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On the Roll of Today's Casualty Lists (National.) Army 411 Army wounded. 903 Army 159 Army 378 Navy 297 Navy wounded 320 Navy 81 Thus far in this war 1,430 men from the District area have been reported killed. Killed Pfc. Thomas A. Hanrahan.

19, whose father lives at 714 Twentieth street N.E., was killed in action in Germany on April 7. He joined the Army a little more than a year ago, the day after he was graduated from St. College. A native of Baltimore, Pvt. Hanrahan had been overseas seven months and had been awarded the Bronze Star for action in Prance and Germany.

Requiem mass will be offered for him Wednesday at St, Church. Besides his father he is survived also by a brother, Richard, of the Twentieth street address, and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Leona, of Bradbury Park, Md. Sergt. Charles A.

Jennings, 24, whose wife lives on route 2, Alexandria, was killed in action In Germany March 30. according to today's official casualty listing. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jennings of route 1, Alexandria, he had been in the Army since May, 1943, and was overseas a year.

A native of Alexandria, he attended Virginia schools and worked for the Banner Laundry before entering the service. Besides his widow and parents he is survived by a brother, Seaman, Thomas Jennings, now stationed in Florida. Pfc. Traiko A. Kaneff, 23, whose wife, Mrs.

Mary A. Kaneff, lives at Allentown, was killed in action In Germany April 6, while fighting with the 76th Division, his wife has been notified. A native of Yugoslavia, Pvt. Kaneff moved to this country as a child. His parents returned to their native country 10 years ago.

He was stationed in Washington for a time before going overseas six months ago, and had been in the Army three years. 2nd Lt. Edward A. Belknap, whose wife, Mrs. Blanche A.

Belknap was listed as living on Route 3, Vienna, has been reported killed in the' European area. Stories about the following other men listed as killed on Office of War Information casualty list previously appeared in The Star when next of kin were notified: Oscar D. Pittman, hospital apprentice U. S. son of Mr.

and Mrs. Pittman, 253 Fourteenth place N.E. Pvt. James Trimble, Marine Corps, son of Mrs. Ruth Sewell, 6915 Beverly road, Bethesda, Md.

Wounded Lt. Roy Bernard 42. U. S. N.

reported as wounded on today's official casualty list, was injured February 24 on Iwo Jima where he was serving with a Seabee unit attached to the 4th Marine Division. His wife, Mrs. Bertha T. O'Brien lives at 25 street N.E. Lt.

came to Washington from Massachusetts as a child. He was graduated from Central High School and Catholic University and was a project manager for the Federal Works Administration when he entered the Seabees in January, 1943. Lt. had 18 years of construction experience when he enlisted. He went overseas two months after entering the service.

He served on Eniwetok and other Pacific islands, his wife said. Lt. and Mrs. have two daughters, Maureen, 12, and Eileen, 4. His mother, Mrs.

Alice lives at Rockcrest, Md. Pvt. Alfred W. Barrow, 27, whose wife, Mrs. Wanda L.

Barrow, lives at 3000 Thirty-ninth street N.W.. was wounded slightly in Italy March 31, the War Department made known today. He is a member of a mountain infantry unit. A native of San Francisco, Barrow is the son of Mrs. Ida M.

Barrow, Vallejo, and the father of two children, Judy, 3, and Rae, 2. He was a Pacific Greyhound Lines employe when called to the Army two years ago. He went overseas in August. James Porter, mate U. S.

N. son of Mr. and1 Mrs. Porter, 729 Langston terrace) N.E., was burned about the head1 January 5 during an enemy air attack on the battleship on which he was serving in Lingayen Gulf, according to a Navy report amplified by his mother. Mate Porter has visited at home since his injury and has now returned to duty.

A native of Washington, he attended Armstrong High School and was employed as a clerk at the War District Blood Donations Appointments 134 persons Appointments broken Saturday 23 persons Appointments may be made with the Blood Donor Center in the Acacia Building, 51 Louisiana avenue N.W., by calling District 3300 between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. weekdays, and 9 am. to noon Saturdays. Volunteer women are needed as daytime drivers in the Motor Corps, which transports 80 per cent of the blood donors.

Call Republic 8300, Branch 137. Department when he entered service in June, 1943. Married, he is the father of a son, Clifton, 2. Mr. Porter is employed as a custodian in the public schools.

Pvt. Charles A. Deck, 18, infantry, whose aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. A.

S. Early, live on Route 1, Vienna, w'as wounded March 24 in Germany. Pvt. Deck suffered an ankle wound and is now in a hospital in France, his aunt said. He entered the Army in October, 1944, and went overseas in February 1945.

He attended Jefferson Junior High School, Arlington, before entering the service. His parents are deceased. A brother, Corpl. George Nelson Deck, in the Army, is overseas. Capt.

Edwin A. Kallay, 27, infantry, son of Mrs. Irene N. Kallay, who formerly lived at 5310 Connecticut avenue N.W., was wounded March 31 in Germany and is now in a hospital in France. A native of Detroit, Capt.

Kallay entered the Army in 1940 and went overseas two and half years ago. His mother, a resident of Washington three years, formerly was employed at Mr. Shop. She transferred two months ago to An r-nf Pnd Cent. "Kallay, Mr.

and Mrs. W. V. Green, live at 5130 Connecticut avenue N.W. Julius H.

Lanham, 34. commissioned warrant officer in the Marine Corps, whose wife, Mrs. Dorothy M. Lanham, lives at 215 North Columbus street, Alexandria, was wounded on Iwo Jima March 12. Lanham was called to active duty in November, 1940, and has been overseas a number of times.

He was stationed in Cuba between January and April, 1941, and went to the Pacific area first in April, 1942. He returned in September of the same year and went back to the Pacific region the last time in February, 1943. Formerly employed as a mechanic by the Temple Motor Alexandria, he was born in Winchester, and is the son of Mrs. N. C.

Lanham, 714 Wythe street, Alexandria. A brother-in-law. Lt. Comdr. Arthur A.

(Jack) Allen, now stationed in New Orleans, is a member of The Star staff on military leave. Arthur Williamson, son of Mrs. Alma C. Williamson, 108 I street N.W., was listed today by the War Department as having been wounded in the European theater. Stories about the following men listed as wounded on today Office of War Information casualty report previously appeared in The Star when next of kin were notified: 1st Lt.

Edward J. Dravo, son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Dravo, Annapolis, Md.

Col. Dravo is adjutant general of the District National Guard. Pvt. Maurice E. Foster, son of Mrs.

Mary A. Foster, Clinton, Md. Missing Sergt. Edward L. Shue, 29, whose wife, Mrs.

Sarah Shue, lives at 528 Eighth street N.E.. has been reported missing in action over France since March 27. The son of Mrs. Ann Southard, 1501 New Hampshire avenue N.W., Sergt. Shue was fighting as an engineer-gunner with the 8th Air Force.

Before entering the service in July, 1942. he worked as foreman for the Charles H. Tomkins Construction Co. A native of Virginia, he moved here several years ago. Sent overseas in November, 1943, he had completed more than 25 missions before' he was reported missing, and had) received the Air Medal.

Prisoner First Lt. Donald B. Pollock, 28. son of Dr. and Mrs.

Joseph W. Pollock. 4448 Greenwich parkway N.W., who was reported a prisoner of war on today's official casualty list, has been' i freed by the 7th Army, his fatherI said today. Dr. Pollock received a cablegram from his son last weekj saying he was safe and well.

There were no details given as to where he I was, but his father said he had writ-1' D. C. Area Residents Win Guggenheim Fellowship Awards Eleven persons with residence in the Washington area were among the 96 winners of Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 1945, it was announced today by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowships of $2,500 are awarded to assist fellows in carrying on work of research and artistic creation. These fellowships awarded this year may be used next year, or may be held until the end of the war if the winner is engaged in essential work.

The Washington area fellows are: Henry Fowles Pringle, 3319 street N.W., now overseas with the Army Air Forces as civilian combat historian, and formerly chief of the division of the Office of War Information. This is Mr. second fellowship and will be used to assist him in continuing his work of a history of the present World Wo Maj. Hodding Carter, U. S.

A. (retired), 8471 Piney Branch court, Silver Spring, who until his retirement recently was with the general staff here. He formerly was publisher of the Army publications, Yank, and Stars and Stripes, in Cairo. He plans to leave Washington soon to return to his civilian job of publisher of the Greenville (Miss.) Democrat Times. His fellowship was awarded for the writing of a book on the establishment of the West Florida Republic.

Miss Elizabeth Wilder, 1411 Thirtieth street N.W., assistant keeper of the Archive of Hispanic Culture of the Library of Congress. This is Miss second fellowship too, and was awarded for her work in the studies and sculpture of the colonial period in Mexico. Dr. C. Wright Mills, associate professor of sociology of the University of Maryland, for his preparation of a book to be entitled, White Collar Man: A Study of MiddleClass The other seven fellows are here with Government agencies.

They are: Dr. Richard Poate Stebbins, research analyst of the Office of Strategic Services; Dale L. Morgan, with the Office of Price Administration; Dr. John Williams Calkin, with the Office of Chief of Naval Operations; and four members of the staff of the Office of Scientific Research and Development; Dr. Leo Leroy Beranek, Dr.

Chandler McCuskey Brooks, Dr. Seymour Stanley Cohen and Dr. Dean Stanley Tarbell. Church Honors Dr. Ball For 41 Years as Pastor Forty-one years of service as pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church by Dr.

John Compton Ball, pastor emeritus, was commemorated yesterday by members of the church at an unveiling of his portrait at the morning service. Dr. Ball retired last September. In making the presentation as Dr. Ball looked on, Miss Florence Gravatte, chairman of the Portrait Committee, said "we all love to have pictures in our homes of those we love, and we all love Pastor Dr.

K. Owen White, present pastor, said in accepting the picture for the church that portrait represents a life work, 41 years spent in one field with one Dr. Ball, who gave the pastoral prayer at the service, observed he had received one of the last letters written to a pastor by the late President Roosevelt. The Chief Executive had congratulated Dr. Ball at the time he retired.

Among those present was the artist who painted the picture, Miss Lt. O'Brien (Wounded) Mate Porter (Wonnded) CWO Lanham (Wounded) Prt. Deck (Wounded) Lt. Drayo (Wounded) Wolnert (Prisoner) Serirt. Smith (Prisoner) ten earlier that he had been evacuated from a German camp and sent near Nuremberg.

Lt. Pollock was graduated from Friends School here and attended American University. He worked for a Chicago manufacturing firm before joining the Army in 1941. Sent overseas 18 months ago, he was taken prisoner while at a rest camp near Luxembourg on December 19, 1944. Pfc.

John J. Keehan, 25, whose wife, the former Miss Mary Zanelotti, resides at 51 street N.W., is a prisoner inn Germany at Stalag 4-B, an OW1 casualty list revealed today. Son of Mrs. Delia Keehan, 619 Fifth street N.E., Pfc. Keehan was graduated from McKinley High School and was employed at the Navy Yard until he entered the Army in May, 1944.

He went overseas in November and five weeks after going into combat was reported missing in Belgium, December 21, 1944. He wrote his wife and mother a card in January. Corpl. James T. Lynch, 24.

armored forces, son of William P. Lynch, 24 Strathmore avenue, Garrett Park, who previously was reported missing in action, has been reported a prisoner of war in Germany, according to the War Department. A graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, Corpl. Lynch entered the service two years ago and went overseas in September last year. Two brothers in the service are Mate Robert P.

Lynch, stationed at the Navy Yard here, who was wounded in the Southwest Pacific, the father said, and William F. Lynch, Camp Edwards, Mass. Howard A. Wolpert, 26, whose wife, Mrs. Lois E.

Wolpert, O'Brian Heads Harvard Alumni Association By the Associated Press. BOSTON, April Harvard Alumni Association announced today the election of its new president, John Lord of Buffalo, N. a member of the 1896 class. Mr. lawyer and former general counsel of the War Production Board, will serve for one year from commencement, June 28.

Elected vice presidents were Arthur D. Hill, 1891, Boston lawyer; Edward E. Brown, 1905, Chicago banker, and Edward P. Warner, 1916, of Washington, vice chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. Hart Urges Retention Of Pacific Islands By the Associated Press.

American retention of the Marshall. Caroline and Marianas Islands insure peace in the Pacific" is advocated by Senator Hart, Republican, of Connecticut, former Pacific Fleet commander. In a speech broadcast yesterday by NBC, Senator Hart asserted the Pacific islands in general probably always will liabilities to any nation which carries responsibility for them. The only economic value will lie in facilitating sea and air communications across the In case of the Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas, he said: of course, must be evicted from those and some other Pacific islands where for years they have broken faith with the world and exploited the natives. Their departure will leave a vacuum which some one must fill for the welfare of what will remain of the poor for no other reason.

think their future is necessarily something which should be settled at San Francisco, he declared. future will be a proper subject for the action of the international organization which is to come out of the conference. possibly the problem will not be solved until the peace conference that will be held after Japan is Christian Science Lecturer Discusses Goal of Prayer The prayer of Christian Science is one spiritual Leonard T. Carney, C. S.

of Beverly Hills, declared yesterday at a meeting of Christian Scientists in Constitution Hall. Mr. Carney is a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. Christian Scientists do not place their textbook, and Health with Key to the by Mary Baker Eddy, above the Bible, Mr. Carney emphasized.

He pointed out that the first of the six religious tenets to which Christian Scientists subscribe, states adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal B-29 in Trouble Lands On Okinawa Airfield By the Associated Press. OKINAWA, April 18 The first B-29 to land within 325 miles of Japan proper set down at Yontan airfield on Okinawa today after a raid cm Kyushu, Japanese home island. The Super Fortress developed engine trouble and its pilot, 1st Lt. William Robertson of Houston, landed on Yontan rather than limp back to Iwo Jima or the Marianas Islands. Fighter planes are operating from to Pfe.

Keehan (Prisoner) Corpl. Lynch (Prisoner) resides at 1419 Upshur street N.W., is a prisoner of war in Germany at Stalag 3-B, the War Department has announced. Sergt. Wolpert, a native of Lancaster, has been in the Army nearly 10 years and went overseas last July. Missing since November 18, he was reported a prisoner April 8.

Mrs. Wolpert came to Washington in February and is employed by the War Department. Sergt. James Smith, 25. brother of Mrs.

Birdie Pegues, 1813 Eleventh1 street N.W.. is a prisoner of war in Germany, the War Department an-; nounced today. Previously he hadj been reported missing December 271 in Italy. Sergt. Smith, a native of Hamlet, N.

came to Washington to live with his sister in 1933 after the death of their parents. He entered the Army in 1941 and was sent overseas in January, 1944. Pvt. Harry A. Ward, son of Mrs.

Hazel A. Ward. Poolesville, has been reported a prisoner of war Germany, the War Department casualty list for today revealed. Rabies Control Bill For D. C.

Offered in House by Randolph Chairman Randolph of the House District Committee today introduced a bill to broaden the powers of the Commissioners to deal with rabies epidemics by authorizing enforcement of muzzling, leashing, quarantine or vaccination of dogs. A similar bill, proposed by the Commissioners was placed before the Senate last week by Chairman Bilbo of the Senate District Committee. At the same time, Mr. Randolph received a letter from the Better Dogs Club, of Morgantown. W.

protesting against the bill of Representative Rees, Republican, of Kansas and asking that Mr. Randolph vote against it should it be reported favorably by the House Agriculture Committee. E. O. Davis, secretary of the club, declared the Rees bill would have the effect of the Government in the dog and by classifying dogs as livestock, would be simple to issue a decree banning the keeping of dogs in cities or urban The club said it was cognizant of the danger of rabies but insisted "compulsory innoculaton of all dogs is not the solution since innoculation.

at best, is good for only about six In support of the bill sponsored by District officials, Commissioner John Russell Young wrote Mr. Randolph that the measure would provide that when it appeared to the Commissioners any dog or other animal in the District was affected with rabies, or was suspected of being rabid, the city heads may issue proclamations requiring protective measures they deemed necessary. These would include muzzling, leashing, confinement or quarantine, or vaccination against rabies. Any person violating provisions of the District measure would be subject to a fine of up to $300 or imprisonment for up to 90 days. Okinawa (Continued From First Page.) groups of 10 to 15 Japanese planes approaching from opposite directions.

With the aid of two American planes this little group shot down 21 enemy planes and probably destroyed two or three others. It was during this engagement that the was sunk. Carrier-based American planes attacked the Northern Ryukyu Islands steadily from April 18 through April 22, concentrating on airfields in the Amami group between Okinawa and the Japanese homeland. In the last two days of these attacks 26 Japanese planes were destroyed. Mustang pilots of the 7th United States Fighter Command, based on Iwo Jima, sank four ships and destroyed or damaged 47 Japanese planes in a raid on the big Suzuka naval air base, 32 miles southwest of Nagoya.

It was the third independent Mustang raid on the Japanese mainland. Fighter opposition was described as very weak. Antiaircraft fire was moderate to intense, but inaccurate. Thirty enemy fighters were met in the air, but the P-51 pilots reported these were Thirty-seven of the enemy planes bagged were destroyed or damaged on the ground. A recapitulation on Japanese casualties on Iwo Jima showed 23,049 killed and 850 captured since invasion day, February 19.

Admiral Nimits reported 60 were killed and 64 captured last Friday. American casualties for Iwo, as of March 16, were 4,189 dead, 15,308 wounded And 441 missing. MacArthur Boulevard Citizens' Return to Federation Urged Pointing out that a strong Federation of Associations is essential in the District in the absence of elected city officials and representatives in Congress, Wilbur S. Pinch, president of the group, today urged the MacArthur Boulevard Association to reconsider its withdrawal from the parent group. In a letter to Gordon M.

Atherholt, president of the MacArthur Boulevard Association, Mr. Finch cited the Federation's accomplishments and denied the former's charges that the Federation has abandoned impartial parliamentary procedures and does not give equality to its constituents. Mr. Finch told Mr. Atherholt that agree with you that the absence of elected city officials and representatives in Congress this (your) association feels that a strong federation of those associations in the District of Columbia is highly Aware or home Defects.

you accomplish that Mr. Pinch asked, dismembering the federation through withdrawal of its member associations?" In conclusion, Mr. Finch wrote: "A number of delegates to the federation, including myself, are fully cognizant of certain defects in its structure and procedure, but we are not attempting to remedy these defects by weakening it through withdrawals of our associations. On the contrary, we are working hard to solve these problems and, before the summer recess, it is our hope that constructive recommendations will be made to and adopted by the federation, so that when we start on next federation year in the fall, we will be well on the way toward the goal of creating a When the MacArthur boulevard group withdrew from the organization several weeks ago, Mr. Atherholt charged the federation with unlimited waste of time on trivialities, said members of the executive board were being continued in office for too many years, and that committee reports were not available sufficiently in advance of meetings to permit comprehensive consideration.

Other Criticisms Answered. Taking up the criticisms point by point, Mr. Finch cited the record of accomplishment during the past year and pointed out that members of the executive board are elected by a free voting system. know' that nominations are made for all of the elective offices as well as for the executive board in October, a full month before the actual election in Mr. Finch said in his letter.

all delegates have from June, when the federation adjourns for the summer, until October to line up those persons they desire to place in nomination for these Mr. Finch continued. no fairer nor better method could be found than In answer to the charge that the federation wasted its time on trivialities. Mr. Finch cited the record during the first eight meetings of his administration.

At least 25 actions were taken by the federation toward the improvement of conditions in the District, he declared. In addition, the federation sold $1,715,000 worth of war bonds in the Sixth War Loan Drive. Lease-Lend Is Equipping 8 More French Divisions By thf Associated The French Embassy said today a second eight army divisions are being equipped under American leaselend and that the French air force is being doubled in With supporting units, the first eight divisions readied for battle aggregated 225,000 men, Jean Monnet, special lease-lend envoy, said in a statement issued by the Embassy. He added that the United States Navy is maintaining more than a score of refitted French ships. Mr.

Monnet placed the total value of military equipment and supplies received under lease-lend at more than $1,000,000,000. Russia (Continued From First Page Soviet tanks and infantry in the heart of the city, and told of 3,000,000 residents crowded so closely ih underground shelters that they could not be seated. Heavy Fighting Reported The Paris radio reported that Soviet troops had reached Unter den Linden and that heavy fighting was raging around the Brandenburger Tor in the area that once was the center of official and social life. The broadcast attributed its information to "a secret German language Earlier the Paris radio carried an unconfirmed report that foreign workers had seized the Warschauer Bruecke Railway station, about 2M miles from Unter den Linden. This report said foreign workers were battling SS troops in the Zimmerstrasse, which runs 10 blocks south of Unter den Linden and is the site of many of newspaper plants.

The Swiss radio chimed in with a report that the Russians were fighting for the great Anhalter railway station, about a mile south of the Brandenburger Tor. Farther southwest other Red Army troops were reported in the Neukoelln district, once a Communist center. Flames were raging through the Anhalter station, the Swiss report said. Russians Mure Conservative. The official Soviet war bulletin was more conservative than these accounts.

At least 8,000 Germans were killed in Berlin yesterday, and prisoners taken in the last five days mounted to 23,000, the Russians said. As Red Army forces pounded through the rubble of Berlin, Soviet tanks to the south rolled as much as 21 miles across the Brandenburg plain along a 104-mile front that carried them into the strategic rail and road center of Elsterwerde, 27 miles northeast of outflanked Dresden. At Elsterwerde the Russians were 34 miles from the American 1st Army at Wurzen on the Mulde River, but Allied air reconnaissance said the Soviet vanguards had driven another 14 miles and reached the Elbe, at a point within 20 miles of the Yanks. I I ALLIED DRIVES AGAINST DWINDLING arrows show where an unconfirmed Luxembourg radio report tells of a meeting of Russians and Americans near Torgau. Solid arrows locate other Allied drives.

Remaining German-held territory is shaded. Wirephoto. SOVIET THRUSTS IN drives (arrows) in Berlin were reported by Soviet front dispatches today to be pushing along Mueller Strasse from the northwest, fighting in FriedrfthsHain and along Landsberger and Frankfurter Strassen in the east. From the southeast other Russians fought into the Tempelhof area. AP Wirephoto Von Rundsfedt Reported Cut to Private by Hitler By the Associated Press.

STOCKHOLM, April Stockholm Tidnlngen reported today from a source in that Adolf Hitler tore shoulder ornaments off Field Marshal von Rundstedt. threw them in his face and reduced him to the rank of a private soldier in a rage at the American capture of the Remagen Bridge intact. The Swedish newspaper said panic existed in Germany because of the catastrophic war situation and the mad raging of Hitler. The story said that the Fuehrer condition caused many high emment officials in Berlin who had been ordered to report to the na; tional redoubt area in the south to change their minds and disappear a northeasterly According to this report the seat of the German government has been moved to Salzburg. Western Front From First Page.) estimated to have netted 33,000 prisoners in the first 24 hours, it ex-1 tended the southern offensive all i the way from the Swiss to Czechoslovak frontiers.

hastily stocked deathstand hideaway in the towering mountains from Berchtesgaden to Lake Constance was being brought under full force attack, even before the formal splitting of the German armies was announced. The 3d Army turned abruptly and secretly from its eastward drive against Dresden and other parts of Saxony, in an operations scarcely less difficult than when it shifted from the Saar into the Ardennes to counter the German break-through effort. The Germans apparently had not expected the outer ramparts of their last fortress to be charged so soon. They were reeling back, offering slight opposition. The Harz Mountain pocket was erased finally with 56,000 captives! taken, as the French sprang the new trap against the frontier of Northern Switzerland.

The 1st Army southwest of Berlin captured Bitterfeld (17,000) and prepared for the dramatic meeting with the indeed it has not already occurred. Chemnitz In Saxony remained besieged by troops in its outskirts. Crailsheim Captured. Crailsheim fell to the 7th Army, and the troops of Gen. Devers also captured Sigmaringen, where Marshal Petain and Pierre Laval had conducted a puppet French government in the old haunts of the Hohenzollerns.

In reaching the western shores of Lake Constance, Gen. Jean de Lattre de French Army was within 230 miles of Modena, which Allied armies in Italy besieged. They were 108 miles across the Alps from the northern boundary of Italy. On the approaches to Augsburg only 23 miles away at reports many hours old, the 6th Army group was 120 miles from the Brenner Pass entrance from Italy into the Bavarian redoubt. The 7th Army reached a point only 10 miles from Ulm where Napoleon achieved (me of his greatest victories.

At Seissen, the 44th Division was within eannonshot of Ulm. With the capture of Dessau, Stuttgart and Freiburg, Hitler retained only 14 cities which had prewar populations of more than 100,000. Of these, Berlin, Hamburg, Breslau, of Hitler at Nuernberg Has Three Brothers Overseas 4 Harold L. Hershey, pictured in Star, mimicking Hitler in Nuernberg stadium, is one of four Rockville brothers serving abroad, according to relatives. A Signal Corps cameraman himself, Hershey was snapped by his colleagues with one hand raised in a Nazi salute and the other holding a pocket-comb to his upper lip.

A Gaithersburg high school graduate, Hershey, who is 27 years old, was employed as assistant to the supervisor of Movietone News here when he entered the Army in October, 1943. The other Hershey brothers in service are Seaman (first class' Charles Hershey, on a destroyer in the North Atlantic, Sergt. John Hershey. in the Aleutians, and Pfc. Walter Hershey, last heard from in Prance.

They are the sons of the late Mr. and Mrs. David W. Hershey of Rockville. Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Hershey are the parents of a 2-year-old son. Richard Michael. Mrs. Hershey is employed by the People's Life Insurance Co.

Withdrawal of Yanks From Potsdam Denied By the Associated Press. PARIS, April published in the United States that American troops had once reached the Berlin suburb of Potsdam but withdrew at the request of the Russians were denied by Gen. headquarters last night. Although the United States 9th Army and parts of the 1st have been aligned along the Elbe for several days as little as 45 miles from Potsdam and some troops crossed the stream, authorities said no Americans had penetrated that far to- ward the western gate of the Reich capital. Associated Press Correspondent Wes Gallagher said earlier in a dispatch from Magdeburg that the; joint chiefs of staff apparently decided that the Elbe River should be the halting line in that sector to avoid any incident in the juncture of American and Russian armies.

Americans reached it first and he said. "The great Russian break-through on the eastern front explains why the United States 9th Army has been sitting on the Elbe for more than a VFW Asks Overhauling Of Veterans' Claims Unit Continuing its attack on the claims of the Administration, the Veterans of Foreign Wars today called for a complete overhauling of Administration procedure, with decentralization of claims work to field offices. The VFW said it would press for immediate action on these two recommendations: 1. Adjudication of all claims for dependency pension and national service life insurance by one adjudication unit instead of by the present two units. 2.

Acceptance of the affidavit of the beneficiary to fix age instead of requiring birth certificates or other evidence difficult to obtain. Chemnitz, Stettin, Potsdam and Harburg were either eptered or besieged. The others are Munich, Dresden, Kiel, Augsburg, Luebeck and threatened. The French press agency asserted that the Germans had declared Constance an open city and that of American and British injured prisoners of were there. Hie city is virtually on the Swiss frontier and on the Swiss side of Lake Constance.

Henry (Continued From First Gregory Zhukov near the' bend ol the Elbe was monitoried. The conversation, giving a running account of the battle, was as follows: 10:30 are shelling the town of Jugovostok. Do not proceed any further than the town. Tanks will bypass the town. Main forces have bypassed town.

Holding force of tanks and infantry is preparing to assault town. Where is main force 11:02 has been cleared. Troops are advancing forward. advancing to East are asked to slow up so rear elements can catch up with troops advancing on other flank. "A town is in sight." 11:50 of second town we are approaching is Jugesapod Our artillery is shelling the town The town is surrounded and our troops are 12:15 p.m.—“The town is cleared 12:22 troops are flanking out from the town and advancing 12:30 p.m.—“Tanks are erossin some hills and 12:32 have cleared hill and are advancing toward 12:50 p.m.—“Artillery heard over water barrier.

Germans retreating. Have reached water barrier." 1 p.m.—“Light resistance around water 1st Army Barely Saves Yank From Execution By THOMAS R. HENRY, Star War Correspondent. LEIPZIG, April 23 Col. William H.

ShaeSer of Chicago, ordered executed for tearing anti-American posters from prison camp walls, was rescued by a 1st Army unit from a dungeon in an ancient castle near here, where he had spent three-andone-naif months in solitary confinement. His liberation was accomplished by Capt. Cleveland MacLean, who had served under Col. ShaeSer a few years ago at Port Clayton, Panama. The rescue came Just in time.

The execution was already ordered after a long series of delays. Col. ShaeSer, who was oaptured In Sicily, owes his life to the of a fellow prisoner at pleading Oerman law. The prisoner-pleader was a British lieutenant who had been an eminent barrister in England before the war. He is credited with saving at least 50 lives by obtaining delays on fine points of law.

There were 1,800 prisoners In the 300-year-old castle..