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German Fighters Fail
To Challenge 3,C J
Sorties by Allies
By the Associated Press.
ALLIED AIR FORCE HEAD
QUARTERS. Italy. May 13.—The
Italian arm of Reichmarshal Goer
ing's once-vaunted air force lay
dormant all day yesterday as Allied
aircraft flew in nearly 3.000 sorties
„ in support of the new Allied ground
offensive.
Not a single German fighter plane
rose to challenge the raiders during
the dawn-to-dusk attacks. One was
sighted, but it fled.
Despite bad weather, the Allied
bombers and fighters pounded com
munications, roads and airfields
throughout Italy during the day in
an intensified isolation campaign
aimed at blocking supplies and re
inforcements from the enemy's
Gustav line.
Some medium and fighter bomb
ers blasted bridges, guns and enemy
troops just behind the enemy lines,
while fighters maintained combat
patrols.
Genoa Attacked.
Meanwhile, heavy bombers struck
as far north as Genoa.
From all the extensive operations,
18 Allied planes failed to return.
They apparently were victims of
antiaircraft fire.
In addition to the attempt to
throw a blockade over the enemy s
land supply lines, Allied airmen re
doubled their punches at the Axis
sea arteries.
Harbors at Piomino and San
Stefano were hit by American
heavy bombers during the day and
the targets suffered an attack from
RAF Wellingtons during the night.
The latter also bombed Portoferraio.
on Elba.
Gun Positions Attacked.
Mitchells attacked gun positions
and enemy troops near Pastena,
while Baltimores — brought back
into action on the big day after a
brief rest—battered targets around
Atina. Spitfires in sweeps over the
Yugoslav coast damaged four ships,
two bridges, blasted a motor trans
port and a bivouac area. During
the previous night Beaufighters
shot down an HE-111 off Marseille,
the Mediterranean Air Force said.
Thunderbolts had a big day, cut
ting the main and alternate Flor
ence-Rome railways at 28 places,
destroying or damaging three
bridges, an overpass and slashing
other railroads. Other fighter
bombers divided their time between
attacking frontal troop concentra
tions, gun positions and transporta
tion routes.
One special objective of the Tac
tical Air Force operations during
the day were high-ranking enemy
officers. Their headquarters, com
mand posts and bivouac areas were
blasted and strafed in at least six
different instances.
Army Unable to Furlough
Soldiers for Farm Labor
Br the Associated Pres*.
Secretary of War Stimson has ad
vised Senator Thomas, Democrat,
of Oklahoma that the Army is un
able to furlough soldiers to assist in
harvesting crops in Oklahoma and
Central States, but he outlined two
plans by which the War Department
will co-operate to avert food losses.
Troops may be used as units for
farm labor in extreme emergencies
at the request of the Secretary of
Agriculture, Mr. Stimson wrote, and
a comparable procedure will govern
the use of prisoners of war.
There is a curse in your purse
and a wallop in your wallet. Let
the Axis have it—through an extra
bond.
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BOSTON.—EXPLOSION SURVIVORS—Machinist’s Mate E. L. Hall (left) of Norfolk, Va„ and Mo
tor Machinist's Mate Donald B. Neal (right) of Boston, survivors of a Navy ammunition lighter
| which exploded 14 miles off Boston harbor Thursday, are accompanied off rescue ship by Navy
Yard employes. —A. P. Wirephoto.
Italy
(Continued From First. Page '
Army units north of Cassino which
drove in enemy outposts in the
rugged mountain area and advanced
in the face of the mast determined
German defense.
Toughened veterans of the Ger
man 1st Parachute Division launch
ed bloody counter-attacks as grim
fighting raged in the hills north
west of Cassino.
A headquarters spokesman cau
tioned against any undue optimism
over the initial gains both north
and south of Cassino and declared
much stiff fighting lay ahead be
fore the German defenses in those
areas could be pierced.
Houses Are Miniature Forts.
In the Liri Valley, he said, the
enemy has constructed many pill
boxes and converted houses into
miniature forts.
The capture of Monte Faito by
the French was considered one of
the major accomplishments of the
first day of the big offensive since
it was a strr ig point on which the
enemy hinged the first line of his
bastions in that area.
The weather was generally clear
throughout the day. but visibility
was very poor in many areas, par
ticularly where the crossing of the
Rapido River was made. A heavy
mist in the early morning areas
turned to a deep haze during the
day.
Bad visibility also hampered the
Allied Air Forces’ attempts to aid
the attack by blasting gun positions
in the enemy lines.
Naval support was given the
operation by a British cruiser with
an escort of American destroyers
which shelled the Appian Way in
the Terracina area and bombarded
the enemy's big guns in the Gaeta
area. Those guns have been active
against the Americans advancing
in the lower Garigliano area.
200 Prisoners Taken.
The results of the naval action
were reported satisfactory. British
minesweepers had preceded the war
ships into the area to clear away
mines.
Approximately 200 German pris
oners were taken by the 5th Army
alone in the first 15 hours of the
offensive.
The Anzio beachhead and the
Adriatic sector remained quiet.
The Army commentator expressed
belief that the Allies had achieved
considerable surprise in their at
tack to crush the Gustav Line.
The object of the new offensive,
! launched at 11 o'clock Thursday
night by the greatest barrage ever
fired in the Mediterranean area,
was made plain to the invasion
conscious world in orders of the
j day by Gen. Sir Harold Alexander,
| commander of the Allied forces in
j Italy, and Lt. Gen, Mark W. Clark,
i commander of the 5th Army.
Hard, Bitter Fight.
“We are going to destroy the Ger
man armies in Italy,’’ Gen. Alexan
jder said. “The fighting will be hard,
bitter and perhaps long, but you are
warriors and soldiers of the highest
order who, for more than a year,
have known only victory. From the
east and west, from north and south,
blows are about to fall which will re
sult in the final destruction of the
Nazis. To us in Italy has been given
the honor of striking the first blo^.”
“We can and will destroy the Ger
man armies,” Gen Clark told his
5th Army men. “You have placed
the enemy in his present distressing
position of trying hopelessly to hold
back Allied forces which he knows
will eventually overrun him from
two directions.”
Completely regrouped since the
costly and inconclusive fight for
Cassino two months ago. the 5th and
8th Armies struck simultaneously
and throughout the first day of the
offensive had intensive support of
the strong Mediterranean Air Force.
The offensive was launched by
American, British, French, Canadian.
Indian. New Zealand, Italian and
Polish troops—truly an Allied army.
High School Class of '86
To Hold Reunion Today
Seventeen members of the class
of 1886 of the Washington High
School, now known as Central High.
| are expected to attend their 58th
j alumni reunion today in the
Colonial Hotel, 1156 Fifteenth street
N.W.
i Tire informal reception at 6:30
p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p m .
also.wiil be attended by friends and
I families. The class has been hold
ing reunions without a break ever
I since its graduation.
Larger School Sought
In Arlington County
The Kate Waller Barrett Parent
Teacher Association has voted to
request Arlington County School
Supt. of Schools Fletcher Kemp to
construct additional buildings at the
school site on North Henderson
road to relieve overcrowded condi
tions.
The association pointed out that
the present school was designed for
140 students and now accommodates
more than 300.
Sylvester W Kee/.ee was elei^d
president of the association.
Shell Fragments Hit
Train Passing Near
Army Camp; 2 Hurt
By the Associated Press.
SANTA MARIA. Calif., May
13.—Thirty fragments of a mor
tar shell pierced the steel sides
of the dining car of the South
ern Pacific Davlight Limited as
it passed near an Army camp
yesterday, severely wounding
two kitchen employes.
Verti B. Logan, Los Angeles,
making her first run as a dish- .
washer on the train, received
wounds to an arm that doctors
found it necessary to amputate.
Mrs. Alice Jones, also a rail
road employe, received facial
and other injuries.
An Army provost marshal at
San Luis Obispo cpnducted a
preliminary examination. In
San Francisco, where the train
arrived only 10 minutes behind
schedule. Army investigators
took over.
Community Airport
Building Is Advocated
• By '.he Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 13.—If Mary
land is to have enough airfields to
accommodate postwar private flying,
the men of various communities are
going to have to get out with a
scraper and level off the fields, W.
T. Piper asserted yesterday.
The Pennsylvania airplane manu
facturer said that individuals and
local governments had been milking
the Federal Government long
enough. “We build enough memo
rials and monuments. Let us build
some airports instead.’’
Mr. Piper spoke at the Statewide
aviation forum, sponsored by the
State Aviation Commission to lay
the ground work for Maryland’s de
velopment as a leader in postwar
flying.
Dies
(Continued From First Page t
as to actually threaten the entire
war effort of our Nation."
Dies Says Record Shows
He Is Friend of Labor
B> ihe Associated Press.
JASPER Tex.. May 13. Repre
sentative Dies, resting at ills lodge
here after his announcement of
withdrawal from the congressional
I race yesterday, said today "from
' the beginning of my service in Con
! gress my opposition to immigration
■has made me a number of powerful
: enemies.”
In a telephone interview, Mr.
Dies said "they were people who
wanted to open the gates to rela
tives. friends and their own na
tionals. My opposition to such
bills prompted the organized blocs
; in Eastern cities, in New York, Chi
! cago and other places, who were
| determined to bring in their rela
tives, friends and nationals, to op
pose me.
“Some of those opponents not
only could not speak English—
they couldn’t laugh in English."
Mr. Dies added “the American
Federation of Labor indorsed me
every two years. The Committee
for Industrial Organization indorsed
me until the House Committee on
Un-American Activities began an
investigation of the CIO. The AFL
still supports me.’’
Mr. Dies insisted ‘T have always
jbeen a friend of labor; the records
show that,”
<jivn Aeronautics Administrator
Charles I. Stanton earlier told the
forum that airports were a public
1 responsibility.
"The financing” of airports, Mr.
Stanton said, should be a joint af
fair, along the lines of the Federal
aid highway system.
He predicted that Maryland and
the District of Columbia would need
more than triple their present 24
airfields.
Col. Pottinger Receives
DFC for Pacific Deeds
By the Associated Press.
QUANTICO, Va„ May 13 Lt. Col.
William K. Pottinger, commanding
officer of the Aviation Ground
Officers' School, yesterday was
awarded the Distinguished Flying
Cross for extraordinary achieve
iment.
The award was made for Col. Pot
tinger s achievements while partici
pating in aerial attacks against the
enemy in the Bougainville area, as
a pilot serving with *the forward
echelon of a Marine aircraft wing
operating in the Solomon Islands
area during the period from No-!
vember 1. 1943. to February 1, 1944.
Col. Pottinger, a graduate of the
Naval Academy, has been twice dec
orated with the Legion of Merit for
piloting aircraft in day and night
missions against heavily defended
Japanese shore installations and
shipping in the Solomon Inlands
area. The Pottingers live on the
past.
Explosion on Lighter
Near Boston Probed
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, May 13.—A naval court
of inquiry today began investigat
ing cause of an explosion and fire
aboard a Navy lighter about 14
miles northeast of Boston Harbor
Thursday afternoon which is be
lieved to have cost the lives of 17
American sailors.
First Naval District headquarters
said an enlisted man died of burns
and that 16 others were reported
missing. Thirteen officers and men
were rescued.
The lighter was dumping old and
condemned ammunition from the
Hingham depot when a ‘ terrific
whoosh'1 shook the 132-foot self
propelled vessel.
Survivors said the blast came
without warning after the crew had
dumped about two-thirds of the
cargo, and that there was no
chance to control the resulting fire.
The vessel sank 35 minutes after
the first explosion.
Search was started immediately
for the missing men and air and
surface craft swept the area
Thursday and Friday.
Two Lieutenants Win
Bridge Tourney Here
The men's pair championship for
the William Cheeks trophy in the
11th annual Old Dominion contract
bridge tournament at the Wardman
Park Hotel was wfon last night by
Lt. J. J. Parrish, Centralia, 111., and
Lt. Jack Howe, Chicago, with a
score of 143 '.i match points.
One point behind, in second place,
were James G. Stone and John
Darcy of Washington. W. S. Bene
dict and R. E. Johnson, also of
Washington, had 139 points, and
fourth place went to Dr. A. J.
Steinberg and Ben Rosson, Wash
ington, with 137 points.
m me womens competition for
the Edith Swanson trophy. Mrs. A.
Jack Bennett and Mrs. Harold R.
Young, both of Washington, won
with 20012 points. Mrs. Edward P.
Cotter and Mrs. Burton E. Palmer,
Washington, scored 193 for second
place, Mrs. L. C. Merrill and Corpl.
Margaret Roller, Marine Corps,
both of New York, 189'2, third place,
and Mrs. Allan Rutherford and
Mrs. John J. Iago, Baltimore, 189,
fourth place.
It was the first night’s play in
the three-day tournament con
ducted by the American Contract
Bridge League and sponsored by the
Washington Bridge League.
The mixed-pair championship for
the Stockvis trophy will be played
at 8:30 tonight and the open-pair
championship at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.
tomorrow for the Richmond News
Leader trophy.
Buenos Aires Hears
Invasion Has Begun
By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. May 13.—The
tension with which the world, even
the neutral part, awaits new's of
the promised Allied invasion of
Western Europe w'as shown yester
day when misinterpretation of a
news dispatch caused two Buenos
Aires dailies to sound the sirens
with which they signal sensational
news.
An Associated Press dispatch on
the day’s Allied air attacks, because
of an omission in a relay, was made
to read that Allied forces "descend
ed on a list of French cities
without specifying the attacks were
entirely bombardments from the air.
This gave rise to the erroneous in
terpretation that parachute troops
w>ere in action.
Baptism Is Arranged
For Two Sets of Twins
Two sets of boy twins will be
baptized at 11 am. tonporrow at
Foundry Methodist Church. Six
teenth and P streets N.W.. as part
of the Mother's Day services.
Parents of the children are Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Flemming and Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Caraw. Mr. Flem
ming is civil service commissioner.
Mr. Caraw is the church organist.
Rooney Nominated for House
By th< Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 12,-John J
Rooney, 40, assistant district at
torney in Brooklyn, is the Demo
cratic nominee in the 4th congres
sional district for the June 6 spe
cial election. Mr. Rooney said he
stood ''.squarely behind President
Roosevelt.’’ The election was called
to fill the vacancy created by the
death of Thomas H Cullen, Demo
crat.
Congress in Brief
By the Assoc i ated Press.
Both houses in recess until Mon
day.
Senate and House conferees meet
on FSA and sfhool luncft amend
ments to agricultural bill.
Maryland Boards Get
Orders to Stay Draft
Of All Men Above 25
A ban on inducting men over!
25 temporarily, to be certain "no
man is erroneously inducted,” I
was clamped on Maryland
boards today as Virginia lifted
its induction ban and gave local
boards the signal to start draft
ing older men who do not qual
ify for occupational deferments
under the new' draft regulations.
District Selective Service, which
has had a ban on calling men over
25 for the past month, has not yet
issued any new orders to draft
boards as a result of the new policies
announced yesterday.
Col. Henry C. Stanwood, Mary
land Selective Service director, ex
plained that older men had been
going into the service in Maryland
while a ban or inducting them had
been in effect in some other States,
including Virginia.
Gives Boards More Time,
He issued the stop order, he said,
I to give his draft boards time to
go over all the cases of older men
and permit employers to file the
necessary evidence to warrant de
ferment of men over 25.
Maryland boards planning to send
men yesterday, today and Monday,
he said, were notified by telephone
to hold out the older men. The
ban, he said, will be in effect until
the boards have made headway
through their large file of 1-A older
men and will be lifted simultane
ously throughout the State.
In both Virginia and Maryland,
however, the opinion was expressed
that few men over 25 would be
drafted because most of them would
qualify under the more liberal
standards for occupational defer
ment.
Plan Deferments for "Over 25.”
Meanwhile, Selective Service offi
cials were reported apprehensive
that too many older men might be
taken despite the new deferment
policy because local boards might
not adjust themselves immediately
to the more liberal occupational
standards.
The Associated Press said in
formed Government officials esti
mated that only 150,000 to 200,000
men over 25 would be needed for the
armed forces for the rest of the year
and even that estimate may be high
if draft boards really tighten up on
deferments of farmers in the 18-25
age group.
Selective Service Director Her
shey has expressed the frank hope
that most of the older men would
go out of 1-A into the deferred
classes so draft boards can concen
trate on providing the armed forces
iwith the men they want—regis
trants under 26.
The first official statement that
men 30 and over in work in the
"national health, safety and in
terest” could expect deferment
through 1944 came today from the
War Manpower Commission which
informed its employment offices
that men in this age group are not
expected to be inducted "for the
remainder of the year.”
Action Hailed in Congress.
Exactly how the draft boards will
act under the new regulations,
howevei, is still the principal un
certain factor although the liberal
ized deferment policy for older men
was hailed by members of the
House Military Affairs Committee
as a step in the right direction, pro
vided if is not changed or amended.
"Selective Service has at last
done what the Military Committee
has been trying to do for a year,”
said Chairman May. He referred,
he said, to "the taking of regis
trants by age groups.”
Had such a policy been adopted,
sooner, the Kentuckian added,
"much of the confusion of the past
several months could have been
avoided.”
rtepreseniauve rnomason of
Texas, ranking committee Demo
crat, saw in the regulations a clari
fication of the status of registrants
who, he said, heretofore did not
know where .they stood in the draft.
They should, Mr. Thomason said,
“stop some of the confusion and
contradictory statements between
selective service and the War Man
power Commission.”
•This new order is proper and
good and will be all right if they
just let it alone and let it work,”
commented Representative Spark
man, Democrat, of Alabama.
RAF Ace Downs 29th Plane
LONDON, May 13 <#*).—Wing
Comdr. J. R. D. Braliam, 24-year
old pilot of a Mosquito, became the
top-scoring RAF ace still flying
combat missions by shooting down
his 29th plane yesterday, the Air
Ministry announced. Comdr. Bra
ham's latest conquest was a Focke
Wulf 190 over Denmark.
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The appointment of Mrs. Marvin1
Parler. 3206 Circle Hill road, as
chairman of the production corps of
the Alexandria Red Cross has been1
announced by Mrs. Arthur Mellott,!
chairman of volunteer special serv-,
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Jap Thrust Blocks
line of Retreat for
Chinese Near Loyang
By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, May 13.—Barring
the main retreat line for several
hundred thousand Chinese troops,
the Japanese driving down from
Shansi have cut the Lunghai railway
at least at two points more than
40 miles west of beleaguered Loyang.
it was disclosed today.
Field dispatches reported heavy
fighting on the outskirts of Loyang
and the Japanese were said to be
using 200 tanks in an attempt to
storm the city.
me Chinese acknowledged the
loss of Mienchih on the Lunghai
railway 42 miles west of Loyang to
a Japanese column which had
struck southward across the Yellow
River from Shansi Province. A
spokesman previously had said
Mienchih "may have fallen.” The
high command already had ac
knowledged the loss of Yinghao, «
miles farther west.
The loss of Mienchih appreciably
lessened the chance of Chinese
troops in Honan Province to fight
their way out along the Lunghai
Railway, their main escape route.
Another Japanese column from
the north was reported striking in
the direction of the railway town of
Kuanyintang. whose loss would
place the invaders only 75 miles
from Tungkwan. gateway to China’s
great northwest.
The course of the battle was being
viewed with increasing alarm in
Chungking as it was realized a Jap
anese drive on Tungkwan would be
| fraught with grave implications.
Nazis Say Japs Captured
Honan Province Capital
LONDON, May 13 <£>>.—■The Ger
man radio, quoting a Shanghai re
port, said today that the Japanese
had occupied Lushan, seat of the
provincial government of Honan
Province and headquarters of the
32d Chinese Army.
Lushan's fail would represent a
widening of the Japanese hold on
the north-south Peiping-Hankow
Railway. Lushan is about 60 miles
south of Loyang, where heavy fight
ing has been in progress for several
j days.
Brightwood Citizens
indorse Guy Mason
The Brightwood Citizens’ Associa
tion last night adopted a resolution
indorsing Guy Mason for reappoint
ment for another three-vear term
as District Commissioner.
The association also went on rec
ord favoring the extension of Ar
lington National Cemetery in view
of the increasing number of veteran
burials.
John Clagett Proctor, chairman of
the Memorial Day exercises, an
nounced that the program would be
held at 3:15 p.m., at Battle Ground
National Cemetery. It will be held
jointly with the Grand Army of the
Republic Memorial Day Corp.
Charles W. Ray, president, ap
pointed Samuel A. Swiggett, secre
tary, to represent the association at
exercises to be held in Roosevelt
High School Stadium at 4:30 p.m.
next Sunday under the auspices of
Fort Stevens Post, American Legion.
The meeting was held in the Paul
Junior High School.
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the Axis have it—through an extra
bond.
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Navy Demands Control
Of Communications
In Any Merger Plan
By the Associated Press.
Rear Admiral Joseph R. Redman,
director of naval communications,
yesterday told a House committee
studying proposals to merge the
Army and Navy into a single De
partment of War that any merger
plan should avoid separation of
naval communications from naval
command or reduction of control
over communications.
The suggestion of Lt. Gen. Brehon
B. Somervell, head of the Army's
Service Forces, that consolidation
of Army and Navy communications
services would be beneficial, was not
in accord with the Navy's views.
Admiral Redman said.
While some consolidation of
Army and Navy communications
personnel and facilities might be
accomplished without detriment to
either service, be added, the major
functions of naval communications
should not be dealt with as a sup
ply problem in any military reor
ganization.
Vice Admiral Russell R. Waesche.
Coast Guard commandant, with
held his views on the merits of
Army-Navy consolidation but told
the committee any streamlining
should not affect the organizational
status of the Coast Guard.
Asserting it normally is a civilian
establishment serving as the Gov
ernment's principal maritime safety
agency, he said he assumed the
Coast Guard would revert to its ci
vilian status after the war, adding:
“The present organizational status
of the Coast Guard provides ths
best practical basis for its opera
tions.’’
Six Norfolk Base Sailors
Seized Soon After Escape
! By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va.. May 13.-*-Within
24 hours after they had escapee
six Navy enlisted men were again
in custody last night and had been
returned to the Naval receiving
station here to face "disciplinary
action" by Rear Admiral Douglas
McD. Lebreton, commandant of the
5th Naval District.
The men had been ordered con
fined for various violations of regu
lations. They were being trans
ported by truck from the Navy
receiving station to a paper-baling
work project at the Naval operating
ibase Thursday when they escaped
after overpowering their guard.
Wilson 'Girl of Hour'
To Be Chosen Tonight
The "Girl of the Hour" will be
'chosen from six contestants tonight
at Wilson Teachers College's annual
spring dance at the Statler Hotel.
Each class of the college and the
group of Cadet Nurse Corps en
rollees studying science at Wilson
have chosen representatives. They
| are the Misses Carolyn Korbel, fresh
man class; Alice Lambros. sopho
more; Emily Thour. junior; Joann
Frieburg, senior, and Cadet Nurses
June Lee James and Margaret
Francis.
Gen. Mehaffey Approved
As Panama Canal Head
By the Associated Press.
The Senate yesterday confirmed
: the nomination of Brig. Gen. Joseph
C. Mehaffey to be Governor of the
Panama Canal.
The nomination of Vice Admiral
; Russell R. Waesche to be camman
! dant of the Coast Guard for a four
year term beginning June 14, also
was confirmed.
D. C. Man Convicted
Of Assaulting Waitress
Alfred Acquilino, 30, of Washing
ton today faced a possible death,
sentence after his conviction yes-'
terday in Anne Arundel County
Circuit Court at Annapolis on a
charge of criminally assaulting a
30-vear-old waitress September 8,
1941, near Lanham, Md
The case was scheduled originally
for trial in Prince Georges County
Circuit Court, but was removed to
Annapolis on petition of Acquilino’s
attorney, Robert McCullough. The
case was prosecuted by Assistant
State's Attorney Ignatious J. Kane.
Prince Georges County. Sentence
was deferred until noon Monday.
The waitress testified that she met
Acquilino in a Washington restau
rant and accompanied him in hia
car to Prince Georges County for a
drink. She said he refused to take
her home afterward and took her to
Lanham and assaulted her.
Through his attorney, Acquilino
maintained that he was drunk at
the time and did not remember any
thing about the alleged attack.
Three More Rabid Dogs
Rounded Up in District
Three more dogs were reported
to have been found Infected with
rabies, the Health Department an
jnounced yesterday.
One of the dogs, which came from
i the 5wfi block of East Capitol street,
| was said tq^have bitten three per
sons. Another dog, which was from
! a home in thblock of Thirty
! fifth street N.vir, wandered four
; miles before police noticed it was
acting queerly.
The other dog came from the
4900 block of Hillbrook lane N.W.
| These new reports brought the
number of rabid animals for the
| year to 75 and the number of per
sons bitten or scratched to 53.
j Poundmaster Frank Marks said
1 yesterday he is convinced that his
| men .a/e clearing the city of many
'stray dogs, but expressed the fear
that their removaj was related to
| the reported increase in rats.
He recalled that he warned a
iyear ago that reducing the number
iof stray dogs and cats would in
crease the rat population.
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