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Evening star., 1945-02-13
'YoIto Hate Program AssoiIed
In Nuzi Propaganda Broodcusts

announced. 1t will be split up, Ger
man industry will be robbed, So
called courts will be set up to con-
tinue mass slaughter OF German
men, women and children. Those
Germans who live to see the days of
Judgment will be pressed into slave
laboofor the foreign tyrants. 81
The broadcasts asserted that the
source of this plan - has to be
looked for in the ranks of interna-
tional Jewry,' adding:
Only because of this can we un-
derstand the unity between Wash
ington, London and Moscow because
the driving power behind Stain
Churchill and Roosevelt is the Jew
the wandering Jew who, for the
last few thousands of years, has
brought SO much misery and sorrow
to the world"
Virtually every Allied radio cap
able OF reaching the Reich hao
beamed the text of the conference
communiQue to German listeners
last night.
A Tokyo radio commentator as
serted Russia was the winner" ol
the Big Three conference and de.
clared well-informed Tokyo quar-
ters" saw humiliation" for both the
United States and England In the
Crimean commlnique,
We can indeed pity Great Brit
ain, who is heading toward tragic
end. the comment ntator concluded
Evening star., 1945-02-13
House Group Starts
Hearings Tomorrow
On District Suffrage
Commissioners Urge
Residents to Show
interest by Attending

The District Commissioners to-
day urged Washington residents
to fill the caucus room of the old
House ONCE Building tomorrow
when House judiciary subcom-
mittee starts hearings on the
right of District residents to a
seat in Congress and a voice in
national elections.
The Commissioners already are on
record in support of the Summers
Capper joint resolution amending
the Constitution to empower Con-
gress to grant District residents
representation in Congress and the
electoral college
Hearings on the resolution, spon-
sored by Chairman Summers, Dem
ocrat. of Texas. of the House Judi
ciary Committee, and Senator Cap
per. Republican. of Kansas will
begin at 10 am. tomorrow.
"All Should Be Interested"
"I think every citizen of Wash
ington should be interested in the
Summers Capper resolution and
should attend the hearings in order
to make a good representation. -
said Commissioner John Russell
Young, president of the Board OF
Commissioners.
Engineer Commissioner Charles
w. Kutz also urged Washington,
residents to show Congress their
interest in right to vote by ap-
pearing at the hearings, and Com
missioner Guy Mason pointed out
that a recent letter to the chairmen
of the Senate and House judiciary
Committees voiced the unanimous
sentiment of the Commissioners.
In that letter the Commissioners
declared that District residents
must obey laws and pay taxes with
out representation in the legis-
lature which enacts the laws and
levies the taxes" Pointing out that
by the 1910 census the population
of the District was greater than
that of IL States, the Commission
ers added:
Certainly it is, not in keeping
Evening star., 1945-02-13
May Bill Substitute
Places Compu|sion
Only on Employer
Women Are Included
In Plan Now Being
Drafted, KiIeore Says
By ]. A. O'LEARY.

The substitute manpower bill
being drafted by opponents of
the House work-or Jail bill will
apply to men and women. re-
gardless of age. but all of the
compulsion to make it effective
will be on the employer, Senator
Kilgore, Democrat, of West Vir-
ginia made known today.
The House measure, on which the
Senate Military Affairs Committee
resumed closed hearings today, is
limited to men between Is and IS,
who could be directed by their local
draft boards to apply for essential
Jobs In critical areas, provided they
are given a reasonable choice Of en-
ployers.
Still Being Drafted.
Senator Kilsore said the substitute
still is in the drafting stage, but he
described it as "a streamlined YER
sion OF the Voorhis bill with teeth
in it."
He was referring to the proposal
Representative Voorhis, Democrat,
Of California tried without success
to have the House adopt, which
would have given legislative sane
ton to the manpower controls al
ready being applied by the War
Manpower Commission, with en-
phasis on voluntary placement,
achieved through the cooperation of
labor ment-agriculture COM
mittees in each area.
1t is understood that large num-
ber of Senators will join in spon-
soring the substitute when it is in
troduced to indicate its strength.
Heads of three big farm groups
the National Grange, the American
Farm Bureau Federation and the
Farmers Union-are scheduled to
appear at the Senate Military Al
fairs hearing today, after which the
committee will hear labor spokes-
men. The hearings are expected to
end in few days.
Substitute Not Acceptable.
The White House yesterday took
steps to deny that a substitute
merely legalizing the present job
control procedure would be ac-
ceptable to the ONCE of War
Mobilization. Jonathan Daniels,
White House secretary, issued a
statement saying such reports were
without foundation in fact"
Whenever the Military Com
mittee reports out a bill to cope
with the manpower problems of in
dustry, it will encounter demands
from the farm bloc on the Senate
floor for assurance that local draft
boards will adhere to the Tyrings'
amendment, which requires defer
ment of an essential agricultural
worker until he can be replaced.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Ex-SoIdier Given Year
For Greyhound Bus Theft

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 13.-Judge
Robert N. Pollard of Federal Dis
trict Court yesterday sentenced
James Timothy Sellers, 81, of Balti-
more, discharged soldier, to serve
a year and day in the penitentiary
after he pleaded guilty to charge
of stealing and driving a Grey
hound bus from Baltimore to near
-sichmond.
Sellers told the court he enlisted
at the age Of II and received an
honorable discharge. He said he
took the bus from the Greyhound
station at Baltimore and drove to
near Fredericksburg, where he
visited a girl Later he continued
on toward Richmond, but aban-
doned the vehicle about II miles
north of the city when it went out
Of order. 4
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Officer Gets 20 Years
In Black Market Trial
,y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Feb. 13.-Lt. Norris E.
Loop, Pratt, Kans., today was con-
victed on charge of conspiracy to
defraud the United States, neglect
of duty and wrongful disposition of
property in black market case and
sentenced to 20 years by an Army
court.
Defense witnesses had testified
that 1t. Loop had an excellent rep
utation, was a good officer and a
competent railroad man.
Sergt. Frederick w. Butterfield, a
conductor on a supply train, said
1t. Loop on one occasion rushed
sandwiches by jeep from a mess
hall to the crew of a train stalled
between stations. Under question
ing by member of the court, Sergt.
Butterfield said he never had heard
of any officer of the 716th Railway
Operating Battalion permitting men
to take rations off supply trains.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
FTC Sees SCENT Hope in AS
OfRelieving Cigarette Shortage

Scant hope of relief from the
shortage is in prospect
during 1945, the Federal Trade
Commission reported today. after
an investigation.
The FTC found little to add to
what other groups already have
discovered to be the basis of the
shortage-that variety of factors
combine to keep American smokers
wondering where their next cigar
cite is coming from.
THE shortage of cigarettes in the
American domestic market, /" the
FTC said, lis directly traceable to
the volume of cigarettes moving to
the armed services and to the Allies.
The shortage created by such move
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Record bombing
Bars Bataan as
Refuge for Japs
S. roop Borees
Attempting to Flee
Manila Also Sunk
By the Associated Press.

6s the AcsuClatco FIccs
MANILA, Feb. 13.-Japanese
suicide troops, cornered in South
Manila's flaming battle pit by
a juncture of three American
divisions, were being compressed
and liquidated today as their
only possible havens of refuge,
Corregidor and Bataan, smol-
dered from a record 1,000-ton
saturation bombing.
? The final phase of the battle for
the Philippine capital was mounting
in ferocity as Yanks of the 37th In
fantry, 1st Cavalry and 11th Air
borne Divisions made contact to pin
the japanese against Manila Bay
south of the Pasig River mouth.
While 9Th Division armored units
far to the north rolled to the Pa
cif1c Coast to cut Luzon in two, the
three Yank divisions in Manila s
shell-wrecked downtown area braved
rockets, heavy artillery, machine
gun fire and mined streets in their
drive to fln1Sh OH the enemy garri-
son now confined to less than five
square miles.
IS Barges Sunk in Bay.
Across Manila Bay, American
bombers poured devastating load of
more than 700 tons of bombs on the
southern end Of Bataan Peninsula
and over 200 tons on Corregidor for
tress in a 4s-hour period up to Sum-
day night.
The hazard Of any japanese flight
across the bay was reflected in Gen.
communique reporting
that American fighter planes sank
IS barges. loaded with 2,500 enemy
troops, of Bataan on Sunday.
Gen. Macarthur, describing the
Evening star., 1945-02-13
(see WESTERN FRONT, Page A-0
Jap Troops in Area
By-passed by Yanks
Estimated at $4,000
Enemy in Some Sections
Dying Of Starvation and
Wounds From Bombinss
By WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY

japanese troops Dy-paSSed py
the American forces .in their
westward advance in the Pacific
total approximately 266,000, a
United States naval spokesman
said today. The figure does not
include any of the enemy troops
in the Philippines.
This estimate is based on in
formation supplied by natives who
have escaped from the islands and
from study of photographs made
by reconnaissance planes.
The naval spokesman said these
by passed forces could be menacing,
but as yet have caused no serious
trouble. In some areas they are
dying from lack of supplies and
wounds inflicted by frequent bomb
ings, but in other places they ap-
peared to be well supplied with am
munition, the spokesman said.
In the Solomons area, particu-
larly along the famous slot" down
which the Tokyo express" came
nightly in the early days of the
Solomons campaign, they have ef-
fective antiaircraft gunners. Both
American planes and surface ships
usually give these areas a wide
berth when operating in that
vicinity.
Japs Not Sending Supplies.
1t is conceded that in some areas
the Japs could send planes and
supplies to their troops, but so far
the information indicates they have
not tried to.
Some of the islands still have
air strips, although they are being
pounded constantly by the Ameri-
can Air Forces.
It is conceded that the Japs are
so well trained that the landing
strips cannot be immobilized for a
longer period than overnight.
Broken down, the spokesman said,
the estimated number of Jap mill
tary on the various islands follow:
In the Marshalls, on the four is
lands of Wolfe, Maleolap, Mill and
Jaluit, $4,000; on Ocean and Nauru
Islands, 1000; Ponape, 10000; Yap,
10000; Woleai, 5000; Kusaie, 1000;
Puluwat, 5000: Rota, Pagan and
Evening star., 1945-02-13

ment has been magnified by an in
creased demand from the American
people.
This demand, in turn, develops
from prosperity which enables many
who formerly could not afford man
ufactured cigarettes now to buy
them, from overbuying by indi-
vidual citizens fearful of being
without cigarettes; increase in num-
Der OF smokers; and, at least in
September and October, 1914, by
the purchase of huge volume Of
cigarettes to be sent to members
of the armed forces overseas
The inquiry, conducted at the be-
hest of Chairman Wheeler of the
tsee, CIGARETTES, PageI A-l0I
Evening star., 1945-02-13

Manila fight as extraordinarily
fierce" said the desperate enemy
penned up near the South Manila
docks now is closely enclosed and
is gradually being compressed into
extinction"
He said every care was being
taken to keep American casualties
at minimum and preserve city
property. For that reason, the
Yanks were not using costly assault
methods, but rather the slower but
safer processes of mine-sweeping,
development and infiltration.
Japs Setting High Price.
Associated Press Correspondent
C. Yates Mcdaniel reported the
japanese defenders have never
had any hope of escaping from
their self-laid trap" He wrote:
Theirs is not last-minute fight
of desperation, but apparently a
carefully calculated plan to set the
price of the capture of Manila as
high in lives and property as their
destructive ingenuity can raise it. -
The trapped japanese have turned
buildings with the thickest walls
into fortresses and have strewn the
path of the oncoming Americans
with almost every known type of
mine and explosive trap A large
enemy gun even fired a few rounds
from the tower of the City Hall be-
fore it was knocked out.
Rockets, some 8 to 10 inches in
caliber, are the latest missiles hurled
from the enemy pocket, which is
chiefly in the ancient Intramuros
walled city near the Pasig River
mouth. The japanese still poured
artillery shells on the vital pontoon
bridges, used by the Americans in
moving tanks and guns across the
Pasig, and tried to wreck Manila s
big water supply reservoir.
North Section Cleaned Out.
The Little Tokyo district, last
sizable pocket Of resistance on the
waterfront north of the Pasig, Of
fered no return fire yesterday. Thus
the Americans virtually completed
control of north Manila.
Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler's
37th Infantry Division bore the
brunt of the vicious close-quarter
fighting between houses and in mar
row streets.
The 37th was joined near the
center of south Manila by Mai. Gen.
Vern D. Mudge's tank-riding 1st
Cavalry Division. The juncture was
at the Paco railroad station, N
miles from the bay shore. Other
cavalry elements contacted the 18th
Airborne Division of Mai. Gen.
Joseph M. Swing near the Manila
Polo Club on the southern outskirts.
The 18th Airborne, which has
virtually surrounded Nichols Field,
captured or destroyed Ill pillboxes
and large quantities of equipment,
including rs artillery pieces
Key anti-aircraft positions and
esee PHILIPPINES, Pal A-5.)
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Veterans Seeking Jobs
Will Get Extra Gas
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The OPA will issue special gaso-
line rations to returning war vet
Grams and displaced civilian workers
seeking Unemployment.
Announcing this today, the agency
said that beginning Saturday these
rations will be authorized In cases
where it is necessary to use an auto
mobile to travel to job interview
arranged by:
The United States Employment
Service, the Railroad Retirement
Board Employment Service, a
county agricultural agent. an agri-
cultural extension labor office, or a
union authorized by the War Man
power Commission to recruit labor
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Byrnes First 10 Return
From Big Three Farley

BY the Associated Press.
War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes returned today from the
Crimean conference.
He apparently is the first of the
American delegation at the Roose-
velt-C Churchill Stain meeting to
come home The White House an
nounced his return
There was no indication when
Mr.. Roosevelt will return. Secre-
tary of State Stettinius is visiting
in Moscow, but Acting Secretary
of State Grew declined to comment
on that trip.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Navy Transport
Crash at Alameda
Costs 24Lives
~ the AssoriatsS prssx

ASSOCTTLFG FTShx-
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 49,
Twenty-four passengers and crew
members were killed today in the
crash of two-engined Navy trans
port at the foot of Chestnut street
in Alameda on San Francisco Bay
the Navy announced here.
The big ship crashed IL minutes
after it left the Alameda Airport
Just missing land it hit the
waters of the bay.
Several persons said the planes
engines stopped just before the
sound of the crash.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
'SeIIout Of Poland
AT Crimean Farley
Charged by 0'Konski
Mrs. Helen Douglas
And Luther Johnson
Loud Big Three PIons
Ry the Assoc .sted Press.

BY the Assoe-at Press.
Representative O'Konski, Re
publican, of Wisconsin inter-
rupted general House acclaim of
the Crimean Big Three agree
ment today to denounce it as "a
sell-out of Poland.
Mr.. OKonski said the Roosevelt
Churchill Stain conference repre-
sents victory for Goebbels.' He
termed the Crimean communique "a
stab in the back to freedom-a stab
in the back to the most freedom
loving people, the Poles, who have
done more to crush Naziism than
any other nation on earth
Mr.. OKonski took the floor after
two members of the Foreign Affairs
Committee - Representative Helen
Gahagan Douglas, Democrat, of Cal
ifornia and Representative Luther
A. johnson, Democrat, of Texas
had spoken in praise OF the Crimear
agreements.
Considerably, the belief gained
headway in Congress that Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill may have reached an
agreement with Premier Stain fol-
eventual Russian participation in
the war against Japan,
BASED on Growing Confidence.
Mrs. Douglas told the House the
Big Three laid "the foundation of
the world Of tomorrow" and added j:
The results of the conference
are better than the most optimistic
expectations They are better be-
cause they are based on a truly
growing confidence among the
Allied governments"
Mr. johnson expressed hearty
agreement" with her speech and
said:
The Allied nations have been
hearing very many things to en-
courage us in recent weeks. but
nothing has been more heartening
than the splendid manner in which
the three great leaders reached
agreements that will mean much to
hasten the end of the war
Representative Voorhis, Democrat
of California also praised Mrs
Douglas remarks and said he
thought the. most important pro-
vision OF the agreement related to
selection of new governments in the
liberated nations.
Those who talked of possible Rus
sian participation in the japanese
war referred to the announcement
that a very close working partner
ship" had been established between
the Anglo American and Russian
general staffs. -....
Further, April 25-when first.
rank diplomats of the United Ma.
tiops will meet in San Francisco tt
begin the formation of a world Sc.
curity organizations the final date
on which either Russia or Japar
can, by giving one years notice. de.
nounce their non-aggreSsion treaty
If the treaty is not denounced by
then, it runs for another five years
(See CONGRESS, Page A-13)
Evening star., 1945-02-13
British Capture Town
In Drive on MunduIuy
the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HANDY, Ceylon, Feb. 13.-Brit-
ish 14th Army troops driving down
from the north along the Irrawaddy
have captured Singue, 40 miles from
Mandalay, an Allied communique
announced today
However, resistance is being met
in the southern outskirts of the
base, the communique said.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Plane Lands in Street
To Take First Botoon
Nurses From Manila
BY the Associated Press.


MANILA, Feb. u Delayed.
"A broad-winged Curtiss Com
mando transport plane swooped
low over Manila today and made
a precarious landing on q
deserted street in the northeast
section of the city.
A few hours later the plane
roared away, carrying "a Army
nurses who had worked with
the Yanks on Bataan and Cor
regidor and were subsequently
held in Santo Tomas intern
ment camp.
The nurses were the first
Santo Tomas internees to start
home.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
New Overseas Edition
Will Be Out Tomorrow

A new issue of The Stars
Overseas Edition will be ready
tomorrow. Free copies, with
envelopes for mailing, may be
obtained at The Stars busi-
ness counter and the Victory
Bond Booth in Lansburgh's
Department Store.
The Overseas Edition may be
sent by ordinary mail for 8
cents, but it will be delivered
much more quickly--and will
be all the more appreciated
If sent by airuail at IL cents.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Boby Weighing
Pound, IS Ounces
Has Chonce to Live

By the Associated Press.
ELLENSBURG, Wash, Feb.
ia 1-pound, 15-ounce pre-
mature baby. so tiny 1t can be
held in the palm of the hand,
has fair chance for survival,
according to attendants at
General Hospital.
The child was born Saturday
to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Ber-
gamini and was placed in an
incubator. It il able to swallow
food, the hospital reported.
Evening star., 1945-02-13

capture Of Budapest.
By ~ Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 13.-The Berlir
radio today declared Budapest
had been evacuated by its deci-
mated German-Hungarian gar
rison after a dawn lunge against
Soviet siege lines which have
throttled the Hungarian capital
on the Danube on the 49th day
of the siege.
The German broadcast said the
garrison, compressed into a small
zone inside the encircled city of
1217,00O, successfully broke out of
Budapest to continue the fight in
the open field"
But so powerful and complete was
the Russian encirclement that it
appeared doubtful here the German
remnants and their Hungarian
satellites could have fought to safety.
Budapest is the 18th capital taken
by the Allies since June 4, when
Rome fell.
Street Fighting for Weeks.
Bloody street fighting has ragged
for weeks in the city, the onetime
level of the Danube" with its
defenders supplied by air.
Moscow has announced capture OF
more than $4,000 enemy troops in
Budapest, and last night declared
the core of organized resistance had
been broken with seizure of the
royal palace and ancient fortress
on the west bank of the Danube in
Buda, Pest. the other half of the
city on the east bank, was cleared
January 10. Thousands OF Ger
mans have been killed.
Berlin asserted the dawn break
out attack caught the Russians by
surprise
The deepest Russian ring of en-
circlement" was smashed, the Ger
man broadcasts said.
Bitter Defensive Fight.
Budapest was considered so i'm
portant in the Nazi scheme OF war
that German troops fought street
by street to defend it. Although
the Red Army reached its outskirts
from the southeast in the first week
of November, it was not until De-
cember 27 that troops broke into
the city from the southwest after
encircling it.
Budapest is important not only
as q political and industrial center
but as the guardian to great plains
area which forms a natural gate
way to Vienna, 130 miles to the
northwest.
Once a gay and fashionable spa,
rivaling Vienna as cultural and
tourist center, Budapest was turned
into a NaN arsenal. To its mills
largest in all Europe-and its elec-
trical, chemical, shipbuilding and
textile works, the Nazis added air.
craft plants and machine factories.
A steady stream of war supplies
moved across the broad Danube
River, which splits the city.
Standing at the crossroads Of Eu-
rope. Budapest is the junction of IA
main railways and the hub of ar
terial highways toward Austria. Ger
many, Romania and Yugoslavia.
Modern Architecture.
Although 1t dates back to Roman
times and it has been pillaged by
many invading conquerors, in spirit
and architecture the capital is
modern.
It's wide, Acacia -bordered boule-
wards, parks. fashionable hotels, col
orful festivals and sparkling night
life drew thousands of prewar visi-
tors.
Buda, containing the royal palace,
is the governmental center, while
Pest is the industrial and CONNER
cial nucleus
Together. the two sections occupy
80 square miles.
The two cities were united in 1873
under the officials name of Buda-
pest. They we're connected by six
bridges, including two of the largest
Evening star., 1945-02-13

Nine additional men from
the District area haze been
reported killed in this Uar. See
"On the Honor Roll" Page A-2.
Evening star., 1945-02-13
Budapest Evacuatedby Germans;
Russians Crack Bober River Line
Increase Berlin FIanking Threat
City Given Up
On 49th Day Of
Red Siege
BULLETIN.

LONDON [P.-Premier Sta
lin late today announced the
capture Of Budapest.
Evening star., 1945-02-13

Continued on Page AS, Column q
Evening star., 1945-02-13

(See RUSSIA, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1945-02-13

tSee JAPS, Page abb
Evening star., 1945-02-13

1See SUFFRAGE, Page A-lo5