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Evening star., 1944-08-26
Germans in Italy Retreat
Toward Gothic Line
BY the Associated Press.

oy tne Associated PTeSS.
ROME, Aug. 26.-German with
drawals toward the Gothic Line
Notifications in the central portions
of the Italian front were reported
today by Gen. Sir Harold Alexan-
der's headquarters.
Polish troops of the 9th Army on
the Adriatic sector continued ag-
gressive patrolling activity into the
enemy's new positions north of the
Metauro River.
The Nazi retreat to the shelter of
the Gothic Line in the rugged
northern Apennine range was most
pronounced In the area of the upper
Tiber River and on the east side of
the upper Arno behind Pontassieve,
Eighth Army units following up
the retreat reached Apecchio, IS
miles from the Adriatic and "a miles
due south of the principality of San
Marino, without opposition.
Evening star., 1944-08-26

country are giving in and whole
groups are surrendering, Bucha-
rest broadcast said. Allied troops
and our own soldiers from the front
are headed toward Bucharest"
Meanwhile, Bulgaria was said to
be awaiting an early delivery of
Allied terms to take her out of the
war, Greek insurgents were reported
fighting with German occupation
forces, and the Nazis frightened their
grip on a shaking Hungary.
All of these troubles faced Hitler
as he was reported in conference at
Berchtesgaden with his military and
political advisers.
(The Moscow radio broadcast
an appeal to the Bulgarian
people saying Bulgaria would face
defeat and punishment if she re-
manned in Hitlers camp" Lon
(See BALKANS, Page A-2J
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Army Pressure End!
War Prisoners Strike
On Eastern Shore
Work Stoppoee Of 1000
Was in Sympathy for
20 Comrades Punished
BY the Associated Press.

WESTOVER, Md, Aug. GA
sympathy strike of 1000 German
war prisoners employed in "a
lower Eastern Shore canning
plants was ended today after
administrative pressure" was
brought by Army authorities at
the Camp Somerset internment
center.
Maj. Jesse T. Kelly, commanding
officer of Camp Somerset, said the
entire compound at the center re-
fused to go to work yesterday afte,
Maj. Kelly refused demands of the
prisoners that 20 of their com
rades be released from punishment
for infractions of camp rules.
Maj. Kelly saio enlisted men from
the camps regular personnel were
issued passes and transported tc
the canneries where tomatoes were
threatened with spoilage.
The commandant did not say
what regulations were broken, OF
describe the punishment, declarine
only that administrative pressure
was brought against the strikers.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Paris Situation
|IsFaiir|yQuiet,
Allies Assert
Some Moppine Up
| Remains to Be Done
Headquarters Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Aug. 26. French
broadcaStS from Paris today de-
clared the capital again was free
OF the German yoke, although
the Nazis declared fighting still
was going on.
Gen. Charles de Gaulle proclaimed
the liberation of the capital to
cheering crowds last night, and the
Paris radio declared the German
commander had surrendered.
Supreme Allied headquarters said
the situation in Paris is fairly quiet
although some mopping up is still
being carried out.
Earlier, headquarters said only
that more Allied armor and infan-
try are in Paris following entrance
OF the I'd French Armored Division
Friday morning, and all resistance
in the southern and southwestern
outskirts has been overcome"
Radio France at Algiers asserted
early this afternoon that all Nazi
resistance in Paris had ceased.
Nazis Deny Capitulation.
Berlin broadcasts denied that Gen
Werden, commanding the Paris
garrison, had capitulated, and said
troops in tbs capital area still were
fighting Allied columns and the
Partisans.
The German accounts said fight
ing continued near the Ecole Mill
taire, Montparnasse, at several
boulevard crossings, with particu-
larly bitter struggles at the Place de
la Concorde. the Place de l'Etoile
and around the Arc de Triomphe.
Gen. de Gaulle announced the lib
Grafton three days after the pre-
mature report from his London
headquarters. In his broadcast
speech the shouting and singing of
the crowd could be heard clearly.
Now Free, De Gaulle Says.
Paris is tree now-freed by the
hands Of Frenchmen-the capital of
fighting France, of France the great
eternal" Gen. de Gaulle declared.
Earlier the Paris radio said Col
Rouel, commander of the Paris
region for the French Forces of the
Interior had issued this proclama-
ton to his forces:
"FFI of the lie de France (the
Paris region. You have impro-
vised your tactics, animated by the
strong desire to win, and you have
Won.'
Order Reported Signed.
The German commander surren-
dered, the broadcast said, to Brig
Gen. Jacques LIE Clerc, command
ing officer of the French I'd Armored
Division, and signed this order:
The German commander gives
orders to the forces under his COM
mand to cease fire Immediately
Arms are stacked.
Personnel assemblies without
arms at places to be indicated, and
will wait for orders there. Arms
have to be delivered intact"
Evening star., 1944-08-26
qugs From Car Fell
Silver Spring Trainer
Ey the Associated Press.


CAMDEN, N. j., Aug. 26-Five
automatic shotgun blasts from
speeding automobile felled Robert
Francis Curran. A. of Silver Spring,
Md, race horse trainer at Garden
State Park, as he left the Walt
Whitman Hotel in downtown Cam
den today.
Thirteen pellets hit Mr.. Curran,
but physicians at Cooper Hospital
where he was taken said he was not
seriously wounded.
Detective Clifford Carr said
neither Mr.. Curran nor his friends
could explain the attempt on his
life.
THE only possibility at this stage
Of the investigation is that it may
have been case of mistaken ident-
ity. Mr.. Curran tells us, I don't
know what it's all about"
With Mr.. Curran when the shots
were fired were George De Voy, ST.,
of Brooklyn; William Knapp, SIS, of
Queens Village, N. Y, both trainers:
ouAdS 4AoiAihVoAi, oU, Z dulSUOTU, N. d.,
former jockey, and John Stone
burner, 80, of Washington, an ex-
ercise boy.
Mr.. Curran was about Is or 20
yards ahead of his companions as
they walked to a parking lot to
get Mr.. Curran's automobile. The
speeding automobile passed between
him and the others. who thought
the blasts we're backfires until they
say Mr.. Curran lying in the street.
Mr.. Curran, native of the Dis
trict. makes his home with his
brother, Marian D. Curran, at
Wheaton, Md.
He trained Jimmie, a horse that
won several good purses in Florida
last winter. the brother said, and
had an entry by the name Of Army
Belle in the 5000 sixth race on
today's program at Garden City.
Evening star., 1944-08-26

Troyes, 130 miles south of the Ger
man border at the Saar, there was
almost a complete blackout of off,
cial information at supreme head
quarters on how far Allied troops
have pushed in the direction Of
Belgium and Germany
If the Germans make another
stand in France it is believed they
probably will do so along the old
Somme line amid the battlefields
of the World War.
In their present confused state
1t was unlikely that the Germans
have an exact idea where the Amer
ican, British and Canadian ad-
vanced columns have reached. One
OF the new American crossings of
the Seine was made at Corbell,
l8 miles southeast of Paris.
The state of NaZi disintegration
In France was self-evident in the
report of an Associated Press cor
respondent from Nancy 80 miles
northeast of Troyes and 70 miles
(See NORTHERN FRANCE. A-31
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Mass Police Raids
Reported in HeIsinki;
Ships, Trains Searched
Finnish Radio Offers
No Reason for Action;
500 Persons Questioned
Ry the Associated Press.

| 6s tic hSsOCldLeQ fIeSS.
NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-Finnish
police blocked all roads leading
out of Helsinki at dawn yester-
day and staged mass raids
through the capital until early
today, the Finnish radio said
today in a broadcast that failed
to offer any explanation of the
action.
The broadcast. recorded by FEC
monitors. said results have been
very satisfactory" and that about
500 people were interrogated as their
identity papers were not in order
Since the raid continued into
the early hours of this morning
further details will be made known
later" the broadcast said. adding
that Minister of the Interior Kaarlo
Henrik Hillilae expressed his salts
faction at the manner in which the
raids were carried out"
All ships entering harbors and
trains reaching stations were in
spected. the broadcast said.
Evening star., 1944-08-26

job in going into buildings in
search of German snipers, and rae
ing around the streets in absolute
contempt for ambushes.
1--WE swept on down to the Es-
planade des Invalides overlooking
the Seine. The dome of Les In
yalides was resplendent in the bril-
liant sunshine. The esplanade was
deserted, an odd sight. We were
fully exposed to German positions
on the other side of the bridge.
"On the way out Of the city there
were fewer people on the streets.
They all looked In good health and
the children amazingly so.
I'm answer to my inevitable ques-
ton they said they'd never had
enough to eat, but there had not
been any actual famine. Another
two or three days, they thought,
would have brought q real famine.
"They told me hospitals were
jammed with tubercular children,
but, by and large, the Parisians of
the south bank were not famished-
looking"
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Allies Gain on 2OO-MiIe Front:
Eisenhower Says A|sace-Lorraine
Soon May Become War Theater
Attack Launched
On Brest by Air,
Land and Sea
MAP on Page A-3.)
By the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
Swiftly advancing Allied troops
soon may bring the war to the
Germans stolen province of
Alsace Lorraine, Gen. Eisen-
hover said today in an order of
the day, as great 200-mile
Allied front expanded eastward
and northward toward Germany
and Belgium.
The American we're firmly across
the Seine River in a half dozen
places and the Nazis, battered in re-
treat by bombs and shells, were be-
lieved withdrawing for stand along
the Somme-Marne line.
Canadians reached the Seine and
were closing in on Rouen, where the
Germans are making their most
frantic efforts to escape across the
river.
The Allies made a great air as
sault on the Seine pocket, where
$4,000 to 10000 Germans are be-
lleved trapped. In the last "a hours,
SO German planes, $40 vehicles and
b8 tanks have been destroyed.
American armor was within 13O
miles of the German border south
OF the Saar, and bridgeheads across
the Seine were barely 100 miles from
Belgium.
Attack on Brest Launched.
approximately 300 miles behind
the main fighting front running
northwest and southeast of Paris,
an all-out land, air and sea attack
was launched on the besieged Ger
man garrison at Brest on the tip
Of the Breton Peninsula. This at
tack by American troops was sup
ported by hundreds of American
and British bombers and the guns
of the famous British battleship
Warspite.
American troops have seized
Elbeuf, Is miles from the mouth of
the Seine. The Canadians were ap-
preaching Pont-Audemer, 13 miles
east and slightly south of Allied
held Honfleur at the rivers mouth.
The Allied drive north toward the
Pas-de-Calais coast conceded with
lull in the flying bombs attacks on
London and Southern England. but
1t was not known whether the Ger
mans already were moving their
robot launching platforms out of
range of Gen. Eisenhower advanc-
ing armies. Allied pilots reported
the Germans had pulled out at least
part Of their forces from the rocket
coast Notifications.
Black0ut on Information.
Although American tanks in a
23-mile advance had pushed into
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Brewster Corp.
backPayPo|icy
Hit by Bard
Firm Is Attempting
To lncite Workers,
Navy Aide Charges

The Brewster Aeronautical
Corp, Long Island City, N. Y,
was accused by Acting Secretary
OF the Navy Ralph A. Bard today
OF trying ito incite a controversy
between the (Brewster) workers
and the Navy Department" by
falling to make payments on
approximately 81 500 900 in back
wages authorized by War Labor
Board decisions.
In a strongly worded letter to
Preston Lockwood, president of the
corporation, Mr.. Bard characterized
as shocking" the fact that the
corporation continues to maintain a
large staff of highly paid corporate
officials with public funds while
refusing to pay what he called the
just claims of labor.
The Brewster Corp. under orders
from the Navy, ceased production
OF planes under Navy contracts at
its Long Island City and Phila-
delphia plants several months ago.
Some Checks Drawn.
The Navy Department" Mr..
Bard wrote, has been informed
that your company has refused to
make certain payments to your
workers which are due to them and
which have been approved by the
War Labor Board. l am informed
that the amount due is approxi-
mately $1,500,000 and that you have
already drawn checks to about $500
workers in an amount over $500. 900.
l am informed that you refused to
issue these checks and make these
payments unless the Navy Depart
ment first advances you another
81 ,000, 900 in cash.
During the entire period since
you began production for the NAVY
Department you have been fully
financed to meet all of your obliga-
tlons. On occasion the advances to
you outstanding reached total over
1000 900. These funds were in ef-
feet public monies and were adj
vanced to you to enable you to per-
form your war production contracts,
the most important of which were
with the Navy Department. The
public funds which were advanced
were to be used by you to pay for
your labor and materials and other
expenses in connection with these
contracts.
| nirecf nhI;~,t;ous
When you ceased production YOU
had over $4,000 600 of these funds,
and on August Is on your own
statement you still had $500, 900
and other resources which could
rapidly be converted into cash to
meet the expenses of your termina-
tion and the War Labor Board
awards above referred to. You were
in effect holding public funds for
these purposes. 1t is shocking that
you should continue to maintain a
large staff of highly paid corporate
officials with these funds from the
public Treasury and at the same
time refuse to pay the just claims Of
labor.
These claims of labor are direct
obligations of your company, and
you have no colorado right to ask
that the Navy take any action
whatsoever before you pay them.
| (See BREWSTER, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Allied Air Fleets Blast
Oil Centers in Reich;
Rocket Area Hit Again
Entire Western Front
Roked From Sky; Robot
Centers Suffer New Blows
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 26-Nearly l,00C
United States Flying Fortresses and
Liberators carried the smashing
new aerial offensive against Europe
through the third straight day to-
day, most of them battering oil tar
gets in Germany.
Others dealt the besieged Brittany
port Of Brest its third pounding In
36 hours.
Up to $50 heavy bombers, with as
many escorting fighters, ranged over
Northwest and Southwest Germany
in third consecutive blow at Hit
lers oil plants.
The daylight blows followed over
night operations in France and Ger
many by 1,40O Raj bombers and
6,450 flights Friday from British and
French bases.
Oil Plants Hard Hit.
Targets today included the Schol.
van-Buer and Nordstern synthetic
oil plants at Gelsenkirchen, an oil
refinery at Emmerich near the
Dutch border, an oil finishing plant
at Salzbergen west of Osnabruck
and synthetic oil facilities at Lud-
wigshafen near the Swiss border.
German batteries and fortified
positions at Brest were attacked BY
up to $50 Liberators and Flying For
tresses. aiding ground assaults tc
crush resistance in the big Atlantic
port. Brest's detenses were drenched
last night by 1850 tons of explosives
of the RAF.
Opel Motor Works Bombed.
In another concentrated attack
before dawn the Raj dumped near
ly LOO tons of bombs on the Ope
motor works at Russelsheim, be-
tween Mainz and Frankfurt.
Others smacked flying bomt
launching sites and a rocket depot
in Northern France. the rail anc
industrial town of Darmstadt, in the
upper Rhineland, and Mosquito.
unloaded two-ton blockbusters or
Berlin. The Raj lost q plane.
during the night.
The Allied air forces lost 7t
planes in their extensive operation.
yesterday and throughout the night
These included II bombers, 7 fight.
ers for the United States 9th All
Force and 10 planes for the United
States 9th Air Force.
Against their losses the Allies
Tailed IA German aircraft de-
stroyed in the air and on the
ground.
Rocket Base Attacked.
The British Air Ministry disclosed
that before dark last night RAF
LancaSters and Halifaxes attacked
"a large concrete structure believed
to be connected with the enemy's
threatened use of long-range rock
cts, at Wattem in Pas-de-Calais.
The amount of fighter opposi-
ton encountered was regarded here
as possible sign that the Ger
mans now may be beaten to a point
where they have decided to risk
their remaining planes in a des-
perate defense of Germany itself.
Nazi fighters swarmed up from
their new bases around Cambria
scissors, Reims and San Quentin
and the 9th United States Air Force
bagged yesterday 81 ME- l09s and
(See AERIAL, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Herriot Reported Alive,
But Prisoner OF hazis
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LISBON, Aug. 26.-Edouard Her.
riot, 72-year-old former President
Of France, still is alive somewhere
in France although the Germans
several times have reported him
dead, Jules Sauerwein, a French
newspaperman, said here last night.
Mr.. Sauerwein fled Paris just be-
fore the Patriots began their at
tacks against German occupying
forces,
Evening star., 1944-08-26

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 26.-"Quarters
of the German command" in
Bucharest, the Romanian CAPT.
tai, are engaged in fierce fighting
against Romanian Army forma-
tions, the German radio an
nounced today.
The German high command said
that repeated attacks made by
traitors were repulsed and that
German troops were engaged in a
general retreat in Romania while
defending themselves against nu-
merous Soviet attacks.
The German Legation in Bucharest
has been cordoned off by Romanian
troops and police forces, said a
Berlin broadcast.
1t added that "under these cir
cumstances there exists no possibility
of direct communication with the
German envoy or his staff"
Romanjans Joining Reds.
Bucharest reported Romanian
soldiers in increasing numbers were
joining the onrushing Red Army
and under heightening pressure from
the front and rear Germanys whole
position in Romania appeared
headed toward disintegration.
German strongpoints in the
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Fish Drops Libel Suit
Against Robert Cutler
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-With-
drawal of $3.50, 900 libel suit against
Robert F. Cutler of Suffern, N. Y,
former executive secretary of the
Good Government Committee of the
29th Congressional District, was an
nounced by Representative Fish, Re-
publican, of New York last night.
Mr.. Fish said he withdrew the suit
because of statement by Mr.. Cut
Ter that the latter had not sane
toned political advertisement con-
tanning the purported libel.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Antonescu Reported
Assossinoted During
Romonion Coup
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated PreSS.
BERN, Switzerland. Aug. 26.
"A dispatch from the Swiss
Italian border today said Mar
shall Ion Antonescu, deposed
Romanian Premier, had been
assassinated during the coup
d'etat that placed Romania in
the Allied camp.
The dispatch came from the
Swiss Telegraph Agency, which
quoted the italian news agency
Stefani. There was no confir-
nation.
Berlin broadcasts have said
Antonescu fled to Germany
after King Michael of Romania
accepted Allied surrender terms.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Britain Gets Respite
| OF ~ Hours From
Flying Bomb Attacks

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 26.-London
and the southern counties en-
joyed more than "a hours of
relief from flying bomb attacks
without a single alert in the
London area during last night.
For the first time in over two
months the Home Security COM
munique announced "up to 7
am. there has been nothing to
report"
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Steady Roin Forecast
Beginning Tomorrow

A steady rain which will start
early tomorrow morning and con-
tinue for approximately 10 hours
with the thermometer not expected
to climb out of the middle COS was
forecast today by the Weather Bu-
reau.
The temperature today was pre-
dicted to reach II degrees about 4
pm. A low for the day of 56 de-
grees occurred at 6 am. Yester-
days high was rs degrees at 6 pm
with a low of 81 degrees occurring
at 7 am,
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Experts Go to France
To Train Officers in
Art of Bond Selma
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Three experts from the Treas
ury's War Finance Division
have been sent to France to
train finance officers of the
Army in bond selling technique,
the Treasury said today.
The step was taken, officials
said, at the request of the chief
finance officer in the theater,
who reported bond sales to
soldiers there were not as great
as they have been.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
The Heroic Moouis
After 8 years of hidin

After 3 years of hiding. the
French underground is COM
ing to the surface to help in
the liberation of their coun-
try. Some OF the tragedies
which have befallen these
patriots are disclosed in a
series OF Ave gripping stories
by a French underground
leader as told to Leland Stowe.
The first will be published
tomorrow In
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Turkey Breaks With Vichy

ANKARA, Aug. 25 DelayedD R.-
Turkey suspended diplomatic rela-
tions today with Vichy France on
grounds that the Petain regime no
longer is functioning.
Evening star., 1944-08-26
Nazis Battle Romoniun Troops
In Bucharest, Germans Declare
Berlin High Command
Admits Retreat as
Russians Advance
BULLETIN.

ROME R.-American Lib
orators from Italy today
bombed Otopeni Airdrome, 9
miles north of Bucharest, in
support of the Romanian gov
ernment defending the capital
against German attacks.
Evening star., 1944-08-26

(See BREWSTER, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1944-08-26

See NORTHERN FRANCE, A.;
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-31

AN/E humans consider multiple births
Nv thing 10 talk about. from the compare
w lively frequent (about one out of So
twin births 10 the extremely rare quintuplets
arrivals. In the animal world, however, multiple
births are not uncommon, and in some species
the animal mother who produced her offspring
in units of one probably would hang her head in
shame among her wild neighbors.
In many cases, Mother Nature assures animal
parepts of "dcuces Wild, pairs OF perfectly
matched offspring Even a Zoologst would have
trouble telling these identical twins -apaFtrbe-
cause they completely matched in color
ing. marking-aad often dispositions
On this page are photographs showing some
examples of Natures duplicating duplicity and.
incidentally, some splendid examples of wild
animal life as seen by camera.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-31

You'd Not Be
Too Surprised
III You Saw
Twin SPUR
rels in Some
Am erican
Park, but If
Y GU Ca IN G
Across Them
in Australia,
1t Would be
i'm q Zoo. Aus
tralia, the
+ q IA w a v
Land of the
X ng roo
and the KOa-
l a, Is ( h e
Only Part of
the w orld
They're Not
Native To.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20

audience had ah-ed its cos
tunes, oh-ed its scenery and
c hortled AT its comedy.
Especially at the rough-and-
ready antics of Bobby Clark.
Having caught up with the
piece prior 10 IFS Broadway un-
yelling, | knew Just how good
il was. So | took a minute off
TO watch the reactions OF the
first New York audience.
Tremendous! Even the critics
for the morning papers liked 10
died a-laughing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-20
Theater JekyI-Hydes

Or Jckyls and Mr. Hydcs Of
H. -hep- shop What * H4fft H.
prOEoEUE M me fncaIcr lU'S-
day is mo- laughing matter on
drama page The "Wednesday fol-
lowing. Is The professional
thcatcrgoor developing dou-
bic standard of mr'h and mo-
rality?
/ suppose It's quite an right
for a drama critic 10 change hl,
spots his high spots and his
low spots between the first
performance OF a now produc-
ton and the first edition ol next
day $ paper
That, ! wouldn't hc surprised
is one Of his several privileges
But il would be- easier on both
hiS fellows and his followers II
hc lived up or down 10 his
public opening night reactions
This time I'm thinking of the