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graduated from the General Staff
and Command School In 1888.
Gen. Gerhardt is described as 4
crack shot, great believer In physi-
cal fitness and filled with a COM
petitive spirit. During the period
when his troops we're training in
England, the general issued an open
challenge to shooting match with
any man In his unit, with either rifle
or pistol, putting up 81 side bet.
The general is described as a
rugged disciplinarian who has shown
great personal bravery in combat.
Gen. Huebner was born in Bush
ton, Kans., and enlisted in the Army
in 1910. He served as private, cor
poral, sergeant, quartermaster ser
geant and regimental supply SER
geant until he was commissioned a
second lieutenant of infantry in
1916 BY the end OF the World War,
when he served with the 28th In
fantry and was twice wounded, he
had been promoted to lieutenant
colonel. ~
He Is a graduate of the advanced
course at the Infantry School, the
Command and General Staff School
and the Army War College and q
former instructor in the Infantry
School and Command and General
Staff school,
Gen. Huebner returned to Wash
ington in July, 1910, following tour
Of duty at Schofield Barracks, in
Hawaii, to become chief of the War
Department General Staff Training
Bureau. Two years later he as
sumed command of the Camp Croft
IS. c. Infantry Replacement Train
ing Center, and two months later he
was made chief of the Army Supply
Forces Training Division
He wears the Distinguished Serv-
ice Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster,
the Distinguished Service Medal,
the Silver Star, the Purple Heart
with Oak Leaf Cluster, the French
Legion of Honor and the French
Croix de Guerre.
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Gen. Raymond Barton,
4th Division Chief,
| Taught al Georgetown

Maj. Gen. Raymond G. Barton,
IS. who has been revealed as COM
mander of the 4th Infantry Division
which helped take Cherbourg along
with the 9Th and 10th Divisions, is
we'll known in Washington. He
served as professor of military sci
ence and tactics at Georgetown Uni
versity after graduating from the
War College here.
A native of Granada, Colo, he
was graduated from West Point in
1912 and saw service overseas in
the last war.
An Associated Press dispatch
from London told of Gen. Barton's
ambition to go to Germany and
and rehoist the Stars and Stripes
he hauled down as commander
of the last American troops to
leave there after the last war
Today he has under his command
the same two infantry companies
which he led out Of Germany on
January %, 1923.
II hope to parade the same two
companies and plant the same flag
over Fortress Ehrenbreitstein just
across the Moselle from Coblenz," he
said. THAT flag has rested in the
Secretary of Wars office since the
last war hope we can borrow 1t
for the occasion"
Gen. Barton is married and has
two Children son Raymond, jr.,
who enters West Point next month,
and daughter Glare, a sophomore
at Colorado College. Mrs. Barton
lives in Jacksonville, Fla.
Maj. Gen. Ira Wyche, 81, COM
mander of the 18th Division, heads
troops drawn largely from Pennsyl-
vania. A native of North Carolina
and West Point graduate Of 1911. he
served with the 60th Field Artillery
at Fort Myer, Va, in 1918 and was
on duty in the Office OF the chief of
field artillery here in 1910. He was
placed in command of the 18th on
May l, 1912, at Camp Pickett, Va.
Maj. Gen. Manton S. Eddy, a 81
year-old veteran OF the last war, who
heads the 9th Division, was COM
missioned in the infantry from civil
life in 1916. Like Gen. Barton, he
was in Germany with occupation
troops. He was intelligence officer
of the Sd Corps area headquarters
at Baltimore in 1910 and the next
year joined the first air-borne de-
tachment at Fort Bragg. N. C.
He was assigned to the 9th on
March "a, 1912, and in June Of that
year was made it's commander. His
home Is in Chicago.
Evening star., 1944-06-29
French Anthem Sunq
As Never Before in
Liberated Cherbourq
BY LARRY LESUEUR,

Distributed by the Associated Pressl
CHERBOURG, June 29-Leaders
of the French resistance movement
held meeting of Cherbourg civil
ians today while the sound of guns
still crashed through the city.
It was historic occasion, the first
public meeting of the liberated peo-
pie of Cherbourg. Dressed in their
patched blue and black clothes, worn
out in four years of German occu-
patton, they listened attentively to
the voice of the chief of the Cher
bourg resistance movement, and
then, amid their cheers, he
awarded medals to Is members of
the underground who have worked
for the Allies for four long years,
under peril of their lives.
Broadcaster Appears. -,
And hlen a man whose voice has
long been known to the people of
Cherbourg and to the people of
France made his first personal ap-
pearance. 1t was NJ. Shumann. the
voice of Fighting France who
broadcast from the BBC in London
ever since the fall of France. bring
ing encouragement and advice to
his conquered countrymen. The
free French radio commentator re-
ceived an ovation.
He told the townspeople of Cher
bourg OF the work of the Fighting
French in London and Algiers and
then led them in singing the Mar
seillaise. American soldiers uncon-
sciously stood at attention as the
words of the great French anthem
rang out over the town square. 1t
was sung with such feeling of life
and warmth as has not been heard
In France for four years.
City Being Restored.
Then the Free French radio COM
mentator and the leaders of the
underground thundered over 'vive
de Gualle" and the townspeople
answered the name of de Gualle
with fervor. "Vive rAmerique" and
"vive FAngleterre" followed with
enthusiasm, and the first mass
meeting of liberated Cherbourg was
over.
The thousands of Frenchmen and
French women turned once more
to putting their battered city in
order.
Right now the theme song of
liberated Cherbourg is the tinkle of
broken glass being swept up from
the streets by energetic French
people and the heavy booms of the
demolitions of American engineers.
Evening star., 1944-06-29
| Dewey, If Elected
| President, Would
Be Youngest Yet
,y the Associated Presa.


CHICAGO, June 29.-Thomas E.
Dewey, II elected, would become the
Nations youngest President-by a
matter of 20 days.
The New York Governor is 42-he
was born March "a, 1902--snd If
elected he would be inaugurated
January 20, 1945, or So days before
his 43d birthday anniversary.
Theodore Roosevelt also was A
when he became President after the
assassination of william Mckinley
on September IA, 1901. But that was
only 43 days before "Teddy's 43d
birthday anniversary. He was born
October n, 1858.
There have been only six Presi-
dents who were under so when they
were Observation-Disclosures K. Polk at
40, Franklin Pierce at 48. U. S.
Grant at 46, James A. Garfield at 40,
Grover Cleveland at Al and 1T. R."
Evening star., 1944-06-29
National Figures Jump.

or 1o2.26 per cent Of its s74,85o, 900
quota.
National Figures Jump.
Nationally, yesterdays tabulation
of S3,569, ,000, 900. the largest report
for a single day in any of the War
Loan drives, boosted total sales to
s9,374,000, 600, or 50 per cent of the
overall $4,000 ,OO0, 900 goal. Indi-
vidual bond purchases now total
$2,323, 900 900, or 80 per cent of the
$6,0oO, 900 900 individual goal. while
corporation sales rose to $7,05l ,0O0,-
600, or II per cent of that divisions
$4,000, ,000. 900 quota.
Allen Jones. stage. screen and
radio singer, will appear at tonight's
show at the Army Air Forces Shot
From the Sky" exhibit which will
also include the4Air Transport Com
mand's Contact Caravan" revue.
Guest speakers will include Byron
Price, director of censorship, and
Richard r. Brown, director of the
Division of Central Administrative
Services for the Office of Emergency
Management.
Preceding the show the Coast
Guard Band, directed by Chief
Musician Bill Schallen, will present
a concert.
Buys S100, 900 Worth.
Last night was Drugstore night
on the exhibit grounds and enter
tainment featured the Royal
Canadian Air Forces Central Band
concert, an aution of hard to get"
drugstore items, and the Contact
Caravan" Speakers included Elmer
Davis, director of Owl, and James
L. Dougherty, assistant general
counsel of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp.
George O'Connor, president of the
District Lawyers and Washington
Title Insurance Cos, today pur-
chased 100000 in bonds in the name
of his companies from Bruce Baird,
president of the National Savings
& Trust Co.
The Atlas Club, 1349 E street NV,
.at War Bond auction rally last
night sold $4,000 in bonds, exceed
ing their goal by $4,000.
Staff Sergt. William Frank,
Marine Corps, will speak at rally
of the Northeast Business Mems
Association at $50 O'Clock tonight in
the American Security Trust Co
branch, Eighth and H streets NE,
while the Alliance Club will hold
bond auction at $3.50 o'clock at the
Hamilton Hotel.
Austin Engels. head of the op-
tometrists division, yesterday re-
ported bond sales totaling s17,365.
Evening star., 1944-06-29
Students Replace Teacher

TULARE, S. Oak. [P).-The TuIare
School Board has set up rotating
schedule, in which each day a high
school girl is excused to take care
OF the -year-old son of the
teacher, Mrs. Lester Kopplin.
Evening star., 1944-06-29

You'll forget how you spent IT.;
but you'll know you don't have IL
Buy War Bonds. Hold them.
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ceived $50 vacation pay in accord.
ance with the bitulninous contract.
At the Bridgeport and Maxwell
mines OF the Prick Co., 1900 who
were Idle yesterday in the sarne
dispute returned to their Jobs in
accordance with a vote taken last
night The Vesta No. 5 Local Also
voted Yesterday to return today, but
failed to do so.
The bituminous idleness also was
unauthorized.
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1900 u. 5. Bombers
| Attack Targets in
Center Of Reich
BIZ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press,
LONDON, June 29.--More than
l 900 American Flying Fortresses
and Liberators attacked Ger
many today, hitting four air
craft producing centers. a syn
thetic oil refinery and a number
of other military and industrial
targets in the center Of the
Reich.
Escorted by an equal number oi
fighters, the heavies attacked air.
craft plants at Leipzig, Oschersle.
ben. Aschersleben and Fallersleben
and a refinery at Bohlsen, Gaping .
l2-hour Allied air offensive which
saw more than 5000 warplanes
scourging important Nazi installa-
tions across the face Of Northwest.
ern Europe.
Leipzig. Oschersleben and Asch.
ersleben are within 80 to 100 mile.
southwest of Berlin. while Fallersle-
ben is 40 miles east of Hanover
Bohlsen also Is In the Hannovel
area.
Rail Centers Also Hit.
Railroad centers haltingly feed.
ing reinforcements to the Germans
taxed battle lines were other tar
gets in the big assault.
In darkness before the American
heavies swept out about 500 RAJ
Halifaxes carried the campaign
against NaM supply lines to the Ger.
man border, bombing railroad yard,
in the region Of Metz, near the
World War battlefield of Verdun.
simultaneously night raiding Mos
Quitos hit Saarbrucken, a railroad
center attacked by the American
heavies yesterday, and an oil plant
near Essen in the Ruhr.
The Mosquitoes made their attack
without loss, while the British
heavy bomber assault on Metz cost
20 planes.
Fierce Battles Reported.
The Berlin radio said Allied bomb
ers today had penetrated to Thurin-
gia, an Eastern German province
bordering on Czechoslovakia, and
declared fierce air battles were rag
ing there.
The RAJ night bombers attack
ing the Metz area knitted their way
through stiff German opposition
They also hit Blainville nearby and
other objectives around Nancy, 81
miles south Of Metz.
Mediterranean Allied Air Force
bombers attacked objectives at the
Romanian Danube River port Of
Giurgiu last night after 500 heavy
bombers plus fighter escorts from
that theater yesterday smashed two
oil refineries at Bucharest and d
German airdrUme at Karlovo, Bull
garia.
Approximately 1900 sorties were
flown by the Mediterranean Alliet
Air Force. Twenty-three enemy air.
craft were destroyed and six Alliee
planes were missing.
Nazi Opposition Increases
The Germans gave further evi
dence Of their growing concern ovel
the effects of the air attacks b,
their enlivened opposition over tn,
Normandy battle front where lighte
Allied planes late yesterday mad,
q few attacks on enemy transpor
and armed reconnaissance flights.
Despite the weather. which limited
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the scale of operations over France
a sizeable combat score was rung up
Twenty-Five German planes were
shot down against loss OF six Allied
craft.
Another precision attack like
Tuesday nights demolition OF Ger
man corps headquarters south OF
the Cherbourg Peninsula was made
by rocket-packing Typhoons which
shot more than 100 projectiles into
buildings in an unspecified village
Other Typhoons attacked a rail-
road bridge just beyond the British
front line near Ste. Honorine on
the Caen-Flers line.
Evening star., 1944-06-29
Lord HuIifox Hoping
For Trip to ENGLAND

BY the Associated Press.
Lord Halifax, British Ambassador,
said yesterday he hoped to make a
trip back to England before long
simply to see how things are going
over there.
He said that the date for a
British American Russian Chinese
meeting here on organization of a
postwar security agency had not
yet been determined.
Evening star., 1944-06-29

or l02.26 per cent Of its $74.85o,00
quota.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Roosevelt Cites Food Needs
In Call for Victory Gardens

Declaring that I'VE will need all
the food we can grow" because of
greatly increased demands this year,
President Roosevelt today called on
"every American who possibly can"
to grow Victory garden.
The Presidents statement, it was
explained at the White House, was
issued at the behest of Secretary of
Agriculture Wickard and War Food
Administrator Jones to spur the Vic
tory garden movement.
The statement said, Il hope every
American who possibly can will
grow Victory garden this year.
We found out last year that even
the small gardens helped. The total
harvest from Victory gardens was
tremendous. 1t made the difference
between scarcity I and abundance.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
By the Associated Press.

~ tAit hoSONiatGQ EESSS.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, April 1.-Allied troops
have made a sudden thrust in
the ruggedly mountainous and
long static central sector of the
Italian front, advancing a mile
and occupying Mount Marrone,
a mile-high peak about 13 miles
northeast of Casino, headquar-
ters announced today.
The height was seized by troops
of unidentified nationality who
smashed forward under powerful
artillery support.
In Casino, meanwhile, Allied
heavy guns again shelled the mon
astery overlooking the devastated
town and observers saw the walls
collapsing around the German po-
sitions. Two German raiding par
ties-one about 40 snong-were
beaten back from the vicinity of the
Casino railway station.
Two American destroyers ham
mered the German positions near
Carroceto on the Anzio beachhead
and Allied infantry repelled small
but sharp attack on their left flank.
Artillery exchanges and patrol
clashes marked the snowbound 9th
Army front. Small enemy parties
were dispersed.
Allied air forces in Italy were
forced by the weather to reduce
their activities to about $50 sorties,
but the systematic campaign to
smash German communications
continued with flghter-bomber at
tacks against bridges along the east
coast of italy.
Evening star., 1944-04-01

The Department of Agriculture sur
veys show that AZ per cent of the
fresh vegetables consumed in 1943
came from Victory gardens. This
should clearly emphasize the far
reaching importance of the Victory
garden program.
Because of the greatly increased
demands In 1914 we will need all the
food we can grow. Food still re-
mains a first essential to winning
the war. Victory gardens are of
direct benefit in helping relieve
transportation and living
costs, as we'll as the food problem.
Increased food requirements for our
armed forces and our Allies give
every citizen an opportunity to do
something toward backing up the
boys at the 'front.'"
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Tax Group Approves
Dependency Clause
Nv the Assor;at.d pr...

BY the Associated Press.
A proposal to exempt the income
OF dependents from taxation unless
it exceeds $500 has been approved
by the House Ways and Means
Committee.
Thus, the small earnings of chill
dren, if Congress finally writes the
plan into law, would not be con-
sidered in computing the parents
income tax liability.
The computation Of the income
OF dependents as a part of the taA
payers income now is required in
most States, but some permit the
taxpayer to "emancipate" child.
In such a case the child's income
is not included in the parents re-
turn and the parents cannot list
the child for dependency ex-
emption.
The principle that no income of a
dependent, regardless of age, should
be computed as part of the tax
payers income if it does not exceed
$500 was adopted by the Ways and
Means Committee yesterday as
part of the simplified tax law now
being written. The plan as now
drawn defines a dependent as a
person receiving his or her chief
support from the taxpayer in ques-
tion and related by blood, marriage
or adoption, regardless of age.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Japanese Aviation Chief
Is Reported 0usted
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, April 1.-The Soviet
news agency Tass quoted a JAP
anese dispatch from Toxic today as
announcing that 1t. Gen. Takec
Yasuda had been relieved of his
post as inspector general of aviation
in a shakeup of the Japanese air
command.
Gen. Yasuda. who once was Jap
anese military attache in Rome, had
been inspector general of aviation
since last May. The dispatch said
he was named air adviser.
The dispatch added that Gen
Yuseroku had been elevated to Gen
Yasuda's post and also said 1t. Gen
kubaysi was named chief of staff OF
national defense while 1t. Gen
Baron Yoshitoshi Tokugawa was
placed in command of the aviation
academy.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Allies lake Mile High Mountain
In Thrust on Central Italy Front
In Casino Sector Heavy Guns Collapse
Monastery Walls; Nozi Attacks RepuIsed
Two Allied planes were lost.

Two Allied planes were lost.
Mount misunderstanding Noun.
tain"-lies 6 miles southeast ol
Alfadena and dominates a large
part of the Varrecchia Valley. The
advance tends to straighten out the
line between the salients which the
Allies drove in reaching Casino and
Alfadena during the slow progress
Of the past months.
Although details of the fighting
are not yet fully available, it was
disclosed that the attack was sup
ported by assaults on San Michele
and, Pizzone, about 2 miles north
east of the mountain. In the last
reported fighting in that area over
two months ago, French troops were
employed.
Reports received from the Anzio
beachhead last night said casualties
in the hospital struck Wednesday
night by German bombs had mount
ed to IS.
Sixteen were known dead and So
wounded, although details received
at headquarters were not suf1icient
to disclose how many of the casual
ties were patients in the hospital or
whether nurses were among those
killed.
The IS casualties raised to total
of 203 the number Of persons who
have been killed and wounded in
American hospitals and medical
stations on the beachhead.
Exclusive of Wednesdays casual
ties, 6 nurses, 2 visitors, l Red
Cross worker and 100 officers and
enlisted men have died under Ger
man bombs and artillery shells in
hospital areas there.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
German Newspapers
Play Up jap Drive

LISBON, April l (P.-German
newspapers are giving large head
lines to the Japanese penetration
of Eastern India, describing it as an
advance of an Indian Army under
Subhas Chandra Bose, Axis-support-
ed Indian leader cooperating with
japanese forces.
Co-ordinated with such assur-
ances in the news columns that at
least some Axis troops are advanc-
ing instead Of retreating or fighting
In last-ditch stands are propagan-
da articles on various aspects of
Japanese life.
Even playWrights have been set
to work writing dramas on the
japanese to help remind the Ger
mans they still have one powerful
ally left.
Evening star., 1944-04-01
SurIes Admits Djstrust
Of Army News Policy

KANSAS CITY, April l (Py.-The
War Department in a letter made
public here yesterday acknowledged
that general misunderstanding of
official reluctance to make public
certain information was having a
detrimental effect on public support
OF the department and Army, but ex-
planned that sometimes time lag
is mandatory because of the i'm
mediate battle situation.
The statement was made in a let
ter from Maj. Gen. A. D. Surles,
director of Army public relations, to
Roy A. Roberts, managing editor
of the Kansas City Star and presi-
dent OF the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, who had writ
Evening star., 1944-04-01
More Air Blows Strike
Truk, While Secrecy
CIoaks PaIau Attack
CuroIines Bostion Hit
From Both Solomons
And Central Poetic
By the Associated Press.

PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Pearl Harbor, April L.
American naval task forces, in
cluding some of the more than
so aircraft carriers just disclosed
to be prowling the Pacific, were
protected today by a radio
silence which prevented reports
of the devastation wrought on
Palau, Japanese sea base guard
ing the approaches to the Philip
pines.
But more reports came OF sup
porting air blows being rained on
Truk, boldly bypassed by the fleet
which moved Its miles west of it
to open the assault on Palau
Wednesday.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, whose
last word concerning the Palau
operation was that "our attacks con-
tinue," announced yesterday that
five island strongpoints of Truk's
atoll were pounded Wednesday
night by Army Liberators of the
7th Air Force.
Two-Way Strikes at Truk.
This was the second raid on Truk
in as many days from Centra
Pacific bases, occupying that all
and naval base in the heart of the
Carolines while the task forces went
after Palau on the western fringe,
of those islands.
Truk also has undergone two at.
tacks from the Solomons, marking
the opening of a two-way strike al
that bastion.
Navy Liberator and Catalina
bombers flying from, South ano
Southwest Pacific airf1elds BLASTED
Dublon Island in the Truk Atoll ir
a light raid Wednesday morning
preceding heavy noontime assaul,
by other South Pacific Liberator.
which struck Eten Island. Ths
latter attack, announced in Gen
Douglas MacArthur's communiouue
yesterday, did heavy damage to in.
stallations and smashed 40 plane.
on the ground.
Catalinas hit Woleai Island, alst
in the Carolines, at midnight Wed.
nesday and Liberators followed the
next morning, bombing the airdrome
despite heavy antiaircraft fire. II
was the second attack on Woleai
the Catalinas having made theil
first visit Tuesday night.
Admiral Nimitz said the Wednes.
day night raiders, in the face oi
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Ey the Associated Press


NAPLES, April l.-Unconfirmed
rumors that King Victor Emmanuel
is about to abdicate in favor of
Crown Prince Umberto were widely
circulated in Southern Italy today.
The prince was absent from his
villa, having visited his father yes
terday, and an aide to the prince
said he knew nothing tending to
confirm the rumor.
4. Members of the Kings household
were not Immediately available.
A close associate of Premier
Badoglio said yesterday the gov
ernment had heard nothing from
the King to indicate, any change in
his intention to remain on the
throne, at least until the Allied
armies reach Rome.
The Kings abdication. however,
would remove virtually the only OBJ
stacle to the "democratizing,., Of
the Badoglio government, for wich
Evening star., 1944-04-01
Safe With S1,955 in Cash
Stolen From Drugstore

Theft of a safe containing 81 1,955
in cash and 81 600 in checks from the
Peoples Drug Store at 1856 Minne-
sofa avenue NE. some time last
night was reported to police today
by William Q. Green. acting man
ager of the store.
Police said the thieves entered
through a skylight by cutting
through a screen and an iron grill
work and then apparently climbed
down rope to the floor.
The safe evidently was rolled out
OF the store through the back door,
police said. Padlocks on two rear
doors were found broken.