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seven years ago He worked for
construction company here before
joining the Army a year ago. He
was sent overseas last April. A
brother, Audrey c. Daniels. is a
corporal with the marines in the
South Pacific.
Sergt. Bernard ]. Tomardy, 26.
son of Paul L. Tomardy. 1882 Fourth
street S.W., was wounded in action
the second time, September 20, in
Holland, the War Department told
his family, Member of a paratroop
infantry unit, he was first wounded
in Sicily, August, l943. He jumped
on D day in France.
A graduate of St. Johns College
in the class of 81, Sergt Tomardy
formerly worked for the Guy -Curren
wholesale house His mother died
August 29 His brother Paul re-
Gently returned after two and a
half years service in the South
Pacific with the Navy. Another
brother, Vincent, is in the Navy,
training at Norman, Okla.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Capitol View Citizens
Urqe Mason Confirmation

Senate confirmation of the recent
reappointment of Guy c. Mason as
District Commissioner was urged by
the Capitol View Civic Association
last night at meeting in the dep
uty warden post, Fiftieth and Blaine
streets NE,
Replacement of defective street.
cars on the Benning line also was
urged by the group.
Theophilus Houston of the Fair
Employment and Practice Commit
tee spoke on the committees &C
complishments.
officers elected are Edward P
Lovett, president; j. F. NJ Wilkin-
son, vice president; Mrs. Alice l.
Thomas, recording secretary; Mrs
Marion F. Tinnen, assistant record
ing secretary; Mrs. Mallie C. Griffin
corresponding secretary; Rev. o. S
Franklin, financial secretary; Mrs
Grace Foye, reporter; I. O. West
moreland, treasurer, and Bruce +
Stewart, chaplain.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Zoot Suits Made Legal Again;
Two-Punts Ban Is Retained

The War Production Board has
amended restrictions on manufac-
ture of mems clothing to legalize
again the zoot suit, with all of its
old trimmings, but the ban on two
pants suits and vests for double
breasted suits still remains in effect.
All restrictions on mems and boys
suits have been lifted except the
provisions on two pants and vests.
An announcement yesterday stated
the action followed recommends
tions of the clothing industry. All
suits may now appear with trouser
Evening star., 1944-10-17

not desire the country to be turned
back. to him quickly.
Bands of Germans then still were
roaming around, some French re-
sistance forces would heed military
orders only and there was the un-
usual condition, which repeatedly
remains, of the Spanish Maquis
in the southeastern corner of France
near the Spanish border who on
occasion have detied the authority
of the French government.
De GauIle Signifies Desire.
Now, Gen. de Gaulle has conveyed
to Allied authorities the idea that
he is ready to assume full response
bility for order in the country. The
reasons apparently are the same as
those which have prompted Presi-
dent Roosevelt's closest advisers to
recommend in recent days that he
recognize the De Gaulle regime
formally as a provisional govern
ment. These reasons are chiefly:
l. There has been no opposition oi
any consequence to Gen. de Gaulle'.
leadership. Some Maquis have beer
slow or reluctant to obey orders, bur
this probably was due to poor COM
munications.
2. Gen. de Gaulle has constantly
broadened the political scope of hi.
government ever since the libera.
ton Of Paris and has shown no in.
dications of desiring to make it q
personal government.
3. The strongest elements in the
government are the former under
ground groups, which have made il
entirely clear that they intend te
have an increasingly important voice
in French affairs. This is in contras
to the influence previously exercised
predominantly by persons who were
outside France during the German
occupation.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
District SAR to Hear
Iolk by Sidney Alderman

Sidney l.. Alderman, chief solicitor
OF the Southern Railway System,
Will address the District Society.
Sons of the American Revolution,
at pm. tomorrow at the Mayflower
Hotel. Mr.. Alderman will speak on
the Constitution Of the United
States.
Robert Mcneil president of the
society, will preside. Visiting COM
patriots are invited to attend and
District compatriots may each bring
one guest, the announcement said.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
New zeaIanders Gain
Mile in Drive AIonq
Highway 10 Bologna
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, Oct. l7.-New Zealand
troops Of the 9th Army have ad-
vanced on broad front north
of the Rimini-B Bologna highway,
driving from their bridgehead
across the Scola Rigossa Canal
toward the Pisciatello River, the
next water obstacle, Allied head
quarters announced today.
To the west, the 5th Army made
gains of up to 1000 yards in the
mountains before the famed univer-
sity city and Northern Italy com.
munications center of Bologna.
Fierce fighting continued south of
Bologna.
Marshal Albert Kesselring ap-
parently has decided to fight for
Bologna and German troops have
been shipped into position for a
bitter battle for the ancient CITY. II
was announced.
AN@Al AACSASt0uCc SndnSGS.
The German resistance south of
Bologna has changed in character
from delaying tactics to an all-out
defensive effort with heavy con-
Icentrations of artillery fire and fire.
quent counterattacks.
In one 12-hour period approx
mately 1000 German artillery shells
fell on the forward lines of the 5th
Army in the vicinity Of Highway IS,
the main road leading from Flor
ence to Bologna.
Nevertheless, the American units
which captured Livergnano on the
highway have cleared that town and
advanced past La Nina and Casa di
BortignanO east of the highway
This advance puts the leading
American troops within 8 miles of
Bolognas outskirts.
Still farther east, American troops
have reached points north of the
bulge in the Castel del Rio-Castel
san Pietro road. Other units were
on the southern slopes of the hill
town Of Santa Anna and In the
village Of Baccanello.
Mile Is Gained.
New Zealanders in their push
northwest out of Gambettola made
an advance of slightly more than a
mile along the Rimini- Bologna rail-
way which parallels the highway.
Advanced elements with tank sup
port have reached the east side of
the Pisciatello River on the Rimini-
Bologna highway, Highway 9. This
put them about 2 miles or a little
less from Cessna, the next sizeable
town on the highway.
In the hills to the southwest
British infantry and armor consoli-
dated recent gains and captured
Mount Romano, a high feature 3
miles south of Cessna. The peak
was held against a number OF Ger
man counterattacks and fighting
proceeded about a mile southwest
Of 1t near Monte Neale.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Eisenhower Expected
To Put Most Of France
Under De GauI|e Soon
BY JOHN Nj. HIGHTOWER,


Gen. Eisenhower is expected
to turn over to the De Gaulle
administration in a few days
formal authority over all terri
tory of metropolitan France ex-
cept some port areas and active
combat zones.
Gen. Eisenhower will take the ac-
ton by designating the sections of
France not in the fighting zones as
an interior zone
The effect will be the transfer of
virtually complete control over al
most all of France to Gen. de Gaulle
and his associates. This may speed
up the political organization of the
country, although the principal de-
laying factor so far has been the
lack of communication and trans
portation facilities.
Responsibility Has Lessened.
Gen. Eisenhower has had RESPONSE
bility for French affairs since D day
because all activities of the country
had to be subordinated to the mill
tary necessity of defeating Germany
Now only the combat zones, certain
great supply ports and some key rail
lines have primary military impor-
tance
For some weeks after the Allied
drive across Northern France, Gen.
de Gaulle made it clear to the
Allied high command that he did
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ON the Roll Of Honor

tory before entering the Army again
last February. He went overseas
with an infantry unit two months
ago.
Wounded
Pvt. Roy c. Viens, Is, U. s. M. c.,
husband of Mrs. Roy c. Viens, 1921
Thirty-first street, Arlington, was
wounded in action, according to
Navy Department release today.
Born in North Adams, Mass, Pvt.
Viens enlisted in the Marine Corps
three years ago. He has been over
seas since July. 1943. A letter re-
celved by his wife last week said he
had recovered from slight wounds
he received on July 26.
Pvt. Viens has an 8-month-old
daughter, Joyce, whom he has never
seen. His mother, Mrs. Frank Viens.
lives at the Arlington address.
Staf Sergt. Herbert c. Wright.
son of Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Wright
6l6 Quebec place NV, was wounded
IN action in the European theater
of operations but has now returned
to duty, according to an 9th Army
Air Force release from England.
Tail gunner on the Flying Fort
ress Ole Miss Destry. he has COM
pleted 80 bombing missions. He
wears the Distinguished Flying
Cross and the Air Medal with three
Oak Leaf Clusters. His wife. Mrs,
Virginia Wright, lives at 4209 Crit
tenden street, Hyattsville, Md.
Prior to his enlistment in Nav.
1912, Sergt. Wright was a Metro
politan policeman. He has been
overseas since April
Pvt. Edward M. Daniels, 22, infan-
try, was seriously wounded in France
June Is, the War Department noti-
fed his mother, Mrs. F. G. Thorpe
405 North West street, Alexandria.
He was wounded in both legs.
A native of Drakesbranch. Va.
Pvt. Daniels moved to Alexandria
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cuffs, patch pockets and all sorts of
pleats.
Ofiicials admitted the move au-
tomatically removed the ban on zoot
suits. Restrictions on two pants
suits and vests with double breasted
suits were retained, they said, be-
cause of the Army's urgent needs for
clothing items, especially trousers.
WPB regulations regarding two
pants suits have been criticized in
the past as actually wasteful of
cloth, on the grounds that pants
usually wear out before q suit coat.
Foot suits will reappear IN two or
three months, officials indicated.
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Polish War Relief

Usable used clothing is
urgently needed by the Polish
War Relief for the destitute in
war-ridden Poland, 1t was
pointed out today.
Donations will be received at
the ofi1ces of the Polish EN-
bassy, 2640 Sixteenth street
NV, telephone Adams $500.
If there is dif1iculty in deliver
ing parcels please telephone
Adams 033S, or Adams $500.
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q Mdiueu Llit ou-
Yer Star for
gaHantry in ac-
ton on August
l6 ins France"
his parents have
b e e n notified.
Before entering
the Army, Sergt.
STREET lived with
his parents at
the o n t ar1o
Apartments.
Sergt. STREET
W e n t overseas
last April after
being graduated
from the mill
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Two Army Contracts Let

Award of a s53480 contract for
construction of a new service club
at Boiling Field and of another of
SIS $50 for warehouses at the Camp
Springs Md Air Base. was an
nounced yesterday by the Army
Engineers. The work is being done
by w. M. Chappel, Washington.
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tary Intelligence school at Camp
Ritchie. Md. Born in Paris, France,
he lived there and in Geneva,
Switzerland, where his father was
correspondent for the New York
Times, until coming to the United
States with his family five years ago.
He is a graduate of Swarthmore
College and entered the Army in
l943. He has two sisters, Jeannette
a student at Swarthmore. and Col
ette, who attends the Holton Arms
School here.
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PIoy to Be Given

The Agriculture Department Dra-
matte Club will present Tony"
starring Miss Emily Peters in the
departments auditorium November
1-5 at 8 pm. The first two per-
formances will be given for service
men and women and the last three
will be open to the public for a
small charge.
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Sove This Newspoper

Many paper mills are shut
ting down for lack of waste
paper to convert into cartons
for Army and Navy supplies
shipped overseas. Every pound
OF old newspapers and maga-
zines is needed. Notify some
school child in your block to
have your paper picked up.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Blood Quote
For District, Pentagon and
Mobile Units.)
LlSLIlcJ quota nPr

Mobile Units)
District quota per
week ---------- 1000 pints
donations last week 2,809 pints
Donations yesterday 354 pints
Today's appoint
mentS --------- STA
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center,
in the Acacia Building, 81 Lou
lsiana avenue NV, by calling
District 5000 between 9 am.
and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
Hondurun Rebel Chief
Killed in Attack
BY the Associated Press.

By the Assoc ated Press.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras. Oct.
17.-Gen. Pedro Cortes, rebel leader,
was killed during an unsuccessful
attack by Honduran revolutionaries
on the Honduran city of San Mar
cos Saturday it was announced yes
terday.
A dispatch from San Salvador,
capital of Ell Salvador, confirmed
Gen. Cortes' death, but said the
revolutionaries-exiled in Ell Saliva
dor-returned to Las Mercedes.
where they planned to continue the
attacks.
Evening star., 1944-10-17
II District Men Report
To Armed Forces TODAY

Twenty-Five District men have
been ordered by their draft board
to report for induction into the
armed forces today. They are:
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Bailey, w. V, jr.
Dyer. Norman A.
Cunninshsm. L. jr,
Johnson, Leon B.
Evans, James T.
Williams. James J.
Spivey, w. c.. jr.
Boyd. Virgil J.
Briscoe, Robert L.
Carter, Emerson
HENDERSON, r, E.
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tory before entering the Army again
last February. He went overseas
with an infantry unit two months
ago.
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Mud, BOBBY Traps,
Death--Cassino War
Continued from Page u

to write how rough the going was
in the mountains around Casino
and on the fiat beachhead where
soldiers feel like cockroaches in
a bathtub" when the German
shoot at them from the surround
ing heights.
Z Months Struggle
Seven months of struggling up
the Italian boot through mud and
mountains and across bloody
beaches leave the Allies today still
short of Rome, the glittering
Christmas objective of the armchair
strategists at home but with these
considerable advantages won: ID
The Mediterranean cleared for AL
lied shipping to the Middle East;
@ Italy knocked out of the war
except for a Fascist remnant
scarcely halding propaganda value
to its Nazi masters; CD The great
network of air fields at Foggia
nesting Allied planes that fly daily
to pound German targets in south
ern Europe and the Balkans now
hammering enemy communications
centers just ahead of the onrush-
ing Red Army.
These are substantial achieve
ments but the limited nature of Al
lied investment of forces has some
times resulted in spectacular dis
appointments such as at Casino
and Anzio. Correspondents at those
fronts believe that Allied leaders
have learned many lessons which
will be applied to the forthcoming
battle in western Europe.
Here are the front-by- front re-
ports Of the correspondents:
James E. Roper, Casino front
the Allies latest attempt to over
run Casino was an example OF
trying to do too much with too lit
tie. They over-estimated the abil-
ity Of Allied bombers to destroy the
dug-in German garrison and under
t1timated the amount of infantry
needed to take the town after the
bombardment.
Casino offers lessons that every
Allied general will study before the
opening of the western front, along
which the Germans probably will
be dug In even deeper than they
were at Casino and will resist
even more methodically.
The failure to use more infantry
seems to have been due primarily
to miScalculation, although Allied
generals have not had unlimited re-
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Patrols Fiqht

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NSSAAOAAA0OA 4AOlI1 dkC ~
Nad mortars, firing from hidden
positions in the dry watercourses
honeycombing that sector, attempt
ed to lay down supporting fire on
the Allied defenseS, but were silenc-
ed quickly by heavy shellfire.
Enemy mortar and machine gun
nests near the center of the beach,
head two miles northwest Of Carano
also were put out of action by Al
lied tank destroyers that moved into
close range to blast the German
gunners.
German long-range cannon coun-
tered the Allied Smelling with a
heavy bombardment of 5th Army
positions. near the Ando-Aprilia
highway, three miles southeast of
Aprilia. About $50 rounds of enemy
fire raked the area, but there was
no official report on the damage OF
casualties.
Small Escort
A small force Of fighter-escorted
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
spearheaded the Allied aerial as
sault yesterday, pounding an enemy
airfield at Zagreb, Jugoslavia. At
least Is of 100 German fighters
that rose to intercept the raiders
were shot down.
Raj Spitf1res strafed the Banja
Luka air base 80 miles southeast Of
Zagreb, destroying an undisclosed
number Of Axis planes on the
ground Several italian Caproni
bombers, lined up on the field with
their bomb racks filed, were hit
directly and exploded.
American Marauder and Mitchell
bombers, Raj Baltimores, and Al
lied fighter bombers ranged over
central italy and the battle areas
throughout the day. bombing and
machine cunning railroad lines and
other Nazi targets.
Bomb Targets
A German-operated chemical
plant at Popoli. airfields at Perugia
and Arezzo. and big hydro-electric
plant at TERM also were hammered
by the Allied raiders.
Twenty-eight enemy planes were
destroyed In the days operations
against a loss Of 10 Allied aircraft.
A naval communi1ue. meanwhile
revealed that Allied light coastal
forces now are operating regularly
in the eastern Adriatic, hunting
down small German supply ships
attempting to run arms and arnmu-
milton along the Jugoslav coast.
Three enemv schoonerS were in
tercepted during the past few
nights, the communique said. and
captured intact with their cargoes
and crews.
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Attempts To
.DestroyFoiI
Continued from Page u

views in a spirit Of mutual conf
dence and trust between officials of
our several governments" he said.
He said his trip was on behalf
of Secretary of State Corden Hull.
who found 1t impossible to come to
London now to repay the visits OF
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
and other British officials.
Stettinius and his party were ex-
pected to stay in Britain about two
weeks, during which they will con-
fer with Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and other British leaders on
common interests and relations.
It was recalled that the original
announcement of Stettinius' pro-
posed trip to London prompted
speculation in Washington and New
York that he might break the
ground for another meeting of
President Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and Premier
Josef Stain.
This suggestion was strengthened
by the parallel between his visit
and the Moscow conference Of for
eign ministers which preceded the
Teheran meeting.
Among the subjects considered
likely for discussion were the Polish
question, the status of the Atlantic
charter, Anglo-American recogni-
ton of the Badoglio regime in Italy,
the status of the exiled Greek and
Jugoslav governments, and the posi-
ton Of the Axis satellite govern
ments in cases Of breaks with the
NaziS.
The inclusion in Stettinius' party
of DR.. Isaiah Bowman, President
Of Johns Hopkins university and
one Of Americas leading geograph-
ers, was regarded as potentially
significant. It suggested that the
discussion might deal, at least on
an exploratory level, with postwar
boundary questions.
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unnel To i
Rome Fails 4
CONTINUED from Page u

NCOnClnuSO from rage -
About 500 yards inland they came
upon well, which the old man saio
hadn't been used for years.
A war breeze came out Of It. The
Lieutenant thought moment. war
breezes don't come out Of wells he
said. The old man agreed. So the
Lieutenant went down 40 feet by
rope. What he saw made him raise
his eyebrows.
There was only three feet Of water
but there were two four-foot holes
on two sides of the we'll. Murky
water dribbled slowly in one side
and out the other.
That was the start. For the next
eight days, with the aid of Ser
geant, they probed the secret pas
sageway. The Lieutenants' enthusi-
asm never faltered. They uSd TINT
to blow out distractions. And spent
considerable time tracing four tribu-
taries that led them out at innocu-
Gus points on the beach.
The sixth day the old man Drop
ped out from exhaustion. The SOL
diers kept on, determined to crawl
out somewhere and give Kesselring
super-duper hotfoot.
But on the 9th day, after pene-
trating an estimated 21a miles, the
hopes and expectations of both men
crashed into a rocky dead-end
They ran into a wall that turned
out to be sunken basement of a
small vacant stone building. Stairs
led up, and outside, for miles around
was a wide, sweeping area of marsh
farmland.
There were deep entertainments on
all sides Of the building, and the
water drained into the basement.
TIL tunnel to Rome fizzled. 1t was
an aqueduct.
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Promises

Continued from Page II
for the final, common offensive,
FrRvnaAL Dahl

NOAANAAAOA I4OA1 I dEC ~
for the final, common offensive.
Timed Raids
These air raids, timed with the
Russian advance into Rumania and
the relentless closing of a trap
around the Wehrmacht's last south
ern stronghold, Odessa, mean that
the German army must face attack
the entire length of the Simplon-
Orient rail route which binds the
VITO halves of Europe together.
If that rail line can be blocked
as Germany'S feeder lines above
Rome hace, the Wehrmacht must
rely on the highway from Budapest
through Cluj to Brasov and Buch-
Arrest for guns, good and ammuni-
ton with which to battle the Rus
slams. That road, the only artery
of its type in the Balkans, can be
blocked as effectively as the rail-
road.
Military observers here would not
be surprised If there was a lull on
the Prut line before the Russians
resume their m arch southwark
around the Carpathians for Plesti
and Bucharest. The Red army has
noge long distance in short time
and 1t probably Is more important
to rout or trap the German sixth
army around Odessa than to strike
out now for the Ploesti oil fields, the
source of most of the fuel which
feeds the mechanical German arms.
Quick Work Anticipated
Once the Russians start, however,
they are expected to make quick
work fthe remaining Rumanian
defenseS and many qualified mill
tary observers believe the Rumanian
government will crack at the same
time.
During the interim, Allied air
power can hamstring supply and
reinforcement of Axis Balkan forces
and bring a crackup nearer by play
ing on the jittery nerves Of the Bal
kan peoples.
In smashing at targets like Bud
apest, Bucharest and Plesti, the
bombers are doing one of the main
jobs for which they were brought
to Europe. 1t has become automatic
that bombers cannot permanently
halt rail traffic, but in the Balkans,
where communications lines of all
sorts are relatively poor, steady
bombing can create havoc.
Some quarters believe that 1t
could even halt the flow of Ruman-
ian oil to the west even before the
Russians sight the Ploesti derricks,
although this would require steady
attack on Danube shipping as we'll
as rail and highway routes.
Germany probably could live off
its dwindling reserves with the
shrinking of the NaI Empire for six
months but thereafter any interrupt
ton Of the flow from Ploesti would
be critical.