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Films Fight
 Former Ally

Stockholm, September ib. - (UP) = War between German and Fin. nlsh troops, actual If undeelared was reported today to have broken out in northern Finland and on on Island off the south coast.
 A Finnish communicate sail Q Ger. man amphibious force attacked the island off Suursaan (Hogland) in the Gulf of Finland last night Fighting was in progress on the is- land today, it said, after the NaziS established c small bridgehead de- spite the sinking Of nine of their invasion ships.
 Reliable sources later reported that fighting had broken out be. tween the Germans and Films in northern Finland. Three German division in the Salla area were re. ported partly enVeloped by Russian troops. Informants said their fate deepnded on the development Of Finnish military measures in north Finland against the NaziS,
 An official announcement of the attack in Helsinki said Finnish artillery on the fortified island no miles west of Leningrad sank nine German ships, but Q landing was made ct one point and fighting coti- tinued today.
 Finnish quarters here took Q grave view of the incident, but evaded a definite stand as to whether 1t meant formal war between Germany and Finland, pending an official an. nouncement from HelSlnki.
 Significantly the incident occurred on the eve of the expiration of the period Finland gave Germany to remove NaA troops from Finnish territory. Under terms of the armistice Finland got from Russia, the Germans are to be out of Fin land by today.
 The ofiicial announcement of the German attack on Suursaari said
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23 Thought Dead In Ala Hotel Fire

AnniSton, Ala, Sept. iO.-(UP)-- Twenty-three persons were unac- counted for and three others were injured today in c fire which swept Anniston's largest hotel, the Ala. bafiiA.
 Flames sent the front wall of the building craShlng to the street, en- dangering the lives of thousands of spectators.
 Police said three persons were in- jured, and a check of the hotel reg. igtry revealed a were unaccounted for, although no bodies had yet been recovered from the ruins of the sprawiing, pre-Civii War building.
 Spectators, ininsling with 100 scantiiy-clad guests. FniraculouSiy escaped injury when the entire front wall crumbled.
 one hotel guest was injured when he Jumped from Q third story window.
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Eden Joins Conference
BY MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

Quebec, September IS. - (Up) - British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, his brief case bulging with papers bearing on international poe litical problems that multiply with every new blow against Germany and Japan. joined the Roosevelt Churchill discussions today.
 Eden began his conference with Churchill last night and was to meet today with the President and his prime minister.
 MT. Roosevelt and Churchill had virtually completed their military consultations and were for the most part awaiting a final decision from their staff chiefs who have been in almost continuous session since they arrived here. There will be at least one more full dress meeting of the President, Churchill and the combined chiefs of staff before the conclusion of these conversations this weekend.
 The conference will reach a cli- max when MT. Roosevelt and Churchill complete their current endeavors and say something pub- licly about what has been done here. Last year when they met here their conferences ended with the issuance of what was promptly
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Plans 

Billings, Mont, Sept. i5.-(UP)- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey carried his presidential campaign into Mon- tana today, pledging an election fight which will not interfere with the war effort but which will re. suit in Q change of administration and rsore effective prosecution of the war after next January.
 Dewey made that pledge in an impromptu address to Q crowd which greeted him at, the Billings railroad station last night upon his arrival for Q series of conferences with agricultural, labor, veterans and political leaders today.
 Reminding his audience that he was enroute to the west coast to make four major campaign speeches during the coming week, Dewey de- clared:
 We will have a first class fight from now until election. It will not be e campaign in the slightest de- gree to interfere with the war ef- fort. This campaign will prove to all the world that we in America love our freedom so much that we ca. fight a total war harder be- cause we are exercising the rigl- ts of free men as we do it.
 By holding this campaign at a time when our enemies are collaps- ing and as we are making gigantic strides toward Berlin and Tokyo. we are demonstrating in perhaps a most emphatic way that free men can wage a war and the reason we are fighting so well is because we have something they have not got.
 We have a system that permits us to keep our shoulders tO the wheel and to get every man and wo- mal1 devoted to tho cause not devi-
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Storm Drives Toward N. s.

Boston, Sept. IS = (U.P9 = The Weather Bureau issued the follow ing advisory ct noon today:
 "The Atlantic hurricane was cen. tered about 90 miles south of Monc- ton, N. B., and iS moving northeast ward or east northeastward about 3b inph. This movement iS likely to continue for the next six to i2 hours and will place the storm in the vic. inIty of St. PaulS Island, N. S., at B:S0 p. m. today.
 'The storm B steadily decreasing in intensity, but is still severe with winds about 76 mph. near the cen- ter and gales within . radius of 100 miles,"
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By ROBERT MUsEL United Press War Corresp0ndeht)

London, Sept. IS - (U.P.) - The German high command reported to. day that more than 70 Russian divi. sions-perhaps half c million men had opened a mighty Baltic offen- sive aimed ct tho LatVlan capital of Riga from Q broad arc to the south and east.
 The Nazi report of the new Soviet offensive came as the Red Army blasted wrecked and burning War. saw from the captured suburb Of Praga and massed to storm across the Vistula river Into the Polish capital.
 Harried German forces of the Baltic area were reported by Hel. sinki to have attacked the FlnniSh Island of Suursaari (Hogland), Stra. tegie fortress commanding the mid. de reaches of the Gulf Of Finland, The move brought the former Axis allies to the brink of war. The Films said nine ships carrying the Ger. man invaders were sunk by artillery fire.
 Tn the northern sector of the
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Safety Move Goes Awry

Providence, R. l., Sept. IS -- (U. p - Fearful that the hurricane would pitch Q backyard el mtree over on his home, Joseph Do Pants of Providence buried the family strongbox in his victory garden.
 Today he discovered that the wind had crossed him up and tossed the elm in the garden on top of the Strongbox.
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MENPOURONTO MOROTAI AND
 PAUL ISLANDS
BY FRANK TREMAINE United Press War Correspondent

D1 FhAENN AhhNAAkNh
 United Press War COrrespondent)
 Pearl Harbor, September IS. - (UP) - A big Ameri- can invasion armada poured fighting men ashore on the Japanese island base of Palau, 560 miles east of the Philippines, today as Gen. eral Douglas MacArthur's troops stormed up into the Halmahera islands from the south in a twin offensive to clear the road back to Ba- taan and Corregidor.
 Exploding their greatest combined offensive of the Pacific war, MacArthur and Admiral Chester W. NimitZ, commander-in-chief of the U. s. Pacific fleet, preached the coastal defenses of the two island basions under cover of shattering lombard ments from sea and sky.
 MacArthur led fis troops ashore early Friday on Morotai Island, northernmoSt of the Halmaheras and only 2b0 miles south of the Philippines, ct almost the same mos ment Nimitz' Marines and Army assault units were battling across the benches of Palau.
 MacArthur issued Q statement from the Morotai heachhead c teW hours after the landing saying thal we now dominate the Moluceas' and tour position here iS now secure and the immediate operation has achieved It's purpose" He added that defeat now stars Japan in the face" and the campaign iS ef- tering It's decisive phase.
 A Navy eommunlque said . mum. bor of beaehheadS were established on Paiau, e narrow chain of % Islands, many of them mountainous, lying between the Carolines and the Philippines, Babelthuap Is the prin- cipal islet in the group.
 The troops who swarmed ashore had to overcome obstacles of barbed
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Bitter Weather Aids Air Blows

London, Sept. iS (U.P) = Slightly improved weather opened the way today for ct least partial resumption of the Allied air offen- siVe against Germany, although by noon there were no reports of heavy bonabers back in action.
 The weather had kept American and British heavy bombors out Of Germany for 3o hours, although RAF Lancastors last night made . small attack, without loss. on an ammunition dump in Holland.
 Other activity yesterday was cofl- fined to limited flghter-bol1iber sweeps along the Rhine, medium bomber attacks on channel ports atill holding out and fighter raids pT shipping.
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2ODEAD SIX BIG CITIES, il
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BY JOHN MADIGAN Limited Press Staff COrrespondent)

tUHttSu EreSs Sthkk COErUapVnue"V Boston, Sept. 15. = (UP) - The tropical hurricane which battered 900 miles of the Atlantic coast, filtered a half dozen big cities and II states with debris, took 22 lives, and caused damage estimated at $50, ,000, ,000, was expiring today somewhere off the coast of Nova Scotia.
 The famous resort, Atlan- tic City, N. J., was worst hit but the casts three principal coastal cities, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston were lashed by high winds. New York had the geratest loss of life - 12. Norfolk, Wa, New London, Conn, Providence and Nantucket, R. l., and Taunton and Brockton, Mass, were other cities in the storms path.
 A United Press compilation show. cd that approximately i50 persons had been injured seriously enough for hospitalization,
 The long series of Weather Bureau advisors which had charted Che hurricanes cratic course from Che Caribbean ended at . Q. m. when the Boston Bureau announced that 1t was then centered oil Bar Aarbor, Me, would pass out ot. its Jurisdiction by Q Q. m., and there would be no further advisories. At that time its force had diminished 'considerably." New Brunswick and Nova Scotia the Canadian provinces sutting northeastward from Maine, reported only strong winds.
 Compared with the last great hur. ricane to follow the same trail, 1t failed to live up to It's advance notices of being among the most Killing and destructive of two de. cAdes. The hurricane of 1888 Killed 6ii persons in Connecticut, Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island, New York. and other eastern states and caused damage amounting to $500 900 900.
 The wind velocity reached Vo miles an hour in gusts in New York
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BY VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press War CorrespOndentl

N"eNS@es - eeNAA@aA4& United Press War CorrespOndentl
 Supreme Headquarters, September 15. - (UP) - American troops today cap- tured Nancy, biggest trans. port and military hub In northeastern France, and 14E miles to the north closed against shell-Scarred AaChen from three directions while stabbing five miles deeper In. to Germany to the area Ot Stolberg.
 The Maxi high command reported the loss of the biz fortress city of Naastricht which dominates the south, eastern "apepndix" of Hol, land, apparently to U. S. First Army forces which burst over the Alberts Canal and Mouse river barriers onto Dutch soil.
 A front dispatch said to. night that It. Gen. Court ney Fl. Hodges artillery was blasting out one by one the pillboxeS and other strong points in which the Gertnans were trying to delay the fall of Aachen.
 United Press Correspond. ent Robert c. Richards re- ported the fall of Nancy to It. Gen. George s. Patton's Third Army, forward ele- mentS of which already were racing on eastward toward the German border.
 Nancy, historic capital of the old Lorraine province, was the richest prize to fall to Pattons men since c supply shortage slowed them up at the end Of al lightning sweep across France. The city Of i20,000 iS a miles long south of the Ger man border, and trunk railways and highways fan eastward to all of western Germany.
 Determined American infantrymen walked into the city of Nancy almost without firing . shot ct at about il Q. m. today, Richards reported, adding:
 Path Opened
 This opens the path for sEaash over the fine roads Into the rich underbeliy of the saar and makes possible on outflanking movement to the north which well could ren- der the fortress ofb Metz untenable for the Germans"
 A dispatch from It. Gen. Omar N. Hradley's 2ist Army group head- quarters said Pattons advance be- low Nancy continued to develop most promisingly." The dispatch, coupled with NaH admissions of impressive American advances be- yond Nancy, suggested that Third Army mobile units might have broken out of the constricting NaM defenses and opened the way for squirt to the German border.
 The communiQue said the Aube and Tonne departments, in which severe fighting had occurred in the last few weeks, were entirely free of 0rmans, and the last enmyx dement's had been wiped out in tho Nievre department.
 As the first army stabbed well in- to Germany ct three places to lead the general advance into the 6ieg- fried line Qualifications, Berlin ac- knowledged that the Americana were east of Aachen and claimed that % U. S. tanks were knocked out in fighting south and east of the city yesterday.
 Aachen Area
 Tn the Aachen area the Amer jeans succeeded in penetrating into several points of the west wall fort ifications under the strongest com centration of tank and motorized
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Explosion Rocks NovoI Depot

Hastings, Neb., Sept. i0-(Ur)- An explosion heard i26 miles away blasted loading dock of the Hast ings Naval Ordnance depot today.
 Most of the windows in the Hast ingR downtown area, 10 miles from the plant, were broken.
 Telephone calls to the Hastings Tribune indicated that the blast was heard ct Grand Island, 26 miles away.
 An explosion at the depot in April killed eight persons. The force of that April blast was felt almost 100 miles away.
 Washington, Sept. iS-(UP)-The Navy said today it he'd been in- formed by the cogngnandant at the naval ordnance plarlt, Hastings, Neb., than explosion occurred there at e:16 am. CWT. The report. ac- coTding to the Navy. said explosions were 9iiil occurring. No other de- tailR were iEnlned diately available.
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AMERICANS CAPTURE CITY OF NANCY TWIN OFFENSIvES DRIVE AGAINST JAPANESE Hurricane Causes $3O Million Damages
Biggest Essential Hub
 In N. E.. France Falls
BULLETIN

U. s. First Army Headquarters Sept. l5. (uP)-Amerlcan troops have captured Maastrlcht and struck on across the southern Up of Holland Into Germany, it was announced today.
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Aanhen Area

Tn the Aachen area the Amer jeans succeeded in penstraeing into several points of the west wall fort ifications under the strongest ccaap centration of tank and motorized
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-08

h}E WEhli0 0M n 0f5f0lE V1Hif ST 8J1
family n Tenneasee Thurndayg
Police declared that Corri. west
berry subseouently told tl1eiIn l1e ~
pvt. Mcfarland. before the Latter
picked up 4 girl, had had their nc.
lures taken Ia : Ninth street bic.
ture gallery, The time was dxec
ct about 8 pm. BY the corporal.
Police obtained copies 81 these
pictures from the operator Of tn
picture gallery III the 400 block 81
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Ist0ryr led detectipesrto question M;
Irines stationed here. II was the
logical starting point III the investi-
CATION Of the crime. police pointed
Tout.
Inquiry at the marine guard bar
racks yielded q list OF marines who
had been granted liberty Thursday
might. Tedious questioning Of men
on this list finally brought the In
formation that Corpl. Westberry had
been with Pvt. Mcfarland when the
latter had picked up" ! girl ct
Tenth and D streets NV.
Further investigation disclosed
that the knife dropped In Thomas
| taxi had been conf1sca.ed by the
commanding oficer Of the marine
detachment here three weeks ago
when Pvt Mcfarland was acaIled
lon the carpet" for an alleged threat
made to an unidentified Navy on
Ger In which he brandished the
knife.
Marine headquarters were vague
about the affair but said that the
knife had later been returned to
Pvt. Mcfarland. Further, 1t was
learned that the knife was really
the property of Pvt. John Holz-
berger Of the First Marine Guard.
Police said he told them he had
loaned the knife to Pvt. Mcfarland
two months ago and 1t had never
been returned.
Meanwhile police were not alb
solutely certain of the significance
of the Marine belt found near the
scene Of the murder.
Late Friday, however, Pvt. Nc
Farland applied to his commanding
officer for the issue OF q garrison
belt, explaining that he had lost
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Ray =. jenkins, upon being Ia
formed that the murder charge had
been lodged against Pvt. Mcfarland,
requcsted United States Commis-
sioner NeedhAm G. Turnase to hold
himself available last night for the
arraignment Of the marine.
However, later conferences b.
tween marine, Navy and civil au-
thorities resulted IN the decision
to press the case against Pvt. Nc
Farland In United States District
Court. He will be turned over to
United States civil authorities to-
morrow morning, It was announced.
# Meanwhile, two lifelong girl
friends Of Miss Berrpm prepared to
return TO their homes IN Chippewa
Falls, Wis. They are Kathleen
Cosgrove and Betty German, who
graduated from Mcdonnell High
School In the Same Class with Miss
Berrum. They said their parents
had deluged them With telephone
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where the fafSt cab, driver dropped it,
Railing Mr.. Thomas cab, accord
ing to his account to police. Ma
rine and q girl entered the vehicle
and the girl ordered the driver to
take them to the Hot Shoppe at the
Virginia end Of the Fourteenth
street bridge. tMr. Thomas 1denti-
fed Miss Berrum's body at the
Morgue Friday as that Of the girl
He said he could not positively iden-
tify the Marine D
Girl Objected to Route.
AS they drove toward the Four
tenth street bridge, the Marine
leaned over the front seat and
directed Mr.. Thomas to drive around
Hains Point. The girl objected, Mr.,
Thomas said, but her companion
insisted and he drove them around
the point. About midway between
the golf clubhouse and the point,
the Marine ordered the cab stopped.
Mr.. Thomas said the marine paid
the cab bill, tipped him generously
and left the cab with Miss Berrum.
The marine and the girl disappeared
in the mist, walking in the direc-
ton of the golf course. (Mr. Thomas
own story appears on page B-l.) @
Al few blocks away, Mr.. Thomas
told detectives, he searched the rear
of the cab and found a switch blade
knife-a long-bladed weapon that
flips out blade at the touch Of q
spring button.
Mr.. Thomas said he put the knife
in his pocket and thought nothing
more of it until he saw Miss Ber-
runs pictures in The Star the fol-
lowing day. She had been beaten,
criminally attacked and strangled to
death with a snood which she wore.
Her tiny body-she was feet 5
inches tall and weighed 90 pounds
was found early Friday morning
near the spot where she had left,
the cab. 4
Girls Picture Recognized.
Recognizing Miss Berrum's pic
ture, Mr.. Thomas Immediately
turned the knife over to police and
told them of the occurrences of the
previous evening. When informed
that a half-smoked cigarette stained
with lipstick was found at the scene,
Mr.. Thomas recalled that the ma
rine had "bummed" two cigarettes
of the same brand from him as he
left the cab, saying that he wanted
one for himself land one for the
girl friend"
Upon discovery of the body Of the
murdered girl by two colored park
employees early Friday morning, po-
lice Of the homicide squad rushed to
the scene. Lying face UP on the
wet grass, the body was fully
clothed. Around the girls neck was
a tightly knotted knitted snood
which she had been wearing. DR..
A. Magruder Macdonald said she
died of strangulstion and had been
criminally assaulted. The grass had
been trampled down over an area
of several square feet, indicating
the girl had struggled fiercely de-
spite her fragile physique before
succumbing to her assailant's at
tack.
Leather Belt Found on Scene.
Near the spot where the body was
found police picked up a leather
belt, of the type worn by United
States Marines over their tunics.
This, coupled with the taxi drivers
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calls frantically urging them to
return.
In route to Warrington last night
TO take charge OF the body Of his
eldest child was Miss Berrilm.s
father, n. 8. BerrIm, : railroad
engineer. He will accompany the
body Of the slain girl back to the
home she left but I few short
months ago with hopes for prom
Using career Ia the Government
service.
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ao was one driven by Harold w.
Thomas, 247 Mississippi avenue Sc.
1t subsequently developed that the
information supplied by Mr.. Thomas
'Fas largely responsible for a quick
arrest in the case, Maj. Kelly as
serted yesterday.
Mr.. Thomas story to detectives
picked up the thread of the story