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Evening star., 1944-08-26
Brewster
Continued From First Pase.)

You we'll know that the Navy De-
partment has no power under any
statute to make additional public
funds available to you by way Of
direct payments or loans to you, and
also that it has no authority to make
these payments direct to the workers.
Il can only interpret your action
as being motivated by a desire to
inclte q controversy between the
workers and the Navy Department,
although the fact that the workers
have not been paid is due entirely
to your willfulness and refusal to
meet your obligations, even though
you have in your possession funds
which are In effect public monies
which the Navy Department ad-
vanced to you for that purpose. In
view OF the foregoing. the Navy De-
partment considers that you should
Immediately pay the just claims of
your workers"
Find No Alternatives.
A spokesman for the Navy also
that Vice Admiral Samuel
M. Robinson, chief of the Once of
procurement and Material, had a
conference Thursday with Richard
Frankensteen. vice president of the
United Automobile Workers (CIO),
on the wage claims of the former
Brewster workers.
AS result Of this conference It
was concluded that payment by
from its own assets was
the only possible solution for the
wage Garner. The Navy. in collab-
with the once of Contract
Settlement, the spokesman added,
has explored alternatives, but has
found them illegal.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Russian Troops Race
Through GaIati Gap
In Drive on Bucharest
BY the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, Aug. 26.-Romanian
troops were reported turning on
the Germans, killing and taking
them prisoner, as the Red Army
sped through the Galati Gap
today toward Bucharest at a
pace which, if maintained, would
carry Soviet spearheads to the
Romanian capital by tomorrow
night.
The Russians last were reported
little more than 100 miles from
Bucharest and barely IS miles from
the Ploesti oil fields. The Siret
River was crossed 20 miles south
Of captured Tecuci.
a Red Star dispatch said 4
pitched battle between 4. the Ro-
manians and Germans was wit
messed by Soviet forces. -. 4.
In this fight, the first reported
episode here Of the Romanians car
rying out their announced inten-
tion to fight with the United Ma
tions, the Romanians captured $50
Germans.
Red Star said the fight occurred
beyond Trguniamu. where the
enemy had gathered on a line of
200 pillboxes.
Romanians Attack Mercilessly.
The Germans and Romanians
both had been fighting the Rus
slams. They were both on the
Soviet right flank-a German divi-
sion and a Romanian regiment.
The dispatch made clear the
Romanians attacked their former
comrades In arms after the divi-
sion was badly mauled by the Rus
slams. The dispatch said the Ro-
manians were merciless as they
slashed into the Nazi ranks and
that as a result the Germans lost
many soldiers"
From the bridgehead south Of
Tecuci, Soviet forces were 80 miles
from the Ramnicul-Sarat fields
northeast Of Ploesti.
Three Romanian generals were
taken prisoner. They were Gen.
Saidak, commander of the 1st Ro-
manian Division: Gen. Voiko, COM
mander Of the 14th Division, and
Gen. Tenescue, commander of the
10th Division.
In continuation Of the lightning
like drive through Romania that has
cost the enemy nearly 205, 900 killed
or captured in six days, Gen. Rodion
Y. Malinovskys I'd Ukraine Army
established bridgehead across the
Siret in the vicinity of Nanesti a
little more than 100 miles from Bu-
charest, front dispatches said.
It appeared that the Galati Gap
defense zone guarding both the Ro-
Evening star., 1944-08-26

Killed IN order to take possession of
the refuge.
There. recently. Wolfe was sur
prised by a scouting party of three
guerrillas who so far are identified
only by initials. One was an elderly
sawmill worker. The second was a
girl who, until she joined the
Partisans, was student at q medical
school in Minsk. The third was a
typographer for guerrilla news
paper.
Wolfe Identified by Picture.
Wolfe, who had been reduced to
eating raw -four in an effort to sur
vive, the account says, was enjoying
this unappetizing meal when over
powered. 1t Is not indicated how
much of struggle occurred, but
on captured earlier soldier were
pictures which had been taken in
Petrishchevo. Here is where Wolfe
was unfortunate. He was barely in
cluded in the right side of the pho
tograph showing Zoya hanging from
the gallows in the center Of a circle
OF Nazis while one, more brazen
than the others, Is turning her
dangling body so it will face the
camera. Wolfe, a short, stocky in
dividual, is watching attentively
with his hands cooked insolently
on his hips.
He was hanged by Partisans.
The current account also dis
closes for the first time how the
photos originally came into the
possession Of the Soviet author
tiles. In the fighting for a height
near the village of Potapovo, in the
Smolensk region, year ago this
month. they found them on the
body Of German ofncer, who was
killed in hand-to-hand conflict
with a wounded 18-year -old Red
Army man named Ivan Gromak
The ofncer Is believed to have been
the eager amateur photographer
whose coldblooded activities were
one Of the features which aroused
the anger of Soviet readers In
earlier accounts Of zoya's death.
The photos were published then
In the Communist organ Pravda
with an admonition to the Red
Army to hunt down and kill every
man who appeared in them.
The 20-year-old Zoya slipped
through the German lines and was
an active Partisan until captured
and executed. She Is the Sovie,
Unions best-known heroine of thi.
war.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Five Army Aviotors
Killed in New Mexico
> the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CARLSBAD, N. Mex, Aug. a.
Col. John P. Ryan, commandant,
has announced the deaths Of two
omcers and three cadets In q plane
crash 8 miles north Of Carlsbad
Army air field yesterday.
The dead are:
Second 1t. Robert N. Springfield,
1r., pilot, Decatur, Ca; Second 1t.
Raymond r. Cloupek, 26, bombar-
dier instructor. Wahoo, Nebr.; Cadet
Bully B. Lane. 10. Roanoke, Va:
Cadet Casimer A. Zielinski, "a, De-
troit: Cadet Vernon G. johnson, 20,
Milwaukee.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Nozi Photo Helps Reds Avenge HANGED Heroine

in the vicinity Of Vitebsk when the
Soviet offensive began on June q.
Perhaps, although it is not specified,
he may have been among those units
hunting down Partisans who infested
the region and were q source of con-
slant trouble to the Germans.
Hunted Become HunterS.
At any rate, their role suddenly
altered. The hunted became the
hunters clearing up In the wake Of
the Red Army that rolled on at
amazing speed to the west, and left
scattered small groups of individual
Germans everywhere, confident in
the ability Of the Partisans to deal
with the situation.
One of these was q Prusisan
soldier. identified only as wolfe. For
almost two months he escaped his
pursuers. living part Of the time in
the "storozhka" or cabin of q. forest
worker named Putshko, whose wife
according to the account, Wolfe had
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Wounded

Marine Corpl. Norman G. Know
Ian, whose wife lives at 22lS Huide-
koper place NV, was seriously
wounded in action on Saipan June
Is. according to word received by
the family from the Navy.
Corpl. Knowlan enlisted in the
Marines in June, 1941. and received
his training at Paris Island, S. c.
He came here from Adrian. Mich.
and his family still lives there.
Corpl. Knowlan is now in a naval
hospital at Pearl Harbor, according
to his wife.
Staff Sergt. Daniel p. Willis, jr.,
1910 Quincy street NV, was
wounded in the legs on July Is in
France, according to word received
from his parents Of the same ad-
dress.
A graduate of Roosevelt High
School, Sergt. Willis was at one time
employed by The Star and prior to
entering the infantry in September,
194l, he was an employe Of the
Government Printing Once. His
wife is resident Of Chicago.
Alfonso Angel Guerra, pharmacist S
mate, third class, husband of Mrs.
Julia Lorence Guerra. 1727 West
Virginia avenue NE, has been re-
ported as wounded in action.
Marine Corpl. Barton Atlee
Marshall, son of Maj. and Mrs.
Claude H. Marshall of Laurel, Nd,
was wounded while fighting on
Guam, according to word received
by his family. Corpl. Marshall was
wounded before. in 1912.
Pvt. John w. Smith, 26, son of
Mrs. Anna Smith, 526 Edgewood
street NE, has been reported by the
War Department as wounded in
action on July IL in Normandy.
His wife and son live at 1928 Hol-
brook street NE.
Pvt. Bruce M. Ross was seriously
wounded in action in France July 8,
the War Department has notified his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Ross,
758 Silver Spring avenue, Silver
Spring. Born in Canada, Pvt. Ross
moved to Chicago with his family
as an infant. About IL years ago,
he moved to Takoma Park, and for
the last six years he made his home
in Silver Spring.
A graduate of Montgomery Blair
Senior High School in 1943, Pvt.
Ross was a member of the varsity
basket ball team. He entered the
service September /, 1943, and had
been overseas with an anti-aircraft
division since February.
Water Tender First Glass; Clar-
ence Francis Schlag. 26, whose
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert G..
Schlag, live at 223 South Pitt street,
Alexandria, Va, was burned on both
arms during action in the Marianas
June 18, according to his mother.
Mrs. Schlag said her son left last
Tuesday to report to the West Coast
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Try to Prevent SABOTAGE.

Daniel de Luce, Associated Press
correspondent in Moscow, said Ro-
manian troops were attempting to
prevent German sabotage of sur.
Vving Ploesti oil field installations
and that the Nazis appeared bent
on destruction rather than defense
Of that vital economic prize.
He said the entire German posi-.
ton In the provinces of Moldavis
and Walachia was becoming unten.
able for the Nazis. Walachia, which
embraces Bucharest and Ploesti
stretches over rich, rolling farm.
lands to the Bulgarian frontier
along the Danube, afYording ar
ideal terrain for expanding tn.
Red Army blitz against chaotic
remnants Of the German Army.
Moscow was expecting an an.
nouncement OF Bulgaria's exit from
the war with United States ano
Great Britain hourly.
The Romanian government an
nounced its declaration of war on
Germany in a broadcast that
charged the Germans broke their
promise not to war on the capitulat-
ing Romanians by bombing Bucha-
rest and other towns and turning
guns on civilians.
Romanians in Bucharest ousted
Germans attempting to seize the
capital, the broadcast said.
Liberation Reported.
'The last German In Bucharest
has surrendered and Bucharest is
completely liberated" the radio
said. The government now orders
the Romanian Army to begin the
struggle against all German mill
tary forces on Romanian territory
for the liberation of the country
from German usurpation."
The Nazis took up their old prop
aganda cry that Bolshevism loomed
for Romania, with the German news
agency Transocean declaring there
is no doubt that the Allies intend
to deliver Romania to Russia as
(Soviet commissar of foreign affairs
Molotov asked for"
Evening star., 1944-08-26

Seaman AcAernan. and was en-
ployed at Camp Springs. Md. before
he was drafted in July, 1943, and
was assigned to sea duty last spring.
According to word received by his
mother from the Navy Department,
Seaman McKernan was killed in
close combat with the enemy"
His destroyer received seven shell
hits. The Navy also told Mrs. Nc
Herman that her son was buried on
recently recaptured American soil. !"
Pvt. John Richard Wolfe, 20,
whose family lives at 1943 Capitol
View avenue. Silver Spring, Md,
was killed June 3 while serving with
the infantry in Italy, according to
information received from the War
Department. His family was noti-
fed July 19 that he was missing in
action, and on August S received
word of his death.
His wife, Mrs. Margaret Wolfe,
and their 6-month-old son, John
Richard Wolfe, jr., have been max
ing their home at the Capitol View
avenue address with his mother,
Mrs. Clara v. Wolfe. At present,
the widow is staying with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Lusby, at
5000 Newton street, Cheverly, Md.
A native of Evansville, Md. Pvt.
Wolfe was graduated from Mont
gomery Blair Senior High School,
Silver Spring, in June. 1943. He
entered the Army July 7. l943, and
received his training in Camp Croft,
S. G..
He leaves four sisters, Mrs.
Georgianna Kennedy. York. Pa;
Mrs. Emma Park, Miss Helen Wolfe
and Mrs. Clara Virginia Cosgrave,
all of Silver Spring. and two
brothers, Harry H. Wolfe Of Be-
thesda and Charles M. Wolfe Of
Evening star., 1944-08-26
War Department Bans
Socialist Broadcast
After First Approval
By the Associated Press.

In a quick shift of position,
the War Department has with
drawn an agreement to give the
Socialist party an opportunity to
broadcast a political address to
troops overseas.
The Socialist Party had contend
ed that President Roosevelt's speech
at Bremerton, August IL, on his re-
turn from the Pacific, was Of politi-
cal nature and asked for equal radio
time. Yesterday the War Depart
ment announced the request had
been n'granted, but last night. Acting
Secretary of War John j. McCloy
said this decision had been over
ruled.
"It has been called to my atten-
tion," Mr.. McCloy said, that de-
cision was made by an Army agency
to grant time to the Socialist Party
for an averseas rebroadcast to troops
on the basis of that party's conten-
ton that the Presidents report at
Bremerton was a political address
within the meaning Of Title v of
Public Law 277.
Decision Reconsidered.
'I have reconsidered this decision.
The War Department determines
that the Presidents report was not
political and accordingly no time
will be granted to the Socialist Party
on such basis"
Public Law 277 is the soldier vote
law, and Title v, recently amended,
is the section which governs the dis
semination of political news and
propaganda to troops under official
sponsorship.
Officers in the War Department
Bureau of Public Relations said the
decision to grant the Socialist Party
request was made in the Office of
Col. Robert Cutler, soldier vote CO.
ordinator for the War Department
and the Secretary of Wars repre-
sentative on the United States War
Ballot Commission.
Col. Cutler refused to say whether
his decision had been approved by
the Secretary of War or any high
civilian official of the department
referring questioners to Maj. Gen
A. D. Surles. director of public re-
lations. Reached at his home, Gen
Surles said II don't think the Secre-
tary was aware of the situation"
Stimson Out Of City.
Secretary Stimson was out of the
city and not available for comment
In New York, Harry Fleischman
national secretary of the Socialist
party, termed the decision by Mr.
McCloy "a highly partisan and
political step which is in violation
of the soldier voting law"
'It is significant that time was
granted for the Socialist broadcast
by regular Army officers and should
now be reversed by a political ap-
pointee of President Roosevelt. We
believe that the intent of Con-
gress was to have this law grant
ing equal time to all major parties
for discussion of campaign issues
strictly enforced
1--WE are certain that reconsider
alton of the issues involved will
lead to reversal of Acting Secre-
tary of War McCloy's arbitrary, un-
fair and unjust decision to prevent
both sides of campaign issues from
being heard by the soldiers abroad
At Pawling, N. Y. Gov. Thomas E
Dewey. Republican presidential
nominee. when informed of the
War Department decision, had nc
comment.
In granting the Socialists request
the War Department said the other
major parties we're being advised OF
the action.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
81 Dumborton Delegates
Tour New York CITY

NEW YORK, Aug. 26 R.-Thirty-
1our British, American and Rus
sian delegates to the Dumbarton
Oaks security conference In Wash-
ington saw the sights Of New York
today.
The delegates, who arrived here
last night by plane accompanied
oy Undersecretary of State Edward
n. Stettinius, jr., took . boat trip
around Manhattan, then toured the
city singly and In pairs.
They will leave by plane late to-
morrow for Washington to resume
discussions.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Norman Thomas Critical
OF Dumborton Conference

DENVER. Aug. 26 R.-Norman
Thomas, Socialist candidate for
President, criticized the Dumbarton
Oaks conference In a speech last
night. He declared the conference
was called Ito work out a plan for
enforcing peace before the peoples
OF the world are told what sort of
peace Is to be enforced"
Evening star., 1944-08-26

manian capital and the Ploesti oil
fields was virtually lost to the reel
ing foe.
Tanning out, Gen Malinovsky's
troops threatened to cut the rail-
road between by-passed Focasani
and Bucharest
The annihilation of IL NaI divi-
sions encircled southwest Of fallen
Chisinau. provincial capital of Bes-
sarabia, continued as the outnum-
bered Germans fought In dazed,
small groups or fled in disorder.
Soviet armored cars combing the
Moldavian countryside for nests of
enemy rearguards were reported
barely rs miles from the forest of oil
derricks which surround Ploesti.
The Russian war bulletin dis
closed that a Soviet spearhead was
driven to the Danube River delta at
Kiliya on the Danube River, IS miles
west Of the Black Sea port OF Valcov
$50 Villages Captured.
CThe German news agency
Transocean said today the Rus
slams were striking to cross the
Danube delta in Romania. claim )
ing that German torpedo boats on
the river repelled Soviet "of-
fensive thrusts across the delta.")
More than $50 villages and towns
were occupied by the forces Of Gen.
Malinovsky and Gen. Feodor I. Toll
bukhin, commander of the Sd Ukrain
Army. as their two commands joined
along the Prut River at Leuseni, 80
miles west of Chisinau.
Gen. Tolbukhin's forces repelled
counterattacks by the trapped Nazi
divisions trying desperately to break
out IN the last two days. He has
taken more than $4,000 prisoners,
and more than 10000 of the enemy
were still believed to be encircled.
Moscow gave no ofncial figures on
how many Romanian soldiers now
were fighting on the side Of the Red
Army against the Nazis and Hun
garians. All surrendering Romanian
units were permitted to keep their
arms, provided they declared their
intention to make war on the Ger
mans.
Other Important Successes.
In other important successes yes
terday, Gen. Ivan Maslennikov's I'd
Baltic Army captured Tartu, a CEN
ter Of Nazi resistance in Central
Estonia, and Gen. G. F. Zakharov's
I'd White Russian Army, advancing
In the direction of the German
frontier in Northern Poland, seized
over 40 populated points south of
LomZa.
Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossov-
sky was reported lettering his posi-
tions east and northeast of War
saws suburb of Praga, although the
Germans still were mounting tank
and infantry tanks against him.
In the Vistula bridgehead below
Warsaw and on the East Prussian
frontier, Red Army forces main
tanned pressure on the Nazis, pre-
venting . possible diverting of
strength to Hitler's wavering Balkan
satellites.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
70 Irish Wives of Yunks
Get Gay Sendoff for U. S.

BY tne AsSOclated Press.
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ire
land. Aug. 26.-More than 10 Lon
donderry women, wives of Ameri-
cans at the United States naval base
here. left recently for new homes
in the United States.
A score carried babies as they
boarded the 15,0O0-ton Marine
Haven while naval band played
and the Irish crowd ashore sans
"Auld Lang Syne"
Evening star., 1944-08-26

Mary Mcker-
nan, 1851 Wis
consin avenue
NV, was killed
In action aboard
q destroyer in
the South Pa
cihc July "a, ac-
cording to word
from the Navy
Department.
A native of
the Distric c t,
Seaman McKer-
nan was edu-
Gated at H oily
Trinity School
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Fall Fractures Bows Arms

Steven Craig, 10, of 1903 Stanley
avenue, Bradbury Heights, Md, suf-
fered fractures of both arms yes
terday when he fell from a tree
while playing several blocks from
his home. He was treated at Provi-
dence Hospital and released.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
BS the Associated Press


A UNITED STATES FIGHTER
BASE IN ENGLAND, Aug. 26.-De-
tails Of how 1t. Col. Francis Gabre-
ski, Is, American ace from Oil City
Pa, was captured by the Germans
IN taking "one more crack" at a
Nazi airfield during a strafing mis-
sion he did not have to make were
disclosed today.
Col. Gabreski, Thunderbolt squad
ron commander who destroyed 28
German planes In the air and three
aground, was ready to return to the
United States on a 30-day leave and
be married. but volunteered for an
other mission on July 20.
He led a squadron Of Is planes to
German airfield near Koblenz.
where they destroyed nine Heinkels
on the ground. Col. Gabreski got
one of them-his 3lst kill.
Hit Trees.
The colonel's flight was ready to
leave when he decided to make an
other run on the airfield. Swoopinp
over very low to avoid antiaircraft
f1re, he struck q clump Of, trees at
the end Of the field. Then the pro-
peller Of his PAT hit the ground
Evening star., 1944-08-26
On the Roll Of Honor
Two District Area Men Killed
lin Action, 9 Others Wounded

Two men from the District area
have been killed in action, nine
have been wounded and one has
been decorated, according to word
received by relatives.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Congress in Brief

~ the Associated Press.
Senate:
In recess until Tuesday.
Houee:
In recess unth Monday.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Balkans
Continued From First Page

don broadcast recorded by CHS
said.
(The Russian-sponsored Free
Germany National Committee,
quoting Turkish reports, said in
broadcast last night that fierce
fighting had broken out "all over
Greece" and in Crete between
Greek irregulars and German
occupation troops, the FEC re-
ported)
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Killed in Action

Seaman First Glass; Joseph Ed
ward McKernan, ~. husband of
Mrs. Alice McKernan, 1914 East
Capitol street, and son Of Mrs.
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CAR ACCIDENT FATAL

Charlevoix, Mich. May cap
Luella Rich, IS, OF East Jordan.
was killed instantly late Saturda,
when car in which she was rid
ing left the highway three miles
southeast Of Charlevoix and over
turned.
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University Given
Valuable Volume

Ann Arbor. May pa total Of
Ss7,s1s in gifts, and a book bear
ing an inscription from Abraham
Lincoln, valued at $500 were ac-
cepted by University Board OF Re-
gents at its monthly meeting Fri
day. Gifts included $4,000 from
the estate Of the late Willard VI.
Clapp, Cleveland. a grant OF $780,
900 from the Rockefeller Founda-
ton, New York City, and $500
from John W. Waiting, Detroit, for
the Clements Library Special Fund
At the meeting also Dr.. Stuart
A. Courts, a member OF the Uni.
versity School Of Education staff
for "a years, who reached the re-
tirement age OF 20 on May Is. was
given the title OF Professor-emeri.
tus Of education
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PAS Hymns OF All Churches;
6:15 Serenade to America.
CBS-1.45 Goldbergs;

500 Fun with Dunn;
$50 Jeri SULLIVAN Song.
BLU-900 a. m. Breakfast Club;
1915 p. m. Meet Your Neighbor;
$50 Ladies Be Seated.
MBS-10:30. a. m. Shady Valley
Folks;
100 p. m. Luncheon with Lopez
Orchestral:
':15 Johnny Neblett open House.
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TOMATOES respond to care
and cultivation. They should not
be set out until all danger from
frost is past. If you are purchas-
ing tomato plants select only
sturdy, stocky ones having dark,
green foliage.
When planting set the tomato
seedlings a little deeper than they
were growing in the nursery. A
plant can be set as deep as the
nrst shoot of leaves, as illustrated
in the accompanying Garden
Graph. The soil can be filled in
gradually as each plant becomes
established. The lower leaf stems
on a tomato plant always turn
yellow and drop of, therefore,
such leaves can be removed at
planting time, if you so desire.