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ported. He has been overseas with
the infantry three years.
Pfc. Norris B. Delano, n, infan-
tryman, whose sister, Mrs. Bertha
D. Coates lives at 1925 Ingleside
terrace NV, was wounded in action
December l in Germany, the War
Department announced. He is now
home on 30-day furlough.
Born in Warsaw, Va, Pvt. Delano
was graduated from the Warsaw
High School and worked for Peoples
Drug Stores here and the Navy Yard
before he went in the Army four
years ago. He was overseas six
months, Mrs, Coates said.
A brother, Levin Delano, gunner S
mate, third class, is in the Navy.
First 1t. Kenneth G. Edick, %,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. George L.
Edick, 1888 South Dakota avenue
NE. was wounded in action No
vember 7 while fighting with a tank
destroyer unit in France.
Born in Fairfield, Iowa, 1t. Edick
was graduated from high school in
Dayton, Ohio. 1t. Edick went over
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Jury Awards Woman =.
$4,000 for Injury in Fall

A District Court jury yesterday
awarded Mrs. Estelle Cain, 46, of
the Keywood Gardens Apartments,
$1,000 Judgment for injuries suf-
fered in a fall down a fight of stairs
in the apartment building in jan
uary, 1914.
The verdict was returned against
five persons described in the suit
as owners of the building.
Mrs Cain, suffered back injuries
when she tripped over a milk bottle
on the rear stairs of the apartment
The light on the stairs was out, 1t
was testified.
The five persons named as the
owners and defendants are: Abra-
ham S. Kay and Mrs. Minnie Kay
both of the 1900 block of Seven
teenth street NV; George Wasser-
man, 800 block of r street NV;
Louis c. Grossberg and Mrs. Celia
K. Grossberg of the 3400 block ol
Garrison street NV. Mrs. Cain was
represented by Attorneys William r
Lichtenberg and Vance Vaughn.
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Col. William |. Richie
Wins DM for Work
In Southwest Pacific

Col. William l.. Ritchie, a, of
Washington, has been awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal for his
services as chief of the Southwest
Pacific theater operations division
and later as deputy chief of strategy
and policy operations division, the
War Department announced today.
Col. Ritchie, whose wife, Mrs.
Eleanor Ritchie lives at 212l Kalo-
rama road NV, was praised for
his work in supervising and CO.
ordinating the assembling and
equipping of all forces deployed in
that theater. He also played a
prominent role as representative of
his theater section at the first
Quebec and Cairo conferences, the
citation said.
Col. Ritchie was aide and pilot to
Secretary Woodring when the latter
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Decision Deferred i.
On Hill Homes Plan

After hearing additional offers
from prospective builders, the House
Public Buildings and Grounds Com
mittee today deferred decision as to
what legislation, If any, it should
sponsor to provide homes for men,
bers of Congress and their secre-
taries.
The committee Is considering ap-
pointment Of a subcommittee to take
a poll of members of Congress as to
where they would want the home
built, what type of housing would
suit their needs and at what price.
Among those who testified today
saying they were prepared to build
with private capital if Congress
could free the necessary materials
and labor, were Harold Won der
Fehr. representing the New York
Builders and Architects; Maj. NAL
colin M. Kilduff, U. S. A., retired, OF
Arlington, Va, and ]. B. Shapiro
Washington builder and realtor.
Chairman Lanham revealed the
committee has received a suggestion
that, when war needs subside, the
Government might take over for
congressional housing the hotel near
Union Station now operated as a
United Nations Service Center. II
was said more than 1000, 900 service
men have been housed there In q
little more than a year.
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1orpedoed Jap Ships
Increased 10 1920

Ey the Associated Press.
American submarines have pushed
their bag of Japanese ships over
the 1000 mark.
In one Of the largest hauls ever
announced In q single communique
the Navy reported yesterday that
81 enemy vessels, including three
combatant ships, had been sent to
the bottom in Far Eastern waters
The announcement boosted the
total to 1,020 ships of all types, in
cluding 107 combatant vessels and
913 noncombatants.
The cosnbatant vessels claimed In
the latest communique included q
converted light cruiser, a converted
gunboat and an escort vessel. Nom
|combatants included I'll cargo ves-
sells. 3 cargo transports, 3 tankers
and a small transport.
The lot combatant, ships claimed
by submarines to date have included
an aircraft carrier, 16 cruisers, As
destroyers, 3 tenders and q mis-
cellaneous types. The 913 non-
combatant victims of submarines
have included l02 feet tankers. l48
transports, 624 cargo and supply
vessels and 80 miscellaneous types.
In the arithmetic of war that rec
ord has been written at the COM
paratively small cost of 81 subma-
rines lost from all causes-four
sunk, 81 overdue and presumed lost
and 2 destroyers to prevent cap
ture.
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|Dr. KneedIer Receives
Word One Of 7 Sons
In Manila Is Safe

DR.. Harry Kneedler, 1928 Nine
Iteenth street NV, has received word
lof one OF his sons interned In Ma
nila, and that sons family, but still
Is awaiting word Of second son and
his family.
The two sons and their families
are Don Kneedler, 33: his wife, Mrs.
Mary Kneedler, and their children
Chris. 9. and Helen. 7, and Edgar
Kneedler, s.. and his wife and their
two children, Ann, 5, and Douglas,
18 months, who was born in intern-
ment. All were held in Santo
Tomas.
DR.. Kneedler received a telegram
from his wife, who is in California,
which said: Authentic news of
Mary in an interview. Well and will
be home SOON Speaks of husband
Don and two children The message
did not say whether the interview
was in news dispatch or q radio
broadcast.
List Still Delayed.
DR.. Kneedler is medical examiner
Of the Veterans Administration
Committee on Extra Hazards.
Meanwhile, the War Department
said there Is no direct word from
the Philippines on how soon the list
of those liberated from japanese
imprisonment will be received.
Heavy fighting in Manila is prob
ably explanation for the delay, the
War Department said.
w. A. Blossom, retired National
Park Service employe, who lives at
80 Winston drive, Bethesda, has
been awaiting word of his brother,
Dallas E. Blossom, q resident of
Manila since 1899. Mr.. Blossom was
in the sheet metal and plumbing
business and will be 10 years old
next Wednesday.
w. A. Blossom said he had re-
ceived one card from his brother,
who said he was held in Santo
Tomas and was in fair health. He
gave his weight as 1855 pounds, which
represented a loss of "a pounds.
Crofts Reported Safe.
Louis P. Croft, landscape archi-
tect formerly connected with the
National Park Service; his wife, Mrs.
Lois Croft, and their daughter
Claire, Is. who were interned in
Santo Tomas. are reported safe in
word received by the Park Service
here.
Mr.. Croft joined the Park Service
in 1888 shortly after his graduation
from Harvard and In 1910 went to
Manila at the invitation of Philip
pine President Quezon to develop a
national park system. He is re-
ported to have announced he will
stay In the Philippines to resume
his work.
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seas In June. 1943. Before going in
the Army 1t. Edick worked for Ma
tional Capital Press, Inc.
Sergt. Claude A. Bodine, 30, infan-
try, whose wife, Mrs. Nettie c.
Bodine, lives at 6l0 Mississippi
avenue, Silver Spring, Nd, has beer
wounded in action In France. Sergt
Bodine was wounded November IS
but has returned to duty, Mrs.
Bodine said.
Born near Warrenton, Va, Sergt
Bodine was graduated from high
school in Silver Spring. He worked
for his father, D. Fl. Bodine, who
runs the American Ice Co. in Silver
Spring. Later Sergt. Bodine oper-
'ated an ice cream store in Forest
Glen, Md, his wife said.
Sergt. Bodine entered the Army in
January, 1941, and has been over
seas since last October. His par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Bodine,
live at 40 Silver Spring avenue,
Silver Spring, Md. A 2-year-old
son, James Carl Bodine, Is with
his mother.
Pfc. Herman M. Meeks, %, son
of Mrs. Mittie r. Meeks, 910 Rhode
Island avenue NE, has been
wounded in action for the second
time. Pvt. Meeks, an infantryman,
was fighting in Germany when he
was wounded November 10. He was
first wounded June % at Cher
bourg. He is now in a hospital in
Texas, Mrs. Meeks said. .....
A graduate of Mckinley High
School, Pvt. Meeks was born in
Norfolk, Va, but came here when
a small child. He was member Of
the National Guard until he was
inducted in January, 1912. His
mother Is employed by the Potomac
Electric Power Co.
Pvt. Noel F. Sykes, whose brother,
Joseph P. Sykes, formerly lived at
1904 Seventeenth street NV, was
wounded In action in the European
theater of operations. According to
Pvt. Sykes former landlady, Mrs.
Nj dSO oloWh vi GltC 0CNOAlVCO1lblA
street address, Pvt. Sykes has been
in the Army about two years. He
formerly worked at the Navy Yard.
His brother, who worked for an
optical company here, is also in
the service, Mrs. Brown said.
Pvt. Russell w. Hendricks, whose
wife. Mrs. Beatrice T. Hendricks,
lives at 610 C street NE, has been
wounded in action in the European
theater of operations.
Pvt. Charles e. Stevens, 10, whose
wife, Mrs. Ozella Stevens, and par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. David Stevens,
live at Iysons Corner, Va, was
wounded in action in the European
theater of operations.
Pvt. Stevens entered the service
october 6, 1943. He is native of
Fairfax County and attended public
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Names Of 9 Crew Members
On Missing Bomber Listed
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, Feb.
15.-Names of nine airmen, the crew
Of a bomber which has been missing
from the Army Air Base here since
Friday, were announced last night
by Col. Keith Compton. station
commandant.
Billiards and deep snow have pre-
vented searching crews from reach
ing the top Of Mount Harrison, 90
miles southeast of Burley in South
ern Idaho, where the wreckage of q
large plane was spotted Saturday
It is believed to be the missing
bomber.
Grew of the missing plane IN
cluded: Second 1t. Clinton r. Made
ley, Roselle, N. j.; Second 1t. James
P. Sanders, Montgomery, Ala;
Flight Officer Frank j. Pryor, jr.,
Atlanta; Flight Officer Steuart r.
McMaster, Schenectady, N. Y;
Sergt. Don j. Mcclure, Dayton, KY;
Corpl. William G. Doyle, Bay City,
Mich; Corpl. William j. Little,
Donora, Pa; Corpl Charles H.
Tucker, Wichita, Kans., and Corpl
George M. Elicit, Green Island, N. Y.
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New Spitfire's Speed
Is $50 Miles an Hour
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 15.-Britains new
est fighter plane, the Spitf1re IA, has
a speed of about $50 miles an hour
and q tactical radius of about 300
miles, the Raj announced last
night.
The sleek plane, described as the
fastest orthodox aircraft in the
world, has an elongated nose and
rounded wing and tail tips-typical
Spitfire design. Powered by a
2,200-h horsepower Rolls Royce Grit
fon engine which drives q f1ve-
bladed propeller. the plane climbs
swiftly and its performance at alti-
tudes in excess of $4,000 feet Is
lunrivaled, the announcement said.
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was Secretary of War and was ar
aide at the White House from 1896
to 1889. Two children, Louise Ludlow
Ritchie, 2, and William Ludlow
Ritchie, months, live at the Kalo-
rama address. Mrs Ritchie is the
former Eleanor Preston of Wash
ington. Her father, Ord Preston, is
president of the Union Trust Co
Col. Ritchie now is in Moscow.
Rear Admiral Frank Edmund
Beatty, jr., has been awarded the
Navy Cross by President Roosevelt
for his heroism as commanding
officer of the U. S. S. Columbia in
the Solomon Islands area, the Navy
has announced.
Admiral Beatty was a captain al
the time of the action for which he
was cited, which occurred October
30 to November 2, l943.
Against japanese task force
of superior fire power, he fought
his ship with superb skill in VIC
torious engagement which resulted
in the sinking of five enemy war
ships and the damaging of four.
Later, when 67 hostile bombers
launched a deadly attack against
his force, Rear Admiral Beatty di-
rected the antiaircraft fire of the
Columbia in vigorous barrage
which assisted in shooting down II
Japanese planes, the citation said.
Admiral Beatty's permanent ad-
dress is Coronado, Calf.
Col. william A. Call, 80, whose
wife, Mrs. Frances Call, lives at
7713 Takoma avenue, Takoma Park,
Md, has been presented the Legion
of Merit, the War Department an
nounced today.
Col. Call was decorated for his
services as director of training of
the Ordnance Replacement Train
ing Center, Aberdeen Proving
Ground, where he formulated and
administered highly successful
training program despite the lack
of equipment, inadequate facilities
and extreme shortage of trained
cadre personnel, the citation said.
Col. Call was stationed here for
two years before he went over
seas last December, his wife said.
He is now in Italy. Two children,
a boy, S, and a girl, 4, live at the
Takoma address.
Col. Creswen Co. Blakeney, 46
whose wife, Mrs Marjorie Blakeney
lives at 6401 Delaware street, Chevy
Chase, Md, has been awarded the
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War Department has Informed their
parents.
They are Corpl. Warren F.
Slaughter, IS. and Corpl. Thomas
H. Slaughter, n.
The brothers had joined the Army
together four years ago and had
gone overseas together about three
months ago in the same infantry
outfit. Corpl. Thomas Slaughter
was wounded December 2. and his
brother was wounded the next day
Mrs. Slaughter said they are In
different hospitals.
They were born in Rappahanock
County, Va, and both attended the
Abbott Vocational School here.
Corpl. Thomas Slaughter worked
for the International Business Ma
chimes Corp. and Corpl.- Warren
Slaughter was employed by the Mo-
tor Sales Co., Inc. before they en-
tered the service Their father is
employed by the Capital Transit Co.
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4Coi0CtiCS 10 db
5316 Gallatin street. Rogers Heights,
Md. The boy was born in WASH
ington and was graduated from
Bladensburg High School in June,
1943. He entered the service Octo-
Der 27, 1943. He was trained at
Bainbridge, Md, was home Deem
ber %, 1943 on leave and was as
signed to sea duty from San Diego,
Calf, short time later.
Walter B. Blount, 48, his fathers
brother, was civilian employe Of
the Navy at Cavite In the Philip
pines when the Japs made their first
attack there in December, ls4I. He
was killed.
His first cousin, 1t. William 8.
Blount, "A, Army Air Forces, has
been prisoner of war in Germany
since he was shot down in May,
1943, while on a mission over Ger
many.
His mothers brother, Corpl. viii
son David Reeves, "a, who landed
in France two days after D day with
an artillery unit, was wounded re-
Gently.
While attending high school Sea-
man Blount was part-time en-
ploye in the circulation department
of The Star.
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Legion Il Merit, the War Depart
ment made known today.
Col. Blakeney was decorated for
his development of many of the
basic operating policies for furnish
ing supplies to- troops in the United
States and overseas from February
81, 1912, to December n, 1914, on
the War Departments general
staff.
Col Blakeney is now in Italy. A
daughter, Phyllis Ann, Is, attends
Friends School. Garry, jr., ID, at
tends st. Adams
Col. Karl r. Lundeberg, As, Med
ical Corps, whose wife, Mrs. Ruth
Lundeberg, lives at 1907 Holly street
NV, has been awarded the Legion
of Merit for his service from Janu-
ary, 1941, to November, 1914, in in
ttiating and supervising the de-
velopment of new methods for the
improved control of communicable
diseases in the Army" the War De.
partment said today.
Col Lundeberg was stationed from
1880 to 1884 at Walter Reed Hos
pital From 1910 to October
1914, when he went overseas, he was
in the Surgeon Generals Office here
He is now stationed in India.
A daughter, Mary, II, attends
Coolidge High School here and a
son, Paul, ii, attends Shepherd
School.
Staff Sergt. Elmer T. Cardwell
IS. infantry, whose stepfather, w. H
Brawner, and stepsister, Katherine
live at 221 East Windsor avenue
Alexandria, Va, has been awarded
the Silver Star for his action Feb
ruary AZ, 1914, in Italy, when he was
a member of platoon assigned the
mission of clearing group OF
houses, the War Department an
nounced today.
Sergt. Cardwen was born in Alex
andria and attended school there
He worked for a garage here before
he was inducted more than two years
ago.
Col. Carleton Smith, son of L. M
Smith, District commercial man
Rger of the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co., has been awarded the
Legion of Merit for his service il
the 1914 Burma campaign. Tit
citation reads: For outstanding
services as chief liaison officer witt
the 22d Division. Chinese Army II
India, from December 2, 1912, tx
September Is, 1914. and as chic,
haison officer with the 9Th Arm,
from July is, 1914, to October
1874"
Col. Smith played football a
Western High School and was all
High tackle In 1912. He servet
in England, saw action in France
during the World War and wa,
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High Nazis Divided
On Defense Of Berlin
BY PAUL GHALI,

by PAUL GHALI,
War Correspondent for The Star ans
The Chicago Daily News.
BERN, Feb. 15.-The gloomy out.
look of the German capital appar.
emily is not being lightened any
these days by its leaders.
Latest reports to the Basler Ma.
tional zeitung reveal that DR.. Jo-
Iseph Goebbels has just been named
civil commander of Berlin, Gen
Nolig, its military commander and
Armaments and War Production
Minister Albert Speer, its director
Of Notifications. 2 a ts
These three big-wigs are known
to have entirely different ideas
about defending the capital. Goeb-
bels places much reliance on civil
ian aid and therefore wishes to have
the man-in-the-street handled
gently. Nolig considers that the
military should have free hand
And Speer. although a party man
and therefore unable to openly re-
fute Goebbels' ideas, is convinced
that indulgence toward the people
will run counter to military inter-
estS.
Copyright. 1945, Chicago Daily News,
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Mother Gets Letter From Son
Once Reported as MISSING
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, Feb. 15.-
A st. Marys County mother, whose
son had been reported missing in ac-
ton last year in the European war
theater, has received a letter from
him, mailed from a German prison
camp.
Mrs. Bessie L. Stone, Woodland
Acres, revealed today that she had
received letter from her son, 1t.
John II. Stone, saying he is a Ger
man prisoner of war.
1t. Stones ancestors formerly
lived at Harbor De Venture, and his
neutrality-suspicious. was one of
the Maryland signers of the Dec
laration Of Independence.
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Sporkmon Proposes Raise
OF 5 Pct. in Overseas Puy
By the Associated Press

Ds tnc ASsoCldteu FIeSS.
Representative Sparkman. Dem
ocrat, of Alabama proposed today
that members of the armed forces
be granted a per cent increase in
pay for each year after their first
year of overseas service.
The increase would be in addition
to the fiat 10 per cent salary in
crease now awarded servicemen for
overseas duty.
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Bay on Christ
mas Day and
was probably q
member of the
crew of the ILL
fated aircraft
carrier when 1t
W as destroyed
by enemy bombs,
according to his
father. The boy
wrote his par
entS q letter on
Christmas Da~
and 1t was re-
ceiyed January 8.
The Blount
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Woodward Is Commended

Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward,
U. S. NJ, retired, has been awarded
a letter Of commendation by the
Navy for his services as director of
the Navy exhibition in Chicago In
connection with the Sixth War Loan
drive" Admiral Woodward lives at
5000 Cathedral avenue NV.
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In the Army Of Occupation and
Germany after the ArInistice in
1918. Col. Smith has been in the
Regular Army since serving his last
duty In Washington from 1888 to
1887, where he commanded head
quarters company. He Is now sta
TONED at Fort Meade, Md.
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Purty for Servicemen

Service men and women are In
vited to party to be given by the
Ladies Auxiliary of the Marine
Corps League Of the Nations Capt.
tai at 8 pm. Saturday at the Gold
Chevron Club, 1919 K street NV.
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Wounded

Second 1t William r. O'Donneil
jr., %, recently awarded the Silver
Star for gallantry, was wounded In
action in Belgium February /, his
parents, DR.. and Mrs. w. F. O'Don-
nell, 2701 Twenty eighth street NV.
have been notified.
1t. O'Donnell was graduated from
GonzagaA High School and George
town University. He was commits
stoned in May, 1943, and went over
seas four months ago. He is q
member of the 9th Golden Acorn
Infantry Division. His brothers
Lane and Robert, are in the Army
Medical Corps at Georgetown. DR.
IODonnell, pediatrician, veteran of
the World War, serves on the staffs
of several hospitals here.
First 1t. Thomas p. Woodward, 26,
paratrooper in an air-borne division,
whose wife, Mrs. Mary woodward,
lives at 1874 Webster street NV,
was wounded for the second time
January IL while fighting in Bel
gium. 1t. Woodward was first
wounded June Is In France. He is
now in a hospital in Paris, his wife
said.
1t. Woodward was born in Flush
ing, Long Island, and was gradu-
ated from La Sale Military Acad-
emy in New York State and from
the George Washington premedical
school here. He entered the Army
in September, 1941, after his grad
uation and was commissioned Oc-
tober, 1912, at Fort Benning, Ga.
He went overseas in December, 1943
Son OF the late Brig. Gen. j. E
Woodward, 1t. Woodward's mother
Mrs. j. E. Woodward, lives at 2112
Bancroft place NV. 1t. Woodward
has a 10-month-old son, Michael
Thomas woodward, whom he has
never seen.
Corpl. Warren F. Slaughter, Is
and C0rpl. Thomas ii. Slaughter
27, sons of Mr.. and Mrs. P. r.
Slaughter, Is Fifth street NE, both
were wounded. An account will be
found elsewhere on this page.
Sergt. Edward Stephens McCar-
thy, 10, infantry, son of Circuit
Judge and Mrs. Walter Mccarthy
$500 North Albemarle street, Ar
lington. was wounded in action No
vember % in France. He was in
a hospital for five or six weeks suf-
fering a wound in the left arm, but
has returned to duty, his mother
said.
Born in the District. Sergt. Nc
Carthy has lived in Arlington all
his life. He was graduated from
Washington and Lee High School
and attended the University OF
Pennsylvania. He entered the Army
in July, 1943, and went overseas
last August.
Pfc. Ernest Charles Stanley, "A
was wounded recently in the Philip.
pines, he has written his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Emnet A. Stanley
312 c street Sc. Pvt. Stanley wa!
previously wounded last July IL
Dutch New Guinea.
A native of Washington, Pvt
Stanley attended Hine Junior High
School. He was employed at tn,
MacShear's Blueprint Co. prior t,
entering the service in September
1943. Pvt. Stanley was home OF
furlough December Z, 1941, and has
to leave for his camp as soon as tn,
attack on Pearl Harbor was re.