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Evening star., 1945-06-17
Hitler's Body Must Be Found to Shatter MYTH

part of the Nazi creed as it was part OF
the Hohenzollern creed the last time, to
produce young to replace the fallen,
that there might always be feet for the
marching boots and hands for the rifles.
Young children are seen in every Ger
man household and some Of the mothers
give the appearance Of being no more
than II years old. These children will
grow up while the German nation does
penance, in time of mourning for dead
fathers, when conquerors rule the land,
when food and comforts are scarce and
life in all respects is hard and bitter
Victors and vanquished alike agree that
the immediate future for Germans will
try their souls in fashion unknown be.
fore in their country
1t cannot be argued that any future
resurgent Germanism will depend on
the legends OF Barbarossa or Hitler,
or that 1t will need any such basis
Still, Hitler, ignored by the armies now
concerned with immediate details, may
yet fire the minds of glowing German
youth in his death Gf he is dead) as
he did IN life, and stalk, CORY appa-
rition, in the dreams of peaceful nations
Of the future.
German schools are closed until books,
purged Of Nal doctrines, arrive from
abroad. The new books will teach facts
OF life as lived by Germanys more
civilized neighbors. You may teach
such lessons every day in schoolhouses,
but what is to prevent returned war
riors and widowed mothers telling the
Hitler legend to their children in the
evenings when the candles are lit and
the shutters drawn across the beaten
Germanland? What will prevent it
firing new longing, new hunger for
revenge in the years OF subjection?
Hitler's Children
The Hitler myth is ready-made for
the children of Hitler's beaten armies
unless the man Is caught and exposed
for what he is, or his body unearthed
in proof that he has not ascended to
some teutonic valhalla or gone under
ground In mountain cavern to await
the bugles OF another German horde
that will drown new generations In
blood.
In either case, whether he lives or Is
dead, the search for Adolf Hitler should
not be abandoned until the world, and
in particular the German world, knows
the truth about him.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
BY John Clagett Proctor

oy JOIAl1 S1dSCCt 4AOSGOI
was appointed one of number of
justices of the peace for the District of
Columbia, but President Jefferson
ignored the wishes of his predecessor
and had his Secretary of State, James
Madison. hold UP the commissions,
which the United States Supreme
Court declared 1t was his duty to de-
liver, but did not tell him to do so.
new nominations for these Offices and
what seemed to be a victory for Mr.
Marbury In the end proved an empty
one.
Shortly after Mr.. Marbury came to
Washington he acquired the Forrest
property on Falls (M) street, George
town, and built large house there
adjoining the one already erected, and
combining the two. In 1919 he was one
of the members of the Navy Yard
Bridge Co.
The Tucker Family
Enoch Tucker, who bought the
Chichester tract of 240 acres from
Marbury, later known as the Tucker
farm, is said to have been the boss
blacksmith at the Navy Yard. How
ever, this statement may be an error
and James Tucker, master blacksmith
at the Navy Yard in l843, is probably
the one intended. Enoch Tucker, the
same year and subsequently, was in
partnership with his son as merchant
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lean and lank," we have been told.
When he died, 1t was at his c street
home, opposite the Metropolitan M. E.
the day, his family consisted Of seven
children, namely; Asbury, McKendry.
Maria, Virginia, Elizabeth Conn, Bryson
and Sophia. Elizabeth Conn Tucker
married Simpson Preston Moses, and
their daughter, Fannie jeanette. mar
ried the late Albert Harper lawyer, and
vice president of the Association Of
Oldest Inhabitants.
Home, Sweet Home"
We are told that Anacostia did not
become Uniontown until 1865. but the
map before the writer, engraved about
1860 bears the old name by which many
Of us knew it. However. 1t is very nice
place in which to live. by whatever name
1t might be called. The celebrated John
Howard Payne, author of Home, Sweet
Home" frequently visited his friend,
George w. Talburtt in this village, when
there were but few houses on the south
bank of the Eastern Branch, near the
old Navy Yard Bridge, and here, some
have gone so far as to say, he wrote that
worldrenowned folk song that bears his
name.
But then, we must remember that the
words Of this song were written by Payne
many years before he ever knew Mr.
Talburtt, and probably even revised them
several times before he met that gen.
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came resident of the District in 1859,
and here he edited until 1872 the New
National Era. In 1877 President Hayes
appointed him United States marshal
dent Garfield made him recorder Of
deeds, which Office he held until 1885,
President Benjamin Harrison appointed
him Minister to Haiti in 1889, this being
the last public Office he held.
Mr.. Douglass was born slave, but
escaped from Maryland in 1888 and
went first to New York and then to
New Bedford, Mass, where he changed
his name from Frederick Augustus
Washington Bailey to Frederick Doug
lass. In 1846. fund having been Sc
cured, his freedom was purchased from
his owner, Thomas Aud.
His first wife, to whom he was mar
ried in New York, died in Washington
in 1882. He later married Miss Helen
Pitts, white woman, who had been
employed In the office Of the recorder
Of deeds. He took up his residence,
Cedar Hill, in Anacostia, on w street
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets, at least as early as 1878, and
here he died. His second wife preserved
the home as memorial to his memory.
Cedar Hill was earlier the residence Of
John Welsh Van Hook.
On the night of the assassination Of
President Lincoln the original Navy
Yard Bridge, built in 1919, was crossed
by Booth and Herold in making their
escape into Maryland. They were closely
followed to the bridge by man en-
ployed by Allison Nailor, jr., to whom
the guard, Sergt. Silas T. Cobb, said,
that two persons had just crossed over"
and further stated that: "You can 60
over the bridge If you want to, but the
countersign will be given out before you
come back and you cannot return to-
night"
OF course in time Anacostia had to
have a citizens association, and the
Anacostia Citizens Association was or
ganized about 1882 and has continued
to the present time, but not without
lapses. It's first meeting was held in
what was then the police station, one
story rented building on Good Hope
road, between Thirteenth and Nichols
avenue. The association was reorgan-
lied in 1904, since which time it has
obtained many valuable improvements
for the community. It's present officers
are: President, John j. Watson; first
vice president, Mrs. Carrie G. Smith;
second vice president, Herman Willes;
third vice president, william J. Tucker;
secretary, Miss Dorothy Tucker, and
treasurer, Frank Tew.
Evening star., 1945-06-17

of adolescents plunged into the hot
blood; the tenets of blood and soil, the
inscribed daggers (many now sent to the
United States as souvenirs) and all the
rest of the theatrical stage trappings so
important to German minds and hearts
Again one may ask what have these
TO do with the recovery of Hitlers body,
II he Is dead?
Let those who ask the question think
OF the tale Of Frederick Barbarossa and
the Unterberg. On previous occasions
this correspondent has referred to the
Barbarossa legend and suggested that
Hitler might choose to disappear in the
same manner, or that of another leg
endary Teutonic hero. The suggestion
is now fact. Hitler has disappeared.
This Was No Coincidence
1t could not have been coincidence
that caused Hitler to choose Berchtes-
gaden as the site of his private estate,
where he could retire for meditation
rest or to plot the course which brought
the Third Reich to its DOOM
Berchtesgaden looks out on the Unter-
berg. the mountain where the Emperor
Frederick Barbarossa, "the greatest
German who ever lived" was believed to
be sleeping until his presence was re-
quired by the German people. Then,
according to the fairy tale, he was to
split the mountain asunder and emerge
with his war ak and in full armor to
rescue his people from their danger.
Like all other Germans, Hitler knew
every detail Of the fable, and there is
sound reason to believe he intended to
replace Barbarossa in the minds Of the
German race as their savior after his
death Here it should be said that the
Emperor Frederick was drowned and the
facts suppressed to establish the Un-
terberg legend. Before the war many
otherwise educated Germans would tell
you that Barbarossa had disappeared
and that there was reliable evidence for
the story concerning his retirement to
wait out the ages in his mountain.
Believed Himself Immortal
There may have been periods when
Hitler believed in his own immortal
quality. If so, he was not the first die
tator to think along the same lines. He
knew he must 60, and there seems to be
good reason for believing he desired his
hold on his countrymen to remain aft
erwards. His disappearance lends color
Evening star., 1945-06-17

tleman. The music, of course, was not
his, being the composition, in all likeli-
hood, Of Sr. Henry r. Bishop. But even
If Payne did not write the piece in Ana
costa, we have memories of him In
Washington, at least, for his body lies
buried here in Oak Hill Cemetery. He
acted here upon number of occasions,
and visited Mrs. Southworth, Washing
toms noted novelist, when she resided
on the southwest corner of Thirteenth
and c streets S.W., where stands the
Governments power plant, and Payne
had the pleasure, too, of hearing Jenny
Lind sing his words upon one occasion,
when the Swedish Nightingale" was
visiting this CITY,
Visited w. w. Corcoran
He often visited the home of W. w.
Corcoran and also that Of his banking
partner, George w. Riggs, and there
was strong friendship between them.
After Payne's death in Tunis, April 8,
1852, his body was permitted to lie buried
on foreign soil for 80 years, when, in
1883, 1t was brought to America and to
Washington through the thoughtfulness
and generosity of Mr.. Corcoran, aroused
by an incident which occurred the year
before, as told by Charles H. Brainard,
who said:
"As Mr.. Corcoran was riding by the
Ebbitt House in Washington one day
In the autumn of 1882, his ear was sud-
denly greeted by the music of Home,
Sweet Home which the Marine Band
was playing in honor of 1t. Melville of
the ill-fated Arctic steamer Jeannette,
who had just reached Washington and
was guest of the house before which
1t was stationed. AS Mr.. Corcoran lis
tened to the plaintive air, which never
fails to touch responsive chords in the
breasts Of all who hear it, his heart
was moved by tender memories of the
poet, whose words have made 1t i'm
mortal, and his acquaintance with whom
covered period of nearly so years, and
that moment he resolved that the prof.
ect he had formed years before, con-
corning the removal of Mr.. Payne's re-
mains to this country, should at once
be carried into effect"
After the necessary arrangements had
been made, Payne's body arrived in
Washington on March "a, 1883, and on
June g., following the anniversary Of
the poets birth, the remains of John
Howard Payne were inferred in their
final resting place, and elsewhere in the
same cemetery sleeps the philanthropist
Corcoran, who still lives in the hearts
OF many because Of his benefactions and
generosities.
One Of the early residents Of Ana
costa, and one Of It's most notable as
well, was Frederick Douglass, who be-
Evening star., 1945-06-17
How the New Shooting Star
Attains Its 'Blinding Speed
BY ]. X. Van Denburg, Jr.

Americas new fighter plane, the
Lockheed P-s0 Shooting Star" can
climb straight up at speeds faster
than many conventional planes fly in
level flight" according to the latest
summary of the still-secret jet-propelled
crafts appearance and performance,
just released by the manufacturers.
Announcement that Lockheed engi-
neers have solved one of the problems
of jet propulsion-that Of range-by an
ingenious arrangement of fuselage and
wing fuel tanks, indicates the revolu-
tionary plane may swing into action
soon in the long distance aerial warfare
in the Pacific
Its advertised binding speed,
announced as in the 500 miles per hour
class-should make 1t valuable weapon
in quickly intercepting and blasting
Japan's suicide planes.
Superstreamlined
The latest summary draws the fol-
lowing picture of the Shooting Star:
A superstreamlined craft of more or
less conventional fighter plane shape
and size, set on wheels which place it
fairly close to the ground. Probably
equipped with tricycle. gear, as is its
predecessor, the jet-propelled Bell P-59
Airacomet, which now is used for transi-
tional training.
The air intakes for its single Gen.
eral Electric built jet turbine blend into
fuselage and leading edge of the wings
on each side. The blast that drives the
plane exists through nozzle in the tail.
The secret of the Shooting Stars
speed lies in several factors, according
to Lockheed. The first is a radically
new wing with knife-like leading edge,
which reduces the problem of main
tanning a smooth flow of air over It's
surface when approaching the speed
OF sound.
Evening star., 1945-06-17

tailors on the north side of Pennsyl-
vania avenue, between Sixth and Sew
enth streets, near Sixth street north
west, and had his home on the north
side of c street. between John Marshall
place and Sixth street. The farm was
probably purchased as an investment.
He was born on the Severn River near
Annapolis, Md, in 1790, was the son
of Thomas Tucker, a Revolutionary
soldier, who, for aught the writer
knows, may have been the identical
little Tommy Tucker who sang for his
supper of whom we, as children, heard
so much. But, however, this may be,
when grown to manhood Thomas Tuck
er married and reared a family of
children, including Abel, William, Ann
(or Nancy, Francis, Silas, Enoch, Jo-
seph, Samuel and Sallee.
Abel Tucker was born in 1871 and
died in 1921. In 1904, he married Mary
Tydings, also of Anne Arundel County,
Md. They had an old-time family of
nine children, some of whom settled in
the District of Columbia, John Henry
Tucker of this branch married Sarah A.
Mcpherson of Georgetown, D. c. He will
be recalled as one of the first penny
posts of this city, and as pioneer set
tier of The Island" One of his daugh-
tiers, Ann Olivia, married william S.
Thompson, who kept a drugstore for
many years on Fifteenth street, near
New York avenue.
The Blodget Hotel Fire
Charlotte Clear Tucker, daughter of
Abel Tucker, married Samuel Crown,
who gave the alarm of fire at the time
of the destruction Of the Blodget Hotel,
December Is, 1886, the building then
being owned by the Government and oc-
cupied by the Post Office Department,
the City Post Office and the Patent Of
flee. The loss, particularly in the latter,
was irreplaceable. 1t was the first hotel
building erected in Washington, in 1893,
and was on the north side of E street,
between Seventh and Eighth streets
NV. The Crown descendants are also
numerous here.
Ann Cor Nancy Tucker, daughter of
Thomas Tucker, married in 1907, Will
liam Duvall, and many of her descend
ants reside here. The late Andrew
Brown Duyall. once corporation counsel
of the District, was a grandson of Ann
(Tucker) Duvall.
Another of our foremost citizens and
a well-known civic worker, Evan H.
Tucker, is related to the family, being
son of Samuel Willis Tucker, grandson
of Samuel Tucker, and descendant Of
Thomas Tucker.
Enoch Tucker, who owned the farm ut
Uniontown, was born October l6, 1790,
and married Janet NcPheFson. He was
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to this belief if he was killed in Berlin,
IS has been reported.
Americans reading these lines, unable
to reconcile modern Germany's tech
nical advances with the mystical layer
in the German character, may scoff at
suggestions Of this nature. But so hard
headed a corporation as the British
government knew better than to do so.
In the year of peril Lord Halifax, then
Foreign Minister in the British cabinet,
gave hours of his valuable time while
the details Of Hitler's horoscope were
explained to hip by a German astrolo-
ger who had fed from Hitlers Ger
many.
Hitler's personal astrologer. who read
his astral maps and cast the horoscope
with its month-to-month projections
was German named Karl Kraft
Kraft is believed to have died in con-
centration camp or elsewhere under de-
tention following the exposure of an in
discretion. He wrote letter to a Ru-
manian diplomat, Viorel T1lea, in which
he expressed the opinion that the time
chosen by Germany for the beginning
Of the war might have been inoppor-
'une, and that the war might be lost.
Disappearance Prophesized
But of even greater importance in this
connection was Kraft's suggestion made
in the same letter that Hitler might dis
appear.
AS Hitleris astrologer, Kraft had fire.
quent access to the dictator, and it is
reasonable to assume engaged in pri-
vate discussions with him. The sugges-
ton of Hitlers disappearance may have
been the result of such a conversation
In any case, Kraft paid the penalty for
his slip.
Hitler, dead or alive, has disappeared
and his passing whether beyond the
grave or into a secret hiding place
leaves fertile soil for the growth of an
other German legend
Why should this be dangerous or OF
the least importance to the rest of the
world?
What difference can 1t make If a de-
feated Germany consoles itself with an
other fairy tale?
The answer lies in buried cities, towns
and farmsteads of Germany. They
swarm with young children, many born
since September /. 1889, the day Hitler S
armies marched into Poland. It was
Evening star., 1945-06-17

Besides the high altitude advantage
given by the pressurized cabin-which
does away with the need for oxygen
masks-the cockpit is equipped with
attachments for gravity suits. With one
of these compressed air "overalls' the
flow Of blood away from the head is
greatly lessened in sharp maneuvers
and "blackouts," the bane of fighter
pilots, are prevented.
The Shooting Stars armament is con-
centrated in the nose, ahead of the pilot.
Since the craft has no propeller, there
Is no need for wing mounted guns and
the problem Of converging fire from
widespread guns is obviated. All the
Evening star., 1945-06-17

The second is a new glass-smooth
finish, polished lacquer coating which
greatly increases the planes speed,
maneuverability and range. The i'm
portance of this factor is seen in Lock-
heeds statement that surface variances
as minute as. .002 of an inch noticeably
affect the Shooting Star.
Pressurized Cabin
The pilot sits in a pressurized cabin
under transparent bubble canopy He
Is located ahead Of the leading edge Of
the wing and thus has far better visl-
bility that in many other craft where
the wing blocks the downward view.
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,e latest SUMMARY

-5Ketch BY CTocKett and Mc1ntyre
bullets speed straight along the line Of
the plane.
The top performance of this new
craft stin is secret-not because of CEN
sorship but because of the limits of the
human body-Lockheed says It's ab.
solute ceiling is unknown. 1t will fly
higher than pilots have been able to
take it. And the higher it goes into
the rarified atmosphere the faster it
flies.
The crew of one B-29 Super Fortress
against which the Shooting Star was
making practice passes that
on one occasion the new fighter swept
by so fast they never even saw it!
Evening star., 1945-06-17

Has the Hitler myth begun? Presi-
dent Truman has indicated that he
is satisfied Hitler is dead. A team, OF
Souiet detectives recently concluded
that, II Hitler is dead, he did not
die in the ruins OF his Reichschan-
cellory. The tale told by member
of Hitler's bodyguard seems. to Rus
sian crininologists, to cdtalyze the
many, conflicting stories OF the
Fuehrer's last days. This bodyouard
last saW Hitler on April 27, fdgeting
on sofa in his personal room in
the chancellory, phile Epa Braun,
Httler's blond friend, sat at table
,Uriting. With the noise OF street
fighting penetrating the room, Hitler
harrangued, in effect: "As long as
liue there DiH be no conflict among
Russia, America and England. They
are united in their Diu to destroy me.
II am dead =" a conflict must
come. When it comes 1 must be
alipe to lead the German people. to
help them arise from defeat, to lead
them to final pictory. Germany con
hope for the future only II the tohoie
,oorld thinks I an, dead. must ."
But no body has been found.
Evening star., 1945-06-17
BY Marcel Wallenstein,
North American Newspaper Alliance.

WITH UNITED STATES 9th ARMY
IN EUROPE (By Air MaiD.-If Hitler
is dead it is as important to find his
body as it is to try him before world
court of justice If he is alive.
To those who ask what is to be gained
by obtaining his corpse, the answer is:
To prevent another dangerous myth
finding root in the German mind. On
similar myths the war spirit Of the Ger
mans has fed since the earliest Eu-
ropean civilization.
Whatever his crimes and errors, Hitler
knew German character Throughout
his career he played on the love of
legend, hero myth and the Gothic
mumbo jumbo for which whole gen.
Grafton of his people threw over their
religious teaching.
One has only to recall the rites at
Nuremberg, the midsummer nights
orgies Of NaN youth on mountain tops
when goats were sacrificed and knives
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-13
Lest We Forget---Lest We Forget
MICHIGAN War Hero Roll
1T. wEN.rsE CHAR

10-a. m. next Saturday, Epiphany
Catholic Church.
SGT. ROYDEN G.. FRALEIGH,
%, infantry, Nov. "a. Leyte; at
tended Michigan State College (;
captain of All-City high school
football team: in service Feb
ruary, l943; overseas last August
leaves parents. Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Royden Fraleigh, 15705 Steel;
brother, Fireman 1/c Warren, in
Continued on Page l6)
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-13
SuitOr Slabs
Share-Rider

A woman war worker is in Serl-
Gus condition today from multiple
stab wounds ana her Share-the-
ride companion Is held b. police
on fclonrcdS ass auit-t4if4ffeS sitter
the attack brought about police
said when she Spurncd his offer
O. marriage
Enoch JahnS. 40 of 5476 Bald
win. surrendered 20 Conner sta
ton police last night where he
admitted StabblnG Ethel JamrlSko,
-. Of S07 DIVER, z dlVorcee. as
theN sat N his ear IN the PiHgsl-
outh plant parking Tot az 500
Lynch
P.4,iee- -Said he confessed -1ti'Sii4E
both q pocket knife and screw
driver IN inflicting wounds 70 her
head. face body and arms. Plant
protection officer Lawrence Nc
lntSfe told police he ordered her
removed 70 the hospital as she
ran. bleeding 10 the plant gates.
7 he kntfe-RsS found IN the car,
but Jahns said ne had thrown the
screw driver away.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-13

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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-13
Baseball
Aids Drive

The Red Cross War Fund drive
was boosted today by a check for
S16,643.S9, representing the De-
-troit chapters share of receipts
from the 1914 World Series base
ball games.
The check was turned over to
the special gifts division of which
Mrs. w. Dean Robinson is vice
chairman. She is the daughter
of Walter o. Briggs, owner of the
Detroit Tigers.
AS the drive started its third
week, the Detroit chapter was
still S3,714676 behind its quota
of $5,137, 900.