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Evening star., 1944-08-04
BY the Associated Press.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 4.-St.
Joseph County Prosecutor Arthur F.
Scherr said today affidavits had been
filed charging four persons, includ-
ing Jackie Cooper, ~, movie actor
who starred recently in Where Are
Your Children" with contributing
to and encouraging the delinquency
of minors.
Cooper has been stationed at
Notre Dame University here as a
Navy Viz student since last No
vember.
Mr.. Scherr said the charges grew
out OF police investigation Of a
party at the La Sale Hotel on the
night OF July 70. Accused with
Cooper were Pauline Frederic, 10,
OF South Bend; George Bender, a
Via student at Notre Dame, and
Ollie L0wery, a hotel waiter.
Deputy Prosecutor Leo j. Cook
said Juvenile Referee Albert L. Doyle
would issue warrants for the arrest
Of the four.
Mr.. Scherr said Cooper was charg-
ed specifically with contributing to
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Gen. Deane Spends 5 Days
In Visit 10 Soviet Front
Ry the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. Maj. Gen.
John r. Deane, commander of the
United States military mission to
Russia, said today after visiting the
front that there was ample evi-
dence that the Germans have suf-
fered a disastrous defeat" despite
stubborn Nazi resistance.
He quoted one of the prisoners
interviewed in his five-day visit as
saying:
The Red Army has developed
speed Of maneuver and crushing
power with which the German
forces are unable to cope"
Everywhere We visited" Gen.
Deans declared, there was ample
evidence that the Russian advance
has been stubbornly resisted and
that the Germans have suffered a
disastrous defeat"
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Russians Racing
Through Breach
In vistuIa Line
Drive Seeks to Split
Nozi FoHes Between
Warsaw and Krakow
BULLETIN.

LONDON P.-The Polish
Telegraph Agency said to-
night that Gen. Bor's under
ground army inside Warsaw
had captured the chief sky
scraper in the capital, the 16-
story Prudential Building, the
general post office, main
power station and gas works.
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 4.-The Red
Army raced through a l9-mile
breach in the Nazis' Vistula River
Line today toward German ST.
lesia, SO miles to the west, in a
drive to split the German forces
between besieged Warsaw and
Krakow, Poland's fifth largest
city. ..
All along the l,O00-m mile front from
the Baltic to the Carpathians. the
Germans were reported rolling up
reserves, particularly In the Warsaw
and Vistula breach area. Concen-
trations of the German air force
appeared in a desperate attempt to
check Russian lunges.
The belief in Moscow quarters was
that the VistuIa breakthrough might
be the start of a serious German
rout.
Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossov-
sky, while pinning a big group of
the enemy's divisions in the Warsaw
siege zone, broke loose with his left
flank ITO miles southeast of the
Polish capital. and pushed a wedge
more than Is miles deep from the
Vistula bridgehead at Sandomierz.
Tanks Cross vistula.
Red Army infantrymen crossed
the vistula on pontoons and RATS.
followed by tanks, the Moscow CON-
munique said. In the heavy fight
ing which followed. 5000 Germans
were killed and 500 captured.
The furious breakthrough sent the
Germans reeling in flight from
Staszow and Polandiec, go miles
northeast OF Krakow. front dis
patches said.
The Russians stabbing ahead from
Staszow were only 28 miles southeast
OF Kielce, the Nazi stronghold and
Southern Polish Rail center on
which the Germans depend for
lateral communications with the
warsaw and Krakow fronts.
Threaten to Cut on Nazis.
Soviet troops held the upper
reaches OF the Vistula under COM
plete control. A giant encircling
arm curving along the west bank
threatened to cut of those Germans
battling Marshal Ivan S. Konev's
westward drive on Krakow. Mar
shal konev's forces were approach
(Cee PIICCTA Dooa A o.
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Byrnes Orders Strict Ceilings
On Labor to Boost War OUTPUT
-> Monpower Limits Apply to Wor Plants
And Civlion Industry in Shortage Areas

tempting further to arrange a pro-
gram for utilizing some unskilled
farm labor for a limited period
where the local force is inadequate.
The war mobilization director
acted after series of conferences
with military and civil officials
which followed repeated warnings
from the military about the lag in
war production,
Mr.. Byrnes said that heavy guns
and ammunition, bombs, radar
equipment, cars and tentage fabric
are critically short and urgently
needed" and that courageous act
ion" is called for quickly to get these
supplies moving.
While he stressed the Govern
ment's hope to meet the problem
by persuasion-and emphasized that
press and radio are looked upon as
(COntinlled on page Al Col 81
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Court Upho|ds Right
OF Civil Service 10
Enforce Hatch AIT
; Judges Rule Congress
Con Bor U. S. Workers
From Political Activity

A three-judge tribunal in Dis
trict Court today upheld the con-
stitutionality of that section OF
the Hatch Act which forbids
Government employees to take an
active part in political cam
paigns.
The court granted a motion of the
defendants-members of the Civil
Service Commission-for a sum-
mary Judgment and dismissal of
complaint brought BY the United
Federal Workers of America. CIO.
The union had sought to enjoin
members of the Civil Service Com
mission from taking any steps to
enforce the section of the Hatch
Act concerned.
Case Heard in June.
The case was heard and taken
under advisement in June by the
tribunal consisting of Chief JUS
tice D. Lawrence Groner of the
Court of Appeals and Justices Jen-
nings Bailey and James w. Morris
of District Court.
In its ruling, the court said:
The legislation here under con-
sideration does not seek to take
away from Government employe
his right to vote, nor his right to
express his opinion on all political
subjects. It does undertake to pre-
clude him from taking any active
part In political management or In
political campaigns, and by that is
meant activities particularly defined
by the Civil Service Commission.
To say that Congress has not the
power to pass this legislation in the
public interest, and In the interest
OF the employees of the Government
whose tenure it Is seeking to pro-
tect, Is to say that Il is not rational
for Congress to conclude that it
cannot take political activity out OF
the employment, promotion and
dismissal of Government employees
without at the same time taking
Government emloyes out of politi-
cal activity.
Question for Congress.
This is a question for the Con-
eress and not the courts to decide"
In reply to contention by the
plaintiffs that the legislation was
discriminatory as to certain en-
ployes, the court said, "the plaintiffs
challenge the legislation as being
unreasonably discriminatory be-
tween employees who come within
the act and certain employees ex-
cepted therefrom."
On this score, the court pointed
tSee HATCH ACT, Page A-8.)
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Nozi Troops Reported
Pulling Out Of Finlund
By the Associated press.

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 4.--Aftonbla.
Oct said today that long trainloads
OF German troops had been seen
moving toward Hango, Finlands
southwestern coastal fortress, where
transports were waiting to carry
them out Of the country.
The newspaper. which quoted .
traveller from Finland. said the
troops were taking their guns and
tanks with them.
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Major Burma Base
OF Myitkyina Falls
To Allies After Siege
Gen. StilweII's Forces
Win Control of Two
Important AirfieIds
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Handy Cey-
Ion, Aug. 4.-American, imperial
and Chinese forces have captured
Myitkyina, major japanese base
in Northern Burma, after a
bitter and bloody siege which
began on May II, it was an
nounced today.
At least 5000 japanese were slain
there during the 212 months of
fighting. The last remnants of the
garrison either were killed or cap
tured in the final mopup of this
largest city in Northern Burma.
The victory gave the Allies control
of two Myitkyina airfields and an
important road and rail junction on
the Upper Irrawaddy River for a
prospective linkup with Chinese
forces in Yunnan to the east in a
combined effort to open land route
to China.
Forward Allied troops in North
Burma are firmly established prob
ably not more than 20 miles from
advance elements Of the Chinese
moving westward. Possibly patrol
contacts already have been made
through the rugged mountains.
Fall of the city, which had been
n enemy hands more than two
years came after Allied forces had
put to flight japanese troops who
invaded Northeast India.
A new phase of the North Burma
and China campaigns is expected to
be mounted from Myitkyina under
Joseph w. Stilwell, recently nomi-
mated to be four-star general. But
the most immediate benefit of the
clty's fall lies in control of two i'm
portant airfieids on the famous
hump" route into China.
An all-weather airdrome south
OF the city was captured in the
initial stroke May II, when Brig.
(Sao PTJDN6A noo. n
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Hemingway Takes Port
In Capture Of s Nuzis
BY the Associate6 Press.

By the ASSociateo FfesS.
WITH THE UNITED STATES
1ST ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. A.
Ernest Hemingway, the American
novelist, matched the action OF his
fiction by taking part In the capture
Of six Germans.
Mr.. Hemingway entered Percy
with Sergt. Herbert Kimbrough, Van
Buren, Ark, Army photographer.
French resistance men told them six
Germans were hiding in q cellar.
Mr.. Hemingway and Sergt. KIM
brough took up positions nearby and
the photographer tossed ! grenade
into the cellar. The Germans came
up without any more fight.
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Mead Elected Head
OF Senate W ar Inquiry,
Truman
Committee Acts Quickly
At Closed Session; No
Stoff Changes PIonned
BY the Associated Press.


The Senate War Investigating
Committee turned today to a
one time Capitol building police
man to direct its future policing
of the war program on the home
front.
Six-foot, 2O0-pound Senator
Mead of New York was picked to
succeed Senator Truman as chair
man of the Senate's top investi-
eating committee. Senator Tru-
man reluctantly resigned yesterday
to campaign for the vice presidency.
Senator Mead's formal selection
for the Craftsmanship was voted at
a closed session this morning at
tended by Senator's Connally, Demo-
Fcrat, of Texas; Brewster, Republic
an, of Maine, and Ferguson, Repub-
lican, of Michigan.
Senator Mead at once announced
the committees stan would remain
unchanged. adding that the resigna-
ton of Chief Counsel Hugh Fulton,
submitted with that of Senator Tru-
man, had not been accepted and. SO
far as he was concerned, would not
be. Mr.. Fulton, however. told news
men he was pressing for its accept
ance.
Vice President Wallace will ap-
point a Senator to fill Senator Tru-
mans place on the committee.
Senator Mead, one of eight chill
dren, was born In a humble home
near the tracks of the Lackawanna
Railroad at Mount Morris, N. Y,
and fought his way UP the political
ladder the hard way. At IL, he was
a waterboy for the Lackawanna. He
became, in succession, lamp lighter
section hand. shopman, switchman
and president Of the Switchmen's
Union.
When Is, he became a member OF
the Capitol police force on his
Representatives patronage roll. Be-
fore leaving Washington he con-
flded to fellow officers he would like
to return as a member Of Congress
And he did, after eight years, five
of which he spent as a county super
visor and State Assemblyman.
Senator Mead flrst came to Con-
gress In 1919, serving 10 terms III
the House before his elevation to
the Senate in 1898. He is So.
Evening star., 1944-08-04

ers were kept from work by threats
made by persons who are appar-
emily more interested in aiding the
Axis than in seeing to it that essen.
tial transportation Is provided for
Philadelphias war workers"
Delay in restoring full operation
is measured in the blood Of Amer
lean soldiers overseas" he said.
Those who obstruct our operation
have that blood on their hands"
He promised full legal penalties
for any who interfere with service
and said 1T is obvious that the
overwhelming majority of Transit
employees are conscious of the SUI
preme obligation they have to our
fighting men,"
Police TO Protect Operators.
Supt. of Police Guy E. Parsons,
hurrying to a conference with Gen.
Hayes, said the Army had asked him
to assign policemen to protect any
motormen working The depart
ment, he said, will do so.
Crowds of employees milled around
the car barnes.
You want to know If well 20
back? One said. We'll, we're wait.
ing for instructions"
Yeah another added, but We
won't go back until they stop giving
platform jobs to Negroes"
"Oh. shut up!" third exclaimed,
and the group melted into the
crowd.
Workers Oppose Violence.
Supt. william Kerr, at the Tenth
and Luzerne streets barns, told
gathering:
We don't want any violence"
In chorus, many workers shouted:
~Oh, there won't be any violence
The stoppage began in protest
against the Philadelphia Transpor-
tation Co.'s upgrading of Negroes to
operating jobs under orders of the
Fair Employment Practices Com.
mittee.
Five truckloads of strikers stopped
a PIC emergency repair wagon in
a residential street and warned the
tiCW W dAlSWCI uO CdllS.
Repair Crew Warned.
Don't If you know what's good
for you,' they said.
After seven trains had pulled out
Of the 69th street elevated terminal.
q band of strikers appeared on the
platform and attempted to dissuade
other crews from making their runs.
Only one crew walked out again.
What can you expect of these
Old guys?" a0triker shouted. They
were scabs in the 1910 strike"
Eleven windows were. smashed
during the night in q tiare-up Of
race disorder which already had
sent a persons to hospitals.
Az $3.50 an heavy details of po-
(see TRANSIT, Page A-SJ
Evening star., 1944-08-04
COP Governors Brand
New Deal Inefficient;
Pledge Dewey Unity
Take President to Tosk
For FoiIure to Consult
With Heuds Of Stutes
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,
Star Staff correxnopdsn.

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 4.-The New
Deal was charged today with
inefficient and arbitrary" ad-
ministration OF existing labor
laws as the 26 Republican Gov
ernors ended their two-day con-
ference here, with pledge of
unity between the States and
Federal governments if Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey Is elected.
Asserting that In 10 years the
Governors have never been invited
by President Roosevelt to exchange
views, and that entire regions of
the country have. been unrepre-
sented in the cabinet or administra-
tive agencies during that time, the
COP State executives said this has
produced mostly misunderstand-
Ing and can and must be renedied.
Declaring against political con-
troll of the profession of medicine"
in their social welfare statement,
the Governors apparently were hit
ting at part of the Wagner-Murray
cradle to grave" social security bill,
which would set up Nation wide
medical insurance plan.
Taxes Must Be Reduced"
Taxes must be simplified and
reduced after the war;" the Cover
nors declared, in calling for elimina-
ton OF much double taxation" by
a clearer segregation of the sources
OF Federal and State revenue.
Turning to public spending, they
demanded that the cost of gov
ernment must be made to fit the
American pocketbook" and added:
To-day there ere too many cases
where several Federal employees do
work that one could do better"
After releasing the final six state
ments of policy, the Governors
closed their gathering with this
summation:
We have here achieved unity of
thought between the Republican
Governors and the next Republican
administration on matters which
will deeply affect the future safety
OF our country and the well being
OF our people. 1t is in this spirit of
unity that we face the future. con-
fident that translation of the prin-
ciples we have stated is essential to
the liberty and happiness of the
American people,
Labor Policy Statement.
On the important subject of labor
policy, the Governors declared:
The healthy functioning of our
Nation requires body of laws pro-
tecting the rights of labor, of collec-
tive bargaining and insuring fair
standards Of employment, the facili-
tation Of cooperation between
management and labor, and proyid-
ing for conciliation and mediation
of Industrial disputes. It requires a
competent and equitable admins
tration OF such laws.
The broad base of our progressive
labor laws was begun and carried
far by our States. Guarantees to
labor are recognized as Nationwide
in Importance and distinctly in the
national interest. America does not
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Heavy Toll Of % Aboard
Feared in Transport Crash
y the Associated Press.

81 the Associated Press.
BRUNING, Nebr., Aug. "A
C-47 transport plane, ferryins 2s
pilots from the Bruning Army Air
field to the Army atrbase at
Pierre. s. Oak, crashed last night
near Napier, Nebr., Col. G. d. Nc
Allister, base commander at Brun-
Ing, announced today.
Col. McAllister said It Is believed
. majority Of the 40 men aboard
were killed.
Evening star., 1944-08-04
By ]. A. FOX.

An order applying employ
ment ceilings in areas of labor
shortage throughout the Nation
was issued today by James F.
Byrnes, war mobilization di-
rector, to speed the output Of
critical war materials. He said
100000 able-bodied men were
needed at once for vital military
production.
The order applied both to civilian
industries and war plants in areas
where the labor supply is short. 1t
clamps employment limits on less
essential factories in 181 war-vital
centers where workers are scarce.
Mr.. Byrnes said it was proposed to
implement domestic labor forces
with war prisoners where their use
is permissible and that he was at
Evening star., 1944-08-04
kazi Lieutenant General
Killed Near Caumont
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. At. Gen. Won
Drabisch-Waechter, German divia
sion commander, was killed near
Caumont in France Wednesday, the
German news agency DNB said
today, quoting a high command
communique supplement.
Previously six German generals
have been reported killed in Nor
mandy. Two others and a rear
admiral were captured at Cher
bourg.
The Russians have announced the
capture of n since their summer
offensive opened June %. Numerous
others have been killed on the Rus
sian front. in the German purge
following the reported Hitler assass-
nation plot, and in various "acci-
dents"
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Capture Of Florence
By Allies Seems Near
As Nazis Fall Back
Germon Guns in Action
From Peaks Behind
City After Retreat
BULLETIN
ROME tP.-The 9th Army
reached Florence today.

BY the Associated Press
ROME. August 4.-Allied entry
into Florence appeared immi-
nent today, with the Germans
falling back before the unre-
lenting pressure of New Zealand
and South African troops.
The Germans were on the run
back through Florence. and their
guns flashed from the peaks which
rise behind the beautiful Tuscan
city.
Nazi forces departed last night
from ridge south of the city.
From that vantage point today AS
sociated Press Correspondent Lynn
Heinzerling looked down on Flor
ence and through the smoke OF Ger
man guns just outside the city was
able to pick out glistening church
domes.
Freyberg Plans Entry.
Some of the Allied troops were
less than three miles from the city
1t. Gen. B. C. Freyberg, commander
of the New Zealanders, made plans
for an entry by his troops, which
have been on the 60 since the battle
of Crete.
(Today's German communique
said German troops had "detach-
ed themselves toward narrow
bridgehead Immediately south of
Florence" and that renewed Al
lied attacks against this position
were frustrated. 1t declared with
out Allied conf1rmation-that Al
lied artillery fire was directed ION
the historic city with its ire
placeable cultural treasures"
The New Zealanders drove the
Germans from high ground south
west OF Florence in the advance to
the River Greve.
The latest advance gave the 9Th
Army a strong hold on the hills 2
miles northeast of Laromolo. Clog
oil. less than. S miles southwest of
Florence, was captured in the course
of the thrust.
Nazi Strength Breaking.
The Nazis pulled back and per-
mitted South African armored units,
employing American Sherman tanks
and British Guards Brigade, to
capture the important town of I'M
pruneta, 5la miles due south of
Florence's outskirts.
There were indications that the
ruthless pressure on the contract
ing arc around Florence was stead
lily breaking down NaN strength.
Allied artillery was now in a posi-
ton to shell enemy positions. The
Arno River crossings Immediately
west OF Florence and the brideehead
across the Pesa River farther to the
west have been strengthened suffi-
Gently to become a grave threat to
German troops on the south banks
of the Arno.
The last defenses OF Florence be-
gan collapsing only after many davs
OF the most bitter fighting and an
Allied spokesman declared the Ger
man tactics of slow withdrawal
with numerous heavy counterattacks
were costly to them.
5000 Prisoners in "A Days.
An example of the toll taken of
the Nazis was the announcement
that the 9th Army captured 5000
prisoners in "a days, ending july
~, only 1000 less than the num-
bered captured in the preceding
eight weeks.
The losses in killed and wounded
mas also been high" the spokes-
man said. The enemy has no
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Japs Report P-38 Raid
On Southern Manchuria
Ry the ASSnciafed Brass

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Japanese
broadcasts said today P-38 planes
had attacked Southern Manchuria
and that this proved that a raid by
fighter planes from continental
bases is possible"
A broadcast heard by FEC mon
itors said 1t was clear that "the en-
emy has design to attack" Man
churia continuously. Tokyo claimed
that today's raid did no damage.
B-29 Super Fortresses went to
Manchuria last week.
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Nozis Claim Sinking
Of Allied Cruiser
the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. 4.-The German
communique asserted today that
one Allied cruiser. three destroyers
and five transport ships had been
sunk ''by weapons of the German
Navy and by German U-boats in
waters of the invasion front"
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Mats Leading Red Sox
AT End Of Fourth
Johnson Gets His llth
Homer Of the Season
Bv JOHN b. KELLER.

SVni Staii correspondent.
BOSTON, Aug. 4.--The punchless
Mats opened a five-game series with
the second-place Red Sox here this
afternoon after a disastrous swing
OF the Western cities.
Niggeling was the starting pitcher
for the Mats and Terry for the Sox.
johnson got his 18th homer of
the season in the second inning.
The score at the end of the fourth
inning was Washington, s; Bos-
ton, 2.
FIRST INNING.
WASHINGTON Case walked
Myatt flied to Metkovich. Case
went to second on a passed ball.
Spence singled to right, scoring
case. Kuhel walked. Ortiz struck
out. Torres forced Kuhel, New
some to DOerr. One run.
BOSTON-Finney lined to Ortiz,
MetkoVich bunted and Myatt threw
him out. Myatt threw out Fox. No
runs.
SECOND INNING.
WASHINGTON-Ferrell was safe
on Tabors poor throw. Sullivan
flied to Metkovich. Niggeling
grounded into double play, Terry
to Newsome to Finney. No runs.
BOSTON-Johnson hit a home
run over the left-field wall, his 18th
of the season. Doerl flied to Case.
Tabor Lined to Case. Torres threw
out Wagner. One run.
THIRD INNING.
WESTINGHOUSE beat out a
bunt to Tabor. Myatt singled to
center. Case stopping at second.
(See BASEBALL, Page A-l0J
Evening star., 1944-08-04
Yanks Believed Near St. Nazaire.
Virtually Cutting Off Peninsula;
OtherForcesMopping UpRennes
Dinun Taken in
Westward Push
Toward Brest
BULLETIN.

SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS (P.-The Ameri-
cans were believed tonight to
have swept close to St. Naza-
ire, virtually completing the
cutoff of the Breton Pc
ninsula. Advanced forces were
believed we'll beyond any
points thusfar disclosed.
Evening star., 1944-08-04

(See GOVERNORS, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1944-08-04

(See FRANCE. Page A-3.
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(See ITALY, Page A-3.0
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Continued on Page A-8. Col.
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(See RUSSIA, Page A-2,)
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(See BURMA, Page A-8
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Question for Congress.

(Sec HATCH ACT, Page A-SJ
Evening star., 1944-08-04

tsee TRANSIT, Page A-S.)