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Evening star., 1943-09-09
silent except for family messages

silent except for family messages
to prisoners of war.
To overcome distractions caused
by demolitions along the northern
costal road of the toe, Gen. Mont
gomery placed infantry and com
mando units of the 9th ARMY or
boats and with the support of the
British Navy landed them in the
Pizzo-Vibo Valentia area on the
Gulf of Eufemia under German
shellfire.
| The communique said the landing
was made after slight opposition
and that some German prisoners
were taken.
Pushing ahead to link up with this
seaborne force the 9th Army cap
tured Ardore. Cittanova, Oppido
Radicena, Santo Marino and Vara-
podio in the advance which took it
up to the Gioia-Locri line.
With the surrender of Italy. the
entire German position in the
Balkans was thrown into confusion
and advices reaching London said
Hitler's whole ramshackle political
structure in Southeast Europe
seemed in danger of falling to pieces
Horthy Cars Meeting.
In Hungary, Regent Admiral
Nicholas Horthy summoned his chiefs
OF staffS and promised a most i'm
portant declaration" later TODAY
Rumania and Hungary were both
shaky, torn between Nazi pressure
1 and a desire to get on the@winning
side of the Allies.
London military commentators
agreed that the Allies next step
probably would be a drive into the
Balkans, across the narrow Adriatic
Sea from Southern Italy into Axis
occupied Greece, Albania or Yugo-
slavia
Thirty Italian divisions were ex-
peeted to be withdrawn from the
Balkans, sharply weakening Ger
man garrisons there and compelling
Hitler either to send in stream
OF relnforcements which he can ill
aHord or give up the southeast
f1ank OF his so-called European
fortress.
In the attack on Frascati. which
was first announced yesterday by the
Italian radio. an Allied communioue
said there was strong opposition by
enemy fighters and % were de-
stroyed
Medium bombers attacked bridges
and roads at Trebisacce. LAURA and
Sapri yesterday. All are in South
ernmost Italy.
Night bombers continued their at
tacks on German communications
on the mainland, hitting Benevento.
Metaponto. Potenza, Battipaglia
Eboli and Foria
In the day and night air opera
| tlons, 80 enemy aircraft were report
ed destroyed against an Allied loss
of six.
London morning newspapers to-
day quoted an Algiers radio report
that Gen Eisenhower flew to the
Italian mainland Sunday and met
Premier Badoglio for final discus
sions on Italy's surrender.
Evening star., 1943-09-09

1941. Malinovsky was cited by
Stain for his defeat of German
Gen. Won Mannsteins efforts to re-
lieve the German 9Th Army during
the battle of Stalingrad.
Stalino fell after fierce street
fighting, the Soviet war bulletin
said, although the Nazis had an
nounced earlier that they had aban-
doned the city and destroyed its
installations. Soviet forces reported
the capture of large stores of am
munition and other important war
material.
North of Stalino, Russian clean
up columns routed the Germans
from Krasnoarmeisokoye with such
speed that they found 10 German
Warplanes intact on the towns air.
port. Several fully loaded troop
supply trains also were found
abandoned.
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Russia.
Continued From First Page.

the Dnieper at some points, but
the Germans were exposed to q
greater immediate danger in the
region to the south of Stalino
Here their entire southern flank
was now exposed to the terrific
pressure of the Russian armored
offensive, from Mariupol on the
Sea of Azov westward to the 18th
mus of Perekop and the gateway
to the Crimea.
The entire 600-mile front stretch
ing as far north as Smolensk was
ablaze as the mighty Russian war
machine plunged ahead to rid Rus
sian soil of the invaders before the
heavy autumnal rains-already be-
ginning-make mobile warfare i'm
possible.
200 Towns Taken.
Red divisions, slashing west of
captured Konotop in the north,
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can Judge, constitutes a betrayal OF
my country"
Col. Arthur " McDermott, New
York City selective service director,
said yesterday that Local Board II
would refer the case to the United
States attorneys Office Mr. Lowell,
Col McDermott said, failed to re-
| port for induction
Col. McDermott's Office reported
Mr. Lowell's home was listed as
Manchester -by-the-Sea Mass, and
said he originally registered with
Local Board in Baton Rouge. La
| Assistant United States Attorney K.
Bertram Friedman said he received a
Evening star., 1943-09-09
Lowell Scion Writes President
He Can't Accept Army Duty

With greatest reluctance" he
said in the declaration, with every
wish that 1 may be proved in error,
and after long deliberation on my
responsibilities to myself. my coun-
try and my ancestors who played
responsible parts in its making.
have come to the conclusion that 1
cannot honorably participate in a
war whose prosecution, as far as 1
Evening star., 1943-09-09

letter from Mr.. Lowell written from
New York and dated September S,
l943 In the letter Mr.. Lowell said
he would not appear for induction.
Mr.. Friedman said he wrote Mr.,
Lowell asked him to come to his
office and discuss the matter and
would take no action against him
pending further notification from
selective service headquarters.
Evening star., 1943-09-09

war Is likely to be as helpless as 4
kiwi. Save yours--Buy War bonds
regularly plus a 500 extra invasion
bond in September.
Evening star., 1943-09-09

KIWI-is United States war slang
descriptive of non n-flying officer OF
the Air Corps. 1t is the name of a
wingless bird of New Zealand. A
man with no savings following the
Evening star., 1943-09-09

Critical as was the Italian situa-
ton, Marshal Badoglio's proclama-
tlon calling on Italians to lay down
their arms against the Allies was
rebroadcast at am. q am. E.W.TJ
today, indicating that his govern
ment still was in control in Rome
ut that time.
Since then the station had been
Evening star., 1943-10-25

in describing what some operators
used to do in the stock markets and
what law enforcement officers will
always do when they descend upon
a place "for the purpose of making
arrests, seizing illicit stores, or the
like" And of course it has been
indispensable in the realm of politics
asa label for "the act of mulcting
money, especially public money, as
by graft, pork-barrel appropriations,
ETC."
We may consider it fairly certain,s
in fact, that this well-tried word will
escape obsolescence for a long time
to come, no matter what somebody
may be able to invent to do greater
descriptive justice to the mighty air
blows of this war. AS for any such
invention, incidentally, word of
advice and special pleading may not
be amiss at this point: Whoever tries
to coin new verb or noun for our
giant bomber attacks should keep it
as short as possible. Raid is like
that. Its expressive compactness is
one of its greatest virtues, which is
why headline writer's resort to it so
much,
Evening star., 1943-10-25
Alleged Forgiving
OF Italians Resented.
To the Editor of The Star:


There is at least one important item
that has not been included in the un-
conditional surrender terms to Italy
which may have been expediently and
shamefully omitted and that is the
punishment of the Italian perpetrators
OF crimes committed upon the popula-
tions OF Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece.
According to the United Nations proc
lamation and promises by President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill
to the mutilated nations, these italian
soldiers with their officers, from highest
to the lowest, including the generals,
occupational commanders and commits
sioners, all guilty OF brutal behavior,
ought to be apprehended and tried.
The Italian forces In the Balkans are
now freed en- masse and allowed to 20
home with as much protection and
safety as the British and Americans can
give them. All the pledges Of punish
ment have been thrown overheard and
forgotten.
Since the great democracies have
started to confer forgiveness upon the
enemy Of civilization, we really begin
to wonder: Are not our soldiers today
still dying In vain7 WEsTER.
Evening star., 1943-10-25
Homes and Prosperity

The building of homes as a basis
of postwar prosperity is discussed in
the October number of the American
Builder, Chicago, in terms which
ought to appeal to great many
readers. "By producing a required
minimum of a million homes year"
the magazine says, "private home
building enterprise will take a place
among the top job-creating, wealth.
creating industries of the country.
Statistics show that this goal is
easily possible"
Approximately 715,OOO dwellings,
it is estimated, were constructed in
1941. The average unit cost was
$3.50. 1t is assumed that the post
war market will start at about the
same average figure, so that a
million homes would create
$4,O0O,O00,OOO market" Since the
United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics finds that 529 per cent of
the construction cost of the average
dwelling goes for materials and
equipment, about $2,116,000 900
would be spent for supplies and fix
lures.
The Builder continues: "These
Bureau of Labor Statistics figures
also show that every dollar spent on
home building creates approximately
one hour of work. On the basis of
a $4,OO0,0OO home market, this
would mean 1000 ,OOO, 900 man-hours
of work annually. Figuring a full
years work of 40 hours a week, so
weeks a year $4,000 hours), this
would indicate employment for O.
000, 900 men year. Another signifi-
cant fact is that for every hour of
labor spent at the construction site,
one and q half hours are required
Evening star., 1943-10-25
The Word Raid

Our Eighth Air Force in Britain, a
correspondent reports, is far from
satisfied with the present terminol-
ogy of air warfare and feels that
somebody ought to create a new
vocabulary for operations in this
field, more or less as Napoleon did
for land armies. Our flyers, it seems,
are particularly irked by the made
quacies of the word raid"
And as far as that goes, the Eighth
Air Force has pretty strong case,
because the word just does not have
the roar, rumble and thunder that
characterize pulverization attacks on
places like Hamburg and Schwein-
furt. Nor does it convey to the head
line reading mind a reasonably
accurate sense of the magnitude of
such missions or of the precise plan
ming, the hard work and the great
personal valor that are involved in
them. In short, as our airmen see
1t, it simply is not powerful enough
for the wartime Job it has been
called upon to do.
Yet raid" has been a rather serv-
iceable and versatile word up to now.
The unabridged Webster's shows us
that we have been employing it to
excellent effect ever since it came
into common use in this country
during the Civil War, after Scott had
revived it from the Scottish. In mill
tary affairs, it has been a good eco
nomical way of saying "a hostile or
predatory incursion," and in our
domestic life, 1t has been most useful
Evening star., 1943-10-25

offending dog! I hear they have done
just That In some cases. I have owned
many dogs-one registered thorough
bred-but as they were we'll cared for
they never made trouble for me or
others.
hear that the meat rationing order
has made it impossible for some to get
food for their dogs, and so they take
collars and tags off and let them run
wild. Thus dogs, facing starvation de-
velop wolfish instincts and attack chill
dren and adults. 1t seems that not 4
few OF them are pronounced "rabid"
after examination.
DR.. Dulles Of the medical department
OF the University of Pennsylvania, who
has studied this subject for many years,
says that the Negri bodies found in the
brains of dogs pronounced rabid, have
been found in the brains of sheep and
occur in 20 other diseases.
believe that genuine case of rabies
must be very rare as men OF wide ex-
perience with dogs say they never have
seen a case.
1t is very serious thing to have
uncared-for animals attacking children
and adults upon the streets, and some
thing must be done to see that the
dogs are properly cared for or disposed
of in humane manner.
Dogs are not the only creatures that
are having hard time these days to
get the food they want. Dorothy
Thompson's article on the subject was
very Illuminating on this point.
H. B. BRADFORD.
Evening star., 1943-10-25
A Juicy Tale

Years ago in New York a certain
notorious henchman Of the Tweed
graft ring was sarcastically dubbed
Honest John" because he once re-
sisted the temptation to steal a red
hot stove from the city hall. Yet,
had he taken it, he could hardly
have been more nervy than British
engineers at Brindisi, who picked
up another commodity too hot to
be handled with bare hands.
Before pulling out of the port of
Brindisi, the Germans had wrecked
all power plants, rendering the docks
useless to the British. Weeks, it
seemed, might have to elapse be-
fore electrical equipment could be
brought in and the vital juice man.
ufactured. Then engineers got a
brilliant idea. Unobtrusively they
Slithered about the countryside,
making deft connections here and
there, and in Jig time the docks
were humming and the lights went
on all over the heel. Meanwhile,
seventy miles farther up the boot,
at Bari, the supermen were busily
operating their own power plant,
blissfully unaware of the fact that
they were committing the military
crime OF giving power to the enemy
and that they were generating jolts,
not volts, for their war effort. It
was almost in sadness that the
British later took Bari and put an
end to one Of the most remarkable
current events Of tho war.
Evening star., 1943-10-25
Fable About Uncle Sam
And One Certain Hillbilly.
To the Editor Of The Star:

Uncle Sam, who in late years has be-
come confirmed isolationist and paci-
fist in regard to providing himself with
an adequate foreign policy, very clearly
resembles the hillbilly, the roof of whose
cabin leaked water, when it rained,
worse than a sieve. For when it rains
the hillbilly observes that it is impossible
then to put on an adequate roof, but
sWears that when it quits raining MOTH
ing will prevent him from putting a
water-tight roof on his home. Yet,
when 1t stops raining and the sun shines
again, the soaked hillbilly AYERS that,
so far as he can see now, there Is no
need for roof on his cabin other than
the one that was on during the storm.
Just SO 1t has been with Uncle Sam.
When the storms and dangers of a
world war beat upon the life Of this
Nation, then the people, through their
representatives at Washington, declare
that when the war is over they certainly
will provide the country with an ade-
quate foreign policy. But when the
dangers of the world war pass awav.
war weary-not nearly so war weary as
his neighbors, the other nations of the
world-Uncle Sam looks to the east and
the west, to the north and the south, and
sees the sun of peace shining in every-
where.
Then Uncle Sam looks puzzled,
scratches his head, and asserts in his
usual nasal drawl that he cannot see
any need for foreign policy differing
from the one that he already has.
by gum," Uncle Sam AYERS, "Ill let
things ride. 1t will take a lot of work,
fitting my house with the roof of an
adequate foreign policy. I'm goin'
fishin and huntin'."
WILLIAM H. HARGROVE.
California, Mo-
Evening star., 1943-10-25
Hymn After Hurvest-1o43

Take our hearts harvest, Lord
gratitude-1Dorship-
As from, these trees ue took trutt
1D1rn 1Dith sun!
Find our hearts harpest, Lord, Jafr
and abundant:
Our hearts brave as trees are .ohen
tDtnter's begun.
Take our hearts, harvest, o, Bounn-
Jul Husbandman,
As from these zines ,De took grapes.
blue and Dhttei
Find our hearts harvest tull-porthy
the Vine, Lord;
Our hearts Huing branches and
sound In Your Sight.
Take our hearts harDeSt, Lord.
gratitude-,oorship-
As from these fields ,oe took all that.
they bore.
Find our hearts harvest, Lord, good,
and ABUNDANT
Our hearts, like these fields, eager
still to yield more.
VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY.
Evening star., 1943-10-25
Who Won 1t?
From the Abilene Reflector Chronicle.

From the Abilene Reflector Chronicle.
who won the battle of the Marne?"
This question came from French
parliamentary committee, looking into
the conduct of the war. 1t was addressed
to Marshal Joffe, commanding general
in this battle which turned the tide of
World War I. Its aim was to cast slur
on Joffre's work, and that to suggest
that, come what might, credit ought not
to be given to the man at the top.
Joffres reply was decisive. IT do not
know" he said, who won the battle
of the Marne; but I do know who, If it
had been lost, would be said to have
lost it."
This answer should be borne in mind
when citizens are rasped by Govern
ment's shortcomings. Governmental
heads are properly blamed when things
60 wrong; when campaigns are success
ful It u only fair to distribute little
praise.
Evening star., 1943-10-25
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdce1DeU.

father Of all cardinals, but took to him.
self a giddy young thing who did not
know how TO boil water so to speak
anyhow, she could not build nest. She
made three attempts in as many places
in the garden, but all fell down. That
was last year.
This year she had learned the ropes,
and raised three lusty broods, bringing
them into the garden as soon as they
left the nest, which was not in the
garden. She evidently blamed us for
her first failures, and did not trust our
shrubs and vines. This family Is very
fond Of sunfoWer seed and comes
regularly to my window box for them.
They come in the early dawn when
1t is still dark, and at night Just before
1t Is too dark to see, and many times
between.
My pet mocker has always had quiet,
shy wives who stayed home and tended
the children, but in the spring OF 1912
he took to wife a 'widder lady who had
been around and knew all the answers
She came right up to the back door
with him demanding her full share of
raisins and no favors shown to him.
He, the bully, had to stand back and
wait until she had finished, then If any,
thing was left, he was welcome to It.
They would both fly down to the porch
when I called, but the female would raise
her wings. fan them up and down, and
hiss at the male, plainly telling him
to mind his manners and remember
ladies first
He would draw back to the edge of
the porch and meekly wait until his
lady was served. Moreover, she did not
go South, last winter, as his other wives
had done. She stayed right with him
ana Kept wary eye out for trespassers
when spring came around, that time
when a young mans fancy lightly
turns ETC.
we saw her in some really disgrace
ful brawls and in the alley at that
All Of the males former wives were
very dark In color, but this present one
Is quite light Both OF them are verv
light, and are the largest Knockers I
ever saw.
Sincerely. A. w. F."
The Hercules club, or devils walking
stick. Is scientifically known as Aralia
spinosa.
1t is very spiny shrub, growing to
height Of 25 feet.
The flowers are small, and in clusters.
The fruits are berry-like.
Among birds said to come to them are
the bobwhite, the white -throated SPAR
row, pine grosbeak. olive backed thrush
ruf1ied grouse, blue Jay, bluebird wood
thrush, catbird, and the red-bellied
woodpecker. We are glad to include our
correspondents list OF visitors.
1t may be realized that this is
good specimen shrub to have in anv
yard where songbirds are wanted.
This shrubbery tree, spiny though It
Is, is lure for many of our finest birds.
The fruiting season is from August to
November, just in time to take care
OF most OF the migrating birds. There
can be little doubt that this odd shrub
belongs to the list which should be
used more in home gardens. The in
toxlcating effect OF the berries on the
birds Is evidently only enough to be
amusing to all concerned.
Evening star., 1943-10-25
"ELLICOTT STREET.

Dear Sir:
your column in The Star is always
OF absorbing interest to me, especially
when yoll-and others-write about
birds. In the past five years we have
planted everything our garden would
hold in the way of bird food and have
been amply repaid for our trouble and
expense, especially in the planting of
the Hercules club Birds flock from
blocks around to eat the berries which
when very ripe are quite inebriating.
"One of the funniest sights I ever
saw was a group of mockingbirds that
were too drunk to fly up after tumble
from the tree. Two of them were
worse off than the others. They would
take very wobbly start on the ground
but when they tried to fly, would land
on their heads for all the world like
their human counterparts. They were
positively 'pie-eyed' but fortunately this
condition does not last very long.
Just as soon as they were able to
fly back into the tree, there they were,
stufing more berries, probably remem-
bering the old adage about the hair
OF the dog etc.
1--WE counted II mockingbirds in and
around single tree at one time. We
find that all birds like these berries
In fact prefer them to all other food
We saw robins, yellowbreasted chats
mockingbirds, cardinals, catbirds, brown
pro nh lob all
Carolina doves eating the berries. The
largest tree is about 20 feet tall and
has no widespread branches, so the
various kinds OF birds would sit quite
amicably on the gutter right over the
tree, waiting their turn
II regret to say that my pet mocker
was the worst old souse of the lot. He
is the one Of which I wrote to you
once before as being rough neck and
no gentleman, and he was really
'plastered'
"A pair Of chickadees has lived In and
around our garden all summer. thought
they migrated North In summer. Is
this true? There was small flock of
them with us all winter but left when
warm weather came in the spring, this
one pair remaining. They appear reg
ularly to my window box for their
sunf1ower seeds.
Incidentally found the nest of the
pair Of yellow-breasted chats that
practically lived in my garden. This
nest was deep in tangle of vines and
thorns growing over a brush pile on
the edge of ravine just back Of our
house. 1t was impossible to get close
to the nest, or even to see It, but I
watched the parent birds going in and
out with food
I remember writing you some months
ago that I had never seen a cardinal
oathe in bird bath or pool, but had
seen them take shower baths in the
spray from a hose, and sponge baths
by darting in and out among wet leaves
OF bushes thus wiping off the dust that
way.
This summer being so hot and dry,
my family OF cardinals even the young
sters took frequent baths in our wishing
we'll which is a bird bath.
THE old bird looks like the grand