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Evening star., 1945-03-17

Richard Bryant, have been in
formed.
Sergt. Bryant was born and edu-
Gated at Callao, Va. He came to
Washington in 1886 and was en-
ployed by the Terminal Refriger-
atlng & Warehousing Corp, Fourth
and D streets NV. He was work.
ing for that concern at the time he
entered the service in June, 194l.
He took his basic training at Camp
Wheeler, Ga, and Fort Leonard
Wood, Mo-, before going to the
Pacific in July, 1943. His sister,
Mrs. Pearl Headley of the above
address, said in a letter the family
received last week Sergt. Bryant
had stated he was near his brother
Sergt Robert M. Bryant. %, on
Luzon when he came out of the
hospital.
Another brother, Corpl. Arthur
Bryant, u S. A, was killed in &C
ton in Sicily in July. 1943.
Pfc. Thomas b. Hagood. %. was
wounded in action January 27 on
Luzon, his mother, Mrs. Pauline
Gilman, 8l6 E street NE, has been
notified.
Pvt. Hagood had served with the
Army in the Panama Canal Zone
for two and half years before 60
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Mrs. Eisenhower Pledges
Aid 10 Tin SALVAGE Drive

The personal pledge of Mrs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower to save tin
for the war effort was feature of
the program at ceremony today to
stimulate the tin salvage campaign.
The program was held at the Girl
Scout Little House, 175o New York
avenue NV.
Mrs. Eisenhower pledge was OBJ
tanned by Beverly Butcher, IL, Girl
Scout of Troop 145, daughter of
Capt. Harry C. Butcher, former radio
executive here. Capt Butcher now
is naval aide to Gen. Eisenhower.
The pledge, along with nine others
obtained by Beverly, will be for
warded to Gen. Eisenhower, a per-
sonal friend of the Girl Scout. Capt.
Butcher, whose family resides at
Wardman Park Hotel, was formerly
head of radio Station WTOP here,
and vice president of the Columbia
Broadcasting System.
The pledges obtained by several
other Girl Scouts were announced
at the ceremony and War Produc-
ton Board recognition certificates
for their efforts were presented by
Charles A. Appleby, vice chairman of
the District Salvage Committee with
Scout officials and dignitaries at
tending.
Mrs. H. A. Mariner is chairman of
the committee in charge of the Girl
Scouts tin salvage campaign.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Major Saved on Luzon
Telephones Wife Here

Maj. Royal Reynolds, ir.. "a, who
hid from the Japs for three years
in the Luzon jungles, arrived in San
Francisco yesterday on a ship carry
ing 800 others rescued after the
landings in Lingayen Gulf.
Two other WashingtQnians also
arrived on the same ship. the AS
sociated Press reported from San
Francisco. They are Sergt. William
w. Adam, 1400 Kearney street NE,
and Capt. John L. Lucas, 1924 A
street Sc.
Maj. Reynolds Immediately tele-
phoned his wife, who lives with her
4year-old daughter, at 4457 Green
wich parkway NV.
II was waiting for a call" Mrs.
Reynolds said today. THE War De-
partment had notified me he was on
his way. He told me he was feeling
fit, but that he would have to 60 to
Letterman General Hospital for a
checkup.
I'm used to waiting. After four
years, few days won't make much
difference"
In May. 1941, Mrs Reynolds with
her 6-week-old baby in her arms
said good-by to her husband at the
gangplank of a ship bringing wives
of American soldiers home. He was
commander of a battalion Of the
57th Philippine Scout Regiment. He
avoided capture at Bataan by hiding
out.
Maj. Reynolds father, Brig. Gen.
Royal Reynolds of the Medical
Corps. is on active duty at the Ken
nedy General Hospital at Memphis,
Tenn. The major was born in San
Francisco and went to West Point.
His wife is from st. Paul.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
FHA Starts Distributing
Dividends 10 $4,000

Dividend checks ranging from SO
to $198 are going out from the
Federal Housing Administration to
10000 home buyers who paid off
their FHA-insured mortgages in full
in 1914.
The dividends are paid out from
credit balances which developed in
group accounts.
FILA officials said it is likely
larger dividends will be distributed
annually hereafter. The longer, the
insurance remains in force, the
larger the dividend. Mortgages are
grouped according to risk and ma
turtles. Charges are made within
each group to cover insurance costs
and to set up reserves. The ex-
cess of earnings over expenses and
losses in each group determines
the amount available for dividend
payments.
The total amount being currently
distributed to mortgagors who paid
in full in 1914 is S244.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Security Voting Plan
Protects u. 5. Also,
BarkIey Points Out
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Mar. 17.-Senate
Maj ajority Leader Barkley declared to-
day the Yalta agreement on voting
procedure for the proposed World
Security League 'is as much pro-
lection to the United States as 1t
is to any other nation"
Addressing the Foreign Policy
Association, he asserted Americans
should not permit "any shades of
difference over voting procedures
in the international organization
to appall us with fear"
He alluded to the agreement
among President Roosevelt, Prime
Minister Churchill and Premier
Stain to give each of the five great
United Nations powers a veto on
the use of force in preventing ag-
gression.
Assails Fears on Voting.
"One of the arguments against the
last effort of mankind to organize
for peace, and one of the arguments
against our entering into that effort,
was the claim that we would be out
voted by other nations where our
interests were vitality involved"
Senator Barkley said.
Certainly the agreement as to
voting procedure which was reached
at Yalta is as much a protection to
the United States as it Is to any
other nation, and it certainly dissa-
pates the argument or the claim
that our Nation would be subject to
the will of other nations without
the power of veto where our vital
interests of military or economic
standpoint will be involved
Asserting that in the last three
years the United States had author
lied expenditure of approximately
$500 ,000, 900 900 to carry on the war,
Senator Barkley said, This sum
would be sufficient to maintain our
share of the expenditure involved in
the maintenance of a world organi-
zation for peace for a thousand
years"
Must Take peace Risks"
John Foster Dulles, foreign af-
fairs adviser to Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey in the presidential campaign,
in another address at the luncheon,
said that delegates to the San Fran
cisco Security Conference must
take risks for peace, just as Allied
soldiers have taken for victory"
Mr.. Dulles said 'it is the great
tragedy of victory that the victors
seek a riskless peace. Peace can
not be had on those terms. Peace
will not be won except by those who
dare. That applies before victory
Equally it applies after victory"
He declared victors must trust
others to the extent of permitting
change without the unanimous con-
sent of any named group" and must
take a chance ION the fairness and
decency of the group as a whole"
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Yanks Enter SaIvaro,
But Later Withdraw
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, Mar. 17.-Troops Of the
United States 1st Armored Division
yesterday broke into the village Of
Salvaro near the Bologna -Pistoia
highway behind the German-held
road-crossing town of Vergato, but
later were forced to withdraw, Allied
headquarters announced today.
The Germans have clung stub
bornly to Vergato for months. It
controls the southwest approaches
to Bologna. Allied capture of Sal
varo would virtually isolate the vel :
cato garrison.
The Americans entered the town
after driving from Sierra, captured
the day before. For a time they
controlled a number of buildings in
the town. They withdrew after
suffering . number Of casualties.
Evening star., 1945-03-17

ing overseas a second time, eight
months ago. He was returned to
this country with malaria and later
was sent to the Pacific A native of
Charlottesville, Va, he attended
Fork Union Military Academy and
Eastern High School here Pvt. Ha-
good entered the service five years
ago.
Pvt. Klon o. Row. %, infantry,
was wounded in action in Germany
February 2. His wife lives at 642O
Luzon avenue NV.
Pvt. Row attended school in West
Virginia and worked at Melvern
Dairy before entering the Army in
April, 1914. He went overseas in
September, 1914. He is now re-
cuperating in hospital in England.
He has two daughters who live with
their mother at the Luzon avenue
address.
Pfc. John G. De Vakos, 80, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. George De Vakos,
813 F street NE, was wounded in
action January 27 in Luxembourg
He was seriously wounded in the left
leg.
A cab driver before entering the
Army about 18 months ago, Pfc. De
Vakos has been overseas for about a
year. A brother, Pvt. Victor G. De
Vakos. d, lost his life last year
aboard a troopship sunk in the
Mediterranean.
Sergt. Howard EwelI, "a, whose
wife, Mrs. Viola R. Ewell, lives at
643 Irving street NV, was wounded
in action in Italy February S, ac-
cording to a War Department an
nouncement. He suffered a brain
conclusion.
Sergt. Ewell was student at
Howard University before entering
the Army in March, 1943. He has
been overseas since September. A
brother, Corpl. William Ewell, is
stationed in France.
Pfc. Thomas C. Smith, jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas c. Smith, 73
S street NV, was wounded in
action in Italy during February, his
parents have been notified.
Pvt. Smiths mother said she had
a letter from her son, written by a
buddy, saying that an arm wound
was healing nicely.
A native of Washington, Pvt
Smith attended Commercial High
School in New York City and before
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Day Attacks on Reich
Resumed After Raids
On Berlin, Nuremberg
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Mar. IA fleet of
Allied bombers which stretched
out $50 miles flew from England
today in a resumption of day.
light hammering of the Reich.
Nearly 1000 British warplanes at
tackled Nuremberg and Wuerzburg as
the chief targets in Germany last
night and Raj Mosquitoes raided
Berlin for the 25th consecutive
night. The Air Ministry declared
the purpose of the raids was ito
destroy what remains of the Ger
man war industry"
Thirty RAF bombers were lost in
last nights operations, with the
fiercest opposition coming from Ger
man night fighters at Nuremberg.
Nine Nazi planes were shot down.
Moonlight Aids Bombers.
Both Nuremberg and Wuerzburg
were bombed by moonlight. Smoke
soon blurred the targets, but the
glow of fires could be seen for miles.
Nuremberg, Nazi meeting place in
Southern Germany. has one of the
largest railroad yards in the Reich.
with trunk lines running to all war
fronts. Some of its armament
plants and tank factories are still
producing on a reduced scale.
Wuerzburg, Bavarlan industrial
city 55 miles northwest of Nuern-
berg. has a large number of
engineering and textile plants.
Yesterday was the first time in
30 days that Germany proper
escaped without a daylight raid by
heavy bomberS from Britain, but
American heavy bombers from Italy
maintained assaults on enemy fuel
redneries in the Vienna area.
Railroads Attacked.
Weather curtailed air activity at
forward bases. However, United
States 9th Air Force Marauders got
in several attacks at railroads, forti-
fled positions and ordnance depots
behind the Nazi lines. Principal
targets were in the Mannheim and
Kaiserslautern areas.
Eight German fighters were
knocked down by American pilots
over the front yesterday and seven
others we're destroyed on the ground
Eleven American fighters were miss
ing.
Thirteen Italy-based planes, in
Guiding six heavy bombers, were
missing from yesterdays operations,
which damaged severely three of
four intact refneries in the Vienna
area,
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Mission for Baruch
Planned by President

President Roosevelt is hopeful that
Bernard M. Baruch will undertake
for him mission of undisclosed
nature in London.
This statement was made at the
White House late yesterday in re-
sponse to queries about published
reports that Mr.. Baruch was to 70
to Russia.
He will not go to Russia, officials
said.
According to the White House,
there will be many problems COM
ing up in London which will re-
quire the attention of many presi-
dental advisers, and it is here that
it is hoped Mr.. Baruch will fit in
He is now in New York,
Mr.. Baruch has been an occasional
visitor at the White House in re-
cent months following the compile
ton OF the reconversion report on
which he worked with John Han
cock, New York banker.
At the time this report was fin
Iished. War Mobilizer Byrnes told
newsmen that Mr.. Baruch had said
his services with the Government
were ended, but Mr.. Byrnes said
they were not.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
679 Sentenced 10 Death
By French Purge Courts

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Mar. 17.-France's purge
courts have handed down 679 death
sentences, officials announced yes
terday as a court condemned to
death Jacques SchweitZer, close as
sociate of Otto Abetz, for collabo-
ration with the Germans.
Abetz was expelled from France
in 1889 on suspicion of being an
espionage agent and was sent back
by Hitler during the occupation as
Germany's chief diplomat in Paris.
Schweitzer established youth
group on Nazi lines in Paris.
Drieu la Rochelle, 60, well-known
writer who faced trial as a collab-
orationist, was found dead in his
home yesterday with the gas turned
on. A verdict of suicide was given.
La Rochelle was former editor Of
the literary magazine Nouvelle Re-
vue Francaise.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Nozis' Donish Leader
Reported as Deserter
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Mar. II. The
Free Danish Press Service said to-
day SIS District Chief K. B. Mar
tinsen, commander of the Nazis' So
called Danish Free Corps at the
eastern front, and his adjutant had
fed from the front and now were
living underground on the Danish
island of Fyn.
Martinsen attempted to make
contact yesterday with the Danish
Freedom Council and offered to pro-
vide secret Information If the un-
derground would assist his escape,
but the council refused, the agency
said.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Two
Continued From First Page.)

the 24-day conquest of Saipan In
the Marianas.
The United States Marines by
their individual and collective cour-
age have conquered base which is
as necessary to us in our continuing
forward movement toward final vic
tory as it was vital to the enemy
in staving off ultimate defeat, Ad-
mlral NimitZ said.
The enemy was fully aware of
the crushing attacks on his home
land which would be made possible
by our capture of this island only
$50 nautical miles (759 land miles,
distant, so he prepared what he
thought was an impregnable de-
Tense.
With certain knowledge of the
cost of an objective which had to
be taken, the fleet Marine force sup
ported by the ships of the Pacific
Fleet and by Army and Navy air.
craft fought the battle and won.''
Comparison of Casualties.
The Marine casualties on Two
compared with the following losses
in other Pacific invasions:
Tarawa, Gilbert Islands - 9I3
killed, 2,037 wounded; total, 1850.
Marshall Islands-566 killed, 1853
wounded; total, 2,249.
Saipan, Marlanas Islands,, 100
killed. 326 missing, 1909 wounded.
total, 16.525.
Tinian, Marianas-290 killed, "a
missing, Isis wounded; total. 1929.
Guam, Marianas-1 .289 killed, 148
missing, 5,648 wounded; 7,085.
Palaus, Carolines-1, ,022 killed,
280 missing, 6,115 wounded; total,
7,4l7.
Ratio of II to l.
Total casualties in the Central
Pacific campaign, prior to the in
vasion of Two, were 7,180 killed, 778
missing, 30,097 wounded: total SO 055.
Navy, Marine and Coast Guard
casualties in the Pacific since Pearl
Harbor, up to pm. March Is, to-
tailed 9l.242, Admiral Nimitz an
nounced.
The toll of 81, ,223 Japanese dead
in the Central Pacific includes
mopping up as well as those killed
in battle.
Prior to the Two invasion, the ra-
tio of japanese dead to American
stood at about II to /.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Keorns Denies Gui|t;;
Free on S., 900 Bond
BY the Associated Press.

os lile AkSoClaLec PreSS.
CHICAGO, Mar. 17.-Jack Kearns,
81, former manager of Jack Demp-
sey, who was indicted in New York
on rs counts charging violation of
the Securities and Exchange Act,
conspiracy and mail fraud, yester-
day was released on 5000 cash
bond. Harry "Packy" Lennon, A, a
prize fighter who was indicted with
Kearns, remained in custody in lieu
of $500 bond.
Kearns and Lennon pleaded inno-
cent at a hearing before United
States Commissioner Edwin K.
Walker, who set hearing for March
27 on fugitive warrants seeking their
removal to New York.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Philippines
Continued From First Page

explosives on the Ansan naval base
at Formosa and on adjacent islands.
Some planes from Gen. McArthur's
Southwest Pacific theater ranged up
to Okinawa, midway between For
mosa and Japan.
Gen. Wings 43d Division has de-
stroyed the entire south flank of
the Shimbu Line around Antipolo.
Other elements by-passed Teresa,
which is on highway between Anti
polo and Laguna de Bay, then swung
back to the highway at Maybancal.
Combined with the seizure of a road
network around Teresa, the action
cut japanese escape routes toward
Southern Luzon.
Water Jump Needed.
In the amphibious operation, ele-
ments of Brig. Gen. Hanford Mac
Nider's l58th Regimental Combat
Team made a water jump from Le-
merry on Balayan Bay to land 9 miles
south at Dagatan on the west coast
of Calumpan Peninsula. This ac-
ton. a little more than so miles
south of Manila, extends American
domination over Verde Passage,
along the main sea supply route
through the Philippines.
Today's communique reported an
advance of 2 miles north of San
Ramon in the zamboanga area of
Mindanao by elements of the 41st
Division, which invaded that South
ern Philippines island a week ago.
The Yanks now hold 80 miles of the
zamboanga coast.
The Japanese on Mindanao are
shelling the invaders with artillery
based on 1,000-foot hills. They also
are slowing the advance with cleo
trically controlled mines, some
buried in barrels of TINT.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Sons Story. of Killing
Mother Is Discounted
ky the Associated Press.


ST. LOUIS, Mar. 17-Dr. John
j. Connor, coroner's physician, said
last plight an autopsy disclosed that
Mrs. Frances Hammann, 75-year-
old invalid, died of a combination
of three chronic ailments and not
suffocation.
Mrs. Hammann was found dead
yesterday in her home and her son,
Clarence, so, was quoted by police
as saying he smothered her with a
bed pillow to release her from
suffering.
The coroner's physician attributed
death to a blood clot in the lung. a
heart condition and a brain all
ment.
Clarence Hammann recently was
released from veterans hospital
at Jefferson (Mo) Barracks, where
he had been a patient since May.
police were told. He was disabled
in the World War.
Hammann was held for investi-
cation. No charges have been filed.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Man, 81, Badly Injured
By Hit-Run Driver al Laurel

A 51-year-old man, identified by
Maryland State police as Henry Paul
Luehrs, was critically injured this
morning when he was struck by a
hit-run driver on the Baltimore
boulevard near Laurel.
He was taken to st. Agnes Hos
pital, Baltimore, suffering from a
fractured skull and fracture of the
right leg. His address has not yet
been established.
Police said there were no wit
nesses to the accident. They added
that glass on the road indicated
that a headlight on the striking
vehicle had been smashed by the
impact.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Reconversion Plans
We'll Under Way,
|WPB Chief Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WPB Chairman j. A. Krug dragged
the forbidden word 'reconversion"
out of limbo yesterday, asserting the
Government is working out much
better plans" than it had last sum-
mer.
The production chief, who has
aplded for months by the White
House ban on reconversion talk, told
a news conference that reports that
the Government is not making
peacetime plans are very demoral-
lzlng to management and labor"
Raises Issue Himself.
Mr.. Krug raised the reconyersion
issue himself, apparently in response
to pressure from business for some
inkling as to WPB's preparations
for dropping controls and permit
ting greater civilian goods produc-
ton after Germany collapses.
To the surprise of reporters, Mr..
krug proved willing to discuss the
possibility of having one motor COM
pany build nameless automobile
II the japanese war lasts long
enough, though he said such plan
is not being considered now. Mr..
krug said the idea might prove de-
slrable" if civilian needs become ex-
tremely pressing before it is possible
to release the whole industry.
AS for We day itself, Mr.. Krug
revealed the White House is now
trying to decide whether to ask
workers to stay in their plants for
victory festivities.
Some feel we ought to try to keep
them in the plants he smiled, land
others feel that the celebrations in
the plants would break I'D more
material than they would produce"
| The WPB chairman said he could
promise that reconversion pro-
cedures will meet the problems of
We day.
Booked Up to Hit.
1--WE will drop our controls at the
earliest possible date consistent with
securing the all-out war effort
against Japan"
The automobile industry, however,
need not expect to get peacetime
tools until they can be built without
interfering with the ammunition,
rubber, jet-propelled aircraft and
other programs. he warned. The
machine tool industry is booked up
to the hilt' with war orders, he
added.
But that doesn't mean we are
not digesting the automobile manu-
facturers' needs so that, when we
can schedule them, we will be ready
to put their machine tools into pro-
| duction."
Evening star., 1945-03-17

other telegram informing her that
her husband had been killed in ac-
ton in Germany on February ~.
A native of Newport News, Va,
Pvt. Miller moved to nearby Mary
land as child and attended Sur
rattsville High School in Prince
Georges County. He was employed
by Potts g. Callahan, contractors,
when he entered the service.
Besides his widow, he is survived
by a 5-year-old son, Robert, jr.; his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Miller,
who also live at the Bradbury
Heights address, and a brother, Pvt.
John G. Miller, stationed in Eng
land. Pvt. Robert Miller's father is
engaged In construction work.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Navy Court Begins Probe
OF Sinking Of Sub al Pier
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Mar. ia naval court
OF inquiry began an investigation
today of circumstances leading to
the sinking of a recently-built sub
marine at a Boston Navy Yard pier
Thursday night.
The investigating board, named
yesterday by Rear Admiral Felix
Gygax, commandant of the 1st
Naval District and the yard, was
headed by Capt. R. c. Grady of the
Boston Receiving Station.
The submarine settled on an even
keel in As feet of water when a work.
man accidentally opened a torpedo
tube. naval officials reported. The
court was appointed to investigate
circumstances of the sinking.
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Bradbury Heights Man Killed
Is Months After ENTERING Army

Checking report that Pvt.
Robert l.. Miller, Is, was listed as
missing in action, a reporter for
The Star today called Mrs. Virginia
Miller. 1923 Howe avenue. Bradbury
Heights, Md, to obtain more details
about her husband.
Mrs. Miller confirmed the report
that he was missing. Pvt. Miller en-
tered the service only six months
ago, she said, and was sent overseas
two months ago. He had been
fighting with the 102d Infantry Di-
vision.
Less than an hour after today's
call, Mrs. Miller telephoned The
Star. She had Just received an
Evening star., 1945-03-17
Wounded

Pvt. Charles Bourb0nnais, 25,
whose wife, Mrs. Josephine M. Bour-
bonnais, lives at 200 Rhode Island
avenue NE, was wounded in action
February in Germany.
A native of Paris, France, Pvt.
Bourbonnais came to this country
while youth and attended St.
Paul's Academy here. He was en-
ployed as clerk in a motor con-
cern here before entering the Army
last July. He has been overseas
since December.
Staff Sergt. James P. Bryant, 81
of 1901 Savannah street Sc, was
wounded in action January q on
Luzon, his parents, Mr.. and Mrs