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Evening star., 1944-10-26
Western Front
Continued From First Page J

its attack toward the west from the
Nijmegen salient.
The British captured Fort Orten,
mile north of S Hertogenbosch,
and cleared the Germans from all
the latter hub except the southwest
corner. =as - -
They were within a mile of TIL
burg, in the middle of the box, hav-
ing captured Zorgen, IL miles
southwest of S Hertogenbosch.
The fanking thrust by an ar
Evening star., 1944-10-26
tive, In the province Of the
.JlInkers.)

The occupation of Transylvania
was completed with the capture of
the important city Of Satu- Mare. the
railway town Of Carei and 200 other
populated places. Romanian troops
participated in these actions.
Seizure Of Kirkenes, center of 2
rich iron mining district and naval
base used by the Germans in preying
on the Murmansk shipping supply
lanes, was credited to the Arctic
army of Gen. K. A. Meretskov and
the Red fleet. The Russians signifieG
their intention of marching through
Norway in pursuit of approximately
$4,000 German troops who had been
driven out OF the Petsamo district.
With Northern Transylvania
cleared OF the last Germans,
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky was
believed TO have reinforced his van
guard in the area Of Szolnok, less
than so miles southeast Of Budapest,
but there has been no official news
from this battle front in the last "a
hours.
Evening star., 1944-10-26
Pants Burglar
Continued From First Page.)

and Montague streets NV. as a
pants burglar" suspect.
Described as 34-year-old maya
zine subscription salesman, the man
when arrested was wearing a pair
of shoes several sizes too large for
him but made to fit by the inser-
ton of two pairs of in-soles. On
his feet were two pairs of heavy
woolen socks and a pair of lighter
weight.
Police investigating the pants
burglars" thefts have theorized that
his method of operation was to gain
entrance to victims house through
window, remove his shoes after
unlocking a rear door for his get
away, and then in stocking feet rife
the pockets of his sleeping victim.
Much Cash Found.
The suspect was arrested by De-
tective Sergt. Nunzio Bonaccorsy
and Precinct Detective Sigurd
OstensO. He is said by police to
have had Sl51 in cash in his pockets.
A search of his room revealed S37C
more, police said.
Inspector Barrett said investiga-
ton which preceded the arrest els.
closed that the magazine subscrip.
ton salesman had never earned
more than $50 week. He is also
known to have recently purchased
an automobile for $400 cash and tc
have loaned 5000 to friends.
Further search of the mans quar-
ters yielded wood chisel, thought
by police to have been used to DRY
open windows
Despite the fact that none of the
pants burglars" victims has evel
seen him except as dimly outlined
silhouette, the suspect will be
paraded in the police lineup tonight
before group of persons who have
lost various sums to the proWler.
Evening star., 1944-10-26

age equal to their own, that he
has a knowledge of the realities Of
the world and that he has an un-
shakable determination to achieve
the goals of peace and security
upon which they have pinned their
hopes and their faith"
Evening star., 1944-10-26
Turks Recognize De GouIIe

ANKARA, Oct. 26 (P).-Turkey
last night announced its recogni-
ton of the French provisional gov
eminent of Gen. Charles de Gaulle.
Evening star., 1944-12-26

now is recovering from a bullet
wound in the chest in a hospital in
England.
Member of a cavalry unit, Corpl.
Bowman has been overseas eight
months. He was born in Flint
Stone, Md, and attended Central
High School.
Pfc. Sigurds NJ. Ekis, 81, son of the
late Ludvigs Ekis, former financial
adviser to the Latvian Legation, was
wounded in action November 10 in
Germany, the War Department has
notified his mother, who lives at
1927 Ingleside terrace NV. Mrs
Ekis said he now is recuperating in
IA hospital in England.
Pfc. Ekis, who came to Washing
ton in 1910 with his parents, is a
graduate of Central High School and
attended George Washington Uni
versity before his induction in Octo-
ber, 1943
Pfc. EkiS, who speaks several Ian
guages, recently figured in news dis
patches which told how he trans
lated the document which made the
surrender of Aachen official. His
mother said his knowledge of Ger
man also enabled him to assist in
the capture of SO Germans.
Son of career diplomat, he be-
came naturalized American citizen
after his induction, she declared.
Pfc. Clarence E. Coleman, %, was
wounded for the second time Deem
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Publication Urged for Forum
Between Mrs. Luce and T roops

and the directions in which they are
heading. 1t concerned jefferson
as well as the current holder of our
highest Office, Franklin D. Roose-
velt. Representative Luce dished
out criticism and received it in turn
from an alert and enthusiastic au-
dience.
> 1t is doubly regrettable
that service men and women who
were not there cannot share in the
benefits Of such a discussion"
Stars and Stripes reported that
Mrs. Luce, who visited Italy with
the touring House Military Affairs
Committee, would return to Rome
today after spending Christmas in
9th Army forward sector. Her visit
included a jeep trip to units 5 miles
from the German fines.
Mrs. Luce will give a 15-minute
broadcast from Rome at Ais pm
today, the Blue Network announced
In New York.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Brother Of Two War Victims
Gets Army Release in France

ton, is q graduate. OF Western High
School and Of North Carolina State
College at Raleigh, N. C. Peter and
Charles also graduated from West
|ern High School, while Albert went
to Central High School. 1t. Valaer
went into the service as second
lieutenant after his graduation from
college, and received his first lieu
tenants commission before going
overseas last April. His mother said
he has seen action at Anzio, in the
liberation of Rome and with 1t. Gen.
Alexander M. Patch's Army in
France.
1t. Valaer's wife, Mrs. Ruby Leah
Valaer, who has been living with
her parents at at Columbus, Ohio. is
expected to be on hand with their
2-year-old daughter Nancy Carol
when he returns to washington.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
World Air Commerce
Association Mapped
BY International Group
By the Associated Press

| BY the Associated Press
A world organization to promote
aerial commerce would be estab-
llshed under plans drawn UP by a
group OF international airline oper-
tatorS.
The group has just sent to sew
eral hundred airline officials through.
out the world tentative draft OF
articles of incorporation for the
world association, plus an invita-
ton from Cuba to meet in Havana
on April 16 and complete the or
ganization.
The movement for such an organ.
ization was begun at Chicago durine
the International Civil Aviation
Conference. An eight-member Draft,
ing Committee was appointed ano
met in Washington the week of De.
cember II to drawn up articles O.
association.
| The draft, with statements by the
committee and by Col. Edgar S, Cor.
lrell, president of the Air Transport
Association of America, are included
in booklet being mailed out from
Col. Gorrelrs Office.
The association would probably
have its headquarters in Chicago
The proposed articles list its objec-
tives as:
l. To promote safe, regular and
economical air commerce.
2. To provide means for collabora-
ton among air transport enterprises
3. To cooperate with other inter-
national organizations.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Col. Wolfinbarger Hurt
Leap From Damaged P-38

Col. Willard r. Wolhnbarger, 3145
Newark street NV, was slightly in
Jured when the landing gear, of his
P-38 fighter plane janmed shortly
before an attempted landing off a
beachhead in the Dutch East In
dies and he was forced to bail out
over the water.
Col. Wolfinbarger cut the switches
of the plane before jumping, ac-
cording to a dispatch from the 18th
Army Air Force Fighter Command,
OF which he is deputy commander.
However, while climbing from the
cockpit he apparently turned them
on again by accident, the dispatch
stated.
While hundreds of soldiers watched,
1t. James E. Fritsch, another P-38
pilot, was ordered to shoot the run
away plane from the sky to pre-
vent it from crashing on the beach
and endangering the lives of per-
sonnel.
Col. Wolfnbarger suffered a cut
on the nose and hard blow on his
left temple. The shock of the para
chute's sudden opening caused the
rip cord or part of the harness to
strike him in the face, it was be-
lieved. Col. Wolhnbarger's wife,
Mrs. Olga L. Wolf1nbarger, and their
4-year-old daughter, Loren, live at
the Newark street address.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Couple Who Bound Sheriff
And Deputy in Idaho Seized
By the Associated Press.


TWIN FALLS, Idaho. Dec. 90
A man and a woman were arrested
yesterday after they anegedly bound
Sheriff Warren w. Lowery and Dep
uty Silas Givens when the officers
sought to question them concern
ing burglary.
The two were arrested by police
officers on residential street after
Apartment House Manager Claude
II. Thomas telephoned for assist
ance. saying he had been assaulted
when he went to the apartment
house basement and found the pair
hiding there.
Sheriff Lowery said he and Dep
uty Givens questioned the pair at
a tourist cabin. The woman sud-
denly drew gun, Sheriff Lowery
said, and held it while her COM
panion disarmed the sheriff and his
assistant, tied them and left them
in the tourist cabin.
The officers managed to free
themselves and Sheriff Lowery
headed a posse that rounded up
the couple after the apartment
house managers tip.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Philippines
Continued From First Page

Fleets. the 5th Air Force and ma
rlne air units provided direct all
support.
On Mindoro Island to the north
west, invaded December is, the
Japanese furnished little opposition
either on the ground or in the air
but American bombers and fighters
were active.
Clark Field Raided.
Liberators dumped 40 tons of
bombs on Clark Field, near Manila,
$50 miles north of the newly COM
pleted Mindoro airstrips. More than
30 intercepters rose, put 18 were shot
down and 2 more were listed as
probables. One bomber was lost.
Oomei, japanese news agency,
reported 20 Philippines-based
American fighters and bombers
raided Clark Field again today
but were beaten off by new Jap
anese interceptor planes"
(The unconfirmed enemy broad
cast did not make clear whether
the interceptors were a new type
or merely reinforcements flown
in from F'ormosa or Japan.
cThe propaganda dispatch
claimed six Lightnings and two
Liberators were shot down and a
few Japanese planes were miss
ing)
Airdromes in the Visayan Islands
of the Central Philippines took 1872
tons of bombs on runways and in
stallations. Sixteen parked planes
were destroyed or damaged. Rabaul
on New Britain Island in the Solo,
mons was hit by lis tons, concen-
trated on airdromes.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
|356 Violent Deaths
Reported in Nation
Over 3-Day Holiday
gy the Associated Press.

% thc hssUCldgeQ fIeSS.
The Nations toll of violent deaths
over the three-day Christmas holi-
day was at least 356, an Associated
Press survey disclosed today. The
number was II more than those re-
corded over similar period in 1943.
Accidents on the highways, as
predicted by safety experts, claimed
the most lives. The survey showed
2l2 persons were killed in auto
mobile smashups. The National
Safety Councils estimate for the
period from midnight Friday to
today was about 275 motor vehicle
fatalities. In 1s43, the Christmas
holiday traffic toll was ZIG of the
total OF 339 violent deaths.
Plane crashes, fires, falls, shoot
ings, drowning and other violent
forms of death were reported
throughout the country as the Ma
ton observed the long week end
rest period.
Three separate plane smashups
cost the lives of 20 persons, includ-
ing 10 soldiers in an Army trans
port flying to Minneapolis who
were killed when the ship crashed
near Harrisburg, Pa. Five other
Army flyers lost their lives in
plane crash at Ridgely, Tenn, while
f1ve servicemen were killed in the
crash OF a transport near Indianap-
oils.
OF the total violent deaths, "a
were recorded as from miscellane-
Gus causes, so resulting from fires
and l from weather. BY States,
California reported the largest num-
Der of fatalities-42, including 35
traffic deaths. Pennsylvania ranked
second with 27 and New York and
Illinois were next with % each.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Forrestal Says Navy
Rules Sea and Air
In Philippines Area

The American Navy now domi-
mates the waters around the Philip
pine Islands and the air over them
and Japanese air attacks have failed
to disrupt American plans for con-
tinued heavy offensives, Secretary of
the Navy Forrestal declared today.
Acknowledging that naval forces
in the Philippine area have suffered
some damage, he said announce
ments are delayed because 1--WE do
not wish the japanese to know what
ships they have hit, nor to what
extent vessels have been injured,
nor how soon they may be back in
action"
This necessary silence" Mr.. For
restal continued in a statement, has
left the field clear for the Japanese
to make fantastic claims, perhaps
fishing for information.
Perhaps the best way to assess
the results of Japanese air attacks
against our fleets since the Second
Battle of the Philippine Seas is to
ask whether those attacks have dis
rupted our plans for future action.
They have not. The fall of Leyte
and our landing on Mindoro are a
concrete demonstration that they
have not"
Secretary Forrestal said all losses
to the United States Fleet up to and
including the second Philippines
Seas battle have been announced.
Our losses included a light carrier,
two escort carriers, two destroyers
and a destroyer escort. Nearly go
Jap naval craft were destroyed or
damaged in the three-day fight.
The officers and men who fought
in the second battle of the Philip
pine Seas achieved one of the great
naval victories of the war" Mr..
Forrestal said. This action will go
down, along with the battle of Mid
way and the battles of Guadal-
canal, as one Of the great, shatter-
ing blows struck against japanese
sea power. The public should not
be led by false rumors of supposedly
unannounced facts to deprecate the
achievement of the officers and men
of the Sd and 7th Fleets in that
action"
Mr.. Forrestal emphasized that
naval action in support of the re-
occupation of the Philippines did
not begin and has not ended with
this single battle" He said it was
the most decisive event in what is
really prolonged naval campaign
in support of Gen. MacArthur's land
campaign in the Philippine Islands. I"
Mr.. Forrestals statement, review
ing the course Of the Pacific war,
pointed also to carrier plane raids on
Luzon, an amphibious attack on
Ormoc and "our troops freedom
from surface bombardment on Leyte
and Mindoro" as further evidence
that the japanese air campaign has
failed.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Seobee otherSpends Christmas
Aside ofGirI ,II|WithL Leukemiu
Py The Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
AURORA, Ill, Dec. 26.-"She
wants me every time she wakes up
and I'll be here" Seabee M. F. At
taway said yesterday as he con-
tinued his vigil at the bedside of his
7-year daughter, Patricia, VIC
tim of a blood disease.
Chief Petty Officer Attaway, who
arrived home a month ago after
travelling 5000 miles from the South
Pacific, spent Christmas in the hos
pital room with Patricia. Appear
ing weary from lack of sleep, Mr..
Attaway said he was reconciled that
his daughter cannot recover from
her illness, lymphatic leukemia
"I thought had seen some pretty
Evening star., 1944-12-26
'Warships Join Planes
In Blasting Two Jima,
$50 Miles Off Tokyo
BY the Associated Press.
HEADQUAR-

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR.
TIERS, Pearl Harbor. Dec. 26.-Fron
the air and sea American bombs
and shells crashed Sunday into 1--we
Jlma as Super Fortresses, Liberators
and warships combined in an as.
Isault on the japanese island base
only 750 miles south of Tokyo.
(The Tokyo radio said three of
the big, far ranging B-29s
dumped incendiary bombs on To-
kyo itself, and on Yokohama and
Shizuoka prefecture southwest of
the imperial capital. There was
no Allied confirmation
The Two Jima attack was the Sec
ond in which warships and bomb
ers acted in concert to plaster the
island, in the Volcano group, from
which the Japanese formerly
launched raids on Saipan, base OF
the Tokyo-raiding Super Fortresses
The first joint assault on Two was
made December 7, and since then
there have been no japanese raids
on Saipan.
In his communique, Admiral Ches-
ter w. Nimitz gave no indication
Of the size of the task force or of
the number of B-29s participating
in the sortie. He said the warships
bombarded Iwo's coastal defenses
and that shore batteries Offered
some" return fire He added that
none of the American vessels was
damaged.
A japanese destroyer escort ves-
sci was caught by the raiders and
sunk by shellfire. Also DESTROYED
were an enemy patrol craft and a
medium landing ship.
The heavy bombers were escorted
by Lightning fighters, which strafed
Two Jima's airstrips and harassed
shore defenses. Opposition was
light, one enemy plane was de-
stroyed on the ground and six others
damaged. Antiaircraft fire was
meager.
Strategic Air Force bombers on
the same day raided Chichi Jima, in
the Bonins north of Two, concen-
trating on the airstrips.
Marine fighters strafed Babel
thuap in the Palaus group, firing
buildings.
Marine and Navy bombers con-
tlnued attacks in an effort to knock
out isolated enemy bases In the
Marshall Islands.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Leyte Veterans Baby
Chrisfened at Army Post
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BUSHNELL GENERAL HOS
PITAL, Utah, Dec. 26.-Tiny Zemula
Lee Arnold was christened yester-
day while her smiling parents-the
father a wounded veteran of the
battle of Leyte-looked on.
The child was born III this mill
tary hospital because her father,
1t. Jesse Arnold, lost a leg in the
Philippines fighting and couldn't go
to Long Beach, Calf, to be with
his wife. The Army brought Mrs.
Arnold here in a bomber.
Born December II, the baby I'M
derwent hernia operation imme-
diately after birth and has made
satisfactory recovery.
Col. Mortimer Chester, post chap
lain at Bushnell, chriStened the in
fant in the hospital nursery. The
parents sat in wheel chairs at the
nursery door.
Evening star., 1944-12-26

rugged times down in the Admiral
ties" Mr.. Attaway said, but nothing
I've ever seen or imagined can COM
pare with this"
His leave, which would have ex-
pired shortly after Christmas, has
been extended Is days.
DR.. E. M. Thomas, Patricias physi-
sian, said her life was gradually slip
ping away, and it was only ques-
ton of days until her death.
Evening star., 1944-12-26

First 1t. Edward p. Valaer, rs, of
3211 Adams Mill road NV, two OF
whose brothers have been killed in
action, is coming home from active
duty in France, the War Depart
ment has informed his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Peter Valaer, jr. Another
brother, Tech. Sergt. Peter j. Va
laer, Sd, Medical Corps, is now on
duty in Italy.
Mrs. Valaer said the War Depart
ment told the family that 1t. Valaer
is being released because Second 1t.
Albert c. Valaer and Ensign Charles
w. Valaer had been killed in action.
1t. Valaer was killed in August at
Rio Hato, Panama, and Ensign Va
laer lost his life in combat in the
North Atlantic last March.
1t. Valaer, native of Washing
Evening star., 1944-12-26
| Seobee Learns.
|Long-T me Friend
Is His Mother
Ey the Associated press

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26. - A
mother, who had watched. talked
and corresponded with her boy for
23 years without his knowing she
was his mother, celebrated Christ
mas with him for the first time.
She is Mrs. James H. Fisher of
suburban Van Nuys. The boy
Charles F. McGuide, now 26. is a
petty officer with the Seabees.
When Charles was an infant in
Detroit, Mrs. Fisher, who then was
Mrs. Charles B. Fuller, a widow
gave the child to an uncle and aunt
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Mcclure OF
Edgewater, Colo, for adoption.
For years Mrs. visited the youth
wrote to him, but never let him
know she was his mother. He grew
up, married. joined the Seabees and
was wounded in the Marshall Is.
lands. He came back for hospitali-
zation.
He learned the truth the other
day about his mothers identity
called her up and spent a 72-hou1
leave from the hospital with her.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Ex-Lf. Gov. Murphy Dies;
Indicted in Bribe Case

Py the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Dec. 26.-Former 1t
Gov Frank Murphy, who pleaded
guilty before a grand jury to bribery
in a conspiracy to influence enact
ment of a bill in the Michigan Legis-
lature, died here last night from
heart disease
Mr.. Murphy, who served as lieu
tenant governor in 1941-42, was in
dicted with four other men and two
corporations by Judge Leland w
Carr's one-man grand jury which is
investigating corruption in State
government.
He was charged with accepting
and paying bribes in a conspiracy
to influence adoption of a bill or
distillery license fees. The Others
pleaded innocent.
Evening star., 1944-12-26
BY the Associated Press,

ROME. Dec. 26.-The Rome edi-
ton of the Army newspaper Stars
and Stripes declared today that de-
tails of an open forum discus
sion between Representative Glare
Boothe Luce, Republican, of Con-
necticut and service personnel
should be made public.
The editorial said Red Cross Of
ficials, who arranged the lively ses-
sion December % at the Red Cross
Club, had reported such forums were
made possible with important speak
ers only because they were always
of the record"
Representative Luces discussion
had no relation to military security -
the newspaper said. 1T was large
ly political, it was very contro-
versial and it certainly was provoca-
tive.
1T concerned the postwar world
1t concerned American institutions
Evening star., 1944-12-26
Harmon, Actress-Wife
Expecting Child In July
By The Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26.-Actress
Elyse Knox and her husband Lit
Tom Harmon, former all-America
football player at the University of
Michigan, are expecting a baby next
July, she has announced.
Miss Knox and 1t. Harmon were
married at Ann Arbor, Mich, last
August 26. She wore a bridal gown
made of the silk parachute in which
he dropped to earth after being shot
down by japanese Zero plane ir
an aerial dogf1ght over China ir
October, 1943
1t. Harmon's career with the Army
Air Forces also included a narrow
escape when his plane crashed in E
Brazilian jungle in April, 1943. HI
now is stationed in the Unitee
States.