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which landed with little opposition
some distance away, were attacked
later by German tanks, but these
enemy forces were repulsed. .
Official reports said the Allied
aerial assaults have prevented the
enemy from getting reinforcements
over badly-battered highways and
railroads" to the Naples area.
In addition to knocking out Ger
man reinforcement lines in a 60
mile arc around Naples, the Allied
air forces attacked Nazi land con-
voys moving northward toward the
Naples-Salern area. headquarters
said. This would indicate the Ger
mans may be withdrawing from
areas farther south to escape being
cut of and perhaps to hurl more
weight against the 5th Army bridge
head.
The British 9th Army in the
South met scant opposition and
plunged forward at faster pace
in spite of the demolitions. Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's
forcs now hold virtually all the
territory south of the bottleneck
formed by the Gulf of Squillace
and the Gulf of st. Eufemia-the
entire lower section Of the italian
toe.
Dive Bombers Attack Nazis.
In this area they reached q line
through the town of Mazda, 10 miles
from Italy's southern tip and only
about Is miles from the rail and
road center of Catanzaro.
Nazi troops between this inva-
sion area and Naples suffered very
heavy losses under attacks by
American dive-bombers whose re-
peated bombing and strafing as
saults pinned long motor con-
voys, northbound, to virtual
standstill throughout yesterday.
Allied heavy and medium bombers
also gave the 5th Army sturdy sup
port In the grim battles raging in
the Salerno-Naples zone.
The Luftwaffe threw carefully
boarded fighters and bombers into
action in increasing numbers but
their efforts were aimed almost en-
tirely at Allied ground forces fan
ming out from beachheads neaI
Salerno and American and Britisl,
Evening star., 1943-09-12
~ Army Flyers Die
|As z Bombers Collide
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press,
ALEXANDRIA. La. Sept. IL
Twenty-Five members Of the crews
Of two Flying Fortresses from the
Alexandria Air Base, which crashed
over the Gulf Of Mexico late yes
terday, are presumed lost, the base
public relations officer said today.
The two planes plunged into the
gulf about 40 miles southeast Of
Galveston, Tex, after colliding, the
announcement said. Navy craft
and Army planes searching the
area failed to find any survivors.
The base listed the victims as:
Capt. Henry A. Lewis, instructor
pilot. Fort Worth, Tex; First 1t.
Robert H. Smith, instructor pilot,
San Diego. Calf; Second 1t. Paul
Bradnan, pilot, Cleveland; Second
1t. Oscar A. Bennett, pilot, Sweet
water, Tex; Second 1t. James j.
Palack, copilot, Hoboken, N. j.;
Second 1t. Stevenson A. williams,
Bel Air, Md; Second 1t. George
J. Long, Miles Ohio; Second 1t. Al
va w. Redding. jr., Burlington,
Kans.; Second 1t. Oscar L. Koegel,
Lake Minnewaska, N. Y; Sergt.
Joe T. Barron. Tyler. Tex: Sergt.
Howard ]. Code, Long Island City,
N. Y; Sergt. John T. Lotion, Alex
andria, La; Sergt. John r. Arril-
laga, Stockton, Calf.
Sergt. Jack L. Stewart, Trout,
Tex; Staff Sergt. J. E Imam, Cisco,
Tex: Sergt. William p. Pine, Eaton,
N. j.; Sergt. Reinhold Kubarth. Ke-
nosha, Wis; Sergt. William w.
Volkmer, Hampton, Va; Sergt.
Richard E. Royer, Kane, Pa; Sergt.
Bill j. Smith, Liberty, N. c.; Sergt.
William B. Culp, Columbia, Pa. !:
Sergt. Charles L. Findley, Beaver
Crossing, Nebr.
Evening star., 1943-09-12
TWA Routes Ia. Pacific
In Effect September Is

New schedules for Transcontinent-
al a. Western Air, Inc. which will
provide Washington with plane
service to San Francisco and other
Pacific Coast points. will 20 into
effect September Is, Denis Murray
district traf1lc manager, announced
yesterday.
The new service was scheduled
after approval by the Post Once
Department and the Civil Aaron-
autics Board, which recently uphold
9 decision giving TWA entry to San;
Francisco.
Evening star., 1943-09-12

mobile forces that already have lib
Grated the Donets Basin. Gains
ranged from 6 to 8 miles.
Southwest Of Kharkov in the drive
on Poltava the Russians swept ahead
5 more miles with the usual tactics
OF cutting behind the enemy.
In the Northern Ukraine in the
race for the great prize of Kiev, the
Russians were reported about 20
miles from Nezhin, junction of the
last railway connecting the German
central and southern fronts east of
the Middle Dnieper.
Evening star., 1943-09-12
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ALLIES GERMANS
Evening star., 1943-12-28

.twsnty-6ns" pproebably prove; also
that Miss Gordon Is astute, another
quality that makes her unique among
actresses.
In demonstrating that there is
something fundamentally very funny
in the exaggerated dislocations of
life in wartime, Miss Gordon chose
to set her play at an Army Air
Forces Omcers' Candidate School.
There, her brilliant 30-year -old
husband, 4 highly successful editor
in private life, is limping along with
2l-year-olds trying hopelessly to
learn even the vocabulary Of an air
force. When he is on the verge of
insanity among the vectors. termi-
nal velocities, longitudinal equilib-
RUINS, ETC., she comes to the rescue.
That is where the fun begins.
Miss Gordon obviously Is we'll up
on the details OF this form of Army
life. She knows how alien to the
merely intellectual are all of its
aspects, not merely the academic
subjects. but the banning bugle calls,
the inspections, the ritual OF military
courtesy, and all the rest. Through
the eyes Of her novelist heroine she
makes them look hilariously funny
without ever intimating that they
stand for something unimportant.
The AAF will simply have to laugh
harder than any one else at "Over
Twenty One"
Happ.ly-one would dislike to
think OF 1t otheRwise-Miss Gordon
has put the burden OF the blithe
spirit Of her play upon herself. On
a stage many times stripped of other
she carries on more
than two dozen slap stick
comedians. Give her just an old
oddly placed light switch. a sleazy
looking apartment divan with its
masking slip cover, a telephone or
any other reasonable prop and she
will illustrate what comedy acting
is as you have not seen 1t done
hardly ever. And when she is re-
duced merely to her voice, she can
knock you out Of your seat with your
own raucous laughter.
Miss Gordon has by no means left
herself dependent upon her panto-
mimic virtuosity. On the contrary,
indeed, she has blessed her present
Evening star., 1943-12-28

over TWENTY ONE" new comedy
starring Ruth Gordon and written by her,
produced by Max Gordon, directed by
George S. Kaufman, with setting BY Ray
mond Sovey. At the National.
Evening star., 1943-12-28

role with some of the most elfinly
clever dialogue of the season, rang
ing from the speech Of the proud
wife turned primitive to the crafty
one who purrs her husband over
obstacles. In the meantime, she
contrives to insult the colonel's
gaudy blond lady with a skill so deft
that it is completely painless.
Were it not shockingly abrupt, in
deed, one could call 1t the most bril-
liant comedy performance OF the
year, the more brilliant in that 1t is
made out of virtually nothing.
Although nothing said up TO this
point would indicate it, there are
others in "Over Twenty One" Right
skilled they are, toe7 in their GUS
toned tailored roles. especially Har-
vey Stephens as the harassed over
age 1icerhusband, Loring Smith
as the pompous publisher outraged
at the loss of his editor, Dennie
Moore as the addle- Drained wife of
the stuffy colonel. The others abide
by the counsel of George
S. kaufman whose direction of over
Twenty-One" is one of those crack
ling pieces which Mr.. K. turns out
as if he were production line.
Raymond Sovey's Moorish Miami
apartment. modernistically dilapi-
dated, is an almost terrifyingly fine
piece OF realism.
Evening star., 1943-12-28
Many Stockings
Of Movie Stars
Remained Empty
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN,
HOLLYWOOD,

A4O6o SvN<N<Ds
Many an untitled Christmas stock
ing resulted from the wholesale holi-
day exodus of stars to Army and
Navy hospitals throughout the coun-
try. With the flu epidemic still rag
ing, there were several last-minute
Isubstitutions forced on the Victory
Committee. These players had no
chance to wind up their Christmas
shopping.
Typical was the case of the Philip
Dorns. Day before Dorm left for his
tour, he went shopping. Knowing
they would be apart for a long time,
his wife insisted upon accompany
ing him. AS he boarded the train.
Dorm handed her an envelope con-
tanning this message:
I'm sorry, Mariana, but you'll
have to do without a Christmas
present. I tried all day yesterday
to shake you long enough to buy it.
but you stuck right with me. Now
you'll have to wait for it until I get
back. Love and merry Christmas. !"
1t took war to get Marjorie Main
into a fur coat Marjorie always
vowed that she wouldn't own one
OF the things and then the Victory
Committee approached her on the
subject Of joining a camp show unit
one of these days.
They said I'd better keep nv
fur coat packed" said Marjorie.
because it was mighty cold where
I'd probably be going. Anyway, 1
didn't say anything about not hay
ing one. I just started to look
around for one. BY the time I make
up my mind it will probably be
more appropriate to buy summer
wardrobe"
Close-upS: More flu cases are re-
ported daily and additional pictures
are shutting down until principals
recover. Ann Sothern is in bed and
is lucky to have husband Bob Ster-
ling home to act as nurse. Ronald
Conan tried to beat the bug by
getting up too soon and is suffering
relapse. Diana Lynn, brilliant
young pianist-movie actress, will
give her first public concert January
I2l at Los Angeles swank Wiltshire
Ebell Club. Alana Ladd. six
month-old daughter of Alan Laid
and Sue Carol, has been seriously
i'll with intestinal flu.
Stars in the East for the holidays
complain they're being held up for
tickets to hit shows. Prices as high
as $3.50 a seat are being asked, with
extra premiums for choice ducats.
/. Latest racket on eastbound
trains is selling berths, drawing
rooms and even seats out from
under early buyers. One studio
executive bought his reservation a
month ago and found he was fourth
in line when he boarded the train
at suburban Glendale.
Martha O'Driscoll received a fine
toilet outfit as a Christmas gift
from her 16-year-old brother, Paul
then discovered she'd paid for it
herself. Seems Paul swiped so of
Martha's pin-up pictures and soldi
them to his pals at Vega aircraft
factory for a dime apiece.
tReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Ine.)
Evening star., 1943-12-28

witty, hghthearted sketch which
every one with manor possibly a
woman-in the service will find what
will have to be called charming"
to avoid that other damned word,
"cute."
"Over Twenty -One," which finds
Max Gordon as Miss Gordon's pro-
ducer, has also to its advantage the
fact that it views the war from a
new angle, specifically that of the
Army wife. This heroic migrant
trekking from hardship to hardship
on the heels of a male who is dumb
founded that there is anything so
absurdly devoted, is one of the days
most dramatic characters. Miss
Gordon's version Of her, a success
full female novelist, is hardly typical
but with her wit, inspiring devo-
ton, cleverness and stubborn 10y
Evening star., 1943-12-28

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1943-12-28

atty, she makes a scintillating CEN
terpiece for a comedy. Nor is she
so far removed emotionally from the
norm that audiences will not be able
to find some one they know whom
they can call a reasonable facsimile
of her. In this respect, over
Evening star., 1943-12-28

Ass, 4:1o, s:o5. 1:So ana $50 pm.
Metropolitan Hostages: II
am, /, 3:05, Sis, 1880 and 9:45 pm.
Palace - "Lassie Come Home:
1o:45 am, 1855, $40, 5:25, TAO and
9:55 pm.
Pix-"Never a Dull Moment:
1928, $50, 8:15 and 10:30 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1943-12-28
BIB :" THE EVENING STAR, washington, b. e.
Miss Gordon Is Blithe Spirit
AS Star of Her Own Comedy
BY JAY CARMODY.

II the people who pretend be paywrgh empty
muscle bound that will
Miss Gordon will that in "Cyer
Twenty which opened weeks
night AS OF
has provided herself with
Evening star., 1943-12-28
Where and When
Current Theoter Attract tions
and Time Of Showing

St4&c.
National over Twenty one:
$3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Jack London: II am.
1885, 4:25, tbs and 1905 pm. Stage
shows: 1850, $40, $50 and 8 20 p I'm
Columbia-"Guadalcanal Diary: .:
1880 am, 1880, $3.50, 5:35, 1885 and
$40 pm.
Earle - Northern Pursuit.; II
am, 1:35, 4:25, ITO and $50 pm
Stage shows: l, $50, $50 and els
pm.
Keith's - Government Girl",
II rs am, 1:25, $3.50, $50 7:35 and
9:40 pm.
Little-"Jeannie":: II am, 1880
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Sister Finds Woman
Shot 70 Death in Bed

Miss Lillian thinner, As, clerk
at the Dime Transfer Co., 6l2 L
street NV, was found lying in
bed with a gunshot wound In her
right temple last night by her sister,
Mrs. Ruth Baker, with whom she
lived at 922 L street NV. Miss
thinner was pronounced dead by
an Emergency Hospital physician.
Police said they had found no
note exaplaining the woman 's death.
Special Investigator David Ennis of
the homicide squad said Mrs. Baker
had reported her sister appeared to
have been in good spirits and good
health. ss@.
j 4 a a. caliber pistol was found in
the abedroom.
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Sergt. Gibbs Comes Home
With Five Decorations

Staff Sergt. Jerrold A. Gibbs,
10. arrived home from the Mediter-
ranean war zone yesterday bear
ing five decorations and credited
with shooting down four Messer-
schmidts.
Sergt. Gibbs, - whose stepfather
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. G. E.
Scarborough, live at 1900 Taylor
street NV, wears the Distinguished
Flying Cross, the purple Heart, the
Air Medal and the silver cluster and
bronze oak leaf cluster to the Air
Medal.
A waist gunner on a Liberator,
Sergt. Gibbs was on a mission over
Salerno during the landing of
American troops. Since his arrival
in the Middle East last April, he
has ridden 300 hours and 10 min
utes on combat missions. In addi-
ton to the four planes definitely
shot down, he is credited with two
'probables"
His plane. "Satans Sister, re-
ceived fatal damage during a mis-
sion over Gerbini, when Sergt. Gibbs
was injured in the right eye. The
Liberator was attacked by fighters
and lost her No. 3 engine, but COM
pleted her mission and returned
to base with 1875 holes in her. Re-
pairs were made, but the ship
crashed on the test fight, causing
the death of the pilot.
Sergt. Gibbs entered the service
August 25, 1912, and was first sta
toned at Fort Leavenworth, Kans
He will return to duty after about
three weeks leave.
Evening star., 1943-09-27
u. s., British Planes
Blast Japs in Burma
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, Sept. 27.-American
and RAF bombers and fighters
ranged over Japanese-occupied
Burma yesterday to attack enemy
air, land and river communications
and military installations, it was
announced today
American medium and heavy
hombers raided railway yards and
communications in the Mandalay
and Rangoon areas, United States
! communique from 10th Air Force
headquarters said, adding, excellent
results were reported and yard in
stallations were heavily damaged"
No American planes were lost in
any of the operations.
RAF Beausigflhters concentrated
on rail targets, blasting two engines
and more than 35 box cars on the
lines running west and north from
Pyinmana. Other targets included
the station at Pyaubwe and barracks
at Kyidaunggan.
Horse transport was hit yesterday
afternoon at Saingbyin and other
railroad cars were destroyed south
Of sYeu.
Hurricanes damaged a number OF
sampans on the Mayu River south
Of Kwazon and Vengeances dive
bombed japanese positions south
west of Buthedaung = h
All aircraft returned safely.
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Anacosfia US0 Club
Opened With Fefe

The Anacostia USO Club was
formally opened yesterday afternoon
in the Anacostia Lodge hall, 2e0o
Fourteenth street Sc.
w. Ledru Koontz, president of the
Anacostia Bank and chairman of
the Committee of Management, pre-
sided at the ceremonies. 1t. Comdr
w. D. Thompson, welfare and recre-
alton director of the Potomac River
Naval Command, told of the friend
ly community of Anacostia" during
wars beginning with the Revolution
until the present World War.
Greetings were extended by Miss
Mabel Cook, national USO repre-
sentative for the Washington area;
Capt. j. Wellbrock, USN {retiredO
representing the commandant of the
PRNC: Capt. John H. Simpson,
USA, special service officer at head
quarters of military district of
Washington, and Kenneth S. Dale,
regional supervisor of USO-YMCA.
Music was provided by the Army
Air Force orchestra and the Naval
Research Laboratory glee club of %
voices. 1t. (jgD Rival J. Hawkins,
United States Navy chaplain, gave
the invocation.
The club, open from to II pm.
daily, will provide dancing, re-
freshments, information and recre-
ational facilities to service men.
A dance at the Anacostia high
school will be held every second
and fourth Wednesday of the
month, and will be sponsored by
the USO.
Donald S. Shumaker will be the
USO director for the club and
Mrs. Opal Cookery, Anacostial high
school principal, with a committee
of $50 women, will assist at the
dances, snack bar, and informa-
ton desk.
Evening star., 1943-09-27
PiHsfieId Lawyer Held
In Murder Of Baby
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSFIELD, Mass, Sept. 81
John F. Noxon, jr., As, prominent
Pittsfield attorney, was arrested to-
day and charged with the murder of
his 6-month-old son, Lawrence
whom Police Chief John L. Sullivan
described as being abnormal men
tally.
Chief Sullivan said the child was
electrocuted Thursday in the library
of the Noxon home while the father
was fixing the radio. The baby suf :
fered a third-degree burn on the
left arm.
Medical Examiner Albert England
and DR.. Alan r. Moritz, State police
pathologist, said, after an autopsy
that electrocution caused death.
Chief Sullivan said the father
who Is now being held on Pittsfleld
police headquarters, would be ar
raigned on the murder charge to-
morrow.
| A director of the Berkshire Fes-
tival, Mr.. Noxon is a graduate OF
Harvard Law School and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1924. He has
another son, John F. Noxon, Sd, a
student at Kent School, Pomfret
! Conn.
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Justice Department
Sends Aide 10 Study
Hawaii Writ Dispute
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Two representatives of the Justice
and War Departments left yesterday
for Honolulu to attempt to solve a
dispute over suspension of the writ
of habeas corpus in Hawaii.
The dispute stemmed from the
action of Federal Judge Delbert
Metzger on August 26 in imposing a
$1,000 fine on 1t. Gen. Robert c.
Richardson for contempt of court
for failure to produce two prisoners
in compliance with writ issued by
Judge ,Metzger.
Gen. Richardson, commanding
general of the Army's Hawaiian De-
partment, promptly issued restric-
tions to prevent enforcement of the
court order and the War Depart
ment backed him in his stand.
Government representatives who
left for Honolulu were Edward j.
Ennis. chief of the Enemy Control
Unit in the Justice Department. and
an unidentified lieutenant colonel
attached to the Judge Advocate
Generals Once
Charles Fahy. solicitor general of
the Justice Department, said the
mem are going to Hawaii with open
minds, which was Interpreted as
meaning that no solution to the
problem has been reached at confer
ences among the War, Interior and
Justice Departments. The confer
encessb began last month.
Judge Metzger based his action on
the contention that the civil court
had full powers since f18 civilian
rights had been restored to the
islanders last March by a proclama-
ton OF Gov. Ingram M. Stainback OF
Hawaii. The proclamation provided,
however, for continuance Of the
suspension of habeas corpus and
continuance of martial law.
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Browder Warns u. s.
Not 10 Expect Russia
To Help Defeat laps
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Sept. 27.--It is illusion
for the United States to expect the
Soviet Union will be able or willing
also to undertake the burden OF the
military struggle against Japan, /"
Earl Browder, general secretary of
the Communist Party, told second
front rally last night.
"All chatter about the Soviets CIV
ing us bombing bases in Siberia is
harmful nonsense" Mr.. Browder
continued, with only one aim In
mind, to try to give the Soviet Union
similar tasks in the Far East which
she has performed in Europe, name
ly, to win the war for u.s."
Earlier in his speech, the Kansas-
born Communist leader asserted
- the cold, hard truth is
this, that unless we get down of
our high horse, unless we, the United
States, consolidate the alliance with
Britain and the Soviet Union on
the basis Of equality all around :. .
there Is not the slightest prospect
for Us to emerge from this war with
ANYTHING that can properly be
called victory.
THE key to this victory is the
full consolidation of the Anglo
Soviet-American alliance. This re-
quires full coalition warfare at least
to the extent Of the Anglo American
side in the west engaging half as
many Of the Nazi forces as the
Soviet Union takes on single
handed a."
Mr.. Browder said that Prime
Minister Churchill had finally
emerged as that military expert
whose opinion prevailed over Gems.
Eisenhower and MARSHALL in the
failure to open a second front" in
France.
Asserting the war could be won in
1943 by invading France, Mr..
Browder said the steady advance of
the Russian armies, "the prospect
that it opens up a decisive Soviet
victory in which Anglo American
arms will have no major share" /"
may force reconsideration OF the
Churchill decision to postpone the
second front until 1914"