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Evening star., 1944-10-07
BY NEwBoLD NogEs. Jr.,

WITH BRITISH FORCES IN
ALBANIA, Oct. 2 tDelayed)
(Via RCA).-The Germans facing
us here are members of specially
constituted "999' brigades, COM
posed of political prisoners and a
few ordinary criminals impressed
into military service.
It Is on this type of unit that
enemy commands had to depend
largely for garrisoning the Balkans.
About 20 per cent of a typical
1893" brigade is made up of common
law criminals, perhaps half of whom
are in the professional or habitual
class. The other 80 per cent are men
who were imprisoned for their anti
Nazi sentiments, but whom the
Nazis. now that the pinch is on,
regard as suitable, if untrustworthy,
cannon fodder.
A substantial proportion of the
officers, of course. are thorough
going Nazis who can be relied on to
keep their motley command in line.
Some of them have deserted to us
and to the Partisans next to us.
They explain apologetically that
most of the rest would come if they
could, but that their positions are
Evening star., 1944-10-07
New York Bids Smith Farewell;
22O, 900 Join in Final Homage
Crowds Line Streets Eight Abreast to Puy
Tribute to Former Governor of Stote
Who Let Him In?
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. New Yorkers
by the thousands bade farewell to-
day to Alfred E. Smith.
Arriving at st. Patrick's Cathedral
by limousine, bus and on foot friends
and admirers of the four time Gov
ernor of New York State and 1923
Democratic presidential candidate
crowded the Gothic edifice for the
pontif1ca1 mass of requiem and lined
the surrounding streets.
An hour before the service huge
crowds stood along Fifth avenue
and adjoining thoroughfares.
They added TO the 100000 esti-
mated by police to have filed silently
by the open heavy bronze casket of
the Happy Warrior"
Mr. Smiths body lay in state in
the cathedral overnight, an honor
accorded only once before to a lay
Evening star., 1944-10-07
I Long-1erm Conyicts
Flee Michigan Prison
Hy the Associated Press.

6y tuc AsSOcldte0 FresS.
JACKSON, Mich, Oct. 7.-Seyen
long-term convicts sawed their way
to freedom from the State prison Of
Southern Michigan last night, appar-
emily in the course of prison movie
performance, and were still at large
today.
Search for the fugitives, who in
cluded four lifers, was being pressed
near Grass Lake, Is miles east of
here, after three of the group were
reported to have run stolen car
into a ditch In that area and fed
into field.
Warden Harry H. jackson said
the convictS used saws, pipe-cutter
and a bar spreader to get into an
unused cell block, from which they
then escaped via a window 4 feet
from the ground. The warden said
that section was the least lighted by
tower searchlights.
The seven were part Of a group
attending movie In the prison
auditorium between and 8 p.m..
jackson said. A half hour after the
movie was over guards noticed two
were missing. Later the absence
Of the five others was discovered.
Evening star., 1944-10-07
NaziDefenseCo CoIIapses Suddenly
As U.S.. Tanks, Infantry Advance
lnSweeping Drive Above Aachen
Nozi Defenders of Albania
Consist Largely Of Criminals
Deserters, Describing Conditions in Reich,
Soy Outspoken Anti-Nozsm Is Popular fod

surrounded by mine fields, and the
few paths through these mine fields
are guarded carefully.
AS might be expected, the desert
ers testify to the fact that morale
among these troops is terrible. They
state food is deficient both as to
quality and quantity. despite fire.
quent attempts to improve the situ-
alton through organized foragine
parties on the countryside.
The troops are issued only one
uniform apiece and one pair of
boots, which is unusual for garrison
troops, and which makes for un-
comfortable living in this sort of
climate. 1t Is claimed that the aver
age Of the enemy's non-commis-
stoned ranks here is A years.
Reports of these deserters as to
conditions inside Fortress Ger
many" should be accepted only with
reservation, as they presumably rep
resent the biased views of some OF
the more extreme and bitter Ger
man anti-Nazis. Nevertheless, the
picture they present is remarkable
Discussing the effectiveness OF
radio propaganda directed at the
Reich by the Allies, these men said
it is unnecessary for us to harr
on the theme that the German
leaders are common criminals be-
g. HIOyn1 -.
Evening star., 1944-10-07
Communists 'FDR Bondwogon'
Gets Explosive Boston Greeting

ed: "Sit down, sit down." and Miss
Ann Burlak, Massachusetts, COM
munist leader, joined in the appeal
over the loudspeaker system which
she had been using to ask for f1nan-
cial support of the committees eff
fort to re-elect President Roosevelt.
Police, some with drawn revolvers,
converged on the scene OF the ex-
plosions but found no one who was
involved.
Mr.. Browder. speaking between
the acts, said John L. Lewis, Mine
Workers chieftain, had conspired to
stir up strikes only because ne had
"the protection and collaboration Of
Candidates Dewey and Bricker, Z
adding that 4the time has come
when the whole country must join
the labor movement in demanding
that this unholy combination shall
be broken up"
Mr.. Browder made no comment on
President Ro0sevelt's statement
fSee BANDWAGON pare A-2.1
Evening star., 1944-10-07
Hy the Associated Press.


BOSTON, Oct. THE loud explo-
sion of several large firecrackers
threw the premiere of the Com
munist Political Committees con-
troversial musical revue, IF. D. r.
Victory Bandwagon" into temporary
confusion last night.
The sharp explosions came only q
moment after Earl Browder, Com
munist political association leader,
had finished speaking, but quick
thinking men in the capacity Sym
phony Hall audience quickly calmed
excited spectators.
Police Sergt. Frank Mullen, in
charge Of the uniformed and plain
clothes officers on duty, said his men
found evidence Of exploded fire.
crackers near an emergency exit
through which the thrower appar-
emily escaped.
Several persons rushed into the
Railways as others rose from their
Seats.
Booming masculine voices shout
Evening star., 1944-10-07
Foochow Taken
In New Invasion,
Port in East Chino
Fell Three Days
Ago, Tokyo Says
BY the Associated Press.

Foochow, capital of Fukien
Province and the last major port
held by the Chinese on the East
China coast, was captured by a
Japanese invasion force three
days ago, Tokyo broadcast OF
a japanese imperial commu-
nique said today.
There was no immediate con-
firmation of the claim from Allied
sources, but the Chinese high COM
mand yesterday said Japanese
troops had reached the northwest
ern suburbs of the city, located
across narrow strait from the
northern tip of the Japanese -occu-
pied island of Formosa.
Target Of Landing Forces.
Foochow, occupied by the jap
anese previously in April, 1899, and
retaken by the Chinese the following
September, was the target of Jap
anese troops landed in Kukien Prov
ince in what Tokyo said was a drive
to forestan American landings from
the Pacific.
Meanwhile, an Associated Press
dispatch from Chungking said a
Chinese communique announced
Chinese troops had completed the
reoccupation Of an important posi-
tion southwest of Lungling, in
Yunnan Province to the southwest,
with the capture of high peak.
Fighting also ragged in Kwantung
Province to the south where the
Chinese high command yesterday
said defenders operating behind
japanese lines had recaptured the
important town of Szewui, Al miles
northeast of Canton.
Paoching's FAN Appears Near.
The fall of Paoching, key Human
city 135 miles north of Kweilin
Kwangsi defense center, appeared
imminent. Fall of the city would
remove a threat to the Japanese
right flank in the enemy drive
against Kweilin.
Aircraft of the United States 14th
Air Force bombed the Mangsheih
area on october causing fire and
explosions and on October 4 the
United States 10th Air Force
bombed q bridge at Wanting, as
well as other targets in the vicinity
the Chinese communique said.
Evening star., 1944-10-07
Nozis Moy ScuttIe Ships
In Hurbors of Aegean
Ry thc Associateo Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. THE German
Navy Is preparing to scuttle Its ships
In Aegean harbors, q German Trans
ocean agency naval commentator
said today.
Many vessels brought from Ro-
mania along the Danube to the Iron
Gate already have been sunk" he
said. thus constituting q not easily
removable obstacle for enemy ship
ping on the Danube and hampering
their supplies. Similar tasks are
now taking shape in the Aegean
Sea-"
Evening star., 1944-10-07

man, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish
pianist, in 1941.
The mass was preceded by pom
tiflcal procession of members of
the Catholic hierarchy. led by cross
bearers and acolytes. The process
sion entered the main entrance of
the cathedral and the mass was be-
gun at 11:10 am.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt ar
rived at the cathedral shortly be-
fore the service. She was accom-
panied by Maj. Gen. Thomas A.
Terry, commanding general of the
I'd Service Command, representing
the President.
Members of the former Gov
ernor's family arrived in the cathe-
dral from the archepiscopal resi-
dence. There were about 20 in the
group, including Mr.. Smiths two
Evening star., 1944-10-07
Sig Jakueki Choice
Of Amazing Browns
In Fourth Of Series
ArIington's MeQuinn
Sparkling Determined
Attack Of Roeomuffins
BY JACK HAND.
Associated Press stafr Correspondent


ST. LOUIS, Oct. 7.-Unless the
st. Louis Cardinals snap out of
it quick, the ragamuff1n Browns
are going to complete baseball's
big 1914 surprise story by adding
a first world championship to
their flrst-pennant victory.
Heading into today's fourth game
OF the neighborhood rivalry, the
rags to riches kids" are hitting a
thin ITO, fielding a wobbly $50 but
leading the Red Birds in the all
important detail of two victories to
one. Jack Kramer was responsible
for yesterdays 60 American League
triumph.
Fair and Cooler"
With the forecaster predicting fair
and cooler weather, contrast from
yesterday when most of the 34,737
fans perspired in the 88-degree tenn
perature, Skipper Luke Sewell is
ready to go with Sig Jakucki, a
tomato-faced Highlander pickup
from a Houston shipyard.
He will be opposed by Lefty Harry
Brecheen from Broken Bow, Okla.
whose record Of 16 victories and s
losses was one of the best in the
National League.
Stopping the Brownies appears tc
be largely question of stopping
George McQuinn, the graceful first
sacker from Arlington, Va. He sticks
out head and shoulders over the
field on his .625 batting mark COM
piled on five hits, including two
doubles and a game winning homer
in eight at-bats. McQuinn, "a ball
players ball player" has driven in
four of the 10 runs his team has
scored. Gene Moore, his "roomie'
on the road, has scored three times
on McQuinn's wallops.
Kramer Clicks in Clutches.
If McQuinn was the big gun OF
the Browns attack with three blows
in yesterdays victory, Jack Kramer
rated equal billing on his excellent
exhibition Of clutch pitching.
The 26-year-old highlander from
New Orleans, who drew a medical
discharge from the Navy Seabees
after six months service year ago
was in hot water in the early and
late innings, although he had one
streak In midgame VIXEN he re-
tired 10 Cards in succession
Moore's back-to- -the-wall catch or
Evening star., 1944-10-07
Ernie Pyle to Get Decree

ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, Oct.
z R.-New Mexico University an
nounces 1t win confer the degree Of
doctor OF letters on Ernie Pyle, ma
tionally known newspaper column
ist, at commencement exercises Oc-
tober ~. Mr.. Pyle, whose home Is
here, recently returned from the
European war front.
Evening star., 1944-10-07
.Soviets Enter Hungary
On 75-MiIe Front and
Strike for Budapest
Red Planes Drop Leaflets
Exhortine Mosyurs to Quit;
Score Invasion Extended
BY the Associated Press,

MOSCOW, Oct. 7.-Red Army
forces, surging across the Ro-
manian frontier into Hungary on
a 75elnile front, moved steadily
toward the Tisza and Koros
Rivers, last big natural obstacles
before Budapest today.
Indications were that the back
bone of German Hungarian re-
sistance had been broken and that
the Soviets had an excellent chance
of carrying the fight to the area of
the Hungarian capital within four
or five days at the present rate of
advance. Budapest was about 90
miles away this morning.
Kuban Cossacks were reported
spreading death and panic" in the
rear of Hungarian troops unable to
disengage themselves on the shat
tered front in Southeastern Hun
gary.
Enemy Retreating.
"Our mobile units are chasing the
retreating enemy" said front line
dispatch to IZveStia. "And light
Cossack units are in their rear"
Already more than 100 communi-
ties OF the last big Nazi puppet ma
ton had been seized, the latest COM
muniques announced.
The Red Army seized three impor-
tant railways and highways leading
toward Budapest. Driving swiftly
across farmlands offering little nat
ural defense the Red Army troops
captured Mako, within Is miles of
Szeged, Hungary's second city, and
drove toward Orshaza and Bekes, 80
miles to the east, the war bulletin
said.
While Soviet planes dropped leaf
lets exhorting the Hungarians to
quit the Axis before it is too late,
other Russian troops menaced Hun
gary from the Yugoslav frontier on
the south. Augmented by Yugoslav
Partisan forces, they reached the
lisa River, 45 miles below Szeged.
Belgrade Besieged.
In Yugoslavia, Belgrade was vir-
tually besieged.
There still was no indication
whether the Germans were going to
make a fight for the Yugoslav capi-
tai and there was no official re-
port that Russians had crossed the
Danube in the immediate Belgrade
area. There was reason to believe,
however, that the Russians and
Marshal Tito,s units were almost at
the lowland suburbs across the river,
If not already in them.
(The Algiers radio said the
Germans were evacuating troops
from Belgrade with the use of
big transport planes.)
The new offensive in Southeast
Hungary famed out from Arad, big
West Romanian base.
In Moscow it was said the Hun
gary home front might collapse
quickly, and the Russians already
were planning an invasion OF
Austria.
Hungary also was menaced from
the north where, along the Czecho-
slovak-Polish border, Soviet troops
fought toward crossing of the
Carpathian Mountains and a sweep
into the Magyar country.
In the Baltic, the war bulletin
said. Russian troops on Saare Is
land, which guards the entrance
to the Gulf of Riga, captured 80
populated places on q 25-mile front
and advanced southwestward is
miles.
Evening star., 1944-10-07
tOcc 0Ef6IEo, FHB6 A-zJ
Nozi General, Injured
In Hitler Plot, Dies
By the Associated Press.

by tue HSSoC1HLeu FreSe.
LONDON, Oct. 7.-Gen. Rudolf
Schmundt, chief adjutant of the
German Army, died Of injuries suf-
fered IN the July 20 attempt to kill
Hitler and was given state funeral
at Tannenbeg yesterday, German
news agency broadcast said today.
A broadcast by Transocean said
the 48-year-old Gen. Schmundt
was the third to die among the men
injured by the explosion.
The others were Col. Gen. Gu0-
ther Korten, chief Of the Air Force
general stan, and q man named
Berger, who has been Identified as
adviser to Hitler"
Evening star., 1944-10-07
Gov. Dewey Charges
B Federal Agencies
Regulate Workers
New Yorker Is Expected
To Hit New Deal on
Reconversion Tonight
By J. A. O'LEARY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Oct. 7.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Re-
publican presidential nominee,
arrived here today for a major
attack on the New Deal and his
first visit to the West Virginia
capital since before the primary
of 1910.
En- route here. at stop in Hin
ton. the Republican presidential
candidate told crowd of more than
500 at the railroad station he has
counted 26 Government agencies
that are regulating workers, telling
labor what it may and may not do.
There are so many agencies rek1-
lating agriculture" the Republican
presidential nominee continued,
that one farmer recently had IL
different men from IL different
agencies on his farm within month
to do the same job"
He paused here for a rear plat
form talk on his way to Charleston,
where he Is expected to reply to-
night to President Roosevelt's
Thursday night broadcast.
Gov. Dewey told the crowd at
Hinton this is the most important
election "in our times, if not in
our history because, he said, the
voters will decide whether to con-
tinue slipping slowly down the
New Deal road to complete regi-
mentation, or whether there is a
better way"
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey planned
Today to link an attack on some
Of the groups which are backing
a fourth term for President Roose-
welt with new criticism of what he
called the administrators lack of
preparations for postwar reconver-
sion of industry to civilian pursuits.
AS the Republican presidential
nominees special train rolled toward
Charleston, an aide told reporters
that a major campaign speech there
at 9:45 pm. tEWT) tonight (CBS)
would deal in part with the problem
of changing warplants over to peace
time production.
Gov. Dewey's staff was busy dig
ging into its records for what the
New York Governor announced
would be quite open" discussion
of the means he said the President
is employing in attempting to con-
tinue in Office.
Assistants said Gov. Dewey was
referring directly to Mr. Roosevelt's
statement in Thursday night radio
speech that the latter did not seek
or welcome Communist support
when the New York Governor de-
clared yesterday that Mr.. Roosevelt
(See DEWEY. Page A-30
Evening star., 1944-10-07
Poles Report Nozis
Evocuoting Entire
Warsaw Population
By The kssociated p-esx.

By the associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. THE Polish
Telegraph agency reported to-
day that Germany had ordered
the evacuation of the entire
Polish population of Warsaw,
estimated at one million per-
sons, land added there is every
reason to believe they intend to
send a large proportion OF these
to concentration and labor
camps"
The agency said the Polish
government In London has
made IAN urgent and desperate
appeal to all the United Ma
tions to help at all costs to
prevent this new mass crime
from being committed"
Evening star., 1944-10-07
$50 Dutch Patriots Killed

LONDON, Oct. Z (P).-The Ger
mans were declared by the Neither
lands news agency Aneta today to
have executed 450 Dutch patriots
in a concentration camp at Vught,
mile and half south of
s. S-Hertogenbosch
Evening star., 1944-10-07

(See WESTERN FRONT, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1944-10-07

tSee MURDER, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1944-10-07

tSee SMITH, Page A-3l
Evening star., 1944-10-07

tSee BANDWAGOM Page A-23
Evening star., 1944-10-07

(See SERIES, Page Az.
Evening star., 1944-10-07

(See CREECE. PAGE A-3.)
Evening star., 1944-10-07

(See DEWEY, Page A-30
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
ILNItUIN-'JI INIOhL4N
$4,000 Brandy
Found Tainted
BY HENRY CANTIN

Six thousand cases of a Spanish
brandy which cost the state S222. =
600 have been held up in Detroit
for rigid inspection and. in many
instances. expensive rebottling be-
cause of a mysterious sediment
discovered in hundreds of bottles,
il was learned today.
In Lansing, J. s. Richardson.
secretary of the liquor control
commission. reluctantly admitted
the report was true.
I'VE have ordered the cases
held mp at the Detroit ware
= house because we have discOV-
cred a sediment In many bot
ties" Richardson said. "Our
chemists have definitely proved
there is no ground glass, as first
thought, I'm the bottles.
1.-THE chemists say the sedi-
ment II not harmful but we do
not intend TO sell any bottles
until Il has been removed"
Another source in Detroit. how
Continued on Page 2, Cdl. ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
PuImotor Fails
To Save Youth

Fircmen from the fireboat John
Kendall worked for more than an
hour today with a pulmotor but
failed TO save the life of 16-year-
old John Ballard Of 1904 Sixteenth.
The boy drowned when he appar-
emily lost his strength while swim
ing with two other youths al the
foot of Twenty-fourth.
Fireman George d. Farrell saw
young Ballard struggling in the
water and leaped in With the aid
Of Albert CloSter. Il, of l46S Sew
enieenth. one of Billiards. COM
panions, he succeeded in bringing
him ashore. where other firemen
waited with the pulmotor.
The boy was pronounced dead in
an hour. however.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08

No details were available
beyond the fact that the B-29
bOmbers hit industrial tar
gets at Yawata and naval
installations at SasebO. The
latter Is said to be the third
greatest naval arsenal and
base In the Japanese home
land.
Yawata, Japan's Pitts
burgh, was the object of the
original Superfortress raid
on June Is.
The communique as origi-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
Death Toll i'm Circus
Fire Mounts to I45
international Sound Photo

HARTFORD Conn, July (INS)-Fve officials of
Ringing Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus arraigned in
Hartford police court today mansaughter charges as the
death toll to 145 from the fire which swept the show
main tent at yesterdays matinee performance.
Only SO of the dead had been identified however at the
State Armory where tragic enacted as grief
stricken relatives made their way along long
upon which the victims had been laid
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08

They were brought before Po-
lice Judge Walter J. Sidot. who
set bail and then continued the
cases until July 10.
Meanwhile. a four-Aay probe OF
the disaster was continued by
local and state authorities
Police Prosecutor James +. Ken
nedy charged that the circus had
evidenced gross negligence.
THE shows own fire depart
ment was impotent." he said.
The management displayed
little interest In the safety Of Its
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08

Only IL men died in the dis
aSter. the worst in circus history.
The count Of fatalities disclosed
63 women. IL girls. % boys, the
latter, two groups under l6 years
of age. and one infant.
Arraigned were j. A. Haley.
vice president of the circus:
George w. Smith. general man
ager; Leonard AyleSworth. chief
canvas man; Edward Bersteeg,
chief electrician, and David w.
Blanchfield, chief wagon and
tractor man. All pleaded inno-
cent.
United Press said the five
men spent the night in jM.J
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
NAZI GENERAL KILLED IN ACCIDENT

LONDON, July INS)-The death of Nazi Gen.
Emil Wickede lin accident" announced tonight
the German home radio chain Wicede, latest in
long list of enemy commanders killed in action in acct
dents, infantry general.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
Navy Base, Steel
Center Blasted

WASHINGTON, July QNS) - Americas
giant SuperfOrtress bOmbers today rained destruc-
ton on the Japanese mainland for the second time
in little more than three weeks, striking at indus
trial detectives at the Yawata steel center and the
SasebO naval center both on kyushu Island.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
.a31[3ES;lE
COL. PERON ARGENTINA VICE PRESIDENT

BUENOS AIRES, July (UP)-Col Juan Peron,
Argentine minister of appointed vice president
of the republic today to fill post vacated earlier this
year when Cen EdelmrO Farrell assumed the presidency
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
YANK FLIERS RIP JAPS IN HUMAN

CHUNGKING, July UP)-American 14th Air
Force raiders killed than 1900 Japanese troops and
500 horses and destroyed 40 supply boats in two
day series of sweeps the Human Province battle
cOmmunique said today
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08

u. =. A. Heggblom. Congressman
Champion Of Human RightS.-Adv
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08
Continued on Page .. Col. ~
-Irvest IN Invasion: Buy n Bond---
THE WEATHER

The sun will set A. go m tnday
and rise tomorrow At 500 = m
The NOON will rise A. 1895 p. m to-
aay and set tomorrow Al - am.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-08

JACKSON For Representative
Against q State Income Tax-Atsv.