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Evening star., 1945-10-06
Gen. Potion Denies Costly Foroy
WAS Made to Free Son-in-Luw
From Yesterdays Last Edition. J

From Yesterdays Last Edition.)
By the Associated Press.
BAL TOELZ, Germany, Oct. S.
Gen. George S. Patton, jr., said
today that concern for all Americans
held at the Hammelburg prison camp
prompted his abortive strike at the
German camp last March 27 and he
did not know until nine days later
that his son-in-law was among the
prisoners there
The on-in-law is 1t. Col. John x.
Waters, Maryland born West Pointer
who was captured in North Africa
early in l943. He was among Amer
leans and Allied prisoners freed
April 7, not by Gen. Patton's forces,
but by column of the 7th Army s
14th Armored Division.
(Col, Waters, a native of Bal
timore, resides at 5000 Tunlaw
road NV He and Mrs. Waters
are the parents of two children.)
Gen. Patton, who is being trans
ferred Sunday from command of
his veteran Sd Army to the skeleton
lied 18th Army, lost task force of
about 300 men in the March u
rescue attempt by his 4th Armored
Division. The defeat of the task
force was related by Associated
Press Correspondent Edward D.
Ball in an April 13 dispatch from
the Sd Army front. Mr.. Ball, now
In Berlin, said today there were no
indications at the time Gen. Patton
sent out his task force that he knew
his son-in-law was In the camp,
since the last word from Col. Waters
had been that he was in a camp in
Poland with Anon Carter, jr., son
of the Texas publisher.
Camp Outside Sd Army Zone.
Austen Lake, war correspondence
columnist of the Boston American,
said in an article yesterday that the
thrust was IAN incomprehensible
mystery mission" until "we later dis
covered this stalag held Gen. Pat
tons son-in-law." Mr.. Lake said
: the camp was some so miles outside
/ the Sd Army's combat zone and that
/ 1t would have been overrun by the
7th Army anyway in a matter of
! days.
Commenting on this article. Gen
Patton displayed. his personal ano
official diaries to show he did not
know Col. Waters was held at Ham,
melburg He said the liberation OF
the camp was attempted because OF
fear that American prisoners might
be murdered" by the retreating
Germans.
An entry in the official diary OF
Sd fr'7v headquarters said the
Evening star., 1945-10-06

armored task force set out on the
night of March 26/27 ION a mission
to recapture 800 to 900 American
prisoners known held in the Ger
man prison camp at Hammelburg. :"
Gen. Patton's personal diary con-
tanned the March 26 notation that
officers to whom he gave the orders
for the mission outside the Sd Army
zone were reluctant to do this be-
cause they said If l failed I would
be severely criticized" 1t, added
However, I do not believe that fear
of criticism should prevent my get
ting back American prisoners, par
ticularly as in the last death strug-
giles of the Germans, our men might
be murderedR
Believed Waters in Poland.
The general said his information
at the time was that Col. Waters was
held in Poland, that he learned his
son-in-law was at Hammelburg only
after the 7th Army men reached the
camp April T.
An entry April in the headquar-
tiers diary told of two lieutenants
liberated at Hammelburg being
picked up bs the Sd Army with the
comment This is of interest be-
cause this presumably referring to
the two lieutenants) is the task
force sent out from the 4th Armored
Division, which TO date has never
returned. This narrative Is Of
particular interest to the Army COM
mander because this is the first
time he had news that his son-in-
law, Col. Waters, was one of the
prisoners"
Gen. Patton's aides said the force
reached and liberated the American
and Allied prisoners at Hammelburg,
numbering from 1900 to 1900, but
ran afoul big German forces on
the return. Many of the prisoners
and men of Gen. Patton's force were
captured and "a very few were
killed." they said. Col. Waters was
wounded. Only two men succeeded
in returning to their units at the
time, but most of the force was
declared recovered later from prison
camps.
Mr.. Lakes article stated that all
the SO tanks and motor vehicles OF
the task force had been lost. He
said the commander, Capt Abe
Baum of the Bronx, N. Y, and Tech.
Sergt. Charles o. Graham of Beck
ley, w. Va, were the only ones to
get back as far as l can learn"
Now postmaster in the little rail-
road town of Thurmond, w. Va,
Mr.. Graham expressed belief today
that the mission was worth the risk
Evening star., 1945-10-06
THE EVENING STAR Washington D. c. ** Alb
8

era of 'love thy neighbor as thyself,"
and declared that peace is as "global"
as war and as dependent on unity Of
all nations
He cited results of the recent Lon
don Prime Ministers Conference
where the five powers were unable
to agree even upon a start on the
road to permanent and lasting
peace" as demonstration of the diff
culties of the path to peace.
Il fully indorse the demand Of
Secretary of State Byrnes in re-
fusing to indorse program that
did violence to the Atlantic Charter
and the San Francisco Charter" he
said.
Evening star., 1945-10-06
10000 Dutch Troops
On Way 10 Control
Troubled Indonesia
By the Associated prsss

BY the Associated Press.
SYDNEY, Oct. 6.-Ten thousand
Dutch troops now en- route to the
Netherlands Indies from Europe
and America will be a sufficient
force to control troubled Indonesia,
a high Netherlands diplomatic
spokesman indicated today.
They will arrive within three
weeks, he said. The spokesman ex-
pressed belief that Indonesians were
not yet ready for self-government
without Dutch administrative SUI
pervision. Headed by President Soc
Karno, a native government earlier
proclaimed it's independence.
The spokesman said also there
was cause for Dutch dissatisfaction
over what he termed Allied inac-
ton in Java.
The Dutch had prepared reoc-
cupation program for the Neither
lands Indies, but it suffered set
back, he said, through the failure
of the Australian government te
carry out a commitment to train
Dutch troops near Perth, Western
Australia.
The rehabilitation plans included
assembling food in Australia fol-
distribution in Java, the spokesman
reported, but an arrangement te
ship the food from this country was
thwarted by Javanese seamen's re-
fusal to load it on Dutch ships al
Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
The seamen said the ships contained
arms for use against Indonesians in
the event of an uprising.
| DR.. Hubertus j. van Nook, lieu
tenant governor general of the
Netherlands Indies government, has
returned to Batavia, and three OIL
four other members of the govern
ment were expected to follow hin
carly neyt ueak
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He was discharged from the Army
August at Fort George @. Meade,
MD.
THE Germans pulled out several
divisions to meet our task force,
thinking the whole 4th Armored Di-
vision was trying to break through, .
he said, and the Nazi shift permitted
Gen. Patton to slip his army on to
Leipzig II consider this (Hamnel-
burg attack to have been a brilliant
combat maneuver, though it cost a
lot of men"
Mr.. Graham, who holds the silver
Star and other decorations for
bravery, said about 60 men were lost
In the approach and rescue, He
said the final action came about G
miles out of Hammelburg on the re-
turn trip. A German armored divi-
sion and two infantry divisions
struck there when the force ran low
on gasoline and stopped to transfer
fuel from half tracks. Mr.. Graham
escaped on foot.
Baum in Hospital
Capt. Baum, now patient at Hal
loran General Hospital in New York
told newsmen the mission was or
dered by colonel on Gen. Patton's
staff and that no mention was made
Evening star., 1945-10-06

to him or the raiding party of Col
Waters presence among the pris-
oners.
He said he started with his men
and SO vehicles from Mainz River
bridgehead for the prison camp
about SO miles away.
"By the time we worked south
again to Hammelburg we had only
four medium tanks left of "a he
said.
I'VE had to counterattack and
fight the Germans at our rear while
liberating the prison camp. We
found about $500 Allied prisoners
1,500 of them American officers
When night came we had about &c
vehicles left, so we loaded as many
of the American officers as possible
and the rest took off on foot to try
to reach the American lines.
LIT. Col. Waters appeared as we
neared the camp, waving white
flag and an American Flag, and
tried to direct our fire. He was shot
through the abdomen by the Ger
mans"
The force then retreated from the
camp, Capt Baum said Meanwhile
the Germans counterattacked. Col
Waters, many of the prisoners, Capt
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Coral Sea Again Green Hunter
Champ in MARYLAND Show

rows program, which starts at 9
am. Summary:
Model green hunters tthoroughbredl-
ono; Spr1ngsbury Farms Coral Sea; third,
!; North Fletcher agent,s Dhuway; fourth,
! Model green hunters half-bred)-Won
by DR.. and Mrs. J. Wesley Edel7s Rebel
Rner. Rsli sfSGnd' fSIrG rs MIS- rs airline Brooks
fourth, Mrs, Peter NJ. Delo's Party Miss
Tnn Ihree al and c1 four year olds tthoroughbfed)
NWon nv Eco 9y Coral Sea; second; Dhuaway:
Pennard.
Three and four year olds (half -bred)--
Anderson and sons Sir Comet; third, John
SteePs Ny Thunder; fourth, Irving Yates
Green hunter haeks--won by Sky Clio;
second. Mrs Elizabeth Correlrs Hawk;
thlrd Holiday Hill Farms Grand Illusion;
Suitable to become hunters-won by
Frances Warfeld's Arris Tweed; second,
Coral Sea; third. Rebel Yell; fourth. Tig-
Brood mares-won by c. E. Tuttle's
er's Blonde; third, McDonough Schools
Tra Tiao Bssch; fourth, McDonough Schools
Green working hunters-won by Hawk,
eSegs Gsral Sonrtb ssa third Mrs Jphn Ma
| Speakeasy.
Foals-won by C. F. ruttle's flly; sec
ond; Peach Bros entry; third, John T.
EseIsT Roekefellers l,Is colt glprloush fourth E. 8
won BY Coral Sea; second, eco 's speaIeasy; Iss
Ysssilnss h0 sSStpaa ,ssSa by Leon
ss hsys sqiyafs Holy ponr}b }ve third Rsan Mskn
Yeariings ~ tbaifbredJLWon al ri sle By sh'ls Peach
Bros; soft: SECOND. Peach Bros Ma Jean;
| fourth, william P WadsWorth's Tomana
owner,rider class-Won by SKY Clio
ear rsxsliasf FlESt ca by
fs Fsee t6 G6ons Mrs ohesmp earg Jssfsoa ssfsoa
agent, sgs Final ma Answer; fourth, DR.. c. H.
Peach Bros Du-Teii; second. "on J, Leg Leg
Lights Valley Girl; third, John 7. sadler,
SON m &0n SONS h sienns n1afih Lsds James D. Ander-
easy, second, King Dan; third Basisr; sDssf
ar5 loart56' Y,;sis,; ;HsgR; hfth' Coral Sea- sixth,
ThoroasRbred Tho sRiat stallions-won BY james
serbs ponnd meTs sSd Ass s. oan
Handy green hunters..-,Won by Mai. and
Betty Bos gseond aseaafr ssind
!, BREEDING section Champion-clifton's
Hunters is'i IN hsrnessAwon msei by simon,s
Shadow: second, BuRler; third, Mrs. Henry
Obre's Haifaya.
Maryland working hunters-Won by
simon's Shadow; second. Mrs, Airline
| Brooks Royal Wood third, Party Miss,
fourth, L. H. Burtons Chester
= Pairs OF green hunters-Won by Coral
| Sea and Traumertan; second, Hawk AM.
SKY Clio: third, Party Miss and Nigh
MARYLAND junior hunters-Won by Mrs.
| J; P; Levering's First Call; second, Simon <
Shadow; third, Pat Firor's Cherry Bounce;
fourth, Mr.. and Mrs, G. w. Di Paula s
Green hunter ehampion--Corai Sea-
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Moen-Day Duo Bags
Sweep 10 Capture
Pin League Lead

Bing Moen and Jack Day with
80 victory over the strong Ruth
King Francis Robertson combina-
tom last night gained first place
in the fast King Pin Mixed -Dou-
bles League with eight games won
against single defeat.
The Lois Gladding Pete Metrakos
and Ruth-and-Lee Rothgeb duos
who had held a tie for the lead
dropped behind as the former lost
a game to Marge Smith and Pinky
Bradt and the latter was white
washed by Mary Brown and Moe
Meade.
Sweeping the Propps-Pantos team
with season records of 283 and 780
the champion Lorraine GULL Bob
Miciotto team moved to third place
Miss GULL with 367 boosted her
average to 1928 for nine games
while Miciotto raped out 153 and
413. Buck and Jessie Sacrey were
81 winners from Lewis-NaSh and
Doris Ward-Bob Heinbaugh trim
med Paul Perkins-Ruth De Chas-
tan, 81.
After Clarence E. Kefauver, presi-
dent of the D. c. Building and Loar
Association, fired the first ball ir
the D. c. Building and Loan League
opener at Chevy Chase Ice Palace
Chalmers Croft shone with high
game of 142 and 375 to pace Me.
tropolis' sweep over National Per.
manent despite Bill Moore's top sci
of 378 for the losers.
Officers of the league are Dor
B. Thomas, president; Tim Dun.
worth, vice president and Arthur L
Garrett, secretary-scorer. Dunworth
a member of the famed origina
Washington Juniors Is years ago
led Enterprise to an odd-game wir
over Liberty with 318. George
Huguely, Bethesda Bowling Center
proprietor. rolled 344 for Liberty.
A four man mixed team watch to-
night at Del Ray will see Martha
Hewell, Evelyn and Huey Hewitt
and j. w. Smith engaging Charley
and Delma Jones, Lorraine Cornwel
and Ned Warner.
Evening star., 1945-10-06
BY LARRY LAWRENCE,

Speclal Correspondent OIL Inc SLhI.
BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 6.-More
than 200 distinguished horses made
up star entry in the third annual
Maryland Hunter Show which
opened for a three-day run at the
Worthington Valley Show Grounds
near here today. Top horses from
noted stables of Wisconsin, New
York, North Carolina, Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Maryland
are competing for championship
honors in this, the largest ree-day
show in America.
The opener Was/given over to the
green hunter and breeding divi-
sions. The foremost honor in the
green hunter section went to, by a
remarkable coincidence, Springsbury
Farms Coral Sea, which won the
same tricolor last year. Coral Sea,
q 4-year-old brown gelding, was
ridden to his victories by Betty
Perry, noted Virginia horsewoman,
who owns and developed the great
American hunter champion, Cornish
Hills, The reserve award went to
Hawk, owned by Mrs Elizabeth Cor
rell of Scarsdale, N. Y, ridden by
1t. Gordon Wright, who turned in
an outstanding performance to win
the green working hunters.
One of the featured events on
yesterdays program was the Green
Hunter Stake, which was won by
that smooth moving, easy jumping
Speakeasy, owned by j. D. McKin-
non of Elnira, N. Y, which bested
such outstanding competitors as
King Dan, owned by It. Frank
Happy" Christmas of Washing
ton, D. c., with Hawk and Coral
Sea also in the ribbons.
The important breeding section
championship, awarded to the out
standing horse in the breeding divi-
sion. was given to the handsome
2-year-old gray gelding, Clifton's
Camp, by Cog d'Esprit, owned by
Mary W. Davy of Middleburg, Va.
Frances Warfleld's 2-year-old, Ar
ris Tweed, by Grey Coat, took re-
serve.
In the half-bred breeding classes,
Peach Bros. Stables of Upperville,
Va, were outstanding. In the year.
lings. they took both first and sec
ond' places and in the 2-year-olds
took the blue, as well as other prom
inent awards. In the thoroughbred
stallion, Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt's
magnificent Impound was beaten by
james N. Barnes great sire, Morgil.
twenty-five classes are on ton1or-
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Report

District of Columbia - Cloudy
with intermittent rain this after
noon and tonight, clearing by to-
morrow afternoon. Temperature in
the Cos this afternoon and tonight,
rising to around 10 tomorrow after
noon.
Maryland-Cloudy with intermit-
tent rain tonight and tomorrow
morning followed by clearing to-
morrow afternoon; little war;, :.
tomorrow afternoon.
Evening star., 1945-10-06

Baum and most of his group were
seized.
But the operation was success
full, Capt. Baum said, because of
the damage done and the confusion
it caused. The Germans were the
most confused I ever saw them"
Capt. Baum said he was liberated
few days later by large force
OF the 7th Army
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Shoe Foctory Figures

United States boot, shoe and Slip
per manufacturers produced at the
rate of one and one-half pairs of
nonrubber footwear for every per-
son in the land in the first five
months of l945-a total output of
297 ,663 ,606 pairs.
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Novy's A. L. Nine Wins
Second at Honolulu

BY lne Associated Press.
PEARL HAROR. Oct. 6.-The
American Leaguers trounced the
Nationals, 4 to /. here yesterday to
stay in the battle for the Navy's
Little World Series title. 1t was
their second win as against three for
their rivals
Luman Harris, winning pitcher,
yielded only three hits, one ninth
inning homer by Jim Carlin, for
merly of the Phillies.
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Economic Aid for Europe
Urged by House Member
IN the Assnciated press

" TIC AsbOCIate1 Press.
RICHMOND. Va, Oct. 6.-Repre-
sentative Robertson, Democrat, of
Virginia, appealed for loans to Great
Britain and Russia, relief of starya-
tion in Europe, and other aid to
Europe and Asia in an address be-
fore the convention of the Capital
District, Kiwanis International here
last night.
Mr.. Robertson asked for a new
Evening star., 1945-10-06
Report for Last 24 Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours
From noon yesterday to noon today.l
Highest, 66, ]: IA pm. Year ago, II.
Lowest, 50, 500 am. Year ago, 81
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 80. on July /
Lowest. IL, on January 25
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers cloudy
at HarperS Ferry
Tide Tables,
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Geodetic SURVEY
Evening star., 1945-10-06

Who's Right
And Who's Wrong?
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rejected by holding w -four ouls lse6ners
10 % of employees.
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A o the strike" i tbecon
overnments companies
andh nerenc oeaehan agreement
The Secretary of tina the be submiuedt
til limited the arbitration the Inference
between the Companys of 1870 and the o
n of grave Inconvenience caused the public by the
strike Socony acuum its willingness arbirae
fair basis.
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of
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half of what
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the
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the decision buraor o the wageto t ODE
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uden,
SoCoNYvACUUM OIL COMPANY INC.
SOCONY-VACUUM DID NOT DECLINE
ARBITRATION
Evening star., 1945-10-06

Five pounds apprentice allowance
Xxx Seven pounds apprentice allowance
xxx Ten pounds apprentice allowance.
First race, 1:45 pm.
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Monthly precipitation in inches in tn
Capital tcurrent month to dateJ
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luureI Entries

FOR MONDAY.
Weather, rain; track good.
Evening star., 1945-10-06

EIGHTH RACE-Purse, So 900; 3-year-
olds and up: foaled in Maryland; claiming;
Evening star., 1945-10-06
SECOND RACE-Purse. S2 .0nn. clain

THIRD RACE-Purse, $4,000; 3-year-
olos and up; about miles; steeplechase;
Evening star., 1945-10-06
The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

AUTOMOBILE lights must be turned on
one-haf hour after sunset.
Preeipita ton
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rows program. which starts at 9
am. Summary:
Evening star., 1945-10-06

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-05
5UBURB50F STETTIN ARE
 UNDER FIRE
Three Russian Spedrheads Have Now Reached
 Baltic Coast

LONDON, March 5.-Marshal Zhukov's big guns have begun she'll ing the suburbs of Stettin, which lie east of the Oder River, Moscow dis patches said.
 The Berlin High Command an- nounced the fall Of Stargard fortress, l9 miles east of the big Bal tic port after the Russians plunged triple spearheads to the Baltic.
 The Russians are reported launch ing two new powerful attacks, one from the Baltic toeholds toward Stettin Bay. Advanced units are already in sight of Stettin Bay.
 The two Russian spearheads on the Baltic, near Kolberg and at Koeslin have been supplemented by a third, farther east, between Koe- slin and Schlaw The Germans are reported cutting land communica- tions.
 Perhaps 100000 German troops are in Eastern Pomerania and the Dan- zig-Polish Corridor in one of the biggest encirclement operations on the Eastern Front, announced Mos COW last night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-05
DRESDEN x
 WIPED OFF
 NAzIS'M
Tens of Thousands of Cifi- zens Are Buried Under
 Ruins, Agency Claims

LONDON, March 5-A German war correspondent said Dresden, chief city in Saxony, was wiped out by Allied air attacks last Feb ruray IA and 15, and tens of thousands of citizens were buried under the ruins. e---ey-.,s-sss ,sss
 Rudolf Sparing, of the Trans Ocean propaganda agency, said: "The Dresden catastrophe is with out precedent. The town area is devoid of human life, and great city is wiped off the map of Europe"
 The agency said not a single block of buildings remained intact or capable of reconstruction in the city, which had an estimated popu lation Of a million before the raids began, including 100000 refugees from eastern Germany.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-05
"A NATIONS
 MAY ATTEND
 BIG MEETING
All United Nations Asked to Be at San Francisco
 Conference

WASHINGTON, March 5.-Gov- ernment officials have announced that all United Nations except Po- land are being asked to attend the World Security Conference at San Francisco. If all nations accept as is expected this would mean an at tendance of representatives from A nations.
 France has accepted the invita- tion to the conference, but refrained from joining in sponsoring the con- ference, which leaves the sponsor ship to the United States, Russia, China and Britain. The official an- nouncement from France said she had agreed to participate in the conference but felt, partly because she had not helped to work out the Dumbarton Oaks proposals she should not join in sponsoring the invitations.
 Voting procedure agreed on by FreSldent Roosevelt, Premier OIdllii and Prime Minister Churchill at Yalta to fill in the last gap in the Dumbarton Oaks plan were also announced in substance. It provides that small nation may have the right to bring charges against a great power and get them heard by the proposed World Security Coun- cil, even though the great power itself may object.
 However, on any vote to decide whether any great power is threat ening the peace, or to take action against that power, each of the five Great Nations would have in effect a veto.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-05
TREATIES 70 BE PREPARED
 BY ROOSEVELT
Results of Crimean Con- ference Decision Go 10
 Senate for Action
By JOHN R1GHTuWER

Ar OIptOUUtfc NeUS Eu1tOTJ
 WASHINGTON, March 5-Presi- dent Roosevelt, as the result of the Crimean Conference decisions, will submit to the Senate six or more treaties relating to general prob lems shaping preserving of peace
 Three. of the principal treaties will deal with establishing postwar world security organizations and at least three more will concern liqui- dation of the European and Pacific wars
 One subject to be introduced will include the United Nations Charter which will commit the United States to full and active member ship in the world organization, pre- pared to use force to prevent war threats and another stating in de- tail the force of land, sea and air the United States is prepared to use.