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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-15

fAfter 10 years Of marriage,
and one year of separation, due
10 war conditions, a husband
asked for a divorce Granting
the request, the wife enclosed
the above poem in her letter.
However IL seems if that young
woman thinks OF such details AS
the laughter in her husband
eyes and the way he combed
his hair she must have been
greatly in love with him and
Will have a hard time forgetting
him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-15
Il. ". HbURLHNG
ON THE SIDE

psrsutsd by King Features synd ina
tough spot 10 be stationed IN.
Following is an excerpt from a
poem written by a group Of
l. s. Army engineers and en-
closed In a letter Just received
from the southwest Pacific:
We're soDewhcre IN Ncc Guinea
Where the sun IL hke-n curse
And each long doy IS foioIred
RI another slightly worse.
We're SOmcuhCrc iH Ner GMiHen
Where the ants ard l-aJ1is
piaB
And n huadrcd frssb 5nosquitocs
Replace each ope y0H shy.
So take ne bock 10 old NeiO
York
For that ny sonl I'd sell
Because this GOD fors1teu Jingle
Is substitute for hell.
QUERIES From Clients:
VI Q How many rea ders
named Verna have you?
A Have readers named We
ronica, Victoria. Vina. Velma
and Vsleria but you are the only
Nerna.
q How about a law 10 pre-
vent the use of Darling" more
than a thousand times in any
one moving picture?
"A great idea, sir. I am
going 10 write 10 my congress-
man about IL. i also think the
word should be rationed and no
female on or off the screen be
permitted TO use il more than a
thousand times a day. What
gets me, as l may have men
timed before. is THAT Il woman
will address her dearest female
friend. her husband, a sales
woman and her dog as darling"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-15

IN think Of you often
Wondering hoc yoU are and
icherc.
Recalling the laughter ia pour
eyes
And The ray yoa comb yopr
hair;
BIT os the years roll By
And inc each lire or hrcs
uUFW
TT t'f V0U Ufut of me
More often than wH think
o. y0a.
ID. +. A.
Evening star., 1943-12-18
Tito S Forces Attack
In Three Sectors
Heaviest .Nozi Assaults
Reported Broken
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Dec. 1s-Yugos,av
Partisan troops have gone over to
the counteroffensive in three sec
tors, Selling the initiative after
breaking the heaviest German as
saults yet launched against the lib
Grated territory, it was announced
today.
Marshal Josip Broz's (Tito's) COM
munlque, broadcast by the Free
Yugoslav radio reported that in the
Serbla-Montenegro border area his
I'd Corps was clearing the terri
tory of the enemy" that in Eastern
Bosnia his troops were going for
ward in very heavy fighting
against tanks, and that in Crotia
as we'll, Yugoslav forces were on
the offensive.
The Germans were hard hit in
Montenegro, where Partisan forces
were battling them to a standstill
Marshal Tito said. The Yugoslavs
counted 270 dead Germans and
Chetnlks on the battlefield, to-
gether with many wounded, and
captured a large amount of war
gear, his bulletin added.
The Partisans won another clash
near the towns of Mrzle Vodice and
PosusJe in Northern herzegovina
the communique asserted. killing
more than 100 of the enemy and
rounding up huge piles of machine
guns, rifles, trucks and ammunition
Other Yugoslav columns derailed a
military train on the Zagreb- Bel
grade main railway line, destroying
the engine and six cars.
Evening star., 1943-12-18
Roosevelt Disc|oses
Warning Of Plot 10
Kill ) Allied Chiefs
Stoyed at Soviet Embassy
On Plea of StoIin, Who
Learned of Conspiracy

Rumors Of a German plot on
the lives of the Allied war lead
ers during the war conference at
Teheran caused President Roose-
welt to take up quarters in the
Russian Embassy as a measure
Of precaution.
The President made this disclosure
at news conference late yesterday.
few hours after he had returned
to the White House from a five
week trip to the Middle East where
he conferred with Prime Minister
Churchill. Premier Stain, President
Chang Kai-shek and Ismet Inonu
the Turkish President.
At the same time. Mr.. Roosevelt
announced that he will make a radio
address from Hyde Park at 3 pm.
Christmas eve, when he will report
to the Nation on his meeting with
the Allied leaders. The speech will
go to the men of the armed forces
all over the world
Premier Stain got wind of the
German plot, the President said. and
insisted that he go to the Russian
Embassy, which adjoins that of the
British, to avoid the mile-long trip
Evening star., 1943-12-18
Weather Held Big Factor
In Plans for Invasion
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 18.-The weather
within the next few weeks may
have great deal to do with the
time required for the forthcoming
Allied land assault on the German
homeland.
The weather so far has generally
favored the British and American
air forces based in Britain. but the
time now has come when it's almost
any mans guess whether conditions
will permit regular full-scale bomb
ing assaults on Nazi industry.
If the weather is favorable, the
big bombers can continue their
series of powerhouse blows and pos
sibly obtain much greater dividends
toward destruction of German war
plants than ever before. Unfavor-
able flying weather would permit a
Nazi industrial recuperation.
A number of German cities, it was
pointed out today, now are on the
borderline where repair work bulks
nearly as large as productive war
work and a further raid or two
might push them over the line to
join number of others already in
Germany's war effort debit column.
A high RAF officer said that in
Northwest Germany alone nine cities
are in this debit column and six on
the edge.
A few more raids within the next
(See RAIDS, Page ACID,
Evening star., 1943-12-18
Chennouit Declares Jap Drive
In Rice Bowl Has Been Routed
Foe Now Attempting
To Extricote 10000
From Tungting Area

BY the Associated Press.
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR
FORCE HEADQUARTERS IN
CHINA, Dec. II Delayed Maj
Gen. Claire L. Chennault. COM
mander of the United States 14th
Air Force, declared today the
japanese have been "decisively
defeated" in their drive into Free
China's rice bowl area and are
now attempting to extricate
about 10000 troops from the
Tungting Lake battle area.
THE Japanese troops sustained
severe losses" said Gen. Chennault.
whose flyers have been supporting
the Chinese ground operations. He
described the cooperation of the
Chinese with his command as excel
lent.
L believe our planes inflicted con-
siderable casualties on the enemy
in addition to holding up the with
drawal of the invaders by bombing
the towns through which they
passed" Gen. Chennault added.
IF their object was to loot the
rice harvest we know a lot which
they seized has been sunk by air
Evening star., 1943-12-18
Churchill Fever
Reported Subsidinq
Pneumonia Is Resolving,
Physiciuns Announce
By the Associated Press.

os tNe ASSOCldteQ IIeSS.
LONDON, Dec. 18.-Prime Min
lister Churchill's pulse is irregular,
but his fever is subsiding, according
to a bulletin issued today from 10
Downing street.
There has been some irregularity
OF pulse, but the temperature is
subsiding and the pneumonia is
resolving" said the official state
ment, signed by the Prime Min
ister's three physicians, Lord Moran
Brig. Davis E. Bedford and 1t. Col
Robert j. V. Pulvertaft.
Despite his illness, the Prime
Minister was said to be insisting on
continuing his direction of Britains S
war effort.
Displaying the same determina-
ton and will power which carried
his country through the worst crisis
OF the war, the Prime Minister is
keeping in closest touch with the
war cabinet in London, the Daily
Mail said last night, "and is trans
acting urgent state business"
MRS. Churchill reached her huS-
bands side yesterday after hasty
flight from England.
The improvement in the Prime
ministers general condition was
maintained, said a bulletin issued
yesterday from 10 Downing Street.
The official report of Mr.. Church
ills improvement cheered every one
but it was felt it will be a few DAYS
until he passes the crisis. The
Prime Minister was allowed to read
important war dispatches. according
to the Daily Mail, and "is said to
have insisted that nothing-least OF
all the operation of agreed war
plans-should be delayed for one
moment by his Illness"
Evening star., 1943-12-18
Roosevelt Rules
All Holidays Out
But Christmas

Government employees can expect
to work every holiday but Christ
mas, for the duration.
President Roosevelt made this
clear at his news conference yes
terday when he said that those who
could be spared may have two hours
off on Christmas eve for shopping.
and at the same time rebuked those
agencies which allowed their en-
ployes to quit early on Thanksgiv-
ing Day.
The President said he guessed
they thought he had his back
turned.
A notice that the President said
was prepared by William H. Nc
Reynolds, his personnel assistant,
is going to all the agencies advising
them of the Christmas eve plan,
and will also serve as reminder
against wholesale dismissal of EN-.
ployes that day.
Mr.. Roosevelt recalled that the
plan was adopted months
ago, and he said it would be bad II
the Thanksgiving practice spread.
Evening star., 1943-12-18
Radio Singer Dies
In 20-Story Plunge
By the Associated Press.

oS lNt ASSOC4GttO FTeSs.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18-Mrs.
Grace Fox, 80. a singer known in
radio as Grace Morgan, was killed
last night in a plunge from the
top of the 20-story apartment house
in which she lived, police reported
today.
Detective James Mcdonnell said
Mrs. Fox was in her l2th-foor
apartment with her husband, Harry
Fox, New York manager for a dis
tillery, and left him with the COM
plant that she was not feeling well.
A short time later her brother
in-law, Howard Gold, and his wife
visited the Fox apartment. and
when Mrs. Fox failed to reappear,
a search was begun. Mr.. Gold
found the body lying on Eighty
sixth street.
Radio Station WIZ, where Grace
Morgan was billed every Friday on
a local program. said she did not
appear on the program last night
because she had been reported i'll.
Evening star., 1943-12-18
Biq Munitions Plant
In Berlin Reported
Blown Up in Raid
Swedish Traveller
Describes Attack as
His Worst Experience
BY the Associated Press.

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 18.-One of
Berlln's largest munitions factories
in suburban Babelsberg was blown
up by the RATS Thursday night
raid, a Swedish engineer just re-
turned from the German capital
said today.
The engineer, Karl Erikson, said.
1t was light as day on the streets
from fires and I counted Al in
"a 15-mlnute walk down the street.
A quarter of an hour later I retired
IN the Hotel Excelsior, which was
practically untouched except that
the windows were broken, a violent
explosion shook Berlin.
The next morning I learned the
blast was at one of Berlins largest
munitions factories at Babelsberg
which was destroyed by a delayed
action bomb"
Erikson, who has been installing
turbines in Italy for the last four
years, was passing through Berlin
en- route to Sweden from Genoa.
I had experienced several Brit
lsh air raids before, but this was
the worst experience in my life. -
he said.
Bombs dropped INCREASINGLY for
nearly half an hour, especially
around the air raid shelter near
Anhalter Station, where 1 stayed"
He estimated the area within a
radius of a third of mile of the
Anhalter Station had been devas-
tated, but said the station itself
was not damaged. Also hard hit
were the western suburbs of Babels-
berg and Neubelsberg.
When I left the Tempelhof air
field, fires were still burning in three
administration Offices. The person.
mel told me that four hangers were
destroyed and parts of the field torn
up by bomb craters."
He said, however, that Berliners
took the raid quietly because they
were growing accustomed to them.
Fire brigades and the police were
better organized than in earlier
raids, according to persons I spoke
TO. Bernners said it was the shortest
of the big attacks, yet the most vio-
lent they had experienced.
Another eyewitness said he had
found Essen and Kassel harder hit
than Berlin.
Genoa looks almost as bad as Ber-
lin, Erikson continued.
Fifteen thousand homes have
been damaged at Genoa, of which
5000 are ruined completely. In
Milan, 10000 houses have been dam
aged severely"
Evening star., 1943-12-18
Soldiers Bonus Bloc
Asks for Action After
Severance Pay Passes
Moybonk and Mcfarland
Promised Hearing by
Senote Finance Group
By the Associated Press,

Soldier bonus talk was heard
again today in the Capital, out
growth of unanimous Senate ap-
proval of a measure authorizing
from 5000 to $500 mustering-out
pay for veterans of the present
war.
Sponsors of what amounts to a
bonus were spurred to new activity
by the dispatch with which the SEN
ate decided yesterday that dis
charged service men and women
ought to have substantial Govern
ment check to tide them over in
their return to civilian life. The
Senate acted after Ma jority Leader
Barklev had urged a Christmas
present. for the armed forces.
Senator Mcfarland, Democrat, of
Arizona, who joined with Senator
Maybank, Democrat, of South Car
olina in introducing a bonus bill for
twice the compensation paid vet
Grams after the last war, said he had
been promised an early hearing by
the Senate Finance Committee.
Would Receive Bonds.
This bill would provide each vet
eran with a bond-caShable within
three years after its issuance-al-
lowing 81 for each day of service in
the armed forces in this country.
with a maximum of 81 900, and $3.50
daily for overseas service, with a
maximum of ST $50.
The recipient veteran could draw
periodic amount monthly for edu-
cational purposes, for purchase of a
home or farm or for an industrial
venture, or get the whole sum in
cash after three years He also could
hold the bond until its 10-year ma
turity.
The bonus would be in addition to
the proposed mastering -out allow
ance.
AS the discharge pay bill was sent
to the House, it provides $500 for
each service man and woman. up to
and including the rank of colonel
who had served 18 months or more
overseas or in Alaska. One-third
OF the sum would be paid on ter
mination of service and the remain
der in two monthly installments.
Payments in Installments.
The mastering out pay would be
$40O for IL to 18 months overseas
service and $500 for less. Persons
who served more than IL months in
this country would get $500 and
those serving less than that 5000
All payments except that of 5000
would be in three equal installments
the latter being paid in two monthly
checks.
Estimates of the overall cost of
this reward for service, recommended
IN message to Congress by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, ranged from S3,OOO.-
OO0,0 900 fixed by Senator Barkley to
81 ZOO, 100000 estimated by Senator
johnson, Democrat, of Colorado, who
headed a subcommittee which
whipped the bill into shape.
Since the payments will be made
to all persons below the rank OF
brigadier general who have beer
honorably discharged from the
armed forces since December 7, 1941
Senator johnson estimated accrued
obligations at $350,0oO, 900. The
mustering-out pay, however, would
not be available to persons who OBJ
tanned discharges through their own
(See BONUS. Page Az
Evening star., 1943-12-18
Soviets Draw Closer
Around Kirovograd,
Gain in White Russia
Fall of Industrial City
Would Menace Nuzi
Source Of Manganese
Ry the Associated Press.

LONDON, Dec. 18.-Troops OF
Gen. Ivan S. Konev's I'd Ukraine
Army have strengthened their
encirclement of the industrial
city of Kirovograd, killing 800
counterattacking Germans, Mos
COW announced today as Nazi
sources reported new and heavy
fighting in White Russia.
Capture of Kirovograd would seri-
ously menace the German garrison
at Krlvoi Rog, principal source of
manganese for Germany's war ma
chine. The Germans have held to
this vital mining center for months,
hurting back repeated Red Army
frontal attacks.
Today Russian communique con-
fined itself mainly to action around
Kirovograd, but Berlin reported ter
rifle battles in White Russia, DOS
slbly heralding the opening of a
full-scale Russian winter drive for
the Baltic.
Russians Score in Kiev Bulge.
Meanwhile, dispatches from Henry
c. Cassidy Associated Press CORE
spondent in Moscow, said Gen. Nj
kolal Vatutin's 1st Ukraine Army
in smashing Marshal Fritz Won
MannStein's tank offensive in the
kiev bulge, has won a defensive
victory as important as some of its
offensive victories"
THE tank battle west of Kiev has
died down after five weeks of fran
tic but futile German efforts tc
break the Red Army's main Dniepe1
River salient" Mr.. Cassidy wrote.
although the Germans gained
the important rail cities of Zhito.
mir and Korosten, and the highway
junction of Radomsyl in prolonged
and expensive armored assaults
they failed to achieve a aiol
breakthrough. The fighting which
originally involved eight German
tank divisions has now dwindlec
to scouting operations
Mr.. Cassidy added that Gen
Vatutin still holds wide spring
board west of Kiev for further ex-
pected Russian offensives towarc
the old Polish frontier.
Soviet Drive South of GomeI.
Most important of the reported
Soviet drives in White Russia, &C.
cording to Berlin, was an attack
begun last Monday by Gen. Andre
I. Yeremenko in the area south OF
Newell, 10 miles from the Latvian
border.
Here, the German broadcasts as.
serted, the Red Army has extended
its operations west and northwest O,
Newell. Gen. Yeremenko was sale
by the Nazis to be using at leas
10000 troops bolstered by heav,
tank forces in this drive toward thu
: Baltic coast.
The German radio admitted deer
lndentations' by Red Army troop
advancing on the rail junction O.
Zhlobin, northwest of Gomel, bu
said that counterattacks restored
, the German lines.
West of Krichev, where the Ger.
mans said the Russians Launched
attacks last Thursday, fighting con.
tinued through yesterday with tn,
i: Red Army forces said to be advanc
ing under cover of artificial fog
Defending Nazis stopped this attack
Berlin said.
Evening star., 1943-12-18
5th ArnyUnits
'C|osePincers
On San Pietro
9th Army Scores
Against Germans
In Tank Battles
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
glers, Dec. ia 5th Army pin
GERS movement closed in today
on the heavily fortified village
OF San Pietro, 7 miles southeast
+of Casino, as the 9th Army re-
ported capturing or destroying
ID German tanks in a series of
armored battles on the other
side OF the peninsula.
American troops reached the out
skirts OF San Pietro, where hand-to-
hand fighting continued for the Sec
ond straight day as the doughboys
dug the Germans out of their pill
boxes one by one. The Americans
now hold heights north, east, south
and southwest of the village. a mill
tary commentator said, leaving the
Germans only one road to escape.
The attack on San Pietro was CO.
ordinated with an assault on 1000
foot Mount Lungo, to the south of
the Rome road. Closing of the
pIncers would chop off large sec
ton OF the road near the entrance
into the Casino plain.
Mountain Village Taken.
Farther inland Allied troops cap
tured Lagone, 2000-foot mountain
village 2 miles west of Filignano
in hard street fighting. Three Ger
man attacks northwest of Venafro
were repulsed, but in Central Italy
on the 5th Army front Allied posi-
tions were driven back by a fierce
German mountain lunge.
The critical nature of the struggle
on the 5th Army front was evidenced
by the fact that the Germans had
reinforced their defense of the hills
with new division, the 5th Noun
tain Division. which a military COM
mentator said had come direct from
Russia.
Around San Pietro the enemy was
barricaded in innumerable concrete
pillboxes and caves and all ap-
proaches to the village were guarded
with mines and BOBBY traps, making
the progress of the Americans slow
and costly although the 5th Army
now dominates the hills on three
sides of the village.
Nazis Counterattack.
Flghting on the 9th Arny's end
Of the line was equally bitter with
the Germans counterattacking and
both sides using tanks. BY night
fail yesterday, 13 German tanks
had been turned into flaming wrecks
and two had been captured intact
New Zealand troops fought their
way on to the north of the Orsogna
Ortona road which they had crossed
three days ago, and it was against
those units that the Germans di-
rected their heaviest counterblows
particularly in the vicinity of Or
Sogna.
Some Of the enemy's 1st Para
chute Division was withdrawn from
mountain positions to take part in
this fighting.
Bad weather grounded the biz
bombers of the 18th Stategic Ali
Force which on the three previous
days had smashed at enemy air.
fields at Athens and rail facilities in
the Alpine passes between Italy and
Austria.
Sharp Sky Battles.
But lighter planes ranged over
Yugoslavia, Albania and Italy, pro-
voking series of sharp sky battles
in which seven enemy fighters were
tSee ITALY, Page All
Evening star., 1943-12-18

through the streets from the Amer
lean Legation.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he did not take
the threat seriously, but commented
that he guessed that it would have
been pretty good haul if the Ger
mans had been able to get Mr.
Churchill, Premier Stain and him.
self as they traversed the streets of
the Iranian capital.
Satisfied With Outcome.
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke with evident
satisfaction at the outcome of the
conference. He said he thought it
was in every way a success-not only
from the point of view of the con-
duct of the war, but because it
promised to have decisive and
beneficial effect on the postwar
period, based on the thought that
when we win this war, we don't want
to have another as long as we live.
Asked if Premier Stain shared his
view as to the prevention of future
war, Mr.. Roosevelt responded that
he did-very definitely-and he
added that those who share this
view will back it up.
Parenthetically, Mr.. Roosevelt re-
marked that when he and the others
were together, they figured that the
nations associated in the war against
the Axis powers represented between
tWo-thirds and three-fourths of all
the people in the world, and that he
thought this significant.
The President and Prime Minister
had long sought to arrange a con-
ference with Premier Stain, and Mr..
Roosevelt said in response to a oues-
ton that the actual fact of the
meeting had lived up to his highest
expectations. He also expressed
pleasure at having had an oppor-
tunity to talk to President Chang
Kai-shek, whom he was seeing for
the first time, and he thought that
this getting together was going to
make for excellent relations in the
future.
Calls Stain a Realist.
Asked how Premier Stain had i'm
pressed him, the President, chuc-
king, said that he'd call him some
thing like himself-a realist.
The conversations with the Rus
sian and Chinese leaders were car
rled on through interpreters, Mr.
Roosevelt said, and while this was
not as satisfactory as if he had
spoken their language, he explained
that the method of communication
worked out very we'll.
Mr.. Roosevelt said that no dates
had been set for disposing of Ger
many, but that the Allied leaders
are working as hard as they can to
bring about the defeat of the Nazis
as soon as possible. Asked if fur
(see ROOSEVELT, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1943-12-18
Rejecting Pool Open
To Skaters, But Sport
May Be Short-LWed

Skating began at 9 am. to-
day on the Lincoln Memorial
Rejecting Pool, but the sport
was destined to be short lived,
according to Weather Bureau
predictions.
Irving c. Root, superintend-
ent of National Capital Parks,
announced that the ice was
frozen to a thickness of three
inches. Lights will be pro-
vided for night skating until IL
O'Clock if the ice holds up.
There also was skating on
the duck pond in Rock Creek
Park and on the c. & o. Canal.
according to the National Capt.
tai Parks Office.