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Evening star., 1944-05-20
Burma
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1mphal campaign the 5th Indian
Division was moved 230 miles by
aerial troop carriers from the Ara
kan front to India's 1mphal plains
In reinforcing operation which
completely fooled the Japanese, 1t
was officially disclosed today.
The movement was carried out
without any loss in men or aircraft
Brig. Gen. William Old of Uvalde
Tex, troop carrier commander, had
personal direction of the operation
Long after some 5th Indian Divi-
sion units were engaged around
Ukhrul in the Indian Manipur state
the japanese continued to place
the division on the Arakan front In
South Burma.
This maneuver was conducted un-
der stricteSt secrecy, the infantry
men themselves being unaware OF
their destination.
Men, mules, mountain guns, medi.
cal equipment and jeeps with trail.
ers Of ammunition were piled into
the planes. In SO hours thousands
OF men were fighting on a front
which would have required weeks
to reach by ground movement.
Both American and British per-
sonnel and aircraft were involved
IN the transfer Of the Indian Di.
vision.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
u. 5. Flyers Blast
Wake for Second Day
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TERS, Pearl Harbor, May 20.-In
their second daring daylight raid on
Wake Atoll in as many days, Ameri-
can flyers heavily bombed Peale Is
land and Heel Point Wednesday de-
spite intense antiaircraft fire by
Japanese defenders, Admiral Ches-
ter w. Nimitz announced yesterday
Peale, one Of the three islets COM
prising Wake Atoll, was the site OF
the Pan American Airways station
in prewar days.
Heel Point, the other target for
Wednesdays raid, Is at the north
eastern corner of Wake Island,
largest OF the group.
One American bomber was shot
down. 1t was the first United States
loss in 16 air assaults on the island
since last October S, when Is raiders
were lost in a carrier-borne strike.
Ponape In the Eastern Carolines
and enemy positions in the Mar
shalls also were bombed and strafed.
No opposition from either the air
or ground was reported as 7th Army
Air Force Mitchell medium bombers
raided Ponape's airstrip, nor was
any Japanese antiaircraft fire en-
countered by Marine and Navy
fighters and bombers over the Mar
shalls
Repair work on the enemy held
Wotje airstrip in the Marshalls was
reported interrupted by 4th Marine
fighters which strafed the field, de-
stroying at least two trucks.
The Ponape strike was the 1lth
this month and the second in two
days against that outpost of Truk.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Bio Welcome for Gentle
Planned in Home Town

PIQUA. Ohio, May 70 lP.-The
drinks will be on the house at
"Patsy's Tavern" today. The son OF
Proprietor Patsy Gentle is coming
home.
When Capt. Don 8. Gentle re-
Gently broke Capt. Eddie v. Ricken-
hackers World War record Of as
enemy aircraft destroyed, Patsy an
nounced the drinks would be "on
me" when Don returned.
Yesterday, jovial, robust Patsy, an
italian immigrant, learned his son
had arrived in Washington, and the
news spread quickly over this town
Of 10000. The populace Immediately
set In motion machinery already set
up for q royal Homecoming.
The City Commission has au-
thorized a public celebration for the
23-year-old hero. 1t will jointly
commemorate the service of men
and women from the city in the
armed services and will be held
within a week.
All the schools will have cere-
monies, and In the evening there
will be a huge parade and q me-
mortal to the Miami County war
dead. The speakers will include
Capt. Gentle.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Theft From Dead Man
Brings 15-Day Sentence

Termed by Alexandria police, the
meanest thieves in the world" Rob-
ert Edward Lee, 46, and Ernest l..
Hartley, 80, both of Richmond, were
sentenced to Is days in jail In Alex
andria Police Court yesterday In the
theft Of dead mans belongings.
Police said the men were bunk
mates OF w. E. Baldock, Potomac
Yards brakeman, who was killed
Wednesday on his first day of work
When Mr.. Baldock's brother ar
rived from Richmond to arrange for
burial, he reported the dead mans
clothing and suitcase were missing
Police said that when Lee, who has
record of 80 arrests since 1892. was
apprehended, he was wearing the
dead mans shirt.
Evening star., 1944-05-20

each consisting of some divisions, !"
have been formed.
Discussing help for civilians, Tito
said there was hunger in many Of
the worst devastated sections.
Efforts have been made, he said, to
make this years crops as rich as
possible, but in some cases this was
impaired by shortages of seed, cattle
and farm machinery, and even the
coming harvest would not fully solve
the food problem.
Expects UNRRA Aid.
"The peoples of Yugoslavia have
a full right to expect immediate
help from the UNRRA," he said.
THE charter of the UNRRA says
help will be forthcoming imme-
diately on liberation We have here
10000 square kilometers of liberated
territory on which over 5000, 900
people are living"
Asked whether there was any
likelihood of CYugoslavia's) falling
within the sphere of any major
power or combination of powers
after the war, Tito replied that
Yugoslavia' effort in the war would
give the Yugoslavs the right ito
arrange for themselves their in
ternal organizations and their for
eign relations-a right guaranteed
by the Atlantic Charter and the
Moscow and Tehran conferences.
Experience In the past shows how
much and how deadly the people of
Yugoslavia have paid because for
eign powers have meddled in the
organization Of their foreign and in
ternal policy. This has led to in
ternational complications, conflicts,
and finally war"
Tito gave figures on the amount
Of German pillage found in Lika,
one of the poorest regions of Yugo-
slavia and the first to be liberated
thousands Of horses, cattle, sheep
and pigs carried off, forage taken
and countless houses burned down.
OF towns completely destroyed, he
listed Udbina, Korenica, Rogatica
Glamoc, Prozor. Bojnic, Kljuc and
Vlasenica. Railroads have been de-
stroyed, industrial plants wrecked
mines closed. All this devastation
would entail an enormous postwar
reconstruction plan, he said.
For this rebuilding we will need
the help of foreign capital. for our
own resources will be insufficient"
Evening star., 1944-05-20
WPB Expects Restrictions
On Private Housing 10 Stay
Nv thu Assoe,,ted pres.

ny the Associated Press.
The War Production Board holds
out little hope Of an early relaxa-
ton Of restrictions on private hous-
ing construction despite q predic-
ton by National Housing Agency
ofhcial that partial resumption of
such building was in the ofiing.
The trouble Is a lumber shortage
explained Philip Boyd, head OF
WPB's Forest Products Division. He
said military demands for lumber
are increasing steadily.
The WPB statement came a few
hours after L. H. Keyserling, gen.
eral counsel for MIA, told the
House Committee on Buildings and
Grounds that WPB soon would issue
priorities and release building ma
terials for a partial resumption OF
private housing construction. Pri-
vate building has been restricted
since April, 1912.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Weather for Invasion
Shows Improvement
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, May 20.--The Germans,
watching the weather along Europe 8
west coast as q possible invasion
tip-off, observed last night that ut
remains to be seen whether brighter
weather of the past "A hours will
lead to improved landing condi-
tions."
The weather became more settled
over the Dover Straits yesterday
an improvement that came stimuli
taneously with resumption OF
heavy Allied air attacks against
continental targets.
Meanwhile, the Moscow radio
broadcast a Tass dispatch under a
Geneva dateline saying:
According to reports from Paris
Rundstedt tField Marshal Karl Ru.
dolf Gerd Won Rundstedt) who ha,
been dismissed from the post OF
commander in chief Of German
troops in the west, has paid a fare
well visit to Petain during the lat
ter's visit to Rouen."
Won Rundstedt was formally iden-
tilted by Berlin only two days age
as supreme commander of the Ger
man anti-invasion forces. There
was no confirmation or amplifica-
ton of the Tass account that he
had been dismissed"
As the preinvasion tempo quick
ened Allied headquarters announced
last night that Gen. Dwight d
Eisenhower had returned from ar
inspection of troops massed In
Britain.
A curt announcement said the Al
lied commander in chief had com.
pleted "a quick visit to air and
ground troops in England anc
Northern Ireland"
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Peter Gusts Premier, Calls
Subasic 10 Form Cabinet
BY the Associated Press.

9S lE6 AsSUClhLcQ EIcSS.
LONDON, May 20.-In uneasy ex-
lie from the battle ground of Yugo-
slavia. King Peter, seemingly with
British prompting, yesterday ousted
the cabinet of Premier Bozhidar
Puric and initiated action to form a
new government designed to woo
support from Marshal Tito.
The youthful monarch, beset by
the headaches of his country's in
ternal strife, directed DR.. Ivar
Subasic, the former governor of
Croatia, to undertake the delicate
diplomatic task of forming a coali-
tion cabinet which would meet with
approval of Serbs, Croats and Slo-
venes.
With chances for success of the
venture at best $3.50, DR.. Subasic
showed no inclination to grasp the
responsibilities hurriedly. There is
probability he will take the job
only with certain conditions-chief
of which will be exclusion of Gen.
DraJa Mihailovich, present minister
OF war, from the new cabinet.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
3 Boys on Roft Soved
At Brink Of Niagara
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, May
teen-age boys from
Niagara Falsl, N. Y, were rescued
last night minutes before the home
made raft on which they were riding
on the Niagara River plunged over
the Horseshoe Falls.
The boys were John Probash, II:
Joseph Scotch, IT, and Stanley Swi-
atkowskl, 16.
Told that the boys raft appeared
out of control. George Bukator, 81,
barber and taxi owner, and Alton
Sedcria, Is, recently discharged from
the Royal Canadian Navy, COM
mandeered a passing truck trans
porting new rowboat, drove to the
river and used the boat to effect the
rescue
Evening star., 1944-05-20
BY KENNETH l.. DIXON.


WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN ITALY, May 2o.-This is the
lowdown on the soldier-corre-
spondent who had the whole Med.
iterranean theater laughing at the
way he fooled censors, brass hats
bureaucrats, public relations officers
and even lot of Germans-by SIM
ply slipping into Yugoslavia to in
terview Marshal Tito.
He is Staff Sergt. Walter Bern
stein, Yank Magazine correspondent
who came out with the first per-
sonal interview with the Yugosla,
Partisan leader by an Allied writer
His interview has not yet seen the
light of print, however. 1t is hele
up by censorship; If released it will
be made available to the combined
Allied press.
(This is one more chapter in
the strange story of Tito, the cor
respondents and the censors. This
dispatch reveals that Sergt. Bern
stein interviewed Tito ahead of a
party of American and British
correspondents formed under Of
f1cial auspices at Cairo, whose
dispatches have been published
this week. Another Tito inter-
view, obtained by Associated
Press Correspondent Joseph Nor
ton by the written question and
answer method, was released by
censorship todayD
Sergt. Bernstein, "a, is short
haired, and comes from New
York City, where he used to work
for the New Yorker magazine and
where he now has a wife and an g.
month-old daughter.
For two years he's been reporting
the war for Yank, much of the time
in the past sidestepping summonses
by high-ranking Officers sour over
Yank's carefree manner.
Covered Sicily Despite Ban.
Yank correspondents were sup
posed to be barred during the Sicil.
ian campaign, but Sergt. Bernstein
knew a guy who knew a guy so he
showed up there sort of unofflcially
one day, hitch-hiking by plane. He
covered the whole campaign, avoid
ing those sent to arrest and evicI
him by simply staying upon the
combat line. Then he hitched q
ride back to Cairo, beyond the
arm of belligerent brass hats, and
asked in obvious establishment, was
some one looking for me?"
Ever since Tito started pitching
homicide parties for the occupy
ing Germans, Yugoslavia has beer
sewed up tighter than a sugar sack
for war correspondents. Tito bade
them welcome, but Allied chieftains
barred them from the Balkans, pre-
ferring to handle the touchy polit-
ical situation there through official
channels.
But last fall Associated Press Cor
Daniel De Luce. slipped
1n-he knew a guy who knew a guy
too-and did q series of eyewitness
stories on the Partisans which won
hi mthe Pulitzer prize. Mr.. De Luce's
venture started every one shouting
for admission tickets, but then the
authorities really jammed the lid
on, and some famous writer's even
were given the brushon, including
one armed with personal recon-
mendation from a smoking
party well known in the Downing
street precincts.
They .relented enough at last to
choose two correspondents in Cairo
Evening star., 1944-05-20

Justice Moore he had read a head
line about the trial in a Green's
boro IN. c. paper last March. He
said he did not read the story itself
because he never read anything but
the funny papers"
He denied he was in the court
room when johnson was testifying
He said he spent only about 10 min
utes at the trial Thursday and that
a man wearing a badge, black shoes
and striped trousers was on
the stand at the time. He said he
did not see the man take the stand
or leave 1t, and when he was asked
how he observed the mans shoes
and and trousers from the back of
the courtroom, he explained that
the witness had held his feet up.
Mr.. Maher said Vow had entered
complaints against two people in
North Carolina for robbing him,
but that the two were acquitted, he
said. Vow, insisted, however. they
were convicted.
Attorneys said Vow still insisted
at the end Of the day that his story
of attempted bribery was true.
Trial Set Back Entire Day.
The incident set the Miller trial
back an entire day and delayed the
appearance Of half a dozen promi-
nent witnesses, including members
Of DR.. Lind's family.
Miller himself did not appear to
know anything about the affair. HI
became increasingly nervous as the
delay grew longer and once asked
newspaper reporters whether they
knew what was holding US up"
Most patient were the $50 spec.
tators who knew less than any on,
else of the delay. Few Of them left
the courtroom except for lunch
The courtroom was still packet
when, late In the afternoon, Justic.
Moore finally ordered all spectator
excluded.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
9 Race Horses Die
As Fire Razes Barn
Al Churchill Downs
BY the Associated Press.

LOUISVILLE, KY, May 20-Nine
race horses and one pony died early
today when fire razed one of the
barns at historic Churchill Downs.
Hundreds of thoroughbreds were
stabbed at the track but only about
so had to be turned loose. In ad-
dition to the horses burned to death,
another racer was missing.
Housed Derby Winner.
Value of the nine horses lost was
estimated at from $4,000 to $50, 900.
There was no outstanding racer
among them.
Had the fire happened two weeks
earlier, however, the same barn
contained Pensive, winner of the
1914 Kentucky Derby; Broadcloth,
the second place finisher; Cramps
Image, Gay Bit, Comenow, all Derby
contenders, and Autocrat, Derby
nominee who did not run because
of illness.
The fire, of undetermined origin,
started in a loft. One horse owner
believed the blaze was started by
"drunks sleeping in the loft"
The missing horse was M. B.
COTS Big Punch, a stablemate of
Skytracer.
Thoroughbreds Destroyed.
The horses killed were Capt.
Rhythm, owned by E. R. Flagg,
Winter Park, Fla; Guards Brigade
and March Tune, owned by H. C.
Dodson, Columbus, Ohio: Long Trip
and Bell Play, owned by Fred Coffen-
berry, Charlottesville, Ind; Sun
Rich and Silverlynn, owned by r. L.
Mahan, Louisville; Easy Mary,
owned by Robert Williams of Gov
ington, KY, and Yelka, owned by
Tilford Wilson of Lexington, KY.
James Howard, Lexington, col
ored groom. discovered the fire and
ran from stall to stall freeing the
frightened horses. He was credited
with saving Valdina Nymph, Swift
Action, Islo Peblo, Valley Sue,
Omalisa, Thistle High and others.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Censors and Bruss Hats Fail
To Deter ito Interviewer

by lottery. They began training fol
their escorted jaunt.
Meanwhile, Sergt. Bernstein got
permission from his Yank magazine
bosses to vacation in Yugoslavia.
Royal Welcome From Partisans.
How he got in is something the
Germans would like to know. But
1t Is o. K. to say he hiked for
miles.
He was given a royal welcome by
the Partisans, asked to interview
Tito and they said sure, why not?
Through an interpreter he became
the first Allied newsman to inter-
view the mysterious marshal. Then
he visited units of Tito's army and
a Youth Congress confab.
Up to this point it happened his
path hadn't crossed any of the
Allied liasion officers with the
partisans, but one night Sergt
Bernstein walked into a British
majof.
Hello" said Sergt Bernstein in
plain English.
Hello" answer the major, absent
mindedly ambling on Suddenly he
did a terrific doubletake, and rushed
back to Bernstein.
Things became confused when it
was discovered Sergt. Bernstein was
a newsman. 1t was highly irregular.
If he had been a spy they could just
have shot him, with courteous re-
gret.
Released to Write Interview.
That was when the question WHO
Is Walter Bernstein?" began blister
ing the Mediterranean wavelengths
and transatlantic cables.
Get him out" came back the an
swer.
So they took Walter over to Italy
He was whisked from one headquar-
ters to another, from Bari to Naples
to Algiers, to Naples. He was
quizzed and questioned repeatedly
but finally it was concluded that
there wasn't a single technicality
they could trap him on, and his
papers were in order, for Walter was
born "a years ago, not yesterday
They let him loose to write his in
terview.
Leaving Yugoslavia. Walter met
the two specially-selected CORE
spondents just entering the Balkans
to become (they thought) the first
reporters to interview Tito.
Not one to gloat unduly-especial-
ly because he was being escorted In
slightly different style at the time
Sergt. Bernstein merely had his
armed guards pause long enough fol-
him to ask the dumbfounded
scribes to give his regards to Tito
when they saw him.
And the men who met him with
more guards In Naples was the same
public relations ofIicer who had
hunted Walter all through Sicily.
MY God" exclaimed this indi-
vidual YEARLY, "am going to spend
my whole Army career chasing
Sergt. Bernstein?"
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Bomber Crash Wrecks
Z Homes; 9 Flyers Hurt
Dy the Associated Press.

~ the ASSoclAted Press.
TAMPA, Fla, May 20.-Nine Army
airmen were injured, three critically,
and two houses destroyed yesterday
when . four -engined bomber from
Drew Field crashed and burned in
suburban residential section within
three blocks of the base
Occupants of one of the houses,
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Kacsik. and
their two children escaped without
injury. The other house was vacant.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Nelson Asks War Plants
To Insist on Vacations
By the Associated Press


Donald NJ Nelson, chairman of
the War Production Board. today
asked industry not to permit any
worker to waive vacation in order
to receive vacation pay as an addi-
tional income.
Such practice would defeat the
whole purpose of acations-in-
creasing production by restoring the
workers energy and zeal" Mr.. Nell
son asserted.
At the same time, Mr.. Nelson said
industry and its workers should
make whatever arrangements nee
essary to provide vacation schedules
before the vacation season is upon
them. He said it is important tc
make advance plans so that worker
productivity will not decline or pro-
duction be curtailed because OF va
cations.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Tito
Continued From First Page.)

and especially expressed apprecia-
tion OF the support given his troops
by the Allied air forces. Much more
is needed, however, he said, espe.
cially tanks, antitank guns, air.
planes and food.
The Germans, helped by loca.
traitors" have destroyed one twelfth
"of the entire Slav population OF
Yugoslavia," he declared, and have
Iplundered wide areas, carrying OF
horses, cattle and sheep, burning
down thousands of houses and de-
stroying some towns entirely.
One hundred and ten Thousand
soldiers of the National Liberation
Army have been killed in the last
three years, he said, but not in
vain, for their struggle has saved
thousands of men, women and chill
dren who would have perished had
the war of resistance not been
waged.
In reply to the question, What
is the strength of the enemy forces
in Yugoslavia?" Marshal Tito in
cluded the Mihailovich Chetniks
among them and credited Gen
Draja Mihailovich War Minister OF
the Yugoslav government in exile
and leader of its forces inside Yugo-
slavia with having a force OF only
5000.
IA German Divisions.
His answer was: "In Yugoslavis
there are still about IA German di.
visions. four Bulgarian divisions
about 10000 to 10000 Croat Domo-
brans, Legionaries and Ustachi
about $4,000 followers of Medic
(Field Marshal Milan Medic, pro.
NaI former PREMIER. $4,000 Chet-
niks under Mihailovich, three reg.
iments of White Corps in Serbia
about 10000 Slovene Domobrans un.
der the Quisling Rupnik and about
10000 Arnauts. Besides this there
are various police troops"
Earlier this week the AP was
informed that passage referring
to Mihailovich was the chief
reason it still was held up by the
censor. This may have been the
passage)
Tito said that the Committee O
Liberation had not formally de
manded recognition by the Unitet
States, Britain and Russia as "th
sole legal government of Yugoslavia
because its main line of action wa
to subordinate all activity to "ou
struggle against the invader"
He said the committee also wante,
to avoid giving any "inconveniences
which might arise out of demand
for recognition.
Cites DaImat tian Loss.
I'VE have asked that they 9TH
Allies return to us warships whicl
the Italians confiscated at the tim
of the occupation of Yugoslavia
These ships were given to the exile'
Yugoslav government instead of be
ing used by us for the defense OF ou
islands. If we had had these W,
should not have lost the Dalmatial
Islands on which the Germans sue
ceeded in landing because they hat
a few warships."
Tito said the committee had like
wise asked the Allies for control o
the Yugoslav merchant navy, nov
In the hands of the exiled govern
ment, which he charged will
"squandering for its personal ends
money paid for the use OF thes
ships. He asked for this money s.
the committee could renew tn
merchant navy and improve the pa
of sailors, and asserted:
Otherwise, the National Com
mittee would not touch the privat
interests Of ship owners"
In response to question on tn
size Of the Liberation Army, Tit
said that, since he announced it a
l250,000 last November, some unit,
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Italian Paper Reports
Staying of MihoiIovich
BY the Associate Press.

BY the Associated Press
BERN, Switzerland, May 20-La
Suisse Of Geneva printed with
reservations today a Belgrade dis
patch quoting the Italian Fascist
newspaper II Regime Fascista as
saying Gen. Draja Mihailovich had
been assassinated by Marshal Tito's
Partisans on a highway in Central
Serbia.
The dispatch said the Chetnik
escort was killed with the general,
who is leader of guerrilla forces for
the Yugoslav government in exile.
Evening star., 1944-05-20
Condition of Girl Burned
By Gasoline Still Serious

Four-year- Katherine Ann Cox
Of $500 Twentieth street NE. still is
in serious condition at Sibley Hos
pital, where she was brought yester-
day with burns suffered when her
clothing caught fire as she watched
her uncle, Herbert M. Smith, AZ,
clean his automobile with gasoline
which became ignited. Police say
Smith was applying the gasoline
with a brush and that 1t came in
contact with the electric wiring.
The child was standing on the front
bumper.