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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Nazi Troops Reported
Leaving Pe|oponnesus
In Southern Greece
Gorrisons on Crete
Also Being Moved in
Hopes Of Evacuation
BY the Associated Press.


CAIRO, Sept. 22.-Reliable re-
ports today said the Germans
have abandoned the greater part
of Peloponnesus in Southern
Greece.
The 8,356-square- mile area, about
a sixth of Greece, is virtually an is
land, linked to the mainland by a
narrow neck of land west of Athens
Peloponnesus includes such towns
as Sparta, Patrai, Pyrgos and Kala-
mai. Its defense has become in
creasingly untenable since the Rus
slams overran Romania and Bulgaria
and Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia
started an offensive to cut all rail
communications.
The reports said German move
ments from Southern and Northern
Greece still continued as Marshal
Macmillan Won WEIGHS, command
ing the German armies in the Bal
kans, strove to extricate his forces.
simultaneously, the Germans were
reported moving garrisons in Crete
from the east to the west in hopes
OF evacuation. Allied Mediterra-
mean forces had thrown a sea and
air blockage around the Greek
island, which is southeast of
Peloponnesus across the Sea of
Gambia. an arm of the Aegean.
British Wellingtons, Halifax and
Liberator bombers from Italy at
tackled the port of Salonika last
night, setting fires visible 100 miles.
A Mediterranean air force an
nouncement said the attack was an
effort to cripple any attempt by
the Germans to evacuate men and
supplies from the Aegean Islands"
Balkan air forces harassed Ger
man efforts to get out of Greece.
Mustangs strafed the Larissa Air
field, destroying two Junkers SO
transports, and shot down a Mes
Serschmitt fighter taking off near
Tirana, capital of Albania. Spitfires
destroyed a number of vehicles in
the Salonika area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Reds Cross vistuIa
And Contact Warsaw
Poles, Dor Reports
Drives Toward ToIIinn
And Hungary Continue;
Soviets Also Near Rieo
BY the Associate; Press.


LONDON, Sept. 22.-Gen. Bor,
commander of Polish Partisans
fighting inside Warsaw, declared
in a communique today that
Russian units had crossed the
Vistula and established contact
with his embattled forces.
The communique was announced
here by the Polish government in
exile. Contact was established in
the Zoliborz and Mokotow districts,
Gen. Bor said. He declared five
German divisions were being pinned
down in the Warsaw battle.
I'VE again have received food and
ammunition dropped by the Soviet
Air Force the communique said
Gen. Bor reported the Poles had
gained ground toward the Vistu,a
especially in the Savious Square
area
I'VE were aided by strong Soviet
artillery" the communicate said
Heavy German artillery fire har-
assed the area of Towarowa ano
zalazna streets throughout the
whole day"
The Germans have reported
crossings of the swift Vistula at
Warsaw, but not the Russians. The
river is a quarter of mile vide at
the city. Russians reached its east
ern bank last week, capturing Praga
industrial suburb of the capital OF
1865 700.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Purchases Of Butter
For Military 10 Halt
Oct. | Until Spring
WA Worms Civilians
Supplies Will Remain
Tight for Rest Of Year
By MALCOLM LAMBORNE Jr.

ny MALCOLM LAMhONNE, Jr.
The War Food Administration
announced today it would halt
its butter procurement program
beginning next month and
would not require butter manu-
facturers to set aside any of
their output for war purposes
until next spring. The Govern
ment has been taking 20 per cent
of all butter produced in the
United States.
At the same time, the agency
served notice on civilians that sup
plies of butter will continue tight"
for the remainder of the year.
Civilian supplies of butter are
expected to be at least as tight dur
ing the remaining months of this
year as they were in the same period
in 1943," VIA official said. But
ter production hits a low point in
November and then increases grad
ually until it reaches a peak in May
or June"
A VIA official said the agency
would draw on its stockpile of but
ter after October l in allotting sup
plies to the armed forces. Butter
procurement began last April.
Big Shortage Reported Here.
Meanwhile, trade sources here re-
ported butter supplies extremely
short" with little prospect of any
improvement in the next few weeks.
Some stores are limiting customers
to a quarter pound each.
The VIA estimated the. average
per capita supply at 119 pounds
the same as last year, but nearly
S pounds less than prewar levels
The agency said, however, that
slightly less than pounds pei
capita were available for household
use on the basis of about "a pounds
per capita being consumed on farms
and a smaller amount being used ir
institutions, industrial plants anc
public eating places.
| Ninety-five per cent of all butter
produced in the United States viii
be consumed by Americans, thu
agency said, with 80 per cent goinf
to civilians and Is per cent to the
armed forces. The other S per cent
| see RTTTvTEP pooe A.ol
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
0'Danie|'s Ant. Roosevelt
Campaign 10 Be Probed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Green of the Senate
Campaign Expenditures Committee
announced today that the commit
tee had decided to investigate the
part being played by Senator ODan-
lei, Democrat, of Texas and his Or
ganization" in the present election
campaign.
Senator Green said Senator
ODaniel twice had been requested
to give the committee data on sub
scriptions but that no reply had
been received.
Senator Green quoted from what
he said was circular letter sent
out by Senator O,Daniel in which
the latter asserted more than $780,
600 had been contributed to a fund
to disseminate truthful informa-
ton" to the people Of the Nation.
The Texas Senator has vigorously
opposed a fourth term for Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Senator Green said the wv. Lee
ODaniel News" published by the
Senator would come within the in
VeSIl8allON. (
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Rimini Captured by 9Th Army;
Yunks Take Gothic Line Town
Twin Victories Hold Threot Of Disaster
To KesseIrine's Forces Guarding Pc Valley

both at Rimini and Firenzuola, the
latter approximately % airline miles
south Of Bologna, city of 269 ,687
population and one of the gateways
into the Pc Valley.
The capture of Rimini turned
the east side of the Gothic Line
and allowed Allied troops to spill
into the Emilian and Lombard
plains on which they can swiftly
cut German communications to all
the Gothic Line-centered around
mile-high mountains which canalize
traffic.
Greek troops entered Rimini Wed
nesday night and by yesterday
morning had cleared the greater
part of the town and reached the
Marecchia River.
Canadian infantry on the left
mopped San Fortunate and the
ridge of the same name, capturing
500 prisoners, and surged to the
Marecchia River, well west OF
Rimini.
The once beautiful Rimini was
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OPA Regrets 10000 Words
Which Failed to Answer Query

Mr.. Weichel said, ''she received a
mass of printed matter Of more than
10000 words as the answer, but
nary a word about the price of
turkeys"
Unfortunately" Acting Admins
traitor James G. Rogers, jr., informed
Mr.. Weichel, "our ONCE which re-
ceived the request (for prices was
working under considerable
amount of pressure and APP
parently some one on our stan
attempted to dispose of the inquiry
by sending to your constituent
copies of all the regulations affect
ing turkeys.
This was unfortunate and at the
present time al can do Is express
my reeret."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The once of Price Administration
is on record with an apology for
sending to an Ohio farmers wife
10000 words about turkeys with
out including the information she
had requested-ceiling prices.
The incident was brought to light
today by Representative Weichel,
Republican, of Ohio, who put OPA's
explanation-that it was q regret
table error-in the Congressional
Record.
Last April the housewife wrote
OPA please send me the prices,
live, dressed and drawn on old hens
and toms (turkeys) for Clyde, Ohio. {"
"At the end OF 4 connie of weeks. !"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Dealers Charge 0PA Stats
Sell A-Book Gas COUPONS
By the Associated Press.


CLEVELAND, Sept. Fulfilling
station operators. united to protest
against OPA gasoline regulations
with which they contend dealers
can't possibly Cooperate" have
charged ration board employees with
peddling new A-book coupons at
three-for- a-dollar.
Declaring OPA regulations are
prosecuting the accepter of counter
felt coupons, not the passer." An
drew P. Ripich, executive secretary
of the new Cleveland Association of
Petroleum Retailers, told 200 dealers
last night:
You don't need to resort to coun-
terfeit coupons. The stooges and
hired help being paid from OPA
funds will sell these coupons they
are intrusted to handle If you have
the price"
Exhibiting 80 coupons which he
said a dealer bought from a ration
board employe for $40, Mr. Ripich
challenged Anthony r. Fiorette,
OPA district enforcement officer, to
investigate the matter.
Immediate enforcement action
will be taken" Mr.. Fiorette said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Reds Push Nearer ToIIinn
And Hungarian Frontier

MOSCOW, Sept. % [R).-Russian
armies brushed aside German re-
sistance today in swift sweeps to
within 40 miles of the Estonian
capital of Tallinn and less than Is
from the Hungarian frontier at op-
posite ends of the long, undulatin
eastern front.
The key towns of Arad, on the
immediate approach to Hungary
and Tapa, on the route to the
Estonian capital were under attack.
In Latvia, the port of Riga, whose
$4,000 persons make it the largest
city in the Baltic states, was be-
sieged. Red Army troops were only
6 miles away.
Still other Russian army groups
hammered at the Carpathian Noun
tain gates of Czechoslovakia after
capturing the eastern end of Dukla
Pass,
Rail Town Seized.
At midnight, the Kremlin an
nounced seizure of the rail town of
Rakvere and 300 other settlements
along the Gulf of Finland and said
the 30-mile isthmus between the
gulf and Lake Peipus had been cap
tured. Russians then were reported
on the outskirts of Tapa on railroads
tanning out to Leningrad, Tallinn
and Riga.
GA Helsinki dispatch said fires
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
BY HAL BOYLE,


WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN
GERMANY, Sept. 81 DelayeO -
Hitler brats," teen-age boys and
girls who belonged to various Ger
man youth organizations, are COM
ing again under parental control in
American-occupieG German dis
tricts.
Father or mother can now apply
a switch to little Fritz or Brunn-
hildIwithout worrying whether these
juvenile political monsters will tell
the Nazis their parents listened to
British radio breakfasts late at
night.
AS result of the propaganda
handed out by the Nazi Party in
recent years, many children gained
a twisted loyalty to the Hitler
regime which in many cases made
them actual spies in their own
homes.
Tattling to Nazi officials by these
seemingly innocent children is be-
lieyed to have cost the lives of
some pro-Allied Germans and the
imprisonment and property confis-
cation OF others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
BY the Associated Press,

ROME, Sept. 22.-Eighth Army
troops have captured the sea-
port of Rimini and have broken
we'll into the industrial Pc VAL
ley in the climax to a four
weeks offensive on the Adri-
attic sector of the Italian front,
Allied headquarters announced
today.
Simultaneously, American troops
of the 5th Army captured Firen-
zuola. an important road junction
in the heart Of the Gothic Line
from which highways extend north
and northeast into the Pc Valley.
The twin victories held the threat
of imminent disaster for Marshal
Albert Kesselrilg's troops. whose
Wanted Gothic Line was crumbling
before Allied armored power, aerial
assault and naval bombardment.
The Germans. intrenched in some
OF the strongest positions encoun-
tered in the Italian campaign, had
waged prolonged and bitter battles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Sky Troops Position at Anthem
Is Critical Allies Acknowledge;
New Manila Air Attack Reported
British Tanks
Stopped North
OfNijmegen
BULLETINS.

SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS (P.-The position
of the British air borne
pocket at Anthem in Holland
was described officially to-
night as critical, unless 1t.
Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey's
British I'd Army can break
through the last 6 miles bar
ring a junction.
ReSolute German resistance
and counterattackS had
brought Gen. Dempsey'S ar
NOR virtually to a standstill
2 miles north of the captured
Rhine Bridge at Nijmegen.
NEW YORK lP,. The
American LIST Army has occu-
pied Stolberg in Germany. a
Blue Network correspondent
reported today. Stolberg, an
industrial city of $4,000, is 4
miles east of Aachen and 80
miles from Cologne. The city
has been under storm by
American forces since they
cracked the Siegfried Line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Police Shoot Caruso
In Back Same WAY
Nazis Shot HOSTAGES
Viva L'Itolio' Lost Word
Of Ex-PoIice Chief in
Rome Execution
y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Sept. 22.-Pietro Ca
russo, police chief of Rome during
four years of German occupa-
ton, was strapped in chair
and shot to death in the back
today by firing squad in ex-
piation for crimes committed
while the Nazis were in the
capital.
Viva IItalia," the doomed man
cried just before squad OF metro
politan police fired.
Caruso was convicted by an Ital-
ian court of rounding up so Italian
hostages for execution by the Ger
mans in the Ardeatina cave near
Rome. He alse was accused of ar
resting Italian refugees in st. Paurs
Church, violating the Vatican's
extraordinarily. His young secre-
tary, Roberto Occhetto, co-de-
PENDANT, got of with 80 years. The
trial was delayed Monday when an
angry Italian mob lynched DR..
Donate Carretta, chief state witness.
Umbert0 Denies Clemency.
Caruso died in the bright sunlight
this afternoon in Fort Bravetta near
the capital. The manner of his
execution was the same meted to
the Italians who were slaughtered
in the cave. and was specified by
the court. Prince Umberto, lieuten-
ant general of the realm, denied
clemency.
A priest administered extreme
JUNCTION while the condemned man
stared intently AS the robed figure
drew back, Caruso shouted Viva
italia" and the firing squad acted.
The body slumped over in the I'M
painted chair.
Immediately before the firing
squad-picturesque in red and black
uniforms-fired, an officer raised a
saber and shouted:
Aim WE'LL"
Italian and Allied officials and Al
lied newspapermen were the only
witnesses.
Caruso Uses Clutches.
Shortly before pm. gray closed
van entered the courtyard and 10
Italian policemen jumped out. The
priest followed and then Caruso
hobbled from the van on crutches.
He had broken his leg last June in
an automobile accident when he was
trying to escape capture by Par
tisans
He made his way tortuously to the
chair, which had a notch carved in
its back. Caruso was placed in the
chair, his chin in the notch.
The doomed man did not finch.
When he was strapped in, the firing
squad marched from behind revet-
ment and lined up with their backs
to the chair.
They about faced at a command,
and the front row took kneeling
positions. At 2:08 pm. each of the
squad fired loaded rifle. There
was no blank.
The body was placed in an I'M
painted wooden coffin and carried
from the fort in black hearse
toward the Roman cemetery, Verano.
A crowd of peasants and children
lined the highway near the fort and
stared silently as the hearse rolled
| bV
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,

ON DEWEY TRAIN EN- ROUTE
TO LOS ANGELES, Sept. o.
AS Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's Pa
cific Coast tour drew toward a
close in Los Angeles today, it
was becoming increasingly ap-
parent that his bid for the presi-
dency will be based largely on a
promise to guide the Nation on
a middle course, avoiding both
extremes of reaction on the one
side or complete Government
reorganization on the other.
The Republican nominee planned
his first meetings of the campaign
with aircraft and motion picture
leaders in Los Angeles today be-
fore he goes on the air ats pm.
Pacific war time) in an appear
ance at Memorial Coliseum. His
speech will advocate a broader So
cial security program.
Addressing nearly 10000 persons
in the San Francisco Civic Audi
forum last night while several thou
sand others outside the hall listened
through amplifiers. Gov. Dewey said
that to-day We confront two danger.
GUS alternatives
Decision Up to Public.
Under one, we may slip by grad
ual stages into complete Govern
ment regulation of every aspect of
our lives" he explained. Under the
other, We may become so intolerant
of the restraints and interferences
in our lives as to take refuge in COM
plete reaction. Either of these
courses would be tragic. Neither IL
necessary"
Then he asked his Nationwide
radio audience to decide this year
whether We shall reject both Of
these courses and choose q new
leadership pledged to attain a max.
imum Of security without loss of our
essential freedoms, and with neither
malice nor favor toward any group
or class"
There also were reliable indica-
tons here today that when the New
York Governor gets back to Albany
September % he will remain there
only few days before resuming his
campaign, probably with a speaking
tour Of several important Midwest
cities.
Arrangements are understood to
be under way for the Republican
nominee to visit West Virginia, one
OF the border States, about October
6. On his way to the Pacific Coast
Gov. Dewey went from Louisville,
KY. to Seattle without making a
major speech, presumably because
he had plans to return to the Mid
west next month. The West Vir-
ginia speech may be the beginning
of swing back into that region.
Bureaucracy Assailed.
Gov. Dewey's speeches are bearing
an increasing resemblance to the
line of thought Wendell Willkie fol-
lowed in 1910, in seeking to assure
the great mass of voters that he has
no intention of turning back from
the gains of the last IL years for
the protection of labor and agricul-
ture. But the New Deal, he con-
tends. has become too bureaucratic
in the methods by which it has ad-
ministered these reforms from
Washington.
The Republican nominee declared
in San Francisco that I'VE are not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
President Satisfied
With Progress Made
In Dumbarton Talks
Coils Agreement on 901
Of Problems at PorIey
Good Betting Average

President Roosevelt today ex-
pressed entire satisfaction with
the progress being. made by the
Dumbarton Oaks Postwar Sc
curity Conference. He said the
three countries represented
there are in agreement on 90
per cent of the problems and
that he thought that was q
pretty good batting average.
The President made the state
ment at his news conference in an
swer to a question as to Why tn,
American, British and Russian con
ferees we're encountering delay il
reaching an agreement on post
war security plan.
Mr.. Roosevelt explained that h,
guessed the best way to look &
the situation is that the conferenc,
is the first of many to create f;
world free from war You just don
dispose of a matter like that Oh
handed. he added.
Unworried About Delay.
He said he thought 4 good wa,
to view that was from q percentag,
standpoint, and then he explained
about the agreement on 80 per cent
of the issues involved.
He concluded that he would no
worry much about the seeming de-
lay.
Mr.. Roosevelt disclosed that his
Quebec conference with Prime Min
lister Churchill devoted a lot OF
study to plans for gradually restor-
ing full authority to the people OF
Italy to handle their own rehabili-
tation problems.
The President said the Quebec
conferees talked a good deal about
two subjects:
Gradually planning ways to place
the responsibility for Italian recon.
version on the Italian people SC
that they will have the authority
and the responsibility.
Seeing to it that the Italian people
do not starve this winter.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he may have
something pretty soon concerning
further steps to prevent starvation
and want in Italy.
Situation Bad in China.
Mr.. Roosevelt said the military
situation in China is not at all sat-
isfactory, but he would not discus.
news dispatches about internal af-
fairs in that country.
He said Donald M. Nelson and
Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley, sent to
China on a special presidential mis-
sion, have kept in close touch with
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek anc
they have gotten along fine.
AS for the military situation in
China the President said he could
not tell newsmen any more now
than he did two months ago-that
it is not at all satisfactory.
Mr.. Roosevelt said there is nc
news concering this country's at
titude toward greater recognition
for the French National Committee
of Gen. Charles de Gaulle. addine
he had heard nothing new in thre,
weeks.
Similarly, he dismissed publishe,
reports that American businessmen
were being permitted to enter Eu
rope by saying he had heard nothing
Of it, that he saw Secretary of Stat
Hull yesterday but forgot to ask him
War Reporting Praised.
The President had a word of prais
for news coverage of the war. H
said newsmen are sending hom
such fine reports on the war tina
(Coo pOOCTVYTT n No. TT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Super Fortress Attack
On Kyushu Reported
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-The Ger
man radio said last night that units
OF Super Fortresses of the. United
States air force on Wednesday
morning conducted an air raid
against Northern Kyushu" and
claimed % of the huge craft were
shot down."
The broadcast was recorded by
CHS.
The announcement was made dur
ing a quarter-hour period devoted
to japanese news.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22

FIRST RACE-Purse. $1,000; maiden q
year.olds; allowances; furlongs.
Challenging tDodson) 430 300 $40
Jetsam tRienZD 1000 $40
Sanrackin tSnellines) $50
Time, 1:163s
Also ran-a Red Figure. Petee Dee, Mi
bob, Display Flight, Grand Player, Cedar
Lady; War Hysteria, Freddie's Game, Sala-
&C. T. Chenery-Mrs. r. M. Waller en-
try.
SECOND RACE-Purse, S1,500;. 3-year-
olds and up; claiming: furlongs
Misty Lady (Smith) 1910 $50 40
Maiden Fern (Bowers) 4t4O $50
Cast Out tGonzalez) 1890
Time. 1:16ss
Also ran-Attune, MIX C6ocoiate, First
Family. Royal Display, Double Bourbon,
D~n Orlsn. Nihhy Jock, F-tt7 Fe~rsee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
BeIgion Cabinet RESIGNS

LONDON. Sept. % (P,-The
Brussels radio said today that the
government of Premier Hubert Pier
lot had resigned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22

going back to leaf-raking and the
dole But in another part of his
speech he said that IF at any time
there are not sufficient jobs in pri-
vate employment to go around, then
Government must create additional
job opportunities. There must be
jobs for ALL"
Some bftter-end opponents of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22

Gov. Thomas E. Deweys
speech at Los Angeles tonight
will be broadcast over Station
WRC from IL to 100 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-09-22
Dewey Is Seen
basing Drive on
Middle Course
Wider Social Security
To Be Topic Tonight
In Los Angeles
BULLETIN.

LOS ANGELES lP.-Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey arrived here
at 1890 am. Pacific war
time) today aboard his spe-
'cial train to deliver his final
Pacific Coast campaign ad-
dress tonight.
Tert OF GoU. DeWeys Address on
Page As
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tSee DEWEY, Page A-4.)
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lSee ITALY, Page A-2D
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(See RUSSIA, Page A-3D
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(See BUTTER, Page A-2.)
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(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-4.)