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en- by Federal agents to keep Gen
ClaEk's visit to Washington a secret
and 1t is only now that he is back
at his command post in Italy that
the facts of his memorable mission
can be revealed without danger OF
giving any useful information to the
enemy.
When the commander arrived In
the Capital he was rushed to the
apartment house where his wife
and daughter live and Government
agents were posted in the building
A War Department automobile was
assigned to him.
Also, in order to avoid any indis-
Greet revelations by servants, Gen.
Clark was assigned an Army orderly
to wait on him during his visit
here. Arrangements also were made
to avoid any one seeing the general
enter or leave the building.
Others Return Occasionally.
The apartment house in which
Gen. Clark lives also is the house OF
1t. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland
chief of staff to Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur. and of Admiral Royal E. In
gersoll, commander in chief of the
Atlantic fleet. They return occa
sionally to consult with the joint
chiefs OF staff here and their visits
are not considered official secrets
They are seen in uniform around the
building and mingle in the dining
room with other guests.
However, because of the strategic
situation in Italy, it apparently was
considered necessary to keep Gen
Clark's visit here a secret.
He returned to Italy after a rest
.of few days at a fashionable Vir-
ginia resort.
Evening star., 1944-05-12
Airport Is Opened
For Mercy Plane

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 12.-It
mattered not at all today to g.
month-old Martha Perryman Han.
cock that she was the cause of thu
first civilian landing on Municipal
Airport since last December %.
All Martha could have known was
that it was hard for her to breathe
and surgeons ut the bronchoscopic
clinic of Temple University's hospi-
tai were ready to remedy that by
removing safety pin from Martha s
throat.
The youngster from Columbia,
Tenn, swallowed the pin yesterday
The family physician, DR.. Watt
Yeiser. said Temples bronchoscope
Evening star., 1944-05-12

designed to keep keymen from be-
ing assaSSinated.
There were these other under
ground reports: -us-
Gestapo and SIS elite Corps con-
troll in the occupied countries along
the West Wall has been centralized
in one man, Gen. Udo Won Woyrsch,
SIS chieftain. Ie4
With the aid of Quislings, poten-
tial 'reprisal" camps have been 1es-
tablished to which all suspected raen
and women will be sent on D-day.
The Low Countries and France
have been. sealed OF into military
zones and ali civilians are forbidden
to travel from one zone to another
without special passes in order to
prevent the organization of under
ground assaults and the leakage of
military news.
Three German air-borne and para :
chute divisions have been trans
ferred to the West Wall, apparently
for quick movement to threatened
points.
Evening star., 1944-05-12
5 Nazi Planes Downed
In Attack on Convoy
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ALGIERS, May 12.-British and
French fighter pilots knocked down
five German planes and damaged
others in force attacking an Al
lied convoy in the Western Medi-
terranean, Coastal Air Force head
quarters said today, without dis
closing whether the convoy suffered
damage.
Berlin radio said Nazi planes
sank a destroyer and seven
freighters, totaling about $4,000
tons, in an attack last night on
convoy in the Western Medi-
terranean. 1t said a cruiser of
the Dido class, a British ship of
$3.50 tons, and three destroyers
were hit and put out of action,
and that heavy damage was done
to II transports, freighters and a
9,000-ton tanker.
(Another German broadcast
reported '1ivelier enemy activity
on the Casino 'front.'" and said
there was some connection" be-
tween this stepup in ground
operations and the raid on the
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Evening star., 1944-05-12

dismissed without prejudice" today
the Government petition for an in
junction to restrain officials of
Montgomery Ward g. Co. from in
terfering with Federal operation of
the firms Chicago plants, now re-
turned to company possession.
The formality followed the courts
statement Wednesday that it "con-
sidered the case dismissed" because
action of the Government on Tues
day in turning the properties back
to the control of the big mail order
firm had taken the case out of his
hands.
Without prejudice" means the
Government could initiate a similar
action later. If the case was dis
missed with prejudice" the Gov
ernment would have been barred
from starting a new suit of the
kind.
Evening star., 1944-05-12
; Of Ablest Generals
In Reich Command
Hitler S West Wall
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 12.--Adolf Hitler
has placed tank specialist, a man
rated as the Germans best artillery
general and a veteran of the Rus
sian front. in command of three
armies. along the west wall coast oil
Europe to meet the Allied invasion.
On the eve of probably the great
est attack in history this lineup oi
the German defense mechanism was
CLEANED today from European un-
derground channels.
Under Marshal Gen. Karl Rudolf
Gerd Won Rundstedt, in general
command of the west wall, are three
armies.
The first. in Southern France, IL
commanded by Col. Gen. Johannes
Blaskowitz, the tank specialist, who
engineered the break through al
Sedan in 1910. After the fall oi
France he retired to civilian life, but
Won Rundstedt persuaded him to re-
turn to active duty.
RAHHct Is 1Op Man.
In the center is an army COM
manded by Col. Gen. Friedrich Doll
man, the German Army's topmost
artillery general In the north is
Col. Gen. Hasse, veteran Of the
Russian front.
Back of Marshal Won Rundsted,
Is Marshal Erwin RonHmel, a Hitle,
1avorite despite his rout in Africa
VINO is the supreme commander o1
european defenses.
Two German Air Force fiphte,
corps and one bomber CORPS unde,
Maj. Gen. Oberst Pelz back up thu
Nazi ground forces, placed by tn,
best available estimates at between
81 and go divisions, counting thos,
In the Low Countries which wer,
last reported under Gems. Fried
erich G. Christensen and Alexande
Won Falkenhausen.
German division personnel in tn,
west Is estimated at an average O
$4,000 while those on the Russian
front are said to have been stream.
lined to as low as 5000.
Officers Experienced.
All the officers and troops alon,
the West Wall are experienced ane
are some of the best in the German
Army. Many are veterans of fou1
years OF fighting and include such
crack units as the first parachute
division, which held up the 8ti
Army in Italy at Ortona for weeks
Though Marshal Rommel has ia.
vored mobile defense, underground
reports say that in the last few
weeks the Nazi plans have beer
changed.
In the past, as in italy, the Ger
mans have held back a strong re.
serve after Allied landings until
certain where the main thrust was
coming and then hitting it with a
great counterattack several DAYS
after the first Allied forces went
ashore.
Now. however, 1t is indicated the
Nazi defenses will be spread, with
every effort being made to destroy
the Allied troops as they land and
a smaller force remaining in reserve
for q counterthrust.
Evening star., 1944-05-12

bS the hSS0clated fIeSS.
NEW YORK, May 12.- NBC
monitors reported last night that
the German radio had presented a
burlesque of an American broad
cast on the coming D-Day, billing
1t as "a preview of the invasion"
The enemy transmission was
strictly in the war of nerves"
category and had nothing whatever
to do with any actual operation
opening the Western European
ground front.
NBC said the broadcast began
with a dirge.
Allied deaths at Dieppe were de-
scribed. Then the scene shifted to
British port of embarkation. Next
an American family was portrayed
sitting around the radio listening to
dance music from the white room
in the Palace Hotel in Washing
ton"
After several bars of music, ac-
cording to NBC, Berlin propagan-
Evening star., 1944-05-12
HeinzerIinu
Continued From First Page.)

9th Army moved into the attack In
a daring plan to dungeon the Ger
mans out of their positions.
AS the sky blazed in fury and gun
flashes filled the valleys on the
blood-soaked approaches to the
German positions, the Poles moved
along the mountain roads to their
rendezvous with the enemy. The
Polish troops were going into their
first major battle in Western Eu-
rope since the dark days of 1888
when the German invader smashed
and conquered their homeland.
Opening of this new assault makes
1t possible to disclose for the first
time that the 9th Army has been
in position for weeks preparing for
the attack.
Stretching before the 9th Army
as it moves forward is the Gustav
Line, in which the Germans are
strongly entrenched with the high
ground in their possession. J43.4I /.
Some 10 miles beyond the Gustav
Line is the bristling Hitler Line,
which the Germans have been
strengthening and perfecting for
months IN preparation for the day
when Allied forces crack through
the former barrier on the road
leading to Rome.
The opening artillery barrage was
a fearsome sight. Promptly at II
pm, livid flashes cut across the
valley as the batteries opened up.
Then the entire sky seemed alight
and for miles the dark background
was splashed with brilliant flashes
of the guns. Far behind the Ger
man lines the bursting shells seem
to dance along the ground like an
electric signboard. The guns never
stopped and after four hours there
seemed to be no perceptible slack
ening.
Evening star., 1944-05-12
Invasion
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take charge of France on the
grounds that Vichy may be unable
to control the French population
when the Allies invade.
Petain Shifted From Vichy.
This report came through Euro
pean underground channels after
French quarters in London an
nounced the Germans had shifted
Marshal Petain from Vichy to a
chateau 40 miles from Paris.
The underground advices said
Marshal Rommers demand was be-
ing opposed by the German Foreign
Office. The field marshal was said
to have stated that the vichy police
would be useless to the Germans
because many were little better
than gangsters."
Meanwhile, on the Allied side,
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, SUI
preme commander OF, Invasion
forces, revealed that the G-5 (civil
affairs) section of his command was
set to march into Germany with the
conquering troops and rule the
Reich with a military iron hand as
well as operate temporarily in the
countries presently German-occu-
pied.
From Ottawa came an official hint
of further attacks in the middle
East, possibly in conjunction with
the invasion, Trade Minister j. A.
MacKinnon referring in report on
Dominion exports to impending
activity in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean."
Molotov Warns Foe.
And in Moscow Soviet Foreign
CommiSSar Vyacheslav Molotov de-
clared the Germans soon would feel
the Joint blows" of the Russians
from the east and the Atlantic
Allies from the west.
The top oficer of G-5 is 1t. Gen.
A. E. Grassett, Canadian-born mem
Der of the Royal Engineers, and the
ranking American is Brig. Gen.
Aulius C. Holmes, who in peacetime
was diplomat and businessman.
In friendly countries, the admin
istrative group will operate directly
with the governments in exile or
other recognized native governing
body and will depart as soon as
the civil machinery is functioning.
In Germany it is expected that the
military government will remain
until some sort of postwar commits
sion takes over.
| Underground sources with close
European contacts said the Germans
still were feverishly making a. va
riety of anti-invasion preparations
in Western Europe.
Protection of German nationals
appeared to be of major concern.
The German plan of civilian de-
fense known as "wehrschiessen, ~
previously used only in the Reich
itself, was said to have been extend
ed now to France and the Low
Countries, with all German civilian
men being issued arms for protec-
ton against local revolts.
German civilian specialists in
France, particularly in Paris, were
reported under orders to go to So
called refugee strong points" with
one suitcase of clothes the moment
invasion starts. These strong points
under army control, apparently were
Evening star., 1944-05-12
Continued From First Page.

the task Of overcoming enemy-heid
strongpoints in the mountains and
high ground.
Move In Under Flares.
The doughboys moved In under
flares and against mortars, machine
guns and mine fields.
Directing big part OF the artil-
lery barrage was 1t. Col. Franklin
Miller, better known to his men az
Windy because he is so quiet about
what his artillery can do.
So spectacular was the barraqe
that 1t. Col. Gaulden M. Watkins of
San Francisco came over from an
other location to watch it.
Red and green flares lit the skv
for miles around for hours, and
silhouetted us, dug in on a hilltop
only a few hundred yards from a
cemetery from which one outfit
jumped off. One colonel insisted on
standing to see how his men were
doing.
lney were doing nne, too.
One company, led by Capt. Carl
Nelson, Pittsburg, Kans., was on one
side of the road and another, headed
by Capt. Albert Carlstone of Chicago,
was on the other, with 1t. Col. Ray
mond E. Kendall, Manchester, N. H.
in charge of the actual operation.
An hour and half after H" hour.
both outfits reported back to Mai,
Victor Hobson, Birmingham, Ala,
that they had taken their first OBJ
jectives.
IL wasn't quite that easy, however.
because #" company ran into
trouble with mortar and machine
guns, and had to reorganize before
marching on.
Evening star., 1944-05-12

LOSk.
BILLFOLD, mans, black, vicinity Silver
Spring, containing IT gas ration coupons
ward: Lawrence De Long Silver Spring O0i}
BRACELET, platinum flexible, block en-
E5aDed moHea qeaFs Sappees and d
monds weighing l.22 karat, "a Australian
fRspshGiFsS RewaTd Ssnond Boy 71-E star
in Hecht Co. Wednesday. Liberal reward.
BRINbLG BULLDOG, months old. male;
NV. Reward. Gail RA "a i.
CHANGE PURSE. small black, containing
twe $50 bills; So BIZ about six s. bills
COCKER SPANIEL, black, X ogsS mos. old; an
Swers to name OF "Tobey," Call GE. s137.
DIAMOND RING, diamond in center, blue
stone stone on each side Reward. National
DoG: tan and white, mixed breed, part
FOX TERRIER PUPPY, tan. White mark
ingS' RED halter tag No. 39023. Reward.
a FOX Terrier. smooth, male, white
heavily a maTked n Ts with dark TAM name
FUR SCARF Of martens; left in cab be-
GLASSES. pink ii sheiicrimmed, iio3n "fTo IN black
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LEVEL BOX brown leather, containing
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PoCKETBooK. SLACK. ladys: lost lost at at 'in4th
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PoeKETBooK, black, lost in Murphys 5
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saaRinfp glasses bo receipts @ ETC. and sl1 to
IpoLiCE DoGt large: red Cd, named Rusty;
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WRIST WATCH, mans, Lord Eigin, with
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Call B. J. Greenhouse. Ma. 6933
WRIST WATCH, lady's. yellow gold Lorten,
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Evening star., 1944-05-12
CLARK Tells His Men
He'sCertoin They
Will Destroy Nozis
By the Associated Press.

oS LAAC <1scVSiatCd ACcss
FIFTH ARMY HEADQUAR-
TIERS, ITALY, May II De-
layed.-Lt. Gen. Mark w.
Clark in an order of the day
to the troops he is leading in
the new major effort of the
italian campaign told the 18th
Army today he was fully conf
dent I'VE can and will destroy
the German armies"
You have inflicted heavy
losses upon their troops and
have taken more than $4,000
prisoners" the commander of
the 5th Army declared in the
order read to all troops seven
hours before the offensive
opened.
You have placed the enemy
in his present distressing posi-
tion of trying hopelessly to hold
back the Allied forces, which he
knows will eventually overrun
him from two directions"
Evening star., 1944-05-12
ItuIy
Continued From First pap,

lans out of an area behind the front
at least 20 miles deep, which now
has become an arena of a smuggling
match unrivaled in italian history
Livid flashes lit the sky as the
awesome artillery barrage signaled
the opening of the push,
A special Allied commCniaue an
nouncing the beginning of the often
sive said the regrouping of the Allied
armies had been successfully COM
pleted without enemy interference, +"
adding:
The operation has been covered
by continual air action and patrol
activity along the whole front,
Complicated and heavy road and
rail movements of men and mate
nal have been smoothly carried
out"
Accomplished on Time.
The announcement said the vast
troop movement, which had been in
dtcated by several German broad
casts Of the last week, had made
Evening star., 1944-05-12
BurIesque Of U. S. Broadcast
On D-Duy Put On by Nuzi Radio

dist mimicking the voice of an
American announcer, broke in and
said: I'VE interrupt this broadcast
to bring you an important news
bulletin. The invasion has begun
Our troops are landing on the
Calais coast. The enemy is offer
ing stiff opposition Keep tuned to
this station for further details. We
now return you to Dick Whiting
ton and his Footwarmers.
A short-wave program, the broad
cast was beamed to America. The
news bulletin" quoted above has
no foundation in fact.
Evening star., 1944-05-12
Burglar Killed in Fall
Found 10 Be Neiqhbor

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 12.-Awakened
by noise in his bedroom, Nicholas
Salomone chased what he thought
was burglar, saw a man trip and
fall from a second-story porch.
Mr. Salomone ran downstairs and
found man lying dead on the
pavement. He recognized him as
George E. Bonezzi, an old friend
and neighbor, who apparently had
come to visit him.
Shortly afterward, Mr.. Bonezzis
mother, learning of her sons death,
died of shock.
Evening star., 1944-05-12
u. S. Has Expended
S178,500, 600, 900 on
War to Dote
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. ..t
The war to date has cost this
country, in direct expenditures.
about $l78,5o0, 600, 900.
This amount covers spending
Ior war activities since July /,
1910.
Last month war spending
averaged 1924, ,ooO, 600 a day. For
tne nrst eight business days of
May the rate was s31s, 900 900 a
day.
Evening star., 1944-05-12
THE EVENING STAR. Washington. D, G. =. A-3


was the only means of removing 1t.
When Martha's father, Leonard,
a marine private stationed at San
Diego, Calf, heard what had hap
pened, he telephoned the Civil
Aeronautics Board at Washington.
The Philadelphia airport was
closed because Of the proximity of
military installations" but special
permission was granted and q al
passenger airliner swooped down
with Martha and her mother
aboard.
Evening star., 1944-05-12
FOUND.

RESIDENTS CONGRESS HTS. and vicinity
report abandoned animals to the Amin al
Protective Association, 5000 Wheeler rd.
Sc. by letter or phone AT. 1883.
SMALL PACKAGE on 11th st. near Penna
WATCH. lady's. sold. Call DE. $500, after
WRisT WATCH, mans, spring wristband,
found April 18TH on Kennedy ct. Cali
Holy Cross College. IA. 1894.
Evening star., 1944-05-12

ALLIES OPEN OFFENSIVE IN ITALYArrow indicate Allied
drives the southern sector OF the main front back ne in
Italy British 9th Army forces pushing forward in the
Casino today and m Army forces operating farther
south Allies thrusng toward two prepared German
defense positionshe Gustav Line and the Adolf Hitler Line
"A P. Wirephoto
Evening star., 1944-05-12
Court Dismisses Suit
Without Prejudice
LOST.

CHICAGO, May u (P.-Federal
Judge William H. Holly formally
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-08-05
Mrs. Bricker
Is Popular
With Press
BY HELEN ESSiRN,
Central Press r,umnISt

Washington, Aug. 5.-Mrs. John
Brickcr is as likabIc and intelligent
d woman as YOU will meet in any
body's country.
Mrs. BrIcker is, Of course. the wife
of the man who hopes to De vice
president of the United States. At
man is the governor of Ohio. He is
doing the best he can to be more
conservative than Henry Wallace
and more progressive than his can
didate opponent, Senator Harry
Truman Of Indiana, who emerged
almost in M piece from the DEM
ocratic convention n Chicago.
Undoubtedly Governor bricker's
task for the next few months IS go
ing to be beSet by thorns and brok-
en- glass. But as | sat IN on Mrs.
Brokers New York news confer
ence, I thought that her husband 5
lob is less perilous than her own.
No pathway streWn with roses
stretches before her until tina trst
November Tuesday. For she must
be restrained yet alert, thoughtful
but not aggressive, Womanly, out
not coy. modern but not radical,
She must be a home body and at
the same moment see the world
from the back OF the campaign tram
of her husband. She must say an
the wight things to a lot OF peope
who don't interest her IN the east
meanwhile look Well-dressed but not
extravagantly done up, keep heF
black hair in order and nave WlSe'
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-08-05
Methodist Circles
To Meet Monday

Circles ef the Woman's Society I'll
Christian Service of the FIRST Meth
udi>t church vii meet Monday after
noon at the following places:
Circle No. Mrs. S. H.. Watkins,
chairman, with Miss Edna Garlick.
i2o BurWell Avenue, at 400 pm.
Circle No. ,. Mrs. J. NJ. Proctor.
chairman, With Mrs. Cecil Webb.
1859 BurWell avenue, at 100 o'clock
Circle No. 8. Mrs. w. w. Parker.
chairman, to be announced later.
Circle No. 1. Mrs. d. 7. Dlckie.
chairman. at the church with Mrs
Philip Harris as hostess, at 1886
o'clock.
Circle No. 5. Mrs. S. 7. Peace
chairman, at the church at 400 pm
Circle No. 6. Mrs. Mrs. W. H
Grisom, chairman, with Mrs. John
". Grissom, 280 Chavasse Avenue
with Mrs. W. n. Bailey, joint hostess
at 1000 o'clock.
Circle No. T.. Mrs. T, G. Homer.
chairman, with Misses Muriel and
Kate Gary on the Oxford Road, al
400 o'clock.
Circle No. g. Mrs. VI. W. Adams
with Mrs. f. H. Bradley, Belle street
al ! o'clock.
Circle No. Q. Mrs. L. R. Gooch.
chairman. with Mrs. c. B. Rcavjs
216 ChcVasse avenue, with Mrs. Bcs-
sic kittle as Joint hostess, at 4 o'clock
Circle No. 10, Mrs. P. H. Rose
chairman, with Mrs, J. W. Smith, 32C
Charles street, at + o'clock,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-08-05

ed Mrs. Brjckcr, Il shall have Meth
or inclination nor opportunity
She speaks up. MIS-. Bricker does.
She hasn't quite as many ideas as
Mrs. Roosevelt. But she isn't timid.
Indeed. I'd like to see Harriet Day
Broker and Eleanor Roosevelt
Roosevelt in a public debate. | might
give Mrs. Roosevelt some Dads. But
not as many as | thought might be
necessary before | Watched Mrs.
Bricker meeting the press.
She spoke about Womcn after the
war. 4 hope the ones with small
children will give up their jobs un-
less there is a real financial nee
essity. A Woman's first job is her
family. Unless she is leaving 1t ade-
quately looked after, she should stay
at home and do the looking after
herself. Later, of course, when the
children are grown, it is entirely a
| matter of personal preference Wheth
FER she goes into politics, the profess
sions. business or stays at home
Although the wife Of the Rcpu%-
lican vice presidential candidate has
not hoped yer as many seas and
continents as Mrs. Roosevelt, she
has travelled about 10000 miles and
visited "a states since January. She
Aad to travel light" with only one
dress Of each kind and extra access
! series. Frequently she and the gov
arnor carried their own handbags
Many times she got the wrinkles out
Of her clothes by hanging them be
side the hot shower. Just as you and
do if we're smart.