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Evening star., 1945-04-01

cally short of gasoline, transport
and small arms 1t is a battle in
which each outfit is forced to fight
for its own life.
1t is again-like the battle OF
France in its final stages-a sort OF
Indian warfare on major scale
German -Volksgrenadier and Pan
zer Grenadier outfits are stabbing
along every road in the Paderborn
area, searching frantically for some
exit from the maze in which their
own sluggishness and Hitler's deter
mination to hold the Ruhr has
trapped them.
They are suffering rebuffs heavily
at every turn. Enemy "feeler" COL
umns of 100 to $50 infantrymen sup
ported by from four to a dozen
tanks are being wiped out or cut
to pieces.
Suicide by Tortured Inches"
The German armies in the West
are committing suicide-suicide by
tortured inches.
There is no way out through the
American lines. In the last three
days this correspondent has Travelled
along, the entire 1st Army battle
front from the Rhine to Paderhorn
and can testify that there is nc
loephole on the southern pincer tc
smash through.
Behind the greatest tank force
ever massed under the leadership OF
a British or American Army COM
mander in this war, 1t. Gen. Court
ney H. Hodges has grouped some
OF the finest veteran infantry
divisions in the European theater
The most the enemy can now
hope to accomplish Is to break
into elastic defenses for few miles
with small armored raiding parties
which will be promptly pinched off
"Timperwolves" March.
Last night, when the pocketed
and alarmed Germans began trying
to smash at least one avenue through
which they could pour troops, Maj
Gen. Terry Aliens 1O4th Infantry
"Timberwolf" Division sent a force
OF tanks and Doughboys to clamp q
strong roadblock on Brilon, highway
center Is miles southwest of Pader-
born.
There's a force Of enemy tanks
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and mobile guns in the woods nearby
that wants to fight" staff officer
told Capt. Arthur Laundon, former
partner in Cleveland, Ohio, brok-
erage firm. I'VE better send you
there by a round about route"
How many of them are there?'
Capt. Laundon asked.
"At least 100 troops" was the
answer.
Send me by the direct route
I will give them a fight if they are
looking for one" said Capt. Laundon
Capt. Laundon set out with his
tanks and men at 10 pm. in a night
march of the kind for which the
Timberwolf Division is famous.
Sends Back 1,500 Prisoners.
by $50 am. this morning he
had his roadblock firmly secured, ,
1t. Col. Leo A. Hoegh of Charlton
Iowa, said. "and that was after
heavy fight that wiped out enemy
resistance in the woods on the
way. Instead of the 100 or less
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Laundon sent back $500. He gave
them more of a fight than they
wanted"
This morning another German
column tried to break out from an
other wood in a small village only
mile from the "Timberwolf" Di.
visions command post. They shot
up a jeep carrying 1t. William r
Vanderbilt of Short Hills, N. J..
but he escaped uninjured by run
ming across fields.
There was one light tank and
fve scout cars containing Is re-
connoitering Germans in the coll
umn.
They cut loose on me at about
$50 yards with machine guns and
got my jeep, but I got away" said
1t. Vanderbilt, who was reluctant
to discuss his experience because he
didn't want his family to worry
about him.
Then they rolled into a small
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village and shot up some mainten-
ance vehicles repairing several of
our trucks" 1t Vanderbilt said.
The firing woke up some dough-
boys sleeping in houses in the vii
lage. They came out with ba-
zookas and rifles and killed or cap
tured every German"
Many Small-ScaIe Scraps.
Numerous such small-scale scraps
are taking place all along the peri
meter of the pocket-which has
shaped up exactly like the battles
OF Mons and the Falaise Gap last
summer-but the chief breakout
blows by the Nazis against 1st Army
troops are being concentrated in the
Paderborn vicinity.
They are trying with everything
they can put together to push
through to Paderborn to the North
German plains to try to salvage
what they have left of their armies,
said Capt. Dan Magnussen, of Green
Bay, Wis. They particularly want
to get their heavy armored stuff
out and if they try to bypass Pader-
born on the north their tanks bog
down in the marshes"
To reach the critical Paderborn
road net-American tanks can in
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Honor Medal Awarded Yunk
Who Wanted to Get Even

the Germans. I had been under fire
at Anzio for two months and this
seemed to be a good time to get
back at them"
Sergt. Hall did get back at them"
Crawling along plowed furrow un-
der furious fire. he threw four hand
grenades at a machine gun nest,
killing two Germans. Four others
crawled toward the American lines
and surrendered.
Sergt Hall helped himself to some
German grenades and engaged the
second rnachine-gun position. The
vicious duel ended in his favor when
five of the enemy surrendered and
five others lay dead.
The other position was so yards
away and the one-man army started
after it. He had gone only few
yards when a shell exploded near
him and just about cut his right
leg off. His left foot also was in
jured so that tie big toe had to be
removed later.
After his leg was shattered Sergt
Hall lay helpless for a while, still
under enemy fire. Il knew had tc
do something" he explained. So he
took out his sheath knife and oper-
ated on his leg, cutting away two
tendons that were holding it, Then
he crawled back to a company aid
! man who fixed him UP.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Captured Nazi General
Says Hitler Will Die
In Charge as Martyr
BY EDWARD d. BALL.

Associated Press War Correspondent,
WITH THE UNITED STATES
4th ARMORED DIVISION, Mar. 81
delayed by Censor) German Maj
Gen. Hans Boehlsen, who was CAP.
tured by the 4th Armored Division
Yesterday, predicted today tha,
Adolf Hitler would try to lead a fina
suicide charge in which he woulc
die in order to be remembered hy the
people.
The Fuehrer wants to become g
martyr and believe this is the way
ne Will try 1t If he can get enough
martyr-minded SS Troops to ge
with him." said the captured gem
eral.
With his own family safe in AL
hed-held territory, the general
talked volubly, presenting himself
as man who didn't think much OF
Hitler, although he still wore the
knights Cross of the Iron Cross at
the throat of his tunic.
Sees War as Lost Cause"
THE common German soldier
who is dying now in a lost cause has
more loyalty to the Fatherland than
Hitler" he asserted.
Gen. Boehlsen expressed belief
that the Nazi hierarchy, in an effort
to prolong the party's life as long
as possible, would take to noun
tain hideouts ringed by extra Sc
lect SIS Elite Guard forces but "the
Wehrmacht (the regular Army will
have no part in this fight and the
German people will not have a
hand in it."
He said that in his opinion there
Is no qualified organized govern
ment which can stop the war or
take over power before the de-
struction of Germany. The SIS has
complete control of all functions
throughout the country.
"As Heinrich Himmler is in conf
mand of the eastern front, he has
taken most of the SIS troops there
for his own prestige. The Wehr-
macht concurred in his throwing
strength to the eastern front"
Gen. Boehlsen said he did not
think 1t was possible to switch Ger
man troops from Italy to the west
ern front because communications
had been bombed out Instead, ne
said, it was more likely that Ger
mans in Italy would try to move
into Yugoslavia to fight the Rus
slams.
Astonished by United States Speed.
A tank man himself, he ex-
pressed astonishment at the size
and speed of the American armored
columns and began asking questions
about how it was done
DO you have full armored
armies?" he asked. And is all your
infantry motorized? That is all I
have SEEN"
When he inquired whether the
Americans had perhaps adopted the
methods of the German tank ex-
pert, Heinz Guderian, he was as
sured that 1t. Gen. George S.
Patton, jr., had his own type of
armored razzle-dazzle, which was
no. secret: Just light out down the
road, keep going until you hit
something, and then go around it.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
Italian Action Limited
To Petrol Skirmishes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Mar. 81. - Patrol skir-
mishes again today provided most of
the action in the land fighting in
Italy.
On the Senio River east of Bo-
logna there were small-scale clashes
at such close quarters that the
Germans and troops of the 9th
Army were lobbing hand grenades
at each other over the high dixie
that parallels the stream.
9th and 5th Army artillery was
called on to fire at movement be-
hind the German lines at several
points. But there was no indica-
ton anywhere that the enemy is
withdrawing troops to bolster his
collapsing western front defenses.
Evening star., 1945-04-01
observer Helps Remove
81 Jap Mines on Cebu
By the Associated Press.


WITH THE AMERICAN DIVI-
SION, Cebu, Philippines, Mar. 80
Delayed.-The black haired Mon
tana-born captain went along on
the landings at Cebu as an Job
server" but within 21a hours after
he hit the beach with assault
troops he led a three-man party
In marking and removing 81 Jap
anese land mines.
His work provided a critically
needed exit from the beachhead
permitting punched up troops to
spear inland and preventing what
might have been a bloody slaughter
Of the congested beach.
He is Capt. Stephen C. Berube, of
Cut Bank, Mont. His wife and
l4-month-old daughter live at
RichlandS, Va.
Anyone else could have figured
out the mines and done the same
as I did" Capt. Berube says. IF
you were going inland over mined
roads you would want to be sure
you came back alive, wouldn't you?"
Evening star., 1945-04-01

A 25-year-old infantryman who
still wanted to keep on fighting after
he'd lost leg, knocked out two
German machine-gun nests, killed
seven OF the enemy and captured
nine, has been awarded the Con-
gressional Medal of Honor, the War
Department announced last night
He is Staff Sergt. George j. Hall
Brooklyn, N. Y, who was brought
back here for special treatment at
Walter Reed Hospital and was dis
charged from the Army on January
16 after his recovery.
The action occurred May. %, 1914
on the Anzio beachhead when the
34th Infantry Division began the
push toward Rome. Even after his
right leg had been shattered by a
shell burst and the sergeant hao
severed the mangled remains with
his sheath knife, he still begged tc
go forward with his platoon and
knock out a third machine-gun nest
at his company's front.
II don't know exactly why I die
it," Sergt. Hall said after he had
been brought back behind the front
line. Somebody had to knock out
those machine guns. The platoon
was back of me, and I guess
figured 1t was up to me to do it.
Then, too, I was pretty mad al
Evening star., 1945-04-01

There's force Of enemy tanks
Evening star., 1945-04-01

house by house-and in that case
your village will be destroyed
And in no time at all" said Col
Hoegh, "the civilians have their
soldiers coming out with their hands
up and piling their rifles and ma
chine guns in the center of the
streets. That saves lives all around
Evening star., 1945-04-01

terdict the escape highways by fire
from the outskirts of the city-the
Sd Armored "Spearhead" Division
set a new record for an armored
division in combat by travelling lis
miles in 24-hour march.
German soldiers by the hundreds
are deserting and changing into
civilian clothing hoping to escape
becoming prisoners. Other units
are destroying and abandoning their
equipment and then are trying to
march across American lines on foot
But they still are organized as fight
ing units and carry enough auto
matte weapons to put up a scrap.
Appeal to Germans Thrift.
To clean out the villages where
these outfits enter and hole up after
American armor passes through, the
"Timberwolf" Division has formed
IS to 20 infantry and tank forces
which comb them out minutely.
In some they have had bitter
fights, but they have found it easier
to appeal to the German civilians
municipal and personal thrift and his
love of property.
I'VE just roll through a town and
bottle up all roads leading out" said
1t. Col. Hoegh. Then the task
force commander just calls on the
burgomeister or another leading
civilian and tells him: Either you
will Immediately deliver up all Ger
man soldiers hiding in your village
or we will fight our way through
it with tanks street by street and
Evening star., 1945-06-03
By the Associated Press.

President Truman called on
the American people last night
to produce, preserve and con-
serve all food possible as "real
contribution to the final victory
and the peace"
He issued this statement:
I'm this fourth year of war the
need for every ounce of food which
the American people can produce
and preserve is greater than ever
before.
'The supply lines to feed our
troops and the millions fighting and
working with them are the longest
in the history of warfare. Along
the thousands of miles of these
lines, food must be kept moving.
Our soldiers in Europe are eating
more canned fruits and vegetables
because they are changing from
combat rations to regular meals.
Beyond our tremendous military
requirements lies the task of work
ing with other nations to help lib
Grated peoples regain their strength
and rebuild their countries. There
can be no lasting peace in a hungry
world.
eve Americans must do our part
to help swell the Nations food sup
ply.
II call upon every American to
help discharge this obligation in
every way possible:
by growing q Victory garden
whether 1t be In the backyard, in a
Evening star., 1945-06-03
German on Trial Sobs in eIIine
Of Beating y. S. Flyer to Death
(See PACIFIC, Page A-5.)

him after; he was down on the
ground. I don't know"
The defense called only three wit
nesses-Kohn, another defendant;
Matthias Krein and the village
priest. After closing arguments by
the prosecution and defense, the
eight-man American Military Com
mission will give its verdict, which
will not be announced for several
days.
Signed statements by the three
defendants were admitted as evil
dence today. In them Kohn said
he beat the airman with a club,
Krein said he made no movement
to halt the clubbing even though he
was a member of the German rural
police, and Matthias Gierens, 81.
said he hit the flyer with a hammer.
The Germans lawyer, Franz
Mehn, attempted to have Gierens
excused on plea of insanity. The
commission rejected his request that
Gierens be sent to mental insti-
tuition Immediately.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
{ Bond Sales Termed
Touch and Co Affair
In Last Week Of Drive
Servicewomen to Parade
Today in Effort to Spur
Logging Purchases

Treasury and District War
Loan officials last night joined in
a statement that the Mighty
Seventh" enters its fourth week
in a touch and go" condition as
far as E Bond sales are con-
cerned. Despite heavy increases
yesterday, the Treasury an
nounced last night, the public
must be made to appreciate how
much of the task lies before u.s.
District leaders hope to foster ap.
probation of war loan aims with
a huge review at 4 pm. today OF
more than 1000 United Nations
servicewomen. Bond buyers may
sit in the grandstand at the Polo
Grounds in West Potomac Park and
other spectators will stand to see
the Salute to Women in Uniform >
Special drills will be executed by
the WAVES and SPARS Drum and
Bugle Corps and the Marine Band
of so women musicians. The lines
OF march will be headed by the
Canadian Army Womens Corps
Pipe Band, led by Pipe Maj. Lillian
Grant.
The review is expected to gather
the greatest number of service
women that have appeared in Wash.
ington at one time. They will be
reviewed by Rear Admiral F.. L.
Reichmuth, commandment of the
Potomac River Naval Command,
The figures on the District anc
(See WAR LOAN page ADJ
Evening star., 1945-06-03
U.S.. Due 10 LiberaIize
Wage Controls Soon
To Offset Cutbacks
Plan to Increase
Bosic Rotes One of
Several. Under Study
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The administration plans q
major liberalization of wage
controls soon to compensate
workers for overtime pay and
other pecuniary advantages lost
in the cutting back of war con-
tracts and the reconversion OF
industry to civilian production
it was learned last night.
Policy changes now under con.
sideration would allow for increases
in basic wage rates, long sought by
labor. The method of adjusting
wages finally decided on will not be
described by stabilization officials as
the scrapping of the Little Stee,
formula, but the result would be the
same.
Although current developments
point to an easing of policy when
the full impact of post-V-E day
cuts in war production begins to be
felt, officials intend to keep wage
controls at least until Japan is de.
feated.
1t is considered unlikely that any
new policy would go so far as tc
allow for 48 hours pay for 40 hours
Of work week or even the 20 pei
cent increase in base rates asked
last week by CIO President Philip
Murray.
One idea in discussion would per.
NIT upward adjustment in straight.
time pay sufficient to compensate
the worker for half of the take.
home earnings lost in changing
lSee WAGES Laue A.1dl
Evening star., 1945-06-03
picture on Page A-3.)
BY the Associated Press.

AHRWEILER, Germany, June a.
Testimony ended today in the trial
Of three German civilians accused
Of killing an American airman last
August, with one defendant, Peter
Kohn, 80, breaking into sobs as he
told his story Of the fatal clubbing.
II remembered how many dead
people we had in Speicher" as re-
suit Of an air raid, he cried. II for
got myself"
The airman, attacked when he
parachuted to earth, has not been
identified.
The shabbily dressed defendant,
who lost his left arm in battle
against the Russians near Orel in
1912, said he struck the flyer with
q 3-foot club "only on the arm or
shoulder" But under cross-exam-
ination, he said Il might have hit
him on the head. I don't know.
I lost control Of myself.
"1t is possible kept on hitting
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Huge Ration Point Plot
Charged in Omaha; 7 Held
BY the Associated Press.

oS tiie f1soOCiaeeu TIcSS
OMAHA, June, 2.-Red points
were selling for 50 to IS per thou
sand, sugar coupons for 50 100
pounds, and shoe coupons for so
cents In an Omaha black market
ring uncovered by the arrest of
barber and a bank employe, a spe-
cial investigator from OPA's Re-
gional Currency Protection branch
said today.
Odis J. Ray. the barber, was ac-
cused OF selling the red points at his
barber shop. Albert r. Sulley, for
rs years an .ernploye Of an Omaha
Bank, was accused of disposing or
selling through illegitimate chan
nels ration points and coupons de-
posted at the bank and placed in
his care.
Both were charged with con-
spiracy. Sulley stood mute on the
charges when arraigned. Ray waived
hearing.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Russians Hold Veto 'IndivisibIe'
u. S. to Stand Firm on Own Plan
Two interpretations May Be Presented;
Concessions Held Moscow Responsibility

to go to the conference of the
United Nations with two interpre-
tations-the American, which has
been supported by the British, Chi
nese and French, and the Russian
version. The only chance of a COM
promise, from the American point
OF view, is for the Russians to make
some concessions.
The Soviet Interpretation under
took to specify in the United Ma
tions Charter those matters which
are 'procedural' and as such, not
subject to the veto of the big
lSee IINCOI M PAGE A-1ol
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Heavy Property Loss
Caused by Hai|storm
In Nearby Virginia
80 Planes Damaged
At HybIo VoIIey;;-D. C.,
Maryland Also Hit

A sheet of heavy rain and hail
lashed by a strong wind, swept
over Washington and nearby
Virginia and Maryland at dusk
last night, destroying gardens
breaking windows and drenching
thousands of home-bound Gov
ernment workers.
Most serious damage was reported
in the Virginia area between Fair.
fax and Alexandria, where hail al
large as golf balls caused property
damage estimated to run into thou.
sands of dollars and broke thou.
sands of glass panes in greenhouses
At the Hybla Valley Airport, miles
south of Alexandria, the hail riddlee
the wings of 80 airplanes waiting
to be sold as surplus Government
property. 1t was estimated. tha
1000 window panes were broken il
Alexandria.
The Weather Bureau recorded {
rainfall OF OFT inches between SO
pm. when the storm broke and 80:
pm.
Trees Are Uprooted.
In nearby Maryland and Virginia
the storm uprooted trees, caused
scores of automobile to stall alons
roads and cut off all electric power
in the Rockville area, including the
Montgomery County General Hos.
'pital at Sandy Spring. when light.
ming struck equipment in front O.
the Rockville substation of the Po.
tomac Electric Power Co.
Hospital authorities said the oper.
ating room was not being used al
the time and light was being fur.
nished by candles. Pepco official.
said repairs were in progress, but
that they had mo idea" when tn.
current could be turned on again.
In addition, the Montgomery
County police radio system wa.
put out of commission and police
were forced to use a transmitter il
one of the police cars for dispatch.
ing purposes.
Damage to gardens in nearb,
Virginia was reported TO be heavy
where hail damage was reported
over a 30-mile area. One Fairfax
County gardener said his peas were
shredded his cabbages ripped tt
pieces" his onions beaten and cut
off, and his beans and beets seri-
ously damaged. He said he "woulc
have to start all over again."
Fairfax County volunteer firemer
responded to two fire alarms durins
the height of the storm. Both were
small blazes and were extinguishee
without difficulty.
The area around the Bladensb1rs
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Conned Food Supply
For Civilians Hinges
On Services Demond
Blythe Associated Press

Blythe Associated Press.
Civilians, depending more
than ever on fruits and vege-
tables, must wait before they
know their share of this years
commercial canning pack.
Allegations will not be made
for some time and a high War
Food Administration Official
yesterday said an estimate Of
the civilian quota cannot be
made because it is not known
how much will be produced or
how much the Army and Navy
will require.
It is possible, he said, there
might be some reduction in
civilian allocations compared
with last year but he could not
be sure.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
Paris Surete AIerted
For Arrival of LuvoI
BY the Associated Press.

oy Inc Associated PreSS.
PARIS, June 2.-omcial circles
said tonight they had no informa-
ton on a report that the arrival of
Pierre Laval in Paris from Barcel-
ona was imminent. The surete,
however, alerted . special section
which had been designated to take
charge Of the former Vichy chief
Of government when he arrives.
Laval has been in custody OF
Spanish authorities.
Evening star., 1945-06-03
BY GOULD LINCOLN,
Star STAFF Correspondent.

SAN FRANCISCO, June O.
The United Nations Conference
received a new jolt tonight wher
Moscow's reply to the interpre-
tation of the Yalta vote formula
took the attitude that the "vetc
is indiviSible."
At the second of the two Big Five
meetings today, the United States
delegation determined to stand firm
on its Interpretation of the for
mula, with its veto powers.
1t may be necessary, it was said