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Evening star., 1944-05-18
Casino Viewed as Monument
To Air Powers Limitations

rail and 10 by air, Casino was
marked by Hannibal as of great
strategic value because of its loca-
ton in the Rapido River Valley at
the edge of the fairly broad Liri
Plain. AS a result of its location it
was destroyed more than once by in
vading armies.
The seat of many Popes and EN-
perors, 1t stands on the site of an
cient Casinum, which came under
Roman rule in 312 BIC, and was
sacked and burned by the Lom-
bards and again by the Saracens.
On the Rapido River just above its
confluence with the Liri, the town
became an agricultural trading GEN.
ter when it was known as San Ger
mano. In 1871 the name was
changed to Casino.
The Abbey of Mount Casino,
founded by st. Benedict in 529. was
perhaps the most famous monastery
in the world. Paulus Diaconus wrote
his history of the Lombards in its
cells and here, through the dark
ages, the monks kept the light of
learning burning in the western
world.
Across the river from Casino is
the villa of Mount Terentius Varro,
where, Cicero charged, Mark An
thony INDUCED in riotous orgies.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
On the Roll Of Honor
Six Men From Wushinqton
Reported Missing in Action

Six men from Washington were
reported today by the War Depart
ment as missing in action, while
the families of two nearby Virginia
men disclosed that one is a prisoner
of war. and the other, previously
listed as missing, is now home on
leave.
Tech. Sergt. John T. Reilly, who
had been reported missing over
Austria in April. arrived home Sat-
urday for a 21-day furlough. His
mother, Mrs. Madelyne Reilly, A.
1146 South Thomas street, Arling-
ton. Va, was not aware of his safe
ty until he called her from New
York last week and said he was
taking the next train to Washington.
Sergt. Reilly cannot divulge the
details OF his escape after his plane
was shot down, but, said Mrs. Reilly,
II don't care, just as long as he's
alive and safe"
Born in New York City Is years
ago, Sergt. Reilly was engaged in
ship construction work there before
entering the service in November,
1912. He was overseas about seven
months, and holds the Air Medal
and Oak Leaf Cluster for his service
as first radio operator on a LIBERIA
tor bomber. He also wears the Purple
Heart.
A brother, Sergt. George F. Reilly,
is stationed at Camp Selby. Miss.
Staff Sergt. Frederick G. Abner,
jr, "a, was reported missing in ac-
ton over Italy April 3, but five days
after his mother, Mrs. Julia H.
Evening star., 1944-05-18

a . .
Tex, upon completing navigation
training. He is former resident
of Norwalk, Conn.
1t. John Rutledge McGhee, jr.,
n, of 1901 Delafield place NV, who
was included on todays list, was
reported missing by The Star of
April %. Pilot of a medium bomber
based in Great Britain, the flyer
failed to return from raid over
France.
Pvt. Raymond d. Galloway,
nephew Of Mrs. Carrie Englehaupt,
1908 Rhode Island avenue NV, is
reported missing in the Mediter-
ranean area.
Staff Sergt. Frank G. Troxler,
whose wife, Mrs. Rachel C. Troxler,
formerly lived at 4400 Silver Hill
road, is listed as missing in the
European area. Mrs. Troxler re-
Gently moved to Hickory, S. c., 1T
was learned.
Staff Sergt. Prosser Jeffreys. son
OF Mrs. Verda Jeffreys, formerly of
319 Thirty-sixth street NE, also
Is reported missing in the European
area. Mrs. Jeffreys, who was en-
ployed by the High Dairy Products
Co. here, recently moved out of the
city.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Two Are Arrested in Theft
OF Drugs al GaIIinuer

An employe and a former employe
OF Gallinger Hospital, both colored,
were arrested last night by police
who charged them with the theft
OF SIS worth of drugs from the hos
pital pharmacy.
Accused Of housebreaking in con-
nection with the theft are Rudolph
A. Tuckson, 81, colored, 319 F street
S.W., an orderly at the institution,
and Lamar Brown, 80, colored. 934
First street S.W., a former orderly,
police said.
DR.. Charles c. West, chief phar-
macist at the hospital, who reported
the narcotics missing, said the
pharmacy was apparently entered
by use Of duplicate key and the
drawer in which the drugs were
kept had been forced open.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Shift Of Polish Officer
Interpreted as Move
To Please Russians
BY the Associated Press.

oy tuc AoSOCldLeu fTcSSs
LONDON, May 18.-The Polish
National Council voted yesterday to
separate the positions of commander
In chief and president-designate
the combination now held by Gen.
Kazimierz SoSnkowski-and the
move was promptly interpreted in
some quarters as a fresh overture to
Soviet Russia.
The councils action, If approved
by President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz,
would curb the power of Gen.
SoSnkowski, one of the Polish
leaders described by Moscow as
anti-Soviet during the long drawn
Russian-Polish dispute.
Whether such action would satisfy
Moscow was not learned, but it
marked the first step by the Polish
government-in-exile to meet Soviet
demands for a government shake-up.
II President Raczkiewicz approves
he would name a new president
designate to succeed him automatic
ally in the event he left office. Such
appointments as successor to the
president" are provided for by the
Polish constitution. s.s~
The council postponed action on
a demand by the Socialist party
for the resignation of Defense Min
lister Marian Kukiel, another men,
ber of the exiled government dis
liked in Moscow. Kukiel was asked
to quit because of the recent army
courts-martial of Jewish soldiers on
charges of desertion.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
BY the Associated Press.

Casino. which the Germans an
nounced yesterday they had evacu-
ated, after q new Allied lombard
ment and outflanking moves, prob
ably will 60 down in military history
as an example of the limitations of
air bombardment unless closely sup
ported by other arms.
And in German military history
it undoubtedly will go down as the
keystone fortress of the Nazi win
ter line of 1944-the line that held
for five months.
On March Is, more than two
months after Allied troops first
reached the picturesque town
guarding the broad Liri Valley and
the road to Rome and then were
stalled, Allied bombers rained down
more than $500 tons of explosives
on the Nazi defenders in an effort
to stamp out their resistance.
The mighty blow was officially
described as "the greatest aerial
assault ever launched against
single objective in the Mediter-
ranean theater." 1t. Gen. Ira C.
Eaker, commander of the Mediter-
ranean Allied air forces, declared
that undoubtedly never before in
warfare have air forces concen-
trated so much destruction on
target Of comparable size in q SIN
gle mission"
Reduced to RockpiIe.
The devastating assault reduced
Casino to a rockpile. But the waves
OF Allied troops who follow up the
raid found the surviving Germans
putting up the same kind of fierce
resistance. The Allies swept through
most Of the town, but two bastions-
the Hotel Continental and the Hotel
des Roses-held them at bay. The
Nazis also were reported using
ancient tunnels winding deep under
the town.
On March 27-12 days after the
great raid-both Canadian and
American soldiers newspapers in
Italy conceded that the attempt to
wrest Casino had been a failure.
A few weeks prior to the 2,500-ton
assault, the Allied command, ex-
asperated by the Germans use of
famed Monte Casino Abbey, ancient
Benedictine Monastery, gave the
order which reduced to rubble the
highly-perched pile of stone build
ings from which the Nazis had been
observing Allied movements and
That air attack, and the artillery
bombardment following it almost
leveled the monastery. But the Ger
mans continued to use 1t.
Eighty-five miles from Rome by
Evening star., 1944-05-18

Abner, 206 West
Glendale We =
nue., Alexandria,
Va, was noti-
fed she learned
he was a Ger
man prisoner of
war.
Aerial gunner
on a b ON b e r,
S e r 6 t. A b n e r
had been over
seas since Janu-
ary. Born in
Memphis, Tenn,
he a t t e n d e d
George w as h
| np ton High
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Woman Sets Self Afire
After Domestic OuurreI

Climaxing an argument with her
husband last night, Mrs. Sarah F.
Edwards, %, colored, 80 Fenton
court NV, drenched her clothing
with kerosene, ran into the yard
OF her home and touched a match
to her garments. police said.
IN an instant she was living
torch. Her husband, James Edwards.
rushed to her aid and smothered
the flames with blankets, according
to police.
Mrs. Edwards was removed to
Sloiey Hospital and later trans
ferred to Gallinger Hospital, where
she was said to be in a critical
condition suffering from second and
tnlrd degree burns over her entire
body.
Evening star., 1944-05-18

School in Alexandria and was an
apprentice in the electrical shop of
w. c. Davis in that city before
entering the service a year ago last
November.
Tech. Sergt. william H. Lyon, 20,
son OF Mrs. Rosa B. Ligon, 2020
Shepherd street NE, was reported
missing in action over Germany
Evening star., 1944-05-18
'Car-Sharing Drive
Needs Persistence,
Leader Declares

A successful car-sharing program
in the District will need pounding
away" to educate residents about
the plan, one transportation COM
mittee head declared today as the
local OPA compulsory registration
still Jagged far behind the 10000
goal. Only five days remain before
the campaign ends.
Reporting that so per cent of the
approximately 5000 employees in the
Commerce Department were en-
rolled in car pools or car clubs,
Fletcher D. Mitchell, jr., transporta-
tion officer, said that when the de-
partment first began its car r-sharing
program, in July, 1912, employees
were negligent in filling out the
questionnaires sent them.
Kept Pounding Away"
1--WE just kept pounding away" he
explained, until the last registra-
ton just prior to the beginning of
the drive, when we were able to
obtain a complete file"
While most employees now enrolled
in the program were participating
in car clubs before the campaign
started, Mr.. Mitchell said, the OPA
regulation requiring complete car
clubs before granting supplemental
rations had brought more drivers
into the program. s
Parking difficulties have been
solved in part, he added, through
permits by the Interior Department
allowing employees to park on the
Mall and Ellipse.
Andrew N. Ross, in charge of the
car-sharing program at the Fed
eral Trade Commission, reported
similar difficulties in educating en-
ployes to the program.
Holds More Time Is Needed.
With the commissions registra-'
ton only beginning with the launch
ing of the campaign, he said he be-
lieved more time was needed for
educational work. To date, he con-
tinued, more car owners have reg
istered than drivers.
Meanwhile, OPA officials said it
was too early to predict any results
Of the local campaign. If it is a
success it will launch a Nationwide
drive for the car-sharing program.
They pointed out, however, that
rider registration had stepped up
during the last few days.
Torture TOTO with another bond.
He will feel the squeeze more than
you do.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Police Guard Suspect
Charged With Staying.
California Housewife
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May ia spe-
cial police detail today guarded the
cell of Jan Francis Sarazzawski, 20,
following recovery of the nude BODY
of Mrs. Marian Berger, 42-year -old
housewife, from the Pacific Ocean at
Encinal Beach, IA miles north OF
Malibu.
SarazZawski is charged with killing
Mrs. Berger, who had been missing
for week.
The finding of the body COM
pletes our case against Sarazzawski,"
said Capt. Thad Brown of the Los
Angeles police, who established the
Identification last night, few hours
after two women saw the corpse
bobbing In the surf and pulled it
ashore.
Retracted Confession.
"Sarazzawski confessed to killing
Mrs. Berger with a tire iron, then
retracted it and accused a man he
Identified only as Harry" Capt.
Brown declared. HE claimed he
had date with Mrs. Berger, whose
husband, David E. Berger, was in
Duluth, Mimi, on business, but that
she left him at Ocean Park to 20
with another man."
Mr.. Berger is personnel manager
for a war plant here where Saraz-
zaWskl also was employed.
Capt. Brown said Mrs. Berger's
ration books and tufts of her red
hair were found in Sarazzawskis
automobile when he was arrested
by coast guardsman on a road
between Maribu and Oxnard. The
car was bloodstained. Sarazzawski
resisted arrest, Sheriff Howard Dur
ley of Ventura County said, and hit
the coast guardsman, Kenneth
Sneathen, with section of pipe.
MFR. Sneathen reported his dog
leaped on Sarazzawski and pinned
him down until the guardsman
could summon assistance.
Police Record in Three States.
Sarazzawski, Capt. Brown assert
ed, had draft card, an alien regis
tration card and a drivers license
issued under different names, and
used as aliases John j. Sernsky and
Jack L. Peterson. He said police
records showed burglary convictions
In Missouri, Kansas and California.
Sarazzawski was arraigned on the
murder charge shortly before Mrs. !
Berger's body was found. His pre-
liminary hearing was set for May %. |
Evening star., 1944-05-18

since April II.
A radio opera
tor and gunner,
Sergt. Ligon told
his mother in a
letter dated the
day he was re-
ported missing
that he had
C o m p e ted %
m i S S / o MS, had
only five more
to 60, a n d
might see you
this summer"
Born in San
Antonio, ex.,
Sergt, Lignon
Evening star., 1944-05-18
WACS Plunge for War Bonds

FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga. R-
uncle Sam gets back most of the
money he pays to Pvts. Emma Bas-
sett OF Portland, Greg, and Minnie
Welnstein OF Philadelphia at the
50 WAC Training Center here.
Each OF them buys a $3.50 War
Bond out of her $50 month pay.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Chinese Counsellor Named

NEW YORK, May 1S Op.-Dr.
Chen Chi-mai, a counsellor of
China's Executive Yuan, has been
appointed counsellor to the Chinese
Embassy in Washington and will
leave soon for the United States,
the Chungking radio said yester-
day in broadcast recorded by
United States Government monitors.
Evening star., 1944-05-18

November, 1912. He went overseas
the following November.
Second 1t. Newton c. Wilbur, %,
whose wife, Mrs. Dorothy A. Wilbur,
lives at 1929 Whittier street NV,
has been missing since April IL.
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.

by IHE hb6UCldItu FItSS. y TT
Senate:
In recess until tomorrow.
Judiciary subcommittee calls De-
fense Supplies Corp. Official in
liquor shortage inquiry.
Military Affairs Committee hears
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal and
WPB Chairman Nelson on work or
be drafted proposal.
House:
Continues debate on CT bill of
rights.
Evening star., 1944-05-18

after participant
ing in a raid
over Germany.
1t. VIII b ur,
navigator of a
Flying Fortress
based in Eng
land, went over
seas in Febru-
ary. Formerly
with the Poto-
mac Ell &c trio
Power Co. here,
he entered the
service in June,
l941. He was
commissioned at
Evening star., 1944-05-18
Arctic Travel Easier
Than Rail Trip Today,
Mrs. Peory Finds

By the Associated Press. @
BINGHAMTON, N. Y, May
18.-In one respect, travel in
the Arctic so years ago was bet
ter than railroad travel today,
in the opinion Of Mrs. Robert
E. Peary.
Arriving by train from Wash
ington, the 81-year- -old widow
OF Admiral Peary, North Pole
discoverer, said, II didn't have
to stand and wait for a seat in
Greenland"
Evening star., 1944-05-18

came to Washington several years
ago with his family and attended
Mckinley High School. He was an
apprentice machinist at the Navy
Yard before entering the service in
Evening star., 1944-05-18
80 District Men Ordered 10
Report for Induction Today

Thirty-nine District men have
been ordered by their draft boards
to report for induction into the
armed forces today. Included in the
group are Is for the Army and 81
for the Navy. The list follows:
ARMY.
saslIns psmins Pans sssssT sslssT snea RaS,s
Courtney, Maurice J. Brown. Burton Z.
Stump. William =. Arts, Willie
Osburn. William @. McMickens. Elmors
Sackett, William T. Morrison Otis
Burton. William Z. Walden. John r.
Flint, Thomas A. Wilson. Robert
NAVY.
Edwards. Howard W. Gollmar. Charles w.
Mayhsw. Milton r. Mechelen, & Carl van
Mcdaniel ses eorbstt D. Ssass ysSnson. Hem Henry "
Riddle, James c. Malachi. John z
Smith. Nelson w. Wright, Alexander
stockstiil. Francis C, Graham. John N.
STRIFE, James F. jackson. Victor
wall Bernard II. Ray. John r,
Dennis Duncan M.
We are about to open up q second
front. Open up your purse or wallet
and buy that extra bond.
Evening star., 1944-05-18

Torture TOTO with another bond.
He will feel the squeeze more than
you do.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
BY WILLIAM SEABROOK
CHAPTER /

H lAS the nemesis that superstitious circus folk
- for years believed was stalking the greatest
y ] show earth" finally been appeased?
That the question asked by veterans Of the
show world following the disastrous fire that, last
July g. swept Americas most famous circus during
a performance at Hartford, Conn.,
And, since then, the indications have beerf that
the is in the affirmative-that the hoodoo
the circus people conjured has finally its course
that with the passing of the Big Top, there has
also passed the most persistent malgn fate that
ever logged famous enterprise.
Nor, to circus people, was the jinX Pigment of
the imagination.
1t was real and frightening companion, born
of a genuine 14-yearold curse, and backed by the
anger of the offended Congo gods Of that myster-
ious people-the Ubangis, whose strange customs
have long been puzzle TO ethnologists.
To the average reader, it may seem silly that
any employe of a vast, modern institution like the
combined Ringing Bros and Barnum e. Bailey
circus would pay the slightest attention to curse"
of such a remote and unciviZed origin
But circus folk extremely superstitous and
a rumor, once spread, travels rapidly and widely
the more so if it appears to be supported by
20 October 22, 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22

of Indignantly persistent, untoward events.
any rate, after the fire last summer, with its
C loss of life, more than one circus veteran
d il back TO day in 1880 10 a circus lot ir
klyn, NJ Y, when eight weirdlooking UbanG
en- homesiCk for their African lungles and re
ul of being exhibited 20 alien crowds gathere
circle and chantcd a horrible, CULTURAL invocs
Of doom upon the big Top and its owners.
have heard that same curse myself IN the
IAN jungles, solemnly proceeding from the
esque lips, enlarged by wooden discs that
distinguish the Ubangi women from al
other tribes. And / have seen strange ana
sinister things follow.
OF course, il was probably just chance
that bad things" did begin 10 happen &c
> the Big Top soon afterward
Yet circus veterans recalled the
! curse when, in May OF this year, Patricia
- Cartier, beautiful aerialiSt, missed her
grip on the high trapcze for no apparent
reason, and plunged to the sawdust far
below, breaking virtually every bone in her
1.-THE body. And they remembered IT again
when many another large or little mis-
fortune occurred after the Cartier tragedy
right up to the Hartford fire.
However, circus men now hope-and
really believe-that the frightful jinX they
accepted is spent and that the curse was
consumed with the Big Top.
The circus, old as history, has gone
through many transformations, but none
so fabulous as that of this great m IN
American tent circus whose romance *
es and hoodoos seen by the superstitious,
its tribulatons and triumphs, will be
chroncled in this story
To begin with, il may delight and
astonish you to learn that the whole
mighty Ringing combine is literally moth
ing but an American small town, small
boys backyard dream come true.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
NEWS OUR FATHERS READ
FROM ISSUE OF DEC. 80. 1915

Louis Santschi, from Purdue Uni
versity, and Wilhelm Amstutz, high
school Instructor of the Cambridge
school, are home for the summer
vacation
Stanley Herr injured his ankle in
motor cycle accident in Sandusky.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Hardwick of
Railroad street will dispose of their
household goods soon and move to
Toledo.
Miss Nellie Goble left Tuesday
afternoon for Blaine, a prosperous
town in the extreme northwest part
of Washington, to spend year with
her sister. A number of young
ladies called on Miss Goble previous
to her departure and gave her very
pleasant farewell call. A handsome
brooch was presented as parting
gift.
Otis Goble of Findlay visited his
parents here Sunday. He left the
first of the week for Dayton, repre-
senting the Bluffton X. of P. lodge
at the Ohio State Pythian convention
in that city.
The ladies aid of the M. E. church
will take the interurrban to the
Mohler farm where they will be the
guests of Mrs. William Mohler.
Russell and Edgar Koontz and Le-
land Stratton attended the children's
day exercises at Rawson, last Sun
day evening.
Mrs. Oscar Davis is the owner of
a three legged chicken. Quite a
curiosity.
Grover Griswack is driving team
for a party in Toledo.
The farmers are selling their fat
hogs at the high price of seven cents
pound. Good times are surely
here again.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
Remains An Island
OF Peace In A World At War

and American planes, could not de-
fend the Swiss cities against the
Luftwaife. Dependent upon import
ed petroleum products and food, the
country under land blockade would
soon fall under a siege.
Several factors combine to insure
Switzerland's peaceful neutrality.
Her economic existence makes it
necessary that she trade with all
nations needing the products of her
factories. Fifty percent of her
highly developed electric power goes
to Germany. In return she gets coal.
The predominant share Of watches
comes to United States. Other major
exports now are turbines and cheese.
Food Is A Problem
Another element related to her
commerce is the very important one
of food. The country is over populat-
ed and over industrialized in proper
tion to agriculture. Of the 7796
acres of farm land practically all
are in pastures; $4,000 of the
citizen population are en-
gagged in farming. Much of the food
is imported, especially from the
United States. Accustomed as we
are to the jibe concerning the Swiss
Navy, it may surprise one to learn
that Switzerland's merchant marine,
about fifteen cargo ships, ply be-
tween New York and Lisbon. The
food and other goods received from
abroad are then carried via truck
through portugal, Spain, and France.
Switzerland was scheduled for in
vasion by Germany in 1910. Other
small nations were more easily ac
.essible and more valuable to the
Axis powers. Also,l because Ger
many became involved with the
major nations, Switzerland was
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-05-11
Mothers Day Originated During Reign
OF Queen Victoria At Royal Banquet

and I cannot have you go away
John Quincy Adams until the day
of his death repeated the little pray
er his mother taught him, Now |
lay me down to sleep, | pray the
Lord my soul to keep" Lincoln
said, "All I am owe to my mother"
Garfield kissed the brow of his
mother on Inauguration day and said,
Mother, you have brought this to
me-"
GRANTS MOTHER
General Grants mother went into
a room at a certain time each day
during the war and prayed for her
son, Ulysses, and he wrote to his
mother from the field every week
during the campaign.
1t is certainly fitting that the
people of the nation have seen fit to
commemorate the love of a mother.
The tribute my seem meager in pro-
portion to the services and sacrifices
made by mother. But it neverthe-
less is appreciated and helps mothers
to feel that they have been at least
partially rewarded for their years
of concern.