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Evening star., 1943-11-26
u. 5. Flyers Pound
Marsha||s as Troops
Mop Up Gi|berts
As Jop Planes Downed
By Fighters From One
Carrier Division
BY the Associated Press.

oJ VIC AseoSAhtcu IIesSs
PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 26.-
The invasion route into Japan's
Marshall Islands is being
pounded by Army and Navy
bombers, while on the nearby
Gilberts victorious American
ground troops seek out the few
surviving enemy defenders and
planes from aircraft carriers
ward off retaliatory air blows.
These developments, which in
cluded the shooting down Of 46 jap
anese planes by fighters of only one
of the several aircraft carrier di-
visions supporting the Gilbert oper-
ations. we're contained in yes
terday's advices Of Admiral Chester
w. Nimitz.
Jaluit. the main Japanese air base
in the Marshalls $50 miles north
west Of the chief American position
on Tarawa in the Gilberts, has been
bombed anew by Air Force Liber-
ators. A spokesman also disclosed
that during a carrier plane raid
earlier in the week on Mill, another
Marshall air base, approximately 200
tons of bombs accurately hit the tri-
angular field.
(Strategic authorities in Wash
ington expressed belief that the
japanese in the Marshalls, ex-
posed by the Gilberts conquest to
increasingly heavier bombings,
must retreat or die)
OF the 5000 or more enemy SOL
diers estimated to have been en-
countered on captured Maxim, Tar
(See PACIFIC. Page A-3)
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Timi|ty Is 0usted
As Boston Police Head
Governor Acts After
Anti-Semitic Charges
BY the Associated Press.

6y the Associated PreS3.
BOSTON, Nov. 26.-Gov. Leverett
Saltonstall today submitted to the
Executive Council the appointment
of Col Thomas F. Sullivan as police
commissioner of Boston where, &C
cording to Attorney General Robert
T. Bushnell, there has been "anti-
Semitic lawlessness of assist
ance to the enemies of the United
States"
Col. Sullivan will succeed Joseph
F. Timilty, who held Office since ap-
pointed by former Gov. James M.
Curley in 1896. The post pays $1,000
annually.
The council, suspending the nor
NAL one-week consideration of ap-
pointments, confirmed Col. Sullivan
and he was at once sworn in by the
Governor.
Col. Sullivan has been serving the
State as fuel and food conservator.
The appointment of Col. Sullivan
followed months of strain between
the State attorney general and Com
missioner Timilty, during which Mr..
Bushnell instigated independently
conducted raids against alleged
number pool gambling syndicates in
Boston, obtained indictments against
high-ranking police officials charg-
ing conspiracy to permit gambling,
and criticized the performance of
the Boston Police Department in
handling of an alleged anti-Semitic
outbreak.
Col. Sullivan. Democrat, is IS
years old and chairman Of the State
AefonauticS Commission.
Evening star., 1943-11-26
5 Die as Bomber Crashes
On Maiden Flight in Texas
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FORT WORTH, Tex, Nov. GA
B-24 crashed on it's maiden flight
yesterday, killing five men and criti-
cally injuring sixth.
The huge craft, whose pilot had
radioed for permission for an emer-
gency landing because of engine
trouble. plummeted to earth IL
miles southwest of the Consolidated
Vultee plant where it had been as
sembled.
The dead included Graydon
Evans, pilot, who came here a
month ago from the firms Elizabeth
City IN. c. division. and Charlie.
Echols, Minneapolis, of the Mime
apolis- Honeywell Regulator Co.
R. z. Looney of Forth Worth
crew chief, was thrown clear of the
ship when 1t crashed. He is in criti-
cal condition at St. Josephs Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1943-11-26
(See TAXES, Page AID
As Nazis Reported Slain
On Refusal 10 Go 10 Russia
Py the Associated. Press.

Py the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 26.-The Free
Danish News Service said today five
German officers were executed and
10 soldiers were killed subsequently
in an exchange. of gunfire with
sentries and SIS guards at the
Copenhagen artillery barracks when
they refused to 90 to the Russian
front recently.
Meanwhile, German authorities in
Denmark announced that a court
martial at Aarhus had condemned
six Danes to death on charges of
sabotage. Execution was delayed
pending action on the Danes ap-
peals.
The death sentences followed by
q week the execution Of two other
Danes, the first since the Germans
took over the country's administra-
ton on August 20, In IN effort to
stamp out sabotac
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Nozis Reported
Threatening to
Roze GrenobIe
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOclaCeQ fIeSS.
BERN, Switzerland, Nov. 26.-The
Swiss newspaper Journal de Geneve
said today that Nazi occupation au-
thorities have threatened to raze the
ancient French city of Grenoble il
sabotage continues there.
The ultimatum was viewed here
as an indication of Germany's course
in retaliation against Chief of State
Henri Philippe Petain's "sit-down
strike" resulting from German re-
fusal to allow him to promulgate a
new democratic constitution for
France.
Grenoble, hotbed of Patriot
underground activities and sabotage
against German war industry is an
Alpine Valley fortress city on the
Isere River about 60 miles southeast
of Lyon.
With peacetime population of
$4,000, the city Is noted for its old
cathcdrals, art treasures and its
university. It Is the capital of the
Department Of Isere.
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Destruction of Fourth of Berlin
Reported Admitted by Nozis
Wreckuge in Center Of German Capital
Declared Between so and 100 Per Cent

No bread or milk for sale yester-
day in shops: crowds waiting fruit
lessly in front of shops for sup
plies; thousands of workers laboring
night and day to clear the streets
and get traffic in operation: many
homeless people sleeping at nights
in the debris Uttered streets; fire.
men so busy they have been unable
to dig into ruined afraid shelters
for bodies.
Lundquist added:
II would say that in the center of
the city about every tenth or fif-
teenth building was hit by bomb
and that other buildings around
that were damaged by incendiary
bombs.
"One thing is certain. Most of
the damage was caused by incendiary
bombs. at least 80 per cent of all
damage being by fire.
THE reason why only a few peo-
pie were killed-compared With
Hamburg where nearly $4,000 were
killed-is because Berlin streets. are
wider. People could rush from
burning houses and find safety in
the wide streets. Hamburg streets
Evening star., 1943-11-26
BY the Associated Press.

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 26.-The
Stockholm newspaper Tidningen
said today it had learned that
German officials had admitted
that one-fourth of Berlin was
destroyed in the RATS concen-
trated attacks Monday and Tues
day nights.
The officials refused for military
reasons to specify any wrecked
areas, the newspaper said, but two
Swedish eyewitnesses, one an engi-
neer and the other a military ex-
plosives expert, said damage was
largely located in the city's center.
The engineer, Sund Lundquist,
an official of the Swedish civilian
defense organization, and Mai. Olof
Nordzell, explosives expert, said on
arrival in Sweden:
Some few houses still are left
intact among the ruins. We would
say destruction in the center of the
city runs between so and 100 per
cent"
Censored reports received over
crippled communication lines from
neutral correspondents and accounts
from witnesses gave this high-light
picture OF conditions in Berlin:
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Allied Forces Rebel
Nazi Counterattacks
On Italian Front
German Planes Join
Ground Troops in
Determined Assaults
By the Associated Press.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Nov. 26.-Allied units today
beat of enemy counterattacks
along a generally unchanged
front in Italy.
The German Air Force Joined
ground forces in determined attacks
yesterday against British 9th Army
forces now securely entrenched in
the bridgehead carved from the win
ter defense line across the flooded
Sangro near Italy's Adriatic shore.
The Nazi planes made passes at
temporary bridges over which the
British are sending reinforcements
and supplies across the flooded
stream. Allied planes hacked at the
enemy just back of the line.
Despite the day-long enemy on
slaughts the 9th Army troops i'm
proved their positions, it was an
nounced officially.
Violent Artillery Bombardments.
Thanksgiving Day activity on the
5th Army front on the western half
of the line was limited to two vio-
lent 15-minute artillery lombard
ments against targets behind the
enemy's lines as we'll as normal pa
trolling.
While rain continued to fall and
mist reduced visibility throughout
the battle area, an air force state
ment declared persistent bombing
had kept closed to traffic for month
the three main railways running
down the Italian peninsula to the
battlefront.
Attempts at repair have been frus-
trated in many cases by followup
attacks, the statement said, and as
a result only network of subsidiary
lines incapable of heavy traffic is
available to the Germans.
The three main rail lines knocked
out, in the order of their Importance,
are the central Apennine route from
Bologna through Florence to Rome,
the west coast line through Genoa
and Leghorn to Rome, and .he east
coast track from Bologna through
Rimini and Ancona to Pescara.
Defying bad weather con ditions,
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Edison Executive
Appointed Senator
Arthur Walsh to Fill
Barbour Vacancy
picture on Page A-2.)

BY the Associated Press,
TRENTON, N. j., Nov. 26.-Gov.
Charles Edison today appointed
Arthur Walsh OF South Orange,
executive vice president of the far
flung Thomas A. Edison, Inc, in
dustries. as United States Senator
to succeed the late w. Warren
Barbour.
Like the Governor, who is on
leave as president of the company,
the %7-year-old Mr.. Walsh is a
Democrat. Senator Barbour, who
died Monday night in Washington,
was Republican. >
Mr. Walsh will serve until q sue.
cessor for Mr.. Barbour's unexpired
term is chosen in next November,s
election. The term will expire in
January, 1947.
Mr.. Walsh, an Edison family friend
for many years, managed the Gov
ernor's election campaign In 1889.
He is member OF the Port Of New
York Authority and former State
director and assistant national ed
ministrator Of the Federal Housing
Administration. :,
Evening star., 1943-11-26
-20-PIane Allied Raid
On Formosa Reported
In Toxic Broadcast
Attack on Port City
Presumably Launched
From Bases in China
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-Allied
planes struck within about $50 miles
OF the japanese homeland yesterday
when approximately 20 plane,
raided Shinchiku, port city on the
northwest coast of Formosa, the
Toxic radio said today.
The raid, unconfirmed by an,
Allied source, presumably wa.
launched from Allied bases in China
The broadcast claimed three of thu
raiders were shot down by japanese
naval fighters.
The island Of Formosa, wrestec
from the Chinese in 1895, lies 81
miles of the east coast of China
some 200 miles north of the Philip.
pines and little more than 65t
miles southwest of Kyushu, south.
ernmost island in the japanese home
group.
Formosa was first raided by seven
Chinese planes on February %, 1898,
in the first air attack in history on
Japanese territory. Eight deaths and
% injuries, in addition to property
damage, were reported to have re-
suited.
Although the island had an air
raid scare on December IA, 1941, one
week after the Pearl Harbor attack,
and was rumored in Chungking to
have been raided by Allied planes
on August IL, 1912, yesterdays raid
appears to have been the first made
on the island since the United States
entered the war.
While the Japanese broadcas st
identified the planes only as AL
lied" Formosa is within easy strik-
ing distance from Chinese bases of
Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault's l4th
United States Air Force.
Evening star., 1943-11-26
U.S.. Aid to Latin Americans
Hit by Butler as 'BoondoggIinq'
Back From 2o,ooo-Mi|e Trip, senotor Says
Nei9hbor Nations Play Us for Sickers'
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Describing United States aid to
Latin American countries as
"naively conceived and badly CO.
ordinated boondoggling, u
Senator Butler, Republican, OF
Nebraska told the Senate today
that the program should be
changed to one Of technical as
sistance and cultural contact and
understanding.
Reporting on his 20,000-mile tour
of Central and South American
countries, Senator Butler said the
present good neighbor" policy Il
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Fighting 45th' Now in Italy
After Its SiciIiun Triumphs
CoIorfuI Division Helped Turn Tide
At SoIerno, Headquarters Reveals

tant. it is rated as one Of the hard
est-hitting outfits under the flag.
It made its battle debut in an
amphibious assault against Sicily
after only short pause in Africa
en- route from the United States, and
its performance under fire caused
ranking officers at Allied headuuar-
ters to hail it as a complete vindi-
cation of the American training
program.
This divisions outstanding record
is proof that our training camps
are graduating troops full fledged
and ready for combat" said one
general. =
In the Sicilian campaign the 45th
was the first to wedge through
to the north coast and cut the island
IN halt, returning to the battle front
late in the campaign for Messina
After smashing ashore along -
1e-mile strip east of Gela, the 18th
Gee 18th DIVISION. ~ A-lSJ
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Moreenthau 10 Open
New Battle for Tax
Levy Of 1O4 Billion
AL Protests Provision
Ia House Measure to
Require Union Reports
By the Associated Press.

Secretary of the Treasury Nor
genthau will continue his battle
for approximately 101a billion
dollars in new taxes despite
House paSsage-and indicated
Senate approval-of a measure
trimmed to 2,140, 900 900.
The report of Mr.. Morgenthau's
stand conceded today with a heated
protest by the American Federation
OF Labor against what it termed a
Joker" in the new tax bill, reQuir-
ing labor unions to make an annual
financial accounting to the Govern
ment.
Mr.. Morgenthau will go before
the Senate Finance Committe next
week to renew his demands for the
heavier revenues which he has said
are necessary for footing the war
bill and beating down imitation.
Morgenthau Adamant.
Although he has avoided comment
on the House action in slicing more
than 5000 600 900 from the Treas
ury program, Mr.. Morgenthau is
known to feel that any retreat from
the original figure will constitute a
serious setback in the administra-
tion's hold-the-line fight.
Hence his message to the Senators
will lay particular stress on the in
f1ationary aspects of high wartime
incomes.
The Treasury chief left for the
Italian battlefront shortly after he
outlined his $l0,5O0, 900 900 plan to
the House Ways and Means Com
mlttee last month. It called for a
boost of $500, ,O0O, 900 in individual
income taxes, a $2,500, 900 900 hike IN
excise levies, $1,100 ,0OO,O 900 more
from corporations and $4OO 900, ,O0O
from higher estate and gift rates.
Away two weeks on a flight that
took him to Algiers, Sicily and Cairo
as we'll as the Italian mainland, Mr.
Morgenthau has had little to say
thus far Of the economic condi-
tions he observed. Evidently he has
been holding back in order to be
able to paint a fresh picture before
the Senate group.
Although well aware of the odds
against him, the Secretary was re-
ported to have gained some measure
Of hope as the result of an informal
midweek conference with Chairman
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Utrecht Being Cleared
For Bombed-Out Nozis
By the Associated PRESS.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 26.-The Neither.
lands city of Utrecht, which had q
population of about 165 900 before
the war, is being emptied of its in
habitants to make room for Ger
mans who have been bombed out OF
their homes, says the Vrij Neder-
land, Dutch newspaper published in
London.
Preparations already have been
made to house approximately 1O0,-
600 homeless Germans, the paper
says, and various provinces have
been told to make room for numbers
ranging from $4,000 10 2ey0oo
Evening star., 1943-11-26
By the Associated Press.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
giers, Nov. 26.-The American 45th
Division. once part of the 7th Army
Of 1t. Gen. George S. Patton, jr., in
Sicily, has been In action with the
5th Army in Italy, it was announced
today.
The impact of the Fighting 45th, -
one of the most colorful divisions in
the American Army, helped roll back
the German tide when the Salerno
bridgehead appeared likely to be
overrun in the early critical period
after the first landing, it was dis
closed.
The division is made up largely
OF troops from Colorado, Oklahoma
and New Mexico, including more
than 1000 Indians, although it has
contingents from several Eastern
States.
It y one Of the most colorful In
the Army. but what i MON impor-
Evening star., 1943-11-26
U.S.. Heavy Bombers Blast Reich
After RAF Hits Berlin Frankfurt;
Reds axe GomeL SeverNaziLine
Gaps Smashed in
Enemy Defenses
At Other Points
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Nov. 26.-The Red
Army has captured Gomel, Mar
shal Stain announced today,
competing the separation of
Nazi forces of the center and the
Ukraine.
The drive which carried Soviet
columns into the White Russian
citadel, last remaining Nazi bastion
east of the Dnieper, climaxed an
encircling drive which had been
Tightening moose about the COM
munications hub for three weeks.
1t also coincided with a powerful
offensive which smashed gaps in
Nazi defenses north and south of
the fallen city.
The German high command had
acknowledged earlier that the
fortress had been evacuated.
Stain Lauds Airmen.
Marshal Stains order of the day,
broadcast from Moscow and record
ed by the Soviet monitor here, paid
tribute to Russian airmen partici-
pating in the crushing drive, indi-
eating that air power had played a
prominent part in the victory.
Twenty-four divisions and other
units" also were singled out for the
distinction of being named Gomel
divisions and units.
The major victory will be cele-
brated in Moscow tonight in a
booming salute of 20 artillery salvoes
fired from 224 guns.
The German communique said
Gomel was destroyed before it was
evacuated. Five railways radiate
from the city of l45,000. last impor-
tant German stronghold east of the
Dnieper River. Two lines lead into
Poland, one In the direction of
Brest-Litovsk and the other through
Minsk to Wilma and Lithuania. Other
lines connect Gonel with Moscow
Odessa and Leningrad.
Vatutin Army Stands Firm.
In the crucial defense battle west
Of Kiev, Moscow dispatches said the
Ukrainian army Of Gen. Nicolai Va
tutin was standing firm and the
13-day old German drive appeared
to be weakening. New Nazi attacks
were launched near Korosten. how
ever. As miles north Of Zhitomir.
Gomel, important as a farm ma
chinery, wood and cellulose manu.
featuring center, is on the lofty
west bank of the Sozh River. IS miles
north of its confluence with the
Dnieper.
Recent developments in the fight
ing in the Gomel area caused the
German command to order extern
sive Withdrawals a few days ago.
which on the whole were concluded
by last night" DNB dispatch
broadcast by Berlin said. THE
evacuation of Gomel and the neigh
boring sectors led to a considerable
shortening and improvement of
German defensive positions.
Heavy Fighting Reported.
The German communique said
Russian attacks on the Lower
Dnipper near Nikopol were largely
repulsed and that heavy fighting
continued southwest of Kremenchug.
The new Russian offensive, the
18th mounted since July, blasted
37-mile gap in German defenses in
the area go miles north of Gomel
and 120 miles from the White Rus
sian capital of Minsk. Advances
of 80 miles in three days carried
almost to the edge of the Upper
Dnieper, engulfed 180 villages and
accounted for 1000 slain Germans.
Enormous booty and "a large num-
Der OF prisoners" were captured.
The Germans took Gomel in mid
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Heroin, Morphine Stolen
From ChiIdren's HOSPITAL

An undetermined amount of
heroin and morphine was stolen
from the drug room on the first
floor Of Children's Hospital yester-
day, Hazel Royer, supervisor of the
hospitals dispensary, reported to
police today.
Thieves gained entrance by jim
mying side window and forcing an
inner door, police were told.
DR.. John F. O'Brien, jr., resident
physician at the hospital reported
to police that his car, a black coach
with District tag No. 184-156, also
was stolen from the hospital
grounds.
Evening star., 1943-11-26
All Soft Coal Areas
Represented for First
Time al Wage Talks
'Coptive' Mine Operators
End HoIdout; Meet
With Lewis
By the Associated Press.

For the first time in history
soft coal operators and union
leaders representing every coal
producing section of the country
sat down around a table today to
work out a wage contract.
Representatives of coal mines
owned by the steel companies ended
their holdout and joined the wage
negotiations between John L. Lewis,
United Mine Workers president,
and soft coal operators.
Harry Moses. president of the H.
c. Frick Coal Co., owned by United
States Steel Corp, and who is the
principal spokesman for the cap
tive" mines. needed an appeal from
Secretary of Interior Ickes and
showed up at the conference in the
Interior Department. The cap
tives' mine approximately 90, ,000, 900
tons year.
Virtually all other previously alb
sent operators also joined the
conference.
Contract Outlined,
Mr.. Lewis has agreed with most
Northern and Western coal associa-
tions on the basis outline of a wage
contract. but would not sign until
the agreement was on a national
basis. The Southern Coal Producers
Association. though represented in
the talks, has held out against the
form of the agreement.
The Interior Department said all
associations and operators who re.
ceived Mr.. Ickes' telegram Wednes-
day asking their attendance had
complied with the request.
The seven coal producers associa-
tions have expressed q Willingness
to pay the same weekly wage
$57 7.06-that is embodied in .the
1ckes-Lewis working agreement GOV.
ering the period Of Government,
operation, but oppose computing the
wage in a manner that would pay
for underground travel time as 8
part Of the working day. The South.
ern group represents more thar
125 5,000, 900 tons annually. and Mr.
Lewis was reported to have made
this groups inclusion a condition o1
signing a contract.
Will Be Restored.
Mr.. Ickes is sponsoring the curren,
wage negotiations, after declarinf
that he will restore the mines ts
their owners when a contract /.
worked out to insure peace In thu
coal fields.
Close to 10000, 900 tons Of sof,
coal a year were represented in to.
days session. Mines which custo.
marily deal with the Progressive
Miners of America, ArL,. produce
about $4,000, 900 tons, and a few
scattered mines are not unionized
Besides the "captives," new faces
in the departments big conference
room included representatives OF
Arkansas Oklahoma producers with
4 900 600 tons. Some small associa
tions did not send men, but dele
gated other operators already in the
meetings to represent them.
Halt in Exports Urged.
Meanwhile, Representatives Ben
nett and Cole, Missouri Republi-
cans, urged that American ship
.ments of coal to italy be halted.
The two suggested England sup
ply Italy from her ample reserves
ut least until domestic consumer re-
Quirements have besn met IN the
United etatee.s
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Special Election Called
To Fill House Seat

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. 90
Gov. Edward Martin today called a
special election for Tuesday, Janu-
|ary 10, to fill the second district
Philadelphia congressional seat va
Gated by the resignation of James
p. McGranery.
Mr.. McGranery quit to become an
assistant to Attorney General
BiddIe.
Evening star., 1943-11-26

based on sentimental dreams =
which are merely reflections of our
own ideals, not Of theirs, and is .tol-
Grated by the Latins solely because it
is accompanied by liberal donations
from our treasury"
Declaring only three of the 20
countries he visited can fairly be
called democracies, Senator Butler
said:
All the rest are relationships of
the most autocratic sort, and gener-
ally militaristic relationships at
that"
Although ofiicial totals have never
Ifsonfin1,od ~ nee 1f0 Coi,,,.. 2,
Evening star., 1943-11-26
Shop EorIy

Christmas will soon be
here. Do your shopping the
early days Of the season and
the first hours Of the day,
thus saving yourself ineon-
venience and disappoint-
ment.
Evening star., 1943-11-26

(See RUSSIA, Page A-18.)
Evening star., 1943-11-26

(See BONUS, Page A-180