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Evening star., 1944-08-30
Fitch Says New Blow,
Al Japs Will Make
Past Look Gentle

The Nays famed Task Force So,
scourse of the Japanese, was "just
. sweet summer zephyr" compared
to the array Of ships, planes and
other weapons poised for the knock.
out blow, naval leaders declare.
Observing the 3lst anniversary Of
naval aviation, Admiral Aubrey w.
Fitch, deputy chief Of naval opera
tions for air, said last night the
blows dealt the enemy last year
were light compared with the ones
We are now prepared to deliver"
A Navy statement disclosed that
at least two more new weapons, a
twin-engined fighter and a scouting
seaplane of unmatched speed and
range" will be hurled against the
foe sometime this year.
Swift Allied advances in the South
Pacific were attributed by Admiral
Fitch to the new Essex class car
riers. which made possible the by
passing tactics that put American
forces 80 near Japan. Without
them, he said. our forces still would
be inching along, probably still in
the MarshaHs.
Rear Admiral Alfred E. Mont
gomery, commander OF an aircraft
carrier task group in the Pacific, de-
clared that considering the un-
expectedly small losses during the
past year and the increasing expan-
sion of our forces. we can ." look
with confidence to the future anc
the determination Of the Japanese ;
He said 1t was hardly possible thai
the japanese feet will be a menace
to our operations for many month!
to come.
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Hungary Establishes
New Pro.Nazi Regime
To Stand OF Reds
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. 30.-A new gov
ernment was installed today In
Hungary in an apparent German
attempt to shore up the Reich's
last Balkan defenses against the
onrushing Red Army.
Berlin broadcasts last night an
nounced the fall of Premier Doeme
Sztojay's.regime less than "a hours
after Russian forces had speared
deeply within Hunsarian-held Tran
sylvania.
The German propaganda agency,
Transocean, said Admiral Nicholas
Horthy, Hungarian regent, had ap-
pointed Col. Gen. Vitex Geza Lakatos
to form = new government. Lakatos'
cabinet, announced simultaneously,
was studded with military figures.
Lakatos himself was Hungarian
commander on the Russian front.
Germans Withdrawing.
This abrupt government change
In Hungary. under tight Nazi control
since Hitler's troops drove in last
March, came amid reports from both
Axis and Allied sources that the
Germans were withdrawing Is hur-
riedly as possible from Bulgaria, now
on the verge of peace.
A dispatch from Ankara said it
was believed there that Stoicho
Moshanov, Bulgarian peace ennis
sary, already had informed Great
Britain and the United States that
his country has accepted armistice
terms. This dispatch quoted in
formed sources there as declaring an
armistice was imminent and that the
document may be signed in Cairo
Moscow, which on Saturday an
nounced that Bulgaria had pro-
claimed herself a neutral, declared
last night the Soviet government
had not accepted this stand-a
statement which in effect served
notice on Sonia to surrender to the
United States and Great Britain
Russia and Bulgaria are not at war
Neutrality insufficient.
Soviet leading circles consider
the neutrality proclaimed by the
Bulgarian government entirely in
sufficient under the circumstances
Of the present situation" q Moscow
Foreign once statement said.
Thus is Moscow getting into line
with us and notifying Bulgaria. te
make terms with u.s." said a Brit.
ish Foreign once spokesman.
Both Russian and German re.
ports said Nazi troops were getting
out Of Bulgaria as quickly as pos
sible and rushing to Hungary t.
bolster Hungarian-German garri
sons.
Evening star., 1944-08-30
PIunqes
Continued From First Page)

and a 9-year-old daughter live In
Hutchison. He was a graduate OF
the University Of Kansas, they said
According to residents of the
apartment house from which the
colored man leaped, he had prefaced
his plunge by praying and singing
loudly. Police were called and tried
to persuade him not to jump. Police
said he was sitting on fourth floor
window ledge in his underwear,
yelling that he was going Ito make
peace with my God" He jumped
when flremen were trying to spread
a life net, police said.
Laundry Work Traced.
Warren B. Crockett, 80, colored, a
janitor in the apartment, said the
man told him to inform his wife
but when asked his name simply re-
piled Austin" Tracing OF a laun-
dry mark on his clothes indicated
that might be his last name.
A crowd of policemen and others
came to the scene, but police said
they could get no closer to him
than the stairway leading to the
fourth floor. Drinks, cigarettes and
other inducements were offered but
the man insisted his time had come
and 1t was too late"
Evening star., 1944-08-30
More Strike Votes Due
By Mine Supervisors
1s the Associated Press

PITTSBURGH. Aug. 30.-With a
back-to-work order from the War
Labor Board hanging over it's head,
the Mine Supervisors Union. a
branch OF District so. United Mine
Workers. prepared to take additional
strike votes, beginning today, at
mines in Pennsylvania, West Vir-
ginia and Kentucky.
The WLB order was telegraphed
yesterday to presidents of six local
unions now on strike at Western
and Central Pennsylvania mines
five Of the Rochester & Pittsburgh
Coal Co. and one of the Ford Col
lieries Co.
Even as the messages were re-
ceived, a seventh local, that at the
Rochester & Pittsburgh's Sycamore
mine, with Sis members, walked out.
This brought the number idle in
bltuminous coal fields to approx
mately 4,700.
John McAlpine, Pittsburgh, presi-
dent of the supervisors group, ap-
peared before the WLB Monday in
Washington and rejected a sugges-
ton that supervisors return to work
pending settlement of their COM
plant that coal companies will not
recognize their union.
The National Labor Relations
Board office in Pittsburgh said the
first of some so strike votes for
which application was made several
weeks ago will be taken by super
visory group today in five mines in
Cambria County. Pa.-two of the
Sprinf1eld Coal Corp. and one each
of Monroe Mining Co., Imperial
Mining Co. and Heisley Coal Co.
Acting Secretary of the Interior
Abe Fortas today called on mem
bers of the United Clerical. Tech
nical and Supervisory Employees
Union to stay on the job and keeI
war-vital coal mines in full opera
ton.
Disclosing that some of the mines
already have been closed down by
walkouts, Mr.. Fortas warned thai
strikes in mines producing by
product coal would cause immediate
curtailment of steel production
which might delay the final knock
out blow to Hitlers staggering
army"
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Circus Clown Drops Dead
After Completing Act
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Aug 30.-DanieI
Pierce, 40. for more than 20 years
a circus clown, enjoyed the laughter
OF circus fans at the Ringing Bros
d. Barnum g. Bailey performance in
Soldier Field for the last time yes
terday. He died of a heart attack
after putting on his act.
Accompanied by his black and
white fox terrier Skippy. Mr.. Pierce
trotted from the arena after his per-
formance for 5000 persons and col
lapsed beyond the curtains. Othe,
clowns, summoned by Skippys bark
ing, gathered around the stricken
trouper as he died.
Mr.. Pierce is survived bv his
widow. who lives in Ripley, Tenn.
and two children. One son. Daniel
jr., is an Army officer overseas.
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Broadened Radio Role
Expected After War
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.-After the
war radio must carry more regular
programs direct from foreign capi-
tails land a hundred other exciting
places in the world" Clarence L.
Menser. New York, told the National
Association Of Broadcasters yester-
day.
Mr.. Menser. vice president of the
National Broadcasting Co., said that
with the return of millions of men
and women who are expertly trained
and widely travelled, the postwar
audience may not be so easy to in
terest."
The war has brought to the at
tention of all peoples customs and
ways of life In the far reaches of
the earth which were little known
and therefore held little interest,""
he said.
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Eleven Men From District Reported Killed,
Six Wounded; One Decorated Posthun1ousIy

Ten men from the Washington
area have been reported killed ir
action and one in an accident, six
have been listed as wounded, two
are prisoners of war and one has
been decorated. relatives have been
informed by the War and Navy De-
partments.
Killed
1t. Col. Thaddeus r. Dulin, hus-
band of Mrs. Katherine p. Dulin,
PIP Thirty-sixth street NV, was
killed IN action in France. An ear
lier story was published in The Star
July 10.
Staff Sergt. Howard d. Luther, "a,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. L. N Luther,
1906 Fortieth street, Brentwood. Md,
was killed in France June u. Sergt.
Luther, according to a letter to Mrs.
Luther from friend in England,
was killed by a sniper's bullet when
he tried to rescue a wounded COM
rade In no mans land"
A native of Knoxville, Tenn,
Sergt. Luther moved to Hyattsville
Md, with his parents 16 years ago.
He attended Hyattsville High School
and in 1888 joined the Maryland Ma
tlonal Guard. He was called to ac-
tive service in 1910 and sent over
seas in October, 1912. His mother
has been notified that her son had
been awarded the Purple Heart.
T. Sergt. Staunton NJ. Brown. in
1antry, son of Mr.. and Mrs. L. j
Brown, Culpeper, Va, was killed
Evening star., 1944-08-30
|Yank bombers Batter
French Robot Bases;
Hit KieI and Bremen
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. 30.-Large for
nations of American bombers
battered the continent today
bombing the German ports OF
Kiel and Bremen through clouds,
and the robot platforms in
Northern France.
Very heavy forces of British
bombers before dawn supported the
Russian armies of the north with
attacks on the Nazic Baltic ports
of Stettin and Konigsberg, and
Mosquitoes hurled many two-ton
blockbusters on Berlin and Ham,
burg.
Weather was bad and bombers
cast their explosives by instruments
through clouds. A communique said
one bomber was lost over the robot
bomb sites and that all fighters re-
turned. No mention was made OF
losses over the German objectives
Smash Pas de Calais Targets.
Up to 500 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators with Mustang fighter es-
corts smashed at the Pas de Calais
targets. More than 500 Fortresses
and $50 Mustangs went over the
German ports.
The flying bomb targets are just
in front of advancing Allied armies
in northern France.
More than 1000 heavy bomber.
participated in the overnight at.
tacks, unloading approximately
$500 tons Of high explosives and in.
cendiaries on Stettin and another
great cargo of destruction or
konigsberg. Both Stettin and Ko.
nigsberg are important links in Ger.
man supply lines leading to the
Russian front.
An hour after the attack on Stet-
tin, the Air Ministry said. recon-
naissance revealed smoke from very
large fires rising to a great height
Berlin, Hamburg Hit.
Clouds prevented clear ohserva-
ton Of the results at Konigsberg
which was attacked for the second
time in four nights.
Both Berlin and Hamburg we're
hit by speedy Mosquitoes. which car
ry bomb load of 1000 pounds.
The Air Ministry said Al planes
were lost in the overnight opera
tions, during which many mines
were laid in enemy waters.
Up to 750 American heavy bomb
ers from Italy also struck yesterday
in tactical support of Russian
armies whipping through Romania
by bombing Hungarian rail bridges
and yards at Szeged and Szolnok
and enemy barracks and trains
moving through that threatened
Balkan land.
Some Of these planes few into
Czechoslovakia and bombed stee
works at Moravska Ostrava. the larg.
est plate rolling mill in Europe. The
Mediterranean Air Forces struck
transport facilities in Northern Italy
Yugoslavia and Southern France a.
well as destroying IL German plane.
at the cost of 81.
Russian airmen bombed a German
supply convoy off the Lithuania Dor,
VI LeipaJa sinking lZ,UU0-ton snip
and two submarines. Moscow's com.
muniQue listed 27 Nazi planes de.
stroyed in the east.
French Rails Bombed.
Operations over the western from
from British and French fields wer,
curtailed drastically by the weather
but United States fighters SKINNED
under the clouds to smash rail traf.
fic in France as far south as Lyon
in the low countries and Western
Germany.
Fighter bombers destroyed OF
damaged 80 locomotives. 310 rail.
cars, over 300 motor vehicles, :
roundhouses and 2 tunnels. They
destroyed 20 German planes on ar
airdrome near Brussels.
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Boy Dies, 3Hurt
| As Shell Hurled
| |AtRocksExpIodes
By the Associated Press.

DETROIT, Aug. 30.-A 10-year-
old boy was killed and three play
mates were injured when . 75-milli-
meter shell, souvenir OF the World
War, exploded yesterday.
The dead boy was Daniel Broush
From Hospital beds where they re-
ceived transfusions. the other boys,
John Strejan and Ramond Ostrow-
ski. both II, and Daniel Doran, S,
told detectives they had been throw
ing the shell at rocks in the Doran
back yard when 1t exploded.
Detective 1t. James Payne said he
was unable to explain why all the
boys were not killed. The Doran
boy suffered compound fractures of
the hip and leg and all received null
tiple lacerations from flying shrap-
mel.
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Southern England Hi
By Robots After
|Two.Night LuII
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. 30.-American
heavy bornbers, anti-aircraft fire
and fighter pilots all were directed
against German robot bombs which
kept hurting the Channel toward
London and Southern England.
One pilot shot down three before
dusk. Ground fire brought down
many more. The heavy bombers
attacked launching platforms in
Northern France.
Flight 1t. Rene Van Lierde, =
Belgian. has bagged ~ bombs 50
far; another pilot has 50 and
Pole has down 20. Many Of the
pilotless explosives have been de-
stroyed by American flyers who have
spotted them by chance while on
other missions.
Robots Fall During Night.
New waves Of flying bombs
dropped during the night, most Of
them apparently coming from the
region west of Boulogne, toward
which Allied armies now are rapidly
advancing.
The attacks ended q lull which
had continued for two successive
nights-a break believed due in part
to German dimculties in transport
ing the robots to launching sites.
During the night attack the
southeast coast town Of Folkestone
shook and the earth rumbled to
a distant explosion which some re-
ports said was the heaviest shock
felt there during the entire war.
May Have Been Test.
Most persons agreed that the ex-
plosion, shortly before midnight,
occurred across the Channel in
France and there was some belief
that the Germans might have
been testing their long g-threatened
vengeance weapon No. T."
Meanwhile a Stockholm dispatch
reported that all German papers
had carried cryptic article by Elite
Guard War Reporter Joachim Fer
nau who wrote that German victory
was not only sure but very near
apparently an attempt to bolster
secret weapons still to come.
Despite heavy Allied bombing the
Germans are directing most of their
robot attacks from the Pas de Calais
area across the Channel.
Evening star., 1944-08-30

VI washington, MISS betLle ELIZA =
beth Brown and Miss Violet Brown
both of Culpeper, and seven bro
theirs, Clarice L. Brown, Of Bahi-
more; Jessie L. Brown, of Wheat
field, Va; Lafayette H. Brown. OF
Remington, Va, and Gilbert, Rus
sell, George and Casper Brown, all
of Culpeper.
| 1t. Adolph Greenberg, %. infantry,
who formerly lived at 24S0 Sixteenth
street NV, was killed in action in
France July "a, his grandmother
Mrs. Annie Sauber. has leraned.
Born in Washington, 1t. Green
berg was graduated from Central
High School and attended George
Washington University before NOV
ing to California While in school
here, he lived with his grandmother.
Pfc. Victor James Lees, jr.. 10,
whose parents live at 2O8 @ street
NV, was killed in action August
in France. He was attached to an
infantry unit.
His father, v. J. Lees, was born In
France.
Pvt. Lees was born in Washington
attended high school at Baden, Nd,
and was employed by the War De-
partment until he entered the Army
in April l943, He went overseas last
September. He played the piano in
Red Cross band in England.
/ Besides his parents he is survived
by a brother, Lawrence Lees, and
tour sisters, Mrs. Margaret Brooke
Mrs. Theresa Choate, Mrs. Josephine
Sunday and Mrs. Edna Emelio, all
of Washington.
Foster G. NickerSon, technician.
fifth grade, Is, son of Leslie A. Nick
erson, who is principal radio engi-
neer with the Ground Signal Equip
me1t Branch. Engineering and
Technical Service, Office of the
Chief Signal Officer, of 2408 North
Upton street, Arlington. Va, was
killed in action in France June g.
D-day.
A veteran of the Tunisian. Sicil-
ian and Italian campaigns, Pvt.
Nickerson, according to his father,
was sent to England shortly after
the invasion of Italy, where he re-
manned until June 6. He had been
serving overseas with the field ar
tlllery since February. l943.
A native of Long Branch. N. j..
Pvt. Nickerson came to Arlington
County with his family in 1922. He
attended Washington and Lee High
School and Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute in Blacksburg, Va, Prior to
entering the service in September
194l, he was employed in Alexan-
dria as surveyor. A brother, Capt.
Thomas S. Nickerson, is stationed
on Saipan with Army ordnance.
First Sergt. Patrick H. Leigh, jr.,
Corps of Engineers, drowned in Orc
Bay, New Guinea on August is. his
wife, Mrs. Helen R. Leigh. 1902 G
street NE. has been notified by the
War Department.
A native of Washington. Sergt
Leigh was graduated from Dunbar
High School, where he was active in
athletics. He joined the Army in
July, 194l, and worked l3 months on
the Alcan highway before going to
the South Pacific last June.
Sergt. Leigh is also survived by
his father, Patrick H. Leigh; tour
sisters, Juanita, Esther, LA Leigh
and Mrs. Lottie L. Henry, all of l27
Adams street NV, and a brother
Corpl. Arthur Leigh, who is sta
toned in New Guinea. His wife is
employed by the Navy Department
Capt. Laurence B. Bonner, grad.
uate Of George Washington Uni
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Jinnoh Asks Gondhi
For Talk on Partition
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOMBAY, Aug. 30.-Mohamed Ali
Jinnah, president of the All-India
Moslem League, telegraphed Mo-
handas K. Gandhi today that he
would be glad to confer with him
September or on any day there
after on problems that might arise
should India be partitioned into
separate Hindu and Moslem states.
Evening star., 1944-08-30

Sergt. mooney. ana united on 8
field ankle-deep in mud in 1928
The final score was To, and wher-
ever Georgetown men gather that
is a game they like to recall. That
was Jim MONEYS greatest exnibi-
ton Of kicking, one of the greatest
individual feats of football history
New York. with visions of an in
vitation to the Rose Bowl and her
aided as the casts most formidable
team, was a top-heavy favorite.
Long Returns Saved Day.
Georgetown's defense that after
noon virtually was nil. New York
with the great Ken Strong, Al
Lassman and the colorful Cowboy
Hill packing the ball. charged down
the soggy gridiron time and again
to within striking distance of the
Hoya's goaline. Then, by some in
human effort Georgetown held, took
the ball on downs. Then Mooney
would drop back from his position
at tackle and send the wet, heavy
pigskin zooming down the field
anywhere from so to 10 yards. His
average that day was between So
and go.
One Of his kicks went IS yards.
Early in the fray the ball squirted
out of New York backs hands as
the Violet plunged toward George
towns goal. Ken Provincial. an end,
scooped it up and sloshed 81 yards
for touchdown. Mooney kicked
the extra point. After that the
game fell back into its old pattern,
New York piling up yardage until
within scoring distance and Mooney
kicking it back into its own terri
tory.
Late in the final period New York
challenged once again. George
towns outweighed line was firing
badly, but it held on its own 1-yard
line. Then Mooney took command
Of the strategy.
We'll give 'em an automatic safe
ty, and III kick it out of bounds
on their own 5-yard line he told
his mates in the huddle. He did. too.
The final score was 7-2 Georgetown
hit the headlines of sports pages
all over the Nation. Giant killers"
the Hoyas were called.
Brothers Athletes, Too.
Big Jim was typically Irish. He
had ready smile and keen wit
He was the hero of the campus. yet
he never asked any special privi-
leges or favor. His two brothers.
Phil, now dead, and Bill, were
Georgetown athletes, too, but they
were overshadowed by Jim.
Against Lafayette in 1927 Mooney
was trapped behind his goal line
trying to punt out. 1t was a bad
pass from center and he couldn't
kick. Jim started to run with the
ball. He ran horizontally with the
goal line and as Lafayette men
swarmed in on him he gave the
ball soccer kick without breaking
stride. The ball Travelled TO yards
out of bounds.
Jim practiced kicking by the hour
He loved football and he developed
the art of making his punts hit
on end, trick that gave then a
long. puzZllng roll.
After his college days Mooney
played with the Newark Bears and
Brooklyn Dodgers for a time. He
had been a tackle in college, one of
the best, according to Lou Little
his coach at Georgetown, but in pro
ball they used him at guard and
end as well as tackle He liked
the college game better.
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Network Names Yocum

Edward Yocum, general manager
Of Radio Station KGHL, Billings
Mont, has been appointed director
Of the station relations office of Co.
lumbia Broadcasting Co. in Wash
tngton, it was announced today by
Joseph H. Ream, vice president and
secretary of the company. The ap-
pointment will be effective No.
Vember J..
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Congress in Brief

BY the Associated Press.
House:
Continues debate on postwar un-
employment compensation.
Senate:
In recess until tomorrow.
Senate and House conferees meet
on surplus property disposal bill
Evening star., 1944-08-30
Prisoners


Second 1t. Edward Young, 20, who
was listed as missing over Germany
July 7, Is a prisoner Of war, the
War Department has informed his
wife, Mrs. Charlotte D. Young, 465s
Massachusetts avenue NV.
Bombardier of Flying Fortress
1t. Young wrote that he was In
the first wave of bombers partici-
pating in the invasion Of Normandy
He had received the Air Medal and
two Oak Leaf Clusters.
A native of New York, 1t. Young
worked in Washington as a steno-
typist from 1888 until he entered
the Army in August, 1912. He went
overseas last May. He has a 2-year-
old son.
Flight Officer Douglas Bond. son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas H. Bond
of Hector on the Patuxent near
Leonardtown. Nd, and nephew OF
Surgeon General Thomas Parran
has been reported a prisoner of war
in Germany after having been
listed as missing since June 9 over
that country.
Based in England, Flight Officer
Bond was crew member OF a
Flying Fortress A graduate OF
Charlotte Hall Military Academy
he worked with the Maryland State
Roads Commission before entering
the serevice in July, 1912.
Decorated
First 1t. William r. West, whose
widow, Mrs. Martha L. West, lives at
2939 Macomb street NV, has been
awarded the Navy Cross postum
mously for exposing himself to
heavy machinegun fire while rescu-
ing a wounded marine of his COM
mand, 1t was announced today.
Soon after hitting the beach of
Namur Island, wajalein Atoll, 1t
West, leading an assault against a
Jap blockhouse, hurled smoke
grenade through a gun-port. As IS
japanese scrambled out, the Wash
ington ofncer stood up and fired into
the group, killing and wounding sew
eral. The others were dispersed.
A short time later 1t. West discov-
cred that one OF his men lay wound
ed about SO yards away. He was IA
tally wounded when he unhesitat-
ingly exposed himself to heavy fire
to 60 to the marines assistance and
bring him back to cover.
Evening star., 1944-08-30

fans, particular
ly Georgetown
supporters who
saw the husky
Chicagoan boot
the Hoyas to
gridiron fame.
Big Jim" was
the happy-go-
lucky Irishman
whose kicking
knocked one of
New York Uni
versity's great
est elevells out
of the ranks Of
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