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ALLIES Release Nenni,
Held for Speaking in
Italy Without Permit
BY the Associated Press.

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ROME, May 26.-Pietro Nenni,
italian Socialist leader arrested in
Northern italy for addressing a
public gathering without Allied per-
mission, has been released with a
warning, italian sources said today.
Nenni's arrest at VercelM for vio-
lation of Allied Military Govern
ment regulations brought sharp
|repercussions here from Socialists
and Communists and expressions OF
concern from Conservatives. Nenni
has been mentioned as a possible
successor to Premier Ivanoe Bonomi
Capt. Ellery w. Stone, chief of the
Allied Commission for Italy, con-
ferred with Bonomi and other min
listers today and was reported to have
assured them the case would be
closed with a warning and Nenni
would not be required to appear be-
fore an AMG tribunal.
Capt. Stone reminded Bonomi
that Nenni and other optical lead
ers were allowed to tour Northern
Italy on condition that they would
observe ban against political dem
onstrations. The ban was applied
In AMG territory as a security
measure.
Before Capt. Stones conference
with Bonomi, Socialist party direc-
tors held an emergency meeting.
The Liberal Conservative party
newspaper said news of the arrest
was the cause of regret and con-
Germ" The monarchist organ called
it "regrettable incident"
The Allied Commission announced
that warning against such
speeches was being issued Ito other
political leaders in areas under
army control"
This apparently referred to Com
munist Leader Palmiro Togliatti
Bonomi's vice premier.
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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c. ~ As
Az, rs,

was reported as missing in action in
France on July 10, 1914. The War
Department so notified his sister,
Mrs. Ruby L. Gordon Of Williams
port, Md, whom the soldier had
given as his next Of kin. A notifica-
ton was sent to her August IA, 1914,
followed by a telegram two days
later saying that If further informa-
ton wss received she would be noti-
fed promptly.
In a follow-up telegram on Sep
tember II, Mrs. Gordon was notified
her brother was a war prisoner.
The War Department records then
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that has never been interrupted, she
said. Her inquiries at the War De-
partment, she said. have resulted
in no clarincation Of his status, but
she is convinced from what his
family has told her that he is alive
and will return to her.
Mrs. Nelms told interviewers she
has always ben In love with her first
husband.
War Department records disclosed
today that Sergt Hammond initially
Evening star., 1945-05-26

show receipt Of a letter dated Sep
tember Is signed Mrs. Thelma v.
Hammond" asking that her name be
placed on list Of emergency ad-
dresses for Sergt. Hammond.
The War Department then listed
her as an additional emergency ad-
dressee" and, in answering her letter.
informed her that he was prisoner
of war.
Evening star., 1945-05-26
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, May 26.-The Navy
backed the battered little destroyer
Laffey into the Mccormick dock to-
day and threw her open to public
inspection for five days-an un-
precedended action.
The hope is, that out Of the
throngs who see her twisted guns
and the gaping holes left by bombs
and suicide plane explosions, will
come some of the 10000 workers
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|Nuvy Exhibits Battered Luffey
AS Incentive to Ship Workers

urgently needed in Puget Sound ship
repair yards.
The Laffey came home under her
own power from Okinawa, after suf-
fering the worst that "a Nipponese
planes could throw at her. Thirty
one of her crew were killed or miss
ing. Sixty more were injured. But
her gunners shot down nine Of the
attacking planes.
Eight Kamikazi planes struck the
Laffey, seven with suicidal intent
and one accidentally clipped the
mast.
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son, both OF Washington, and Mil
ton j. johnson of Florida.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. Monday at the Perry & Walsh
funeral home, 20 H street NV
Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery
Evening star., 1945-05-26

Do you know that you can have
that house or farm In 10 years and
at IS cents on the dollar by buying
War Bonds now?
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The Allies invasion of Europe
really began with the attack on
Sicily by Gen. Eisenhower's British
and American forces on July 10,
l943. Fifteen days later Mussolini
was ousted in Rome-the first seri-
Gus break in the Axis structure.
Striking swiftly on September 8
after completion Of a 38-day cam
paign in Sicily, Gen. Montgomery
troops invaded the toe of Italy. The
5th Army Of Gen. Mark w. Clark
landed at Salerno, below Naples, and
after a bloody battle with the Ger
mans, established q beachhead six
days later, almost simultaneously
with announcement Of the surrender
Of the government of Marshal Pietro
Badoglio, which had succeeded Mus
solini.
Through bitter winter campaign
the Americans and their Allies made
but slew progress from Naples,
fought the bloody battle Of Casino,
established the beachhead at Anzio
below Rome and finally. on May
II, launched the offensive which
carried them to Rome on June 1.
Two days after the first fall Of
an Axis capital the greatest am
phibious invasion force Of all time
touched land in Normandy. The D.
day for which American factories
had been turning out weapons since
December 7, 1941, had dawned,
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Second Bottle Of France

The first 40 days after Gen. Eisen-
hower's forces landed in Normandy
were spent in securing. enlarging
and building up the beachhead. Ex-
tremely bloody battles were fought
in beating the Germans back from
one hedgerow and sunken road to
the next. Cherbourg, the Allies first
major port in France, was taken by
American troops on June n, just
three weeks after D day.
While still depending on beach
installations for flow of supplies,
1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley struck
out on July Is for the great objec-
tives of the invasion. Bradleys
United States LIST Army broke
through at st. Lo and began throw
ing armored hooks westward toward
the Normandy coast which repeat
eddy trapped large numbers of Ger
man troops.
Taking command of a new United
States Sd Army 1t. Gen. George S
Patton began a sensational sprint
southwark through Avranches. into
Brittany, sent roaming columns
speeding westward and southwark
to Brest at the tip of Brittany, St
Nazaire, Lorient, Nantes and across
the Loire, then turned his main
forces eastward in a stabbing often
sive which seemed aimed straight
at Paris.
At Charities, SIS miles southwest
of Paris, Patton suddenly unmasked
his real intent and wheeled north
ward toward the Seine.
Field Marshal Gen. Guenther Won
Kluge, German commander in the
west, had stripped the defenses OF
Brittany, and drained divisions
from the 18th Army north of the
Seine to bolster his defenses in the
rugged territory below Caen on the
Allied left flank, where the ferocity
and determination of Field Marshal
Montgomery's British I'd Army and
Canadians had led him to believe
that the main attack would be de-
liversd.
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1912
Bottle of the Sieqfried Line

tAiC uiCii uiOullQ ScIl. FhttCIl De-
heved that, if they had received
enough gasoline to keep their spear
heads in motion four more days,
they would have rolled completely
through the Siegfried Line and then
could have driven straight to Berlin.
1t proved impossible, however, to
move up sufficient supplies through
hub-deep mud and broken-dow
communication lines to keep pace
with the fast-moving spearheads.
Patrols penetrated the Siegfried
Line and entered Metz On the Mo-
selle, but had to retreat for lack OF
support. When Pattons supplies
caught up with him, the Germans
had re-entered Metz and spread
along the Moselle. Progress thence
forth was slow and costly.
1t. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges
United States LIST Army, which had
Speared swiftly across Belgium,
trapping and destroying a huge
pocket Of Germans at Mons, entered
Germany below Aachen September
Is, after preliminary probings in the
area of Trier.
Hodges penetrated to the outskirts
of Aachen and drove a narrow hole
through the concrete and steel
works of the Segfried Line in the
first seven days. When he, too,
lacked the supplies and force to ex-
plot his gains, the Allies turned
their attention to gaining a large
supply port.
The LIST Canadian and British I'd
Armies began the costly campaign
to root out the Nazis south of the
Waal in Holland and free the mouth
Of the Schelde to permit supply con-
voys to enter the relatively I'M
damaged harbor of Antwerp.
On September IT, there opened a
huge ground and air attack in which
the first Allied airborne army went
into action, and parachute troops
were dropped at Nijmegen and Arm
hem in an attempt to seize the
bridges across the WAL and Neder
branches of the lower Rhine.
The strategy, if successful, would
have paved the waysfor a possible
thanking of the northern end of the
Siegfried Line, but Field Marshal
Montgomery was unable to drive
the so miles to Anthem in time to
exploit the position gained by the
British LIST Airborne Division. After
eight days of heavy fighting from
their encircled position, the air.
borne Red Devils" were forced to
withdraw across the Neder Rhine.
The campaign to clear the Ger
mans from south of the WAL in
Holland lasted to November 6 and
cost the British and Canadians 40, 000
casualties.
Two days later Eisenhower began
his November offensive, which was
intended to hammer the Germans
everywhere until they were COM
PEELED to give way somewhere. Gen
Patton's army went into action be-
low Metz first, In quick succession
French Armies to the south and the
United States LIST and 9th Armies
went on the offensive, with some
help from the British I'd Army at
the extreme northern end.
The French pushed through the
Belfort Gap near the Swiss border,
the 7th Army broke through to
Strasbourg at Saverne, and Patton
made sensational gains and cap
tured Metz, an old Roman fortified
city which never before in modern
1See RECORD, Page A-S.5
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February FINLAND asks Russia
for honorable peace"
April 4-Churchill given general
supervision over all units of Britain :,
military and naval strength.
April 9-Germany invades Norway
and Denmark.
May 10-Hitler invades Lowlands.
Churchill succeeds Chamberlain as
British Prime Minister.
May 14-Dutch capitulate.
May 28-Belgians surrender.
May 2s-40o,oo0 British soldiers
begin escape from Dunkerque.
June 3-Germans bomb Paris.
June A. Allies bomb Munich,
Frankfort, Ruhr.
June 10-Britain evacuates Nor
way. Italy declares war on Britain
and France.
June 14Germans enter Paris.
June IT. Marshal Henri Petain
announces French surrender.
June 20-French armistice with
Germany signed at Compiexne.
August German air force be-
gins heavy attack on Britain.
August 20-Britain discloses lease
to United States of Western Henri
sphere naval and air bases.
August 3l-RAF bombs heart OF
Berlin for first time.
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June 16-United States closes all
German consulates.
June 22-Germany, Italy and Ro-
mania declare war on Russia.
June 25-Finland enters war
against Russia.
July 7-Americans land In Iceland.
July 13-Britain and Russia
pledge joint action against Ger
many.
July 24-Japanese enter French
Indo- China.
July 25-United States and Brit
ain freeze Japanese credits.
July 26-Roosevelt calls Philip
pine military forces into United
States service.
August IA Roosevelt Churchill
sea conference drafts Atlantic
Charter.
August 25-British and Russians
invade Iran.
October Estate Of siege de-
clared in Moscow.
December 7-Japanese attack
Pearl Harbor.
December S+United States de-
clares war. japanese attack Mid
way.
December lo-Japanese land in
Philippines.
December 11-Germany and Italy
declare war on United States.
December 12-Guam occupied.
December 24-Wake falls after
l4-day defense.
December 25-Hong Kong falls.
December 27-Manila bombed de-
spite open city declaration.
1912
January United Nations pact
signed pledging no separate peace
with Axis.
January Japanese occupy Ma
Mia.
January l4-Frst ship Is torpe-
doed of Atlantic coast.
January 21-Rommel checks 500
mile British penetration. into Labya.
January 23-Rio De Janeiro con-
ference of 81 American republics
recommends Axis break.
January 26-First American troops
arrive in Ireland.
February limited States Navy
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gasl. But the British fell back even
faster in the spring when they were
forced to send troops to Greece
Again in November, 1941, the British
launched an offensive which re-
lieved Tobruk shortly before the last
Italian stronghold in Ethiopia sur
rendered.
Not long thereafter came Pearl
Harbor, and Hitler declared war on
the United States. His ultimate ex-
tirpation began to loom on the
horizon then, for he had turned
the spigot which was to produce a
flood of Allied war materiel and
men.
But there still were black days in
store for the Allies. and Sunday,
June 81, 1912, ranks with the black
est of them all.
On that day, Marshal Erwin Rom
meps Afrika Korps took Tobruk in
a surprise thrust which carried him
to within so miles Of Alexandria.
A junction Of German and Japa-
nese forces on the shores of the
Indian Ocean was threatened. The
Germans were preparing the sum-
mer offensive which might break
the Soviet Union and which was to
take them from Kharkov to Stalin-
grad. The Allies had lost Singapore,
the Philippines, Burma, the Dutch
East Indies and parts of the Aleu-
tians. Australia still was menaced.
despite two japanese air-sea defeats
in the Coral Sea and at Midway.
Almost the brightest spot in the
Allied picture was that only three
weeks before the British had car
ried out their first 1000 bomber
raid against Cologne.
Air and tank forces rushed to
Africa eventually turned the tide,
permitting Gen. Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's 9Th Army to score its
great victory at Ell Alamein in
Egypt on October 23, 1912, and be-
gin its march to meet the American
and British forces of Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower which landed in
Morocco and Algeria on November 7.
Trapped on Cap Bon in Tunisia,
the Germans and Italians finally
surrendered on May II, ls43, ending
the battle OF Africa, and the stage
was set for the invasion of Italy.
Russia
Until Sunday morning, June a.
1941, everything went well with
Hitler's war. That was the day he
loosed his invasion of Russia.
Joined by Finland, Romania
Hungary and Italy, Hitler boosted
Of the greatest front in history
1000 miles from the Arctic to the
Black Sea. Stories from Berlin said
the Nazis believed they would crush
Russia in three to six weeks.
Swiftly, the German armies sliced
through Russian annexed terri
tories Of Poland, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Karelia, Bessarabia,
swept across White Russia and the
Ukraine.
Before the summer campaign was
done, Hitler had trapped one huge
kettle" of Soviet soldiers after
another, thrown an iron ring about
Leningrad, reached the suburbs Of
Moscow, captured Kharkov.
Russia never again will rise," he
declared In October, launching q
final assault" on Moscow. Another
Anal assault was ordered In NoveIa-
bsr. Moscow did not fall Then. at
the right time, the Russian counter
offensive was launched.
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War Has Cost TriI|ion Dollars,
MoAe Than s, OOO,O OOLHes
Allies snotehed Victory From Defect
After Understanding Germans
BY CARL c. CRANMER,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

Germanys world q
with collapse
a thousand years.
Ended the European Of
Jury war which estimated to have close
trllon) in money and the lives
Before ended Adolf
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of the War

September 3Roosevelt announces
trade Of 50 average destroyers to
Britain for naval and air bases In
the Atlantic.
September Heavy night raids on
London begin.
September 16-Roosevelt signs
draft law.
September 27-Japan joins the
Axis, signing 1o-year tri-partite pact
in Berlin.
October 4-Mussolini meets Hitler
at Bremen Pass. Japanese Premier
says United States must bow to Axis
or face war.
October 81United States orders
citizens to leave the Orient.
october 18-British disclose re-
pulse Of German invasion attempt
on September l6.
October 27-Italy invades Greece,
November 9-Chamberlain, who
resigned from cabinet October 8,
dies.
November 14-British dig for 900
dead and wounded after raid on
Coventry.
November l7-Greeks rout Italians
on 100-nile front.
November 20-Hungary joins Axis.
November 24-Slovakia joins Axis.
December 12-British report Ital-
ian invaders in full retreat in Egypt
10000 prisoners taken.
1941
January 10-Germany and Russia
sign friendship pact.
March l-Bulgaria joins Axis and
Nazi troops march in.
March 11-Roosevelt signs lend
lease bill.
March 30-United States SEXES
Axis ships in ports.
April 6-Germany attacks Yugo-
slavia and Greece.
April 17-Germany announces
surrender OF Yugoslav Army.
April 27-Germans take Athens.
May 10-Rudolf Hess parachutes
into Scotland.
May 20-Germans attack Crete in
first air-borne action.
May 2l-British withdraw from
Crete,
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September l. Germany invades
Poland, annexes Danzig.
September 3-Britain and France
declare war on Germany.
September 4-Fighting begins In
front of Maginot Line.
September 10 Canada declares
war on Germany.
September II - Russian troops
strike into Eastern Poland.
September 27-Warsaw surrenders.
September % - Germany, Russia
partition Poland.
November president Roosevelt
signs neutrality law, repeating arms
embargo.
November S-Bombs wreck Munich
beer hall just after Hitler leaves.
November 30-Russia invades Fin
land.
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Norwoy and Denmark

On April 8. 1910, the war broke
out with all its fury. Hitler's troops
slipped into Denmark and invaded
Norway by sea and air. A few
eoose-stepping soldiers and a mill
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The 'Phony War

Great Britain and France served
an ultimatum on Germany on Sep
TENDER ! and declared war on Sun
day, September 3, while London
hastily evacuated her children and
waited breathlessly for the bombs to
fall None fell. This was the
"phony war;
On September 8, the French an
nounced that their army had come
"in contact with the Germans but
the French preferred to have the
Germans throw themselves on the
Maginot Line and struck into Ger
man territory only for few thou
sand yards near Saarbrucken.
Their Offensive" never developed
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January 1-Breaking five months
silence, Hitler warns Reich will not
surrender, sees another year Of war.
January SIN Strasbourg often
sive, Nazis bite Is miles into France
January 11-Nazis retreat from
western tip of Bulge"
January 12-Massive new Russian
winter offensive starts.
January 15-ELAS and British
cease fighting.
January l5-Germans in full re-
treat from "the Bulge"
January 17-Reds take Warsaw
smash within Is miles Of German
Silesia.
January 20-Hungary signs arms.
tice.
January 2l-Reds invade Silesia
January 21-Hungary declares wal
on Germany.
/. January 22-Reds cross the ole
Polish corridor, trap Germans In
East Prussia.
January 23-Russians reach the
Oder River near Rreslau.
January 28-United States Isl
launches West-Wall drive,
February big Three" meet q,
Yalta.
February United States 81
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January Reds smash across
Polish line.
January 22-Allies land behind
Nazi lines ut Anxio, 20 miles south
Of Rome.
January 3l-United States invades
Marshall Islands.
February l7-Americans land on
Eniwetok, consolidate hold on the
Marshall and Gilbert Islands.
March 10 Ere rejects United
States call to Dust Axis ENJOYS.
March 20-Germans occupy Hun
gary.
April 3-Russians invade Romania
after German occupation is con-
firmed.
April 10-Reds take Odessa.
April l2-Reds free Kerch PEN
insula.
April 2l-Yanks establish New
Guinea beachhead and encircle
go, 900 Japanese troops
May l0-Reda capture Sevastopol.
May 1l-Allies begin new offensive
in Italy.
May 12--Last Nazis in Crimea
wiped out.
May 14-Gigantic Allied aerial Of
fensive against Europe completes 40
consecutive days before interruption
by bad weather.
May lS-Cassino falls.
June 4-Allies take Rome.
June 6-Allies invade Normandy.
June 1l-Yanks smash third Of
way across Norman Peninsula on
50-mile front,
June Russians drive against
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April lS-unlfed States Sd Army
crosses Czech border; Magdeburg
falls.
April 19-Ruhr pocket Is wiped
out; Allies net 3l6,930 prisoners,
Leipzig falls to United States LIST
Army.
April 2o-Hitler's 56th birthday.
Nuremberg, Nazidom's shrine CITY,"
falls to United States 7th Army.
April 2l-Russians enter Berlin.
April 21-United States and Brit
ish troops take Bologna, and push
into the Pc plain.
April 22-French take Stuttgart,
United States It'll Army crosses the
Danube.
April ala Spezia, Italian naval
base, Modena :-nd Ferrara fall.
April 25-San Francisco Confer
ence for postwar world security
opens.
April 25-Six-ton bombs obliterate
Hitler's chalet near Berchtesgaden
and blast his nearby Eagles Nest"
fortress.
April 26-Reds take stettin; Brit
ISL seize bremens Reich Marshal
Goering reported out As Luftwaffs
chief.
April 26-Allied armies in Italy
take Verona and Parma.
April 26-United States LIST and
Ukrainian LIST Armies meet ut
Torgau, cutting Germany in half.
April 28-Mussolini and many
other Fascist leaders shot to death
by Italian Partisans.
April SHERMAN radio reports.
death of Hitler.
May 2-Stalin announces fall Of,
Berlin. All German forces in North I
ern Italy and Western Austria sur-.
render Internationally.
May 3-Germans give up Ham,
burg without tight.
May 4-Germans surrender DEM
mark, Holland and ill Northern
Germany.
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The Battle OF Africa really
started in the tragic event Of July 5,
1910, when the British attacked the
French feet at Mers-el-Kebir to
prevent warships Of their former
allies from falling into enemy hands.
Six times the battle swept back
and forth across the rim Of North
Africa, but in the end the Germans
could not win because they did not
control the Mediterranean. The
Italian feet soon was driven into
hiding.
Marshal Rudolfo Graziani began
an attack on Egypt on August 8,
1910, simultaneously with an In
vasion Of British Somaliland. He
got. no farther than Sidi Barrani,
where the British under Wavsii
started lightning comeback Ia De-
cember which reached beyond Ben
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-09
Worthy Motron Oh
Order OF Eastern
Star Is Honored

During her official visit to the
Pascagoula and Moss Point chap
ters of the Order OF the Eastern
Star, Mrs. Ina Jordan, Worthy
Matron, Of Decatur, Miss, was
honored Thursday evening when
the chapters entertained jointly
at the Eastern Star hall in Moss
Point.
Blue and white, the matrons'
colorS, were used in the deeora-
tons. Gifts of rosepoint crystal
ana several seashell souvenirs
were presented 10 the honoree.
Following a talk by Miss Jor-
dan on ''The Work OF the Order
a musical program was present
ed by a clarinet trio composed Of
Marilyn Mare Edre Mays and
Shannon Slyfield, and Mrs. c. L.
Nelson, pianist.
At the conclusion of the pro-
gram a refreshment course was
served. About sixty-five or sew
enty members were present.