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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

BY EPSIE KINARD
YORK.-NeW S
coat which will keep you dry as your powder puff in storm and
turn up looking smart if the shines
Backing rainWear in this roleabe
fabrics ranbowbrigh
oped epelnt finishes the durable
which applied cotton lnen
before fabrics made
be applied to fabric after the garment The latter
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combining three
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Tho Time, the Place and the
Girl"

Sterling HolloWay's first role since
his release from the Army is in "A
Walk in the Sun" Yep, he's play
ing CT. i. . Dorothy Lamour has
been living the life of a housewife
for three months with her Army
captain husband in San Bernardino.
She came TO town the other day,
walked around Paramount like a
visitor anG then told Buddy De-
Sylvia. Hollywood must be an excit-
ing place. Tell me-do screen stars
look the same off the screen as
on?"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Home Department
To Make RUGS

RugmaknIg will be the subject of
the meeting Thursday at 1890 a. m.
CT McCabe Eucalyptus home depart
ment at the home of MIS-. George
Harris, 1888 He'll street.
A potluck luncheon will be served
at noon.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

Average yearly tuberculosis death
rate in 90 cities of 100000 or more
population was 55.4 per 100000,
compared with Ali in rural areas,
the u S. Public Health Service said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 28 CUP) -
The ancient English castle of the
Duke of Westminster. acquired by
the late Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
Business Women Hear
Role of Women Marines

Inc role women IN the marines was told by Captain Julia Rocke
eer meeting of
night the home of Miss Evelyn Allen. Rockefeller
charge of the
the
through
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28
HOLLYWOOD
BY ERSkINE JOHNSON
FILAITOWN FACTS
AND FANCIES

Exclusively Yours: Burgess Mer-
edith. with shaved head and rubber
wrinkles, was playing his first scene
as lSolumnist Ernie Pyle for "G.1.
Joe" at a Southern California Army
camp. A group of real GI.'s were
interested spectators. Finally one
turned to the other, scratched his
head and said, Now, how the devil
did that old coot get Paulette God
6ard?" . Although M-G-M's film
version of Thirty Seconds Over
Tokyo" glorifies B-25's, no airplanes
can be mentioned in the advertiS-
ing campaign studio orders E.
They're selling the love story be-
tween Van johnson and Phyllis Bax-
ter Ida Lupino will take an
other two-month vacation after COM
plotting pillar TO Post" Doctors or
6crs again Merle Oberon has
been notified that the HMS Oberon,
submarine named in her honor, re-
Gently left the ways in England.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-28

A new messenger girl on the
Warner lot had TO deliver pack
age To Humphrey BOgart. She
asked Duke. the studio gateman.
where Bogart was working. Re-
piled Duke: "Just follow the
sound of gun fire" :. Ann Sher-
itlan will play an innocent, wide
eyed grandd laughter of SYM
phony orchestra leader who winds
up as a hot night club singer in
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Red Cross Officials
Mark Anniversary Of
Jane DeIano's S Death

The 25th anniversary of the death
of Miss Jane A. Delano. department
of nursing directors of the American
Red Cross in the World War was
celebrated yesterday at memorial
exercises at national Red Cross
headquarters.
Miss Delano's vision and untir-
ing efforts have resulted in the best
American nurses caring for wounded
servicemen, frequently on the field
of battle" said Miss Mary Beard.
present director of the department.
Miss Beard told how Miss Mabel
Boardman. secretary of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, had interested Miss
Delano in the organization and how
the latter had been selected to take
the position heading the newly Gre
ated department of nursing soon
after America entered the war. Miss
Beard said Miss Delano's labors dur
ing the influenza epidemic of 1918
left her tired woman at the time
she sailed for France that Decem-
per. Miss = Delano died there in
April, 1919, after an operation for
maStoiditis.
Miss Boards talk was followed by
the laying of wreath at the foot
OF the Delano memorial statue by
Miss Phyllis Sirwatka, student nurse
at Georgetown University Hospital
She was escorted to the statue by
1t. Mary Benner of the Navy Nurse
Corps.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Mrs. Katherine SaIb Dies;
Trustee Of Willard Estate

Mrs. Katherine Kirby Salb, SIS,
co-trustee of the estate of Henry
K. Willard, once owner of the Will
lard Hotel. died yesterday at Provi-
dence Hospital after weeks ILL
ness.
Mrs. Salb, who lived at 2731
Thirty first place NV, was the
wife of DR.. George r. Salb, Wash
ington druggist.
Once business manager for Mr.
Willard, Mrs. Salb became CO.
trustee of his estate after his death
in 1926. A native of Frostburg,
Md, she had lived here since 1911.
She married Dr. Salb In June, 1918.
She was parishioner at st. Thomas
the Apostle Church.
Besides Dr. Salb she is survived
by two sons, George r., jr., Of Wash
ington, and Louis. in the Navy in
the South Pacific; daughter
Margaret Mary Salb; two brothers
Leo and Walter Kirby, and three
sisters, Miss Annie Kirby. Mrs. Idell
Meighan and Mrs. Dorothy Cherry
all of Washington.
Funeral arrangements are being
handled by the Hanlon funeral
home, GAL H street NE.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
'Chukie' Kelly
Gets Medal but
Sailor Gets Girl
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. Ms -
PITTSBURGH, Mar. 11-sergt
Charles E. (Commando) Kelly
earned the Congressional Medal of
Honor on the italian front-but he
lost his childhood girl friend" at
home in Pittsburgh.
Today, even as Sergt. Kelly &C
cepted his Nations highest award,
Mrs. Michael Connolly said her 18-
year-old daughter. Mae Lucille,
whom she said the "one-man army
courted before he went to the serv-
ice, had married a merchant seaman
a month ago.
The mother, who said Sergt. Kelly
is unaware of her daughters mar
riage, said:
They met when Mae was only
IL years old. He'd come here nearly
every night and sit and talk with
her on the doorstep. He was BASH
full and shy.
Before he went to the Army.
Chuckie (as Sergt Kelly is called
considered Mae Lucille his sweet
heart. However, Mae Lucille was
of a more serious mind. 1 didn't
believe she. ever considered marry
ing Chuckie-he was just a very
close childhood friend"
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Raids
Continued From First Page.)

States headquarters announced
This transportation center is in
Western Germany IS miles from the
Netherlands border.
Liberators attacked the Pas-de-
Calais area, where enemy emplace-
ments threaten the Allies shortest
invasion route from Britain.
Thunderbolts Strafe Airdromes. -
Thunderbolt fighters, meanwhile
swept over occupied territories and
strafed airdromes and enemy gun
positions.
Other Thunderbolts, as well as
Lightnings and Mustangs, accom-
panied the bombers. No bombers
were lost in the days operations
but four fighters were missing.
1t was the third time that
American heavy bombers have hit
Germany without loss-the previ-
Gus perfect records" having been
set last November.
Despite>the lack of enemy fighter
planes today, enemy antiaircraft
was severe. The bombers plowed
through snowstorms to reach the
targets.
The Muenster bombers were the
first all-silver fortress group to at
tack Germany. 1t had none of the
old dun-colored camoufage which
has been dropped to save so pounds
of weight.
Raj Copies American Technique
For the hard-working American
crews, some of whom had been
over Europe 10 Of the last IS days,
it was the eighth attack since March
l. The RAF's heavy bombers have
attacked continental objectives six
nights in March, although with con-
Siderably smaller forces than the
great fleets which smashed Berlin
Leipzig, Schweinfurt and other
German cities last month.
The Raj Friday night copied the
American precision technique ir
bombing specific targets at nigh
with the help of bright moon. The
targets, in France, were airplant
factories at Clermont- -Ferrand, Os.
sun and Chateauroux, and bearing
| factory at Laricamarie
Emphasizing the significance O.
this weeks bombings, the American
heavyweights went to work on pre-.
cision targets untouched by the Raj
in its three e-month obliteration cam.
lpaign, while divisions finding toe
many clouds for precision bombing:
let go their explosives in efforts tt
| f1atten whole industrial districts. az
the British have done at night.
Round Trip Of $50 Miles.
To reach Muenster. key point
on the supply route for Hitler'S
snti-invasion forces, the Fortresses
and their escorts had to fly rounC
trip of at least $50 miles in weather
which only few months ago woulc
have kept bombers at home.
The city of $4,000 previously was
attacked four times by the Unitec
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Russiiu
Continued From First Page

kurov and 4 miles south of the
river.
The fighting in the Dnieper area
menaced not only Kherson but also
Nlkolaev where the Russians were
last reported 35 miles away on the
Nikolaev-D Dolinskaya railway. Kher-
son was in most immediate danger
for the Germans in this city had
only one rail line through Nikolaey
for retreat.
The armies of the three Russian
fronts were tearing into so over
burdened German divisions with
synchronized blows which, with luck
could bring Soviet forces into pre-
war Rumania in a week
These three great drives were
pressing on with such vigor that the
German radio hastened to tell the
home front of the Russian sue
cesses-as If preparing it for a dis
aSter that could not be concealed.
Germans Outnumbered.
Under the impact OF a great pre-
ponderance of Soviet forces-per-
hapS two TO one or better-FielC
Marshal Fritz Won Mannstein'
harried divisions were being squeezed
out of the Soviet Union all the way
from the strategic Polish base OF
Tarnapol to sector about rs miles
north of Nikolaev.
The latest massive stroke in tn,
grand offensive came from the q
Ukrainian Army under Marsha
Ivan S. Konev. who struck through
IMAM so speedily that Moscow radi,
said villagers told OF seeing Ger
mans rushing away, putting thei
clothes on as they ran"
In some areas the back-trackin,
Nazis left endless rows of truck
covering dozens of miles in som
places three or four rows deep"
AT Tarnopol the German high
command communique said today
Russian forces who had broken int
the town have been dislodged by /;
counterattack
Evening star., 1944-03-12
D. {. Red Cross Drive
May Top S1,O00,000
Before End Of Week

The Red Gross War Fund Drive
here may pass the Sl,000.OOO mark
this week, campaign leaders said
yesterday as they urged intensified
collection efforts.
End of the first week of report
meetings showed $484,851 subscribed
by 1923 donors, and leaders pre-
dicted an increasing flow of contri-
buttons now that internal organi-
zation has been completed by busi-
ness firms and Government offices.
The s2,665, 900 goal is the largest
ever set by the Red Cross for the
District area. Last year some 400,-
900 contributors donated nearly ST.
100000. On the basis of increased
needs of servicemen. at home and
overseas, campaign officials have Said
the $2,665 900 merely meets minimum
needs.
Discussing the campaign, General
Chairman Lloyd B. Wilson told The
Star:
The undertaking in which we are
now engaged is in reality cam
paign of the people of Washington
to raise funds necessary to provide
those personal and indispensable
services for the men and women of
our armed forces who are members
of our own families and the families
of our friends.
The Red Cross is the channel
through which those of us at home
can give aid and comfort to those
who are fighting for us.
This is the message that the TO-
600 workers now engaged in this
campaign are bringing to the people
of Washington. When this is fully
realized by all the citizens of our
community. there can be no ques-
ton as to the success of the drive"
While the second week of reports
cuts across the March Is income
tax payment date, campaign lead
ers yesterday expressed confidence
that this will not hamper Red Cross
subscriptions to any large extent,
inasmuch as many employers are
arranging to deduct gifts from pay
envelopes over reasonable period
Of time.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
BY KENNETH L. DIXON,

Associated Press War Correspondent.
AN ADVANCE MEDITERRAN-
EAN AIRBASE, Italy, Mar. IL
Three huge American Marauder
formations made good their reputa-
ton for pinpoint accuracy today
when they blasted railroad yards in
Florence with what some flyers said
was go per cent destruction"
They did it, SO far as I could see,
without dropping a single bomb on
lany other part of the historic city
where the Renaissance was born
and which is known as one OF the
most beautiful in all Europe.
Riding in the second fight of the
oldest medium bomb group of the
Mediterranean, I watched the whole
thing and going. The
formation in front of us crossed
the freight yards as We entered the
bomb run. BY the time we were
over the target, their bombs were
sending huge mushrooms of gray
smoke up from the northern point
of the triangular rail junction.
Watched Bombs Hit Target.
Hanging out over the catWalk Of
the open bomb bay of a B-26 piloted
by -year-old 1t. Jack Larkin,
Fairfield, Mont, I watched our big
l ,000-pounder break away and
lplummet precisely on the southern
corner of the triangle-our exact
target. 3,
1t. David J. Little, 81. bombardier,
Of st. Paul, Mimi, left our bomb bay
doors open full 10 minutes after we
released our load of destruction
strictly an unusual procedure since
it slows the ship--in order to let me
check the accuracy OF the entire
formations bombing.
Spurred by their commanding Of
ficer's warning that "it is better for
us not to bomb at all than miss this
target" every bombardier was on
the ball and every plane laid It's eggs
squarely on the junction of the two
key railroads which have been sup
plying both the beachhead and Cas-
Sino fronts.
Target Plastered Again.
Jllild lOl WIilCll lOl-
lowed us completed plastering
southern point in the yards. Neither
I nor the bombardiers and tail
gunners saw single burst outside
the target area.
Watching the receding target, 1t
was amazing to note how entire
clusters of mushrooming clouds from
the destruction were confined to one
tiny space, which seemed no larger
than the palm of the hand Yet
there was no doubt of the extent of
that destruction. The junction,
which briefing officers told the air.
men was the most important rail-
head in Italy, now was completely
covered by geysers of black smoke.
The mission started for the Ma
rauders before dawn, when they
were hustled out to attend the spe-
cial briefing. 1t. Col Joseph r.
Holzapple, Peoria, Ill, gave his group
a sales talk.
Florence Is the most beautiful
city in Europe. 1t has 10 per cent
Of the worlds art treasures and
countless beautiful buildings. 1t is
also important religiously. 1t is
the most important target we've had
more important than Rome" he
said, adding:
I'VE don't want to damage that
beauty, but the Germans have been
taking advantage of our laying off
it to increase the use of its rail IA
ni1 10 II to
marshaling yards and that juno
ton
The pressure is on us. boys.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Florence Bombed So Carefully
Only Rail Turqets Were Hit

You've come through every time
they've needed special job. II you
can't hit the target, don't drop your
bombs"
There was more in the same vein
from other officers.
Each Church Identified.
The maps had each historic
structure carefully marked with
crosses identifying each church and
cathedral. These were augmented
by more intricate aerial photographs
with duplicate markings of all ''un-
touchable" points.
Tension hung over the plane a.
it thundered through heavy over.
casts.
"It doesn't look like we will b
able to see the target" yelled Co.
Pilot 1t. Regis F. Jones, 26, Castel'
la, Calf. Staff Sergt. Arthur B
Hathaway, 20, Hamlet, Ind, movet
back from his engineering job tt
the turret gunners' position.
But they got a lucky break. Ter
minutes from the target. the over.
cast broke away. The flyers made
the bomb run directly over The
city, laundering northwest past the
Palace of Plitti over the Arnc
River. -g.5 tse ,n
Bomb bay doors yawned wide
open as they roared scores of plane.
cIlnh loyHv,1 rkc q
the Palace of the Medici, the Palaz-
70 Vecchio and the Archaeological
Museum. The famous dome of the
Florence Cathedral glistened in the
sun. Even from 10000 feet, the
city was beautiful to the naked eye
go Per Cent Destruction"
Both the bombardier and tail
gunner, staff Sergt. John G. Ber-
gen, 80, Dorchester, Mass, who
watched the completion of the
bombing, agreed that all bombs
were on the target area.
That should represent about 9(
per cent destruction" said 1t. Lar
kin. You bombardiers can really
get on the ball when the chips are
down, can't you?"
Nobody answered, for just then
Technical Sergt. George E. Riser
"a, Fort Madison, Iowa, radioman
and waist gunner, called attention
to a pair Of unidentified planes. Up
to then there had been neither fax
nor enemy fighters. Some Spitf1res
went down to investigate, but we
were unable to see the outcome and
were untroubled on the return trip
1T was strictly milk run,
grinned Sergt. Hathaway.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
1876 Servicemen Use
" Recreational Facilities

Ralph w. Foster, physical direc-
tor of the YMCA, yesterday re-
ported that 1876 enlisted service
men had made Use of the recrea-
tional facilities of the organiza-
ton during 1943, in addition to
the Saturday night sleeping accom-
modations provided at q low cost.
Mr.. Foster said the YMCA ex-
poets to broaden its program dur
ing the present year, the centennial
year. Membership last year, the
report said, included 5,522 men and
1,672 boys. A total of 46,158 services
to men and boys was rendered, in
Guiding physical examinations, swim
tests, life-saving tests, first aid,
health lectures, messages, solarium
treatment and individual exercises,
the report said.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
BresIau, Reported
Nazis' New Capital,
Is in Bomber Rance
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assoctatec Press.
NAPLES, March l1.--Adolf Hitler
has moved his capital from Berlin
to Breslau, trustworthy informants
said today, but the German machin-
cry of government still is within
range OF Allied bombers.
Breslau, one of the largest cities
in Germany. is ITS miles southeast
of Berlin and only so miles from the
old Polish border.
Most of the functions Of the Ger
man government now are carried
out at the new Silesian headquar-
ters. unofficial sources here said.
since the transfer from Berlin began
several weeks ago.
Breslau is about $50 miles from
Britain's coast, 670 miles from the
Allied air base at Foggia in Italy,
and about 425 miles from the Rus
sian front in old Poland in flying
to Berlin this week, American fighter
planes demonstrated they have
round-trip range of at least 1900
miles, so a trip to Breslau by es-
corted bombers may not be out Of
the question. There is no question,
of course, that unescorted bombers
can make the trip either from
Britain or Italy.
A communications center, Rreslau
has large railroad yards, textile
mills. one important aircraft factory
and a power plant on which many
other towns in the area depend.
Nearly half its $4,000 residents
live in tenements within a 2-mile
radius near industrial plants
making it a highly vulnerable target.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
135 Drivers Are Cited
In Gas Coupon Check

Slightly less than 10 per cent
of all motorists checked during the
last week in the ONCE of Price Ad-
ministration's drive for proper in
dorsement of gasoline ration cou-
ponS have been served notices to
appear before their ration boards.
the District OPA reported yesterday.
A total of 1854 ration books were
checked at 367 stations, and 1876
notices to present to their boards
with properly indorsed coupons
were handed out by OPA inspectors.
Officials were pleased with the
high percentage of compliance but
they emphasized the drive would be
continued. Regulations require
that each coupon carry license num-
Der and state of registration on its
face.
Persons served notices who fail
to appear at boards within five days
will be called for a hearing at OPA
headquarters to show cause why
their rations should not be revoked.
The first of these second services are
expected to go out this week, Of
ficials said.
Evening star., 1944-03-12

Her name was Nancy" began the
wounded sailors story in a broad
cast from the Charleston Navy
Yard
ITO the hundred or more wounded
Americans resting in hospital
somewhere in North Africa, she was
more than the conventional Red
Cross angel of mercy
"She was warmth when the
Mediterranean sun shirked it's duty
as it often did. She was hope when
the going was toughest. when
shattered arms and legs, sightless
eyes and broken spirits plunged
young and ambitious souls into the
depths of misery and self-pity.
"She was a touch of home when
memory began its heartless work
The sight of her was like a quick
trip to Kansas City or San Francisco
or Providence, R. I.
"She was definitely good medi-
cine"
The wounded men who came back
with the injured sailor from hospi-
tai in North Africa needed no
further details to know whom the
broadcast referred to.
Nancy is Nancy Catch, daughter
of the Judge Advocate General OF
the Navy and Mrs. Thomas Catch
of 3103 Macomb street NV.
A Sweet Briar graduate, Miss
Catch was working at the War Pro-
duction Board when she enlisted in
the Red Cross.
She was trained as a recreational
worker but when she landed in
North Africa in December, 1912, she
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Curtis f. lie May Promoted
To Major General al 81
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 1l.-United States
Army Headquarters today an
nounced the promotion from briga-
der general to major general of
Curtis E. LIE May. 81, the commander
of an 9th Air Force bomber division
Gen. lie May, whose home is in
Lakewood, Ohio. is one of the
youngest major generals in the Army
and one of the pioneers in develop
ment of daylight precision bomb
ing of Germany. AS flying
colonel he led an unescorted Flying
Fortress formation on the England
to-Africa shuttle bombing of the
Regensburg Messerschmitt plants
last August 49, For this mission he
received the Distinguished Service
Cross.
He was made a brigadier general
November 18, 1943.
Evening star., 1944-03-12
Enemy Can Escape,
Montgomery Says;
Sees End in 1945
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. II. Gen. Sir
Bernard L. Montgomery declared
today that I'VE have got this war
absolutely gripped In firm hold
and the enemy cannot escape" but
he predicted that the fighting would
probably extend into next year.
In another confident expression,
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme
commander Of the Allied invasion
forces, told graduates at the Royal
Military College at Sandhurst that
he hoped to meet them soon east
OF the Rhine
Gen. Montgomery, commander of
British ground forces under Gen.
Eisenhower, told war workers on a
tour Of tank and gun plants: Il
have not the slightest doubt that if
the battlefront and homefront
really get down to it this year, we
can get the thing almost finished
held so tightly that next year We
will just topple 1t over"
"At the end of this year. If not
sooner, we shall have it just about
right for toppling over" he added
Gen. Eisenhower told the young
officers at Britain's West Point
that "a small unit of leadership will
win the forthcoming ground battle
You must master your job, and mas
ter it quickly
Colorful Sir Bernard of British
9th Army fame. who took a day of
from training the invasion force to
inspect and chat with the men and
women making tools for the attack
was cheered when he remarked on
the changes that had occurred since
the days of Dunkerque
Il got pushed into the sea myself
at Dunkerque-very unpleasant. But
we are doing the pushing now
he said.
Evening star., 1944-03-12

tinguished Service Cross after 1876
days Of combat, hasn't suffered a
scratch. He led q small group
against an enemy position in the
mountains and captured a German
officer and II men.
Sergt. Slaughter saw 10 the des-
truction Of two machine gun posi-
tions and personally killed two Ger
mans near Nocera, where enemy fire
was hot and heavy.