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-SLuT OtuU TbOLO.
at my head with a rifle butt. He
planned to kill me. He didn't hit
my head but my neck.
But why talk about myself" he
went on. "All my chaplains, both
Protestant and Catholic, were
beaten. They deserve as much credit
as l."
Col. Oliver who is more than
feet tall, weighed 215 pounds when
he accompanied the Army to the
Bataan Peninsula. He lost 100
pounds in captivity. Now he has
regained As pounds.
The Purple Heart award was made
by Maj. Gen. Shelly U. Marietta,
commanding general of the hos
pital. There was a family group
present, but two sons, 1t. q. g. John
c. Oliver, and Fireman 1/c David
r. Oliver, were absent. They are
in the Navy in the Pacific.
A third son, Alfred G. Oliver III,
who now lives in indianapolis, was
present as was a daughter, Miss
Jean Oliver, War Department work.
er, whose fiance, Capt. Bert H. Back
strom, was taken prisoner on Cor
regidor and now is held in Japan.
And, of course, there was Mrs
Oliver, who had not seen her hus-
band from the time she and her
daughter were evacuated from Ma
Mia in the fall Of 1941, until she
met him at San Francisco last
month.
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Waller Reed Hospital
Given Prize Paintinq

A prize winning painting was
presented today to Walter Reed
Hospital by the Society of Wash
ington Artists.
The ceremony took place in the
Office of Maj. Gen. Shelley U. Mari
eta, commandant of the hospital
The oil painting. Deep Water,
was done by DR. Robert Motley and
was adjudged winner of the recent
display by the society at the Ma
tional Gallery of Art. The society
set up a fund of 500 to buy the
winning painting.
The society also announced its
new officers for the year They
are DR.. Henry Olson, president;
Omar Carrington, vice president;
Gladys Milligan, secretary; Lee
Atkyns, treasurer, and Mary Ruth
Snow, Kenneth Stubbs, Jean Don
ner Grove, Ethel Robertson Gath
and Carl Nyquist, members OF the
executive committee
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which he never has divulged to his
family, and was acting commander
of one of the first 9th Division units
to cross the Rhine. 1t. Jones was in
jured this time in the left arm,
Previously he had been wounded in
the arm, the wrist and the back.
1t. Jones left the University of
Maryland to enter the Army in l943
and went overseas the following
June. He is the youngest of three
sons of Col. Jones, who himself re-
turned from overseas last August to
accept a War College assignment.
The two others are 1t Col. Lewis A.
Jones, U. S. M. c.. serving in the
Pacific theater, and Capt. Robert w.
Jones. who returned recently from
service in France.
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Col. Oliver, Beaten by Jops,
Given Purple Heart and Cluster

Col. Alfred G. Oliver, jr., Methodist
Army chaplain, who was held pris-
oner in the Philippines by the Jap
aneSe for two years and eight
months, received the Purple Heart
and Oak Leaf Cluster yesterday at
Walter Reed Hospital, where he is
recovering from the broken neck
inflicted by the japanese and the
impaired health which is the result
Of his imprisonment.
Mrs. Oliver, who lives at 1920
Floral street NV; their daughter
and one of their three sons attended
the ceremonies.
The first Purple Heart was in rec
ognition of the three times he was
beaten unconscious by his japanese
guards at Cabanatuan. The Oak
Leaf Cluster in lieu of second Pur-
pie Heart was for the blow on the
back Of the neck last July, which
broke a verterbra.
Unaware of Neck Break.
II did not know the verterbra was
broken until the X-ray showed it
here at Walter Reed. OF course, at
Cabanatuan, there were no X-ray
facilities. 1t still is sore.'
Col. Oliver also still is taking in
jections for beri-beri, which has not
been cured by good food and which
still hampers him somewhat in the
use of his right leg.
The beatings were designed to
force from him the secret where
medicine was obtained to treat the
sick He did not reveal it.
They wouldn't supply the medi-
cine we had to have and our men
were dying" he said. "They wouldn't
give us quinine for the men suffer-
ing from malaria. Those with other
diseases got only part Of the doses
they had to have. We had to have
the medicine. We got it.
Solitary Confinement.
They thought that since I was 60
they'd make me tell. When they
had beaten me unconscious three
times and I still hadn't told, they
threw me into solitary confinement
for five months. I was four weeks
without a bath. They finally took
me out by the barbed wire fence
along the road. where women and
children passed, and turned the
hose on me, stripped"
He was asked about the injury to
his neck.
Il stopped to wash my hands one
day beside the guardhouse. I heard
some one laughing and turned
around. A guard was aiming a blow
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Operators 10 Report
Mine Wage 5ta|emate
To Labor Board Today
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The coal situation was build
ing up to a new climax today as
mine operators won a date with
the War Labor Board to report
that discussion with John l..
Lewis United Mine Workers over
a new wage agreement had
broken down.
| WLB was to hear the report of
operators late this afternoon. Mean
while, there was no indication Of
the course of the Government fol-
lowing the threat of officials to
seize the mines if wildcat" work
stoppages were not ended. Some
more miners had returned to work
and UNIV said it expected full out
put Monday.
Joint Meeting Called.
A meeting of the joint miner
operator wage conference was sched-
uled for this morning, but the pro-
ducers said it was only a formality.
Late yesterday, operators said they
would report early to WLB and not
attend the session. However, after
some backstage maneuvering, they
said they would attend and not
place the onus for breaking up the
talks on us"
WLB will take over the negotia-
tions for a work contract and fix a
date for public hearing of the issues
if it is apparent from the report to-
day that further private discussions
between the operators and miners
are useless.
Mr.. Lewis called in his 250-man
Policy Committee for a meeting Mon
day, and such step usually indi-
Gates major development is ex-
pected. Operators are known to
have made the miners at least two
offers of higher wages than the 81
cents-a-day additional pay rendered
several weeks ago.
An estimated 200 bituminous
mines have been closed this week
apparently because of confusion over
the status of work agreement, and
mines that feed the steel mills of
Western Pennsylvania have been
particularly hard hit. The United
States Steel Corp. reported it was
forced to close 81 open-hearth fur
naces and was losing 10000 tons of
steel production daily.
Mr.. Lewis presumably will be pres
ent for the report to WLB, although
he has emphasized that he feels the
board is a strictly "adViSOry" BODY
lacking authority to enforce its
orders. Two years ago he refused
to recognize the board at all.
The report of WLB panel on is
sues of the mine foremens union
dispute with SO bituminouS COM
panies in Pennsylvania, Kentucky,
West Virginia, Tennessee and Ala
bama, was made public last night
Foremen's strikes forced the Gov
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Western Front
Continued From First Page J

dian tanks battled a mile from
Deventer, 18 miles from the Zuider
Zee. Street fighting still ragged
in the moated city of Zutphen, 9
miles south of Deventer.
Three British and American divi-
sions were enlarging their six or
more Weser River bridgeheads.
American 1st Army troops poured
through the Hessian gap in a new
surge eastward from the tightly
trapped Ruhr, and American Sd
Army troops, rushing up supplies
for last lap drive, built up a strik-
ing force on the Thuringian Plain in
an arc facing Erfurt and Jena.
The Sd Armys 9Th Armored Divi-
sion advanced 7 miles northeast to
the vicinity of Keula. miles north
OF Muehlhausen, and the 65th In
fantry cleared Langensalza, 10 miles
north of Gotha. but there were no
other advances on the remainder of
the Sd Army Front, Associated Press
Correspondent Edward D. Ball re-
ported
A counterattack by 400 Germans
at Struth, miles west OF Muehl-
hausen, at a m. today was repulsed
by American tanks which recaptured
the village.
Another German counterattack
took place in the Badsooden area,
farther west. and fighting was still
going on, Mr.. Ball added.
German prisoners continued to
pour in at rate which was sapping
the Wehrmacht too thin to hold the
Weser line. There was little chance
of successful stand on the Elbe.
In the first five days of April,
146,723 Germans we're captured on
the broken western front and prob
ably 10000 more were killed or seri-
ously wounded.
Hamm and Wuerzburg were cap
tured, Heilbronn was one-third
cleared, Fulda and Erfurt and Soest
were closely menaced, and the Ger
man grip on Hanover and Bremen
was slipping.
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Reich 10 Be Told
Truth After War
BY the Associated Press.

by lne ASSOCldleo PRESS.
LONDON, April IA high Allied
official, who declined to be quoted by
name, said yesterday that the Allied
information policy inside Germany
after victory would be based upon
giving the German people truth
not propaganda"
The German public will get the
truth even though they probably
won't recognize it for long period,
this spokesman said.
In line with this policy, it was
learned from similar sources that
the German press, radio and screen
would be supervised stringently-
even to the actual operation-for an
indefinite period.
The official, who is closely con-
nected with psychological warfare
work. suggested that Allied propa-
ganda had failed to crack the hard
crust of German arrogance and mil
itarism superimposed by the Nazi
regime. Lack of results was at
tMbuted largely to the willingness
of the German people to follow a
leader and, more lately, to the Ges-
tapo's threats of swift punishment
for attention to Allied propaganda
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has told her he is serving as one
of the prison camp cooks. An in
fantryman, Pvt, Panagakos entered
the service in September, l943. and
has been overseas since March.
Pvt. Louis ]. Osborne, jr., 81, whose
wife, Mrs. Louise C. Osborne, sea-
man 1st class, lives in WAVE Quar-
ters K, Barracks 3, 225 Columbia
pike, Arlington, is prisoner Of the
Germans. He previously was re-
ported missing on November 20.
On March Mrs. Osborne received
a card from her husband saying
that he was well and in a German
prison camp He added that he had
been receiving packages from the
Red Cross. She received official
notification of his prisoner status
a few weeks later. A native of
Brooklyn, N. Y, he attended the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and
was employed as a chemist for the
Standard OIL Co. of New Jersey
before entering the service in March,
l943. He shipped overseas last
August
1t. Bernard Lyons, "a, previously
listed as missing in action since
December "a, is a prisoner of war
in Hammelburg, Germany, former
college clasSmate at the same prison
camp has revealed. 1t. Lyons is the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. James j. Lyons,
1908 Upshur street NE, and the
brother of James j. Lyons, jr., a
park policeman The classmate is
1t. William Gardiner, %, husband of
Mrs. Mary Gardiner, 2044 Fort Davis
street SE. A story about 1t. Gardiner
previously appeared in The Star.
1t. Lyons, an infantryman, was
inducted during his senior year at
Georgetown University, February,
1912 and went overseas as member
of the lst Army in September, 1914.
He is a graduate of Gonzaga High
School,
Pvt. Douglas E. Workman. field
artllleryman reported missing in
Germany on December 3. is listed
today as a prisoner of the Germans.
He is the brother of Lester c. Wort
man, 1914 Seventh street North,
Arlington.
A native of Purcellville, Va, Pvt.
Workman attended the Herndon
(Va) High School and was employed
as a tree surgeon in Fairfax prior
to entering the service in February,
l943. The family has received sew
eral cards from him informing them
that he had a close shave" but is
we'll. His brother. James, is serv-
ing overseas in the Navy.
T/Sergt. James d. Skagen, whose
wife, Mrs, Dorothy J, Skagen, lives
at 4524 Tuckerman street, Riverdale.
Md, was listed by the War Depart
ment today as prisoner of the Ger
mans. A story was carried in The
Star when his family was notified.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Children Stort 2-AIurm Fire

A two-alarm fire, which police said
was caused by children playing with
matches, yesterday caused consider
able damage to two frame and stucco
houses in the 1900 block of Montello
street NE, according to officers.
Police said the blaze started in some
paper, when two brothers, Clarence,
S. and Stephen Huger. s, both col
ored, struck matches and lit candle
while playing on the rear porch OF
their home.
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also Of Clifton, ne has now re-
turned to duty.
Pvt. Fullerton, a native of Fair
fax County. attended Clifton
schools and entered the service in
May. 1914 He was sent overseas
last October A brother, Sergt. Will
liam R. Fullerton, is stationed in
the South Pacific. Pvt. Fullerton
has one daughter. Janice
Pfc. Stanley H. Rabinowitz. %,
whose wife. Mrs. Lillian Rabinowitz
lives at 2505 * street NV. was
wounded by a shell fragment in
his left arm and is now at hos
pital in France.
| Pfc. Rabinowitz, native of
Brooklyn. N. Y, entered the Army
in March, 1912. He shipped over
seas last July and entered action
with an infantry unit shortly after
ward.
1st 1t. Charles H. Jones, jr., %
son of Col. and Mrs. Charles H.
Jones of AIT Van Buren street NV,
was wounded March II in Germany
according to information received
by his wife, who lives at 1877 Spring
place NV. See story elsewhere in
this issue.
1t. Myron J. Cady, U. S. N. whose
wife, Mrs. Irene Matilda Cady, for
merly lived at l416 Potomac avenue
Sc, has been reported by the Navy
Department today as wounded in
action. Mrs. Cady is now living at
Old Point Comfort, Va.
Pfc. John r. Howell, son of Mrs
Fannie F. Jones, who formerly lived
at 1921 South Barton street, Arling-
ton. was listed by the War Depart
ment today as wounded in action in
the Pacific area.
Sergt. Raymond Thick, brother of
Maj. Martese Ferguson, who is on
duty with the Women's Reserve of
the Marine Corps at Henderson Hall
in Arlington, has been wounded in
Europe, it was announced today
The Office of War Information
listed today the following men as
wounded in action. Stories appeared
in The Star when the next of kin
was notified.
1st 1t. James B. Cox, son of Percy
M. Cox, Mclean, Va.
Sergt. Purvis L. Stacks. son of
Joseph E. Stacks, 1877 North Pierce
street, Arlington, Va.
LIST 1t. Raleigh Colbert, son of
Mrs. Flossie M. Colbert, 5101 Forty
fifth street NV.
Pvt. Marvin H. Graham, whose
wife, Mrs. Ella M. Graham, lives at
1889 Third street NV.
Pfc. Donald H. Walker, son of
Mrs. Grace L. Walker, 312 Tulip
street, Takoma Park, Md.
Pfc. Robert J. Boyd, u. S. M. G. R.,
son of Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd, 2201
Sixteenth street Sc.
Pfc. Charlie H. Huffman, son Of
Mrs. Katie L. Huffman, Route 4,
Alexandria, Va.
Prisoner
Pfc. william L. Panagakos, 10,
former Eastern High School student,
who was reported missing in action
in France since October 4, is a
prisoner of the Germans, the War
Department has announced He is
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Panagakos, 1920 Belleview terrace
NV.
Mrs. Panagakos said she had
received several letters written by
her son from the prison camp. He
Evening star., 1945-04-07
British Reported Building
Heavy Planes to Fioht Jops

LONDON, April (P.-A British
bomber of the same class as the
American Super Fortress is being
built for RAF attacks on Japan, the
London Daily Mail said today.
The newspapers air correspondent
said the first news of the plane was
given yesterday by Sir Roy Dobson
managing director of A. v. Roe, Ltd.
makers of the Lancasters which now
are dropping 11-ton bombs on Ger
many. There was no comment on
the report from British Air Ministry
officials.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Police Question Loborer
In Trailer SIuyinqs

Police today were still question
Ing 32-year-old laborer, said to
have criminal record, in connec-
ton with the double murder OF
Pany Casbarian and Edward Barker
who were found shot to death in a
trailer on a parking lot in the 1906
block of Fourteenth street NV
February %.
The man, who police said may be
released, was arrested yesterday by
homicide squad detectives and has
been held at the first precinct. Po-
lice have expressed the opinion the
double murder was committed by
thieves intent on robbing Mr.. Bar
ker, who was known to have carried
on his person substantial sums OF
money to buy used cars.
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other sons, twin brothers, are also
in the service and it is believed
that one of them may be perma-
nently retained in this country in
keeping with the War and Navy
Department policy of keeping men
who have lost two or more brothers
in action from front-line duty. One
of the twins, John, is on duty with
the Navy in the South Pacific and
the other brother, Joseph, also in
the Navy is stationed at Treasure
Island, Calf.
Pfc. Hoffman worked for the
Government here before entering
the service in July, 1912. The
youngest of Mrs. Hoffman's sons
Gerard, is still at home.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Heavy Bomber Raids
In European Theater
Drawing 10 Close
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April THE day of
sky-darkening fleets Of heavy
bombers is passing from the
fast-shrinking European battle
theater and mass strategic
bombing-the notable expert
ment" which Prime Minister
Churchill said was worth trying
to knock out Germany-is COM
ing to an end.
First, the heavy bombers have just
about done their part of the job
second, the targets they once
reached 1000 to 1000 strong from
England now have come within
range of more economical bombing
and rocket-f1ring attack by fast
ow-fying fighter -bombers.
Disposition Is Question.
What should be done with the
mighty British and American four
engined fleets already has become a
question.
1t can be assumed that for a time
yet some heavy bombing will be
continued, probably policing Ger
many's shattered oil industry and
plastering her ports.
Fighter-bombers now are operat-
ing from captured fields so deep
into Germany they could give 'front.'
line support to Russian armies. But
so far, although the Russians some
times have called up heavy bombers
from the United States 18th Air
Force in Italy, they have not asked
for closeup flghter-bomber support
So far as is known by correspond
ents in Paris, no decision has yet
been reached on the disposition of
four-engined bomber fleets
Obviously a considerable force
must be kept both as a threat and
to fill spot needs until the final
crushing of all German resistance
But even so it would be possible to
f1v much of the force to the eastern
theater.
British Planes to Stay.
If any heavy bombers are shifted
they probably would be American
Flying Fortresses and Liberators.
Britains big Halifaxes. Lancasters
and Strings probably will stay
where they are.
Because the British planes were
designed to fit specific conditions in
this theater. many airmen doubt
that they would be as effective in
the Pacific area.
1t is very likely that many Of the
big bombers will be converted for
the purpose of getting badly needed
food, medical and other supplies into
isolated sections of Europe
The fleets could parachute thou
sands of tons of food into hungry
Western Holland or could reach iso-
lated liberated districts in Middle
Europe where direct access is i'm
possible or where the needs of war
are taking priority on normal trans
portation channels.
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Brother Wounded

Sergt. Raymond F. Thick, native
of Brooklyn, N Y, was listed by the
War Department today as wounded
in action in the European area. He
is the brother of Maj. Martese Fer
guson, U. S. NJ c., who lives in Hen
derSon Hall, Arlington.
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wound he has
incurred in lst
Army actions on
I h e W e S t ern
front since D
day, according to
information re-
ceived by his
wife, Mrs. Phyl-
lis Brooks Jones,
of 1917 Spring
place NV.
He holds the
S ilv er S t a r
Medal, awarded
November 26 for
gallantry in ac-
tiOO " details of
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District Blood Donations

Appointments
yesterday ----- 56l persons
Appointments broken
yesterday -- 126 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center in
the Acacia Building, 81 Louisi-
ana avenue NV, by calling
District 5000 between am. and
$50 pm. weekdays, and 9 am.
to noon Saturdays.
Volunteer women are needed
as daytime drivers in the Mo-
tor Corps, which transports 80
per cent of the blood donors.
Call Republic 5000, Branch 1877.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
War Reporter to Speak

Alexander Kendrick of the Phila-
delphia Inquirer will discuss the
Soviet press at a luncheon of the
Women's National Press Club Mon
day at l pm. in the Willard Hotel
Mr.. Kendrick, Nieman fellow, was
in Moscow when Russia's January
offensive opened.
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DistricALieutenant
Wounded Fourth Time

First 1t Charles H. Jones, jr., %,
son of Co. and Mrs. Charles H.
Jones. of Al Van Buren street NV,
on March II received the fouth
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JuIld less CIldu
a year after an
other son, Sergt.
Francis o. Hof-
man died in ac-
ton on the Nor
mandy b e a c h
head.
B er n a rd, %,
was killed last
M a rch 3 a n d
Francis on June
%, 1914, Mrs.
Hoffman said. A
story of Francis
death appeared
in The Star last
A u z u S t. Two
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D. T.. Mother Loses
Two Sons in Year

Mrs. Marie Hoffman, 1884 New
ton street NV, has received word
that her son, Pfc. Bernard Hoff-
man, was killed in action on Two
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Soviet Paper Charges
laps Strengthened
Ties With GERMANY
BY the Associated Press.

by tHe ASSOclaleO PreSS.
LONDON, April THE Soviet
government newspaper Izvestia
charged today that the Japa-
nese had been watching to take
advantage of a golden op-
portunity" in Asia and had
strengthened their alliance with
the NaziS even when it became
clear that Germany was doomed.
The newspapers editorial, broad
cast by the Moscow radio, broke a
silence in Russia on the interpreta-
ton of the Soviet Unions denuncia-
ton of her neutrality pact with
Japan.
The editorial still left in doubt
MoScoW'S future course as a result
of the denunciation, but said the
Soviet Union took the step as a
direct result" of the fact that Japan
was an ally of Germany and was
at war with Britain and the United
States.
Until the signing of the treaty
In 194l. Izvestia said. relations be-
tween Russia and Japan had been
"of an absolutely unsatisfactory
character" for more than two de-
CadeS. The newspaper added that
after Adolf Hitler's temporary sue
Cesses in his attack on Russia many
japanese politicians prepared to
stake their fate on Hitlerite cards" )"
The newspaper referred to Jap
aneSe intervention in the Far East
in 1918 and 1922, numerous frontier
conflicts and the final memorable
events at Lake KhaSSan and at the
River Khalkin Col in 1888 and 1939'
The facts prove" Izvestia said,
that the ruling circles in Japan
for many years waged an aggressive
policy against the Soviet Union
which led more than once to sharp
conflict between the two states"
Russia's denunciation of the treaty
with Japan continued to be topic
of interest among legislators in
Washington.
Senator Brewster, Republican. of
MdIllc SuSStoCcu ytStCI O1y llidC
Russia may have acted because of
the rapid American advance on
Japan.
"One explanation might be fear
Of japanese capitulation before
Russia could become an active par
ticipant in the Pacific war and de-
mand her pound of flesh,' the
Maine Senator said
The collapse Of the japanese cab
inet and the appointment of more
moderate one further emphasizes the
rapid movement of events. The
whole idea has been discussed in.
nigh circles here in the last few
days"
Senator Brewster recently said in
a New York address that a rumorI
was circulating in Washington that
"Manchuria and Korea had been al
lotted to Russia" at the Yalta Con-
ference
IF that were true he said, at
would be a matter of grave concern
because of our existing obligations
in that area"
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Wounded

I'd 1t. Dale r. Fisher, 81, son of
Harry K. Fisher, consulting engineer,
and Mrs. Fisher, Of 1923 Jenifer
street NV, was wounded in both
his arms, legs and chest on March 8