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Evening star., 1945-07-21
First SeIectee
From D. C.. Joins
| Family in Florida

Harry Robert Bell, g.. holder OF
the first induction number here In
1910, has been reunited with his wife
and 3-year-old son in West Palm
Beach, Fla, the Associated Press has
reported.
MIR. Bell, now discharged from the
Army, had not seen his family for
2R years. He wants some cool
clothes, ration book and second
honeymoon before he returns to
work at the Potomac Electric Power
Co., he said.
Former Sergt. Bell volunteered
after Secretary Stimson pulled his
number-15S-from the fishbowl in
October, l940 He has seen five
river crossings and has been wound
ed twice.
Hugging the former Sally v. Car
ter, whom he married before enlist
ing, Mr.. Bell said:
I've only had q sort of corre-
spondence course with her"
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Russian Offensive
Causes Concern

November PA Russian often
sive on the Don has achieved notable
successes and deserves the most
careful attention (the Red Army
drive that surrounded the 9th Ger
man Army at Stalingrad)."
November 24-"All of West Africa
has joined the Darlan movement.
A large reserve of men goes over
to the Allies, as well as the base at
Dakar. New and more ac-
curate x-rays of II Duce indicate
his trouble is caused by a rheu-
matte arthritis in the spine"
November 26-"Forty American
tanks arrived at the gates of Tunis
last night. The Russian at
tack in the Don-Volga Basin con-
tinues and appears to have impor-
tant results. We know, nothing pre-
cisely. We have only what the
Germans tell u.s."
November 25-"German troops
have entered Toulon. Hitler notified
II Duce of his decision Ito proceed)
during the night. There was
some resistance, and the French
Navy scuttled itself completely.
= q There Is this advantage for
the Italians: One naval power In
the Mediterranean has been de-
|stroyed for many years"
November SO Goering comes to
Rome without notice. His trip de-
veloped when Rommel left Libya to
see the Fuehrer. We told the as
Esistant German military attache
that an italian general who be-
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Allies May Choose
Nuremberg as Site of
War Crimes Trials
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, July 21-The main
trials of German arch-criminals of
wal, may be held In the Nazi shrine
city Of Nuremberg.
Justice Robert II. Jackson, chief
United States prosecutor, and rep
resentatives of the British and
French governments few to Nuern-
berg today to inspect proposed
site.
MONDORF, Luxembourg, July q
(P).-Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer.
ing's diet of sedatives is being grad
ually reduced in the infirmary Of
the Palace Hotel, where he is being
held-and the former leader Of the
Luftwaffe is miffed.
Col. B. c. Andrus, commander OF
the inclosure, said Goering was TAX
ing 20 times the normal dosage Of
paracodeine when he arrived here
to join Joachim Won Ribbentrop
Grand Admiral Karl DoenitZ and As
other high-ranking Nazis.
Sergt. Robert Book of Milwaukee
described Goering's reaction to the
cut in drug rationS:
Yesterday he scowled. He held
the pills in his hand, counted them
He threw them into his mouth
washed them down with glass OF
water and, still scowling, said:
Every day they get less and
less"
Attendants said Goering also was
being treated for bronchitis and is
being kept in the infirmary because
his obesity affects his heart.
"Goering hasn't had heart at
tack yet but his great weight places
a strain on it and sometimes knocks
it out of rhythm" one said.
Goering's bunkmate is DR.. Franz
Schwarz, 78-year-old treasurer of
the Nazi Party who suffers from
heart and circulatory ailments.
All the Nazis are being held for
further action by the Allies. Many
of them will face war criminal trials
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Goering Believed Cheated
In Trading for Dutch Art
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, July Alt ap-
peared today that Hermann Goering
may have been bilked when he
traded 173 paintings for single
canvas, Christ and the Adulteress, -
supposedly painted by the 17th Gen.
tury Dutch master, Jan Vermeer.
Dutch authorities said that this
painting was among a number of
supposed Vermeers whose authentic
ity has come under suspicion as a
result of statements attributed to a
modern Dutch artist, Hans Van
Meegeren. The press agency Ane-
paneta said that Van Meegeren,
under arrest on charges of collab-
Grating with the Germans, said he
himself painted the supposedly Ver-
meers, including Christ and the
Adulteress." .
American troops found this can
vas when they captured Goering's
art collection near Berchtesgaden.
Dutch art experts said the painting
had been traded to Goering by the
German-appointed trustee for an
Amsterdam art firm early in 1914
The German fed Amsterdam five
months later.
Evening star., 1945-07-21

emergency furlough in September
l943, when his father was serious
ly i'll.
A native of Washington, he at
tended high school here and was
a bus driver with the Washington,
Virginia 81 Maryland Coach Co.
prior to his induction.
I'd 1t. James J. McCorpnick III, U.
S. M. G. r., whose mother, Mrs.
Lillian S. Mccormick, is reported to
live at the Westchester Apartments,
has been wounded in action, accord
ing to today's Navy casualty list.
The following men. who are re-
ported officially as having been
wounded in action, were subjects
of stories in The Star previously.
Pfc. Garland l.. Irwin, whose
mother. Mrs. Marie Irwin, lives at
5141 Macarthur bo llevard NV,
July II.
Pvt. Jack r. Neal. whose mother,
Mrs. Mary r. Neal. lives at 544
North Piedmont street, Arlington,
Va, July IS.
Sydney ID. Aitchison, pharmacist S
mate 3/c, U. S. N. R.. whose father,
David Aitchison, lives at 1404 Lee
highway, Arlington. Va, July l.
Evening star., 1945-07-21

December 5-"Guariglia (ambas-
sador to the Vaticap) has spoken
with Maglione (papal secretary OF
state) about the bombing of Rome.
The Holy See is doing its best to
prevent it, and the Pope has in
formed the Anglo-Americans that he
could not witness the destruction of
the Eternal City without taking
action.
Osborne, the British minister, re-
piled that Rome is not only city OF
the Catholics but also Is headquar-
ters of the Italian command, large
German command, with many air.
fields and a very important railway
dispersal point. The Allies. there
fore, assume full freedom Of action,
at least against military objectives.
Cardinal Maglione has pointed out
that the removal of the military
commands from Rome would
strengthen the Holy Fathers po-
sition. ."
December SIN principle Mus
solini is not opposed to moving the
supreme command so it may not be
said that I remained under the UNI
brella of Catholicism to protect my
self from British bombs"
December ST Duce has said he
will 60 to Germany on one condi-
ton, that he be permitted to take
his meals alone, because 7 do not
want a lot of ravenous Germans
to notice that I am compelled to
nourish myself on rice and milk"
December 9-"Arne (chief of mill
tary intelligence) sees the situation
with more optimism than he did
10 days ago. The evidence of
poor strategy on the part of the
Anglo Americans in Tunisia leads
him to believe the fighting will be
prolonged.
Franco spoke in very friendly
terms about the Axis. MusSolini
sent him congratulations, but said
he does not intend to move a fin
ger to bring about Spanish inter
vention in the war, because it would
be an impeachment rather than an
aid"
December 12-'The removal of
our command (from Rome) has
been decided in general. 9 I" Bomb
ing of Rome must be avoided abb
solutely. The population is very
disturbed, and yesterdays two
alarms created profound misery
earlier Mussolini had ordered false
alarms to be sounded regularly in
Rome)."
December 16-"As I had expected,
II Duce does not feel inclined to
face such a long trip (to Hitler's
headquarters, near the Lithuanian
borden, nor does he care to inter-
rupt the electrotherapeutic cure
which seems to be doing him much
good. He is anxious to have
Hitler know, and has already said
to Goering, that he considers it
most advisable to reach some agree
ment with Russia, or at least to fix
a defensive line that may be held
with small forces"
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Thousands Will Starve
In YugosIavia, Says
UNRRA Mission Chief
BY the Associated Press.

BELGRADE, July 20 Delayed -
M. Sergeichic, head of the UNRRA
Mission in Yugoslavia, asserted to-
day that thousands of Yugoslavs
will die during the first winter Of
freedom unless ALLEGATIONS are raised
from their present inadequate level" !"
The 36-year-old Moscow engineer,
who came to Yugoslavia to head the
UNRRA Mission after tour of duty
as deputy chief of the Persian Gulf
group handling lease-lend from
America, said in a statement that
the Allied Control Commission,
which controls relief work in occu-
pied countries of Western Europe,
received more food than the UNRRA,
which serves liberated Allies.
Hopes to Reduce Death Rolls.
"If the citizens of producing ma
tions could see for themselves the
plight of Europe. and especially
Eastern Europe, they would not rest
until they had secured from their
governments curtailment of their
own consumption. so fewer people
should starve in Europe this winter, F"
Sergeichic said.
He added that the people in
devastated Yugoslavia know it is al
ready too late to save all. Their
only concern is to make the death
rolls as short as possible"
Cites Need for Trucks.
"If relief is to come, UNRRA
must have trucks" the statement
said. The minimum requirement
is 5000 before the end of September.
But all the UNRRA Yugoslav Mis-
sion have been granted are $50 for
delivery in July, 662 for August and
600 for September. Unless six times
as many trucks arrive before the
snow falls, UNRRA food will rot in
warehouses and thousands of Yugo-
slavs will die"
Sergeichic's statement said that
Yugoslavia had received only 10000
tons of food out of 461, ,720 tons
promised by UNRRA's predecessor,
the military liaison group. He said
that requests based on bare mini
mum requirements were scaled down
so drasticaIly in Washington that
the entire ALLEGATION for the coun-
tries of Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Greece, Albania and Yugoslavia
were not enough for Yugoslavia
alone
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Southern Governors Study
Air-RaiI Rate Competition
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOBILE, Ala, July 21-The
Southern Governors conference
studied today the possibility that
fast t-growing air transportation
might upset the South's industrial
gains from the Interstate Commerce
Commissions freight rate equaliza-
ton order.
The suggestion was advanced by
Gov. Simeon S. Willis of Kentucky
who called attention to the increase
in size of aerial transports since the
war and announcement of plans for
even larger planes.
Gov. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma
conference chairman, said his Off
hand view was that the air trans
ports would increase only the flow
of commerce and offered no threat
to industrialization of the South.
j. v. Norman, Louisville, KY.
counsel for the Southern Governors
in the freight rate fight, said he die
not believe air traffic would compete
seriously with rail traffic for at least
10 years.
The attorney pointed our all
transportation rates are subject tc
regulation by the Civil Aeronautic.
| Authority instead of the ICC.
Evening star., 1945-07-21
lNazi Sub Chief Denies
Hitler and Mistress
Filed Aboard U-530
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KEEL, Germany, July 21.--Ad-
miral Eberhard Godt, operations
chief for the former German Navy
underseas feet, said yesterday the
German submarine U-530 which
surrendered to Argentina last week,
had left 'Kiel or Norwegian port
on March 8 and that neither Adolf
Hitler nor Eva Braun was aboard.
The admiral said reports that Hit
ler and mis- mistress had been put
ashore in Argentina by the U-530
were wild rumors.
IT certainly would have known II
the U-530 had been ear marked for
any special mission Godt said in
his first statement to the press since
Germany's surrender.
His statement was supported by
German Admiral Helmut, former
commander of the cruiser Hipper
and chief of small battle units, who
said the U-530 was leaking at the
seams" and had been considered un-
safe.
Bow Cut OFF by U. s. Tanker.
Surely If Hitler and Eva Braun
were going to escape from Germany
by submarine it would not have
been on the U-530," he said. "Her
bow was sheared off by an American
tanker on Christmas Day. 1913
when it attacked her off the east
side of the Panama Canal. 1t was
very lucky to return to base. It's
amazing how she got to Argentina
Former Commander Heye Of the
German feet, Southeast Asia area
said he was convinced Hitler died
In Berlin and added:
IF he intended to escape 1t would
have been by air. not by sea.
"He didn't like ships-he even got
sick riding on his yacht on the
Rhine"
If Hitler hadn't died, Heye said,
'I would have heard from him"
Effort to Keep Hitler Myth Alive.
II do not believe he could have
gone away as an unknown man. -
he added. "' I say on my oath
as a naval officer that I believe
Hitler would not leave Germany.
The Fuehrer could not live any
where as Mr.. X"
Heye said he believed there is an
organized effort to keep the Hitler
myth alive" and that some Ger
mans, especially those In the Hitler
youth, hoped he would return some
day when they are worthy Of re-
ceiving him"
Admiral Godt's latest report to
the British showed six German sub
marines still unaccounted for. He
said he believed that no submarines
put to sea after the German capitu-
lation, since all were under strict
orders from Admiral Doenitz to re-
main in port and be turned over to
the Allies under the surrender terms.
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Youth, 10, Is Accused
OF Impersonating Officer
By the Associated Press.


CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, July
Ala 19-year-old youth whose at
torney said he was a Hungarian
baron was placed under 81 500 bond
here yesterday for appearance at the
Federal District Court of Kansas
City, to answer a charge OF imper-
sonating an Army officer.
Frank j. Walsh of New York
City, representing the defendant
said he Is Baron Walter Wajditsch
Won Verbovac, known in the United
States as Walter Wayditch, son OF
Gabriel Wayditch, Bronx, N. Y.
Wajditsch was arrested earlier
this week at the ri Kappa Alpha
fraternity house at the University
of Virginia after being traced by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
from Columbia, Mo, where the Of
fense is alleged to have been COM
mitted. Arraigned before United
States Commissioner Claude r.
Yardley Wednesday, Wajditsch con-
sented to removal to Missouri for
trial.
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Hazel Scott 10 Marry
Representative Powell

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 21.-Hazel
Scott, night club singer, and the
Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, jr., New
York's first Negro Representative in
Congress, will be married August /,
it was announced yesterday by Mrs.
Alma Long Scott, mother of the
bride-to-be.
The marriage will take place in
the Abyssinian Baptist Church, in
New York City, it was said, and the
ceremony win be performed by the
Representatives father, the Rev.
Adam Clayton Powell, ST., pastor Of
tire church.
Only members of the two families
will attend, Mrs. Scott said.
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Nozis Try to Blame Italy
For Reyerses in Russia

December Is (at Hitler's head
quars)-"The atmosphere is heavy.
To the bad news must be added
the gloom of the forest and the
boredom of collective living in the
barracks. There isn't a spot of
color, a single vivid note. Wait
ing rooms filled with people who
are smoking, eating. chatting.
Kitchen odor, odor of uniforms,
odor of boots.
mo one tried to hide the un-
eaSiness about the break through
on the Russian front. There are
obvious efforts to put the blame
on us. An adviser, who is very
close to Hitler, had the following
conversation with Pansa (of Ga
nos staff:
"Pansa: Had the Italian Army
many losses?'
None at all. They we're run
ming
"PanSa: Like the Germans did
before Moscow last year?'
Exactly *s*
Laval made a trip he might wen
have spared himself. After two
days on the train, he was seated
first at tea table, then at q dinner
table, and never permitted to open
his mouth. The moment he tried to
speak the Fuehrer would interrup,
I believe Hitler is happy to
be Hitler. since it allows him to
speak all the time.
Laval is a filthy Frenchman
To get into the good graces
Of the German bosses he doesn't
hesitate to betray his compatriots,
and to defame his own unhappy
country. Ribbentrop did his
best but ended with blunder. He
reminded Laval that his eminent
countryman' Napoleon had once
been il that same forest"
Napoleon occupied and sacked
MoScoU, but his army wds
smashed and dripen back through
this region in 1922
December 22-"I find considerable
nonsense Gin Rone) about news
from the Russian front. II Duce
has kindled much hope by speaking
of a possible peace with Russia.
He says Cavallero 0talian
supreme commander) has been re-
placed. He does not allude to his
successor"
December Awe are in trouble
again about the bombing of Rome.
From a decoded British telegram,
we learn that Eden wants the King
and the whole government to be
evacuated under the control of Swiss
officials, in addition to II Duce and
the army commands.
"Mussolini is preparing to refuse.
(Rome was bombed by an all
American force July 10, 1943.) Yes
terdaY ! was in his room while he
listened to 8 radio speech by tha
Pope. THE vicar of God should
never speak, he said. He should
remain among the clouds. This is a
speech of platitudes that would be
done better by the parish priest Of
Predappio.'
MONDAY - The story ends.
Mussolinf dtsnsisses CionoJ
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Sailors Get Lipstick

New Zealanders we're astonished
to learn the wide variety of articles
American sailors could buy from
their ships stores when the subject
came up in a court case in Auck-
land. An American witness was
asked if it we're true that they could
buy anything from fountain pens to
lipstick. Witness said he could not
testify as to lipstick. 'You can
leave out the lipstick," the judge
remarked. They get that ashore
for nothing"
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Cholera Epidemic Gets
Worse in Chunqkinq
3y tho Associated Press.

CHUNGKING, July 21.-The chol-
era epidemic which broke out in
Chungking early in June has taken
turn for the worse, with fresh
influx of new cases pouring into hos
pitals.
Foreign medical men estimated
today that 5000 cases, about 20 per
cent of them fatal, have occurred
since the epidemic began.
Evening star., 1945-07-21


about possible bombings Of Rome,
blow that was struck six months
later by an all-American force.
Mussolini, the diary shows, had
agreed to remove the Italian COM
mand until he learned that Great
Britain was demanding the evacua-
ton of the entire Italian govern
ment, King and all.
For most of this crucial period II
Duce was nursing his recurring ul-
GERS, growing thinner and concerned
because the Germans might learn
that the great man" was compelled
to live on rice and milk. The Ger
mans for their part were trying to
blame the Red Army's break through
at Stalingrad on the Italian forces
in the line.
| Ciano wrote:
| November 9-"During the night
Won Ribbentrop telephoned. Either
II Duce or I must go to Munich at
once. I have my first conyer-
sations with Hitler this same eve
ming. He has no illusions about
the French desire to fight.
We must make our decisions be-
fore it is too late.
Hitler will listen to Laval, but
nothing he says will change the
Fuehrer's view. Total occupation OF
France. A landing in Corsica. A
bridgehead in Tunisia. Hitler Is
neither nervous nor restless. He does
not underrate the American initia-
tive. Goering says the oc-
cupation of North Africa is the first
point scored by the Allies since the
beginning of the war.
The decision has been taken to
move, particularly since the position
of Admiral Darlan at AlgierS is
ambiguous. A conference
with Laval is superfuous.
Editors note-Adniral DGr-
Ian, former No. 2 man in the
Vichy government and COM
u,ander of French military forces
in North Africa, tDdS "c1ptured
in Algiers November s. Still in
sisting his authority came from
Mdrshdl Petdtn in France, DGr-
Ian took ouer full responsibility
for French interests in Africa
November f3 Nth the approval
of United States Army COM
nrdnders and President Roose-
uelt. Darlan tDaS uSsaSsirGted
December 24.)
Laval, with his white tie ano
middle-class French peasant attire
is out of place in the great salon
among so many uniforms. He tries
to speak familiarly of his trip but
his words go unheeded Hitler treats
him with frigid courtesy.
"The Fuehrer asks>if France will
provide us landing places in TuniSia
Laval, like a good Frenchman, would
like to argue and to obtain some
reassurances from Iitaly.
Hitler firmly declares he has nc
intention of discussing Italian
claims, which are more than modest
Laval will not take responsibility
on himself for yielding Tlnis and
Bizerte to the Axis. Hitler advises
him to accept the accomplished fact
Of occupation and inform Vichy by
~
Evening star., 1945-07-21
LovoI Not Informed
OF Occupation Plans

mo word was said to Laval about
the impending action in France, or
that orders to occupy all of the
country were given while Laval was
in the adjoining room, smoking and
talking. Won Ribbentrop told me
he will inform Laval at 8 o'clock in
the morning that Hitler has been
obliged to proceed with the occu-
patton of all of France. ."
November 12-"The march of the
Italo-German troops is proceeding
in France and in Corsica without
meeting resistance. Only the
French Navy has indicated it will
remain loyal to Vichy and that ii
does not want occupation by the
Axis of Toulon naval base in
Southern France).
"Rommel continues to withdraw
at breakneck speed in Libya. There
is friction between Italian and Ger
man troops. At Halfaya (pass on
the Libyan-Egyptian border) there
was even shooting because the Ger
mans took all our trucks, leaving
masses of our men dying Of hunger
and thirst in the desert"
November IA This evening
Won Mackensen (Nazi ambassador
brings message for French troops
and for the population of Tunisia.
advised him to find some
good sleeping pills for Ribbentrop,
who has insomnia and posters too
many people
Butt Ambassador in Paris) noti-
fies us that Weygand (former
French commander in chief has
been arrested by the Germans. II
Duce approves enthusiastically"
November 17-"German help is
much less than was hoped or prom
iset. Spain is beginning to
mobilize. What for? I think she
wishes to warn both sides. ."
Evening star., 1945-07-21
On the Roll of Honor
Todoy's Casualty Lists
Killed

Pfc. Herman L. Grossman, 80
whose wife, Mrs. Carmen E. Gross
man, lives at 2122 First street NV.
was killed in action with the 77th
Infantry Division May % on Oki-
nawa. He had been overseas almost
year.
In his last letter to his wife, writ
ten May 13 and received here the
day he was killed, Pvt. Grossman
said the fighting he'd been through
on Leyte and lie Shina was "child's
play" in comparison to Okinawa,
and that he, like his comrades, was
afraid casualties would be very high.
Pvt. Grossman entered the Army
in August, 1943. Before his induc-
ton he was employed here with the
Post Office for seven years. He
attended Southeastern University
school OF accounting during that
period He was native Of Brook
lyn.
Mrs. Grossman is employed at the
Brookings Institution here.
Pvt. Martin b. Hollenbeck, jr,
U. S. M. c., son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin B. Hollenbeck of 1914 Que
sada street NV, is reported killed
in today's Navy casualty list. A
story of his death was published in
The Star April 8. after his parents
had been notified.
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senate:
Debates membership in United
Nations food organization.
House:
Clean up odds and ends pre-
paratory to adjournment until
October.
Evening star., 1945-07-21
Wounded

Corpl. Warren J. Harrison, "a,
whose wife, Mrs. Alice E. Harrison,
lives at 2720 North Franklin road,
Arlington, Va, received slight face,
arm and leg wounds June is on
Okinawa. He has since contracted
yellow jaundice and is in a base hos
pital, his wife has been informed.
Overseas since May, 1912, Corpl.
Harrison was home during a brief