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Evening star., 1943-11-30
|Aussies Push Ahead
Toward Bonga, Base
Beyond Satte|berg
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL
LIED HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 80.
The conquest of Sattelberg be-
hind them, seasoned Australian
troops are closing in on Bonga,
another Japanese outpost in the
New Guinea jungle.
Tanks crunched through the
tangled underground in support of
the troops as the attack started,
while Billy Mitchell bombers
SKINNED the treetops, slashing en-
emy positions with machine-gun
fire.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head
quarters announced the assault be-
gan last Saturday BY Sunday after
noon the Australians were within a
mile of their objective. The dis
tance gained was not given.
Liberators Bomb Wewak.
Bonga lies northeast of Sattelberg,
which fell to the Allies November
26. A spokesman said it's capture
was m necessary to iron out a bulge
in Allied lines.
A strong force OF Liberators
dumped 81 tons of bombs on Wewak.
Japanese stronghold on the north
east coast of New Guinea. There
was no interception. This puzzled
Air Force officers because at last rc-
ports the enemy had more than so
fighters in the WeWak area. Some
expressed the opinion lack of re-
slstance was due to increased respect
for the fire power of a large number
OF heavy bombers flying in close
formation.
In the Solomons, fighters and
bombers of the 18th Air Force con-
tlnued the heavy offensive against
Bougainville. Here, too, the Japa-
nese failed to offer any fighter re-
slstance. The only casualty to the
Allies was one fighter forced down
by antiaircraft fire. The pilot was
saved.
Ammunition Dump Hit.
Nearly 100 Dauntless and Avenger
bombers attacked enemy installa-
tlons on the south shore of Empress
Augusta Bay, site of Allied landings
on Bougainville. An ammunition
dump was hit and at least 80 build
ings destroyed.
GA spokesman at Admiral Will
liam F. Halsey's South Pacific
headquarters said troops on
Bougainville were consolidating
their lines and burying japanese
dead
Few, If any, Of the Japanese
remaining on Choiseul Island. he
said, had been able to escape the
nearby Bougainville because of
the close air patrol by Allied
f1yers)
Attacks on enemy shipping con-
t1nued. Liberator bombers attacked
two destroyers and a freighter off
the north coast of New Britain,
damaging one of the warships. Other
bombers and fighters strafed and
sank barges along the coasts of
Bougainville and New Guinea,
Evening star., 1943-11-30
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Evening star., 1943-11-30
Ii. Tommy Harmon,
Rescued by Chinese,
Returning 10 Base
Flyer Apparently Unhurt
When Plane Was Shot
Down Battling Zeros
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
U. S. 14th AIR FORCE HEAD
QUARTERS, China, Nov. 30
Tommy Harmon, former Univer-
sity of Michigan all-America
football player, who twice be-
came a downed Army Air Force
pilot, was returning to base to-
day after being rescued by Chi
nese following destruction of his
fighter craft by Japanese Zeros
IN a loW-level attack on Kiuki-
ang a month ago.
Glad to report Harmon okay and
returning to base" a terse message
to headquarters from his advanced
Lightning fighter base said.
There was no mention of injuries
and headquarters said the message
probably meant that 1t. Harmon
would be able to return to duty.
Kiukiang is Yangtze River port
southeast of HankoW and the attack
on which he was lost on October 30
was counter blow at the Japanese
offensive, which the Chinese said
was finally stalled at Changteh.
1t. Jordan Robing, jr, of Dallas,
was shot down on the same mission
and he, too. was rescued by the
Chinese and is returning to base.
Last April, bomber 1t. Harmon
was plotting crashed in a squall over
French Guiana in the South Ameri-
can jungles and Harmon and the
six-man crew bailed out. The
former halfback hacked through the
jungle until he reached natives who
guided him to a settlement.
Lt. Harmon was all-American in
1889 and 1910. Between his South
American and Chinese escapes, he
was a Lightning fighter pilot in
North Africa)
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Scan|on Proposes Board
10 Correct Federal Paw

BY the Associated Press.
Representative Scanlon. Democrat
OF Pennsylvania proposed yesterday
establishment of a Federal workers
wage board to hear proposals for
salary revisions of Government
workers as the War Labor Board
functions for workers in private in
dustry.
Mr.. Scanlon introduced a Joint
resolution to authorize the President
to appoint such board. empowered
to correct Embellishments in Fed
eral wage levels which reflect a lag
between such levels and the cost of
living"
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Nazi Drives Stopped
In Herzegovina and
Bosnia, Partisans Say
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 3O.-Germar
drives against Partisan forces ir
Herzegovina and Bosnia have
been stopped short with heavy
Nazi losses, communique from
the Yugoslav National Army o1
Liberation announced today.
In Croatia, Croat units wiped out
a German column on the Petrinja-
glina road, killing 80 enemy troops
and capturing 80, while in the east
ern province of Banat, between the
lisa River and the Rumanian bor-
der, Yugoslav Partisans joined with
Rumanians to storm isolated Ger
man garrisons and wreck enemy
communications, the broadcast bull
letin said.
The Partisan garrison on the Is
land OF Mljet, off the Dalmatian
coast, sank one enemy ship and
damaged a second in a ship-shore
duel, the communique added.
Yugoslav units were reported on
the defensive in Bosnia, but were
said to have repeIled numerous at
tacks by German and Chetnik
forces near Prijapolje and Plevlie
with heavy losses Bulgarian units
we're brigaded with the Germans in
the fighting near Plevlje, which is
still going on, the Partisans asserted
Mihailovich Chetniks were said to
be battling beside the Germans as
the latter attacked Partisan forces
near Bilece and Nevesinje, in South
ern Herzegovina. They were driven
off with more than 200 killed, the
Yugoslav communique reported.
Meanwhile, Reuters dispatch
from Ankara said rail communica-
tions between Turkey and Bulgaria
are at temporary standstill as the
result of the destruction of the
frontier bridge at Svilengrad, Bull
garia, by saboteurs last night.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Norwegian Navy Captain
Convoy Leader No. 1
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Nov. 30.-A Norwegian
naval captain has been awarded the
title of convoy leader No. 1" be-
cause he has conveyed 100000
tons of shipping to England from
this country without the loss of g
single ship, Carl J. Halnbro, presi-
dent of the Norwegian Parliament
declared last night.
Addressing members Of the Nor
wegian Relief Committee, Mr.. Ham
bro also asserted that his nations
merchant marine has carried more
than 40 per cent of the fuel trans.
ported by the United Nations and g
large percentage of the food.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Fewer Than 100 Live Jops
Believed Left in GiIberts

PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 80 (P.-
Fewer than 100 live japanese are
left on the Gilbert Islands, a naval
spokesman estimated yesterday.
He made the estimate in an
nouncing that United States Army
Liberators had raided Nauru, $50
miles southwest OF the Gilberts, Sun
day, starting fires that were visible
for miles.
Earlier in the day the Navy re-
ported from Washington that "few
enemy stragglers remained in the
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Nazis Force Hundreds
OF Girls Into Brothe|s,
Allied Report Says
By the Associated Press

oS tue ASSoCldLeO ereSS.
LONDON, Nov. 30.-Women of
German occupied countries "are
treated worse than cattle" by their
German conquerors, the Interallied
Information Committee said today
in 20-page booklet which asserted
that hundreds of teen-age girls had
been made to serve in Nazi military
brothels.
The booklet, 'Women Under Axis
Rule" said the Germans had seized
the prettiest girls in many Polish
towns under the pretext that I'VE
need Polish women for our fac
tories" Six months later many of
these girls, having outlived their
usefulness in brothels, returned
home wasted, pregnant and diseased,
the pamphlet declared.
Eyewitness Accounts Quoted.
Nazis recruiting girls in Luxem-
bourg were told by Gauleiter Gustav
Simon that Luxembourg girls will
be able to 60 to Germany to work
six months for the Fuehrer and
will be proud to return as German
mothers" the booklet added.
The German government urged
occupation troops in the Neither
lands to force their attentions on
girls and promised to pay the ex-
penses of any illegitimate children,
said the pamphlet, which based its
findings on official German an
nouncements, eyewitness accounts
and information received from ref
ugee governments.
Took Advantage of Starvation.
Italian occupation troops in Greece
we're said to have taken advantage
of starvation in the country, with
some Of them even attempting to
seduce l3-year-old girls by offering
them loaves of bread. The Nazis
there were more systematic, the
booklet said, quoting them as order
ing the Mayor of Piraeus to estab-
llsh brothel for the troops and
to fill it with girls of good standing" :"
Chinese women have been spared
no degradation at the hands of
Japanese invaders. In one part of
Occupied China an instance oc-
Cured Of the japanese stripping
Chinese women and setting army
dogs to tear at their naked flesh,"
the booklet declared.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Most BroziIiun Worker:
Receive Pay Increases
BY the Associated Press

by the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 30
Most Brazilian workers and all gov.
ernment employees will begin to re.
celve new government ordered wage
increases tomorrow.
The wage boosts will give govern.
ment personnel, including members
OF the armed forces, between S.
and $40 more monthly. and raise
minimum salaries from 20 to 80 pei
cent. There will be bonuses fol-
workers earning less than double
the previous minimum wage, with
additional bonuses for those having
dependent children.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
British Plane Crashes, 8 Die

MADRID, Nov. 80 lP).-Eight
crewmen of British four -motored
plane were killed yesterday when
the craft, apparently bound for
Gibraltar. crashed in the mountain
Gus country near Tarifa during a
thick fog, dispatches from La Linea
said today.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Tobacco Supply Cut

Tobacco users in East Canary Is
lands, Spain, don't like war because
resultant transportation troubles
have greatly reduced their supply
of the weed.
Evening star., 1943-11-30

northern tip OF Tarawa Atoll," one
of the Gilbert group occupied by
the Marines where some 1000 Jap
anese were killed in bloody three
day battle.
Within four days after the initial
attack on the Japanese at Tarawa
the Americans had an air field in
use, Secretary of the Navy Knox
disclosed at a news conference to-
day.
Figures On the American losses,
he said, have not been received
here. He repeated that the fighting
was very bitter implying as he
had before that heavy losses should
be expected.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
Home Managers to Meet

The Board of Lady Managers OF
the Presbyterian Home will meet at
10 am. Thursday at the home, 1918
| Newton street NV.
Evening star., 1943-11-30
FOUND

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Evening star., 1943-11-30
81 D. T.. Se|ectees
10 Report for Duty

Eighty-one District selectees now
on postinduction furloughs will re.
port for active duty in the Army
Navy or Marine Corps tomorrow.
The group includes SO men in
Quoted into the Army November 10;
Is men inducted into the Navy No.
vember "a and three men inducteo
into the Marine Corps November II
The list follows:
Army.
Whit James G, Wade. John V
G,.S GWolverton G r. Cinotti: Edward J.
Heyn. Arthur H. Small John P.
WolfovltZ. Samuel Sullivan, John A.
COOK, William 7. George, John T
Francis. John D. Lucas Ernest IN
Hartman, George c. Henderson, James c.
Turner. Lloyd E. Armstrone, F G
Tennyson feanK Mam eharies ShqWey Gies Joba B. "
Moseley, John 6 STUMP Derrice C.
Dorio, Edmund J Hawkins, Edward F.
Dickerson. VIM. T. Cook. Theodore s.
West, Jerry E. Stowe, Ernest W.
Dudley, Francis B. Stange, Paul w.
Greene, Bernard F. Wierschem A j
Goldsmith; joseph sonnenbure Kurt A.
Bushong, William j. Pitts, Joseph F.
Blackburn, Edw. P. Talmadge. H. W.
Northern. Allan G Dod Kari C
Eskildson, Fl. N, Jr Bowden. David x.
Smith, Sterrette M Stawskif, Walter A.
Dyer: John f. Phillips, r. D.
Friedman, Sidney
Navy
Norcio. Paul A. Robinson, jay T
Carr, Leonard r, George, Howard N.
Gordon, Samuel A. Hornstone, Louis J.
Tucker, Robert II. Obst Milton w
Cannon, Robert P Fleming Edgar B.
Shirley, Marshall NJ. Laios, James F
koenis, William E. Pollard Russell
Raboy, Seymout kaSsel, Harry 8
Fulton, James l., tr. Wilson, Charles L.
Brenneman, N. L. Knott, Charles NJ.
Parlsl. Fred Z. Catlin, Arthur D.
Hall, Francis x. OBrien, Harry W.
Robertson, JOS w
Marine Corps.
Beane, William F. Rappaport, Marvin
Briscoe, John D.
Evening star., 1943-11-30

Place a stamp in that vacant
space in your War savings stamp
book; it will help put the Axis on
the spot.
Evening star., 1943-08-29

This is the second OF series OF
sketches and commentaries about
leading figures II, our armed forces by
the eminent artist, Bernard GodUin,
Which 1UiH appear on successive Sun
days in The Sunday Star.
1t is not yet 8 am. and you are
walking down the corridor to the office
of the Chief of Staff of the United
States Army. General Marshall has
agreed to sit for this portrait if it will
not interfere with any Of his multi
tudinous duties. Early as you are. the
general is before you. He rises from his
desk where he has been working and
turns to greet you.
He Is tall as he stands up and thin,
yet his body appears wen-knit and mus
cular. Most tall thin men look lanky
and loose -jointed. But this man is a
metallic type. He is hard, firm and
flexible. When he bends you think of
steel rod bending in smooth curve, and
becoming erect as smoothly. His eyes
continue this metallic impression-blue-
gray, steady and piercing.
AS he begins to talk you are wonder
ing whether his voice also will be sharp
and incisive But here is a surprise,
for he speaks in pleasant, well-modu-
lated tone. He comes right to the point.
Il don't care very much about being
painted" he says, "but shall be very
happy to oblige and cooperate in every
way"
And so he is posed, sitting at his
desk.
One after another, subordinates enter
with questions, matters for decision, de-
tails in steady stream. To each ques-
ton there is a ready answer, for each
problem rapid decision.
And all this time you are sketching
him in charcoal. He sits erect but re-
laxed. He doesn't seem to tire as so
many people do who sit for portraits,
nor does he squirm or twitch He has
extraordinary muscular control, a per-
feet model for an artist
You are again conscious of those blue
Evening star., 1943-08-29
$4,000 Czechs Murdered

According to reports reaching Czecho-
slovakian circles in London and checked
up by the Czechoslovakian government,
the actual number of Check patriots
executed, murdered or tortured to death
is 5O,0OO
This estimate. said DR.. Hubert Ripka,
Czechoslovak Minister of State, includes
all persons murdered in Bohemia and
Moravia since German occupation in
March, 1885, until May Is, 1943. The
losses in human life are much greater
than had been estimated previously.
The Germans themselves admit the exc
cution of $500 Czechs.
The number of Czechs who are Jailed
In concentration camps is estimated at
0o,OO0.
About half million Czechoslovakian
workers have been deported to Germany
for forced labor.
Ripka said that his figures did not
include thousands of Czech Jews killed,
imprisoned or deported
Evening star., 1943-08-29
Germany Loots Europe

For magnitude and ruthlessneSs the
German looting of occupied Europe sur
passes the plundering connected with
all previous conquests in history, the
Board OF Economic Warfare reports on
the basis of a partial listing of the Nazis
spoils. Not only the wealth, accumulated
over centuries, has been carried back
to Germany, but the industries, natural
resources and labor power of the oc-
cupied countries has been under abb
solute German domination.
Careful estimates indicate that by the
end of 1941 the plunder of Europe by
the Germans amounted to at least 80
billion marks, or So billion dollars. Since
that time the process has been ac-
celerated, and the pillage amounts to
many billions of dollars year.
From Poland the Germans took prop
erty worth almost three billion dollars.
Over $1500000,0OO worth of military
equipment came from Czechoslovakia,
where the looting extended to stocks of
laundry in the military hospitals and
the iron hinges of barrack doors and
windows
Evening star., 1943-08-29

gray eyes peering so startlingly from
his brown weather-beaten face. AS the
charcoal transfers his features to paper,
you feel the calm, clear thinking behind
the large forehead. The crayon draws
the mouth, with its full upper lip and
ribbon-like lower lp-there's strength,
decision and generosity there The fea-
lures are definite and so is the person.
ality. The head sits well on broad shoul-
ders and the torso tapers toward the
waist. Once again the motions of the
body remind you of flexible metal
AS he talks, he moves his hands to
receive papers, to emphasize point. The
light catches star sapphire on his little
finger. You watch his hands The fingers
are long and slender, tapering; the
knuckles are high and the veins prorni-
nent on the back of the hand. There are
no jerky, nervous motions. 5t's,E'
The time is almost up Although the
general has not wasted a minute, there
are more important tasks to follow, tasks
that cannot be done while some one does
o. po1 u oio. I1C opcllIlo lew LluluISo
talking to you and you are leaving. 1t
is still early in the morning. You take
away an impression of great executive
ability, of unhurried but rapid orders and
decisions, of unfailing courtesy and un-
hesitating firmness. You know he is al
ready back at work. bending purposefully
over his desk. He is the chief of staff.
He knows the Importance of his position.
And makes no mistake about it, he in
tends to do good job.
Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.
Evening star., 1943-08-29

civilian morale were seen in the an
nouncement that most bitterly hated of
all the lesser Nazis, Heinrich Himmler
had been given complete rule over in
ternal Germany.
The weeks air attack on Germany and
German-held Europe started with raid
on Nazi chemical plant in Leverkusen
near Cologne Sunday and small raids on
numerous airields in Northern France.
Tuesday, Flying Fortresses, returning on
shuttle flight to North Africa, blasted
Bordeaux and the British hit a number
of German airfields.
Friday American Flying Fortresses
with fighter escort bombed the Nazi air.
field at Polk in France and Friday night
hundreds of bombers blasted Nuremberg
again, the raids of the week lending
emphasis to the statement at Quebec by
President Roosevelt that the peoples of
the Axis countries had better quit now
or they would suffer terrible punishment.
The lengthening nights will add tremen-
dously to that punishment in the weeks
to come.
Evening star., 1943-08-29
Russian Front

Capturing Kharkov on Monday, Rus
sian troops pushed rapidly onward,
preaching the Donets River line at
number of places and threatening to
clear the Germans completely out of the
Donets Basin. Already the Reds ad-
vance has penetrated further than the
high-Water mark of last winters often
sive, which, up to the opening of the
German counterdrives this past spring,
had registered the maximum recovery of
the Russians.
Striking toward Poltava, important
railroad point for supplying the Nazis in
the Donets Basin, the Reds are now
apparently seeking to cut off the sup
plies and pose a serious threat to all
enemy troops north of the Dnieper
River line, where the Germans are ex-
pected to make their next desperate
stand, down to the Crimea. In fact, the
Nazis report that the Reds are striking
in considerable force from Rostov, al
though the Soviet communiques do not
mention this phase of the campaign.
The German propaganda radio, telling
of the fall of Kharkov, seeks to belittle
the Russian successes by declaring that
the withdrawal was orderly and made as
planned with only the hulk OF the once
prosperous city left for the oncoming
Reds.
London takes a different view, calling
the victory highly important indicating
as it does that the Nazis no longer have
the strength to attempt strong counter
attacks against the Russians. It was