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Evening star., 1943-07-16
CoIvert Board to Induct
10 Droftees Tomorrow
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. JULY
16.-Ten registrants of the Calvert
County Draft Board will be indicted
tomorrow. This will be the third
group of men to be sent for induc-
ton by the board this month.
The selectees are John williams
1r.: David A. Harkness, James C.
Dorsey, Raymond @. Trott, Gilbert
II. Jones, Vernon L. McCready
Robert c. Hsrdesty. Joseph L. Den
ton, Harold c. Marselas and Daw-
son M. Wood.
Evening star., 1943-07-16
.Nozi Error in Tactics Saved
BHdqeheud in Central Sicily

maneuver and then the troops re-
turned TO their garrisons.
When the Americans swarmed
into the city of Celia Saturday one
of the first things they did was to
cut telephone wires. This broke
communications between Comiso
and Caltigirone.
One Goering tank battalion at
Caltigirone was not notified of the
invasion until five hours after the
troops were ashore. Other units were
not notified until nine hours later,
The~~enemy's" tank battalion at
Caltigirone was ordered to move
against Celia and to penetrate, the
American bridgehead. And then the
Germans committed their greatest
mistake-a mistake which un-
questionably saved the Americans
thousands of lives and millions of
dollars worth of equipment.
And 1t was this: When the tanks
drove in they were not followed by
infantry support. The Germans
threw an overpowering weight of
tanks against the center front while
we had only few tanks and field
guns ashore for defense. But there
was no infantry behind to capitalize
on the arm0red drive which was
stopped just short of the beach,
head by artillery fire.
Even as it was, the beachhead was
threatened and only a stout-heart-
ed defense turned the tide.
The youth and inexperience of
many German troops probably was
a factor In the abortive push. Pris-
oners' paybooks showed some of
them had been in the German army
only three months.
Physically they appeared strong
and healthy, but they did not have
the cocky attitude of the German
prisoners taken In the North African
western desert and Tunisia.
They felt that something went
wrong in the high command" an
offlcer said. They were not happy
over being captured. One colonel
was stunned by his capture. He
had been told that the road was
clear and he drove right into the
hands of our men"
AS for the Italians many of them
were happy to be out of the war.
All they want is peace and quiet"
an interpreter said. They don't
care any more about the Italian
empire since the war is at their
front door, and in their back yard
as we'll"
1t. Col. Kenneth Cunin of Al
lance, Ohio, summed up the Italian
will to fight in this way:
"As long as the Italian is we'll
emplaced, as long as he can see you
and knows where you are he will
fight like hell. But once you sur
prise him and get the jump on him
or get behind him he folds up like
that"
Evening star., 1943-07-16
although a concerted counterattack

although concerted counterattack
is expected.
The Italians, expressing every in
dication of being glad to be out of
the war, are surrendering in droves.
Among the new prisoners are an.
other Italian general, commanding
the 54th Napoi Division, who sur
rendered to the Americans yester-
Gay south Of Vizzini.
One correspondent with the Amer
leans in the west reported the en-
envy position with regards to am
munition and supply already ap-
pears to be serious. This same corre-
spondent said the Germans had de-
nberately shelled surrendering Ital-
ianS.
Another American newspaperman,
John Gunther, declared Italian air.
craft is mostly out of date, their
tanks ARE miserable joke and
their artillery "ludicrous." Italian
ration boxes, he wrote, were found
with layer of provisions on top and
gravel in the bottom. Many tins Of
meat were spoiledA
Associated Pres Correspondent
Evening star., 1943-07-16
BroziI to Give U. S. Army
400, 900 Sacks of Coffee

President Getulio Vargas of Bra
zil is presenting this Government
with 100000 sacks of coffee to be
used exclusively for American
forces on war fronts, President
Roosevelt said today.
He described this as a delightful
gift, of which he said he had been
informed in letter presented by
DR.. Joaquin Pedro Salgado, Bra,
lillian Air Minister. who was White
House visitor yesterday.
A group of visiting Brazilian jour-
nalistS attended Mr.. Roosevelt's
press conference and were ap-
plauded at the suggestion of the
President.
Evening star., 1943-07-16
Ridge Church to Reopen

LEONARDTOWN, Md, July is
fSpeciaD Services will be held at
5 pm. Sunday at Old Friendship
Methodist Church at Ridge, Md.
marking the first time the church
has been used in number of years,
the Rev. George Dent NayloN pas
tor, said today. Mr.. Naylor said
services will be held at the church
each Sunday at the same hour.
Evening star., 1943-07-16
8 Of 9 in Navy Plane
Die in Attempt 10 Save
Raj Flyers in Raft
from near misses.

Eight of nine members of the
crew Of Navy patrol plane died
last month in an attempt to rescue
members of a Royal Air Force
plane crew which had been forced
down in icy ocean waters, the Navy
revealed yesterday. The ninth man
was saved after he had been on a
raft seven days.
The airmen were rescued by a
British plane. Two Americans were
picked up by United States mine
sweeper. One of the men in the
boat was dead and the other, L. F.
Pellitier, aviation radioman, first
class, recovered to tell the story of
the wrecking of the plane.
Craft Sank Quickly.
After the craft had been set down
on the water, a cross wave hooked
a wing tip, swung the big boat
around and flung it into an ad-
Joining wave. Her bow was split
wide open and she quickly went
under. Members of the crew work
ed their way out of the submerged
wreckage and manned two rubber
RATS.
In the freezing water, the men
padded in the boats and on the
flrst evening two died of exposure.
On the second day, three more
died.
The remaining men spotted flares
on the third day, but were unable
to observe the patrolling plane in
the fog. 1t was the night of the
third day that the RAF men were
picked up, but the Americans were
unobserved.
Unable to Signal Planes.
On the fourth day, two more OF
the Americans died, and on the
sixth day the eighth man died.
The following day the raft was
picked up
During the time on the RATS they
could hear the searching planes,
but were unable to signal them
through the constant fog.
The dead: 1t. q. g. Douglas S.
Vieira, Myrtle Beach. S. c.; O. A.
Chaney, aviation ordnance man,
third class, Tarentum, Pa; 1t.
q. g. Phillip A. Bodinett. Chicago;
1t. q. g. Frank L. Kleinbrink, Os-
tego, Mich: Fred A. Cernek, avia-
tion chief machinist's mate, Pali-
sades Park, N. j.; Luther w. Pro-
VOW, aviation machinist's mate, first
class, Richlands, N. c.; James E.
Peoples, aviation radioman, second
class, Elizabethton, Tenn, and
Charles H Baker, aviation radio
man, Bangor, Me.
Evening star., 1943-07-16
Cox Group Charged
With Plot 10 Block
FEC Side Of Fight.

BY the Associated, Press. sS.sn.....s,.,sssss =
A charge that the House c0mTrit-
tee investigating the Federal Cons
munications Commission is trying
to seize the headlines and prevent
FCC's side of the controversy from
reaching the public was made yes
terday by FEC Chairman James L.
Fly.
He made public a memorandum
which he alleged was prepared as a
guide for the committee by Robert
Humphreys. a reporter for Inter-
national News Service.
Mr.. Fly. who has. had repeated
sharp exchanges with Chairman Cox
of the House committee, asserted
that the principles outlined in the
memo were carefully designed to
accomplish two results:
''l. The seizure of the headlines.
=. BY adroit use of the gavel, the
effectuation of the principle that
the committee must keep the COM
missions side of the case from
reaching the public"
Advises Shaping Of News.
Among the suggestions made in
the alleged memorandum were
these:
Decide what you want the news
papers to hit hardest and then
shape each hearing so that the main
point becomes the vortex of the
testimony. Once that vortex is
reached. adjourn.
Don't ever be afraid to recess a
hearing even for five minutes, so
that you keep the proceedings COM
pletely in control so far as creating
news Is concerned.
Reporter Out of Town.
DO not space hearings more than
"a or 48 hours apart when on a
controversial subject. This gives the
opposition too much opportunity to
make all kind of countercharges
and replies by issuing statements to
the newspapers"
Mr.. Humphreys was out of the
city today on vacation and in his
absence the Washington ONCE of In
ternational News Service said It had
no comment.
Mr.. Fly said he could not believe
that the House ever intended to
authorize the committee to act in
the manner recommended, or to
authorize an investigation which
would treat the commission as the
opposition from the the opportun-
ity to make =" replies"
Evening star., 1943-07-16
Five of Bomber's Crew
Killed in Texas Crosh

Ey the Associated Press.
PYOTE, Tex, July 16.-Five mem-
bers of a nine man crew died yes
terday in the crash of their bomber
on the desert 20 miles northeast of
Rattlesnake bomber base, the Army
disclosed.
The survivors suffered slight in
juries. The plane was on a routine
mission.
Evening star., 1943-07-16
Sicily
Continued From First Pare

ern front. Vizzini is on the slopes
OF the Iblei Mountains and about
Is miles west of Augusta.
Southwest of Vizzini.
Niscemi is only about miles from
Caltagirone OH the same highway
and is southwest of Vizzini.
Canicat.i is Is miles northeast of
Agrigento, on the extreme western
flank and about 13 miles .llard.
Vittoria is on the coastal railway
and few miles due west of Comiso,
already reported captured.
Biscari is about 6 miles inland
and east of Celia.
Campobello is to the rear of the
American western front at Naro and
Canicatti.
Sortino and Canicattini Bagni are
on the 9th Army front. Sortino is
about II miles southwest of Augusta
and Canicattini is about the same
distance west of Syracuse.
Troops Drop From Skies.
Well in advance of the rolling
Allied troops British and American
ar-borne and parachute forces
dropped from the skies to knock out
centers of enemy resistance and
pave the way for the oncoming tank
and infantry units.
A 7-mile thrust yesterday bv
Americans through mountain ter
ritory on the central front engulfed
strategic upland positions in the
vizzini area.
In the Vizzini region the 7th
Army thus is linked with British
and Canadian forces comprising the
9th Army.
To the west, the Americans, some
Of whom Associated Press Core
spondent John A. Moroso reported
last night in a delayed dispatch
went direct from the United States
to the invasion shore. have captured
the towns of Campobello and Riesi
above the Licata bridgehead and are
menacing Caltagirone, northeast OF
Celia.
Nazi Attack Repulsed.
The 9th Army, after repulsing the
German tank attack which carried
almost to the captured port of Au-
gusta on the shores of the Ionian
Sea. has subdued Melilli, southwest
of Augusta, and Brucoli, 4 miles to
the north. and is driving along the
coast toward Lentini..
At Lentini, in the foothills at the
edge of Catania Plain, the German
italian defenders are reported mass
ing to bar the Allied surge toward
Catania.
Capt/re of Lentini, only 13 miles
from Catania, and Carlentini near
by would place the Allied forces in
position for massive assault on
Catania.
Can NBC correspondent, re-
porting from a British cruiser
of the East Sicilian coast, said
fiatly that both Lentini and Car
lentini already had fallen)
In the invasion operations so far,
the enemy has made an extremely
sorry showing-and front line dis
patches suggest this inay continue,
Evening star., 1943-07-16

h"tCf tSNN y"CCS H ofCuH Huu
a crisis on Sunday. finally ,0in-
ming 10-hour battle to hold
their beachhead on the central
front after the enemy had fought
to ,Oithin 1000 yards OF them,
Don Whitehead, Associated Press
correspondent, discloses in the
tolo,Ding eyewitness dispatch.
After this close call. the Ameri-
cans rallied, and. tOithin 4S hours
OF the landing. had repulsed
three enemy divisions, including
the Naai Hermann Goering Diui-
sionJ
By DON WHITEHEAD,
Associated Press War Correspondent. =.
WITH THE AMERICAN INVA-
SION TROOPS IN SICILY, July Il
Delayed The complete collapse
of the Italian coastal defenses gave
impetus to the American invasion
OF Sicily, while the breakdown in
the vaunted German military effi-
cheney saved the bridgehead in the
central sector.
This became clear today as the
troops battled their way into the
island and hundreds of Italian and
German prisoners streamed back to
the prisoner-of-war pens.
The crisis on the American front
came July IL Sunday when a vet
eran infantry division fought for 10
savage hours to stem enemy attacks
that swept to within 1000 yards of
the vital beachhead which was the
high road to victory.
A military spokesman said the
only thing that saved the central
front from being overrun was the
magnificent fighting of the 'front.'
line troops and the lack of co-ordi-
nation in the enemy's three -pronged
drives that came simultaneously
from the east, the west and the
north.
Within 48 hours after landing the
troops had met and defeated three
enemy divisions on Sicily, including
the Hermann Goering Panzer Di-
vision.
1t is significant that the prison.
ers from the Goering division were
mostly youths in their early 20s, with
little or no combat experience and
very little training.
Some military observers take this
TO mean that Hitler has committed
his veteran divisions on the Rus
sian front and they believe he has
blundered.
The Goering division, which has
mobile reserve force to back up
the Italian coastal defenses, was
scattered from Comiso to Caltigi-
rome. The troops were alerted two
weeks ago for the invasion and took
defensive station, but when the
Allied move failed to materialize
the alert turned into an invasion
Evening star., 1943-03-22
HOLLYWOOD.

There used to be a popular song,
all about Horses, Horses, Horses, !"
and-eXcept for the fact that it
isn't musical-that equine aria
could have been used as the theme
song for Columbia'S technicolor
film. The Desperadoes.
The picture. starring Randolph
Scott. Glenn Ford. Claire Trevor,
Evelyn Keyes and Edgar Buchanan,
was made on location in the vicinity
OF Kanab. Utah, famous for the
soectacularly colorful beauty of it's
scenery. 1t abounds with thrilling.
rough-and-tumble action, to say
nothing of some rousing screen
fights. All the way through, riding
mounts and stagecoach horses fig
ure Importantly in the story. But
the climax is the big stampede of
over 1000 horses. which are used
to throw the little town of Red
Valley into panic.
Director Charles Vidor assigned
Columbia representatives. to comb
the ranches within 200 miles Of
Kanab for the great herd. After
weeks Of dickering. between the
Columbia men and the ranchers,
the vast equine aSsemblage started
on its way 1t was a roundup such
as had not been seen in Utah in
modern times. Indian COWBOYS,
Mormon cowboys. Utah and Arizona
Evening star., 1943-03-22
Where and When
Current Theoter Attroc tions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National Aida" by the San
Carlo Opera Co: Tonight at $50.
Screen.
Capitol-"Tennessee Johnson. the
President who was impeached: 1890
am. lbs, 4:20, tbs and 1910 pm.
Stage shows; 1885, $50, 6:45 and
$40 pm.
Columbia The Powers Girl
models on display: 1855, 2:25, 4:55,
7:25 and 9:55 pm.
Earle-"Star-Sp -Spangled Rhythm, "
with frei9htload of stars: IL am,
l:30, 4:50, 7:25 and $50 pm. Stage
shows: l:05, $40. 6:55 and 9::25 pm.
Keiths-"S Shadow of Doubt"
thrills by Hitchcock: 11:l5 am,
l:50, 4.25, 7:05 and $40 pm.
Little -- The Great Dictator. -
Chaplin right in Der Fuehrer's face ::
1890 am, lis. 4, $50 and $40
pm.
Metropolitan - Yankee Doodle
Dandy biography of George M.
Cohan; 1890 am, 1:l5, 4, $50 and
$40 pm.
Random Harvest" Hill
tons love idyll on the screen: 1905,
3:s5, 6:25 and 935 pm.
Pix-"Gunga Din" Sam Jaffe
toting the water bag: Continuous
from pm,
Trans-Lux - News and shorts
Continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-03-22
Herd to Order
Movie Scouts Organized Stampede
While Humane Society Looked On

cowboys came along, 100 strong-as
colorful group Of ard-riding, gen.
uine range men as ever got together.
AS the riders and their wild stock
began to arrive, the little town of
Kanab, 103 miles from railroad,
took on the gala air Of pioneer
roundup days. Streaming into Lost
Spring Gap, few miles east of the
town, the horses were cut loose in
the rich grazing lands, while the
cowboys turned to the redeos, bronze
busting, cslf-roping and barbecues
Columbia had arranged for them
and the citizens of Kanab.
Then. in Lost Spring Gap, spread
ing vastly within sight of the great
kaibab Forest, the horses had their
fllm initiation. For four days direc-
tor Vidor worked, with the whooping
cooperation OF the cowboys, VINO.
unseen by the cameras, directed the
fiery rush of their charges. For the
flr1t take Of the stampede, such a
cloud Of red dust was raised by mill
ing hooves that not horse showed
ei'ioe6ii ~. tluUl ulIcCUeQ bn6L Lne
dusty plains be wetted down by
sprinkler carts, with $4,000 gallons
OF water night. and the air cleared
TO register the stampede in all it's
equine splendor.
Animal lovers can be sure that the
beasts suffer not at all during such
a sequence. Nell Morse, representa-
tive OF the American Humane
Society," was constantly on the Job.
I've never seen horses treated with
greater care" he said afterwards.
"Assiduous cowboys watched over
them. Hay by the ton and water by
the hundreds of gallons were trans
ported daily over Is miles of trails
to feed them. In a herd of that
size some horses will inevitably 60
lame. These were daily cut out and
put to pasture. Never was an un-
sound animal permitted to run with
the herd. Horses. which act in Die
lures, are in excellent hands
Evening star., 1943-03-22
But No Job for Preston
Cinema Is Short of Leading Men
Yet He's Short of Role

They are spending only 5000 on
new material for sets of The Song
of Bernadette" and $3.50 900 on labor
to make them, Before Ilona
Massey left Hollywood, she gave the
chief electrician on her latest picture
a present of wallet. The man
tossed it into drawer. He was A
little tired of receiving wallets as
an end-of- the picture thank you. A
month later he gave it to friend
as birthday present. The friend
was honest and returned the wallet
there were five $40 notes inside.
John Garfield has the most pleas
ant assignment in Hollywood. He
makes love to Maureen OHara
Patricia Morrison and Martha
ODriscoll in The Fallen Sparrow.
No wonder he's looking so pleased
with himself these days Penny
Singleton receives 500 letters a week
that are merely addressed to
Blonde Hollywood A tourist
in Beverly Hills stops me and asks.
Where is Spencer Tracy's house p
Twenty miles away" I tell him and
he collapses.
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Evening star., 1943-03-22

will make Mr.. Brown somewhat sick
to his stomach.
Manpower department: Holly
woods manpower shortage is not
without its blessings. With so many
OF the other fellows away. Richard
Whorf. who is ga and one of the
nearest things to genius in Holly
wood, Is at last getting his chance.
The former Lunt acting company
second man turned up in some
queer places in his first Hollywood
adventures, as gangster, strolling
froubador. etc. He's getting on now.
however, his last two roles rather
Veighty, worthy things in Keeper
OF the Flame" and Assignment in
Brittany"
Acting department: If you look
bit more closely the next time you
see him in the news-reels, you will
note that Gen. William Montgomery
-unconsciously perhaps-is one of
the better actors in front of a
camera. Without mugging, he COM
mands attention with much the
same skill and some of the identical
tricks used by Spencer Tracy and
Thomas Mitchell, the two cinema
Evening star., 1943-03-22

actors who never have had a scene
/ stolen from them.
Come back department.: You have
have not been hearing much lately
about Joan Crawford and Norma
Shearer. once the Nos. and girls
! of MGM. The careers of both be-
came secondary to their marriages
within the past year, but they are
not likely to remain that way.
Miss Crawford is reported to have
done we'll in her most recent picture,
so we'll that she is being taken
seriously again by the studio.
AS for Miss Shearer. she is re-
ported making advances to her old
bosses for another contract. They
are reported cool, a coolness not at
all tempered by the memory of Miss
Shearer's last effort, Her Card
board Lover"
Not casting department: Coastal
Command the story of the Raj in
its anti-SubmaIine operations, is
another British documentary which
makes no use Of professional actors.
1t makes use of straight Raj per-
sonnel, as did Target for Tonight"
incidentally, the picture has the
same cameraman, James Jones, who
has spent most of the war dangling
from airplaneS shooting document
airy pictures. Such actual opera
tions as the shadowing of an enemy
raider, the launching of torpedo
attack and dogfght with group
OF Junkers 88 were among those
shot py Jones for the new picture.
Diplomatic department: The Ian
guage of diplomacy gets many
nice workout in Mission to Mos
cow the film adaptation of Am
bassador Joseph Davies book now
in production in Hollywood.
Wonderful olives" comments the
Italian Ambassador to Vvacheslav
Molotov in one passage. Are they
Italian?"
No. Spanish" Molotov replies
bluntly.
X
Help wanted department: II
Richard Ahrens, the 6-foot lO-inch
pitcher trying out with the GrifTs at
the University of Maryland doesn't
make good. he might catch on with
MGM. Metro doesn't need a pitcher,
good or bad, but it would like a fell
low about that height for role in
Quo Vadis" He must have an ex-
celient physique, not just mere
height.
Travel department: Bob Hope,
who has been from here to there in
establishing himself as the busiest
Of entertainers in military camps.
is going even farther afield when he
begins his April tour. Starting from
Hollywood, he will stop off at several
dozen intermediate points before
hopping off from some spot along
the Eastern coast for England, later
North Africa. .a
Hope will be accompanied by his
whole radio troupe.
Evening star., 1943-03-22
Shadows in the Dimout
Today's Stars France Off Night Sets
Little Aware of Ghosts That Lurk

across the studio grounds, the one
that bears the number "" are the
Ten Lucky Stars" and some of the
many principals who are working
for final scenes of the Warner Bros
newest musical, Thank Your Lucky
Stars"
II they hear the echoes OF other
musicals made there or on nearby
stages. musicals such as Forty Sec
ond Street." "On With the Show"
"Footlight Parade" or any of the
Gold Digger" series, they probably
fit so closely into the present that
they are not recognized for what
they really are. Yet the shadowy
figures OF Ruby Keeler and Dick
Powell, John Blondell, James Gag
ney, Warner Baxter and Bebe Dam
iels are there, humming BY a
Waterfall' which fits closely into
one of the hit numbers of Thank
Your Lucky Stars" called I'm
Riding for a Fall"
The night set-inside OF course
for The Hard Way" shows a sweep
of countryside but beneath and
above and all around that greenery
upon which Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino
and Dennis Morgan play are the
misty figures of i. the ships. upon
which Enrol Flynn has sailed in his
career of screen adventure. Stage
81, it Is. and the creaking hulks of
the Seahawk's feet are anchored
there.
Hollywood studios are dimmed out
at night with all the once great
after-dark exterior work now showed
under cover to comply with Army
orders. The night police force has
been increased and husky forms wait
watchfully on every corner. They
do not see or at least do not stop
to question the shadowy ghosts that
walk those streets. Most of the
policemen knew them "When."
Evening star., 1943-03-22
Hardly STRANGERS

Cowboy star Don Red Barry and
Lynn Merrick will be teamed for
the 18th time in Days of Old
Cheyenne" Republic western soon
to 90 into production, Also signed
for roles in the picture are William
Haade, Emmett "Pappy" Lynn,
Charles Miller, Herbert Rawlinson,
William Rush. Pierce Lydon, Bob
Kortman and Norman Lyden.
Elmer Clifton will direct "Davs of
Old Cheyenne. Eddy White is the
associate producer