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On the Roll of Honor

.Okey Glen Cooper, will register for
service Saturday.
Pvt. John J. LieSch, 20. former
machinist's apprentice at the Navy
Yard. is now in a hospital in Italy
with wounds suffered April while
fighting as gunner with the Tank
Corps in that country. His parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert A. Liesch, live
at 1882 S street Sc.
Pvt. Liesch, whose name was in
cluded on today's Army casualty
list, has been overseas three years.
He was born here and attended the
Junior and senior high schools in
Anacostia before he enlisted in the
Army about three years ago He
has been overseas two years, his
mother said
Pfc. Frank f. Armes, 81. whose
wife. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Armes, lives
on Route l, Brandywine, Md, was
Is, the War Department said today
According to his step-daughter
Miss Beverly Meader of Brandywine
Pvt Armes was wounded in his back
while fighting with the infantry.
A former employe Of o. S. Peters
Co.. Pvt. Armes went into the Army
in January, 1914. Miss Meader said
His wife is employed at the Indian
head Powder Factory, Indianhead,
Md.
Pfc. Jacques Manuel Kahn, infan-
try, whose wife, Mrs. Claire B.
Kahn. and young daughter, Freda-
lynn. live at 1924 Ninth street NV,
was wounded in action in the Euro
pean theater. information received
from the War Department disclosed
today.
Mrs. Kahn is visiting in Phila-
delphia, neighbors said Both she
and her husband are from that city.
Pvt. Kahn formerly worked for the
Government Printing Office here. He
went to school in Philadelphia, it
was said.
Pfc. David r. York, son of Mrs.
Mildred York, 1928 Minnesota ave-
nue. Sc, was wounded while fight
ing in the European theater, it was
disclosed today in a War Depart
ment casualty listing. Mrs. York.
who is employed by the Bureau of
Internal Revenue, is visiting in Bal
timore. friends said.
Pvt Kenneth S. Wood was also in
cluded on the casualty release as
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Toll of Prisoners
In Berlin Mountinu

MOSCOW, May 3 iP,.-The hush
OF a dead nation lay over smoking
Berlin TODAY, broken only by &C.
casional explosions in the ruins and
by the shuttle of thousands of once
arrogant storm troopers moving
off TO prison.
The toll of 10000 prisoners taken
when the Nazi commanders laid
down their arms Yesterday rose to
the neighborhood of 100000 as
scores Of stunned Germans con-
tinued to drag themselves from the
subways and cellars of the city.
But belief grew that Hitlers body
might turn up.
Symbolically, the last point the
Russians stormed was the Friedrich
Ebert Strasse which runs through
the Brandenburg Gate at the east
end of the Tiergarten. Here, at this
gate. stands the German Column
Of Victory with its stone statue of
Mars. god of war.
1t is near here that the last Nazi
shot was fired 1t was around this
spot that hundreds of German off =
GERS marched stiff1y from their Tier
garten hideout, hands above their
heads. in sullen surrender. Frowning
down upon the scene was the statue
of Frederick the Great.
From dawn on. Russian soldiers,
flushed with their victory, Strolled
up and down Inter den Linden and
through the Tiergarten, inspecting
NaZi defenSeS
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Honor Medal Given
tooth |nfantryman

A 24-year-old sergeant today be-
came the Tooth Army infantryman
to win the Medal OF Honor in this
war. Secretary Stimson announced
He is T Sergt. Jake w. Lindsey
Alabama-born Mississippian from
Lucedale, a platoon leader in the
10th Regiment of the LIST Division
in Germany.
Near Hamich, Germany, on No.
vember is, during a counterattack
by the enemy, Sergt. Lindsey forced
the withdrawal of two tanks and
effectively halted the Germans.
Later, although severely wounded,
he engaged eight Germans in hand
to-hand combat, killing three, cap
turing three and putting the other
two to rout Only six men remained
of the 40 in his platoon who had
participated in the attack on a
strong German position.
In citing Sergt Lindsey's heroism.
Mr.. Stimson said of the 100 Medal
of Honor awards to infantrymen, so
had been made posthumously.
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British Troops Enter
RangoonAfterLa landing
On Banks Of River
BY The Associated Press.

COLOMBO, CEYLON, May g.
British troops have entered the
Burmese capital of Rangoon, a
special communique from Allied
Southeast Asia command head
quarters announced today.
Headquarters disclosed yesterday
that British forces had been landed
on both banks of the Rangoon
River after the way had been pre-
pared by an air borne operation.
Other British forces driving down
on Rangoon overland from the
north last were reported within 81
miles of the city.
A regular Southeast Asia Com
mand communicate reported British
l4th Army troops had entered the
town OF Prone, l78 miles north
northwest of Rangoon and had ad-
vanced as far as the railway station
within the city.
The town of Pegu, northeast of
Rangoon. and Pyawbwe, west of the
IrraWaddy River and l9 miles
southwest of Minbu, have been cap
tured.
Eastern Air Command aircraft
yesterday attacked japanese tar
gets along the Rangoon River
ahead of the seaborne landings
Heavy bombers hit gun positions
beside the river and ighterbombers
and fighters bombed and strafed
beach positions, bunkers. trenches,
gun pits and antiaircraft defenses.
One Allied aircraft is missing.
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Comdr. Grace MISSING
In Sinking Of HaI|igan

1t. Comdr. Edward Thomas Grace
q, commanding officer of the de-
stroyer Halligan, is missing in action
in the Okinawa area, the Navy De-
partment has notified his parents,
Prof. and Mrs. Leo M. Bellerose,
450l South Chelsea lane, Bethesda
The Halligan was reported sunk at
Okinawa in Admiral Nimitz's April
20 conmunique.
Comdr. Grace was graduated from
Canterbury Preparatory School at
New Milford, Conn, in 1885 and
from the Naval Academy in 1899.
Immediately after graduation he
was assigned to the Pacific. He was
at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese
attack came and has participated
in most of the major campaigns in
the Pacific, returning to this country
Tor a brief period in 1943
In June, l943, he was married to
Edith M West, Bremerton, Wash.
They have 10-month-Old daughter
whom he has never sen.
Prof. Bellerose teaches French at
Georgetown University. He and
Mrs. Bellerose have lived in Wash
ington for the last 10 years.
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Bishop Sheriff. Named
Head Of Commission
On Service Chap|ains

The Right Rev. Henry Sheriff.
Episcopal Bishop Of .Massa chusetts.
was elected chairman of the Gen.
eral Commission on Army and Navy
'Chaplains yesterday at the quar-
terIy meeting of the commission at
Epiphany Episcopal Church.
y Bishop Sheriff., now touring the
European battlefronts for the COM
mission, will assume his duties i'm
mediately. He succeeds DR.. William
Barrow Pugh of Philadelphia, who
presided at the meeting. The di-
rector of the commission is Bishop
Edwin F. Lee. The commission acts
as a clearing house for Protestant
clergymen desiring to become Army
or Navy chaplains.
Vice Chairmen Chosen.
Vice chairmen chosen are Bishop
A. r. Clippinger of Dayton, Ohio,
head of the United Brethren, and
DR.. Frederick l.. Fagley, a member
OF the Congressional Christian
Churches national Headquarters
staff in New York. DR.. Andrew r.
Bird, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of the Pilgrims here, was
elected treasurer and Mrs. Virginia
H. Boswell Of Washington, secre-
tary.
Bishop Sheriff. served as an Army
chaplain with the AEF in the World
War, being stationed in France from
1917 to 1919. He has been a member
OF the Board of Preachers at Har-
ward University since 1928 and was
president Of the Greater Boston
Federation of Churches, 1928 to
1880. He has been Bishop of Massa-
chusetts since 1880.
The meeting voted commenda ton
OF the work of Maj. Gen. William
r. Arnold, who has a new assign
ment IN the inspector generals ONCE
here, and that of Brig. Gen. George
E. F. Rixey, deputy chief of Army
chaplains and at present acting
chief. The group also pledged sup
port OF the new Army chief of chap
lains, Brig. Gen. Luther B. Miller.
Address Meeting.
Speakers at the meeting included
Chaplain Rixey, Rear Admiral Rob-
ert D. Workman. Navy chief of
chaplains. and Vice Admiral Ran
dali Jacobs, head of naval personnel.
Bishop Lee, in his quarterly re-
port, said 1000 names had been
suggested by $50 chaplains as pos
sible candidates for service chap
laincies since the call had gone out
April 10. A committee to aid Bishop
Lee in studying the recruiting of
clergymen for the services will be
appointed by the commission.
Among those at the meeting were
Bishop Angus Dun of Washington.
Methodist Bishop Charles Wesley
Flint OF Washington, Methodist
Bishop J. Lloyd Purcell of the North
and South Carolina area and Bishop
Oliver j. Hart of PENNSYLVANIA.
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Col. Darby, Slain RongerLe Leader,
Nominated for Generals Rank

Col. William o. Darby, famed
leader of the first American Ranger
Battalion, who three times had re-
fused promotion to generals rank,
was nominated pothumously today
to be a brigadier general.
The 34-year-old West Pointer
from Arkansas was killed just two
days before the end of the war in
Italy. His nomination for promo
ton was pending at the time and,
after his death. Secretary Of War
Stimson asked President Truman to
send it to the Senate.
Meanwhile. an Associated Press
dispatch from Rome today disclosed
that Col Darby had led task force
which captured Mussolini's villa at
Gargnano just five days after the
former dictator had left there in
the vain fight which ended in his
death
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BY NEWBOLD MOVES. Jr.,
Star War Correspondent.

ROME. May 3-The Allied VIC
tory in Italy will unquestionably go
down in history as one of the most
remarkable feats of arms in this
or any other war.
To understand it, you must know
number of things which it was
not possible to say before the VIC
tory was won.
In the first place, when We opened
our offensive here last month, we
were up against force which was
numerically superior to our own
We had. it is true, nearly twice as
many pieces of artillery as they had,
and more than three times as many
tanks.
In addition, We had complete mas
terry of the air. But We did not have
the numerical superiority which. &C
cording to theory. the attacker is
supposed to have. Instead. our
troops had CUTS, and they had mo-
rale.
Faced Best of Wehrmacht.
They needed both Not only were
the Germans opposing them at that
time unquestionably the cream of
the battered Wehrmacht, but they
were also holding, as they had been
for months, behind some of the
finest natural defensive positions in
the world
We pitted a small fraction of our
total force against what was then
almost certainly the Wehrmacht's
first team and cut it to ribbons.
Gen. Mark w. Clark, commander
OF the 18th Army Group, understoo.
the situation we'll when he held a
press conference April 7, two days
before the offensive really got under
way. He cast an eye at the enemy
and at the terrain confronting his
forces; he pondered the fact that
he had no appreciate reserve to
throw in to clinch the issue at the
crucial moment. and. taking these
factors into account. he spoke mod
estly and honestly of what he hoped
his men would accomplish.
He said the British 9th Army
would jump off first. with its main
effort directed toward forcing the
Argenta Gap, aiming at Ferrera to
cut the lines of communication be-
hind Bologna. He said If this mar
row gap between Argenta Swamp
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The dispatch said Col Darby. who
had become the stored hero of nearly
every American fighting man in
Italy, led An amphibious operation
to the west shore of Lake Garda
April 80 as assistant commander of
the 10th Mountain Division. Job
he had assumed after the Rangers
were withdrawn from the Italian
compaign.
Col. Darby was standing with his
regimental commander, discussing
preparation for an attack northward
from Gargnano. when two 88-milli-
meter shells landed beside them. Col.
Darby was killed and the regimen
tai commander was wounded.
Col. Darby had refused promotion
to generals rank because he did not
want to leave his Rangers. He had
been wounded three times and dec
GRATED 10 times
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colonies to be brigadier generals.
Col. Lanham's middle name was
given to him in honor Of his grand
father, Truman Lanham, who also
had been District superintendent Of
trees and parkings. The colonel
added an extra "e" to his middle
name.
Col. Lanham's wife, Mrs. Mary
Gapen Lanham, resides at 1O4 North
Columbus street, Arlington, Va.
Their daughter, Shirley Lanham,
10, is a senior at William and Mary
College.
A graduate of Eastern High School
here in 1920, when he was a colonel
in the High School Cadet Corps,
Col. Lanham was graduated from
West Point in 1924.
He was serving here with the
Office of Chief of Infantry when
the United States entered the war
Later he was transferred to head
quarters OF the Army Ground Forces
and later was put in charge of a
lCSlIICib III lllC USIIl DlfiSiOll. az
Camp Shelby, Miss He went over
seas in June of last year with the
4th Division.
Col Lanham has received several
decorations, including the Distin-
guished Service Cross, Silver Star
with Oak Leaf Cluster. Bronze Star,
Purple Heart, French Legion of
Honor and Croix de Guerre with
Palm.
The brigadier generals named for
promotion are Holmes Ely Dagger,
Bryant Edward Moore. William
Morris Hoge. Charles Everett Hurdis,
Herbert Ludwell Earnest and John
Matthew Devine
Colonies to be brigadier generals
are George Winfered Smythe. Hugh
Cort. William Lynn Roberts, Charles
Harlan SwartZ. Thomas Leonard
Harold and William Nelson Gill
more.
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Allied Victory in Italy Scored
AGAINST Cream of Wehrmocht

and Valli di Comacchio seemed too
tough a proposition when the 9th
got there their main thrust might
be turned directly toward Bologna.
5th Army Was to Follow.
Gen. Clark said the American 5th
Army would strike a few days after
the 9th, aiming to break into the
Pc Valley west of Bologna. The
4th Corps, spearheaded by the 10th
Mountain Division, was to lead off
with an attack through the noun
tains west Of Route g. Then the I'd
Corps was to follow through with
the main and knockout punch, driv-
ing through the Pc Valley. Once in
the valley. German 10th and l4th
Armies were to be annihilated
This was the plan. But Gen.
Clark was counting no chickens be-
fore they Matched. He said openly
that we had been fooled by this
enemy before and might be again.
He was not talking big, but he was
hopeful and trusted his men.
What happened is history now.
The fact is this Campaign did what
campaigns rarely do: 1t went almost
precisely as it had been planned.
In one or two instances it went
better than had been hoped.
Battered Into Bologna.
In the first place. the 9th Army
not only forced Argenta Gap but
battered its way simultaneously
westward into Bologna. The Poles.
it seems, had few ideas of their
own. In second place, the 4th Corps
feint west of Route 81 hit a rela-
lively soft spot in the German line,
and the main weight of the 5th
Armys attacks shifted from the I'd
Corps sector to theirs. The spear
heading 10th Mountain Division
never lost its momentum, and when
last heard from was still going
strong somewhere near the German
border in the Bremen Pass.
The Allied armies in Italy have
won a glorious and well-deserved
victory. 1t seems fairly certain that
the forgotten front" will be re-
membered for long time.
One of our soldiers here told me
before this offensive began. We
started it first here in Europe. and
We are going TO finish it first" At
the time, thought he was kidding.
He seems to have just about
summed things up.
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Jlme.
Pvt. Smith has been in the Army
two years. He was in the Air Forces
until late last December when he
was transferred to the infantry and
after six weeks training he was sent
overseas, his wife said. He was
born here and is graduate of Gen.
trail High School and Benjamin
Franklin University. He also at
tended the University of Maryland
for a year. He worked as an &C
countant prior to entering the serv-
ice. His mother, Mrs. Agnes M.
Richardson, lives at 370l Sixteenth
street NV.
Pvt. Smith had been listed as
missing in action on today's OWL
casualty list.
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Kyushu AirfieIds Hit
18Th Time by B-Hs

Ry he Associated Press.
GUAM. May 3.-Swooping in at
medium height in a daylight strike.
between so and 100 Super Fortresses
of Southern Japan tor the 18th time
in five weeks.
The B-29s swept over six airdromes
which have been sending suicide
planes against the American naval
forces supporting the Okinawa inva-
sion. 1925 miles south of Kyushu
Bombardiers dropped their loads
usually and reported results were
good.
Airdromes struck today were at
Tachiarai. Miyazaki. Miyakanojo,.
Kanoya. kanoya East and Kokubu.
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ChurchiII's Absence
Arouses Speculation

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. May 3.-Prime Min
lister Churchill failed to appear in
the House OF Commons today. and
this led to speculation as to his
whereabouts
Sir John Anderson. chancellor of
the exchequer, acted for MI. Church
i'll, but made no reference to the alb
Sence of the Prime Minister.
Do you know that college edu-
cation for your child costs about
$1,000? Your regular purchase Of
War Bonds will come in handy for
his or her education.
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Berlin
Continued From First Page.)

tured the Baltic ports of Lubbock
and Wismar yesterday.
North of Berlin, only a twisting
virtually indefensible strip on the
Mecklenburg Plain remained to the
Germans.
A wide and solid linkup of the
eastern and western Allies all the
way north to the Baltic Sea ap-
peared imminent.
Premier Stains order announc-
ing the fall of Berlin said the COM
mander of the city was an artil-
lery general named Webbing, who
was captured. along with DR.. Hans
Fritsche, Goebbels' chief deputy
who told the Russians Hitler and
Goebbels had committed suicide.
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ChurchiII's Nephew
Liberated BY Yunks

Ey The Associated Press.
WITH UNITED STATES 7th
ARMY IN BAVARIA. May 3.-Giles
Romilly, young nephew Of Prime
Minister Churchill and CORE
spondent for the London Daily Ex-
press. is en- route to England after
being liberated from a prison camp
near Munich by the American 7th
Army.
more Bonds, more power-more
strength to Eisenhower"
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Anderson Pointing Presented

A painting of Marian Anderson.
the famous singer, has been present.
ed to Howard University, it was an
nounced today by her manager. S.
Hurok. He, said the purchaser, who
refused to be identified. gave the
picture. painted by Paul Meltsner
of New York. which brought $780,
600 at War Bond rally held re-
Gently in HOLLYWOOD, Calf.
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I n q t n e W a S
taken a prisoner
of Germany that
day but was lib
Grated on April
IA. Mrs. Smith
received the let
tiers yes t erday
from her hus-
banA.
I'VE are now
in German gar
+ | SON quarters
down the street
from the prison
camp he said.
I'VE didn't have
90 ug h a
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District Blood Donations
Appointments

AppOiIl IliiclllS
yesterday 453 persons
Appointments broken
yesterday 80 persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center in
the Acacia Building, 81 Louisi-
ana avenue NV, by calling
District 5000 between 9 m. and
$50 pm. weekdays. and 9 am.
to noon Saturdays.
Volunteer women are needed
as daytime drivers in the Mo-
tor Corps, which transports 80
per cent of the blood donors
Call Republic $500, Branch 1877.
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Va NilAAoA u La IL.
h a m, District
e n t
of trees and
parkingS, today
was nominated
by p r e S l d e n t
Truman to be a
brigadier 6 en-
eral.
Mr.. Truman
also nominated
IL other officers
+ or promotion,
including S / x
brigadier en- =
erals to be major
Liz
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wounded in action in the Pacific
theater of operations.
His father, Paul B. Wood. former
lv lived at 43o New Jersey avenue
Sc. He now lives in Binghamton
N Y.
The names of the following men
were also included on today's off,
cial casualty lists as wounded in
action. Stories were previously car
ried in The Star after the next Of
kin had been notified
Pfc. Leroy P. Robertson. son of
George P. Robertson. 4440 North
Glebe road, Arlington.
Pfc. Richard E. Cohen, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Cohen, 1923 Van
Buren, street NV.
Missing
lst 1t. Carl H. Bradshaw. %. COM
panv commander in the Tooth IN
fantry. has been missing in action
since April in Southern Germany.
it was revealed today by an Army
casualtv list. He has been overseas
10 months.
Son of Mr.. and Mrs Paul Brad
shaw, 901 c street NE, 1t Brad
shaw was graduated from Eastern
High School and was awarded
scholarship to Johns Hopkins Uni
versity. He went into the Army
two years ago after he was grad
uated from the university. One of
his brothers. 1t. Paul Bradshaw, jr.,
fighter pilot, was killed in action
last October Another brother, 1t.
Aaron Bradshaw, is a B-29 pilot in
Clovis. N. Mex, his father said
His wife. Mrs. Grace T. Bradshaw,
lives at 1l3 C street NE. He has
never seen his 6-month-old son,
Eric Won I.adau Bradshaw.
1t. Comdr. Edward Thomas Grace,
81, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Leo M.
Bellerose. 450l South Chelsea lane.
Bethesda, is missing in action in the
Okinawa area. See story on Page
Az
Prisoner
Included in today's official pris-
oner of war lists were the names
of the following men, Stories for
merly appeared in The Star after
the next Of kin had been notified:
T Frank c. Bastgen, son of Mrs.
Ottlee Bastgen, 27l North Edison
street, Arlington.
Pfc. Leroy Davis, jr., son of Mrs.
Emily NJ Davis, 724 F. street NE.
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Truman Nominates
Col. Lanham, 6 Others
As Brigadier Generals.

Col. Charles Trueman Lanham,
assistant division commander of the
104th (Timberwolves) Division of
the lst Army in Europe and son
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Prisoner
Listed as Missing,
D. T.. Soldier Is Safe

Pfc. Clifford B. Smith, who had
been missing in action since April 2,
has written his wife, Mrs. Jeanette
Smith, POOL Sixteenth street NV.
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Have you thought about going into
business for yourself? Buy and hold
enough War Bonds and you'll be set
to open a small business Of your own.