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Evening star., 1943-07-18
Women of Casualty Shock-Feeding Teams
Did Not Miss One Air-Ruid Mobilization
Fr0nf.Line Service
Being Performed
BY Red Cross Unit
By Betty Smith.

By Betty Smith.
For nearly 18 months now, in
all sorts of weather, usually un-
der blackout conditions, women
of the casualty shock-feeding
teams of the Red Cross Canteen
Corps District of Columbia
Chapter) have responded to
every AFRAID mobilization. It is
truly front-line service when the
front line comes to meet you-
for this group of more than 800
Red Cross volunteers Is pledged
to leave their homes or offices at
the first warning of an AFRAID
alarm and, whether in sunshine
or darkest blackout, to keep on
going until they reach their
mobilization points at II hos
pitals in the District.
The duties of these volunteers
are to prepare and serve the hot
drinks so needed and of such
value in any great disaster, and
to do it at what would properly
be called the front-the frst-aid
posts and the casualty stations.
The women have been chosen
from the immediate area of their
particular hospitals. the very
hospitals to which their friends
and neighbors would be taken in
case of a bombing, so that in all
probability they would find
themselves ministering to their
own friends and neighbors.
The equipment for this work is
all stored in the different hos
pitfalls, usually with that of the
doctors and nurses with whom
the canteen women would go into
action. Working in cooperation
with the Office of Civilian De-
fense the Red Cross workers still
maintain their identity as Red
Cross workers. On duty they
wear the well-known Red Cross
caps and CCD arm bands and
are armed with police passes.
Only recently first-aid kits.
steel helmets and gas masks
have been added to their reg
ular equipment.
Vice chairman of the Cam
teen Corps in charge Of this cas-
ualty shock-feeding unit is brisk,
capable, white haired Miss Faus-
tine Dennis. She was overseas
for Is months with the Red
Cross Canteen in the last war
and went as far up to the front
as these workers were allowed
to go. 1t was during the Argonne
drive at Evacuation Hospital No.
ia at Fleury-sur -Aire, where
the American casualties arrived
In ambulances directly from the
front, that Miss Dennis met
Caroline Hendricks, who now
serves as hospital chief at Epis-
copal Hospital here in Washing
ton.
Miss Dennis remained with the
Red Cross for 28 months in all,
during the last war. She came
to Washington in 1921 and went
to work for the Library of Con-
gress, where she now is in charge
of the microf1lm room. 1t was
almost a year before Pearl Har-
Dor that Miss Dennis and a
group of other foresighted wom-
en- took the Red Cross Canteen
course-a group of whom nearly
all had seen overseas duty in
World War I. So, when Pearl
Harbor was bombed, this little
class not only was fortified and
prepared with practical, 'front.'
line experience from the last war.
but with the newest methods of
both peacetime and wartime
canteen work.
There are many interesting
women who have enlisted in this
casualty shock feeding-house-
wives and Office workers, teach
ers and students, lawyers, econo-
mists, musicians and authors,
Evening star., 1943-07-18
Suagart>G >Gibney
Engagement

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Paul Gibney
Of Chicago yesterday announced the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Lorraine Vandevere Gibney, to
Ensign Harry A Swagart. ir.,
U. S. c. G. r, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Evening star., 1943-07-18

young and less young women.
Among those who have seen
overseas duty Gn World War u
are Ruth McClelland, who served
with the YMCA with the 8Oth
Division; Mrs. Eric Purdon, who
served at Pershing's headquar-
ters at Chaumont, and Mrs.
Robert H. Dunlap, Katherine
Andrews and Sarah Waedick.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Russians Drive
owurd OreI
On All Fronts
Ey the Associated Press

LONDON, July 20,-Mtsensk, a
strategic town about SO miles
northeast of Orel, has fallen.
along with scores of other local
tiles around Orel as the Red
Army drive from three directions
continued today against the vital
Axis hinge" Notifications in
Central Russia, a special Soviet
communique announced tonight.
The newest Russian drive repre-
sented an advance of from four to
six miles. the Russians said in a
Moscow broadcast recorded by the
Soviet radio monitor here.
Stubborn enemy resistance was
overcome in the advance in that
sector. with 10 German counterat-
tacks thrown back during the day, it
was declared.
The communique asserted that
some 80 localities were taken in the
erea north of Orel, that 20 places,
including the railway station of
Voroshilov, were recaptured east of
Orel, and that an advance continu-
ing south or Orel had resulted In
gains of from six to eight miles.
The Russian war bulletin also re-
counted that Red Army troops had
forced crossings of the northern
Donets River, apparently south of
1zyum and southwest of Voroshilov-
grad, and that the Mus River, west
OF Rostov on the road to Taganrog,
also had been forced.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
BY the Associa ted Press.

1' lIit hSooSidbcO TTPSS.
LONDON, July 20.-Signs Of
mutiny among the Italian troops
in Sicily, as announced in an
Allied North Africa headquar-
ters communique, today gave the
first strong official indication
that the intensive Allied military
a nd propaganda offensive
against italian morale is begin
ming to take effect.
Evidence of a sharp increase in
the long-rumored italian resent
ment againsS German overlords ap-
peared in an announcement that
there are many indications of mu-
TIMES by Italian troops commanded
by German officers" Present in
Italy from the beginning. this feel
ing first became plainly noticeable
when Germans began deserting
Italian troops at the Ell Alamein
line in Egypt last November.
There were reports from North
Africa today that at least one Ital-
ian company had shot its German
officer, who tried to dissuage them
from surrendering, and capitulated
in body.
United States troops have said
that hundreds of the enemy have
been giving themselves up in West
ern Sicily, and some London quar-
ters estimated that the number of
prisoners already has totaled $4,000,
exclusive of dead and wounded.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Signs of Italian Mutiny Seen
As Indicating Break in Morale
Sici|ion Troops Rising Against German
Officers, Allied Headquarters Says

BY comparison, Italian troops in
Tunisia were reported in field dis
patches to have put up much bet
ter fight, at least until their organi-
zation was disrupted, their air cover
gone. their communications cut and
further retreat precluded.
All reports reaching London today
indicated that these conditions of
defeat were rapidly being fulfilled in
Sicily. Americans already have cut
the main east-west railway at CAL
tanissetta, and were reported, with
out official confirmation, to have
pierced through to Emma, which
would sever the main east-west ROAD.
also.
A Paris radio broadcast recorded
by the Associated Press presented
possibility that the Americans might
thrust through quickly to the Tyr
rhenian Sea, thus cutting off the
Germans, who have been fiercely
resisting. the British 9th Army in
the east, from the Italians in the
west.
The capture of Porto Empedocle
from which roads and railways lead
to Marsala, Trapani and Palermo,
closed another avenue of reinforce
ment and escape to the Axis forces.
The fact that Allied warships have
been shelling shore installations
with virtual impunity also suggest
ed, as in Tunisia. the impossibility
of any Dunkeruue.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Mother Of 7 2Admits
Shooting Husband;
Faces Murder Charqe
Takes Weeping Children
Along to Firehouse
To Report Case,
BY the Associated Press.


WILMINGTON, Del, July 90
A woman trailed by two weeping
daughters walked into a fire
house at l am. today and, &C
cording to Detective Frank Mil
ler, calmly announced, II just
shot my husband"
Police found the husband, Alfred
Griffith, 36, war plant worker, in
bed at his home with two bullet
wounds in his head He died later
in Delaware Hospital.
The news was broken to his wife,
Mrs. Miriam Griffith, Is, at the
police station, where she was booked
on a murder charge.
Mr.. Miller quoted the woman as
saying she shot her husband as he
slept after an argument in which
he threatened her. Mr.. Miller said
she told him she removed key
from his trouser pocket to obtain
the revolver from a desk drawer,
held it close to his head and pulled
the trigger twice on empty cham
bers before it discharged.
Then, dressing her daughters,
Alfredan. 6, and Jeannette. 8, Mrs.
Grif1th took them with her to, the
flrehouse.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
S5O0,0OO Suit Brought
Charging Child Mixup
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July 20.-Suit for
S500,000 was filed against the South
Hoover Hospital and several alta
ches today by Mr. and Mrs Harry
James Hardwig. who charged that a
boy was born to them there June
81. but that when Mrs Hardwig
went home week later she discov-
cred she had girl.
The suit alleges that Mr.. Hardwig
who was at the hospital during the
birth, was approached by nurse,
who said:
Congratulations. you have a fine,
big boy"
A notarized birth certificate was
Issued for Richard Allen Hardwig,
the complaint asserts.
The suit says the Hardwigs are of
the Catholic faith and have been
taught since infancy and believe
that a child not baptized in the
Catholic faith is doomed to eternal
perdition.' The complaint added
that the asserted male child may
now be in control of people who are
not OF the Catholic persuasion"
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Eisenhower Appeals
To Sici|ians 10 Aid
In Defeat Of Nazis
Assures Them Liberties
Of Religion, Speech,
Press Via Radio
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, July 20.-A procla-
nation by Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover, Allied commander in
chief in the Mediterranean area,
appealing to the Sicilian people
for quick help in "the destruc-
ton Of the Nazi yoke" and
promising them liberties of reli-
gion, speech and press was
broadcast from Algiers today.
Gen.. Eisenhower's proclamation,
as recorded here, repeated the as
sertion of Gen. Sir Harold Alex
ander last Sunday that the Fascist
party and all of it's connected asso-
Citations would be dissolved. The
Allied commander went further,
however. in promising to restore
Italy as free nation"
THE Allied forces are occupying
Italian land" Gen. Eisenhower said.
They are acting. not as enemies of
the italian people, but as the in
eluctable consequence of their war,
which has the aim of destroying the
dominating force Of Germany in
Europe.
Their goal is to free the people
(See EISENHOWER, Page c-X.)
Evening star., 1943-07-20
u. 5. 10 Sell $1o,o00,ooo
Worth Of Surplus Property
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Ten million dollars worth of sur
plus Federal property will be sold by
the Treasury to war contractors and
unsupported State and local gov
ernments.
In announcing that yesterday,
the department said the property,
located in all parts of the country,
consists of construction equipment,
laboratory and hospital equipment,
automotive equipment and parts,
educational equipment and facilities,
shop maintenance equipment and a
wide variety of miscellaneous
material.
Approximately 100000 worth
already has been transferred to
Federal war agencies.
The announcement did not give
the source of the surplus property,
but it said the amount will be much
larger when property Of the Ma
tional Youth Administration, now
in the process of liquidation, Is
made available.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Army Abandons Eight
Ordnance Plants Due
To Changing Needs
Patterson Tells House
Committee Requirements
Were Overestimoted
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Eight Army ordnance plants
have been placed in a standby
condition, closed or their COM
pletion Cancelled because of
changing war and lease lend
needs, the War Department has
informed the House Military AZ
fairs Committee.
In letter to Chairman May, Un-
dersecretary of War Patterson said,
The closing of these plants has,
no doubt, brought inconvenience
and dislocation to the local COM
munities. and has directed public
attention to idleness which may be
inappropriately termed waste.
Had these facilities not been
courageously conceived, planned and
constructed, and had the fortunes
of war continued to be adverse, the
great destruction and waste of both
manpower and money caused by
having too little and too late would
have brought such tremendous suf-
fering that the present inactivities
fades into insignificance."
The eight are the New River
Ordnance Plant. Pulaski, Va: Mis-
sissippi Ordnance Plant, Flora,
Miss: Cactus Ordnance Works,
Sunray. Tex; Lake Ontario Ord
nance Works, Youngstown. N. Y;
Gopher Ordnance Works, St. Paul,
Mimi; Pilgrim Ordnance Works,
West Hanover, Mass; Vigo Ord
nance Works, Terre Haute, Ind,
and Scioto Ordnance Plant, Marion,
Ohio.
Mr.. Patterson said the War De-
partment endeavored to anticipate
this countrys and its Allies re-
quirements on the premise that mu-
nitions plants overseas might be
destroyed by enemy bombing at any
time. He added:
"As the trend of the war changed
and our air strength increased, in
terruption in the munitions indus
tries of our Allies dropped suffi-
GENTLY so that instead of the attic
ipated tremendous increased de-
mands, we had reductions in lease
lend requirements. The effect of
such changes upon our production
schedules was disturbing, but the
underlying causes were so favorable
that they completely overshadow our
own disruptions.
Evening star., 1943-07-20

Lawrence Raymond BeaI, former
Washington police captain. who was
arrested by FBI agents at Brook
Forest, near Denver, pleaded guilty
to the embezzlement indictment
when arraigned before a United
States commissioner today at Dem
yer, Justice Department officials dis
closed late this afternoon.
Beall was ordered held in $4,000
bond for removal to Washington to
face the embezzlement indictment.
Beall disappeared from washington
on August 81, 1912, and a Nation
wide search for him started imme-
diately. After his disappearance, in
vestigation showed . total shortage
OF $5,428.15 In police funds entrusted
to his care.
Earlier Story on Page A-iJ !,
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Japanese Bases in Burma
Strafed by Allied Flyers

By the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, July 20.-Japanese
troop concentrations and military
establishments in occupied Burma
were strafed continuously yesterday
by American and British bombers,
communiques from the USAAF and
the Raj announced today
BIS medium bombers and P-40
bomb carrying fighters of the 10th
United States Air Force attacked
objectives in Northern Burma and
near the Yunnan border. while the
British concentrated their attention
on targets in Arakan and along the
Chindwin River.
The Shweli Bridge near the Yum
nan border was blasted by the
B-25s.
Sumprabum. in Northern Burma,
was strafed by P-40s and medium
bombers and two buildings were de-
stroyed. Pilots reported extensive
destruction from previous raids.
Little opposition was encountered
by the American planes and all
returned safely to their bases. -.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Pope Visits Sections
Hit in j. ), Attack,
Vatican Radio SAYS
Broadcast, Recorded in
London, Declares Seven
Churches Were Damaged
Earlier Story on Page ALL

Earlier Story on Page 'A-1)
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 20.-A partial
text Of a Vatican radio an
nouncement saying Pope Plus
XII visited damaged areas of
Rome shortly after the Ameri-
can bombing raid yesterday was
issued today by the Ministry of
Information.
The Ministry recorded the broad
cast, which it said was made in Eng
lish for Great Britain and Ireland.
This afternoon after the bonn
bardment of Rome the Holy Father
went to visit and console the VIC
tins, part of the flock of his own
diocese" the broadcast said.
Accompanied solely by Msgr.
Montini, without any escort or
cortege, his Holiness left the Vati-
can about S pm, Rome time. and
went directly to the Basilica of San
Lorenzo, one Of seven churches of
the Eternal City which had been
hit
There before the ruins Of the
Church of the Basilica, so famous
for its old frescoes. he prayed for
some moments He was at once
recognized by the people who made
him the object of great demon
stration of gra titude and affection.
THE Holy Father then went on
foot through the bombed district,
one of the most populated of Rome
consoling and blessing the peo-
ple >"
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Early Fascist Leader
Reported With Army

By the Associated Press.
Gen. Count Cesare Maria de Vec-
chi di Val Cismon, one of the origi-
nal big four of Fascism with Musso-
lini and leader in the march on
Rome in 1922. has taken over COM
mand of a division in the fighting
area" German broadcast reported
today.
The broadcast, under a Milan
utaly dateline. was recorded by
the Associated Press. It gave no
other details
Count de Vecchi, as one of the
kingpins of Italian Fascism, held
various governmental posts and was
the first Ambassador to the Holy
See in 1929 following the resumption
of relations between the Vatican
and the Italian state.
A permanent member of the
Fascist Council, De vecchi was
awarded the title of Count di Val
Cismcn in 1925.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
American Pilot
Bombs Himself
Out of the Sky
y the Associated Press.


ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, July 2O.-Lt. J.P.
Fernandez of Fayetteville, Ark.
literally bombed himself out of the
sky while divebombing two trains
on a siding in a raid of Fondaco.
Sicily, yesterday.
1t Fernandez was last in a for
nation of four A-36s and as he
pulled out of his dive a terrific ex-
plosion occurred which blew the
tail off his ship and started the
motor overheating.
1t. Fernandez managed to get his
plane back to within 20 miles of the
Island of Pantelleria where he had
to bail out. He was picked up Is
minutes later by an RAF sea rescue
plane.
Il saw the bombs land" Fernan-
dez said, land a second later there
was the biggest explosion I had ever
seen. Those two trains were simply
splintered and disappeared. Build
ingc nearby went up, too. So did l."
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Cox Charges Mutiny
Against Congress in
Inquiry Into FEC
House Group Choirmon
Rops Witnesses Who
Refuse to Testify
Earlier Story on Page B-10.)

LaShlng out at what he called
a mutiny against Congress" !"
Chairman Cox of the special
House committee investigating
the Federal Communications
Commission, today took note of
the committees inability to OBJ
tain certain witnesses and docu-
ments by saying:
Il cannot believe Congress wants
this committee to lay down and
accept this treatment. We've come
to the time when Congress should
assert its authority"
Shortly afterward, T. A. M.
Craven, FEC member. appeared
on subpoena as a witness and told
the committee he had been warned
by FEC Chairman James L. Fly
against giving secret and confiden-
tial information.
Craven Backs Cox.
Mr.. Craven commented, however
ut Is my opinion that Congress is
entitled without limitation to any
and all information it may desire. "
Army and Navy personnel have
been instructed by President Roose-
welt not to appear as witnesses be-
fore the Cox Committee, and Mr..
Fly refused last week to give infor-
nation on operations of the War
Communications Board, of which
he is also chairman.
Letters from the War and Navy
explained that the
President, as Commander in Chief,
acted on the premise that it would
be incompatible with the public in
terest to divulge Army and Navy
information.
Mr.. Craven told the committee he
had often disagreed with the ma
jority of the FEC, and that he
agreed with E. L. Carey; committee
counsel, that the agency had been
seeking larger powers.
In prepared statement, Mr..
Craven said, since I have been
Evening star., 1943-07-20
U. 5. Sailors Turned Bandits
Sentenced in Australia

BY the Associated Press.
PERTH, Australia, July 20.-Con-
viction by general court-martial
of two United States Navy sailors
who turned bush bandits was an
nounced today.
Last May the young sailors
Henry A. Newling. '18, and Merle G.
Wells, 1a-stole rifles and horses and
became the object Of one Of the most
intense manhunts of the Western
Australia bush country. They
threatened police who attempted to
arrest them, but surrendered when
shots were fired over their heads.
Newling was sentenced to Is years
in prison at Portsmouth. N. H.. and
Wells to nine years. Both were dis
honorably discharged.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
BRITISH ROUT GERMAN TANKS AT CATAN|A
Hitler and Duce
Hold Farley in
Northern |ta|y
Statement Reveals
MussoIini Missed
Ruid on Rome
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
Adolf Hitler and Premier Mus
solini yesterday met in a North
Italian city for discussion or
military matters" the Berlin ra-
dio announced tonight in a Ber-
lin dispatch recorded by the
Associated Press.
(The Axis statement revealed
Mussolini was out of Rome when
American bomber squadrons at
tackled military objectives in the
Italian capitalD
The meeting occurred Yesterday.
A communique issued from Hitler's
headquarters today said:
The Fuehrer and II Duce met
Monday, July l9, in city in upper
Italy. Military questions were dis
cussed."
The two Axis leaders last met
April to 10 at Hitler's headquarters
where, it was announced they
reached complete agreement on all
measures to be taken in any respect. y
Both Hitler and Mussolini have
remained silent as new disasters
came upon their people-the fall of
Tunisia, the bombing of the Ruhr
and the invasion of Sicily.
But the increasing portents of
doom clearly forced a new meeting.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
BowIes to Take Over
OPA Job Next Week
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Price Administrator Brown has
announced oflcially that Chester A.
Bowles, Connecticut director of the
ONCE of Price Administration
would take ofIice next Tuesday as
senior deputy administrator of OPA
with the powers of a general
manager.
Mr.. Brown said Mr.. Bowles would
"immeasurably strengthen the ad-
ministration of OPA throughout the
country The new general manager,
he said, has done an outstanding
Job in Connecticut" and his knowl-
edge OF local boards and regional
operations will be Invaluable as
we continue the decentralization
and simplification Of wartime price
control and rationing."
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Porotrooper Says ItoIion Plane
Sank Hospital Ship Off Sicily

prevented American and British
hospital field units from doing their
job. Liaison between the units was
so efficient that within three days
after the initial landings American
parachute trooper casualties found
themselves safely evacuated and
convalescing In the great American
hospital at Cairo.
They were brought first to the
African mainland. where they re-
ceived additional medical care. Then
they were flown l 500 miles east to
Cairo,
Flynn, who worked for a lumber
company in Detroit before becom-
ing a parachute trooper. broke leg
when his chute caught as he de-
scended into q ravine Two fellow
tSee HOSPITAL SHIP, Page. 2-X)