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Evening star., 1944-07-03
Advance by Japanese 46 Miles
Below Hengyong Is Indicated
Railway Cut by FIonkine Movement;
Communique Hints Of Fall Of Leiyonq

visional capital Of Kwangtung Prov
ince on the southeast coast.
Other Japanese forces are attack
ing northward from Canton in
Kwangtung in an effort to join the
southwark moving forces in Human.
Off1cial Chinese reports last night
said Hengyang remained in Chinese
hands, although it had been pound
ed both by American bomb and
Japanese incendiaries.
The Chinese asserted scores of
japanese planes rained incendiary
bombs on Hengyang's defenders, and
Gen. Stilwell's headquarters said
B-25s bombed Hengyang. damaging
runways and field installations.
The Chinese high command also
announced that japanese troops
making suicidal attempt" to PEN
citrate the Allied-held main airport
at Myitkyina in Northern Burma,
have been surrounded and wiped
out by American forces.
In Yunnan Province, meanwhile,
the Chinese held their positions in
the Lungling area against repeated
attacks. the announcement said.
More than ITO japanese. however.
broke out of month-old encircle-
ment of Pingka, "a miles southeast
Of Lungling, the communique dis
closed.
Evening star., 1944-07-03
Yonks Wade Chin Deep Water
On Niqht Patrols in St. Lo Area

canals or 5 feet deep along which
men move constantly in shoulder
deep water. They avoid shallower
water because of the splashing
sound of the water between their
legs.
Activity on both sides Is confined
to the darkness between midnight
and in the morning. 1t is too
brief period for completion of most
missions.
The mountain men use all kinds of
tricks of Indian war. All operations
require absolute silence on both
sides. Their hands and faces are
covered with bites from clouds of
dive-bomber mosquitoes which they
must endure without swatting for
fear of noise.
The canal stopped the Americans
several days ago. Nightly patrol ac-
tivity is to sound the canal, observe
German positions and get a foothold
on the other side.
Sometimes there are trapped men
lying in water-hidden grass waiting
for darkness to make their escape
Scratches and cuts smart in the salt
water. The tide varies the depth
of the canal.
Caught in the enemy fire. the men
can only drop fiat in the mud and
water to try to crawl out of range
through the grass roots without dis
turbing the grass tops.
The area is normally above water
The flood gates controlled at Caren-
(See HENRY, Page AID
Evening star., 1944-07-03
Third Child, Son,
Is Born Here
To Mrs. Procope

Mrs. Hjalmar ,Procope, wife of the
Finnish Minister, who left Wash
ington June 81 at the request OF
the State Department., gave birth
to a baby boy early today at Doctors
Hospital. It was learned from DR.
Edgar A. Bocock, hospital super
intendent
The baby weighs 9 pounds and
II ounces He was born at 3 am
Both mother and baby are in per
feet condition" said Dr. Bocock
The Finnish Minister was handed
his passports by the State Depart
ment, with a public announcement
that the action was taken because
of actions 'inimical" to the Govern
ment of the United States.
Later the department gave him
permission to remain here until his
child was born. but he left as soon
as possible, while Mrs. Procope re-
manned here. They have two other
children.
What arrangements are being
made for the family to be reunited
were not disclosed today
Presumably the mother will regis
ter the child with Finnish authori-
ties when she is able to communi-
cate with them. but under normal
United States rules such registra-
ton would not be- binding on the
boy. At the age Of 81 he could
choose United States citizenship by
virtue of being born here. With
diplomatic relations broken there
are no recognized Finnish authori-
ties in the United States with whom
he could be registered for Finnish
nationality. That formality might
have to wait until Nine. Procope
rejoins her husband in Finland.
Evening star., 1944-07-03
London Friend Reports
GiqIi Is Dead in Italy
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 3.-Naomi Jacob,
the novelist, said today she had re-
ceived a message By secret means
saying that Beniamino Gigli, former
Metropolitan Opera tenor, had died
in Italy.
Miss Jacob, a friend of Gigli, said: ::
IT do not think he died a natural
death. think 1t Is something else "
There was no confirmation Of the
report. Only last June 20 Gigli was
barred from singing In an army
concert in Rome. He had been ac-
cused by Romans Of having Fascist
sympathies. Gigl, defending him
self, said he had sung for the Ger
mans and for the Fascists, but
am an artist and I never had in
terest in politics" and that he want
ed to sing for the American and
British troops in Rome,
Evening star., 1944-07-03
LA Guordio Asks
Tax on Visitors
|And Commuters
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July "a 2 per cent
levy on the hotel bills of visitors to
New York and fiat 40-cent-a-week
tax on commuters are a part OF an
annual $50, 900, 900 tax plan proposed
by Mayor F. H. La Guardia to solve
the city's subway deficit.
The Mayor, announcing the plan
in his weekly radio broadcast yes
terday, said the alternative was to
increase subway fares from to 10
cents, long-debated issue.
Mayor La Guardia, who voiced
preference for the tax plan although
admitting the, fare increase would
reap larger revenues, said the mat
ter would be submitted to the Board
of Estimate and the City Council,
and that the State Legislature would
be asked to pass an enabling act
under which the two proposals
would be voted upon at a special
referendum election next year.
The plan, in addition to taking
the pay of nonresidents working in
the city and the rooming and hotel
charges by tenants, would also levy
taxes on rents and mortgage in.
tereSt.
Evening star., 1944-07-03
Bond Sales Jump to SO Pct. of
Districts s$7O7, ,O0O,OOOQuoto
Investment by individuals and Buying
Of Series e Still Below 5On Mark

Subscription to the Fifth War
Loan Campaign here today
jumped to SO per cent of the
$l07 900, 900 goal when an addi-
tional $4,000, 900 was reported for
Saturdays bond sales, increas-
ing the overall total to $l02, ,000,-
900.
The greater part of this latest
report. however, was credited to
corporation sales, which. with an
increase of S5,2OO0OO, boosted the
aggregate total to $4,000, 900. or
1891 per cent Of the $4,000 900
quota
Series e" and individual bond
sales still fall short of the so per
cent mark, with the individual divi-
sions total at $50 900 900, or 47.5
per cent of its $6l 900 900 goal. an
increase of 81 800 900. OF this figure
81 .000, 900 was credited to Series "E'
purchases. bringing that total to
SIS ,000, 900. or AL per cent of the
divisions $34 900 900 quota.
Evening star., 1944-07-03
Strikes in Denmark
Reported Spreading
To 70 More Towns
HeIsineor and Aorhus
Among Those Affected
By Anti-Nozi Disorders
BULLETIN.

STOCKHOLM (P. Danish
workers demonstrations and
strikes against the Germans
were reported spreading to-
day to 20 towns, including
Helsingor and Kalundborg in
Sjaelland and Aarhus in Jut-
land, the second largest city.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. July 3-German troops
were reported today to be pressing
a large-scale drive in Southwestern
France in an effort to smash under
ground resistance, described by one
French collaborationist source as "a
real civil war directed from abroad
At the same time advices from
Stockholm said Danish patriots con-
tinued their general strike in Copen-
hagen this morning despite an ap-
peal by the German-controlled Dan
ish radio for a return to work.
Reports received by the Free DAN
ish Press Service through under
ground channels said the Germans
had closed in last night on Danish
student house near the University
of Copenhagen and arrested several
score students.
The Danish Liberal Council was
said to be spreading word to the
patriots to continue the strike until
the Danish NaN "Schalburg Corps
is removed from the country Ger
man orders lifting a state of siege
in Copenhagen and restoring utili-
ties were said to have had no effect
on the situation.
A new and disturbing situation.
meanwhile, was rising to plague the
Germans at home understanding
to dispatches from Madrid-about
$4,000 foreign prisoners have es-
capped since the Allied invasion Of
France and are causing deep con-
Germ by their activities.
Reports from the Spanish-French
frontier, relayed here by way of
Madrid, said the Germans had
thrown tanks and bombers. as well
as infantry into their drive against
French patriots in the Dordogne
region of Southwestern France.
After two days of fighting, the
Nazis were said to have recaptured
Bergerac and advanced to st. Cyp-
rien, where they freed $50 collab-
orationists who have been held as
prisoners in that town. The retreat
ing Maquis were reported to have
transferred their activities 50 miles
south of Bergerac. taking over the
lSee UNREST. Page A-3l
Evening star., 1944-07-03
AirpIane Production
Declined 10 Pct. in
June, Wilson Reports
Drop Held Unimportont
From Combat Standpoint;
FuuIty Ports Blamed

A drop of nearly 10 per cent
in aircraft production last
month from the May output was
reported today by Charles E.
Wilson, chairman of the Aircraft
Production Board.
Mr.. Wilson said only S,O49 planes
were turned out in June, as COM
pared with about $500 in May. He
minimized the seriousness Of the
production lag, however, by saying
it was mot important from a combat
standpoint"
THE slump would be dangerous
only If it continued, which it won't -
he said, "or if it were caused by
something basic, such as loss of
manpower in the industry, which it's
not"
Three companies failed to meet
schedules, owing to unusual cir
cumstances" that arose last month
Mr.. Wilson said the principal causes
for the decline were detectives parts
and inadequate inspection.
The types OF planes in which pro-
duction fell, the APB chief said, for
tunately were not those most ur-
gently needel for the war effort
The largest drop in any one type,
he said, was in trainers, and these
will be made up In succeeding
months.
Heavier types of combat planes
he said, continued to be produced
about on schedule. In fact, he re-
vealed. one of the companies manu-
featuring the new B,29 Super Fort
ress actually exceeded its schedule
last month.
Mr.. Wilson said more than zoe
training planes were represented ir
the drop from schedule last month
He also pointed out some Navy fight.
ers were lost to the program be-
cause certain parts were not up te
standard and had to be reworked
but he predicted this loss would be
partially made up.
On the basis of airframe weight
production remained substantially
the same last month. About 10O..
000, 900 pounds of aircraft wer.
turned out In June as compared tt
102, SOC, 900 pounds In May.
Mr.. Wilson said the standard o.
$500 900 pounds per working da!
had been maintained at an almos
equal rate during the past thre,
months.
Evening star., 1944-07-03
Italian City Of 5iena
Taken by French and
American Forces
Sth Army Gains West
Of Lake Trusimeno;
Ceeino Captured
BY the Associated Press.

ROME, July 3.-French troops
and American artillery and tank
forces occupied the medieval
metropolis of Siena, 81 miles be-
low Florence, today after more
than a week of heavy fighting
through tough German defenses.
The city. whose art treasures are
rivaled only by those Of Florence
was virtually untouched by war
damage except for a few small
bombs dropped in the last several
nights and demolitions of public
utilities carried out by the Ger
mans.
Fall of the city conceded with a
rapid advance by the 9th Army west
of Lake Trasimeno in the center
and gains up the Adriatic coast
which brought the fall of Osimo
only miles from Ancona.
A few hours earlier Americans on
the Italian west coast crushed Ger
man resistance at Cecina. after the
most vicious fighting since the fall
of Rome.
Heavy Street Fighting.
Exceptionally heavy street fight
ing occurred which caused us, as
we'll as the enemy. considerable cas-
ualties, and we lost a number of
armored vehicles in the engage
ment," and Allied spokesman said.
"Cecina itself was taken only after
the most vicious opposition The
enemy mined and BOBBY trapped
the town. and resisted from house
to house"
German prisoners reported they
were ordered to hold Cecina at all
costs. and there were indications
the Germans intended to make the
Cecina River some sort of defense
line, but they were thwarted when
the Americans forged across the
stream on a wide front.
The enemy was reported throwing
more reinforcements into the fight
ing, with elements of 10 divisions
facing the 5th Army. Some of these
were remnants of forces shattered
by devastating losses in manpower
and equipment earlier in the cam
paign.
A special announcement of the
fall of Siena came Immediately after
communique which said the
French had pierced defenses to
within miles of the town, despite
heavy enemy artillery.
Other gains were made by the 5th
Evening star., 1944-07-03

Beginning the final week in the
drive the possibility of the District
meeting its series e" bond goal was
slight today and campaign officials
urged the $4,000 volunteer workers
to redouble their efforts to sell a
500 Bond to every working resident
of the city.
John A. Reilly. chairman of the
District War Finance Committee
pointed out. however, that with
sales through July counting in the
current campaign and the transient
reports which have not yet cleared
through the Federal Reserve Bank,
the Capital might 60 over the top
on its individual quota by the end
Of the month.
II the city is to meet its Series
e" goal, it was pointed out, daily
sales during the remaining six days
of the drive must average almost
100000.
The Army Air Forces Band from
tSee WAR LOAN Page A-12O
Evening star., 1944-07-03
u. ). IsGiiven
z Key Posts in
MoneyPar|ey
First Session Ends
With Report Of
Marked Progress
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
BRETON WOODS, N. H, july
3.-Chairmanships of two vital
segmentS of the United Nations
monetary conference went to the
United States today-the Con-
ference Steering Committee and
the commission to draft plans
for a national stabilization fund.
The conference has accepted with
out a dissenting vote nominations
submitted to the second plenary ses-
sion by Walter Nash, New Zealand
delegate.
Great Britain was awarded chair.
manship of the commission to OUT
line a world reconstruction bank,
and Mexico took over the group as
signed to pursue "other means of
international financial co-opera-
ton"
M. S. Stepanov, head of the Rus
sian delegation, was named first vice
president Of the conference.
Allies Efforts Praised.
Gathered around linen-covered
U-shaped table in the Mount WASH
ington Hotel auditorium, the dele
gates concluded their first working
meeting after adopting a resolu-
ton expressing admiration for the
heroic efforts" of the Allies ito
achieve quick victory which will
make possible a new era of world
cooperation for the good of all
peoples"
| Proposed by the Peruvian delega-
ton, it brought a response from
Senator Tobey, Republican, of New
Hampshire, declaring that success
OF the conference will pave the way
for "a permanent world peace"
I'VE must not. We cannot, we dare
not fail" Senator Tobey declared.
The hopes and aspirations of the
common people of each of our coun-
tries rests in US
The conference moved into its
first full working day with its task.
in the words of one highly placed
official, Better than half finished"
He said pre-conference sessions
at Atlantic City were so successful
the talks here on proposals to create
an international stabilization fund
and world reconstruction bank
might be concluded in less than the
three weeks allotted to the formal
conference.
Harry D. White. monetary expert
for the United States Treasury and
member of the American dele
CATION, told press conference yes
terday that the Atlantic City gath
ering of financial technicians at
tempted to reach no Agreements be-
cause the conference would not be
bound by them.
Thorny Problems Disposed OF.
One source said they had disposed
of "a number" Of thorny problems.
The others were narrowed to alter
nate proposals for conference action.
Mr.. White took an optimistic view
of the speed with which the con-
ference was expected to proceed. He
said conversations on the world
bank might start "by the end Of
the week. The agenda calls for
the stabilization proposal. designed
to promote world trade by halting
widely huctuating money values. to
be disposed Of before the lending
agency is taken up.
There was no disclosure Of de-
cisions reached at Atlantic City.
although Mr.. White confirmed
earlier reports that the silver issue
would reach the conference floor.
This plan to tie world currencies
to a bi-metallic base is known to
run counter to American Treasury
Evening star., 1944-07-03
Glider Units Get Roise
To Purutrooper Pay Level

BY the Associated Press.
Members of Army and Navy glider
units won so per cent pay increase
today, placing them on an equal
pay basis with paratroopers and
flight units of the air services.
President Roosevelt signed a bill
which grants increases not to exceed
$50 monthly for enlisted men or 500
monthly for officers, warrant offi-
GERS and nurses assigned to regular
glider FIGHTS
Evening star., 1944-07-03
SovietCo|un1n
Only 10Mi|es
From Minsk
Another Force Drives
To Point Within
65 Miles of WiIno
MAP on Page A-4.)
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July 3.-Soviet tanks
and cavalry struck within 10
miles of Minsk today, and an
other column, carving deep be-
yond that city, hammered within
IS miles of Wilno, which is only
100 miles from East Prussia.
Pounding at the front gates OF
MinSk. Red Army men captured
Sloboda, 12ia miles to the northeast,
and then pushed to within 10 miles
Of the White Russian capital.
But bypassing columns already
were sweeping around the city on
the northwest and southwest, cut
ting the Germans escape railways
to Wilno and to Brest- -Litovsk.
The rush on the northwest posed
a threat to Wilno, former Polish city
just Is miles from the old Lithu-
anian border. This drive captured
Wilejka, 65 miles due east of Wilno
and as miles northwest of Minsk.
Called "Wholesale R0ut."
The wall erected by the NazLs in
front of the Baltic republics and
Poland began to feel the pressure
of Reds as German forces reeled
backward in White Russia in a re-
treat which Russian field dispatches
described as a wholesale rout.
In almost every sector, the Rus
slams said, German commanders ap-
peared unable to break the on
rushing tide Of Soviet tanks, cav
airy and infantry advancing 1elent-
lessly under an air cover which
grows daily in strength.
There were continued signs of
indecision on the part of Nazi lead
ers as we'll as lack of contact be-
tween enemy divisions deployed
along the front, front dispatches
declared.
BY no stretch of the imagination
one Soviet correspondent said, can
the collapse of German resistance
be called planned retreat" or
even a systematic withdrawal.
Heavy Fighting Near Minsk.
Although the onrush OF the Red
Army has by-passcd Minsk and cut
it off from all direct aid or escape
except by air and one small dirt
road leading westward to Grodono,
unusually heavy fighting was re-
ported in the broad half-moon of
steel the Russians have thrown
about the city.
Pravda said all German coun-
terattacks in this area had proved
futile, and said the Nazis were dying
by the thousands.
CA broadcast Moscow commu-
nique pictured approximately
100000 to 100000 defenders OF
Minsk as hopelessly outflanked
by the Russians.
(The Germans hurled reserves
into the battle raging at the ap-
proaches of the city, but Moscow
asserted the Red Army's artillery
fire dissolved the counterattacks.
More than 1000 Germans were
killed in yesterdays fighting, the
Russian communique said, and
nearly 1000 towns and villages
were captured in the overall
drive.)
Advance Down Highway.
Immediately east of Minsk Gen.
Ivan Chernaiknovsky's Sd Army cav
airy and tanks were waging a savage
(See RUSSIA, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1944-07-03
Security Belt Set Up
Across Northern ltoIy
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 3.-The German
Transocean news agency declared
today in a Berlin broadcast that a
security belt two miles wide was
being established along the Italian
side of the Swiss frontier and that
all civilians would be banned from
the area.
All nonmilitary traffic will be pro-
hibited in the zone, the broadcast
said
Evening star., 1944-07-03
Bank Deposits Here Reach
Record $762,037,734

Total deposits in the Capitals 81
banks reached s762,037, ,734.83 on
June 80, highest in the city's history
and an increase of $24,90l, ,177.78 in
the past three months, it was learned
today following a condition call is
sued by the controller of the cur
rency.
Deposits on April 13 amounted to
$737, ,136,557.05. The sharp advance
since then was due to wartime con-
ditions, which have constantly in
creased bank funds. At the same
time the banks are carrying heavy
War Bond accounts for later with
drawal by the Treasury.
Details on Financial Page.)
Evening star., 1944-07-03
Three Die in Plane Crash

SYRACUSE. N. Y. July 3.-Three
Army lieutenants died last night
when transport plane crashed and
burned in a field near Solvay, west
of here
The Syracuse Army Air Base iden-
tilted the victims as Second 1t. Will
liam Miller. 10, Bayonne, N. j.; Sec
ond 1t. Theodore E. Armstrong, 10,
Ebert, Tex, and Second 1t. Sey-
Evening star., 1944-07-03
(Mdn on Page A-3.)

SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, July 3.-American
doughboyS, turning from the
mop-up of Cherbourg, burst
southwark on the peninsula to-
day after a heavy artillery bar
rage, fighting on mud-bogged
French battleflelds reminiscent
of the World War.
The assault jumped off near the
west coast of the peninsula, from
the line flung across it just two
weeks ago that sealed off the upper
half of the land neck.
The assault opened after local ad-
vances which supreme headquarters
said had won favorable "jump-off
positions south of st. Lo d'Ourville.
The dougboys also had pressed to-
ward La Haye du Puts. 6 miles
southeast of st. Lo d'Ourville.
Other Local Attacks.
West of Caumont. other American
forces lashed out with similar local
attacks. This sector is roughly II
air miles southwest Of the British
Odon River bridgehead.
The American infantrymen at
tacking south of Cherbourg were
supported by heavy artillery, includ-
ing some of the most powerful
guns yet used in the French cam
paign, but rain ard cloudy skies
hampered Allied aerial aid.
Even as this assault thrust
forward on the Allied right flank
other Americans maintained pres
sure against the big road town of
St. Lo toward the center of the
Normandy front. and the British
held firm southwest of Caen on
the eastern flank
1t was believed Marshal Erwin
Rommel was regrouping his forces
there-numbering II divisions
after being beaten back in Is thrusts
against the British wedge across
the Odon River.
Activities Dwindle.
+. Activity dwindled in the Caen sec
tor, where Marshal Rommel's divi-
sions had taken a terrific mauling
in three days of furious but futile
attacks against the British. Indica-
tions were that Rommel was ready
ing an all-out counterattack against
the British. I'VE are ready" saio
one British officer
Clouds so dense that the airmen
called them "ten-tenths" cloaked
the entire bridgehead in Normandy
The weather was getting to be
known as the worst for June and
July in 40 years. Allied Air Forces
were able to fly only about 400
sorties over the battle area yester-
day, but they managed to shoot
down % enemy aircraft against a
loss Of three of their own, communi-
que No 55 disclosed.
In the Cherbourg area American
Evening star., 1944-07-03
Muquis Seize Vichy General

BY the Associated Press.
PORT BOU, Spain. July 3.-Gen.
Georges Nadal, chief of Vichy's pro-
German militia in Western France,
has been captured by the Maquis,
according to reports reaching here
today.
Evening star., 1944-07-03
No Night Final
Edition Tomorrow

The Star will observe In
dependence Day tomorrow by
eliminating the Night Final
Edition. Subscribers to this
edition will receive the regu-
lar Home Edition.