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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-10
Yonks Invade Somoi Isle;
Torokon Drive Neors End

MANILA, May 10 lP,.-Unopposed
American invasion of Samal Island,
just off the captured city of Davao,
was announced today as bitter
fighting ragged on the Mindanao
mainland, where Doughboys sought
to outflank Japanese force which
virtually has isolated Yank bat
talon.
Meanwhile, the Australian Dutch
campaign on Tarakan Island, off
Borneo, neared completion. The
Allies held all of Tarakan City,
seized strategic Api Hill and closed
in on the Djoeata oil field. They
already have the big Pamoesian oil
field.
The Tokyo radio reported Ameri-
can Negro troops were fighting on
Tarakan. There has been no indi-
cation from Allied sources of Ameri-
cans participating in the campaign
Elements of Maj. Gen. Roscoe
Woodruff's Oath Infantry Division
invaded Samal Island Tuesday to
protect the American flank in the
drive up the Davao Gulf Coast.
There were few, If any, Japanese be-
lieved to be on the island, which is
~ miles long and 10 wide.
Talomo River Crossed.
Other units of the oath Division
established bridgehead across the
Talomo River, west of Davao City.
in thanking move to liquidate the
Japanese force which, in a counter
attack Monday, almost ringed an
American battalion. There was no
further word on how this battalion
was faring.
The 3lst Division under Mai. Gen.
Clarence Martin advanced Z miles
eastward from Kibawe, in Central
Mindanao; while another column
moved northward and engaged
japanese force near the southern
airstrip of the Maramag Airdrome.
Elsewhere in the Philippines the
25th and 37th Divisions on North
ern Luzon fought fiercely as they
approached the important Balete
Pass in an encircling move. The
32d Division advanced TOO yards
along the Villa Verde trail nearby.
East of Manila, the 43d Division
speared within miles of Ipo Dam,
source of at least one-third of the
capitals water.
In the air. Australian and Amer
lean flyers pounded harbor targets
on Borneo, including the old Japa-
nese feet anchorage at Lubuan
Island.
Two 5th Air Force Mitchells sank
q destroyer off the mouth of the
Yangtze River with three direct hits.
A 500-ton subchaser was sent to the
bottom by Navy Liberator off
Swatow and two other subchasers
were damaged. Two freighters were
sunk and several others damaged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-10
Mail 10 Yank Prisoners
In Germany Is Halted
Ey the Associated Press

/ Ely the Associated Press.
All mail from the United States
to American and Allied prisoners of
war in Germany has been halted
in transit.
The action was taken, the War
Department said yesterday, because
of the breakdown of the German
governments mail distribution sys-
tenn and the rapid evacuation of the
liberated prisoners.
The department said the Army
postal service has been instructed
to return all letters and parcels,
so far as possible, to the senders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-10
Dies Pruyinq for Son

RACINE, Wis, May 10-While on
his knees praying in Thanksgiving
for the safety of his son, Pfc. Rich
ard, serving with American forces
in Germany. Gideon J. Carbonneau
So, collapsed and died in St. Pat
rick'S Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-10
District Blood Donations

yesterday ---- 478 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 a 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.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-10

LIST 1t. william H. Mooney, 25-
year odd Observation-Disclosures on a
B-24 was shot down over Ger
many November 26 on his 34th mis-
sion. and subsequently taken prison.
err by Germany, was liberated April
7, the owl announced today.
1t. MONEYS wife, Mrs. Frances
S. Mooney, 1890 Newark street NV,
received word her husband was miss
ing in action on December 81, the
day her son, David William Mooney,
was born. 1t. Mooney was impris-
oned at Meiningen. where he was
in the hospital, suffering a bullet
wound in his right heel, he wrote
his wife.
Overseas since last May, 1t.
Mooney worked for the District Wa
ter Department before he went into
the Army in July, 1912, his wife said.
He is graduate of st. Johns COL
lege. 1t. MONEYS parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John T. Mooney, live at 726
Maryland avenue NE.
Capt. Richard M. Tracy, 22-year-
old Psi pilot, who was shot down
in the Berlin area April 10, was
listed officially today as missing in
action. His mother, Mrs. Marie
Tracy, 1892 Rodman street NV,
however, has learned he has been
liberated from German captivity.
A graduate of Woodrow Wilson
High School, Capt. Tracy was pilot
in the Royal Canadian Air Force for
three years before he joined the
Army Air Forces. In the RCAF dur
the Aleutian campaign he chalked
up four enemy planes to his credit
He holds the Air Medal with three
Oak Leaf Clusters.
Pfc. John ]. Keehan, IS, who wa,
liberated from a German prison
camp recently after four months
internment, is now in Walter Reec
Hospital, where he is receiving
treatment for malnutrition, his fam.
| lily said. Pvt. Keehan's wife, Mrs
Mary Keehan. lives at 81 K street
NV. His mother, Mrs. Della Kee.
han, lives at 6l9 Fifth street NE.
! Pvt. Keehan lost 10 pounds during
his imprisonment, he told his family
i Pvt. Mannings G. Headley, Jr, 10
lis home with his parents at 63l
Florence street NE. for q 60-day
.lfurlough after, being liberated from
n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-10
Soviet War Dead
Put al $4,000,
BY MATTHEW HALTON,

Canadian Brosdcastinx Co. Correspondent
Representing the Combined Allied
Press and Radio.
BERLIN, May 8 Delayed P.-1
heard today from source who GER
tainly should know an estimate oil
what it cost the Russians to save
their country and come at last te
this triumph in Berlin-betweer
100000 and 100000 dead, OF
whom about half were soldiers and
half civilians.
There were times" a, Russian
general said. when we had to lose
half a million men at time to save
the army ITSELF"
These figures greatly exceed any
previous estimate Of Russian casual
ties. In June, 1914, the Russians
gave their last official announcement
on Soviet CASUALTIES, 800 900 killed
missing and captured. No figures
on wounded were given.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-10

theater, according to official an
nouncement today. Pvt. Jordan's
father, William Jordan. was said to
live in Takoma Park, Md.
Pvt. Ezra Funk, jr.. whose father
lives at 80 Chinquapin Village, AL
eXandria, was wounded in action
while fighting with the 7th Army
information received today from the
War Department revealed. Pvt
Funk is a native of West Virginia
His father at one time worked at
the Alexandria Torpedo Plant.
Pvt. Robert S. Attick, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles NJ Attick. 8700
SiXty-Second street, Berwyn Heights,
Md, was reported wounded in &C
ton, according to an official cas-
ualty list today. The story previous
ly appeared in The Star after his
parents had been notified.
Missing
LIST 1t. Douglas H. Rubinstein. jr.
"a, pilot of Bog Super Fortress, has
been missing in action over Tokyo
since April IA, it has been reported
to his parents, Col. and Mrs. Rubin.
stein, who live at ALL FeSsender
street NV. 1t Rubinstein was 8
veteran of II months service in Eu.
rope as pilot of a Bit when he wa!
sent to the Pacific last December.
1t. Rubinstein attended Texa.
A.. and M. College until he entered
the service shortly Before Pearl Har.
Dor He was sent to Europe in 1912
In his last letter home, dated about
month ago, 1t. Rubinstein said he
had completed nine missions ovel
Jap territory. His father, Col
Rubinstein, is the commanding Off
Ger of the Washington Quartermas-
ter Depot, near Alexandria, Va.
Pfc. HanseI L. Fraley, %, former
Alexandria bricklayer and graduate
of Lee-Jackson High School, has
been missing in action since April
2 in Germany, the Army revealed
today. Pvt. Fraley's wife, Mrs
Frances w. Fraley, lives at 140,
Prince street, Alexandria. His par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Fraley, re.
side in Engleside, Va.
Pvt. Fraley has been overseas
since 1913 with the LIST Army, hi.
sister in-law, Mrs. w. R. Pollen OF
the Alexandria address, said. He
has been in the Army since 1912
Pvt. Fraley has never seen his Is.
month-old daughter, Carolyn Mae.
Pfc. Joseph A. Maloney, former
employe of the General Accounting
Office, has been reported missing
in action in the European regions
according to an official announce.
ment today. Pvt. Maloney's mother
Mrs. Alice Maloney. formerly livec
at 1911 N street NV.
Pfc. Nicola A. Cipriano, son OF
Mrs. Carmela c. Cipriano, Green
belt, Md, is listed as missing in
action in the European area.
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Super Forts

Continued From First Page)
devastating blow at the Jap home
islands.
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Evening star., 1945-04-07
Former Ambassador
To Russia Heads New
Czech Government
By the Associated Press.


LONDON. April 7-President
Eduard Benes today announced the
formation of a new Czechoslovak
government, designed to obtain the
strongest support from Moscow, and
headed by Zdanko Fierlinger, former
Ambassador to Russia, as Premier.
The Communist Vaclav Nosek was
given the post of Minister of In
ternal Affairs. Msgr. Jan Sramek,
former Catholic Premier-in-exile,
was named Deputy Premier. and the
veteran nonpartisan Jan Masaryk,
son of the founder of the Czecho-
slovak republic, was retained as
Foreign Minister.
First announcement of the new
government came in Moscow
broadcast of Tass Agency dispatch
from Kosice. temporary Czechoslo-
yak capital.
Other ministers named by Benes,
according to Tass, included:
Gen. Ludwig Svoboda, National
Defense; Hubert Ripka. Foreign
Trade; Vavad Strobar, Finance:
Prof. Zdenek Needli. Schools and
Education; Paroslav Stanki, Justice;
Vyacheslav Kopecki, Information
Julius Duibis. Agriculture; Bohumil
Lausman, Industry; Ivan Pyetor
Home Trade; Gen. Antonin Gassal
Railways: Frantisek Gassal, Post
Office; Josif Soltes, Labor, Social
Insurance; Adolf Prochazka, Health
and Vyacheslav Mayer, Supply.
Also in the cabinet were Joseph
David, Clement GotWald. Vilem
Sorki and Jan Ursini. the broadcast
said. Their posts were not specified
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Western Front
Continued From First Page. }

dian tanks battled a mile from
Deventer, l8 miles from the Zuidel
Zee. Street fighting still rageo
in the moated city of Zutphen,
miles south of Deventer.
Three British and American divi-
sions were enlarging their six or
more Weser River bridgeheads.
American lst Army troops poured
through the Hessian gap in a new
surge eastward from the tightly
trapped Ruhr, and American Sd
Army troops, rushing up supplies
for last lap drive, built up a strik-
ing force on the Thuringian Plain in
an arc facing Erfurt and Jena.
The Sd Army's 9Th Armored Divi-
sion advanced 7 miles northeast to
the vicinity of Keula, miles north
of Muehlhausen, and the 65th In
fantry cleared Langensalza, 10 miles
north of Gotha, but there were no
other advances on the remainder of
the Sd Army Front, Associated Press
Correspondent Edward D. Ball re-
ported.
Counter Attack Repulsed.
A counterattack by 400 Germans
at Struth, miles west of Muehl-
hausen. at 5 a m today was repulsed
by American tanks which recaptured
the village.
Another German counterattack
took place in the Badsooden area,
farther west, and fighting was still
going on, Mr.. Ball added.
German prisoners continued to
pour in at rate which was sapping
the Wehrmacht too thin to hold the
Weser line. There was little chance
of a successful stand on the Elbe.
In the first five days of April,
146,723 Germans were captured on
the broken western front and prob
ably 10000 more we're killed or seri-
ously wounded.
Hamm and Wuerzburg were cap
tured, Heilbronn was one-third
cleared. Fulda and Erfurt and Soest
we're closely menaced, and the Ger
man grip on Hanover and Bremen
was slipping.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Czechos|ovokion Flag Flies
Once Aquin Over Embassy Here

Ambassador Vladimir Hurban yes
terday celebrated the return of his
government to CZechoslovakian soil
by tremendously raising over his
Embassy the flag which he refused
to lower in March, 1899, when the
Nazis occupied Prague and took
over the government.
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt
sent a cablegram to President Ed
ward Benes, who has set up tenn
porary capital at Kosice, in western
Czechoslovakia, congratulating him
and forecasting IAN era of justice
and cooperation in community of
free nations.
Smiling broadly, the erect gray
haired Ambassador recalled to re-
porters yesterday the events of that
March day six years ago when the
Germans tried to take over his EN-
bassy.
Hans Thomson, then German
Charge Affaires here. telephoned
Col Hurban saying he had received
instructions from Berlin to take over
the CZechoslovak Embassy He sent
two agents to call on the AmbaSsa-
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Epidemics in Europe
Worse Than in 1918
Feared by UNRRA
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Disease rates are so rampant in
wartime Europe that the United Ma
tions Relief and Rehabilitat ton Ad-
ministration fears epidemics may
occur far eclipsing those after the
World War.
I'm several ways the outlook is
darker than in 1919 said report
issued by UNRRA's archaeological
information service.
Housing and sanitation facilities
promise to be far worse with greater
floating populations, the study
pointed out.
Typhus was cited as the most
direct threat. In Germany alone,
where typhus formerly was un-
known, the report said there were
more than 5000 cases in 1943.
Picture Is Black.
Apart from the menace OF
typhus," the report said, 1.-The most
significant fact of the epidemic stu
alton is that the incidence OF all
the common infectious diseases has
doubled or trebled in that part of
Europe for which statistics are
available"
Information is lacking for some
of the more afflicted countries where
public health services have ceased
to function. 1t was suggested when
their real plight is known Europe S
health picture will appear even more
bleak.
Statistics on Disease.
Using 1943 figures because 1914
data are not yet complete, the re-
port showed the following increases
for certain diseases in IL continental
European countries: Cerebrosplnal
meningitis. 81 times the l928-1938
rate, poliomyelitis, 2.5 typhoid
fever, Is: dysentery 81; diphtheria,
30 scarlet fever, 80
On a general Europe-Wide basis
diphtheria was reported as the
,eading epidemic disease Of the war
> both as a cause of morbidity
and of mortality" 1t was estimated
that l943 brought at least a million
cases outside Russia, with NOR
talitv rate now not less than per
cent. Germany had 100000 cases
in l943, with the rise continuing in
1914, and the increase in Norway
and the Netherlands was called "ex-
plosive."
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Schools in Baltimore
To Hold Glasses We Do>
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April THE Bal
timore School Board has decided
pupils in public schools would OBJ
serve We day in school instead OF
having a holiday.
The board declared that other
city departments. stores, industrial
plants and businesses would OBJ
serve the day lin a dignified man.
ner" and hence school children
would be asked to observe the day
with solemnity.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Two Marine Corpora|s
Seized al Quantico in
! Death Of Third Here

Two Marine corporals, stationed
at Quantico, Va, today were taken
into custody by military authorities
there and were being questioned in
connection with the death of Marine
Corpl. James R. Bennett. 2l. after
an autopsy performed by District
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
showed he died from a fractured
skull.
District police had been searching
for the two men after Bennett, an
overseas veteran stationed at Guam
tico. was found unconscious shortly
before midnight Thursday on lawn
in the 400 block of Kennedy street
NV. by several other Marines and
girls who had been his companions
earlier.
Shortly before noon today. 1t.
jeremiah Flaherty. chief of the
District Homicide Squad, said the
men may be brought here for the
inquest into Benefits death.
According to police, Bennett and
his friends had been in tavern
in the 500 block of Kennedy street
and when it closed they all went
outside and waited for taxicab
The two Marines who are being
held and who had been in the
tavern also then came out and got
in their car nearby.
The driver of the car. police said
steered the automobile towards Ben
nett's party, which scattered. The
car came to a stop and an argument
ensued. according to witnesses. Ben
nett then jumped on the rear
bumper of the car as it started tc
move off and was carried a short
distance, police said. Officers de-
clared he suffered his injuries when
he was either struck or pushed of
the vehicle when it stopped about
a block away.
Meanwhile the Marines in Ben
nett's party hailed a taxicab driver
Ernest Hensley, colored, of the first
block of Seaton place NV. and
started a search for Bennett, sub
sequently finding him on the lawn
Hensley told police he then was di-
rected to go to an address in the 600
block of E street NE, and that Ben
nett was taken into a house there
Police said about an hour later Ben
nett was taken by the servicemen to
the Naval Dispensary at Eighteenth
street and Constitution avenue NV.
and was removed from there to the
Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Evening star., 1945-04-07

dor with instructions to have him
lower his flag and hand over the
keys
Col Hurban had received similar
instructions from Prague, but he
knew they were drafted under duress
and were sent by order of the Ger
man invaders. He stood his ground
and invited Herr Thomsen's agents
to leave The State Department
backed him up and continued to
recognize him-as it has done ever
since-as the legitimate representa-
tive of Czechoslovakia in this coun-
try.
In his message to President Benes,
President Roosevelt said, in part
your homecoming SYM
bolizes to all Americans the turn
ing of the whole world from the
years of conquest and strife to an
era OF justice and cooperation in
a community of free nations dedi-
Gated to those same principles of
democratic integrity which are so
characteristic of Czechoslovakia it
SELF
Evening star., 1945-04-07
9O-Day Jail Sentence
Given in Robbery Of Cripple

Thomas Emory Spicer, IS, of the
1900 block of L street NE, yester-
day was sentenced to 80 days in
Jail by Municipal Court Judge Wal
ter Casey after pleading guilty to
taking $25 from the pocket of a
75-year-old crippled man.
The victim, Charles Dorsey, GOT
Sixth street NV, told the the court
he was opening the door of his home
when Spicer extracted the cash
from his pocket. During an ensu-
ing struggle, Mr.. Dorsey's landlady,
Mrs. Josephine Browning, removed
the money from Spicer's pocket and
gave it back to Mr.. Dorsey, she tes-
tilted.
Spicer contended he merely had
picked up the money for Mr.. Dorsey
when Mr.. Dorsey dropped it.
Evening star., 1945-04-07
Captured W Bombs
40 Feet Long, Cheap|y
Made, Study Shows
-AP Wirephoto.
By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN,

War Correspondent of The Star and Chi.
cago Daily News.
WITH THE UNITED STATES 9th
INFANTRY DIVISION, April ;
Delayed The secrets of Ger.
many's W. rocket bomb are com.
pletely out of the bag.
| American explosives experts this
afternoon were examining train.
load of the mammoth rocket bombs
containing 9l2 of the weapons, in.
Guiding seven that were completely
intact except for their warheads-
which are of no scientific interest
and contain no secrets.
This precious trainload was
stopped just as it was entering a
tunnel near Bromskirchen, south
west of Paderborn, apparently by
tanks of the American Sd Armored
Division. The Germans had no time
to boobytrap or otherwise to destroy
the rockets.
They lay there this afternoon un-
der tarpaulins, laden with precious
scientific secrets in the form of null
titudinOus wires. wireless control in
struments. generators and tricky
gadgets of dozen different sorts.
| Each Occupies Flatcar.
The bodies of rockets without the
missing warheads were each about
40 feet long. Each occupied a fiat
car of its own.
They were beautifully stream
lined and sheathed in double coat
ing of smooth alloy. The giant
fuel tanks in the rear ends of the
monsters were insulated by inches
of glass wool. The interiors con-
tanned lots of plywood fixtures and
the weapons as whole appeared
cheaply but beautifully made
The tailends were studies in
themselves. Tunnels of heavy al
/ 10y provided vents for Jet propul-
sion, about feet in diameter at
the outer sides and about feet
on the inner.
Within each you could see bat
terry of 36 jets leading from gas
/ turbine.
There were four giant copper
alloy fins, feet tall. arranged
around the jet vents and on the
inner edge of each was further I'm
made of heavy metal, set on a mov-
able platform remotely controlled by
radio apparatus within the rocket
and. in the final instance. by con-
troll unit at the launching site. These
are designed to steer the rocket in
it's flight.
Works Studied.
The front ends where the war
heads are bolted on contained the
scientific works and it would have
taken a far better man than this
correspondent to tell what it wa:
all about. The round bodies were
divided into four compartments. Ir
/ the upper left one were contro
knobs, which were adjusted before
the takeoff by the operator to de-
termine line and duration Of flight
In the upper right were handsome
fuse boxes and wireless control in
struments, the keys to the whole
devilish business. The lower two
compartments we're devoted to com
pressed air chambers and a series
of generators.
Capt. Clarence H. Beery former
chemist of Wilmington, N c., was
sticking his nose into these mysterie:
when we found them.
The train carrying the rockets
contained a number of fax cars, all
of which had been blown up wher
the train stopped AS far as is
known, these are the first rockets tt
have been captured intact.
| copyright. 1945. Chicago Daily News)
Evening star., 1945-04-07
u. ). Officer Controls
More Nazi Soldiers
Than Kesse|ring
BY the Associated Press.

~ the hsooCidteo TTeSS.
PARIS, April 7.-There is an
American lieutenant colonel who has
more German soldiers under his
command now than Field Marshal
Albert Kesselring. Nazi commander
on the western front.
He is Frederick A. Moulton, deputy
chief of the Prisoners of War Divi-
sion, European Theater of Opera
tions, Provost Marshal's Office,
United States Army.
Under his control, the latest tally
shows, are some 725,000 prisoners on
the continent and in England. The
number is growing steadily-190O0O
came in from front-line pens in the
last 10 days
And the trouble is. nobody wants
them-that is, nobody but Marshal
Kesselrine.
There are 350,000 in Enclosures.
Two hundred and twenty-five thou
sand have been put to labor Twen-
ty-five thousand are in hospitals.
And there are some 5000 in tram
sit.
That doesn't count prisoners taken
by the British, French or others. 1t
doesn't count about 500 who have
died. or those who have been shipped
out of this theater.
A hundred thousand have been
sent to camps in England or to la
Dor there. Negotiations are in prog
ress for delivering more, but prob
lem has arisen. Although England
needs the labor. her space and IA
cllities already are strained
The French have been given about
5000 but turning them over to the
French doesn't ease the problem.
The United States Army still has
to provide arms and equipment to
guard them and food to feed them.
Most of those turned over to the
French have been put to work dig
ging coal and helping get in spring
crops,
About 100000 have been sent from
here to the United States. and there
will be more when shipping space is
provided.
Nationals of Allied countries are
sorted out from prisoners and turned
back to their own countries as fast
as possible. Russians freed after
being used by Germans as forced
labor or as conscript troops are
lodged separately under terms of the
Yalta agreement as liberated Soviet
citizens" and are accorded better
treatment and better facilities than
prisoners