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Evening star., 1945-02-20
HOusekeebers to Meet

Present Laundry Problems as
They Affect Hotels" will be the topic
Of a talk by Percy Nells of the
Statler Hotel at a meeting of the
Washington Chapter, National Ex-
ecutive Housekeepers' Association, at
Z o'clock tonight at the Statler
Hotel.
Miss Alice Fern Druly, the hotels
executive housekeeper, will be host
ess. Mrs. Blanche Shoemaker of
the Brighton Hotel, president of
the Washington chapter, will pre-
side.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Prevubtial Parties Planned
For Future Bridal C0ubles
By Katharine M. Brooks

Matthew OHearn
Ing small of guests informally compliment
Sc1uber whose u.
will take place March The will
Chapel of the wedding
small number of close friends
Miss Conger will have
of Orange j. other
Bulow sister of 1t Sullivan 1t g. g.
Taber Collins of Curtin will be the
flower girl
1t Sullivan who the
Sullivan will his
will include
Evening star., 1945-02-20
En- Route Vest

Mrs. Edwin c. johnson. wife Of
Senator johnson, left yesterday for
Colorado and the West Coast. She
will stop of in Hot Springs, N. Mex.
to visit her daughter. Mrs. Robert
L. Howsam, and grandsons, Bobby
and Edwin. 1t. q. g. Howsam is
In the ferry command.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Il announcements

The marriage of Miss Grace Al
brecht, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Albrecht OF Ilimo, Mo-, to
Capt. Donald v. Sandager, U. s.
M. c., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Sandager Of Tyler, Mimi, took place
January 8 in the First English Luz
theran Church in Tyler, the Rev.
r. M. Vordale ofiiciating.
Miss Isabelle Talburtt Moore,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Allston
Moore, became the bride January 8
of Mr.. John Calvin Stuart, jr., U. S.
N. r. The ceremony took place in
ST. Charles Rectory in Clarendon,
the Rev. Dixon R. Beattie officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Louis Bron-
nais of Los Angeles announce the
marriage of their daughter, Miss
Irene Bronnais, to Comdr. Lewis
Holberg Daniel, Dental Corps, U.
s. N. The ceremony took place
January 4 in st. Andrews Chapel
at the United States Naval Acad-
eny, Chaplain Thomas o6nciating.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Engagements

The Venezuelan Ambassador and
Sonora de Escalante have Cancelled
their social engagements owing to
the death of the latter's brother,
Senior Diego Alamo Ybarra, in Ven-
eZuela.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Literary Club Feted

Mrs. Charles w. Delaney. presi.
dent Of the Excelsior Literary Club,
and other club members are being
entertained today by Mrs. Alice v.
Cregue at her home, 1922 Wyoming
avenue NV
Evening star., 1945-01-01
5th Army Retakes
All Lost Ground East
OF Serchio in Italy
Americans Advance
" Miles; 9th Army
Takes Several Towns
BY the Associated Press.


ROME, Jan. /. - Fifth Army
troops pressing forward in the
Serchio River area of the Italian
front, have recaptured all the
ground taken by the Germans
east of the river in their recent
heavy attack, Allied headquarters
announced today.
Advancing from Barga, which was
retaken yesterday, the American
forces drove mile and a half and
occupied the hill town of Sommo-
colonia, which had been one of the
first strongholds to fall before the
abortive enemy offensive.
On the Po Valley front 9Th Army
troops continue to move forward
north of Faenza, capturing several
localities against strong enemy re-
sistance.
Fifth Army troops also made
small gains west of the Serchio
River under fire from Germans en-
trenched in the hills overlooking
Gallicano.
The Allied advances on the east
side of the river amounted to about
4 miles in the last few days.
Allied patrols on the right flank
of the 5th Army sector below Bo-
logna were met by heavy German
fire while attempting to cross the
Senior River, near Rivola, and had
to withdraw.
Meanwhile, the Germans stepped
up their heavy mortar fire in the
central sector adjacent to the
Florence Bologna highway.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
1900 U. 5. Planes
Hit Nazi Refinery
BY the Associated Press.

HS tlc ASSuCldltu l-iSss-
LONDON, JAN 1-More than
1,6oo American warplanes today hit
a German oil refinery at Dollbergen,
northwest of Brunswick, and the
railroad network in the Coblens
area At least 800 Fortresses, herd.
ed by 800 Mustangs and Thunder-
bolts, took part in the attack on the
10th successive day of one of the
wars greatest sustained offensives.
Last night Lancasters of the RAF
bomber command attacked the rail-
road yards at Osterfeld in the Ruhr
and large fires were left burning.
Other bombers plastered Berlin.
The Air Ministry announced that
British Mosquitoes raidId Gestapo
headquarters in Oslo, Norway. and
that Lancasters. escorted by Mus
tangs ard Spitfires of the Raj
Fighter Command and RAF 2nd
Tactical Air Force, bombed railroad
yards at Vohwinkel, south OF the
Ruhr.
Other Mosquitoes attacked and left
afire two medium sized enemy mer-
chantmen in Flekke Fjord, SOUTH
east of Egersund, in Southern Nor
way.
The Air Ministry said seven planes
of the bomber command and one Of
the coastal command were missing
from the days operations.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
TumuItuous Welcome Givel
New Year in New York
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOClAttU fieSs.
NEW YORK, Jan. New York S
millions, reinforced by out-of town
lers, gave the New Year a tumultu-
Gus welcome Gay, y-spending
merrymakers filled night clubs, cafes
and theaters. yet police reported the
holiday celebration to be the most
orderly and sober New Year Eve on
record
Times Square. traditional mid
night gathering spot of celebrators,
was packed by 10000 persons, ac-
cording to police estimates.
Thousands of others observed
New Year eve by attending holy
hour devotions and watch-night
services at churches throughout the
metropolitan area.
Night spots had no lack of pat
ronage although tariffs ranged as
high as $500 without drinks.
An early evening rain failed to
dampen enthusiasm.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Urgent Needs in War Effort
Listed in owl Plea

BY the Associated Press.
The Office of War Information
said today: The Government needs
and asks its citizens in this 160th
week of the war to:
Destroy all invalidated food ra-
ton stamps-their use is violation
of rationing regulations
Fill $500 jobs for men and wom-
en- making cotton duck critically
needed by our armed forces.
Donate 100000 books to the
American merchant marine library.
Books provide relief from torpedo
tension and convoy fatigue
volunteer as a price panel as
sistant. Fifty thousand workers are
needed immediately-to help pre-
vent inf1ation-help hold prices
down.
Stick to your war job to speed
and maintain a steady flow of sup
plies to our men on the fighting
fronts"
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Russians Drive Nazis
From Two-Thirds Of
Western Budapest
Northeastern Hungary
Cleared of Germans
On 20O-MiIe Front
BIZ the Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. n.~1.-Hard-fight-
ing Russian shock troops have
hurled the Germans out of two
thirds of Buda, the western half
of Budapest, and today neared
the Danube embankment in the
center of the burning Hungarian
capital.
Battling amidst scenes of slaugh-
ter unrivaled since Stalingrad, Red
Army units overran 800 blocks Of
houses and buildings in Buda yes
terday, while In Pest, eastern half
of the capital, Soviet spearheads
had driven 8 miles into inner de-
fenses.
Nad Remnants Smashed.
simultaneously, north of the city
Russian troops smashed the last
enemy remnants trapped in the
Pills hills in the Danube knee and
swept the Germans out of North
eastern Hungary into Slovakia on a
200-mile front from the mouth of
the Ipoly River to the frontier town
of Satoraljaujhely.
A midnight Soviet bulletin said
3,700 Axis troops have been killed
in the New Year eve battling in the
heart of Budapest, making a 48-hour
toll of 1900. Twenty-Five tanks and
self propelled guns were captured.
The Russians were blowing up
fortified buildings in the hills of
Buda, burying the die-hard German
defenders.
Fierce struggles are taking place
for every building" the communique
reported.
River Crossed Again.
The Russians scored other sue
cesses on the Hungarian front yes
terday, plunging to within s miles
southeast of the Slovak rail juno
tion of Losonc Iucenec), SIS miles
northeast of Budapest, and mace a
new crossing of the Hron River at
two points west of Leva uevicel
In the latter sector the Russians
were only IS miles from Brat.slava
and SO east of Vienna.
Meanwhile, Nazi commentators on
the Berlin radio told of Russian
preparations for big winter ofIen-
sive. They said the Red Army was
massing men and materials on the
iway to Krakow.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
ELIAS See Scobie Again;
Damaskinos Takes Oath
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATHENS. Jan. IA new visit of
an ELIAS delegation to 1t. Gen. R.
M Scobie, British commander, to
discuss possible truce in the Greek
civil strife was reported today after
Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens
became Regent of the nation.
The archbishop took the oath OF
regency last night following the
resignation of Premier George Pa
pandreou and the entire Greek
cabinet.
Meanwhile, fighting continued in
Athens and it's port of Piraeus.
Alexander Svolos, former EAM
Finance Minister, returned from
ELIAS territory and said the Left
wing group was conciliatory con-
cerning formation of a new cabinet
and was insisting that the min
istries of war and the interior be
given to persons of common con-
fidence.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
|CWilion Injured Token
To Oqden, San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. l (P.-
The Southern Pacific Co. has an
nounced the following civilians as
among the injured in the wreck
near Ogden and treated at hospitals
here:
John Bolhus, Grand Rapids, Mich
Mrs. Joe Edwards, Cartersville
Ga
Yer Beareld, Warren, Pa.
B. r. Green, Pullman conductor
no address
The railroad announced the fol-
lowing had been received at an
Ogden hospital:
Riddle Hoover, address not veri-
fled.
Joe Edwards, Cartersville, Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Barris, Chero-
kee, Iowa. (Mrs. Barris apparently
Iuninjured.)
M. E. Hardman, fireman, no. ad-
dress given.
Ann Butti, no address given, en-
route to Oakland, Calf, to meet
her husband.
Phyllis Mattson, Martingrove, Ill
Arthur semNck, Milwaukee, Wis.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Washington Begins
New Year al Work;
Celebration Quiet
War. Sabbath and Fog
Curb Goyety; Dance
Draws 5000 Servicemen

Washington started the New
Year today by going back to work
at the tasks of winning the war
and running the Government.
Lights were on in all Federal
departments and agencies, which
were operating as usual despite
the holiday, and employees on the
early schedules of wartime hours
made their way to their Offices
in both dark and fog.
War and the Sabbath made the
greeting Of the turn of the year less
noisy last night than In the past
The weather was another damrener
Police said the midnight crowd yes
terday. which used to be a shout
ing. footing mass, was not up to a
good Saturday night
5000 at Dance.
There was some cheering when
the whistles blew, but gayety seemed
to have as much d:ficulty in pene-
trating the fog as the street lamps
and the lights on the movie mar
quees. Store windows were dark.
Biggest crowd of the night was at
the Uline Arena, where more than
5000 service men and women danced
to the music of an Army Ground
Force band and Navy band, each
made up of musicians from top flight
dance orchestras. The affair was
put on by the National Catholic
Community Service Club of Wash
| ington. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
made a brief appearance.
Church Services Draw Many.
Many churches held watch night
services. The Rev. J. w. Rustin
president of the Washington Fed
Grafton of Churches. said interest
| in these services was greater than
ever before.
/ Catholic churches were crowded
this morning for the annual holy
day of obligation, the Feast of the
Circumcision, which starts the year
With official Washington at work
there was not as much open house
entertaining scheduled for today as
in prewar years and it has beer
years since the day was marked by
the annual White House receptions
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Envoy Here Supports
London Poles Protest
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Jan Ciechanowski, Polish Ambas-
sador to the United States, stamped
approval last night on comment
issued by his government in Lon
don after the announcement that
the Lublin Committee had formed
a provisional government OF liber-
ated Poland.
The London statement termed the
Lublin action .an attempt against
the sovereign rights of the Polish
nation.
Il emphatically associate myself
with the statement of my govern
ment In London" asserted Mr.. Gle
|chanowski.
State Department sources said no
ofiicial word had been received by
this Government and ofacial reac-
tion was lacking.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Five Blows at 9Th Army Line Hint
New Observation-Disclosures
Reich Will Never CopituIote,
Hitler Declares in Broadcast
Defeotists Warned, War Aims of Allies
Denounced; Speech Sounds Aputhetic

night Of July 20 when he hurried
to the microphone and told of a
bombing attempt on his life.
Most veteran London monitors
agreed that the speech was in Hit
ler's voice. However. Louis P. Loch-
ner, chief of the former Associated
Press Bureau in Berlin, said that
if the voice was Hitler's he is a
totally changed man. Mr.. Lochner
pointed out that the speech initiated
Hitler as far as pronunciation was
concerned but was completely lack
ing in the old Hitler passion and
consuming fervor."
The broadcast was broken fire.
quently by an incoherent ghost
voice. The German radio said Hit
ler spoke from his headquarters.
There was some speculation in Lon
don that it might have been re-
cording.
Referring to the night of the at
Evening star., 1945-01-01
New Regime in Poland
Likely 10 Win Quick
Of Reds
London Poles Protest
LubIm Groups Action
In Forming Government
BULLETIN.

The United Staves continues
to recognize the exiled Polish
government in London de-
spite claims of the Soviet
sponsored regime at Lublin to
be Poland's provisional gov
ernment, Secretary of State
Stettinius said today.
Ry the Associated Press
LONDON, Jan. 1.-Early Rus
sian recognition is expected for a
Polish provisional government
proclaimed last night by the So
viet-sponsored Polish Committee
of Ma ational Liberation at Lubin.
Formation of the government
headed by Edward Osubka- -Moraw-
ski as Prime Minister and Foreign
Secretary. was step widely ex-
pected after repeated failures te
bring the Polish government in Lon.
don and Russia together. The move
was announced by the Nationa
Council of Poland on the Lublir
radio.
Almost Immediately the action wa.
challenged by the London Polish
government, which charged that the
Polish nation will never recognize
any authority of totalitarian form
imposed on Polish national terri.
tory, ana will not cease to stane
for the genuine independence O
Poland"
Wlaoislaw Gomolka, hitherto sec
retary-general of the Communis
Polish Workers Party. was name,
first deputy prime minister, ant
Stanislaw Janusz vice chairman o
the Polish Peasant Party, secont
deputy.
Other ministers named:
Gen. Mihail Rola-Zymierski, ma
tional defense: Joseph Maslanka
Peasant Party leader, home affairs
Stanislaw Radzkiewicz, Polish Work
ers' Party. public security: Kon'
stantin Dombrowski, Socialist Party
member, finance: Edmund zalewski
justice; Edward Bertold, Peasant
Party, agriculture and agrarian re.
form; Viktor Trojanowski, Socialis
Party, public works, and Stefar
Matuszewski. Socialist Party secre.
tary-general, information.
Other portfolios were left un.
changed as In the Committee ol
National Liberation.
Evening star., 1945-01-01


BUSHNELL GENERAL HOS
PITAL, UTAH, Jan. Military
officials listed today the names of
these servicemen killed in the
Southern Pacific train wreck near
Ogden yesterday.
Grant F. Smith, seaman first class,
Barbourville, KY.
Joseph j. Zehnley, stewards mate,
second class, Long Prairie, MINI.
william S. Robbins, seaman, first
class, Westville, N. j.
Pvt. Cecil G. Luttrell, San Rafael,
Calf.
!. Pvt. Walter Bernstein, Oakland,
Calf.
George S. Scott, fireman, first
class, San Francisco.
Pvt. Robert e. Wieland, Lake View,
Iowa.
Corpl. Israel Rand, New York
City.
Sergt. Anton p. Druskis, Omaha.
Pvt. Glenn E. Younlans, Kensett,
Iowa.
Gordon N. Roland, carpenters
mate, first class, Bayport, MINI.
Wilford Smith, water tender, first
class, Jolo. w. Va.
Names of others will be an
nounced as next of kin are notified.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Death Comes for Boy
Who Sow Suntu EurIy
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PRESCOTT, Ariz., Jan. -Four
year-old joey stazenski, whose
tragic plight brought a pre-Christ-
mas visit from Santa Claus, died
with the old year yesterday.
The boy, victim of a malignant
throat tumor. met death in the arms
of his father, Stanley r. Stazenski,
in a lonely ranch house 1s miles
northwest of here.
Prescott residents staged Christ
mas party November % for the lad
after doctors reported he probably
would not live until December 25.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Key japanese Point
In Burmo Captured
By the Associated Press.

Ds Lie hoooCldtSu Elrss.
SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
HEADQUARTERS, Randy, Ceylon,
Jan. british troops have occupied
Rathedaung, key japanese defense
point on the east side of the Mayu
River Is miles north of Akyab, with
out meeting opposition, Admiral
Lord Louis Mountbatten's headquar-
ters announced today.
The western arm of the pincers
thrust on the railroad above Man
dalay advanced to within is miles
Of Yeu. 10 miles north of Mandalay.
This wing of the pincers was swing
ing down the Shwegyin road across
the Chindwin Valley toward the
railroad from the west, while other
forces pushed down the railway
from the north.
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Yanks Using Tactics
OF Indians 10 Destroy
Last laps on Leyte
Isolated Pockets Of 200
To 300 Men Wiped Out
In Down Attacks
By the Associated Press.

Ios tic AsSoclotcu FItss'
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Philippines, Jan. /.
-Doughboys mopping up Leyte
resorted to warfare in the style
of the American Indian-moving
rapidly by night and striking
isolated pockets at dawn-as
they brought to 1897 the total
Japanese dead on the bloody
Philippines island.
Gen. Macarthur said in his COM
munique today that 1,191 more Jap
anese had been killed in the "a
hours ended Friday.
Organized resistance on Leyte
was declared ended Christmas Day,
but small bands of Japanese still
roamed the rugged country, forag-
ing for food and fleeing the Yanks,
who control the Ormoc Valley and
all main roads.
Jap Planes Attack Shipping.
In Indian style, Gen. Macarthur
men were pursuing these scattered
remnants of Japan's blue ribbon di-
visions, wiping out pockets of 20C
to 300 men marooned on the north
west shoulder of the island.
The japanese hurled new air as
saults against American shipping
and installations at Mindoro Island
on Saturday, but IA of 80 attacking
planes were shot down, Gen. Mac
Arthur reported. In two days OF
such assaults % enemy aircraft
have been destroyed.
No mention was made of Ameri-
can assaults or damage.
(The Japanese Domei news
agency claimed, wholly without
confirmation, that l. more trans
ports and three additional cruis-
ers had been sunk or damaged,
for a tWo-day total of 33 Amer
ican ships)
LiberatorS operating from Min.
doro and heyte airf1elds hit choice
targets on Luzon Island and sank &
6,000-ton freighter-transport in Lin.
gayen Gulf.
Oil Refineries Fired.
A small freighter and three coasta
vessels were sunk and others under
construction were strafed as me.
dium bombers ranged over Borneo
Petroleum refineries were set ablaze
Fifty-eight tons of bombs were
dumped on Celebes Island, and 6.
tons hit airdromes in the Moluccas
New Guinea, New Britain and New
Ireland were raided.
cat Pearl Harbor, Admiral
Nimitz announced Liberator raids
Thursday and Friday on Two
Jima, the heavily hit little island
in the Volcano group which
serves Japan as a takeoff point
for bomber strikes against
Saipan, the American B-29 base.
Moderate antiaircraft fire met
the raiders, although these were
the 22d and 23d raids in Decem-
ber alone.
(Other bombing flights hit the
far Northern Kuriles, the West
ern Carolines, Wake Island and
remaining enemy bases in the
by-passed Marshalls. Rocket
firing Mitchells attacked ship
ping between the Volcano and
Bonin groups, harassing the
enemy's lines of supply)
Evening star., 1945-01-01
Hitler Tert on Page A.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. Adolf Hitler
warned his people today that the
defeatists within their midst
would be destroyed and declared
that ''the end of the war will not
come before 1916 unless by a
German victory, because Ger
many will never capitulate."
In a speech that sounded apa-
thetic, Hitler described the war as
"a merciless struggle for existence"
and said, I'VE are going to destroy
everybody who does not take part
in the common effort for the coun-
try or who makes himself a tool
of the enemy"
His radio address broke a silence
of more than five months, but did
not completely erase the mystery
that has surrounded him since the
Evening star., 1945-01-01
28 Servicen1en
Among 50 Dead
In Train Wreck
81 Persons Injured
In Reur-End Crash on
SoIt Lake Cousewoy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OGDEN, Utah, Jan. About
so persons died and 81 others
were injured in the Sunday
crash of a speeding Southern
Pacific mail-express and a slowly
moving passenger train-both
westbound-on a fog-shrouded
causeway in shallow waters OF
Great Salt Lake.
Railroad officials announced In
San Francisco that 48 bodies had
been recovered from the wreckage.
Twenty-eight of the dead are sery-
icemen.
Forty OF the injured also are
members of the armed forces.
The passenger section Of 18 cars
left Ogden at 5:38 am. and the
second train, 40 cars, followed IL
minutes later. The collision oc-
Cured at $40.
One of Vests Worst
1t was one of the worst railroad
accidents in the history of the
West. A woman passenger called it
"a terrible, screaming collision, fol-
lowed by screaming, sobbing shrieks
of the injured"
A sailor said a telescoped coach
was virtually pulverized, seats and
bodies crushed together"
Can Arlington tVa) woman,
Mrs. Ruth Thomas, wife of Capt.
John w. Thomas, $500 South
Wayne street. suffered a frac-
tured ankle in the collision. Her
husband, who Is stationed at the
War Department, said he had
talked to Mrs. Thomas at an
Ogden hospital by telephone and
that she is not seriously injured.
Capt. Thomas said his wife was
en- route to her home in Berkely,
Calif)
The 18-car passenger train, first
section Of the Pacific Limited No. Al,
was running slowly along the cause
way that leads to the trestle cross
ing Great Salt Lake when it was
struck from behind oy tine second
section, made up of 20 mail and
express cars.
Locomotive Hits Pullman.
The locomotive of the second
section bored into the rear Pullman
of the passenger unit. Force of the
impact sent another sleeping car
smashing through the dining car
and farther ahead slammed one
coach into the wooden coach ahead
of it.
Cars of the express section piled
up crossways of the track behind
the engine, some of them sliding
down the causeway embankment
into water.
Most of the dead were taken from
the rear Pullman car and from the
telescoped coach.
Maj. John E. Moran, chief of the
intelligence section of the Eastern
Security District, 9Th Service Com
mand. disclosed the death toll in
cluded 10 Army men, II naval per-
sonnel and one marine.
Relief Agencies Taxed.
Relief agencies were taxed to
capacity and preparation of cas-
ualty lists was necessarily slow.
Railroad officials refused to hazard
guess as to the cause of the acci-
dent, but ordered an immediate in
vestigation.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents disclosed a preliminary in
(See TRAIN WREYyY PAGE Aa1
Evening star., 1945-01-01
KesseIring Death Report
Leaves Allies SkepticoI
BY the Associated Press.

B
ROME, Jan. 1.-As far as the
Allied command in Italy is con-
cerned, Field Marshal Albert Kes-
selring is still alive.
That was headquarters spokes-
mans comment today on Brussels
broadcast quoting purported order
of the day from Adolf Hitler an
nouncing the death of the German
commander in Italy. The spokes-
man said there were rumors a few
weeks ago that Kesselring was
wounded and it was possible he died
but no information to that effect
had been received.