apparently has been caught
in a criminal act and 1 am not 60
ing to let him avoid the conse-
quences of it by dragging my name
into it."
The controversy arose from q
statement by Assessor John S. Clark
of Cook County (Chicago) that Mr.
Ickes had obtained an s8,548 tax re.
duction on a building there fol
1894 by filing an erroneous" af
fidavit. He said the Secretar,
claimed he received $24,0O0 rent oi
a three STORY building, whereas h,
actually received S61 $50 on a FIVE
story building.
In a statement issued here las
night, Mr.. Ickes said that never, t,
my knowledge, did l at any tim
make an AFFIDAVIT to the Board o
Tax Appeals" He added that tn,
building under discussion was d FIVE
story one which he had inherited
from his first wife. The HCL Build
ing Corp. which operates the prop
erty, the Secretary explained, in
CURED an operating loss of $7,736 il
1943, total income being $65,627 an.
total expense $73,363. t.-..
Protested Assessment.
Explaining that he thought tn,
tax was too high on an old building
with 40-foot front, Mr.. Ickes sale
that when he sent his first ia,
installment of s10,283 last July, h,
protested the assessment on a regu.
lar form.
After reviewing his statement, Mr.
Ickes said, the Board of Tax Ap.
peals revised the assessment.
That is the story of the teapot
tempest the More Calumny fol
Ickes Club is attempting to brew
on State street." Mr.. Ickes said. IT
is too bad that the water in the
pot is not boiling.
Here is a strange admixture O.
smearing tactics and politics of {
low order. The comic relief lies IL
the fact that the hue and cry /!
led by that upright citizen, the pub.
Usher of the Chicago Tribune, which
corporation indignant citizens hav,
tried to reach through the court!
for years on the allegation of tire.
mendous tax evasions, principally a
the expense Of the school children
of Chicago.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Teacher Leaves $4,000
To Pets, $1,l57 to Kin

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. PA SIS
600 trust fund for six cats and four
dogs was set up by the late Mrs.
Susan A. c. Bailey. schoolteacher,
in her will filed yesterday.
The will instructed her sisters,
Leila L. and Mabel R. Cooper, to
care for the animals for the rest
| of their lives The Misses Cooper
were willed personal property val
ued at 5000 and $257 in cash.
Buy more War Bonds on all fronts
the Sky is not the limit.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
German
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page.)
German people generally had broken
loose from Himmlers iron hand.
even though the Nazis themselves
reported some confusion as hun
dreds of thousands of civilians fed
before the Red Army.
Evening star., 1945-01-27
Killed


Sergt. Ralph w. Brown, %, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis c. Brown, 208
Spring street, Chevy Chase. Md
was killed in action December 19 in
Germany, the War Department has
notified his parents His father is
attached to the war production
training section of the Office OF
Education.
Sergt. Brown was graduated from
the Arlington (Mass.) High School
and had attended the School OF
Engineering at Tufts College for
two years before entering the Army
He received training at Texas A
and NJ in the Army Specialist
Training Program before it was dis
continued. He went overseas with
his infantry unit in October, 1914
He has brother Donald and a
sister Barbara, a student at George
Washington University.
|Wounded
Pvt. Thomas Ladd, 27, was wound
ed twice in Germany. November
and 18, while fighting with the 9th
Army, the War Department has
informed his wife. Mrs. Leba Ladd,
who lives at 430 Tenth street S.W.
with their three children.
Pvt. Ladd is recovering in a hos
pital in England. During his three
months overseas he hasn't received
any of the letters or cables his wife
has sent, although she writes every
day, Mrs. Ladd said. Consequently,
he has not yet heard about the
birth of their youngest child two
months ago, she added.
Pvt. Ladd attended schools in
Washington and Philadelphia and
worked at the Safeway Trail Bus
Evening star., 1945-01-27

@Wishful thinking won't win the
buying bonds win 10 much
Moeo.s
Evening star., 1945-01-27
On the Roll of Honor
Todoy's Casualty Lists

tNafionaI.)
Nary casualties - 232
Thus TAR in this Wdr 1923
men from, the Districr area
hare been reported killed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-17

last night that American flyers hac implemented their warning Of re- prisalS if Communist troops con- tinued firing on American trains.
 Mai. Gen. Dewitt Peck, comman- der of the U. s. First Marine Di- vision. was fired upon by Commun- ist troops yesterday while traveline by rail from TientSin to Ching wangtao.
 Permitted to Attack
 Peck immediately asked and re- ceived permission from the overall American Commander, It. Gen Albert c. Wedemeyer, to carry out strafing mission against the Vll- large form which the shots were fired.
 The Nationalist advance into Manchuria coincided with Woro from Shantung that other Central government troops were moving out rapidly from their beachheao at Tsingtao along the railway line leao- ing toward Wehsien and Tsiinan.
 The railway still is guarded by Japanese troops who were permitted to retain their weapons after the surrender to hold the line open pending arrival of the Nationalists
 In Chungking, meanwhile, U. . Army authorities repudiated reports of a large-scale transfer ot Amerl- can planes to the Nationalist gov ernment. They announced thai fewer than 75 American planes hac been turned over to the Chinese since the end of the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-17

Continued from Page D ity' which would result from the threat of the atomic bomb Ii the armament race starts.
 In the first stage, we may per haps acquire a stock pile sufficient to wipe out all cities of any nation that we might wish to attack" ne added.
 "In the second stage one or more other nations have begun to produce atomic bombs but have not yet ac- uuired a sufficient stock pile to wipe out all our cities.
 One Attack Enough
 "In the third stage one or more other nations will have enough bombs to wipe out all our cities.
 "If the armament race continues, fourth stage will probable be ulti- mately reached in which one nation possibly not the United States, has bombs of such high power or in such large numbers that in one att tack an enemy nation can be so completely incapacitated that no re- taliation can occur"
 He suggested that, as first step in a program of world control of atomic energy, the United States and Britain could propose an atomic energy conference to which Rus sia would be invited to make pro- posals "as to effective means of re- moving the insecurity which all na- tions now feel"