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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
Marine Captain, so,
Quits as Bandmaster
For Duty as Seaman
Retired Officer Refuses
To Live on Pension, Will
Serve Through War

1.-THE tolloDing story 1CdS Urit-
ten By Sergt. Robert W. Kirby,
Marine Corps combat correspond
ent and former Washington
newspaper and press association
reporter, whose home is at 3213
RittenhouSe street NV
BALBOA, Canal Zone, Feb. 8 de
layed) Sixty years Old-too old to
fight, he says he was told by the
marines doughty Capt Horace
Talbot, U. S. M. c. (retired, who
won high decorations in World War
l, has gone to sea as an ordinary
seaman with the merchant marine
in an attempt to get a couple of
Japs, knock them cold, and bring
back a necklace Of teeth"
Capt. Talbot, whose home is in
served over 80 years with
the Marine Corps. including more
than 10 years as bandmaSter at the
Marine Corps base in San Diego,
Calf.
He says he is finding excitement
III Oilt IitI bIldIlG MAJ iAIC-AOI III
stance. last August, the small boat
on which he was standing while rig
ging stern anchor on a disabled
ship was sunk from under him and
he spent IS hours in the open sea
before being rescued.
And he should know something
about excitement. He saws he was
with "the first marines to go over
and the last to come out" in the
First World War and his decorations
include: Three Purple Hearts. an
Army decoration awarded men
wounded in action, the Silver Star,
also an Army award, and the CroiX
de Guerre, the French decoration
for gallantry beyond the call of duty
Last April Capt. Talbot's request
for combat duty was refused. He
joined the merchant marine, leaving
his bandmaster'S post because, as he
expressed it:
Music was fine in peacetime, but
in wartime, shooters are needed
more than tooterS."
My intention when I signed up
with the merchant marine" said
Capt. Talbot, was to make a cou-
pie of trips, see some action and
then come back and retire on my
pension.
But I wouldn't quit now for all
the money in the world. I'm in this
war now and I'm going to stick
through to the end, because they
can't keep good marine down"
War bonds make bombers to bomb
the Axis and lower our taxes. Why
not buy some and help yourself?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26

Court jury. for the second time in
two months, had reported that they
were hopelessly deadlocked' in arriv-
ing at a verdict. The jury reported
that the count stood 1912 for &C
qutttal.
Mr.. Lemons was held by police
after the auto he allegedly was
driving struck Miss Edith Austin,
35, last May 81, near the intersec-
ton of Twelfth and c streets S.W.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
Civilian Mobilization
Regional Offices Urqed

The establishment Of II regional
Offices in the District as part of the
civilian mobilization division is
urged in a letter to the District
Commissioners from Sidney R. Katz,
SeCretary-treasurer of the Maryland
and District Industrial Union Coun-
Gil, CLIO.
Mr.. Katz, who is member of the
civilian mobilization divisions Gen.
trail Planning Committee, also urged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26

the supervision Of the national USO.
Assisting her will be the following
three subcommittee House. Carroll
Murnance and Mrs. J. r. Enright;
hospitality, Mrs M V. Dawson,
chairman, and Mrs. Robert Dunlop
and Norman Sickel. and rules, Dolph
Bishop, chairman, and Mrs, Harrison
Hathaway and Mr.. Sickel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26

that such regional Offices have full
time paid organizers and clerical
help, in addition to volunteer chair
men.
The proposal for such decentrali-
zation and financing, Mr.. Katz
stated. was part of the appropria-
ton requested of the Commissioners
in the budget prepared by the civil
ian mobilization division in jan
uary. The funds can be obtained,
Mr.. Katz said, through special
appropriation Or through an amend
ment to the Blackout Act, so that
it would include disbursements for
the civilian mobilization division.
Oh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26

Every time you lick War savings
stamp You help lick the Axis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26

The order Of the doy-suit dresses-now write
"poy to the order of Foshion" . e. and do
il in the form Of checks. Checks Of every
dimension from tiny pin checks worth
wealth of chic) tidy redum-sized checks, to
whopping checks Of Glen PIoid proportions.
Checks thot are good onWhere-n the office and
ION the go" e. doubIy valuable from smart
standpoint because they're in your odored
suit dresses! That's Why The Hecht Co. famous
for new-foshons- has assembled this
Standardization for you Put your
"sgnoture" on this smart style now.
All properly labeled as to royon and wool content
Better Dresses Third Floor Street Building, The Hech Co.,
(A) "Shepherd Checks" neat and trim in soft little
utdress with spanking white pque collar and violet
(b) PIN Checks but worth for mon their size
chc Stunning Chesterfed sut-dress with black velvet
collar ond buttons Minute block ond-whte checks Sizes
(C) "Glen Plaid Checks" whee! huge whoppino
checks poded oVer for nor7ess. Precision oored
sut-dress with scroll. pjostlc buttons Grey-ond-whte
SzeS ~ 10 ZC-------- 1879
Evening star., 1943-08-02

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. "A DNB dis
patch, broadcast from Berlin, said
today that DR.. Augusta Rosso, for
mer Italian Ambassador to the
United States, who is married to a
former Washington society matron.
had been appointed secretary gem
eral of the italian Foreign Office.
The broadcast was recorded by
the Associated Press. A dispatch
from Ankara last March | quoted
an authoritative source there as
saying chat DR.. RosSo's appoint
ment as Italian Ambassador to Tur-
key was Cancelled because of German
protests.
Among the grounds listed for the
Nazi protests at that time were the
fact that he had married an Ameri-
can in 1937-she was Mrs F. Wilkin-
son Bunker-and that he was a
long time friend of Laurence A..
Steinhardt, American envoy to
| Turkey.
Dr.. RoSSo served as Italian Am
bassador to Washington from 1892
10 1886 after three years as an en-
oassy attache in the United States
Capital. From Washington he was
transferred to Moscow as Italian
Ambassador He and Mrs. Bunker
were married in Paris.
Evening star., 1943-08-02
.OWIHeodSoys
Britain Will Be
Invasion Base
Py the Associated Press

ES lne Associated Press.
ALGIERS, Aug. 2.-Elmer
Davis, head of the Office of War
Information, speaking on the
Algiers radio tonight, forecast
that a great invasion would be
launched from England that
would sweep Europe as Sicily had
been swept.
He said Americans would continue
the war until the last of Our en-
emies are beaten down"
Mr.. Davis, who came here from
Britain over the week end, declared
Axis war criminals would be pun
ished and he called on freedom
loving Germans and Italians to "let
themselves show their feelings by
their action"
He declared the free peoples of
the world were on the march to
victory.
America is now Nation at war,
fully at war, and will remain con-
centrateG on winning that war until
the last of our enemies are beaten
down.
From England will some day
come that great invasion which will
prove that the festung of Europa
European fortress) was no more in
vulnerable than was the festung Of
Sicily"
Evening star., 1943-08-02
0PA Order 10 Limit
New Liquor Prices
Action Taken to Halt
Recent Skyroeketine
ny the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
A new liquor price regulation, ex-
pected to result in lower prices for
many new brands now on the mar
ket, will be issued in the near fu-
ture by the Office OF Price Admin
istration
The regulation will provide CELL
!ngs at the distillery level based on
cost plus fixed markup, with mark
rps at each stage thereafter until it
reaches the ultimate consumer.
OPA officials said today they we're
Unable to estimate the reductions
which will result, although some of
them may be sizable Liquor prices
row are under the general maxi
mum price regulation, which fixes
ceilings at the highest prices in
March, 1912, but new brands COM
ing on the market since then are
priced according to formula based
on the nearest competitive" brand.
Most OF the liquors now on the
shelves OF retailers are new brands,
and some of these brands are SELL
ing at prices approximating the
March, 1912. prices OF well-known
bonded liquors
The OPA several weeks ago started
an inquiry into skyrocketing liquor
prices, and the new regulation fixing
maximums on actual cost plus a
naarkup is the result OF the investi-
cation.
Evening star., 1943-08-02
Women and Children
Reported Being Sent
To Safety From Berlin
Nozis Declared Fearing
City May Be Bombed
In Hamburg Manner
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 2.-Spur-
red by the stupendous air at
tacks on Hamburg, which have
left that once great port a heap
Of smoking rubble, German au-
thorities today were reported
speeding the evacuation of all
nonessential civilians from Ber-
lin In fear that the city may be
next on the Allied blitz list.
Advices from the German capital
said leaflets were being circulated
instructing women, children and
elderly people to find homes with
relatives outside Berlin or go to
special evacuation areas prepared in
Eastern Germany.
The instructions. these dispatches
declared. were issued during day
of frantic preparations as Berlin
papers warned the population that
it must be prepared to meet bomb
attacks on scale never before seen
in the capital.
A Berlin dispatch to Stockholm's
(See BERLIN, Page A-12)
Evening star., 1943-08-02
Senators Call for Cut
In Spending in Reply
To Budget Review
Several Back George
In Belief Levy Increase
Connot Be Large
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
President Roosevelt's renewed
request for stiff" increases in
taxes-made in a review of the
revised s105, ,869 100000 budget
for this fiscal year-appeared
likely today to be countered in
Congress with bipartisan de-
mandS for closer scrutiny of Gov
ernment spending.
At the same time Chairman
George OF the Senate Finance Com
mittee, In a statement issued at his
home in Vienna, Ga, warned that
further drastic increases of indi-
vidual income taxes may destroy the
Nations little man, and asserted:
The virility and strength of any
civilization depends upon the middle
classes. There is no other way to
pull together the very poor and the
very rich. The middle class is the
liaison."
Senator Wherry, Republican, Ne
braska, told an interviewer he be-
lieved the huge financial problem
Continued on Page "A. Column | !
Evening star., 1943-08-02
Stocks Again Dip Sharply
With 81 10 S4.25 Losses

d. LIit ASSOCldLeu Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2,-The stock
market continued its downward
movement today under the impetus
Of sharp declines in such shares as
American Telephone, Du Pont,
Westinghouse, Standard Oil IN. JD
and Santa Fe Railroad
Losses in these leaders ranged
from 50 to s4.25 share, telephone
recording the widest drop. The As
sociated Press 60-stock composite
declined TO cents to S4850. Transac-
tions amounted to 1,345 ,210 shares. .
Brokers reported selling generally
was inspired by the markets slump
last week on the news of the Fas-
cist collapse in Italy. Just before
this downtown. stock exchange
prices on average were at the high
est since the autumn of 1889 and
the market had recorded an almost
uninterrupted climb since early 1912
Evening star., 1943-08-02
Nine Killed as Train
P|ows Into Group
Working on Track
Four Survivors Declare
They Failed to Notice
Its Approach
BY The Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NOKOMIS, H., Aug. mime
members of a 13man section
gang were killed today when a
westbound New York Central
passenger train plowed through
the group working on tracks
near Gilman, III.
Survivors, none of whom was in
iured. were quoted as saying the
group failed to notice the approach
of the train.
Railroad officials identified the
dead as:
James Taylor of Coalton, Thomas
Williams. Donald OBrien, Loren
Redman. Gerald Borman and Ken
meth Bruins, all Of Gilman. and
Leopold Hochevar, Peter Montait
and Leo Kreul all of Wenonah.
Morris Ray. district train agent of
the road in ST Louis, said the meE
were using a tie tamper, a machine
which operates noisily on compressed
air.
The accident occurred on Il
straight stretch of track. A watch
man was stationed to warn the men
of approaching trains. the railroad
offices SAID. and they were inveSti-
eating whether .he watchman failed
in his lob
Evening star., 1943-08-02
III. S. Sacrifices
Helped Invasion,
Patton Says
Ie Associated Press.


HAMILTON, Mass, Aug. q
Sacrifices being made on the
home front have helped Ameri-
can troops in the Sicilian cam
paign, according to no less an
authority than 1t. Gen. George
S. Patton, jr., leader of Ameri-
can forces in Sicily.
The rationing at home is certain
ly insuring that the soldiers get
plenty of butter at all meals, coffee
three times day and eggs for
breakfast the general said in a
letter to Mrs. Patton at her home
here.
Within the last few months" he
added, there has been the greatest
improvement in the soldiers. In
fact, I may say that they are now
veterans in the true sense of the
word
Evening star., 1943-08-02
.Curfew Is Ordered
In Harlem After Riot;
Six Killed, 201 Hurt
Disorders Blamed on
HoodIums QueIIed;
Police Arrest $50
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Mayor
F. H. La Guardia imposed a
1870 pm. curfew on the Harlem
district today after declaring the
disorders in which six persons
died and 20l, including 40 po-
licemen, were injured, had been
brought under control.
At the same time the Mayor an
nounced that committee of 1900
persons, mostly colored, armed with
nightstickS and wearing identifica-
ton bands, would aid authorities in
patrolling Harlems streets tonight
in an effort to prevent recurrence
of the disorders
Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Thomas A.
Terry, commanding the I'd Service
Command. said he would not de-
clare Harlem out of military bounds.
Gen. Terry. who conferred with the
Mayor said. however, that all
soldiers in ths district would be
asked to state legitimate reasons for
being there.
Mayor BlameS Hoodlums.
In his third radio appeal since
trouble started last night, when a
policeman shot colored man who
was attempting to interfere with
the officers arrest of a Colored
woman in hotel lobby, the Mayor
emphasized what he had said
earlier.
This was not race riot. There
was no conflict between groups of
our citizens. What happened was
the thoughtless, criminal acts of
hoodlums. reckless, irresponsible
people. Shame has come to our
city and sorrow to a great number
of decent, laW-abiding citizens resid-
ing in the Harlem district.
These thoughtless hoodlums had
no one to fight with. They gave
vent to their feelings by breaking
windows and looting stores
Six thousand policemen were on
duty in Harlem and all police leaves
were Cancelled Firemen patrolled
streets where stores had been looted
Continued on Page A-2. Column ~
Evening star., 1943-08-02
18 German Divisions
Reported Ready to
Hold Northern |taIy
Nozis Apparently Sure
Bodoglio Can Surrender
Only Area South of Po
By the Associated Press,

3! the AsSoclateC Press.
MADRID, Aug. "A German
Army estimated at 18 divisions
garrisoned points in Northern
Italy today with apparent conf
dence that, if Marshal Badoglio
surrendered anything, he could
surrender only that part of Italy
lying south of the Po River line.
Nazi troops have been on the
move all during the last week, ac-
cording to advices to Madrid.
Strong German units were re-
ported today to have occupied the
upper Adige River Valley-the
scene of furious fighting in the
World War-both above and below
Trento, itself 10 miles south of the
Brenner Pass.
A Swiss dispatch said Milan, the
industrial heart of North Italy, had
its first air raid rehearsal in six
Gays yesterday and that heavy
antiaircraft fire and searchlight ac-
tivity indicated the German spe-
cialists who have manned the
equipment throughout the war were
back on the job.
Italians Move Toward Fiume.
Milan lies 20 miles north of the
Pc, which rises below Turin and
(See MADRID PAGE A-12)
Evening star., 1943-08-02

Allied military currency, printed
in the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing here, has been introduced
into Sicily for use by Allied forces
there.
In announcing this today through
joint statement, the Treasury and
first time that the new money based
on the "lira" of Italy was issued
after decision on such policy by
British and American officials.
The money. which was shown to
members of the press for the first
time at the Treasury Department
Evening star., 1943-08-02
Allies Liro Military Currency
Issued to u. S. Forces in Sicily

today, is printed in English, with
the single Italian word Ira
The first shipment left Washing
ton by air transport July 10, and
was followed by other shipments
which include both currency and
stamps.
The Allied military postage
stamps have been issued in de-
nominations familiar to the Italians
This is first truly Allied ven-
turc into the field of military none
tary expedients," the joint state
ment of the two departments said,
(See CURRENCY, page A-4)
Evening star., 1943-08-02
Mercury Hits SO

The Weather Bureau at the Wash
ington National Airport recorded a
temperature of SO degrees at $50
pm. today, after high of 80 degrees
yesterday.
Possibility that another heat wave
may be in the offlng was seen in the
forecaSter's announcement that no
relief is in sight for tonight or early
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1943-08-02
Local Boards to Handle
Late Rution Book Cases

BY the Associated Press.
The Office Of Price Administration
said today persons who have not re-
ceived War Ration Book No. 3
through the mail should apply in
person to their local rationing boards
by August 10.
Persons who mailed the applica-
tions in June must present the iden-
tlflcation stub which was detached
from the application blank to re-
celve the new book.
Evening star., 1943-08-02
BY he Associated Press.

BY he Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2.-Before a
large crowd of horror stricken
Sunday spectators, troop-ca
rying Army glider, its right wing
gone, plummeted nose down for
1900 feet and crashed near a
runway at Lambert-St. Louis
Field, carrying to their deaths
10 persons, including Mayor
William Dee Becker.
Mai William B Robertson, pioneer
Evening star., 1943-08-02

MAP on Page Az
BY the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Aug. 2.-An armada of
from $50 to 200 Liberator bomb
erS of the United States 9Th Air
Force flew a 2,4OO-mile round
trip yesterday to dump 300 tons
of explosives in a low-level at
tack on the Ploesti oil fields in
Rumania, one of the chief
sources of the Axis fuel supply.
Announcement of the raid. de-
scribed as the biggest low level
mass raid in history" was made last
night by Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brere-
ton, commander of the 9th Air
Force.
Brig. Gen. Victor H. Strahm. chief
of staff to Gen. Brereton. praised the
1000 specially trained airmen who
took part in the attack and pre-
dicted that the raid would ma
terially affect the course of the war"
Flyers reports indicated serious
damage to the Astro Romani refin-
cries where large fires were seen.
The Astro Romani is the largest
groups of refineries in Europe.
The Giurgiu pumpting station
and pipeline also received numerous
hits. these reports added, and ex-
plosions were noted.
100-Octane Refinery Hit.
Rumanlas S newest refinery, the
Creditul MINER, which is the source
OF l00-octane aviation fuel. was we'll
covered with hits, returning pilots
said.
The refinery which was reported
as having suffered the heaviest
damage was the Americana Romano,
where hits were said to have been
scored on distillation and cracking
plants
Photographic evidence. brought
back by the flyers, showed that vital
parts of the Steaua Romano re-
flnery were destroyed by direct hits.
The Colombia Aouiea, one of Ru-
manlas S big four, was also said to
have received a series of direct hits.
A communique issued by the Mid
Ole East Air Command today said
that 20 of the Liberators are re-
ported to have been shot down over
the target area and a number have
not yet returned to base"
81 Enemy Planes DESTROYED.
At least 81 enemy planes, including
MesSerschmitt 109s and 1lOs, and
Focke-Wulf 1905 were claimed de-
stroyed, the bulletin added. 1t de-
scrlbed enemy opposition over the
target area and on the return Jour-
ney as heavy.
CThe German high command,
In today's communioue, asserted
that 36 four -engined bombers
were shot down. 1t said that l25
planes participated but that only
60 to 10 were able to make "a
coherent attack" on the oil dis
trict.)
The Ploesti area, 35 miles north
OF Bucharest, Rumanian capital
supplies about one third of the Axis
oil requirements and according to
Gen. Brereton has a daily produc-
tion capacity of about $4,000 tons.
The big bombers using special
(See RUMANIA, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1943-08-02

airplane manufacturer whose COM
pany built the glider, three other
city officials, and Thomas N. Dysart,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, also were killed in the crash
which occurred during the Army's
first public glider demonstration
here.
1t. Col. j. R. Johnston, Army Air
Forces public relations officer, de-
scribed the crash as the Nation S
first fatal glider accident since the
Evening star., 1943-08-02
10000 Taken
Americans
Al San Stefano
Naples and Nearby
AirfieId Blasted by
Flying Fortresses

MAP on Page A-12.) J
az the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 2.-Amer-
lean troops have captured San
Stefano di CamaStra to crumple
the north flank of the Axis in
Sicily, headquarters announced
today, and the British 9th Army
was reported to have opened its
big push against Catania.
An Official statement. in describing
activity on the Sicilian front, said
Allied forces have started an Of
tenSive."
Flying Fortresses shattered Naples
In heavy assault following up the
Saturday ultimatum to Italy to
quit or be bombed and Allied war
ships have hammered Italy's main
land as great knockout blows were
aimed by Allied land, sea and air
might.
San Stefano is the northern
anchor of the Axis Etna line and its
loss threatened to roll the Axis
armies rapidly back in the dwindling
Messina bridgehead. San Stefano
Is about go miles west of Messina.
The Americans also captured
Mistretta, miles below San
Stefano and seized 10000 more
prisoners, the majority of whom were
Germans. Capture of the prisoners
gave them their largest bag of Nazis.
Novu CairS
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
bth Army has gained important new
positions near Catania-the other
anchor of the Axis defenses on the
east coast-in a series of furious as
saults, the French and. German
radios admitted
The Allied communique failed to
mention this 9th Army drive "a
message by Gen. Montgomery indi-
Gated his troops were in action.
Powerful formations of Flying
Fortresses rained 5o0-pound bombs
on dock areas of Naples and the
nearby Capodichino airfield yester-
day to put into action the warning
given by Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover that italy again would be
blasted from the air because Pre-
mier Pietro Badoglio's government
had temporized and permitted the
Germans time to strength their de-
lenses
Allied warships steamed into the
heightening and perhaps decisive
action, shattering railway communi-
cations in the foot of Italy and set
ting the port of Crotone aflre, and
American warships shelled enemy
land positions in Sicily ahead Of the
advancing United States 7th Army
troops of 1t. Gen. George S. Patton,
tr.
Steady Allied Progress.
Steady progress was reported off,
cially all along the Sicilian front,
and the 9th Army was said to have
repelled strong German counterat-
tacks with heavy losses. Canadians
battling ahead in the central area
were engaged in heavy fighting, but
their advances continued.
Both American and Canadian
forces on the north coast were bat
ting through high ground frequent
ly reaching an altitude of $500 feet,
studded with German machine-gun
positions and covered by Axis heavy
artillery.
The capture of San Stefano put
~the Americans in full control of a
major road running from there
southwark through Nicosia and gave
them a strategic artery for quick
transport of troops and guns through
the vital north central region. This
news followed yesterdays announce
ment that the Americans had cap