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Evening star., 1944-04-25
| Nazi Planes Hit Naples
After Allied Blows al
North Italy, Balkans
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, April rs. German
bombers struck sharply at Ma
piles last night in the wake Of a
great co-ordinated attack by AL
lied aircraft against Nazi COM
munications and aircraft plants
in the BalkanS and Northern
Italy.
Unofficial estimates placed the size
of the Nazi formation which raided
Naples at 80 to 10 planes. The at
tack, although sharp, was not par
ticularly damaging. One of the
raiders was shot down by Beau
fighters.
The Allies fiew 1000 sorties yes
terday, destroying 20 enemy planes
for loss of IA in operations that
included heavy bomber assaults on
the Bucharest and Ploesti railyards
in Romania and on an aircraft fac
tory at Belgrade.
Ground Positions Improved.
On the land front in Italy Amer
lean troops occupied a house ~
miles west Of Carano in the central
sector Of the Anzio beachhead after
a brisk fight yesterday, headquarters
announced today.
Another small Allied force also
improved its position on the beach,
head, occupying some woods
miles south of Cisterna, important
German communications hub, as
we'll as points along a road to the
south. Artillery and mortar duels
continued in Casino. One Allied
patrol in the central part of the
front crossed the Sangro River.
Ploesti Rail Yards Hit.
United States Fortresses and Lib
orators were over the Bucharest and
Ploesti yards for more than a half
hour, fighting of attacks by be-
tween go and 10 fighters as they
laid bombs on the main lines to
Adolf Hitler's troops opposing the
Russian armies In Romania.
Bomber crewmen said their bombs
started fires in the Ploesti yards
which sent flames and smoke I'D
5000 feet. The rail line, round
houses and oil installations were hit.
Fortresses went over the target
first, meeting intense fax and be-
tween 80 and 40 fighters, 16 OF which
the Fortress gunners shot down.
Evening star., 1944-04-25

The Liberators followed up Is min
utes later, encountering only a few
fighters, although the fax was still
heavy.
20 Axis Planes Destroyed.
OF the 20 planes destroyed yester-
day, the bomber gunners shot down
"a and the fighters got three more
over Romania.
One P-38 outfit, finding no enemy
planes to fight, dropped down to
treetop level and strafed tugs and
supply barges on the Danube River,
setting some on fire and cutting four
barges loose from tugs.
Medium bombers continued their
onslaught against rail communica-
tions in Central italy, while fighter
bombers blasted shipping near
Evening star., 1944-04-25
T Gas Coupon Holders
Liable 10 Renewal Tests
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Truck and taxicab operators and
other holders of "T' gasoline rations
who have not claimed their second
quarter rations by April 80 will not
receive them until the Office of
Defense Transportation has re-ex-
amined their need for gasoline.
This ruling was laid down yesterday
in an ONCE of Price Administration
announcement which instructs local
ration boards to withhold renewal
of any transport ration not claimed
within the first 80 days of any quar-
ter, pending specific instructions
from ODT.
OPA said the procedure was ex.
pected to halt issuance of a large
number of "T' rations to operators
who no longer need the amounts
originally certified by ODT.
Evening star., 1944-04-25
Heavy Midwest Rains
Expected 10 Reduce
Corn Sales 10 u. ).
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 25.-Eforts of
the Government to get corn off
farms by requiring that all of it be
sold to the Commodity Credit Corp.
Crop experts said today that one
over the next go days are likely to
run into weather difficulties, in the
opinion of grain traders.
major factor in the recent small
corn movement has been the ex-
cessive moisture in the corn belt.
This has begged down country roads
and farm yards with mud, they as
serted, preventing corn shipment
even when producers wanted to get
rid Of their stocks.
Some farm lands in Midwest
States are under water. Besides
preventing corn marketings, this is
delaying seeding of spring crops.
Preparation Of seed beds for the yel-
low grain Is far behind schedule in
the main. corn belt, according to
latest Official Weather Bureau re-
ports.
The extent of the slump in corn
marketing was illustrated yesterday
by tabulations of receipts at IL
principal interior markets. Receipts
amounted to only $4,000 bushels,
compared with 2,108,000 bushels re-
ceived the same day in 1943. A week
ago receipts were 100000 bushels.
During the past week corn book
ings at Chicago, the Nations major
terminal for the grain, were less
than so per cent of professors re-
quirements, the War Food Admin
istration said After processing,
corn products are used in the man
ufacture of explosives, surgical
dressing, penicillin, copper castings
and other products directly related
to the war.
Few farmers are putting corn in
Government loan. Through April
Is the CCC had completed loans on
only 7,247 $50 bushels, against loans
on 55,576, ,966 bushels q year pre-
vious. The agency owned only
l.2l5.O bushels on April Is,
Evening star., 1944-04-25
Dealer Faces Court
AS Stolen Art BUYER

Harry G. Feldstone, Georgetown
antique dealer charged with buying
from two colored youngsters for 50
art objects stolen from a collection
of the works of the late Paul w.
Bartlett, world-renowned sculptor,
was scheduled for arraignment in
Municipal Court today on charges
of receiving stolen goods.
Mrs. Bartlett, widow of the artist,
also will appear to identify the two
hand-etched copper platters which
police seized yesterday in the at
dealers shop at 1916 Wisconsin seSe-
nue. NV, police announced.
Meanwhile, second antique @
er, who claims to Nave irlloc1
purchased for 80 coats an 1SsxSEh
bronze statuette Of Thomas Jeffer-
son executed by MFR. Bartlett, was
released by police. It was an
nounced today that the Unnamed
dealer had convinced authofxfieS tia
transaction was made In good faifa
and without knowIc9ge Of the 3}11
worth of the statu6tte.
Police were still Ablding fer
tioning the two teen-age cd}
boys who are reported to have 81
mitted taking the art objects lS1s
week from garage in the rear of
1925 N street NV, where they had
been stored by Mrs. Bartlett. To-
gether with a number of other works
of the noted sculptor, the stolen
pieces had been exhibited at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art last Jafr-
uary.
An inventory of the art works
stored in the garage was in progress
today to determine how much OF
the collection has been stolen, po-
lice asserted. Mrs. Bartlett yester-
day tentatively fixed the value of
pieces she thought missing at $4,000
Evening star., 1944-04-25
Two Appointed to Boord
OF Police, Fire Surgeons

The temporary appointments Of
DR.. Gilbert B. Rude and DR.. Will
liam d. Claudy to the Board Of Po-
lice and Fire Surgeons were an
nounced yesterday by Harvey @.
Callahan, acting superintendent OF
the Police Department.
DR.. Rude and DR.. Claudy replace
DR.. @. Louis Weller, jr., and DIR.
James A. OKeeffe, respectively, who
are both on war leave. The new
Evening star., 1944-04-25
Pope Calls for Special
Peace Prayers in Moy
Rx the Assnciatea presx

Ds Tie hSoUCiatSO FIeSS.
NEW YORK. April 25.-The vati-
can radio said last night Pope Plus
XII had sent Luigi Cardinal Magli-
one, papal secretary Of state, q letter
calling for special supplications
during May for the peace Of the
world, with particular invitation
to the Roman people to pray for the
zafety Of the city"
Evening star., 1944-04-25
Orthodontists Elect

CHICAGO, April Is (P).-Dr. Earl
G. Jones of Columbus, Ohio, was
elected president of the American
Association of Orthodontists yester-
day. Other officers named by the
associations directors were DR.. Will
liam G. Shelter, San Jose, Calf,
vice president; DR.. Max E. Ernst,
st. Paul, Mimi, secretary treasurer
All will assume Office next year.
Evening star., 1944-04-25
Five BuItimoreuns Hurt
In Collision With Truck

BY the Associated Press.
LINDEN, N. j., April 25.--Five
Baltimore residents, including a
l0-month-old boy and an Iselin
man. were injured yesterday when
an automobile In which they were
riding was struck by a cigarette
laden trailer truck which crashed
into five cars.
The injured we're. Diana Slater,
Evening star., 1944-04-25

SPRING Hill, KANSIN THE WAKE OF FLOOD-This freight
train stalled yesterday rapidly rising waters undermined
the roadbed and caused the engine to overtu Elsewhere
the Midwest total eight deaths attributed
thousands homeless and
destroyed than soldiers mtiame
detachment of Italian prisoners of aided civilians
bosterng Mississippi and Illinois River levees
rain for tonight and indicated the
waters would rise still higher "A P. Wrephoo from Navy
Evening star., 1944-04-25

5, Loretta walker, as; Arthur Walk
ere. 10 months: Lester w. Walker,
%. and Arthur J. Walker, Balti-
more.
Frank Delevera of Iselin was also
injured and was treated at the hos
pital for possible skull fracture.
His condition was good, hospital
attaches said.
Evening star., 1944-04-25

Iappointees viii serve until the re-
turn Of the permanent members.
DR.. Rude lives at 1900 Glendale
road, Chevy Chase. Md. DR.. Ciaudy
lives at 1921 Forty sixth street NV.
Evening star., 1944-04-25

For Americas future for your
future >. for your children's future
keep buying bonds! t-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
FEED:
Outlook Good

Despite smaller supplies of con-
centrated feed for the 1944-'45 sea-
son.. more will be available per ami
NAL unit, however, because of re-
duced livestock population, the de-
partment of agriculture reported.
Because of the record production
OF corn and sorghums for 1914,
USDA said, the domestic supply of
feed grains will approximate last
years at 10000, 900 tons. Stocks of
by-product feeds will be slightly
larger than last year. With de-
creased demands, moderate price
declines were anticipated.
According to USDA, local feed
grain supplies are smaller than last
year in the east north central and
the western states, but slightly
larger in other sections. Except for
the west north central and the west
ern states, hay supplies are smaller.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16

Gen. Macarthur Oeft) and Lt.-Gen.
Kruger confer on Leyte.
pushed the enemy back to the noun
famous western portion of the is
land.
Because of the terrain, difficulty
was encountered in the speedy cree
ton Of air fields on Leyte, but, as
construction progressed, increasing
numbers of fighter planes took off
from the new bases to join carrier
borne aircraft in attacking shipping
seeking to reinforce the entrapped
enemy troops on the island.
With her back being pressed
closer and closer to the wall
Japan's Premier Koiso called for
greater war production, declaring
that many troops had died for lack
of munitions. Almost as Koiso spoke,
the enemy reported B-29s recon
noitering over Tokyo.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16

No less than l4O,OOO,O0O ducks-or
lOO,00O,OOO aboUe the whole duck pop.
ulation OF the 1857 period-wiW fly
south during the hunting season, Ducks
Unlimited, non-proft sportsmen's or
gdniSation, reported.
Only american organization to 20
into Canada to increase the duck crop
by scientific management OF breeding
areas, Ducks Unlimited revealed that
waterfowl production in its rehabili.
tated Canadian marshes amounts to 3
cents per bird.
More than rs per cent of the ma
tons population is dependent upon
coal for home heat and warmth
and the coal mining industry has
prepared to furnish upwards of
100, 100000 tons Of coal during the
current heating season solely for
American homes, for an average ma
tional ceiling price Of less than $40 90
per ton delivered to homes and apart
ment buildings.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16

Outside of Europe the worlds total
production of food in 1884, meas
ured in calories of farm output, is
about the highest in history. But
the increase since the war began
probably does not exceed the esti-
mated increase in the worlds popu-
lation. In North America the farm
production of food in 1942-43 was
about 30 per cent above the prewar
level, and still higher (about 40 per
cent? in 1943-44. In South A1neri-
ca farm production of food in 1912
43 was about II per cent above the
prewar level. In southern and east
ern Asia, Oceania, and South
Africa the overall average change
appears to have been slight. On the
other hand, in the Wartorn parts of
the Soviet Union, Occupied China,
and the Dutch East Indies, areas
for which available data are espe-
cailly rneager. production probably
declined somewhat.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
PACIFIC:
Enemy Girds

Still determined to hold on to the
Philippines despite the concentra-
ton of U. S. strength behind the
forces of Gen. Douglas Macarthur,
the japanese poured in air re-
Inducements for the showdown bat
tie that will develop when the
Americans move onto the larger is
lands.
Even as the Japs sought to boil
ster their defenses, first severely
shaken by the U. S. navy's, major
triumph in the second sea battle of
the Philippines, General Mac
Arthur's ground forces on Leyte
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
LONE STAR STATE:
First in Minerals

Texas led all states in mineral
production in 1913 and was the only
state producing minerals valued in
excess of a billion dollars in that
year, the bureau of mines, depart
ment of the interior, revealed.
With it's mineral output valued at
$1,116, 056,000 last year, the Lone
Star State retained for the ninth
consecutive year its rank of first in
the United States in the value of
such products. The total represents
1897 per cent Of the national min
eral production value.
Fuels totaled 1898, 242, 900; non
metallics, 500, 181, 1000, and metallics,
$29, $3.50, 900. Crude petroleum was
the principal fuel and magnesium
the leading metal. Nonmetallics,
in the order of their Importance,
were sulphur, cement, magnesium
compounds. sand and gravel, bro
mine, salt. clay, stone and lime.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
EUROPE:
BUDAPEST Imperilled

Once, like Paris, a center of Euro
pean gaiety with colorful sidewalk
cafes enlivened by gypsy music,
Budapest became fevered and
somber city as Russian armies ham,
mered toward the Hungarian capt.
tai.
Having broken across the Tisza
river, some so miles to the east,
the Reds bore down on Budapest as
German and Hungarian armies
were hard pressed to hold broad
lines across the country's rolling
plains, gateway to Austria.
Even as the Russians rolled for
ward, thousands of Budapest's
civilians were put to work in the
erection of entertainments and forti-
fications, and the Germans vowed
that they would make this city.
once one of the prettiest in Europe,
into another Warsaw, battle
ground.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16

To prevent enemy agents from
obtaining vital military inf0rma-
ton through contact with u. S.
troops, the army is rigidly enforc-
ing stiff regulations against
doughboys mixing with Ger
man citizens.
Troops may not make any So
cial calls at German homes. They
may not contact German girls.
Because of service by German
bartenders, they may not even
buy beer outside of mess bars.
Talking with German people is
an unnecessary contact" the
army has ruled, bringing fines of
from $25 to $65.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
Unusual Quads

In the first case of its kind known in
medical history, 3O-year.old Mrs. Katls-
Teen Hatcher Cirminello of PhiLadel-
phia, Pa, gaze birth to quadruplets in
too minutes in caeserean operation.
Weighing from three to three and
quarter pounds, the quads-three girls
and boy-are the 10th set in the
q. S., such births averaging one in
658, SOB cases.
Five feet and truo inches tall, and
weighing Il8 lbs, Mrs. Criminello is
the ,Uite Of financial analyst for the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
n previous child died at birth.
Placed in an incubator, the children
,0ere tagged A, B, C and D. Said Mr..
CirmineIlo: my tOife s0ent through the
ordeal. PU let her choose the names"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
POSTWAR AIR:
World Traffic

AS representatives from Allied
and neutral nations met in Chicago
for the international civil aviation
conference, principal question aris-
ing was in what way could coun-
tries best cooperate in the develop
ment of extensive postwar traffic.
At the opening session, three
methods were proposed. The U. S.
suggestion advocated a. free devel-
opment between friendly and pro-
gressive states, with an information
al body which would merely consult
and advise on ALLEGATION of air
routes, rate fixing and regulation of
competition.
On the other hand, the British
called for the regulation of postwar
air traffic through a strong inter-
national authority, which, like the
U. S. civil aeronautics authority,
would assign routes and have
voice in rate making.
Australia and New Zealand pre-
sented the extremist view Of pool
ing all aerial resources into an in
ternational operating company.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
BRIGHTER SHOES:
Auier, Too, Nest Spring

Although civilian shoe production
will not return to normal till after
the war, retailers will feature
brighter lines next spring, surveys
of the national shoe fair in Chicago
revealed.
There will be an airier style, too,
with women's shoes open at the toes
and heels, and "casuals," for COM
fort wear, coming into greater
prominence in line with prewar
trends.
Biggest boon, however, is in the
governments lifting of restrictions
on the use of colors, with women
promised spring wear in green, lib
erty red and blue jacket blue, and
mems shoes in shades from army
russell to turf tan.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
Weekly News
Reds Peril Gateway Austria Japs Bolster Battered Forces

Pennsylvania completed 1943 in
second place and California in third,
the value of their minerals being
$3.50, 1856, 600 and $569, 1856, 600, respec-
lively, according to figures compiled
by the bureaus economics and sta
tistics branch with the assistance of
the Texas bureau Of economic geol-
ogy, of which E. H. Sellards of Aus
tin, is director.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
Sacred Soil

AS the Germans and Hungarians
dug in for stand about Budapest,
the Nazis fought fiercely on the East
Prussian front to slow up the Rus
SLAMS advance across the sacred
soil' of this historic home of the
Junkers.
AS the Germans braced in East
Prussia along prepared lines some
20 miles inside the border, the Rus
SLAMS, following their traditional
military policy, shifted the weight
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16

of their attacks northward toward
a narrow belt of Baltic seacoast
at Latvia, where some 100000 Nazis
were reported cut off from the re-
mainder of the enemy line in the
east.
Slicing into German positions in
this sector with overwhelming
numbers of troops, the Russians
threatened to chew the entrapped
Nazi armies to shreds before they
could be successfully evacuated by
sea.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16

In recognition of the sacrifice
and contribution made by fam
lily which has lost two or more
sons and has only one surviving,
the war department has ap-
proved a policy of returning to
or retaining in the continental
United States the sole surviving
SON of a family in cases where
two or more sons have been lost,
except where the surviving SON
is engaged In non hazardous
duty overseas.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
CASUALTIES:
Total 1902

With the army suffering the bulk
of the losses, U. S. battle casual
ties on the far-hung fronts totaled
487, 692.
Army casualties reached AT, 12l,
of which 80,666 were killed, 229, 212
wounded, 53,622 missing and 53,621
made prisoners. After more than
year of bitter fighting in Italy, where
Allied forces pressed their offensive
against strong Nazi Notifications,
u. S. losses were estimated at $1,000.
Latest navy compilations placed
casualties at 70,571, of which 28,231
were killed, 29,441 wounded, 9,421
missing and 4,478 made prisoner.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
news analysts. and not necessarily of
this newspaper.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
CATTLE:
Record Marketing

With more than 40 per cent Of
federally inspected beef, veal, pork
and lamb going to the government,
supplies of better grades Of meat
remained in scarcity last month de-
spite record-breaking marketing of
cattle.
Shipments of cattle were 81 per
cent greater than for the 10-year
average for October, and receipts
of calves were II per cent greater.
Although showing substantial in
creases over September, market
ings of hogs and sheep were lower
than in October of 1943.
Due to the heavy slaughter of cat
tie and calves, production of beef,
veal, lamb and pork amounted to
about liz billion pounds for Octo-
Der, 20 per cent greater than the 10
year average for October.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
WAR PRODUCTIONS:
V-E Cutbacks

One-third Of all war contracts will
be terminated within three months
after the defeat of Germany, War
Production board official announced,
with speedy settlements with manu-
facturers assuring smoother recon
version.
To date, the government has let
325 billion dollars in war contracts,
it was revealed, with compilations
totalling 240 billion dollars. After
cancellations, about IS billion dol
lars Of contracts are now outstand-
ing, one-third, or about 20 billion
dollars worth, of which would be
terminated on We day.
Of $4,000 contracts valued at 8
billion dollars cancelled thus far,
%, 900 have been settled for $40 mil
lion dollars, WPB said.
We Shipping
Germany's defeat will not lessen
the demand on the u. S. merchant
marine, the Office of War Informa-
ton reported, with military and re-
construction traffic continuing to and
from the continent, and more ship
ping needed to transport increased
forces and supplies over vast dis
tanceS in the Pacific
Three times the amount of ship
ping presently engaged for the Euro
pean war may be required for the
Pacific conflict, it was said, and east
ern ports will be used to relieve
some of the tremendous traffic that
will be imposed on those in the
west.
Presently, owl revealed, no less
than 100000 tons of shipping are
being used just to transport sup
plies from overseas bases to fight
ing fronts.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-11-16
Cain Port

Formerly forced to truck supplies
overland 400 miles from Cherbourg,
or from temporary beach harbors
along the channel coast, the Allies
materially improved their communi-
cation lines by gaining full control
of the great Belgian port of Ant
werp.
Control was gained when Can
adian and British troops cleared the
Germans from both sides of the
Schelde river leading inland to the
port. AS the Allied attack devel-
oped, the Nazis pulled out the major
bulk of their 10000 troops to pre-
vent their being encircled from the
rear.
AS the Allies moved to improve
communications, the u. S. First
army resumed its offensive about
Aachen. driving through the once
picturesque. now. splintered, fir, pine
and SILVER birch Hurtgen forest on
the yeaa to the vital industrial
Rhinelant,