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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
u s. Planes From Leyte
Hit Jap Military Bases

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, PHIL
IPPINES, Tuesday, Nov. 28.-(F9-Amercan Leyte-based
planes dropped % tons of bombs Japanese ardroes
Cebu and Negros and at Davao Friday Gen. Douglas Mac
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28

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Evening star., 1944-03-18
Presley 5. Anheuser, 81,
Indicted as Draft Evader
By the Associated Press.

os lHe ASSOCldtSC Press,
ST. LOUIS, Mar. 18-Preslev S
Anheuser, 80, son of w. Fred An
heuser, vice president of Anheuser-
Busch, Inc, was indicted by a Fed
eral grand jury yesterday on a
charge of fraudulently obtaining a
draft deferment.
The indictment said Anheuser had
been given an agricultural classi-
flcatlon of sc on representing that
he had devoted his full time to farm
ing since 1888. He owns a 52O-acre
farm at Hawk Point, Mo.
Anheuser is married and has two
children.
Anheuser's attorney made the fol-
lowing statement.
Mr.. Anheuser is just one of thou
sands of fathers who sought defer
ments when the father draft became
imminent. About six weeks ago,
when he heard he was being inves-
tigated, he went to the draft board
and asked to be classified Ia.
He was classified IA and asked
for immediate induction but the
United States attorney notified the
draft board not to give Mr.. An
heuser his release :, notifying
the board that he was under inves-
tigation and should not be allowed
to iOin the armed services
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Allies Driving Nozis
Slowly From Casino

ALLIED EADQUART ERS,
NAPLES, Mar. 18 (P).-Allied troops
are driving the Germans from one
strong point after another in the
southwest corner of the devastated
Casino and the rugged hills ex-
tending from the town'to the mon
astery above, headquarters an
nounced today.
The Germans continued to hold
out in the corner of the town against
a closely co-ordinated Allied in
fantry, tank and air attack. Fluid
fighting ragged around the peaks
and ridges in the hills west of the
town, with the Allies losing one
height toe German counterattack.
indian troops, however, firmly held
two others which they had cap
talred.
New Zealanders and Indians were
reducing one by one the German
positions In Casinos rubble and the
caves in the hillsides. Allied tanks
moved into Casino Thursday night
after having been held up by huge
craters from Wednesdays tre-
mendous air bombardment.
Hand-to- Hand Fighting.
The Germans driven into the
southwest corner of Casino were
protected by supporting fire from
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Story Of Walking Out
On Republican Judge
Irks Senator Davis
Denies He Left Dinner
Because Speaker Raped
State Party Dominance
By the Associated Press,

Senator Davis, Republican, Of
Pennsylvania asserted today that a
published report that he left a St.
Patrick's Day dinner in Philadelphia
last night in protest against speech
by Chief Justice George w. Maxey
of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
was Infamous"
Senator Davis, who had been a
speaker at the 173d annual dinner
of the Friendly Sons of st. Patrick,
declared he left the dinner before
Justice Maxey began to speak, in
order to keep two other speaking
engagements.
Justice Maxey, Republican, was
quoted as telling dinner guests that
Republican party leadership in
Pennsylvania has too often refused
to place in conspicuous positions of
Governor or United States Senator
Pennsylvania ablest men,"
He added that the Republican
party never has nominated Penn
sylvanian for President because the
American people consider the State
Republican organization more as
party proprietors than as party
leaders"
The Philadelphia Record, in a
front-page story today, said: while
Maxey was in the middle of that
sentence (above) Senator Davis, who
was occupying the chair next to the
lectern at which the juriSt was
speaking, got up and left the room.
All eyes watched Davis departure
and there were audible whispers
from all parts of the ballroom"
The Record added that the Sen
ator did not return, although it
was later ascertained that he did
not check out of the hotel where
he was registered.
L had these other engagements
when I went to the dinner" Senator
Davis said today, and 1 didn't even
hear Justice Maxey's talk. There's
nothing to the whole story"
Evening star., 1944-03-18

casually pulled out his upper plate
and began chewing.
The natives gathered around,
gesticulating excitedly, and the
Seabee had to put the plate back
in and remove it several times.
The natives looked on in awe.
When the Seabee left, one of them
followed him back to camp. Later
a delegation called at his tent,
bearing baskets of fruit as gifts.
Today the natives invited him to
another feast, telling him in pidgin
English that they had invited other
islanders, to let them see this amaz-
ing white man with the removable
teeth.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Churchill Hopes War
Will Reach Decisive
Stages This Year
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 18.-Prime
Minister Churchill expressed
the hope today that the war in
nearly every theater would
reach decisive stages" this
year.
In a message to the Salute
the Soldier" fund campaign the
Prime Minister said:
During this year the men in
the British armies will be en-
gagged in nearly every theater of
war throughout the world in
what we hope may prove to be
the decisive stages in this great
conflict"
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Waves Of Allied Bombers Blast
Nozi Lines on Anzio Beochheod
AfterEnemySteps Up Own Raids
Troops Morale Lifted;
Nuzis Being Slowly
Driven From Casino
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WITH THE 5th ARMY AT THE
ANZIO BEACHHEAD, Mar. .18.-
Waves of Allied bombers struck
at German defenses ringing the
beachhead below Rome this
morning.
The first planes to roar over
Anzio were barely perceptible in the
early morning light as they broke
out of the clouds hanging over the
harbor and dumped their bombs on
the German lines just a few miles
away.
The return of Allied bombers to
this area lifted morale on the en-
tire beachhead, since the Germans
for the third night in row had
stepped up their own air activities,
keeping troops in foxholes and
shelters.
The Germans apparently were
making determined night effort to
knock out key installations. The
enemy planes were led into the tar
get area by determined path
finders"
The tenacity of the pathfinders
In the f1ak-filled sky led one ranking
officer to remark that the Germans
were using their first team"
One stick OF bombs fell in an ad-
vanced ambulance aid clearing sta
tion, killing IL persons and wound
ing IS. This bombing apparently
was not intentional.
The German raiders made more
than 80 passes at the port after the
flares were dropped before unload
ing their bombs.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Is Hurt as Bus
Hits u. 5. Truck
AT Pentagon
One Seriously Injured;
Impact Knocks FWA
Vehicle 100 Feet
picture on Page A-2.)

Twenty-Five persons were In
jured, at least one seriously,
when an A. B. 81 w. bus carrying
workers to the Pentagon crashed
into the back of a parked Fed
eral Works Agency dump truck
on the road directly in front of
the Pentagon's south parking
this morning.
The bus driver, Charles Fisher,
2412 South Twenty-seventh street,
Arlington, Va, was charged with
reckless driving in premilinary
hearing before United States Com
missioner Stanley King at Alexan-
dria.
The War Department said most OF
the injured, including three Army
officers, were treated at military and
civilian dispensaries in the Pentagon
and at Emergency Hospital and suf-
fered only cuts and bruises.
Woman Seriously Hurt.
One woman. however, Mrs. Kathryn
Bond Of liza West Alexandria ave-
nue., Alexandria, was transferred to
Walter Reed Hospital, where she
was said to have possible fractures
Of the right arm and a rib. The War
Department listed "a injured. Emer-
gency Hospital, however. gave the
name of 25th victim.
Military police were questioning
William ellison, colored, 81, of 1894
c street Sc, who, with two help
ers, was responsible for the steel
bodied truck, which, they said, was
parked of the road.
The military police said they had
not yet been able to find witness
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Evacuation of Civilians
From uIIinn Ordered
BY the Associates Press.

BY the Associatet Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 18-Large- scale
evacuation of civilians from Tallinn,
capital of Nazi-occupied Estonia
recently bombed by the Russians,
was ordered today by Tallinns may
or in an Estonian broadcast recorded
by United States government moni-
tors.
There is no need to dwell on the
necessity for this measure" the Nazi
puppet official declared. "All those
who are not absolutely compelled to
remain in Tallinn must leave town -
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 18 P,.-A
glow in the sky, believed to be from
fires started in Reval (Tallinn). was
observed in Helsinki last night. 1t
was believed Russian planes may
have made a new attack on the city.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Admiralty Invaders
0verrun Airdrome,
Threaten Lorenqau
jap Offensive Against
Empress Augusta Boy
Beochheod CoIIopses
BY the Associated Press.

~
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Mar. 18.
The American drive on Manus
Island in the Admiralties has
overrun Lorengau's airdrome
and is cracking the Japanese
defenses around the town itself,
Gen. Douglas Macarthur an
nounced today.
Invading units of the 1st Cavalry
Division took the airdrome Thurs
day, one day after they landed on
Manus from nearby Los Negros
Island. Then they knocked down
enemy pillbox defenses with mortar
fire and tanks to push southwark
within 600 yards of Lorengau's out
skirts.
Complete breakdown of the
enemy's offensive against the 37th
and Americal Divisions holding the
beachhead perlmeter at Empress
Augusta Bay on Bougainville Island
was reported from the Solomons.
The week-long Japanese drive
aimed at the Allied airdromes on
Empress Augusta Bay fiickered out
in fighting Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning. Fred Hamp-
son, Associated Press war CORE
spondent, said the dawn assault
Wednesday cost the enemy 1875 dead.
Destroyers and Planes Assist.
Gen. Macarthur said the enemy's
formations in the Bougainville
fighting had been dispersed and
decimated," and "over 1,100 of his
dead lie within our lines alone"
American casualties through Tues
day were placed at 1913 killed and
TAT wounded.
With Allied air and sea control
over relief routes, the future ap-
peared bleak for remaining Japa-
nese troops believed concentrated in
Southern Bougainville.
American destroyers and Allied
air squadrons played important
parts IN the trlumphS on both Manus
and Bougainville Islands. The war
ships fire supported the assaunt on
Lorengau airdrome, and at Empress
Augusta Bay one destroyer knocked
out an enemy siX-inch gun.
Soerabaja Bombed BY Liberators.
Llberator heavy bombers flew
400 miles round trip to stage a
surprise night raid on japanese in
stallations at the one-time impor-
tant Dutch naval base at Soerabaja,
Java, in the Netherlands Indies
Clouds prevented accurate check
of damage done at Soerabaja and
also at Den Pasar airdrome on near
by Bali.
Wewak, the japanese New Guinea
base, was raided Thursday for the
sixth consecutive day
Allied planes from Solomons air
fields raided Rabaul, New Britain,
five times Wednesday.
Evening star., 1944-03-18

"Details of Landing on Page A-3J
By the Associated Press.
A UNITED STATES ARMY AIR
FORCE HEADQUARTERS IN IN
Ola, Mar. 18-Former Film Star
Jackie Coogan, now an American
Army glider pilot, was the first man
to alight when Allied forces were
landed by air behind japanese lines
in Northern Burma more than a
week ago.
Coogan, flying the leading glider,
leaped out as the craft stopped and
fired signal light for other ap-
preaching gliders. it was announced
today. Until a higher officer ar
rived and took charge he directed
the landing operations.
In the glider with him were a
dozen Indian troops who brandished
knives as they leaped from the craft.
Before taking off Coogan said, 81
sure feel confidence riding with IN
dian troops as passengers" as he
flashed his light on the grim looking
men squatting on the glider's floor.
Coogan was listed as a flight off,
Evening star., 1944-03-18

to the actual crash, Mr.. ellison told
them he had been about 1000 feet
from the scene and didn't see the
accident. They have not yet ques-
toned the injured.
Truck Knocked 100 Feet.
Persons questioned at the scene,
however, told reporters the bus
struck the back of the truck, knock.
ing the vehicle about 100 feet up
the road.
The bus, according to these OBJ
servers, careened over a grass plot
separating the road from Columbia
pike and came to rest with its front
wheels on the pike. The front of
the bus was caved in.
Commissioner King said the bus
driver testified he had worked for
the bus company for two years and
had never been in an accident. He
was released in the custody Of Gard
ner l.. Boothe, attorney for the bus
company, and sent to Alexandria
Hospital for an examination. Bond
will be set later. Commissioner King
set the final hearing for March 28 at
2 pm.
List Of Injured.
In addition to Mrs. Bond, the War
Department gave the following list
of injured:
Capt. Richard G. Cooper, 2620 Fort
Scott drive, Arlington.
Capt, James I. Clover, 2347 South
Arlington Ridge road, Arlington.
Mrs. Vaska L. Hinkleman, 3808
Mount Vernon avenue, Alexandria.
Mrs. Rosalie C. Prahm, ITO Four
teenth street NV.
Capt. Jesse R. Byrd, 2807 Holly
street, Alexandria.
Charles c. Swain, 1908 Mount
Vernon avenue. Alexandria.
Mrs. Frances Ann Gamboa, $40
Wolf street, Alexandria.
Mrs. Ann Mevetski, IL West WAL
nut street, Alexandria.
Miss Natalie Seton, 139 South
Fairfax, Alexandria.
Miss Marjorie Staples, Route S,
Alexandria.
Miss Barbara M. Larson, Route /,
Alexandria.
Miss Marjorie Mundy, Route /.
Alexandria.
Miss Ruth " Horan, 208 East Gus
tbs avenue, Alexandra.
Miss Eve Varney, 225 Monroe ave-
nue., Alexandria.
Miss Martha Davis, 8 East Wind
sor street, Alexandria.
Miss Hilda Pullman, Valley Farm,
Alexandria.
Wayne McGrady, Route 4, Alex
andria.
C. B. Toner, 2O3 Cameron street,
Alexandria.
Mrs. Addie Albert, So Yale drive,
Cameron Valley, Alexandra.
Miss Emma G. Watson, Brooke,
Va
Miss Betty Nesbitt. $40 Tenth
street, West Alexandria.
Rebea Hale tno address given)
Miss Margaret Davis, East Wind
sor street, Alexandria.
Emergency Hospital reported it
had also treated Esther Winkleman,
Al, of 226 Wesmond drive, Alexan-
dria, who suffered back injury.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Coveroge of Crash
Is Delayed by
Military Police

Military police delayed re-
porters covering the crash of
an A., B. e. w. bus and a truck
near the Pentagon Building this
morning for nearly an hour.
The crash involved no conceiv-
able considerations of security.
When a reporter for The Star
arrived at the scene shortly
after 9 am, he said, military
police prevented him from talk
ing to the bus driver or to pas
sengers. Photographers, how
ever, were not barred from TAX
ing pictures. After much delay
a story was finally pieced to-
gether from Army officers Of
the Military District of WASH
ington after a protest to the
Ofdce of Censorship, which in
terceded.
Evening star., 1944-03-18

Nazi positions on high ground to
the west and southwest of the town.
Allied infantry went through hur-
ricane of mortar fire to engage the
Germans in hand-to-hand strug-
giles.
New Zealand troops started an at
tack toward the railroad station
at the southern edge of Casino
shortly before noon yesterday and
by pm. one or two tanks with
some infantry were reported in the
station.
Allied artillery engaged eight Ger
man tanks and antitank artillery
nearby. AS the New Zealand in
fantry went forward, Is Focke-
Wulfs appeared suddenly and dive
bombed them, but failed to break
the attack.
While the whole area trembled
under gunfire and bombings from
both sides, American engineers
threw bridge over the Rapido
Evening star., 1944-03-18
New Roosevelt t-ChurchiN Talks
With Premier Stain Suggested
Stettinius Trip Seen Laying Groundwork for
Meeting Of President and Prime Minister

was accented by the Italian, Yugo-
slav and Polish political situations
and recent discussions of terms with
Finland and some of Germany's
satellites.
The groundwork for the talks may
be laid in Mr.. Stettinius' confer
ences here with British leaders.
After Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr..
Churchill decide their position on
such questions it is likely they
would seek Premier Stains accord
Mr.. Churchill in his speech Feb
ruary % said no plans had yet been
made for another three-power con-
ference, but limited at others to
come. He said there would be no
differences between the big three if
the leaders could sit down for dis
cussions frequently,
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Lute Bulletin
Pleads Guilty to Peonoge

HELENA, Ark. tP1.-Albert
S. Johnson, Cross County cot
ton planter accused of keep
ing persons on his plantation
in a state of peonage, pleaded
guilty to two counts in Fed
eral Court today and was sem
fenced to 2I@ years in prison.
pictures on Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Nazis Beyond DniesteI
Reported Under Fire
OF Big Soviet Guns
Civilians Said to Be
Fleeing From Prewor
Rumunion Border
MAP ON Page AL
BOTH SIDES REPORTED rein
forcing Finnish front. Page AL

BOTH SIDES REPORTED REIN
forcing Finnish front. Page Az
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 18.-Russian
Army forces have rolled to with
In 10 miles of strategic Lwow in
a new westward plunge through
old Poland, Moscow announced
today, while Turkish dispatches
reported a headlong fight of ci-
villains from the prewar Ruman-
ian border as other Soviet troops
thrust steadily toward the Dnies-
ter River.
CHeavy Russian guns are she'll
ing German lines beyond the
\ Dniester," the British radio re-
ported today in broadcast re-
corded in New York by CBS.)
In old Poland, the Russias top
pied the German stronghold of
Dubno and advanced to Demidovka
IL miles beyond and AZ miles from
the prewar frontier.
Two Towns Captured.
In the advance toward Rumania,
soviet spearheads ripped through
tottering German defenses south
east OF Vinnitsa, the Soviet COM
munique said, and captured the
towns of Kiembovka and Olshanka
both II miles from the Duiester,
which borders Bessarabia.
One unconfirmed report. sent by
Reuters from Moscow yesterday, said
the Russians actually had reached
the Dniester at several points and
sent the Germans retreating across
the river into Rumania at Mogiley
Podolski, AZ miles south of Zhme-
rinka. Soviet announcements made
no such claim.
Dubno, to the north of Klembovka
and Olshanka, fell to ffanking at
tack by Marshal Gregory K. Zhu-
Rows troops against the German
forces attempting to hold the upper
end Of the Southern Ukraine cor
|ridor.
Nazi Defenses Imperiled.
Marshal zhukov's drive threat
ened to neutralize the grim German
defense at Tarnopol and Proskurov
by outfianking the Nazi forces.
Tass news agency quoted a Stock
holm dispatch as saying the Ger
mans have shut down all of Lwow's
factories and are evacuatine their
machinery and equipment to Cra-
COW.
Fighting has f1ared up again
on the northern reaches of the
Eastern front, around Newell Os-
troy, Pskov and Narva where the
Russians have been driving to-
ward the Baltic states, the Ger
man high command said today
IN its communique.
CThe Germans said 81 Soviet
tanks were destroyed in these
areas yesterday, but the Rus
slams made no mention of large
scale activity there)
At the Southern end of the battle
line, the Moscow communique said
the Russians continued to move in
on the Black Sea port of Nikolaev
already hemmed in from three sides,
Sidava Also Captured.
Russian forces also captured Sid
ava on the outskirts of Zhmerinka,
rail junction on the Odessa-Lwow
line, the bulletin said. The Odessa
Lwow line already has been cut by
the Red Army in areas northwest
and southeast of Zhmerinka, which
is south of Vinnitsa.
The Russians gained control of a
32-mlle sector of the Odessa
Ahmerinka line, by seizing the dis
trict center of Peschana, 16 miles
beyond it, and the towns of Brat
slaV, 33 miles southeast of Vinnitsa.
and krizhopol, station on the rail
line, the communique said.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
King Peter Moy Wed Soon

LONDON, Mar. 18 (P).-Twenty-
year-old King Peter of Yugoslavia
and Princess Alexandra of Greece.
%, whose bethrothal was announced
last August, may be married within
the next few days, according to per-
sistent rumors In London.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
BADOGLIO, RECOGNITION raises
question of whether Russia is
seeking to avoid new talks.
Page Az
Ey the Associated Press.

LONDON, Mar. 18.-PreSident
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill may meet again after
the forthcoming London visit of
Undersecretary Of State Stet-
tinius to iron out political ques-
tions, and the possibility of an
other three-power conference
with Premier Stain was sug-
gested today by reports from
diplomats.
The need for Mr.. Churchill and
Mr.. Roosevelt to get together again
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Lehman Injuries Knee,
But Will Go to Cairo
By the Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
ALGIERS, Mar. 18.-Herbert Leh-
man, former Governor of New York
and now director of foreign relief
and rehabilitation, was taken to a
hospital yesterday after a fall in
which he injured his knee cap.
He is able to walk with crutches
and expects to go to Cairo in a. few
Gays.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Hundreds Of Planes
Roar Toward Reich
In New Day Offensive
Roid Follows Up Blows
Yesterday Including
Assault on Vienna
BULLETIN.

LONDON R.-"Very. strong
forces" of American heavy
bombers smashed through
German fighter opposition to
attack targets in Southern
Germany today, United States
Strategic Air Force headquar-
tiers announced. The phrase
indicated 750 to 1000 heavy
bombers participated with
escort fighters raising the to-
tai to between 1900 and 1000
planes.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Seubee's S Removable Teeth Give
Pacific islanders Biqqest Thrill

(The tolIo,Otng story, distrib-
uted by the Associated Press, Das
10ritten by Sergt. Ray Fitzpatrick
OF Waterbury, Conn, a Marine
Corps combat correspondent
GREEN ISLAND, New Ireland
Group DelayeO Natives of this
newly occupied island have received
their biggest thrill not from planes,
guns or bulldozers, but from the
false teeth of an American Seabee.
Passing a native village yester-
day, the Seabee was invited in to a
meal OF roast pig. When a piece
Of meat was handed to him he
Evening star., 1944-03-18

Ger while stationed at Knob Noster,
Mo-, a glider base, in March, 1943.
The above dispatch did not give his
present rank.
Evening star., 1944-03-18

(See ITALY, Page ABB
Evening star., 1944-03-18

(see MANPOWER, Page Al
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Jackie Coogon Firsf to AIight
In Glider Landing in Burma
Former Film Star
In Croft With
Dozen indians

"Details OF Landing on Page A-3J