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Evening star., 1944-01-06
Fifth Army Launches Offensive
Smashes Way Into San Vittore;
Nazi Resistance to Reds Rises
Hund-to-Hund
Bottle Roges in
Italian Town
MAP on Page A-3.)
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Jan. 6.-Mud-caked Amer
lean troops, opening long
awaited 5th Army offensive with
British troops on a 10-mile front
In driving sleet and rain, have
smashed and battered their way
inside the pillbox maze of San
Vittore, where they are fighting
the Germans hand-to-hand for
possession of the remaining half
of the town, Allied headquarters
announced today.
The American and British ground
forces, supported by large forces of
American Invader divebombers
which penetrated low-hanging clouds
to bomb the enemy's gun positions,
advanced an average of a mile in
the first day of their offensive on the
10-mile front, headquarters reported.
The advance was on a front S
miles wide on either side of the Via
Casilina, the main road to Casino
and Rome.
British Surge Forward.
The British surged forward in the
smile southern half of the sector
from point west of Rocca, while
the Americans swept down from the
heights around San Vittore on the
north side of the road west of
Venafro
1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark's offensive
which broke weeks of minor ACTIVITY
along the Italian front started under
dripping, wind-swept skies Tuesday
night.
San Vittore, 6 miles from Cas-
sino, had been converted into a
fortress with every house a pillbox
and with the Germans dug into
wlnecellars where the terrific batter
ing of Allied artillery could not
reach them. The entire town was
system of Notifications and tank
traps.
But by noon yesterday the Ameri-
cans had driven through the outer
defenses and taken half the town.
Violent hand-to-hand conflict was
taking place for the other half.
German Fire Heavy.
Dispatches from the front said
the Germans opened up the fiercest
artillery and mortar fire in many
weeks as the British and Americans
rose from their positions and began
their offensive.
The Germans are fighting bit
terly for every inch of ground in
their customary style, but have been
driven back at least mile in most
places military spokesman said.
The Allied difficulties were in
creased by rain which swelled the
Watercourses again, by snow in the
mountains and by sleet which threw
a clammy blanket on expected air
support.
But despite the hazards, the
American A36 Invaders roared in
under the clouds, skipping just
above the ground at 300 miles an
hour. to strafe and bomb the
enemy's emplacements.
Because of their speed the in
vaders were unable to observe &C
curately the damage they did, but
Capt. James H. Cooper of Ruther-
ford, N. j., who led one mission,
Evening star., 1944-01-06
|Du Pont Issued
With Remington
In Cartel Case
British Monopoly
Also Named in
Antitrust Suit
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A civil suit charging E. I. du
Pont de Nemours, the Remington
Arms Co. and Imperial Chemica,
Industries, Ltd, giants of the
United States and British chem
icals and arms industries. with
maintaining an international
cartel agreement in violation of
the Sherman Antitrust Act, was
filed today by the Justice De-
partment.
Attorney General Biddle said the
complaint, filed in United States
District Court in New York, alleged
restraint of trade in the manufac-
ture OF chemical products, firearms
and ammunition.
In addition to Du Pont and I'M
perial Chemical Industries, the
complaint named the following ad-
ditional defendants:
Lammot du Pont, Wilmington,
DEL, chairman of the board of the
Du Pont Co., and Walter Samuel
Carpenter, jr., Wilmington, its presi-
dent; Charles Krum Davis, Fairfield,
Conn, Remington president and
general manager; Harry Duncan
MCGOWAN Lord McGowan). presi-
dent of the board of Imperial Chem
lcals, and Henry Mond Gord
Melchett, deputy chairman, and
Imperial Chemical Industries New
York., Ltd, New York, American
agent of ICI.
Acts Alleged Since 1920.
The complaint, said Mr.. Biddle.
charged that beginning prior to 1920
Du Pont ICI, and their individual
officers named in the complaint. and
from 1893 Remington and its presi-
dent. have been continuously
engaged in conspiracy and COM
blnation in restraint of trade and
commerce in chemical products.
arms, including war materials. and
ammunition in the United States
and foreign nations. and have been
ana are now parties to contracts and
agreements in violation of the
Sherman Antitrust Act"
The complaint described Du Pont
as the largest manufacturer Of
| chemical products in this country,
with total assets of about $1,000
100000. including the ownership OF
approximately % per cent of the
stock of General Motors Corp;
Remington as the largest manu-
facturer of sporting arms and am
! In1llnitinf1 IN, tba Tit =
since 1888 controlled by Du Pont.
and Imperial Chemical Industries
as having virtual monopoly of the
chemical industry in Great Britain.
Market Division Charged.
1t was alleged that sometime be-
fore 1920 Du Pont and ICI reached
an understanding with each other
for the elimination of competition
in the sale of explosives in all parts
Of the world. and that by this under
standing Du Pont was allocated the
United States and Central America
as its exclusive sales territory and
IC1 was allocated the rest of the
world, with the exception of Canada,
Newfoundland and South America.
Both companies were to refrain
from manufacture in or export to
each others exclusive markets. while
Canada, Newfoundland and South
America were to be shared by both
companies on noncompetitive
basis" the complaint stated.
1T was further agreed that profits
from the sale of commercial explo-
sives in South America were to be
divided equally, and in Canada the
firm of Canadian Industries, Ltd,
Jointly owned by both, would be
Evening star., 1944-01-06

Assisting Mr.. Lodge and Mr.
Belmore will be the 1897 licensed
establishments and 209 statesmen in
the District, over which the ABC
Board mas regulatory control.
Mr.. Lodge presided at pre-
liminary meeting of leaders of the
liquor industry here yesterday after
noon. Plans were discussed for
enabling the local industry to exceed
its record in the Third War Loan
drive, when bonds amounting to
81, 400 900 were bought or sold by
industry members.
James Spain, who was the indus
try chairman in the Third War Loan
drive, said today the soft-drink in
dustry here would be included in
the liquor industry campaign group
Evening star., 1944-01-06
3 German Ships Sunk
By British Submarines
Rr thu AsSoniotad procs

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 6.-British sub
marines have sunk eight German or
German-con ships, including
a large tanker, and have damaged
two others in recent operations in
the Mediterranean, the Admiralty
announced today.
The tanker, the announcement
said, was attacked and sunk in
convoy in the Gulf of Genoa.
The other vessels listed as sunk
included a small naval auxiliary
and three small cargo ships-in-
Guiding two ammunition carriers
destroyed off the French Riviera, a
mediums sized supply ship in the
AEGEAN and two smaller merchant
ships in the same general area.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Cromp Shipyord Closed
Lockout Charged
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMDEN, NJ j., Jan. 6.-The
Cramp Shipbuilding Co.'S yard was
closed today by dispute involving
few employees. Only maintenance
men, fire watchers and supervisors
were permitted to 60 through the
gates when more than II 900 workers
reported for duty this morning.
William F.. Schaffer, president of
a local of the CIO Industrial Union
of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers,
said the work stoppage was a lock-
out resulting from the failure of the
company to settle grievances of
about so painters, who quit in a
dispute over orders to do spray
painting instead of brush work.
Painters are paid more for spraying,
but they must use respirators.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Lodge, ABC Board Chairman,
To Head Liquor Bond Drive

Thomas E. Lodge, chairman of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board,
has accepted the local chairman
ship of the War Bonds and Stamps
Council Of the liquor and wine in
dustry and will head their partici-
patton in the Fourth War Loan
drive beginning January 18.
Mr.. Lodge said today he con-
sented to lead the campaign at the
request of the liquor and wine in
dustry. He added that Carl Bell
more, Of the Council of Alcoholic
Beverage Industries, a national or
ganization, will In effect be his
"ofnce manager" and devote his full
time to the forthcoming Bond cam
paign.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
1000 Massacred by Nazis
AT Ka|avrita, Greeks Say
By the Associated Press.


CAIRO, Jan. 6.-The exiled Greek
government today said the Germans
had massacred more than 1000
residents of Kalavrita and destroyed
the historic converts of Mega
Spleen and Agia Lavra.
The Greeks said all males over u
years old were ordered assembled
in a large space outside Kalavrita
on Peloponnesus to listen to a
speech" which turned out to be the
chatter of machine guns. Later,
the Greeks said, women and chill
dren of the town were compelled to
assemble in school which was set
afire. The statement said scores
died in the panic.
Houses then were plundered by
soldiers. The converts were said
to have been set upon and IS monks
mistreated and thrown into ra-
vine, the statement said.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
VIA Denies Charqe
Of Excessive SpoiIage
Of Food in Storage
Assured Carriers Don't
Consider Bosie Wages
Frozen for War Duration
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The War Food Administration,
reporting on its holdings Of food
for lease-lend, emergency and
other export purposes, said today
its losses from Spoilage had
amounted to one-f1ftieth of /
per cent of total purchases be-
tween March, 1941, and Decem-
ber l, 1943.
Those losses, 1t said, were eQuiva-
lent to less than 81 on every $1,000
of purchases. The period covered
the life of lease-lend operations.
The VIA food report, issued in
the wake Of published reports that
the agency had suffered large losses
through spoilage and that it held
excess supplies, said the largest por-
ton of food in commercial storage
now is privately held for civilian use.
Situation Not Unusual.
Inasmuch as this is the off ff-season
for production of many foods, it is
not unusual, the VIA said, for
storage facilities to have larger
stocks now for use in the low pro-
ducing winter months.
The VIA said in a press release
that it maintained a careful watch
on all its stocks to avoid spoilage
Inspectors make frequent checks and
the entire stock position is reviewed
at least every 10 days, it added.
The report gave these figures on
VIA holdings on December /:
! Frozen meats - VIA holdings
$500, 900 pounds, or about 2 per cent
of total commercial stocks of 49,
000,0 pounds. The VIA stocks
mostly pork-were said to be equiva-
lent to about the amount shipped in
three days during December.
Butter Holdings Large.
Canned meats VIA holdings
246, 100000 pounds, or approximately
31a months supply at the December
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Hoppenot Reported Called
To AIqiers for Consultation
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALGIERS, Jan. 6.-Henry Etienne
Hoppenot, previously reported about
to be replaced as the French Ma
tional Committees delegate to
Washington, has been recalled to
Algiers, ostensibly for consultations,
it was learned reliably today
These sources said that the French
delegate would be asked for a report
on Washington's attitude toward
the committees plan for provi-
sional government for liberated
France, but asserted most De Gaull-
lists feel he does not properly rep
resent them and hence may be re-
placed
M. Hoppenot is veteran prewar
diplomat who left Vichy only after
the Allied landings in North Africa.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Germans Prepare
Strong Defense
In Old Poland
MAP on Page A-3.)
By the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Jan. 6.-The Ger
man Army of Marshal Fritz Won
Mannstein has retreated into the
Pripet Marshes and reformed for
another stand along the prewar
Polish frontier west and south
OF Olevsk, a customs station
which the Russians captured
Monday.
This stiffened resistance on the
main route from Kiev to Warsaw
developed as the massive drive of
Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's 1st Ukraine
Army swept southwark toward the
Dniester River, the prewar Ruman-
ian border, at an accelerated pace
after the capture of Berdichev, a
pivotal rail center Is miles south
of Zhitomir.
Advices from the front said Mar
shal Won Mannstein had taken up
positions favorable for defense with
his left flank protected by the
marshes and was making deter
mined stand west of Olevsk along
the railway leading to Kowel a
city 130 miles inside the former Po-
lish border, and also in the region
southward between Gorodnitza and
Novogorod-Volynski.
Capture of the latter town. less
than 20 miles from the prewar bor-
der, was announced Tuesday by the
Russians.
After his own forces had re-
treated across to their present posi-
tions, the Nazi commander had an
opportunity to destroy the bridges
over two tricky water barriers in
this area-the Ubort River, which
flows just west of Olevsk, and the
Sluch River, which swings in a
northweSterly direction from Novo-
gorod-Volynski
Break Through Defenses.
A dispatch to the Moscow News,
English language weekly, said the
Reds had broken through the Ger
man defenses along the Sluch.
Previous reports had placed the
Russians across the prewar Polish
border in the area between Olevsk
and Sarny, town IS miles inside
the old frontier.
1t was evident that a growing
battle was in progress in this sector
and that the Russians were bringing
new pressure against the Germans
in the Dnieper bend southwark as
we'll as conducting a large scale Of
fensive northward around Newell.
tToday's German communique
broadcast by Berlin said heavy
battles are in full swing north
west of Berdichev, where the So
viets have attacked with un-
abated violence"
tThe Germans also said the
Russians had resumed attacks
north of Krivoi Rog and east of
Kirovograd and had renewed
attempts to break through south
east and northwest of Vitebsk.)
Press Southwark Drive.
The Russians drive southwark
picked momentum as the result OF
the capture of Berdichev, and dis
patch to Izvestia reported fierce
fighting in the villages along the
highway to Vennitsa, an important
rail center on the Bug River
Another objective of the Red Army
1Coo DTICCTA Dee icy
Evening star., 1944-01-06
(See PACIFIC, Page A-16.)
KOtt Z hOIT ~, dBt A-IU.7
RommeI Completes Tour
Of Hollands Defenses
The Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 6-Marshal Erwin
Rommel has completed tour OF
German defense installations in
Holland as a part of his inspection
of the anti-invasion works of Eu-
ropes west coast, DNB said today in
a Berlin broadcast.
Alarm practices and maneuvers
carried out with live ammunition
again proved the high standard of
training and that the divisions are
ready for the attack" the German
news agency said.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
President Blasts Hone
OF More Petroleum
For Civilian Needs
Military Oil Consumption
To Rise, Congress Told
In leose-Lend Report
BY J. A. FOX.

President Roosevelt today
blasted hopes for an increase in
the amount of gasoline and oil
available for civilian use, as he
sent to Congress a report on
lease-lend operations showing
that the United States had trans
ferred war materials and sup
piled services with a total value
of $18, 8,608, ,553 900 since embark
ing on this mutual-aid program
with the other United Nations
in March, 1941.
Recounting efforts to increase
crude oil production. refining capac-
ity and the supply of tankers avail
able to the Allies, as the tempo of
the war is speeded up, the Presi-
dent said:
THE overall petroleum war needs
Of the United Nations in 1914 will
rise above what they are now as
the magnitude of our offensive in
creases. The increasing numbers of
planes, ships and tanks which we
are now producing and putting into
action against the enemy require
increasing quantities of gasoline, oil
and lubricants. Additional supplies
OF petroleum products from other
areas will not, therefore, result in
reducing the demands on our own
petroleum resources. All available
supplies of petroleum products will
be required for a speedy and COM
plete victory OF the United Nations
over the enemy"
Each to Contribute.
He added that in the future as
in the past, the petroleum resources
OF each of the United Nations will
be utilized in its own direct war
ef1ort and the combined war effort,
In proportion to the maximum
ability of each to produce and eff1ci-
emily deliver the petroleum products
needed in the prosecution of the
war"
When the five Senators who
toured the battle front returned re-
Gently some complained that British
Oil deposits in the Middle East were
oelng conserved at the expense OF
American resources.
Another issue that has been the
subject of warm discussion-namelv
the extent to which this country in
tne postwar period may use air IA
clllties financed in other countries
also was touched on in the report
today, but the President was not
definite, saying that "the final and
complete answer" to this question
can be found only through the
continuing and successful collabora
ton OF the United Nations in inter-
national commerce after the wa,
and the development of a system OF
general military security in which
the interests of both the United
States and the other United Ma
tions are fully protected"
Year of Decisive Actions"
The report today, which covered
the period to November 30, was the
18th on lease-lend operations ano
1t went to Congress with a message
in which the President said that
the coming year will be a year OF
decisive actions in the war" He
added:
by combining their strength, the
United Nations have increased the
power of the common drive to de-
feat the Axis. We have already
beaten back our enemies on every
front on which we are engaged.
"At Teheran and Cairo plans were
Evening star., 1944-01-06
VIA Indorses Plan
For Subsidizing Food
Bills Of Is Million
Stomp Proposal Seen,
However, as Unlikely
To Halt Price Increases
BY the Associated Press.


The War Food Administration
gave surprise Endorsement today
to legislation that would set up a
Government stamp plan to sub
sidize the grocery bills of low
income families.
The plan would provide for dis
tribution of food stamps to families
of substandard incomes to insure
them an adequate. basic diet. The
VIA estimated 100000 persons
would be eligible and that the pro-
gram would cost the Government a
maximum of $4,000 ,O0O, 900 yearly.
WAS approval was set forth in a
letter to the Senate Agriculture
Committee and plans were an
nounced Immediately to open hear
ings on the bill, probably within a
week.
Surprise over WAS approval of
the stamp plan was occasioned by
the fact that the bill, introduced last
July by Senators Aiken, Republican
of Vermont, and La Toilette. Pro-
gressive, of Wisconsin, includes ban
against price control subsidies, key
device in the administrations fight
to stabilize consumer food prices at
September, 1912, levels.
Considered for Six Months.
Grover B. Hill, who signed the in
dorsement letter as acting VIA ad-
ministrator, wrote that the stamp
plan was desirable from a stand
point Of public health, but that the
VIA did not believe it would pre-
vent food costs from rising. The
agency had the plan under consid-
Grafton almost six months.
I'VE believe it is clear that the
program authorized by this bill
would not prevent increases in food
prices" Mr.. Hills letter said, "On
the other hand, it would at least
partly compensate low income fami-
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Late News
Bulletin
Letter to Be Probed

A Federal grand jury will in
vestigate circumstances sur
rounding publication of the
disputed Hopkins letter" on
Wendell WILKES chances of
becoming the Republican
presidential nominee, Assist
ant Attorney General Tom C..
Clark announced today. The
letter. purportedly written by
Harry L. Hopkins on August
II, 1S43, to DR.. Umphrey Lee
OF Dallas, Tex, and recently
made public by C. Nelson
Sparks Of Akron, Ohio, has
been described Is = forgery"
by Mr.. Hopkins.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
g Bodies in France Beur
'Antiterrorist' Signs
BY the Associated Press.

ASSUCIdUFu FIeSS.
BARCELONA, Jan. 6.-The uni
Identified bodies of six persons, each
bearing placard reading THE Ma
tional Antiterrorist Committee, were
found on hill above the city of
Nice on the French Riviera last
night, according to advices from
France.
In the last few days the bodies of
six other persons bearing the same
signs have been found in various
parts of France, including the city
Of Lyon, the advices said.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Two Fairly Severe
Quukes Are Recorded
By the Associated Press,

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The Rev.
Joseph j. Lynch, Fordham Univer-
sity seismologist, said today the uni
versity's chronological observatory
had recorded two fairly severe
earth tremors about 10000 miles
from here in the general direction
Of the Netherlands East Indies.
He said the first shock was re-
corded at 5:32:05 pm. yesterday and
the second at 5:35:22 pm.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Pubs Rotion Liquor
As Supply Runs Low
y the Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. 6.-Many pubs yes
terday started rationing customers
to one double" visit after dis
tillers warned that so per cent
cut was likely soon in Britains
liquor supply.
Describing the whisky situation as
acute" one distiller said exports to
North and South America also would
be cut in half. No more liquor is
being distilled and existing stocks
are disappearing rapidly, he said.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Benes Back in London

LONDON, Jan. 6 R.-President
Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia has
returned to London from Moscow,
where he recently signed mutual
assistance pact with Soviet Russia
on behalf of his government in exile.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
BY the Associated Press.

cape Gumbl on the nOrth
coast of New Guinea.
By the Associated Press.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Jan. 6.
The destruction of II Japa-
nese planes and two freighters,
and a direct hit on an enemy
cruiser rewarded Allied aerial
assaults ranging from Dutch
Timor to New Ireland, a South
west Pacific command commu-
nique reported today. The
Allies lost four aircraft.
American marines on the eastern
flank of their expanded invasion
holdings at Cape Gloucester, New
Britain, took the initiative against
japanese in the Bergen Bay area,
using tanks and artillery with aerial
support to drive the enemy farther
east
The marines there had frequently
withstood Japanese attacks while
other Leatherneck units, which par
ticipated in the December 26 land
ing on the northwestern tip of the
island had driven ahead to capture
the airdrome.
The airdrome captors have ex-
tended their operations to make
contact at Sag Sag, seven miles
southwest of Cape Gloucester, with
another marine invasion force which
had landed southwest of the cape.
Direct Hit Made on Jap Cruiser.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's COM
munique said a direct bomb hit on
a Japanese cruiser off New Hanover,
north of the enemy base at Kavieng,
New Ireland, was scored by bomber
from Admiral William F. Halsey's
South Pacific air fleet.
1t was in this quarter that two
Evening star., 1944-01-06

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 6.-Stettin,
Germany's biggest port on the
Baltic, was blasted by the RATS
heavy bombers last night and
Berlin was attacked by Mos
quito raiders in a double -edged
assault calculated to disrupt the
emergency supply system of the
battered capital and Shatter an
important maritime lifeline to
the Russian front.
The speedy MOSQUITOES directed
other blows at Western Germany
and Northern France.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
BULLETIN.

LONDON (R.-Small for
nations of RAF light bomb
ers and fighter -bombers again
attacked the French rocket
gun" coast today. The light
bombers, escorted by Allied
and RAF fighters, downed an
enemy fighter and Canadian
fighters destroyed two more.
One Allied fighter and one
bomber were lost.
Evening star., 1944-01-06
Jap Cruiser Blasted,
Two Freighters and
II Planes DESTROYED
Marines Using Tanks
And Artillery in Scoring
Gains at Gloucester
BULLETIN.

LONDON tP.-The Berlin
radio broadcast a dispatch to-
day by DNB. German official
news agency, from Toxic
stating that Australian troops
had made a new landing at
Cape Gumbi on the north
coast of New Guinea.
Evening star., 1944-01-06

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