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Evening star., 1945-07-10
Gen. Bresnahan Heads
Fort Meade Depot

Brig. Gen. Thomas r. Bresnahan
who, with Mrs. Bresnahan, lives at
the Kennedy-Warren Apartment
here, has been assigned as COM
mander of the Army Ground Forces
Replacement Depot at Fort Meade,
Md, 1t was announced today by the
Army.
Gen. Bresnahan, a veteran of the
World War, who recently COM
manded the Infantry Replacement
Training Center at Camp Hood,
Tex, will succeed Maj. Gen. Francis
B. Mallon, head of the Fort Meade
Depot since its organization in
July, 1913.
Gen. Bresnahan, So, Is a native OF
Fitchburg, Mass. He served over
seas with the 3Sth Infantry, Sd Di-
vision, in the World War and was
wounded in the Argonne and In the
Battle Of the Marne. For his serv-
ices in that conflict he was awarded
the Distinguished Service Cross, the
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Clus-
ter, the Croix de Guerre and the
Legion d'Honneur.
Shortly before coming to Meade,
Gen. Bresnahan was given the hon.
orary degree of Doctor of Science
by Middlebury College. VT. where he
received his B. S. degree Just before
he entered the Army as a second
lieutenant in 1917.
He attained his present rank in
1941 while at Camp Maxey, Tex.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Turnage Dismisses
Two in Gaming Case

Two men, arrested in a police
antigambling squad raid June 80 in
the 1900 block of South Dakota ave-
nue. NE. on charges of setting up
a gaming table, were dismissed to-
day by United States Commissioner
Needham c.. Tlrnage.
The men are Michael Charles
Spione, SO, of the 1900 block of Trim
idad avenue NE. and David Skol-
nick, 80, of the 1900 block of D street
NE. Dismissal of the cases against
them followed Defense Attorney
Charles Ford's challenge of the
legality of the arrest on grounds the
police had no search warrant when
they entered the premises, said to
be private home.
Police had described the base
ment of the home as lone of the
most elaborate horse racing and
numbers centers" they have en-
countered. They said boy, playing
on the front porch, shouted warn
ing to occupants inside as police
approached.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
|Msgr. Buckley Protests Tax
On Home for Women

Msgr, Edward L. Buckley, pastor Of
st. Matthew's Cathedral, today went
before the Commissioners to plead
against ruling by the corporation
counsels office denying tax exempt
status for the st. Margaret Mary
House at 3033 p street NV.
Msgr. Buckley, who said the home
housed "a elderly ladies, was in
formed by the Commissioners that
he had the right to appeal within 30
days to the District Board OF Tax
Appeals.
AT the corporation counsel's ONCE
1t was said that tax exemption had
been granted the Catholic Home for
Aged Ladies at 3o43 r street NV,
but that similar status was denied
the st. Margaret Mary House be-
cause, according to It's information,
$42 to $50 was charged month for
room and board.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
lsiHRstioniinq
&Remindey@a

Meats, Fats, Etc.--Book 4, stamps
W., Wa, x-2, Y-2 and Z-2 re-
main valid through September
30. Stamps K-2 through P-2 good
through July 81. Stamps Ga
through U-2 valid through August
81. Stamps Al, B-1, C-1, D-1
and Ell valid through October 81.
Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4, stamps
D-1, Ell, FL, GIL and H-1 re-
main valid through September
80. Stamps To- through x-9
good through July 81. Stamps
W., Z-2, Al, B-1 and C-1 valid
through August 81. Stamps J-1,
XII, LII, MI and Nj valid
through October 81.
Points for Fats--Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points for
each pound of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar-Stamp No. 36 valid for 5
pounds through August 81. Next
stamp valid September !.
Gasoline-B-7, CT, B-8 and C-8
coupons good for gallons each.
tA-16 coupons valid for 8 gallons
each through September 81.
Shoes--Airplane stamps /, and 8
in Book No. 8 good indefinitely for
one pair Of shoes each. An as-yet-
unnumbered shoe stamp becomes
valid August /.
Fuel Oil-Periods /. 2, 8, 4 and 5
coupons good for 10 gallons per
unit through August 81. Period /
coupons for 1945-46 season now
valid. All currently valid coupons,
except for serially- numbered cou-
pons Of definite value, viii expire
August 81.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Approaching War
Against Reds Popular

June 15-"Von Ribbentrop hastens
his departure (from Vienna) and
gives us to understand clearly that
this results from the imminent
crisis with Russia" Germany de-
clared war June 22)
June 21-''The idea of war against
Russia is popular in itself, for the
fall of Bolshevism would be counted
among the most important dates in
human civilization. An obvious
and convincing reason for such a
war is lacking. The Germans
believe it will be over in eight weeks
This is possible, because their mill
tary calculations always have been
better than their political"
June 22-"At 8 O'Clock in the
morning Bismarck brings long
letter from Hitler to II Duce.
Still early in the morning I visit
the Soviet Ambassador, to notify
him of the declaration of war. I
do not succeed in seeing him until
1890 pm, since he and all the en-
ployes of the Embassy have gone
swimming at Fregene. He receives
the communication with stupid in
difference. ." The conversation
lasted two minutes"
June 23-"The first news of Ger
man successes arrives from Russia.
- . Bismarck says that in German
military circles they expect to take
100000 prisoners, five million
slaves as Otto says. We are
sending an expeditionary corps un-
der Gen. Zingales, which will oper-
ate on the border between Romania
and sub -Carpathian Russia"
June 25-"A Falangist contingent
from Spain will leave for the Rus
sian front. Mussolini does not like
this, and would like to prevent 1t,
but I don't know what we can do,
since the German-Spanish agree
ment was made completely without
our knowledge"
July AT Minsk, 1t seems, the
Germans now are meeting stronger
Russian resistance, which Is much
to the liking of II Duce.
HE says: 1T is false to speak OF
an anti -Bolshevist struggle. Hitler
knows that Bolshevism has been
dead for some time. No code pro-
tects private property like the Rus
sian civil code. Let him admit
rather that he wants to conquer a
great continental power which,
armed with 52-ton tanks, was pre-
pairing to settle accounts"
Evening star., 1945-07-10
4 Maryland Men, Boy Held
In Attack on Soldiers S Wife
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BEL AIR, Nd, July 10.-Four
men and boy, ranging in age from
Il to Is years, were held in the
Hartford County Jail yesterday on
charges of criminal assault on a
24-year-old married woman.
The five are scheduled to receive
a hearing Wednesday.
The plaintiff, q resident of Berk-
ley, whose husband is serving in the
Army overseas, told police she met
the five youths at an inn on U. S.
Highway No. / last Friday night
and that they were to take her
home. Instead she related to the
officers, they drove to a field where
four of the five assaulted her.
The woman was found in a semi
conscious condition on Route 1876
about 2:30 am. last Saturday by
DR.. j. A. Hunt of Cardiff, who
took her to the Havre de Grace Hos
pital to be treated for bruises and
shock,
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Thundershowers and Cool
Forecast This Afternoon

Although cloudy and humid
weather is forecast for most of the
day in Washington by the Weather
Bureau, with temperatures in the
upper Dos, more thundershowers fol-
lowed by cooler weather is expected
this afternoon.
A storm yesterday afternoon low
cred the temperature 16 degrees in
Is minutes between 4:55 and $40
pm. It brought 0.36 inches of rain.
The forecaster said today that
the low mercury mark tonight prob
ably will be in the middle COS.
A freak bolt of lightning in yes
terday's storm struck an electric
conduit on the home of F. I. David
son, 4805 South Twenty ninth street,
darlington.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Disabled Ex-Coust Guurdsmun
Gets Gas to Search for Job

OPA explained that Mr.. De List
viii have to fill out an itinerary
showing what addresses he must
visit on his job-hunting expeditions
and gasoline based on the mileage
covered will be allotted. This, OPA
pointed out, was concession, since
Mr.. De Lisi will not have to present
a referral card from the United
States Employment Service for every
trip.
The veterans employment service
of USES, which had said it could
give a veteran only one referral
card at time, also made conces-
sion. The veterans employment
representative handling Mr.. De
Lists case said he would give him q
list of addresses to visit so that he
wouldn't have to return to his ra-
tion board for every trip.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Duce Sees Conflict
Between ItoIy and Nozis

July g." Note 1t down in youi
diary says II Duce, that I foresee
an unavoidable conflict between
Italy and Germany. have
little faith in our race. During
the first bombing that destroys a
famous campanile or a painting by
Gietto, the Italians will go into a
fit of artistic sentimentality and
surrender
July. I1-"An aerial attack on
Naples, a very bad one. Not sc
much because of the number o1
victims as because of the damage
among which the most serious was
fire, in the Standard Oil refineries
*'* II Duce said, 7 am happy that
Naples is having such severe nights
The race will become tougher. The
war will make of the Neopolitans q
Nordic race OF this I am very
skeptical."
July I7-"Mussolini, as usual
speaks bitterly of military men, ano
says he likes only one general, whose
name forget, who told his soldiers
in Albania: I have heard you were
good heads of families. That's very
we'll at home, but not here. Here
you can never be thieves, murderers
or rapists enough
July 1S-"Anfuso has had an in
innate conversation with Frau Mol
lier, wife of the German press
attache. She revealed that the Rus
sian campaign caused great crisis
among German ruling classes. Hitler
went to war believing that the
struggle against Bolshevism might
induce the Anglo-Saxon countries
to Withdraw from the conflict.
She has said that Hitler is a dunn
kopf"
July 22-"Fake air alarms con-
tinue in Rome. 1t has been II Duce
personally, who ordered the capital
alerted every time there is an alarm
in Naples. He wants to give the
country an impression that wal
| is on. He has ordered the anti
aircraft batteries to fire on the first
occasion, to make it more exciting.
(TomorroiD-Ribbentrop Predicts
Roosevelt Will Be Stoned.
Evening star., 1945-07-10

Jerome De Lisi, 31-year-old dis
abled veterans of the Coast Guard,
will have enough gas to go job
hunting in his automobile as the re-
suit Of concessions by his ration
board and the veterans employ
ment service.
The plight of the ex-coast
guardsman, who suffered such se-
we're injuries during a submarine
attack on convoy that he walks
with limp, was made public by
The Star last Friday after Mr.. De
Lisi had spent two days trying to get
gas for his job hunting expeditions.
Mr.. De Lists ration board, OPA
said, today was advised by Charles
Davies, District OPA rationing ex-
ecutive, to give the injured veteran
the gas he needs
Evening star., 1945-07-10

kIlOWo WtldG CloC.
Opposed to her was Mussolini's
mistress, Claretta Petacci, killed
with him near Milan, and the
relatives she rallied to her sup
port.
Ciano wrote:
May 16-"Augusto Moschi came
to see me- He Is nephew OF
Donna Rachele (Mussolini's wife)
who for long time kept both keys
to the heart of his powerful aunt.
Now he has lost her confidence.
His place is being taken by Pater,
q no-good engineer who builds
houses of sawdust and cardboard.
"Moschi attacks Pater violently,
accusing him of disturbing the
peace of villa Torlonia (Musso-
lini's home). He is a veritable
Rasputin in disguise "a monk who
exercised a great and strange
power over the Empress Alexandra,
last Czarina of RUSSIA, who takes
advantage of his rising star to gain
all kinds Of personal benefits.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Hitler Weeps in Talking
OF Rudolf Hess Case

June 1.-"Departure 1or Brenner
Pass"
June a.-"The general impression
is that Hitler, for the moment, has
no precise plan of action. Russia,
Turkey, Spain all are necessary ele-
ments. The greatest German
hope nown is in the action of its
submarines. One does not know
what summer, with its calm seas,
will bring. A slaughter of ships,
some say. A slaughter of sub
marines, say others.
"Mussolini said that Hitler, during
the conversation, spoke about the
Hess case (Rudolf Hess, Hitler's
deputy, who parachuted into Scot
land in May and wept."
June 3-"During my absence, An
fuso (Ciano's secretary has suffered
a telephone barrage from Donnf
Rachele because Of certain offense'
of II Duce, which are not our con.
Germ. ss She didn't express her.
self in very refined language and
said she viii come to Palazzo CHG
and start shooting"
June 5-"After one has been witt
Bardossy Hungarian prime min.
ister) for a little while, one recog.
nizes in him the classical career
diplomat, devourer of buttereC
crackers at ladies' teas, frequentel
of South American legations, ane
salons OF unknown countesses."
June 6-"Mussolini is resentfui. :,
would not be sorry at all If Ger.
many would lose many feathers Ii
its conflict with Russia" >"
June S-"The Hungarian Minister
of War, Gen. Bartha. who is visit.
ing Rome, maintains that th,
Russo German clash is more thar
inevitable, it is imminent. HI
believes that the Russian Army
can't resist for more than six OF
eight weeks, because their men are
weak"
June 13-'Negotiations with Ber.
lin proceed slowly. Mussolinl
is in Q black humor. He says he Ii
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Apartment Residents
FaiI 10 Cooperate
In Tin Can Salvage

The residents of two-thirds oi
Washingtons 900 larger apartment
houses have salvaged no tin cans
for a year, the District Salvage
Committee announced today in 9
plea for cooperation from apart
ment dwellers.
Since last August only 300 of the
900 larger apartments listed by
the committee have telephoned fol
trucks to pick up tin cans, Horace
Walker, executive director of the
drive, said.
Residents of the other 900 apart
ments apparently have "just quit,
Mr.. Walker said.
All apartment owners will re-
ceive another letter this week ask
ing them to telephone Republic
8488 for can collection, Mr.. Walker
said. Several told him today that
until an explanation of the new
call system was published Sunday
in The Star, they had believed the
automatic pick up was still in effect
Mr.. Walker said he thought all
900 apartments had been notified
by letter last August.
The director thanked residents
of the 300 apartments which have
contributed cans and asked them to
continue.
Mr.. Walker also requested that
any firm wishing to volunteer use
of one of It's trucks one day month
telephone him at Republic 8488
He expects to need more trucks as
his plea to apartments brings
response.
Meanwhile William A. xanten
superintendent of the refuse de-
partmeflt, asked homeewners to pun
their tin cans beside the garbage
Automatic pickup of cans from
private homes is still in effect. Any
homeowner whose cans are not
picked up within one week by the
garbage collector should notify Mr.
Xanten personally. he stressed.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
House Passes
Bill 10 Renovdfe
Congress Halls
Domed Ceilings to
Replace Skylights,
Array of Braces


day approved the Senate passed bill
authorizing modernization of the
House and Senate chambers, includ-
ing installation of slightly doned
ceilings to replace the ancient sky
lights now upheld by an array OF
temporary and "unsightly" steel
supports.
The bill now returns to the Sem
ate because the House added provi-
sions to take care of its own cham
ber which, as a matter Of comfy
between the two houses, were not
included in the Senate bill. Senate
acceptance of the House amend
ments was regarded as assured.
The Senate bill, sponsored by
Senator Andrews, Democrat, OF
Florida, chairman of the Senate
Public Buildings and Grounds Com
.mittee, was reported favorably last
week by the House Public Buildings
and Grounds Committee with an
amendment authorizing moderniza-
tion of the House chamber An
other hearing was held today by
the House group, headed by Repre-
sentative Lanham, Democrat, OF
Texas, merely to complete the hear
ing record.
To Cost S1,446,0O0.
The total cost of the renovation
work, which is planned as post
war project, Is estimated at $1,446,-
600. Immediate passage Of the bill
was urged in the Senate and today
in the House by Chairman Lanham
so as to permit time for drafting OF
specifications and the assembling on
the Capitol grounds of necessary
materials. Actual work will begin
thereafter only when the House and
Senate find it possible to recess for
the several months which will be
required to perform the work.
The only alternative to a recess
would be for the House or Senate
to meet in substitute quarters
When this point was discussed in
the House today, Representative
Rich, Republican, of Pennsylvania
said he hoped the work would be
scheduled at a time when the House
was in recess. He said Congress had
been in almost continuous session
for 10 years and that this had kept
the country in turmoil" and that
it was his hope there could be a
long recess so the people would not
have to contend" with new legisla-
ton.
Representative SABBATH, Democrat
of Illinois, chairman of the House
Rules Committee, entered the floor
debate long enough to ask the Lam
ham committee to report to the
House his bill to provide for con-
|struction of apartments to be de-
voted primarily to members of Con-
gress and their stats.
h Lynn Plans Investigated.
1 iQucstiotas also were asked on the
floor about the plans Of David Lynn
architect Of the Capitol for com
pletion" of the plan for the Capitol
Building by an extension of the east
front of the central section.
Mr. Lanham said extensive hear
ings had been held on this subject
but that 1t was not involved in the
pending resolution.
Details of the plans for installing
new lighting, acoustical devices and
decorations in the House and Sem
ate chambers are to be determined
by committees Of Senators and
Representatives to be appointed, re-
spectively. by the presiding officer OF
the Senate and the Speaker of the
House.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
MussoIinii's Wife
Goes About Shopping

"Edda (Ciano'S wife and MUS
solini's daughter, who is intelli-
gent and unprejudiced, pointed out
to me some months ago the strange
role that Pater was playing with
her mother.
For some months Donna Ra-
chele has been disturbed, difhdent
and occupied like detective with
a thousand things that don't con-
Germ her. 1t seems she even goes
shopping about dressed as a brick
layer, a peasant, or God knows
what else. All this will end in for
n1idable turmoil. 1t is well to stay
away from it."
May 1S-'Maybe am mistaken
but there is a feeling in the all
that italian domination of Croatis
won't last long"
May 25-"Bismarck (Nazi Min.
isterl indicates to Phillips UNITED
States Ambassador that the Ger.
mans have our secret codes anc
read our kilograms. This is con-
venient to know. In the future
they will read also what I want
them to read"
May 26.-"I see Bottai minister
of national education). HI
speaks pessimistically of the In
ternal situation Tin Italy), and OF
the formation of two extra-lega.
groups, each asserting strong ano
dangerous influence on II Duce
On one side are Donna Rachele and
Pater, and there IS mueh~tak OF
this affair, and on the other are
the Petacci (Claretta Petacci, Mus
solini's mistress who was killed with
him, and her family and their
relatives. AS all outsiders, they
fight those with legal and constitu-
tional positions. Bottai explains In
this way the hostile attitude which
Mussolini has assumed toward the
highest Fascist officials"
May 27.-@The Bismarck CNazi
battleship trapped in the Atlantic)
has been sunk. 4" Alfieri (Ambas-
sador to Berlin) came. He isn't
pessimistic, but he doesn't have the
optimism that he used to have. He
SAYS: The was is won. All we have
to do is find a way of stopping it.
May 3o.-"Mussolini has had Q
violent anti-German outburst about
Naz meddling in Zagreb (Croatia)
They should leave us alone he SAID
'They should remember that VIZ
already have lost an empire on theil
account"
May 31.-"Hitler has let us know
that he wishes to confer with l
Duce at the earliest possible mo-
ment. . Neither the invitation
nor its form pleased II Duce.
am sick and tired Of answering the
bell like servant
Sebastian (Mussolinis secretary
has been discharged by Mussolini
who explained that his family didn'1
like him, and scolded him for build
ing a villa at Rocca di Papa.
The fact is that Sebastian Is
victim of campaign started against
him by Donna Rachele, an exag-
gerated one, though not altogether
unfounded. know myself the
names of persons from whom Sebas'
tiani took money to facilitate the
establishment of industries.
Evening star., 1945-07-10

engineer built "of Sawdust and cardboard
played the Iay Raspun in the family feuds that swirlec
around Duce revealed the diary OF Count Cano Musso
Gni's Son-in-law.
Canos devotes much in the early summer Of
bitter palace conflicts the that Italy
uninformed by Hitler declared against the Soviet
twomnute formay In passing Ciano records the
German intention to capture five million slaves"
Rachele, Duces wife who had been portrayed as
retiring mother Of his children eerges instead powerful
Facsm highest circles On at least
son threatened to the palace shopping and dis
gused herself brickayer peasant and Ciano says GOO
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Hobeos Corpus Denied
Sedition Defendant

Justice James M. Morris of Dis
trict Court late yesterday denied q
petition for habeas corpus through
which Robert Noble, a defendant ir
the recent sedition case, sought re-
lease from flve-year prison term
imposed in California for sedition
on grounds the setnence was IL.
legal.
A similar petition which Noble
filed last year was denied at thai
time by District Court Justice T
Alan Goldsborough, and the actor
was upheld by the United States
Court of Appeals.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
BIS, Overdue in Flight,
Reaches Florida SufeIy

A Florida bound B-25 reported
overdue In It's flight from Washing
ton to Jacksonville arrived safely,
Army authorities at Boiling Field
reported at noon today. I.
The B-25, carrying two officers
and one enlisted man, left Boiling
Field at 1918 pm. yesterday and
had been due at Jacksonville thres
hours later.
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Five-AIarm Fire Razes
Lumber Yard Building
In Northeast Section

Charred wood and several girders
and white stone uprights were all
that remained today after g. five-
alarm fire early this morning swept
through the Langdon Mill & Lum-
ber Co. building, now owned by
Hechinger Co., at Bryant and
Twenty second streets NE.
The blaze, which broke out short
ly after 2 am, started In the center
of the building, according to fire.
men, and rapidly spread through
the rest of the half-empty structure.
A local alarm turned In soon after
the fire began brought an engine
and truck on the scene. These were
quickly supplemented by more ap-
paratus until fifth alarm had been
sounded
Firemen said the building was
two-thirds in flames when they first
reached the scene. They said the fire
was exceedingly hot, so much so that
boxcar standing $50 feet away on
the nearby Baltimore &c Ohio tracks
was smouldering. Flames shot into
the air to a great height and the
fire fighters were forced OF the
Sears, Roebuck g. Co. platform at
the south end of the fire because
of the heat.
Persons living In nearby frame
houses were asked to leave their
dwellings as matter Of precaution.
Battalion Chief j. w. Kay said the
f1remen feared these adjoining
houses would catch fire from sparks
and pieces Of flaming wood.
The Langdon structure, burned to
the ground, contained old machin-
cry, saws, planning machines, window
frames and small holdings, accord
ing TO officials. Some lumber on the
side of the building was saved. Fire
department officials said the cause
Of the blaze is undetermined. Com
pany officials said 1t was too early
to estimate the damage. No one
WAS in i,rred
Evening star., 1945-07-10
Hacker Fined SIS
For Locking License

Joseph H. Smith, 46, OF the 490o
block of First street NV, convicted
of transporting passengers from the
Charles Town race track to Wash
ington without q hackers license
yesterday was fined SIS in Municipal
Court.
Smith, one Of eight men accused
by police Of being members of a
ring" driving persons to and from
the race track without licenses, was
found guilty by Judge Brice Clagett
June 20.