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Evening star., 1944-08-08
(Picture on Page BID

Stymied in their search for the
knife welding slayer of Frances
N Erickson, "a, architectural de-
signer, police today returned to
the Rock Creek Park murder
scene and began an intensive
search for the victims purse and
the murder weapon.
Park police and laborers raked the
shrubbery and underground near
the knoll where the attack took
place. Chief of Detectives Robert
J. Barrett ordered todays search
after wide hunt failed to turn UP
either the knife or. Miss Erickson S
purse. which her assailant is be.
lieved to have taken from her.
Bystander Questioned.
A 45-year-old colored bystandei
at today's search was questioned BY
police after they noticed scratche:
on his hand He was released.
Police admitted they are withou
a single clue
Work on the case has been com
plicated. Inspector Barrett said, by ,
flood of telephone calls from person
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Tokyo Radio Claims
Seizure Of Heneyane
StiIwelI, However, Tells
Of Air Aid to Defenders
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 8.-The Tokyo ra-
dio asserted today that Japanese
troops had completely occupied
Hengyang, strategic Human Prov
ince city on the Canton Honkow
railway which has been under siege
for weeks.
The claim was not Immediately
confirmed by Chinese authorities.
On the contrary, communique
from Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell's head
quarters said American and Chi
nese airmen yesterday dropped
large quantities of ammunition to
the Chinese garrison in Hengyang
and bombed attacking Japanese
forces.
The Tokyo broadcast quoted an
imperial headquarters communique
as saying: 2
Japanese troops operating in the
Hengyang area launched a general
attack against enemy positions on
August 4. The important town of
Hengyang has been entirely occu-
pied by our troops this morning at
8 am. Three Chungking divisions,
as we'll as supporting American
forces, have been wiped out"
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Captured Nozi Officer Reports
Assassination of Hin1n1Ier
Goerine Wounded in New FIore-Up Of
Violence in Germany, Lieutenant Says

Nine other captives, all Austrians,
declared they could corroborate the
assertion of the intelligence officer.
I'VE heard that marshal Erwin
Rommel was wounded in the head
by bomb fragments on the Nor
mandy front but was recovering"
one of the Austrians said The best
news came Sunday, when we heard
that Himmler had been killed and
that Goering was wounded in the
attack on Himmler."
The British first heard the story
of the alleged assassination from
the Austrians I asked a German
intelligence officer, who had been
kept apart from the Austrians:
Il suppose Himmler is stronger
than Hitler these days?'
mo. Himmler is dead the Nazi
intelligence officer asserted. He was
assassinated. 1 heard it at my head
quarters Sunday. All our officers
are talking about it."
Evening star., 1944-08-08
WPB Officials Offer
To Quit in Row With
Army on Supplies Data
Suppression Of Figures
Showing High Level of
Ordnance Is Hinted
RN the Associated Press

The report that two War Pro-
duction Board officials had sub
mitted designations in protest
against Army instigated sup
preston of their military supply
figures today revived a month
long controversy over the state
of the armament program.
The two men were identified by
WPB sources as v. Lewis Bassie
acting director of the progress divi-
sion of WPB's Bureau of Planning
and Irving Kaplan, chief of the pro-
duction program analysis section.
Their figures showed that supplies
OF ordnance for the Army ground
forces were at high levels in July,
WPB sources said, but at the Army's
request, Stacey May, director of
WPB's Bureau of Planning and Sta
tistics, ordered the figures withheld
Summary Was Confidential.
The supply summary was part of
the monthly progress report" pre-
pared by Mr.. Mays bureau on a con-
fldential basis for limited number
of key war agency officials, includ-
ing members of the WPB.
Mr.. Bassie and Mr.. Kaplan ten
dered their designations. expressing
belief that the suppression was
prompted by policy" rather than
factual reasons, informants said.
There was no indication that the
designations had been accepted. Mr..
Kaplan told reporters the incident
was IAN internal matter which I
don't believe I should discuss. l am
on the job today"
Mr.. Bassie and Mr.. Kaplan were
said to have reported good supplies
of nearly all ground Army weapons,
including some items which 1t. Gen.
Brehon Somervell, commander of
the Army Service Forces, reported
to be on the shortage list.
Conferences Follow.
Exhaustive conferences followed
with Army statisticians, it was re-
ported, from which Mr.. Bassie and
Mr.. Kaplan emerged unconvinced
that their facts were in error. The
Army, however, requested that this
section be stricken out.
Mr.. May, however, yielded to the
Army request and ordered the re-
call OF all copies which had been
Evening star., 1944-08-08
BY ROGER GREENE,


ON THE BRITISH FRONT IN
FRANCE, Aug. ga newly cap
tured German intelligence Off
Ger asserted today that Heinrich
Himmler. German Gestapo and
SIS chief, has been assassinated
and that ReichSmarshal Her.
mann Goering was wounded in a
new outbreak against the Nazi
hierarchy.
tThere was no confirmation of
this report. The officers report
was based on second hand infor-
nation and therefore is subject
to reservation. The British radio
said today a German lieutenant
taken prisoner in France related
he had given pep talk" to his
troops, and for want of other
good news" had told them Hmm
Ter was dead.
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Rockets Help Mountoineers
To BaIk Strongest Nozi Thrust

moving northwestward in force and
requisitioning food from the people.
Fight Tanks With Bazookas.
Tanks. each loaded with 20 in
fantrymen, led the advance with
other infantry in single file on both
sides of the road. They smashed
into regiment commanded by 1t.
Col. Walter johnson of Butte, Mont.
The mountaineer battalions stood
like stone walls under the leadership
of 1t. Coils. Robert Frankland of
Jackson, Tenn, and Samuel Nc
Dowell of Rockhill, S. c., with the
enemy on three sides of them.
The Americans fought the tanks
with oazookas at 100 yards as the
Germans advanced up a creek bank,
at one time nearly overrunning the
command post.
The big break Of the day occurred
(see HENRY. Page A-D
Evening star., 1944-08-08
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star War CORRESPONDENT.

WITH UNITED STATES
FORCES IN NORMANDY, Aug.
7 (Delayed).-With a tank
knuckled fist, German Gen. Paul
HausSer's battered army punched
back at American forces today
in the strongest counterattack
of the campaign.
A surprise move by the equivalent
Of a division broke against three
battalions of Kentucky and Caro-
lima infantry along the Juvigny to
Barthelmy line, north of Mortrain.
German forces estimated at about
four divisions would be driving
westward to Avranches if the first
break Through had succeeded.
The first alarm came shortly after
dawn when fleeing French civilians
reported that the Germans were
Evening star., 1944-08-08
3Hungarian Ministers
Reported Dismissed
Significance Of Horthy's
Action Not Apparent
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. S.-The Berlin
radio quoted dispatch from Buda-
pest today as saying Admiral Mich
olas Horthy, Hungarian regent, had
dismissed Bella Imredi, minister
without portfolio, and two other
cabinet members "at their own re-
quest"
The others dismissed were iden-
tilted as Antal Kunder, Minister of
Commerce and Transportation, and
Andor Jaross, Home Secretary.
The significance of the Develop
ment was not Immediately apparent.
All three, however, were strongly
identified with pro-Nazi elements in
Hungary and took office last March
%, when a new government was
organized under Premier Doemez
Sztojay to intensity the war effort.
Formation of the Sztojay cabinet
conceded with a sudden influx of
German troops which amounted to
virtual military occupation of Hun.
gary.
The German radio said DR.. Lajos
Szasz, Minister of Industries, had
been asked to assume the COM
merce portfolio and that Nikolaus
Bonczos had been appointed Home
Secretary.
Imredi's post remained vacant.
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Russians Increasing
Threat 10 German
Communications
Direction Of Drive
Indicates Possibility
Of FIonkine Krakow
BY the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, Aug. "a new
eruption of Red Army attacks
which captured more than so
communities beyond the en-
emy's broken Vistula River de-
fenses threatened today to
strangle German communica-
tions between Krakow and War
saw in the heart of Poland.
Striking out afresh yesterday
from the VBtula bridgehead. Mar
shal Ivan S. Konev's lst Ukraine
Army reached points 80 miles west
of the river, Soviet field dispa tches
said.
Thrusting beyond newly occupied
Szydlow. the Russians directly men,
aced Kielce, astride highway and
rail arteries Is miles to the north
west. The direction of the drive
raised the possibility that the Rus
slams might outf1ank Krakow on
the north.
Last reports placed Soviet spear
heads within 81 miles of Krakow,
last big Nazi bastion before German
Silesia, now IS to 80 miles away.
Oil Center Captured.
Moscow's guns sounded last night
| for twin victories-the fall of the
oil center of Boryslaw in the Car
pathians. and the capture of Sam
Dor, communications hub whose fall
gave the Russians grip on five
routes leading into nearby Czecho-
slovakia.
Information available in Lon
don indicated that through cap
ture of Boryslaw the Russians
had regained some 1000 Cali
clan oil wells which had been
feeding the Nazi war machine.
The Germans thus were left only
the Ploesti fields in Romania,
which have been repeatedly
bombed by Allied AirmenD
Far to the north three powerful
Soviet armies began a pincers move
ment on East Prussia along 200
mile front. One Of these-Gen.
Ivan c. Bagramian's 1st Baltic
Army-bent back sagging German
defenses in Lithuania in twin drives
toward Memal and Tilsit, key East
Prussian cities. His troops captured
so towns and villages, including
Saukenai, n miles east of the Bal
tic port of Memel.
Gen. Bagramian's troops, who last
week plunged to the Baltic front
below Riga, advanced as much as
20 miles yesterday in this new surge
toward the sea.
40 Communities Taken.
To the south the capture of 40
communities. including Andrusai-
cial, put other Red Army troops
So miles east-northeast of Tilsit.
The latest Soviet. communique
made no mention of the sector
just opposite the East Prussian bor-
der where Gen. Ivan D. Cher
niakhovskys Sd White Russian
Army has been meeting strong re-
sistance, but it told of q new ad-
vance toward the southern border
by Gen. G. F. Zakharov's I'd White
Russian Army which captured
Knyszyn, Is miles northwest of
Bialystok, and Lapy, to the south
west.
GA Vichy broadcast heard today
by the Associated Press said all
factories in East Prussia had
(See RIJSSIA PAGE AZ
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Air Vice Marshal BOYD
Killed on Active Duty
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 8.-Air Vice Mar
shal Owen Tudor Boyd, IS. has been
killed on active service. it was an
nounced today.
Captured by Axis troops after a
forced landing in 1910, Marshal
Boyd escaped after the italian sur
render last year with two other
high-ranking British officers, 1t.
Gen. Philip Neame and 1t. Gen.
Sir Richard O'Connor.
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Search of Murder Scene Fails
To Yield Knife or Victims Purse
Police Without Clues in S|oyne
Of Woman Architect in Park

reporting suspects and Offering
theories for the solution of the case.
More than half a dozen colored
men were in custody today, detec-
tives of the homicide squad said
None, however, has been connected
with the case but they have been
subjected to routine questioning as
to their movements at the time of
the Staying.
More Than rs Questioned.
Since Miss Erickson was stabbed
through the heart while strolling
Sunday on wooded path three
blocks from her home at 1903
Twenty-first street NV, more than
rs colored men have been Ques-
toned by police. All have been
subsequently released.
Meanwhile, David Gear, manager
of the architectural firm of Saarinen
& Swanson, 20l7 S street NV, fol
whom Miss Erickson worked, pre-.
pared to claim her body for ship
ment to her home at Barber, Mont
Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
N. Erickson, live on a farm in tht
Western community, where Mis-.
Edickson was born.
Deputy Coroner DR.. Richard
fSee N6TTPDEp pooo Asl
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Erroneous Message
Causes Wife's Death,
Husbands Suicide
BY the Associated PreA

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. g.
Several months ago Mrs. Mil
dred McReynolds received no
tice that her husband, John K.
McReynolds, had been killed
in a merchant marine torpe-
doing. Mrs. McReynolds fell
dead after reading the tele-
gram.
Mr.. McReynolds returned
home shortly afterward.
Yesterday his body was found
in his gas-fllled automobile. A
note beside the body said: My
new address will be with
Mile"
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Germans Reported
Abandoning Defense,
In Bordeaux Area
l00-MiIe Atlantic Wall
Section OutfIonked by
Swift Allied Guins
BY the Associated Press.

IRUN, Spain, Aug. 8.-Adolf
Hitler's once-vaunted Atlantic
wall, for more than 100 miles
from the Spanish frontier north
through Bordeaux, has been vir-
tually abandoned and is manned
by only a handful of over aged
German railroad troops, advices
from France said today.
These Nazi Notifications have
been outfianked to the north by
the swift progress of American
troops through Brittany and east
ward toward Paris in much the
same way as the Maginot Line was
outflanked when the Germans
broke through Belgium in 1910.
With their communications seri-
ously menaced the Germans were
said to have begun full-scale evac-
Nation of their forces in South
western France, leaving only a few
Gestapo agents and gendarmes to
cover the French-Spanish frontier.
Temporary Withdrawal.
German police at the Hendaye
bridge maintained that the evacua-
ton was purely temporary with
draWal' necessitated by the re-
assignment of border region forces
following the shift of certain SIS
ELITE Guards units of the frontier
garrison toward the Loire River.
Frenchmen living on the Spanish
side of the frontier said, however,
they are convinced the Nazi high
command is abandoning Southwest
ern France, and many believe they
will awake some morning soon and
find the last German gone.
Regular German Army forces
moved out of the region south of
Bayonne over week ago, leaving
SIS units behind The SIS forces in
turn began leaving Sunday night.
Only French customs guards and
two or three German gendarmes
were on duty at the interna tional
bridge across the Bidassoa River
here yesterday.
Artillery Being Loaded.
The German railroad troops left
behind to guard the coast were re-
ported loading the last of the Nazis'
movable artillery aboard fiat cars at
Hendaye, Bayonne and Biarritz. To
reach the German forces to the
north these guns and other supplies
will have to run the gantlet of sabo-
tagged rail lines.
Although most of the German
forces called out of Southwestern
France were rushed north to Bor-
deauX and La Rochelle, it was re-
ported some units marched by road
across Southern France toward
Montpelier and the Rhone River
Valley.
The Germans remaining on the
southwestern front apparently fear
being left behind because French
resistance forces already have sew
cred Atlantic to Mediterranean COM
munications by dynamiting rail-
roads and highways.
Railway Bridge Blasted.
AS Nazi units were being evacu-
ated northWard the Maquis dyna-
mited railway bridge north of
Bayonne Sunday night, thus cutting
a direct line to Bordeaux.
Reports circulated along the from
tier of possible Allied landings in
the Bordeaux area and on the Med
iterranean coast.
French patriots were reported
now operating around Bordeaux
and st. Jean de Luz. The Maquis
were kept out of the latter town,
which is few miles above the from
tier, by German railroad troops still
manning pillboxes there. According
to frontier reports the Tricolor al
ready is flying over the town halls
of scores of little hamlets inland
from the coast.
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Clear Skies Aid British
In Downing Robots
BY the Associated Press.

6y tHe ASSOCldteu fIeSS.
LONDON. Aug. 8.-Bright moon
light and clear skies aided British
coastal defenses last night as the
Germans resumed their flying bomb
attacks on London and Southern
England after a brief lull.
The attacks were on a compare
lively small scale and q number of
the robots were shot down before
they reached their targets.
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Arrival Of Won Popen
In Berlin Reported
BY the Associated Press.

BY Ihe HSE0cldteu PfeSS.
LONDON, Aug. 8.-The Nazi-
controlled Paris radio said today
that Franz Won Papen, German
Ambassador, who left Turkey when
that country broke relations with
Germany. had arrived in Berlin.
Earlier in the day he had been
reported in Bucharest.
Evening star., 1944-08-08
Roof Cove-In Kills 19

ROME, Aug. 8 R.-The roof Of a
British Army workshop near Rome
caved In during heavy rain yes
terday and killed 10 persons. -Four
were British troops. Others possibly
were trapped and 26 were injured.
Evening star., 1944-08-08

(See TRIALS, Page. A-5D
Evening star., 1944-08-08

(See WPB, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1944-08-08

tSee MURDER, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1944-08-08

(See RUSSIA, Page Asa
Evening star., 1944-01-22
Senators 10 Probe
WPB Metal Records
~ the Associated Preks,

ny the ASSOClttSQ lte46s
A special Senate committee is 60
ing to dig into the records Of the
War Production Board to see If Its
activities have throttled attempts to
decentralize industry In the United
States.
The committee, headed by Sen
ator McCarran, Democrat, of Ne
vada will open an investigation soon
into the eastern concentration OF
steel and other heavy metals indus
tries.
Senator McCarran said vast de-
posts of magnesium and iron ore In
the West have gone undeveloped
throughout the expansion OF the
heavy metals industries in the war
program.
"a very good start" he said,
"might be with an effort to uncover
the activities of officials within the
War Production Board and other
Government agencies which have
led to, or tended toward, the sitting
Of projects for proper development
of economic resources"
why should contractor in Los
Angeles be forced to buy his steel at
Eastern mills and transport it two
thirds of the way across the coun-
try when there are rich deposits OF
iron ore less than two hours from
his home city?" Senator McCarr>S
asked.
Evening star., 1944-01-22
Two Jailed for Robbinq
Chinese Here Of SIS

Two colored men, Henry L. John
son, 33, and Thomas j. Grafton, 81,
yesterday we're sentenced by Justice
David A. Pine of District Court to
serve from 16 months to years
each on a charge of robbing Zip Lin,
q Chinese, Of $55.
The two recently were found
guilty by jury after being prose-
cuted by Assistant United States At
torney John c. Conliff, jr.
Justice Pine also sentenced George
Woodruff, %, colored, Of the TOO
block of T street NV. to from 16
months to 4 years for a $21 street
''yoke" robbery.
Two men were sentenced by JUS
tice Pine for violation Of the Selec-
tive Training and Service Act, after
each had pleaded guilty to failing to
notify their boards of a change in
address. They are Robert woodrow
Wilson Winkey, 81, colored, who was
given from to Is months, and Jim
S. Goods, IS, colored, who was SEN
fenced to from six months to three
years.
Evening star., 1944-01-22
By the Associated Press.


PITTSBURGH, Jan. 22.-An
amazing story OF a 65-year-old
widow, worth almost 81 1,000, 900, but
clad in rags and so weak from hun
ger she was crawling in her man
sion, was disclosed yesterday in the
Allegheny County Court.
The woman, Mrs. Dora Grace
Peregrine, widow of former official
of the Armstrong Cork Co., had
travelled to Europe at least 80 times
in her younger days. She retired to
her two-story home here after her
husbands death in 1929.
A nephew. Frank E. Grace of New
Castle, In instituting court action,
told Of a visit several weeks ago to
his aunt's home and finding her
like person starved"
In this house, Mr.. Grace said, he
found 100000 in uncashed dividend
checks which had accumulated over
the years from stocks and other
securities.
A petition filed by Mr.. Grace
asked that his aunt be made a ward
OF the court because Of her inabil-
Evening star., 1944-01-22
Dog hat Saved
Coast Guordsmdn
Given Medal
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-Nora, an
S-month-old German shepherd dog
which originally cost so cents, today
wears the John P. Haines Medal for
extraordinary achievement in saw
ing the life of serviceman.
The medal, presented by the
American Society for the Preven-
ton of Cruelty to Animals, was
given to Nora as Coast Guardsman
Evans E. Mitchell, 10, of Chicago
told how she found him when he
tainted while patroling Oregon In
let, N. c., alone some six weeks ago
Nora picked up his hat and
brought it to the station, he ex-
planned. A searching party was sent
out and found him at the waters
edge, where he might have perished
from exposure or drowning had he
not been found quickly.
The dog has no special training
Mr.. Mitchell said, but patrols with
the men every night. She now be-
longs to the station.
Evening star., 1944-01-22
Widow, Worth Nearly Million,
Discovered Starving in Mansion

ity to manage her own affairs and
asked that an administrator be
named.
The court was told Mrs. Pere-
grimes estate now is worth 500, 900
or more, and that in addition she is
receiving life income from a $780,
900 estate. Approximately $65 900
was found in savings account.
Mrs. Peregrine had failed to make
an income tax return and $40, ,745
lien has been lodged against her
property by the Internal Revenue
Bureau, the court was told.
Thomas D. Barrah, former chauf.
feur for the widow, said she had be-
come depressed and saddened'
after her husbands death and that
last year, before the chauffeur quit
working for her, she wouldn't leave
the house.
"She talked of two phantoms al
ways being in the house and at
tempting to poison her" the chat
feur said.
Judge Henry Ellenbogen named
the Potter Title & Trust Co. to ad-
minister her estate.
Evening star., 1944-01-22
Missing Army Convoy
Proves 10 Be Soldiers
Hoax 10 Cash Check
BY the Associated Press.

~ tue Ahsoclate0 creSS.
The mystery Of the missing Army
convoy Of Danbury, Conn, has been
solved, the Federal Bureau Of In
vestigation announced last night,
explaining that 1t was only 4 hoax
perpetrated by rowing soldier who
wanted to cash 4 check.
FBI Director Hoover Identified the
soldier as Edward Robert Van
Dover, a.. who has been absent
without leave from Camp Alliance,
Nebr., since December 23. Mr..
Hoover gave this account:
Posing as StAff Serst. Edward
Arthur, Van Dover drove into DAN
bury on the afternoon Of December
~, went to the USO and said he
was the advance guard for q con-
voy OF paratroopers travelling In 90
automobiles who would spend the
night in Danbury.
The citizens Of Danbury began
preparing to entertain the soldiers
and arrangements were made 1T the
ration board for enough points for
feast for them. Cots were placed
IN the local armory and the women
began preparing .the meal.
Later tn the day, however, the
sergeant" reported that the convoy
had been involved In an accident at
White Plains, N. Y. He had to in
lvestigate. he said, and obtained as
sistance in cashing q $40 bad check.
Van Dover, who is from Brooklyn,
was arrested by policemen at Somer-
set, KY, Wednesday, after he failed
to pay toll at bridge. He is being
held by Army authorities at Bow
man Field. KY.
A complaint charging him with
violations of the Theft of Govern
ment Property Act and the National
Motor Vehicle Theft Act was filed
yesterday at Omaha, Nebr., and
Army authorities have been re-
quested to release him for prose-
cution in Federal court.
Van Dover entered the Army in
1912 and trained as q paratrooper.
He went AWOL in September, 1913.
Mr.. Hoover said, and was returned
to Army custody last November. He
was In confinement when he disap-
peared December %.