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Evening star., 1944-07-29
British Permit
| Unity Milford
| ToLWe on Island
BY the Associated prsss

- VAC HoSOCl6IcQ FEcSS.
LONDON, July 29.--Unity Milford,
once called the perfect type of
Nordic beauty" by Adolf Hitler, has
been granted permission to live on
the Island of Inchkenneth In the
Atlantic west of Null and has taken
up residence there with her parents,
Lord and Lady Redesdale, it was
disclosed today.
The island, off the coast of Scot
land, is owned by Lord Redesdale,
and the only other inhabitants are
the ferryman and farm manager.
A second Redesdale daughter,
Lady Mosley, wife of the British
Fascist leader. Sir Oswald M. Mos
ley. was arrested in 1910 by anti.
fifth column squads. She and Sir
Oswald were freed by the govern1
ment last November on grounds of
Ill health after having been interned
since May, 1910, and were last re.
ported living at an Oxfordshire inn.
Evening star., 1944-07-29
Rayburn Takes Action
10 Speed Passage Of
Cemobi|ization Bills
Members Of Postwar
Planning Committees
Called to CopituI

Speaker Rayburn announced
today that all members of the
House committees on postwar
planning and legislation would
be called back here Immediately
to speed enactment Of demobili-
zation bills before the collapse
in Germany.
His announcement followed assur-
ances by him and other House and
Senate leaders to War Mobilization
Director Byrnes that Congress would
take up reconversion legislation at
the session beginning next Tuesday
Mr.. Byrnes had made a request OF
them for emergency action.
Mr.. Rayburn's announcement, the
Associated Press reported, was made
at his home in Bopham, Tex. after
he had conferred with Mr.. Byrnes
by telephone. The Speaker said he
would leave for Washington to-
morrow.
Prompt Action Promised.
when Germany will collapse no
body knows, but we must be pre-
pared for the problems that will fol-
low such a collapse" Speaker Ray
burn was quoted as saying.
Senate Majority Leader Barkley
and House Majority Leader McCor-
mack, meanwhile, had assured Mr.
Byrnes that Congress would give
prompt consideration to the surplus
war property bill and legislation
to establish an Office of demobiliza-
ton.
Mr. Byrnes' announcement said
Senator Barkley is expected to ar
rive here MontHy or Tuesday and
that the Senate Military Affairs
Committee will meet Tuesday to
consider the legislation.
The Byrnes announcement fol-
lowed an appeal for immediate ac-
ton by Senator Kilgore, Democrat
of West Virginia, who declared re-
conversion legislation is needed in
preparation for the collapse of Ger
many"
Kilgore Co author of Measure.
Senator Xilgore, co-author of a
comprehensive demobilization meas
ure now pending in the Senate, said
in statement that current mill
tary developments in Europe en-
phasize the fact that reconversion
legislation is needed not only to
face squarely the problems of peace
but also to maintain an orderly war
production program during the diff
cult period of partial cutbacks" OF
war production.
| Senator Kilgore was in Elmira
N. Y, in connection with Truman
Committee investigation, but his
Office said he was expected here to-
day and that he would undertake to
persuade congressional leaders to
keep Congress in session next month
to act on reconversion. The summer
congressional recess ends August l.
but leaders have said the recess may
be extended until early September
Evening star., 1944-07-29

half mile from her home at 23l1
Tracy place NV.
DR.. Sheerin said Mrs. Williams
had been in i'll health for some
time. Shortly after her marriage
her husband. who previously had
served as secretary to Alexander
w. Wedden. American Ambassador
to Spain, left this country for Spain
where he was on duty as the naval
attache.
Relatives said 1t. Williams re-
Gently returned from Spain and is
now on duty in Washington. Mrs
williams parents, DR.. and Mrs. Johr
w. Burke, are vacationing at Squam
N. H.
The Burkes belong to one of the
old families of Alexandria and
! Washington. DR.. Burke Is one of
the country's outstanding eye spe-
cialists.
Mrs. Williams made her debut
during the 1887 social season. She is
a graduate of st. Timothy's School
Evening star., 1944-07-29
German Line Cracked
By New zea|anders
South Of Florence
Allies Push to Within
5 Miles Of City Despite
Nuzi Counterottocks
By the Associated Press.

ROME, July 29.-Desert-hard-
ened New Zealand veterans have
cracked Nazi defenses south of
Florence and knitted their way
into the last mountain line, So
miles from the historic city, AL
lied headquarters announced to-
day.
The break-through provoked strong
German counterattacks, and bitter
fighting was reported in the hills
overlooking Florence.
The momentum of the savage
counterthrusts by Nazi infantry and
Tiger tanks swept the leading COM
pany of New Zealanders back 900
yards, but official reports said the
enemy then was brought to halt
and positions in the hills were being
Ifilmly held.
The New Zealand advance took
off from bridgehead over the
small Pesa River at Cerbaia.
The threat to Florence also grew
as South African troops crossed the
Greve River miles south of I'M
pruneta, which is only 5l2 miles
from the city's boundaries
Aside from the bitter fighting in
the New Zealanders' sector. there
was scant fighting of consequence
yesterday along the remainder OF
the Italian front
Official reports said the situation
on the 5th Army front was un-
changed. with American and Ger
man artillery continuing a duel
across the Lower Arno River No
mention was made of whether either
side was shelling the city of Pisa
after a plea by Pope Plus for con-
sideration Of its historical and re-
ligious significance.
On the extreme left wing, the 9th
Army was within miles of Empoli
on the south banks of the Arno
nearly 30 miles east of Pisa and
within 2la miles of Monte Lupo.
North of Arezzo, where the 9th
Army has made scant progress since
Evening star., 1944-07-29
Major of st. Lo' Is Identified
As 7homusD. Howie ofStounton
Dead Officer, Teacher at Virginia Academy,
Gets Tributes as Buddies Get Medals

talon of this regiment which was
encircled on the outskirts. and just
before the start Of a new attack.
Today the major lies in honor
with other officers ana men in the
29th Divisions cemetery-but on
the day st. Lo was taken the dead
major was carried through the
streets in state in an ambulance
and his flag-draped body was placed
on pile of rubble beside the she'll
wrecked church of Ste. Croix. The
storming force passed in review
through an artillery barrage thrown
by the Withdrawing Germans.
Taught and Coached at Staunton.
Maj. HOWE was bald and in his
middle 30s. He formerly taught
English literature and coached box
(see HOWIE, Page A.2.)
Evening star., 1944-07-29
Agriculture Employees
Ordered Not 10 Talk
On Trade Negotiations
Dispute Over Corn Imports
From Argentina Gives Rise
To Stringent Ruling
BY the Associated Press.

In an outgrowth of the Argen-
tine affair, Agriculture Depart
ment employees have been in
structed to provide no informa-
ton or comment to the press, the
trade or to "other nongovern-
mental officials" on negotiations
of this country with foreign
governments, except when spe-
ciflcally authorized.
This instruction was given in a
departmental memorandum. signed
by Secretary Wickard and Marvin
Jones, war food administrator.
The memorandum said that "in-
judicious comments" attributed to
an Agriculture Department official
with regard to recent negotiations
for the importation of Argentine
corn to help meet grain shortage
in this country had had embar-
RAISING repercussions in the South
American country.
Would Affect Broad Fields.
The instruction, if rigidly ad-
hered to. would affect sources of
information on a broad field of
Agriculture Department and War
Food Administration activities. In
cluded, for example, would be lease
lend food negotiations, discussions
with Cuba with regard to purchase
of sugar, negotiations with Canada
with regard to importation of grains
to supplement this country's feed
supplies, and discussions and nego-
tiations with other countries with
regard to postwar commodity agree
ments.
Except when specifically author
lied, conversations and correspond
ence between employees of the De-
partment of Agriculture and men,
bers Of the press or trade or other
nongovernmental oficials shall omi,
any reference to current or pending
negotiations with foreign govern.
ments and agencies. Furthermore
reference to completed negotiation.
shall be permitted only when tht
matter has already been officially
announced and the Government.
policy determined.
"Injudicious comments of this ma.
ture may lead and have led to roper.
cussions from foreign countries
thereby jeopardizing our foreign re.
lations with these countries. Fol
example, in the case of Argentin,
supplies, the State Department ha.
received complaints from its EN-.
bassy in Buenos Aires attributine
statements to members of this Gov.
eminent that have embarrassed oul
position in the Argentine. One oil
these statements was attributed tt
an Official of the Department of Ag.
riculture.
Last spring, wnen suggestions
first were made that this country
tsee AGRICULTURE, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1944-07-29
Code Word Mary
For Mukden Attack
| CoIoneFs FsWife
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SUPER FORTRESS BASE IN
WESTERN CHINA, July %
The code word, Mary" which
told the world of the first Amer
lean air raid on Manchuria to-
day, was chosen by Col. Roy
Lynn Holton of Kansas. COM
munications officer of the Goth
Bomber Command, in honor of
his wife.
Later Judy and "Alyce"
were flashed by other squadrons.
Judy" was chosen by Maj.
Selby Calkins for his 7-year-old
daughter, who lives in Detroit,
and "Alyce" was selected by
Maj. Francis B. Morgan for his
wife, who lives in Miami, Fla.
Evening star., 1944-07-29
B-29s Raid Plants Near Mukden
In First Assault on Monchurio:
One Shot Down, japanese Claim
Big Bombers Make
DoyIight Attack
In Good Weather
MAP on Page Az
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
A SUPER FORTRESS BASE IN
WESTERN CHINA, July 29.-A
large force of American BIS
Super Fortress bombers struck
heavily today at the heart o1
Japan's arsenal OF Greater East
ASIA" raining explosives on the
heavy industry city of Anshan in
the Mukden area of Eastern
Manchuria.
(The raid was first announced
In Washington at Isl am. to-
day, from the War Department
Offices of Gen. H. H. Arnold COM
mander of the Goth Air Force as
we'll as chief of the entire Army
Air Forces)
Hugh columns of smoke sprang ur
from the bombed works, and it was
estimated it would take IL months
to rebuild the installations.
Taking of in favorable weather
Evening star., 1944-07-29
NOec 11Ab1, rage A-L)
London Stations Jummed
By Holiday Crowds

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 29.-August bank
holiday crowds which began to pour
out of London yesterday jammed
platforms of several large railway
stations today and stretched, six
abreast, for nearly a mile outside OF
some of them.
Some persons stood in line more
than nine hours, waiting to board
trains, and authorities said nothing
like it had been seen before. Most
of the passengers were headed to
areas west of London, which have
not been reached by the Germans
flying bombs.
Evening star., 1944-07-29
BY HAL BOYLE,
Associated Press War Correspondent.

WITH THE 116th INFANTRY
REGIMENT IN FRANCE, July
% Delayed They passed out
presidential citations today to
officers and doughboys who
cracked st. Lo, the eastern hinge
of the German battle line, and it
was sad ceremony to many be-
cause the Major of st. Lo" was
not alive to receive his.
The Major of st. Lo" was Thomas
D. Howie, Staunton, Va, one o1
the most beloved battalion leaders
In the American Army. He was
killed July II, the day before the
city fell. after he broke through the
Mani wall to relieve another bat
Evening star., 1944-07-29
Berlin Communication
With Stockholm Normal
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, July 29.-Stock-
holm communications with Berlin
were normal again today, after hav.
ing been cut off since Friday, prob.
ably because of an Allied air attack
on Central Germany.
Telephone communications be.
tween Sweden and Switzerland still
are cut.
Evening star., 1944-07-29

on another mission which resulted
in his loss.
The missing -in-action" classical
ton is used by the War Department
when it is not known definitely
whether the pilot is dead or alive,
but when he has failed to return to
his base and none of his companions
have seen him parachute safely. So
the chance remains that Col. Ga
(See GABRESKI, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1944-07-29
General Captures Prisoner

SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, July 20 (P.-An American
general on foot, with prisoner he
personally captured, led American
forces into Coutances as tank ele-
ments in a column miles long ham
mered southwark today on the Cher
bcurg Peninsula.
Evening star., 1944-07-29
Tokyo Reports Attack
By 400 Planes on Pa|au

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 29.-The Tokyo
radio said today that 400 Allied car
rier- based planes had raided Palau
Island, 500 miles east of the Philip
pines, in repeated attacks yesterday
The broadcast, reported to the
Office of War Information by Gov
ernment monitors, also mentioned a
simultaneous enemy attack" by 20
carrier based planes against an un-
specified area Ito the south OF
Palau."
Evening star., 1944-07-29
Americans Push
South, Repu|se
TankAftacks
Nozis Report Plans
To Withdraw Entire
Flank in West
BULLETIN.

NOTRE DAME-LE CHEM
lilly, Normandy (P.-Re-
treating elements of seven
German divisions ran head
on today into a 30-mile Amer
ican armored line to the south
which hurled them back while
9th Air Force fighter bombers
cut their battle strength with
merciless assault. Here is the
strategic picture: A powerful
armored column has driven
down this road from Canisy
to the River Sienne below
Lengronne. There are Ger
mans on both sides of the
road. Those on the north are
being driven south by Ameri-
can infantry and tanks, and
as they retreat they suddenly
find themselves blocked at
this highway. On roads on the
right flank leading south from
CaniSy another American COL
umn has driven a wedge,
while the cleanup was being
made. German armor is try
ing to smash through this
wedge and relieve the situa-
ton here.
Evening star., 1944-07-29

tSee HENRY. Page A-2D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-26
A Fair Test

Rarely does the public have an OppOr- tunity to compare the relative merits of government versus private operation of industry, unclOuded by prejudiced argu- ments and accidents of circumstance which make impartial comparison diffi- cult. But it has such an opportunity in the case of the railroad industry. It is worth repeating that in the first world war the railroads were operated by the government. During the current world war. they have continued as a private enterprise. The periods of respective operation have been under similar cir cumstances. Therefore, the public can base its judgment upon performance alone.
 During the first war, operation of the railroads by the government was ineffi- cient and wasteful. A news dispatch of May 25, 1919, says: ''To finance the railroads for the balance Of the year and to pay the government operating loss for l6 months up to this month, an apprO- priation of $l POO 900 900 was asked Of Congress yesterday by the Director Gen. eral of the United States Railroad Admin istration. The SI POO, 100000 is in addi- ton to the $500. 100000 appropriated by the last Congress
 During the present war, the railroads have paid billions in taxes to the gov ernment, instead of creating Federal deli cits-nearly S2!OOO.O0O.OOO in the year I943 alone Aside from their tax contri- button to victory. they have carried the unprecedented transportation load of mechanized warfare without a hitch.
 An immediate question after the war will be whether or not s0cialized indus try in the United States shall displace the enterprise Of the private citizen. In the railroad industry, public ownership and private ownership have had fair test. That test should be a determining factor in the final choice of the road America follows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-26
Grave Prediction

A life insurance company has made the sObering prediction that the first year oi peacetjme auto travel may produce war like toll of 5O!OO0 fatalities. It cites the pent-up desire for travel; the many ex- seryicemen, with the contempt for danger. aS drivers; and. most important. the bad condition of many leverage cars that will still be in use.
 Suggested remedies are rigid tests and inspections. frightened drivers license requirements. and re-educatiOn in traffIc safety Certainly every community should start making all possible prepara- tiOns to avert such tragic and very pos si9le future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-26
New Tack, Old Tune

Nazl prOpaganda, off on a new tack, nov is cOflceding the inevitable Allied victory, Broadcast quotations from the publication Berlin Rome. Tokyo" heard in this country reveal that Dr. GoebOels writers already are speeulatlDg on peace terms and the possibility Of a tblfo world war. The frank concession IS new. but the thought behind t is a ia- gnillar one. Published quotations show the article as I0reseelng a certain re- newal Of h0siilities if participation ID free access to the worlds raY materials, which t calls the tundaDeDtal safeguard of peace, is not assured, The aiteh waves aside the question Of harsh or JDilc peace terms as war-breedefs. but stresses se0rlflietlng political issues" Jbese, II develops, are the familiar boseymaD O a sI3Olsheytzed Europe
 @gt is absurd tO believe that Europe, which proved unable tO bear 1apoieo9b dominatiOn and which denied GeflDaDyB claim 10 leadership, gilI bend lts klee t0 Moscow for any length Ot btDe. tbe Nazi prOpagafda writer says, he pts' liets failure Of a United states'Itnssla world police force" and clash 0t Soviet and American power jD the "sOeaIlso Chlnese sphere Of interest"
 20 Oltkf WOfdb, bhN td0ltak1g1a ss building up the same old ease t0f fselI that lt has used igl the last decade, Inf article indicates that re0DaDts ot ule Naxl Party will again weep over lhek 0l "lebensTanm" and cry for the slOlf0 colonies. So long as these remnants afe aiige and arfleulate they will try to ere ate dlseOrd among the Big FOBl" 0f the United Nations. Tyle articles emphasis 0n "a United states,Igussia world police force, containing also few EDgjlSbDleD and Chinese" IS ebildlsiply obvious at' tempt lO turn Britain agalTst this e0url' try while playing upon Bi1faln's real 0f iancied fear Of a BOyiet-d0tDDnate0 kb' rope, and tO frighleD China wlt1 tbe same tvo countries "impenallstSc" iD' fentiOng
 The Nazi effort 10 win English sym nathy while robot bombs unite the Eng
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-26
Thought for Today
Liberated Paris

When I saw the Germans in the Champs Eiysees, wept," said a young Polish lieutenant, a liaison officer be- tween the Warsaw underground and the cxiled government in London.
 "L fought the Germans in l939," he explained. "I saw my country fall. watched the Germans Overrun Warsaw. I witnessed their brutality and the suffer ing of my people. l escaped twice from German prisons. went through all this dry-eyed. But when I saw the NaZis in Paris. could not keep back the tears"
 All over the world people have shared this young Poles sorrow at the indigni- ties which Paris bore under the Occupa- ton. Even those who never saw Paris understand the feeling For Paris em- bodies so many of those qualities which the world calls civilized" No one claimed that Paris was a model city, but few denied that it was without a peer among world capitals. To some it sym bOlized gaiety or wit, to others it was the ancient citadel of free ana vigorous thought, or the cradle of modern Euro pean democracy, or the center of art and fashion. It was not necessary to know Paris intimately to know that it was unique and undergraduate.
 The stolid, square-headed, sadiSilc neighbors from the east felt these things, too They coveted Paris and occupied i. But somehow they must have known from the first that they did not belong. They could neither become Parisians nor trans form the city into a provincial German capital. No matter how much they strutted, they must have felt awkward and inferior. The French have theory. a credible one, that the Germans per ennially make war on them because oi an ancient and consuming envy. ThS may explain why Paris was spared much of the physical destruction that the Mazls viaited upon other cities. Ii may also ex- plain why the NaZis. when they found they could not possess Paris, reSOrted To insults and cruelty Paris retaliated wltn untiring hatred and contempt of the in- vaders, but this could not prevent the sIf- ferings which its residents had tO endure.
 Nov, with liberation, that suffering has ended. It must have been proud day for the liberators. happy day LOT -siyilized men and women everywhere, Aav s0f rejoicing for all FrenchInen. but for the Rarisians who lived through ionf years of occupation it Is special nl- Ssrnph. They are the ones bne enemy starved and froze and hunted. Tney saw friends and neigbbors die from DulIelS and disease, saw the gaaety Of lDeir clly de with them. And they are the ones who know that the pride and spirit oi Paris did not die, and that the Aazis. TOT all their guns, could not really capture Paris. The Nazis were never aDybnlng more than unwele0me tourists.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-26

lish public In favor of strongest repriSals against Germany Is downright stupid. In fact, the whole clever, iSnidiouS Naxi propaganda machine has been looking pretty stupid for some time now. All the same, we would do well to remember the principal themes Of Maxi propaganda for future reference. Ten years ago Hitler's screaming tiradeS seemed ridiculous too. even stupid. Yet many people swallowed them and believd them - Britons and Americans and Frenchmen as well as Germans. Hitler'S surviving followers must not find another audience
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-26


 with last weeks announcement that Nelson was going to China 6at the height of the reconversion battleD fer several months"
 During the iniermi. Charley Wilson had been wooed by the charming BaTlicll into his camp though actually Wilson's chief de- sire long has been to get back to his job with General Electric. During the interim also. Nelson began to receive various slIgges- tiOns and offers that he get back into private life. One Of them was a proposal that he become the Judge Landis of the liquor in- dnstry. But he turned them all down.
 Who inspired this subtle move lo buy Nelson out of the WIPE is not known, bat the Baruch- Army camp seemed tO know all about it--in advance.
 Tbws things dFifged nntil Ihle peak ef tbe Wag was passed and
 t beesme ebviols that industry
 weria soen hsve te EeeeDveTg Co Q peaeeliine basis .fhen began ihe terrific battle et see which companies eowId get back tO peaeettnle wOTk soonest.
 Charley wilson informed this columnist that ali companies should wait until the var was over, thus get an equal start to secure the rewards Of peacetime business. He admitted quite frankly that his company and many others were ehOck-a-bl0ck with var contracts. would uaere- fore get slow start tp recon yerting.
 This got to be called the sche. EeiEae Strip theory Of rec0pyer- sion whereby al would be held back the land rush days Of Okla Il0fna until a slganl was given as lMaury Maverick also called t the "0Tandfather Clause" where Dy each company would be gnar- apteed the business it had before the yaTD,
 RECONvERsIOk FIGHT
 Donald Nelson, however, was opposed, He argued that sis big e0lnpspies had received 50 per cent Of ali war contracts and that nov the iitile companies, which hadn't got much war business and geFe relatively Idle, should not be held back stlen lt came to peaeeiiIpe operation,