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Evening star., 1944-01-05
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 5.-A Ger
man military spokesman ad-
mitted today that the Nazi
winter defense line on the east
ern front had been split by a
very deep penetration" dis
patches from the German cap
Iital said.
The spokesman was represented as
making no effort to hide the fact
that the Russian offensive had rolled
up the German defenses in the Kiep
sector, splitting the lines into two
fronts, one $50 miles and the other
480 miles long,
The Swedish correspondent said
they were given only black picture
of war developments on both sides
of Germany as they met with the
spokesman in the damaged
Foreign Office with fires still blazing
in Berlin from the heavy Raj raids
of Sunday and Monday.
The Germans indicated they did
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Colder Weather Due
Here Tomorrow Niqht

Continued mild temperatures. ac-
companied by slight rainfall, were
forecast by the Weather Bureau to-
day as the District escaped the gale
whipped snow and rain that en-
veloped New York yesterday.
The mild weather will continue
until tomorrow night, when it will
turn colder. A light rain is ex.
pected tomorrow afternoon, but the
Weather Bureau does not expect icy
streets and pavements to result.
The New York storm covered
streets and sidewalks with 2 inches
Of slush, with the wind reaching
velocity Of 50 miles an hour.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
.5th Army Captures
Height Dominating
Nazi Winter Bastion
9th Army Indion Units
Take Another Ridge
Under Enemy Fire
BY the Associated Press.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
AlgierS, Jan. 5.-Allied armies in
Italy have seized two command
ing positions against fierce Nazi
opposition, it was announced
today.
Fifth Army troops advancing lit
tie more than a mile west of Venafro
stormed a 2,30o-foot height in Sam
mucro Ridge miles northeest Of
San Vttore, gaining complete DOM
nance of that bastion of the Ger
man winter line on the Rome road
Indian units of the 9th Army
seized a spur on mountain ridge
in pushing forward several hundred
yards against enemy machine CUR
fire southwest of San Tommaso near
the Adriatic.
Yugoslav Targets Hit.
| American Mitchell bombers scored
/ five hits on railway yards and the
station at Doboj, SIS miles north oil
Sarajevo in Yugoslavia. and pounded
barracks and troop concentrations
at Travnik. 80 miles northwest ol
Sarajevo, tinder box of the Worlc
War.
All Allied planes returned after
bagging two enemy aircraft
! The Mitchells straddled their tar.
gets with bombs at both Travnik ano
Doboj, in the area where there i!
sharp fighting between the German.
and Yugoslav Partisans.
Other Allied formations shot ul
west coast shipping off Italy anc
attacked supply concentrations anc
motor transports over the front
line area. Bridges were bombed
near San Vincenzo and near Balso
rano, IS miles northwest of Casino
Nazis Build Up Reserves.
The Germans, apparently inten
on keeping the Allies from Rome a
long as possible, are building VI
reserves of mobile motorized troop
and are reinforcing their l3 or NOR
divisions with mountain troops.
Prisoners said the Germans ar.
working feverishly on new defense'
several miles behind their lines
especially in the areas coverins
Casino, and Pescara on the cas-
coast.
In the central sector, the German!
appear to be side-stepping north.
ward to cover their defenses in the
coastal area for a fight of attrition
IF that's what the enemy wants,
an Allied officer said, "he will bt
attrited before we are"
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Germans Report
AbondoningPort
Of Berdichev
MAP on Page A-2.)
By the Associated Press.

6y the Associated Press.
German troops have evacuated
the eastern half of Berdichev
former headquarters of Marsha
Fritz Won MannStein, the Ger
man high command announced
today as Russian Gen. Nikola
Vatutin's long-expected drive ir
the Central Ukraine gained mo-
mentum in the area southwest
of Kiev.
Acknowledgment of the loss of at
least a part of Berdichev. railway
town Is miles south of Zhitomir
came one day after the Russians
captured Belaya Tserkov, so miles
below Kiev, in a drive seeking to
trap more than 100000 Germans in
the Dnieper River bend.
The Nazis were clearly in growing
danger.
German defenders beat back
Soviet attacks against other sectors
of Berdichev, the German command
declared in communique recorded
in London.
Reds Repulsed, Nazis Claim.
Berlin asserted also that ere
peated and strong" Russian attacks
had been thrown back south and
west of Zhitomir, and that Soviet
attempts to retake recent German
gains northwest of Vitebsk, farther
north, also had failed.
The Berlin radio spoke of fighting
OF "unabated ferocity," and Moscow
dispatches declared the great battle
to drive the Nazis from the Dnieper
bend had begun, with the enemy
fighting desperately to hold his lines
OF communication.
The Nazis were counterattacking
repeatedly, seeking to keep control
OF the railway running from Belaya
Tserkov and Tsvetokovo westward to
the Odessa-Lwow line.
Fight to Hold Railroad.
They also were fighting hard in
the Smela area to hold the railroad
running south to Novo Ukrainka
and westward to a junction with the
Odessa road. Another communica-
tions line which the Nazis battleo
desperately to retain was the high
way connecting Belaya Tserkov with
zvenlgordka, so miles to the south
east.
At the northern end of the south
ern front, where other Soviet troops
had crossed the prewar Polish from
tier west of the custom station of
Olevsk, fierce German counterat-
tacks were smashed yesterday by
units Of Gen. Vatutins lst Ukraine
Army. Here, Russian communique
said, 1000 Nazis were killed and 65
tanks destroyed.
Front dispatches reported the
Russians were pushing south from
captured Belaya Tserkov along a
front 40 miles wide in hot pursuit
of the retreating Germans.
The military question for the
moment is whether Marshal Won
tSee RUSSIA. Page A-2)
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Anti-SaIoon League
Hopes President vii
Decree Prohibition
Insists Powers Ample;
Bitter Fight Expected
On Dry Bill in House
BY the Associated Press.


The Anti-Saloon League OF
America, representing the or
ganized forces against liquor
kept on the sidelines today in a
congressional fight over prohibi-
ton.
George w. Crabbe, general super
intendent of the league, said he be-
lieved the objectives of legislation
introduced by Representative 'Bry-
son, Democrat, of South Carolina
could be accomplished by presi-
Dental order.
A House Judiciary Subcommittee
will start hearings next week on the
Bryson bill, which would outlaw for
the wars duration all beverages
containing more than one-half OF
l per cent alcohol by volume.
In an interview Mr. Crabbe said
his forces would continue to impor-
tune the President to order national
prohibition as war measure.
Holds Presidents Power Ample.
"At any time the President finds
that drinking is interfering with
the war effort. he may put an enc
to it by decree" he declared. He has
told us to take the suff1es off our
pants and he has said how much
coffee and sugar we can use"
Mr.. Crabbe added that in his
opinion there is no doubt that drink
ing is having an adverse effect on
war production through absentee
ism and other forms of Monday
morning lassitude.
While mot opposed" to the Brysor
measure, Mr.. Crabbe said, he has
not arranged to testify in its behalf
but would do so if called.
Il have always believed in the
democratic processes, he continued
L believe that when the people are
educated to the evils of drinking
they will want it outlawed, and that
is how we are going about it."
Won Local Option Fights.
Through local option elections
Mr.. Crabbe said, prohibition al
ready has been imposed in many
counties and communities, the Anti
Saloon League winning its fights ir
most places where the issue has
been raised.
Mr.. Crabbe scoffed at claims oi
antiprohibitiQnfsts that a return te
prohibition would lead to bootleg
ging and racketeering.
There is more bootlegging now
than there was at any time in the
history OF this country, including
the prohibition era he contended
Perhaps it isn't as noticeable nov
because it is done through legalizee
fronts"
Representative Wickersham, Dem.
ocrat, of Oklahoma, prohibitionist
joined in opposition to the Brysor
proposal because of its plan to DIR,
up the country by statute.
IF we are to have prohibition, W,
should do it by amendment to tn,
Constitution" Mr.. Wickerham said
Evening star., 1944-01-05
By the Associated Press.


ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
gierS, Jan. Sit. Gen. Sir Oliver
Leese, 40, is the new commander OF
the British 9th Army fighting in
Italy. succeeding Gen. Sir Bernard
l.. Montgomery, it was disclosed to-
day.
Gen. LeeSe, a tank expert. COM
manded the 30th Corps in the 9th
Army during the march from E,
Alamein in Egypt to Tunis which
drove the Germans from North
Africa.
Gen. Montgomery has gone tc
London as commander of British
ground forces under Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, supreme Allied COM
mander for new invasions of Europe
Actually, Gen. Leese has been In
command of the 9th Army for sew
eral days, but the announcement
was withheld until today.
A 6-footer, he formerly was q
Evening star., 1944-01-05

Henry Wygant, retired, and Mrs.
Wygant, 1901 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV.
Loss of the ships was announced
by the Navy Monday, but it with
held their names until last night.
The Turner, commissioned only last
April, blew up in New York Harbor
with such violence that her men
and guns were hurled into the sea.
Little detail, was given on the loss
of the 24-year-old Leary except that
she sank in the North Atlantic after
she was torpedoed.
Coast Guard cutters rescued l52
(Continued on PAGE A-3 Column a
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Allied Troops Training
In Africa for Invasion
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Jan. 5.-American, British and
French troops are undergoing train
Ing throughout French North Africa
for coming assaults across the
Mediterranean against the Ger
mans, it was disclosed today.
North Africa was officially de-
scribed as lone vast training center
for troops destined for future op-
erations," with camps scattered
throughout Tunisia. Algiers and
Morocco.
Realistic training in landing op-
erations is being given at Mediter-
ranean and Atlantic coast centers
while inland troops are being trained
IN battle conditions in the noun
tains, muddy plains, bogs, swamps
and heavy woods.
The Americans and British are
newly arrived troops while the
French ara those recently rearmed
Evening star., 1944-01-05
iev,Sector Defenses Crushed,
Splitting Lines Into ? Fronts
German Spokesman Gives Correspondents
Black Picture of War Developments

not expect that their army would be
able to counterattack successfully te
regain its positions, the dispatche.
said, although they maintained thai
because of the two long fronts still
existing the Russians would be un.
able to roll up the flanks.
While one spokesman was pictured
as giving dark description of the
situation on the eastern front, an
other was quoted as saying that II
an invasion doesn't come now that
will be the biggest fraud of all
times"
Asked to comment on the great
Allied bombing attacks along the
French coast, Foreign Office
spokesman described the raids only
as ''the usual attacks on the defense
line one dispatch said.
German retIcence to discuss the
attacks seemed significant in view of
reports that Nazi rocket cannon
emplacements were situated along
the raided coast.
The German press has failed to
mention the assaults.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
u. S. Liberotors Thrust
Deep Into ThuiIund
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated PreSS.
CHUNGKING, Jan. 5.-Liberatol
bombers of the United States 14th
Air Force, accompanied by fighter
escorts, thrust deep into Thailanc
Monday to drop 10 tons of bombs or
the Japanese base at Lampang, 1t
Gen. Joseph w. Stillwen's head.
quarters announced today. AL
planes returned safely.
Many hits were scored on the tar.
get and enemy installations appar.
emily were burned out, although &C.
curate observation of results wa.
obscured by clouds, the announce.
ment said. Lampang was last at.
tackled by American raiders on De.
cember 81.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Annapolis Classmates Lost
With 2 Destroyers in 10 DAYS

Two classmates at Annapolis, both
commanders of destroyers, appar-
emily went down with their ships
within 10 days Of each other, the
Navy has disclosed
One was Comdr. Henry S. Wygant,
jr., whose parents live in Washing
ton. He was in command of the
1,700-ton Turner which blew up of
Sandy Hook Monday The other
was Comdr. James E. Kyes, in COM
mand of the 1090-ton Leary, which
was torpedoed on Christmas eve in
the Atlantic. Both are listed as
missing.
! Comdr. Wygant's parents are Col.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
President Calls Board
To Consider Pay Of
Incorporating Unions
Shaw PoneI Reconvened
To Act on Unsettled
Claims for Increases
E. the Associated Press.

Es the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt has or
dered the reconvening of an
emergency board to consider
the unsettled wage claims of the
100000 incorporating railroad
employees. These claims were not
before the board when it recon-
mended sliding-scale increases
of 4 to 10 cents an hour.
The board, headed by Judge Elwyn
r. Shaw, Springfield, Ill, will con-
slider the claims for additional pay
either for or in lieu of overtime.
The incorporating employees re-
fused to accept the Presidents offer
to arbitrate the additional claims
except on conditions to which the
carriers disagreed. The President
and the carriers held that arbitra-
ton should consider the sliding scale
increases as well as the additional
claims. and the employees wanted
arbitration limited to the overtime
claims.
A White House statement said:
The Shaw Board has been re-
convened to consider the unsettled
claims for wage adjustments of the
incorporating employees which were
not presented to them when they
made their last report.
THE board is requested to make
it's report as soon as practicable
but not later than 30 days from date
Their recommendations will become
effective is days after their report
is filed, unless and except to the
extent that the economic stabiliza-
ton director otherwise directs
The executive order, dated JAN
uary 4, was made public today.
Refused First Offer.
A review of the case by the White
House said the incorporating en-
ployes at first refused to accept the
sliding scale increases as recon-
mended by the Shaw Board and
approved by Sterilization Director
Vinson, and invoked the services OF
the National Mediation Board tc
enjoin the carriers from putting
them into effect.
On December q, however, the
employees informed the President
that they had abandoned their OBJ
jections to the sliding scale, but
made additional claims with respect
to payment for overtime or in lieu
of overtime, particularly tn view OF
wage increases granted to operating
employees.
An emergency board had awarded
the operating workers a 4-cent-an-
hour increase. The workers termed
this an insult. The President, ir
arbitrating the case for the locomo.
tive engineers and the trainmen
two of the five operating unions
granted an additional 5 cents ar
(See RAIL WAGES. Page A-2D
Evening star., 1944-01-05
200 Nozis Reported
Doomed for Defeutism
~ the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, JAN 5.-The Moscow
radio quoted dispatch from Geneva
today as saying that 1000 Nazi rail-
road workers had been placed on
trial on charges of "defeatism' and
that 200 already had been sentenced
to death.
The workers we're arrested on
orders of Heinrich Hinmler, Gestapo
chieftain, said the broadcast, which
was recorded by United States Gov
nrpnept monitors
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Venezuelan President
To Leuve for u. S. Soon
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. S.
President Gen. Isaias Medina will
leave January IS for a visit to the
United States, it was announced last
night.
He will be accompanied by a group
OF venezuelan cabinet members,
businessmen and military officials as
well as United States Ambassador
Frank Corrigan.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
j. ). Bombers Strike
Into Bulgaria as Nazis
Take Virtual Control
Fortresses Poss Sofio
And BIust Rail Yards
so Miles to South
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. 5.-A new Amer
lean bombing raid into Bulgaria,
hitting south of the capital, was
disclosed today as the Germans
were reported extending their
control to virtual military occu-
patton, apparently fearing that
Bulgaria might attempt to break
away from the Axis.
Flying Fortresses hammered the
railway yards and bridge at Dup
nitsa, so miles south of Sofia, yes
terday, Allied headquarters in
Algiers announced, and a Berlin
broadcast said go persons were killed
and 100 injured. 1t added that the
planes flew over Sofia, bombed sew
eral times before, but dropped no
bombs.
The true political situation inside
the country was clouded, with COM
mlmications still severed.
The German controlled Scandi-
navian Telegraph Bureau, however
said Sofia was raided, with heavy
damage and with loss of life espe-
cially high because of lack Of air
raid shelters. This same source
added that the Turkish Legation
had moved to a town IS miles
south of Sofia and that other lega-
tions also were planning to leave
the capital
Premier Under Pressure.
While rumors continued to circu-
late that the government of Premier
Dobri Bojilov had been overthrown
an Associated Press dispatch from
Istanbul quoted traveller as saying
Bojilov was still in power when he
left the country Monday, although
the government was severely shaker
by powerful public pressure fol
reputation of the Germans as vel
as strife within the regency ano
cabinet.
Allied bombingS of Sofia have hac
such strong effect on the popula.
ton, he said that the Germans have
had to take over the administration
of most of the City's affairs to pre-
vent riotilg. He declared the Ger
mans were rapidly extending their
control over the nation.
Diplomatic Staff Shifted.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Bern, Switzerland. said the Bull
garian government had shaken up
its diplomatic staff, naming impor-
tant political leaders to the Toxic
and Stockholm ministries in an ap-
parent move to place expert listeners
in those posts for the critical days
ahead
st. Petrov Tchomakov, now minis
ter to Bucharest, was appointed to
Toxic, replacing Yanko Peev, while
N. P. Nicolaev, former minister of
the interior, was named to stock
holm, the dispatch said.
There was no official confirmation
in London Of reports that a pro-
Allied coup detat had already taken
place. German broadcasts scoffed
at this report and said the minis
terialcouncil met as usual yesterday
under Premier Bojilov.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Marshall Defended
On Assumption He
Made Strike Charges
Louded by Riekenbocker;
Members Of Congress
AssuiI Labor Stand
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
On the assumption that Gen.
George C. Marshall was the
anonymous high official who de-
clared that Axis propaganda,
based on American labor dis
putes, has prolonged the war and
cost Allied lives, congressional
and public spokesmen have come
to the support of the Army Chief
of Staff.
Col. Edward v. Rickenbacker
noted flyer and Eastern Air Lines
president, told the Boston Advertis-
ing Club yesterday that If the Army
chief made the statement. Thank
Eapd TOR men like Marshall. whose
MAIN thought is..saping the lives OF
your boys and mine"
THE next President" he added
should be man of Marshall's type
who would add a fifth freedom to
the Atlantic Charter-the freedom
OF opportunity"
May in Agreement.
Chairman May Of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee said his
group does not propose to question
Gen. Marshall or any one else con-
corning the statement, and, refer
ring to strike threats among rail and
steel workers, he asserted:
Il Go not know whether it was
Gen. Marshall or some one else who
made the statement, but regardless
OF who it was, I agree that such a
(strike) move was calculated to give
hope and encouragement to Hitler
and his satellite nations and espe-
cially to provide a rich source OF
effective propaganda for Hitler
Mr.. May said neither President
Roosevelt nor Gen. Marshall ever
has been critical of labor" and tc
labor leaders who regarded the
statement as offensive, he suggested
"Ffrst-Have no more strikes OF
threatened strikes while We are al
war.
"Second-If any one doubts that
strikes and the taking over of the
railroads had the effect on the war
effort claimed by such a high Off
cial, then I suggest that those COM
planning apply to Gen. Marshall
and l am sure he will be delighted
to furnish transportation to the bat
tie fronts for first-hand information
and verification of the result OF
strikes on our own fighting forces
Plumley Assails "Atibis.'
From Representative Plumley, Re-
publican, of Vermont came the dec
laration that the people don't care
who made the statement because
they know it is So
1T may be true as William Green
(AFL president) says that the re-
sponsibility rests entirely upon bun
Cling, fumbling and incompetent
handling by Government officials
T. but the fact is the people are
not interested in such alibis made
for protective purposes. They know
strikes and threats of strikes slow
up everything and prolong the war;
The Daily Worker, official Com.
munist party organ, declared edi.
torially in yesterdays edition thai
1T cannot be honestly denied thai
the strike threats did have theil
effect on the war effort, both on the
morale and in its material effects
BY threatening strikes union leader.
are actually encouraging the viola.
ton of labor's no-strike pledge. =
Instead of making the genera
the butt of the attacks" the edi.
torial continued, 1abor's best bet i.
to restore its no-strike pledge anc
to take the lead in fighting the foe.
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Boomerang Remark
| Renomes Goerinq
Herr Meyer

Special Gable to The Star.
STOCKHOLM, Jan. S.
Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer-
ing once told the Germans that
if a single bomb ever fell on
Berlin his name would be Meyer.
Berliners haven't forgotten.
Today the skies are filled with
Allied bombs.
That's why, Swedish trav-
eler reports, Goering is now
known from one end of Berlin
to the other by just one name
Herr Meyer.
tCopyrisht. 1914. by Chicago Daily
News Inc)
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Chinese Armies Ready
For Offensive in IA
BY the Associated Press.

oy tHt hsooSidteu 1ISoS.
CHUNGKING, Jan. 5.-The Chi
nese armies are prepared to launch
a general counteroffensive this year
Minister of Information Liang Han
chao told a press conference today
but he added that launching of such
a drive would be contingent on AL
lied operations in other theaters.
Liang said augmentation of Al
lied air strength in China would be
particularly helpful in facilitating
any extensive Chinese ground ac-
ton.
Evening star., 1944-01-05

(See PROHIBITION, Page A-12.)
Evening star., 1944-01-05

(See RUSSIA, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1944-01-05

(See RAIL WAGES. Page Az.
Evening star., 1944-01-05

Continued on Page A-3, Column s.
Evening star., 1944-01-05

(See STRIKES, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1944-01-05
Guide for Readers

An Associated Press Newspope
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-10-31

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