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Evening star., 1944-09-16
By the Associated Press.

SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Sept. 16.-In the
flames of the burned-out Ger
man village of Wallendorf-a
sniper'S nest - the American
Army barred today a hard-fisted
policy of brooking no interfer-
ence on its road to victory.
Liberation has been left behind
in France and Belgium and now
American troops are waging war in
hostile country and are determined
to stop forever the attempts of the
German Army at world conquest.
Associated Press Correspondent
Edward D. Ball reported from Sd
United States Army headquarters
that Wallendorf in the lst Army
sector had been set afire and every
building burned because of per-
sistent sniping. Another nearby vii
lage was subjected to similar scorch-
ing for the same reason, Mr.. Ball
said.
The Americans were in no sense
adopting the ruthless methods which
marked the German invasion and
retreat, but in this case buildings
from which an enemy-whether
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Ickes, Miss Perkins
High on Gov. Dewey's
'0uster Priority LIST
Nominee Says He Has
Received Suggestions
Concerning Two Officials
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
COEUR D'ALENE. Idaho, Sept.
16.-Gov. Thomas E. Dewey told
his press conference here today
that Secretary of Interior Ickes
and Secretary of Labor Perkins
would be high on the list" of
Government officials to be oust-
ed if the Republicans win in No
vember.
Bringing his campaign to the far
reaches of the mountain country,
Gov. Dewey told the reporters that
trade agreements, not tariffs, may
be the answer to future interna-
tional economic interchanges.
The nominee, here for confer
ences with political leaders, said he
had been impressed with a feeling
during his campaign tour that the
West had been deserted by the
New Deal
A reporter asked him if he had
received any suggestions that Sec
retary Ickes be replaced.
Yes" the Governor replied.
"A great many people out here
have said to me Will you promise
to get rid of Ickes as your first
act?'"
Did you promise that?" he was
asked.
Il told them he would be high on
the list" the nominee replied.
A reporter then asked if Secretary
Perkins could be placed in the same
category.
There was great deal of COM
petition between Ickes and Nine.
Perkins, the nominee replied; that
ICoo nEyYyU1v ooro
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Pershine's Condition
CoIied Improving

The condition of Gen. John j.
Pershing, who was confined to his
bed Thursday. was described today
as improving" by Walter Reed Hos
pital officials.
Y When Gen. Pershing celebrated his
84th birthday Wednesday In his
apartment at the hospital, he was
reported suffering from q cold. His
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Warren Per-
shing, came here from her home in
New England to be with him on that
day.
When the general became i'll she
made another hurried trip here.
The nature of Gen. Pershing's ILL
ness was not disclosed by his physi-
clan, but the War Department
stated an announcement will be
made as soon as q diagnosis is COM
pleted.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Laurel Results

FIRST RACE-Purse, 81 500. claiming.
3-year-olds: furlongs.
Rita Jane tBreenl 4S.sO 1880 IL. 80
Twink Shot (Wahler) $50 1 81
Got There (Scocca) 4 N
Time, 1:173s. &
Also ran-High North, Pentagon Lady
Mend, Stolen Kiss, Spanish Uni, Ethej
BIRD, Unitran, Our Damsel and Rampage
SECOND RACE-Purse, 1880: claim
Five-Thirty s escswtSornn5}' n5'oses sa4o aeo aoo
Victory Maid (Root) 40 34G
Great Divide (Kirkl 4 ~
Time, 1:173s.
Also ran-High Master. Midknisht, Ken
mar. Toll Away Ysfinob, MorgiTs Lad.
BuzncHzn. Prop Man and Tacaro Sunted.
daily Double paid S2IS.)
THIRD RACE-Purse. S., 1000. allow
ances: 2-year-olds: 5Ea furlongs
war Strategy tRienzi) $50 800 2.20
Byrne's Baby (Gonxalez) 40 al
Brides Biscuit tScawthorn) 80
Time,1 :10ls.
Also ran--Cra Wish War Bird. Kharessa,
Pine Lake, Constance v. and war Hysteria.
Laurel entries for Monday on
Page Az.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Burning of Reich Village Bores
New, Hard Fisted u. S. Policy
Use os Snipers' Nest Seen os Full i.
Justification for Firing Buildings

civilian or military-Was firing on
American troops were defense posi-
tions which had to be knocked out
of the way for the advance. Burn
ing the building was the surest way
to stop the sniping.
1t would serve another purpose
that of hammering home to the
German people some truths about
the firm purpose of the fighting men
who are on German soil as in
vaders.
The burning of Wallendorf met
quick approval in London, where
newspaper readers had puzzled over
front-line pictures the last few days
showing doughboys treating smiling
German families to army rations.
There is no thought here that the
Germans should be treated with
cruelty, but as a good many COM
mented: The Germans still not
our friend"
Mr. Balls dispatch said the vii
layers emerged from the hill and
trudged back to the ruins of their
homes through American columns,
looking neither 10 the right nor left.
Their gaunt peasant faces looked
like other faces seen in the ruins of
Frances devastated villages.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
BY the Associated Press.


Representative Jennings, Re-
publican, of Tennessee today
made public a letter which he
said he had received from II
soldiers overseas, asserting that
right now we think that Gen.
Hershey (national selective
service directory could be voted
the man with whom we should
like most to share a slit trench
in the front lines"
Names of the writer's were with
held. The letter, dated Somewhere
in Europe, August %. 1914" said, in
part:
Everywhere in the blood stained
hedgerows of France. the foxholes
OF Italy, the damp darkness of the
jungle and in the shrapnel torn
skies of the world, tired grim Ameri-
can soldiers stood up to cheer the
latest morale booster of our beloved
friend Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey
I quote from the Stars and Stripes
OF August 23, 1874:
I'VE can keep people in the Army
about as cheaply as We could create
an agency for them when they are
out
Man of Vision.
Right now we think that Gen.
Hershey should be voted the man
with whom we should like most to
share slit trench in the front line,
for We believe him to be a man of
vision: a man of understanding
especially Of the wants, hopes, and
dreams of the common soldier. 1t is
this keen understanding, and the
generals we'll known ability of ex-
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Allied Tanks, Troops
Cross Marano River
And Drive on Rimini
American 5th Army
Bottles Stiff Resistance
North of Florence
BY the Associated Press.


ROME, Sept. 16.-BritiSh 9th
Army tanks and infantry have
broken across the Marano River
on wide front, with Greek units
pushing to the edge of the
Rimini airfield, less than 3 miles
from the town of Rimini guard
ing the entrance to Italy's in
dustrial Po Valley, Allied head
quarters announced today.
. On the western sector, the Amer
lean 5th Army reported only slight
gains in its broad advance against
the Gothic Line north of Florence.
Resistance has stiffened con-
siderably'' in the 5th Army area and
every approach to the Gothic de-
fense zone is contested bitterly and
heavily mined, Gen. Sir Harold
Alexander's headquarters said.
German defenders on the Adriatic
sector-most of which were left
without transport and, therefore,
have the alternatives of surrender
ing, fighting to death or trying to
get away on foot-were putting up
terrific fight between the Marano
River and Rimini.
Canadians Lead Advance.
A Canadian spearhead was the
first to stab across the river engaged
In tough fight with panzer
grenadiers, and $50 prisoners were
taken, including battalion COM
mander.
The Greeks fighting their way up
the coast captured San Lorenzo and
Instrada, S miles southeast of Ri
mini, then forged across the Morano
River to the airfield
British tanks and infantry strik-
ing across the river seized the twin
(OAo TTAYv noro A2N
Evening star., 1944-09-16
WHOLE SIEGFR|ED line NOW IS LMPER|LED
Wed Love to Share Slit Trench
With Hershey Soldiers Write
'Keep-Them-in-Army Statement Brings
Derisive Letter to House Member

preston and timing, that will swing
President Roosevelt back into the
White House with the certain vote
Of every mother, father. sweetheart
and wife who has a man serving
overseas. That Is why I urge
you to support Mr.. Roosevelt
he has such men around him to
guide and counsel him in his mo-
ments of decision.
las you can see, can hardly con-
troll my enthusiasm, for we love it
here and will love it even more so
after the war is won. We love the
simple life of ease and quiet dig
nifty, far from the clamor and tur-
moil of America and home. Our
only wish is that we can have an
end to this dreadful talk of demob-
ilization, this awful specter of re-
turning home over the storm tossed
waters of the gray Atlantic. We
want to stay here forever and for
ever among our pleasant European
friends. yeah, friends.)
Entered in Record.
I'VE are certain that none of us
would ever consider returning home
to America and taking work away
from the poor fellows who have SO
nobly stood up under the strains of
gasoline rationing, cuffless trousers
and union scales"
Representative Woodruff, Repub-
lican, of Michigan, had the letter
entered in the Congressional Record
with the names of the signers re-
duced to initials and home States
two each from Tennessee and Illi-
nois and one each from Michigan,
Kentucky, California, Virginia, Ok
lahoma. New York and MARYLAND.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Football Scores
Lessons Learned at Turuwu
Cut Puluu Casualties to 200

Relay bombardment, coming as a
climax to three earlier days OF air
strikes and naval shelling, started
just after sun-up and gathered in
tensity as H-hour neared.
The climax was just before the
first wave OF invaders moved over
the reef toward the nat, low wooded
island. Battleships. cruisers, de-
stroyers and smaller craft joined in
the attack and planes struck in
continuous strafing and bombing
runs over the target.
Enemy artillery and mortar posi-
ticns were blasted throughout the
morning by gunboats with rockets
and by planes.
Moving in across the reef the
Americans left tracked landing craft
on the white sand along the beach
and pushed on through tangled
jungle growth. They reached the
airport on two sides by early after
noon and thrust ahead more than
halfway across the island.
The Japanese dragged their dead
with them as they fell back.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Rita Jane Pays S&.80
In First al Laurel
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LAUREL. Md, Sept. 16.-Long-
shot players picked up $4880 when
Mrs. Phillip Bieber's Rita Jane out
ran II opponents in the three-quar-
ter mile race here today.
The crowd of 5000 sent Mrs. GUY
Needy's Rampage postward heavy
favorite, but he encountered trouble
in the stretch and wound up fourth
Rita Jane took command in the
back lane, went wide into the home
lane, but still was good enough to
come again and win in 1:17ss. j..
D. Lindy's Twinshot placed and
Grant Thorn's Got There was third.
j. w. Heinicke's Five Thirty, IA
vorite, won the second race to pay
$40. j. L. Friedman's Victory Maid
and Mrs. Dan Chamblin's Great Di-
vide closed well under strong handl-
ing to finish as named.
The daily double paid $21e.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Firms on Verge Of War
On Reich as Hitler
Orders Troops 10 Stay
Nozi Invasion Of Island
Called 'PeorI Horbor
On Small ScoIe'
By the Associated Press.

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 16.-Fin-
land apparently was moving to-
day toward a formal declaration
of war against Germany, her
former ally.
The Finnish newspaper Vaes-
ira Nyland declared the Nazi
invasion of the Island of Suur-
saari (Hogland) in the Gulf of
Finland had converted "the
question Of diplomatic relations
into a direct act of war"
"a special communique from
Adolf Hitler's headquarters an
nounced today that German
troops in Finland will continue
to protect their security against
all attackers" and declared that
evacuation of German troops
| from Finland by September Is
was impossible. Meanwhile, the
German radio indicated that So
Wet troops were attacking in Fin
land.
GA Finnish declaration Of war
on Germany is expected after
the rupture of diplomatic rela-
tions between the two countries"
the London radio said in a broad
cast heard by CHS.
The British radio said a Fin
Eish broadcast to Austrians of
three Alpine divisions In Fin
land-the I'd, 9th and 7th-urged
that they lay down their arms
and refuse to be transferred to
Norway or be sent to Germany to
fight Germany's last battle" The
British transmission was recorded
by the OWL
The Swedish Foreign Office con-
firmed that German troops intended
to close the border of Northern
Finland effective today. The Fin.
nish Parliament held a 10-minute
session today and adjourned until
IS pm. Monday. The deadline for
the Nazi withdrawal from Finland
under the terms of the Finnish Rus
sian armistice agreement expired
last midnight.
A well-manned Finnish garrison
aided by Russian warplanes, appar.
emily had the situation well under
control on Suursaari, whose invasion
was described by Vaestra Nyland a.
"a Pearl Harbor on a small scale,
resulting in strong and clear reac.
ton" among the Firms.
The newspaper Fulukuriren re.
(See FINLAND, Page A-20
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Finnish Premier Dead
In Moscow, hazis Say

BY the Associated Press.
h NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-The Ber-
lin radio said today in a broadcast
recorded by NBC that Premier
Hantti Hackzell of Finland died
last night in Moscow There was no
confirmation from other sources.
MOSCOW, Sept. 16 R.-The Fin
nish delegation In Moscow expressed
grave doubts today for the recovery
of Finnish Premier Hantti Hackzell.
Members of the delegation said
that within the last ~ hours his
condition had "visibly worsened"
and he had lost consciousness as in
fiamation appeared in the bottom Of
his right lung.
Hackzell, chairman Of the Finnish
peace mission now in Moscow, was
stricken with paralysis Thursday
night. A bulletin signed by three
doctors said the stroke was due to Q
cerebral hemorrhage.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
BY REMBERT JAMES,
Assoriated press War CorresnonAsnt

WITH THE UNITED STATES
MARINES ON PELELIU ISLAND,
PALAU GROUP, Sept. Is (Via
Navy Radio, Delayed American
marines showed today just how
much they had learned since the
battle of Tarawa.
They invaded strongly held Pc
leliu Island under almost identical
difficulties experienced at Tarawa.
but they came OF with only frac-
ton OF the losses suffered In that
landing.
Strategic Peleliu, like Tarawa, has
a reef as wide as TOO yards on the
landing beaches. The marines lost
1,026 killed on Tarawa, but this
time they came ashore in tracked
landing vehicles after a prolonged
naval and air bombardment COM
parable to any in the growing Pa
ciflc war.
At noon, three and a half hours
after landing. the commander of
the marines said the casualties were
less than 200. The most occurred
on the beach.
Evening star., 1944-09-16

has been sufficiently exploited so
more troops can be poured through
freely, preventing the enemy from
sealing of the gap by hurting in
mobile reserve forces.
The thrust through a 10-mile- wide
breach beyond Aachen was one OF
four developing invasions of the
Reich. Meanwhile, the Berlin radio
indicated break-through approach
ing the Rhine $50 miles to the south
in France
Drive Reaches SuperhiEhway.
The Siegfried Line was completely
penetrated by 1st Army elements
just "a hours after 1t. Gen. Courtney
H. Hodges forces battered into its
outer defenses, headquarters said.
The drive carried the hard hitting
lst Army onto a super, 80-mile-an-
hour speedway on the last 80 miles
to Cologne and the Rhine-a speed
way built by Hitler to invade the
west and now likely to be used
against him.
Aachen itSelf-once the capital Of
Charlemagne's empire of the west
and keystone of the whole northern
arc of the Siegfried Line-appeared
to be toppling. The by-bassed for
tress town was held in a tightening
American ring of iron. German
broadcasts reported fighting inside
the city, but later claimed the troops
that fought their way In had been
repulsed.
Gains Beyond Maastricht.
To the north, Americans swept on
through slight German resistance
beyond liberated Maastricht in Hol-
land, and Berlin said the 1st Army
had broadened its front north to
Mechelen, 8 miles above Maastricht,
(See WESTERN FRONT, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Soviet Patrols Cross
VistuIa 10 Scout Nazi
Positions in Warsaw
Red Troops HurI Book
Germon Attack on Their
Positions in Suburb
BY the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, Sept. 16.-Red Army
patrols have crossed the Vistula
from captured Praga and secuted
German positions at Warsaw
while Russian and Polish troops
hurled back the first big Nazi
armored attack on their posi-
tions in the east bank suburb,
field dispatches said today.
Eleven localities north of Praga
were declared seized by Russian and
Polish units, increasing the pressure
on Warsaw.
The patrols were reported to have
brought back information on the
disposition of NaI defenses in the
besieged Polish capital. but Moscow
had no information on whether a
crossing had been accomplished in
force.
The Army newspaper Red Star
said the Germans sent many tanks
and self propelled guns to aid their
troops between the Vistula and the
Western Bug, but nothing helped" !"
Tank Warfare Is Severe.
Tank warfare in the Praga sector
is becoming the most severe Of the
entire war. Most of the ITO tanks
which the midnight Russian COM
munique reported destroyed were in
the Praga area.
"a London dispatch stated that
a communique from Gen. Bor,
commander in chief of the Pol
ish underground forces, said the
Germans had stepped up their
campaign of death and destruc-
ton In the city.
Gen. Bor's communique said
| Polish troops had frustrated ef-
forts of the enemy to establish
strong points on the Vistula's
west banks)
The Red Star dispatch said burn
ing Warsaw was IN full view of the
Russian forces on the banks of the
Vistula at Praga.
Photos Snow Destruction.
First photographs flown back from
Praga to Moscow showed many OF
Warsaw's buildings were shattered
and, where the flames and smoke
were not billowing, the buildings
looked Quilted and ruined.
Reconnaissance disclosed that Red
Army artillery and air power al
ready had driven Nazi troops from
a 100-yard strip between the west
bank of the Vistula and the first line
Of buildings in Warsaw.
Meanwhile, there was reason here
to believe that violent fighting had
begun in many new sectors of the
Eastern front, with the initiative
with the Red Army.
(See RUSSIA, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Paris Reports
$1,000 Seized
In Fall of Brest
BY the Associated Press,

LONDON, Sept. 16-The Paris
radio said tonight that Brest,
the French naval base in Brit
tany, had been captured with an
estimated $4,000 Germans taken
prisoner.
Earlier the Berlin radio said
Brest was in flames, but that fight
ing was continuing, with American
troops within a mile of naval head
quarters.
Fire is consuming every part of
the town." the Nazi broadcast said,
and amid the flames the battle
RACES with undiminished fury.
Comdr. Kaehler brought coastal
long-range guns into the southern
part of the town, where they now
serve as close-range artillery
against the attacking American
waves, Explosions still are shaking
the town as big buildings and har-
Dor installations are being blown
up."
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Marines Gain
Mile and Half in
PaIau Landing
All objectives
Won on Morotoi,
Macarthur Says
maps on Page A-3.)
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TERS, Pearl Harbor, Sept. 49,
Marine heroes of Guadalcanal
drove against 5000 furiously
fighting japanese today on Pc
leliu in the invaded Palaus, clos
ing in on a big airdrome within
SIS bomber miles of Davao to
the west.
Even nearer that principal city of
the Southern Philippines, Yank con-
querors Of Morotai 375 miles south
of Davao, worked feverishly on air
bases within f1ghter-plane range of
Mindanao.
These co-ordinated drives OF Ad-
miral Chester W. Nimitz and Gen.
Douglas Macarthur were launched
simultaneously Friday manila
time) against bases from which it
will be possible to spring the all-out
push into the Philippines.
d. C. Man Leads Attack.
Marines Of the 1st Division, led
by Maj. Gen. William H. Rupertus
of Washington, D. c., hurled back
counterattacking Japanese soldiers
and tanks to gain a IL mile long
beachhead on Peleliu near the south
end of the Palaus. So strategic is
Peleliu that it promises to unlock
all the Palau Islands, a naval base
Japan spent Is years building and
which is defended by an estimated
total of 10000 japanese.
From Peleliu airdrome, American
planes could prevent reinforcements
from being sent to the Palaus and
interfere with enemy regrouping at
tempts among those islands known
as "Japan's Singapore. One of two
usable airfields in the Palaus, its
capture would isolate the other on
Angaur to the south.
Morotai Objectives Won.
On Morotai. northeast of HAlme-
hera IN the Moluccas, where Gen.
Macarthur landed with his men, he
announced today all objectives were
won in a matter of hours. Gen.
Macarthur put ashore Army engi-
neers with the assault troops and
they are expected at any moment to
have Pitoe. an unused enemy air.
field, ready for powerful aerial blows
against Mindanao, 300 miles to the
northwest.
Overwhelming air and naval cover
at both invasion scenes helped hold
down American losses.
In communique last night on
the Palau operation, Admiral Nimitz
said:
Our casualties during the first
day of the assault were light, al
though the landing beaches have
been under sporadic mortar and
artillery fire"
In the HalmaheraS, Richard Berg
holz, Associated Press war corre-
spondent reported from Morotai
(See PACIFIC, Page AL
Evening star., 1944-09-16
An Overall View
Of Tomorrow's City

Washington is on the
threshold Of the greatest ex-
pansion and development pro-
gram in its history. Scores
OF important projects have
been planned by the District
and Federal governments for
the postwar Capital. These
are outlined in the Sunday
feature section of The Star,
illustrated by a map present.
ing for the first time a COM
plete picture of the city's
development.
In this same section Sum
day will appear the second of
The Sunday Stars political
reviews picturing the trend
in the presidential race
throughout the country, pre-
pared by men who in the past
have forecast results with
remarkable accuracy.
Be sure to see these fea-
lures tomorrow in
Chr 6nnhay etar
Evening star., 1944-09-16
Yonks Turn Nozis'
Own Guns on Them
After Seizing Fort
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
WITH THE AMERICANS
BEFORE THIONVILLE, Sept.
l6.-The United States Sd
Army captured a section OF the
Maginot Line on the west side
Of the Moselle in this area to-
day and turned the German
installed 105-mm. guns on the
enemy across the river.
The main stronghold seized
here was Fort Gingringen.
which was built in 1870 and
modernhed by the French in
1919. In 1910 the Germans re-
placed the French installed IS
MN. guns with Krupp-manu-
factured loss. The Americans
captured these intact with their
ammunition.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
UAW Rejects Officer Shift
Major League Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
At New York
Philadelphia 103 l
New York O1O
Batteries--Newsom and Hayes; Bevens
Boston at WaShingtOn-8:3O PM,
Chicago at st. L0uis-9:15 PM.
(Only Games Scheduled.)
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
At Pittsburgh-First Game
Cincinnati - 600 010 OO1- 2 10 0
Pittsburgh 100 600 OOO- II
Ratteries-Delacruz and Mueller; Butcher
and Lopez.
At Boston-First Game
Brooklyn 0Q3 001 O10-
Boston, 600 O03 10
Andrews, Rich and Hofferth.
At Philadelphia-First Game
New York. O1O O1O 90 =
Philadelphia. 001 210 o
batteries-Allen, Hansen and Lombardi;
At Chicago
st. Louis 90
Chicago OF
Batteries-Trotter and W. Cooper: Lynn
and Williams.
Evening star., 1944-09-16
(See DEWEY. I
Nozi Ace 'Chutist Killed

LONDON, Sept. 16 tP.-Capt.
Joachim Meissner, rated as Ger
many's ace parachute officer, has
been killed on the western front, the
German radio announced today.
Capt. Meissner was decorated by
Hitler in May, 1910, with the
Knights Cross.
Evening star., 1944-09-16

American League.
Crosetti, New York. I'd inning.
National League.
Walker, Brooklyn, Sd inning.
Holmes, Boston. 9Th inning.
Secory, Chicago. I'd inning.
johnson, Chicago, I'd inning.