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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
n. the Associated Press.

D. the Associated Press.
BERLIN. March 13.-Destruc-
ton exceeding that at Coventry"
was reported by German sources
today to have been wrought in a
vast night raid on Liverpool, in
which they said several hundred
planes dropped bombs for hours.
This attack was carried out as the
British ROYAL Air Force, also taking
advantage of improving weather,
made its first assaults on Berlin in
81 nights.
Sixteen persons were killed and
81 injured in Berlin, informed per-
sons said, and other damage was
inflicted at Bremen and Hamburg,
two of Germany's chief ports.
The high command said the at
tack on the Liverpool area was car
ried out by several hundred planes
in waves, and DNB, official news
agency, said returning creWmen de-
clared the devastation was worse
than at Coventry, the Midlands in
dustrial town which was virtually
RACED the night of November IA.
Hell broke loose on the Mersey,"
one pilot reported, describing an
ocean of flames" visible 25-minutes
flight away from the scene.
Another observer declared 10000
explosive and incendiary bombs
were dropped, many ships in the
harbor were damaged, and huge
losses were inflicted, especially
among grain elevators and store
houses.
Thirteen British planes were said
by the high command to have been
shot down, 10 of them in the attacks
on Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13

means that all industries must bear
a greatly increased tax burden.
Now, is there any reason why the
agricultural interest should thus be
subjected to competition with for
eign products produced, probably, by
cheap labor?" he continued.
Rear Admiral Ray Spear, pay
master general and chief of the
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, re-
piled to the committee that such
questions were left to the discretion
of Congress and added that "the
change is recommended to place the
Navy on an equality, so far as pur-
chases are concerned, with other
Government departments whose pur-
chases are controlled by the Buy
American Act"
On February % Donald M. Nelson,
director of defense purchases, an
nounced plans for the purchase of
some South American canned beef
for use of armed forces in the field.
Later official sources said the amount
to be bought for the 1941 fiscal year
would be about 10000, 900 pounds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
BY JOHN c. HENRY.

President Roosevelt received from
his three principal defense labor
advisers today a joint recommen-
dalton for creation of special labor
mediation agency.
Although details of the recommen-
dation were withheld, and it was spe-
Gifted that no decision has yet been
made, disclosure of this much prog
ress in settling the troublesome labor
situation in the defense production
industries was made by Secretary
of Labor Perkins and William S.
Knuosen and Sidney Hillman, CO.
directors of the Office of Production
Management, after White House
conference.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, Chair
man Vinson of the House Naval
Committee, asserting that strikes
in defense industries had cost
enough man-hours of labor to
manufacture 1926 modern bombers,
asked for quick congressional ap-
provai of legislation to eliminate
WORK stoppages, the Associated Press
reported.
Mr. Vinson made his request to
the House Judiciary Committee in
vestigating defense labor problems
while advocating bills to create new
machinery for adjustment of labor
disputes and to permit men to work
without being compelled to join
labor unions.
Emerging from an hours consul
tation with the Chief Executive,
Secretary Perkins and the o. P.
MS codirectors told reporters they
we're agreed on a single proposal for
an odd-numbered special media
ton agency.
Describing the discussions as
being definite, Secretary Perkins
said there was no difference of
opinion among the three on the
broad purposes of the proposed
agency. Mr.. Hillman said several
alternatives had been discussed as
to the number of members of such
(See MEDIATION, Page Aid
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Destruction Worse Than at Coventry
Wrought on Liverpool, Nozis Claim

only residence sections. hospitals
and a church" were listed as dam
aged. Military and industrial OBJ
iectives escaped for the most part,
it was declared. The many fires
were extinguished quickly and night
fighters and anti-aircraft guns often
forced the British to dump their
bombs prematurely, the Germans
said.
Other Actions Reported.
In other actions, the high COM
mand reported:
l. The sinking of a British de-
stroyer by a Nazi speedboat OH the
English southeast coast.
2. The hitting of three big mer-
chantmen and the sinking OF an
other in attacks by reconnaissance
planes on conveys off the British
east coast.
8. Daylight attacks on industrial
and military detectives in Scotland
and South England.
4. The German air force effect
lively fought" British transport col
umn5 in North Africa.
5. Another raid was made on
Malta, in cooperation with Italian
flyers.
During daylight raids on England
yesterday, the Germans said, their
planes dropped bombs on the north
west portion of Fort william alu-
minimum plant, causing a blaze Wis
ible so kilometers (about 80 miles,
away.
A 3,000-ton merchant ship in con-
voy off Great Yarmouth and a
ASCOT ton vessel in convoy of Oxford
ness were damaged by German
bombers yesterday, it was said.
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Middle East forces.
Tremendous fires and eXplo-
sions were declared by the Air
Ministry to have been started at
Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen
and a German destroyer was re-
ported torpedoed in the Skag-
errak, arm of the North Sea be-
tween Norway and Denmark.
Matching the massive offensive
operations, informed sources
said Britain now was prepared
also to fill the skies over Eng
land with night fighters to fend
off the Luftwaffe's destructive
dusk-to-dawn assaults.
The effectiveness of the reinforced
defense setup was demonstrated by
a one-night record last night when
at least nine German bombers were
shot down as they attacked the
Merseyside, important shipping area
concentrated at Liverpool.
Further proof was offered in the
declaration that the ratio of one
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Is Men in Antarctic
Blocked From Ships
By N-Mi|e Ice Pack
Winter Weather Now Only
Three Weeks Away, With
Porty Still Held in Comp

The evacuation of 26 men of the
Byrd Antarctic Expedition from their
base on Palmer Peninsula has been
blocked by the accumulation of a
large ice field in the Marguerite Bay
area, where they are encamepd.
Two ships which were sent from
the United States to bring back the
members of the Antarctic Expedi-
ton are prevented from reaching
the base by the ice field.
They have been standing by for
two weeks now, hoping for winds
which would clear the bay so that
the ships could get through. There
are three weeks left before winter
begins to set in in Antarctica.
At the headquarters of the ex-
petition here, it was said that no
alarm is felt for the men. They can
be evacuated whether or not the ice
breaks up, although they may have
to make an arduous overland journey
to meet the rescue ships elsewhere,
expedition headquarters said.
There were two bases in Antarctica
which were to be evacuated. Two
boats, the North Star and the Bear,
were sent from this country to pick
up the men.
The first base in Little America
was visited by the ships in January
and SO men taken off. The boats
then proceeded to Marguerite Bay
to pick up the men in the other
camp.
Stiff west winds had filled the bay
which is about so miles wide-with
ice. The ships stood by, hoping for
an easterly gale, which would clear
the area.
If winter sets in before the bay is
cleared, the men at the base will
have to pack their equipment and
move overland to some place where
the ship can meet them.
They have been at the base for a
year and had plenty of food and fuel
for two years.
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Committee Rejects Nays Plea
For South American Beef

The House Appropriations Com
mittee has refused Navy and Budget
Bureau requests that the Navy be
permitted to buy Argentine beef.
Publication of committee hearings
on the 1912 naval appropriations bill
showed today that the prohibition,
which applies to Navy purchase Of
foreign foodstuffs except those which
cannot be procured domestically sin
sufficient quantities as and when
needed" had been retained.
Spokesman for both the Navy and
Budget Bureau had asked the COM
mittee to lift the restriction.
Representative Scrugham, Demo-
GRAFT, of Nevada said the restriction
carried in naval appropriation bills
for the past three or four years"
had been inserted for the protection
of American farmers and stock
growers. During this emergency
there has been an enormous increase
in activities in nearly all lines of
industry except agriculture, and that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
BY JAMES E. CHM.

The Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee of
the Senate District Committee today
unanimously reported favorably the
Overton bill to fix the amount Of
the annual Federal payment toward
expenses of the municipal govern
ment by the ratio of Government
owned land to the total area of the
District.
Adoption of the plan, it is esti-
mated, would increase the present
S6,000000 lump-sum payment to
100000 year.
Action was taken by the subcom-
mittee in executive session. Sena-
tor Overton, Democrat. of Louisiana,
the chairman, who conceived the
formula as a means of adjusting the
perennial dispute over fiscal rela-
tons between the Federal and Dis
trict governments, said he would
ask Senator Reynolds, Democrat. of
North Carolina, head of the full
committee, to call a meeting in a
few days so the bill can be placed
on the Senate calendar without
delay. He is confident the full
committee will approve the bill and
that the Senate will do likewise.
Serving on the subcommittee with
Senator Overton are Senators
TydingS Of Maryland, McCarran of
Nevada and Clark of Idaho. Demo-
Gratis, and Austin of Vermont and
Holman of oregon, Republicans.
Even before the Senate acts on
the bill, the fiscal affairs subcom-
mittee Of the House District Com
mittee plans to start a series Of
public hearings on the Hunter
measure which embodies the same
formula. This bill has been spon-
sored in the House by Representative
Hunter, Democrat, of Ohio. chair
man of the Fiscal Affairs Subcom-
mittee.. He said he is DESTROYS Of
congressional action on the pro-
posed legislation before the 1942
District appropriation bill is con-
Sidered in the House, because ad-
ditional revenue is seriously needed
by the municipal government to
meet ever-increasing expenses grow
ing out Of the city's unprecedented
expansion resulting from the Federal
Governments defense activities.
Representative Hunter estimates
that the municipal government will
need between s10O0O,O0O and SIS
100000 in additional revenue each
year to provide schools, water, sewer,
police, fire and other services for the
newly developed sections in which
defense workers are concentrating.
His subcommittee will meet with
District officials Tuesday to "eX-
plore" potential new revenue sources.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Japanese Evacuate Area
Long Held in China
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 13.-Domei,
japanese news agency, radioed a
Hankow dispatch today saying that
japanese forces evacuated ION their
own initiative" the Tungcheng area,
Southeastern Hupeh Province, in
the Chinese interior, which they had
held for two years and five months
The spokesman of Japanese forces
was quoted as recalling the Japa-
nese also had withdrawn from the
Winning area in the adjoining prov
ince of Kiangsi March 9.
Both Tungcheng and Winning are
south of the Yangtze and east of
Lake Poyang. Tungcheng is about
100 miles south of HankoW.
The spokesman was quoted as
saying the disposition of Japanese
forces had been changed in order
to secure more favorable positions. ?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13

LONDON, March 13.-Swarmng the continent
from Boulogne Berlin and from the Low Countries to
Norway, the R. A. has launched its greatest offensive
of the The British declared they had been freed of
worry plane requirements by passage of the United
States aid to Britain bill.
British planes Channel this afternoon
to follow successu raids yesterday and last night on
Berlin industrial plants naval shipbuidng yards
at Hamburg ardomes Norway and the Netherlands docks at
Bouogne and shipping at Imuiden the Netherlands and at
OStend Belgium
Two planes by British fighters today
the southeast coast the Air Ministry announced bringing
to IL the number downd since last ngha Only few bombs
were dropped on British soil today communqu SAID and they
caused mo casualties and little damage"
With and powerful bombers thrown into
the assault welpaced declared today that result
of the of the British aid BILL I'VE able to launch
really offensive war"
Can Open Up Now With All Resources.
Britain he added is in position to with everything
she about where she
Is to get equipment how she going to pay Tor IT,
1--WE able to risk exhaung reserves before be-
had quite frankly reached the point where we just don
have the for replacing cashand-carry basis the
informant added. 1T kept us penuriousy defensive.
His assertion borne out further by the fact that WITHIN
4s hours after President Roosevelt signed the BILL the British also
counterpunched German night attackers with horoe OF ne" ~
fighters barages described only as
"other devices"
Big flights of Aerican-made tourotored
Boeng help British Short Strings and AVro-Man-
chesers with heavy long-range bombing wepaced source
said would British spread their attacking area
spread besides increasing the effectiveness
of the raids expected also to force the Germans to dspee the
anaircraft defenses giving the R. A. F. better break
Night Fighters weapons.
Heretofore the able concentrate their gn-and
said they had more than Britain especially
at frst-around points liable to be attacked.
Britans night using weapons in defensive
warfare and barrages operated shotgun system OF
concentrating pattern of shells in heavy co-ordnating fire.
There also balloon barrage described as "lethal
The bomber offensive against Germanys home 'front.'
was observers increasing the chances OF BRUSH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Quezon Acts to Hold
Philippine Shipping
2, the Associated Press.

Rs the Associated Press.
MANILA, March 13.-President
Manuel Quezon announced two &C
tons today forbiddlng sale to for
eign countries of any serviceable
ships now under Philippine registry,
and forbidding the expectation of
rice to all countries, including the
United States.
There has been a shortage of bot
toms for transporting Philippine
products to the United States.
Drought conditions have cut rice
production.
Quezon, who has been i'll, made
the announcement at the first cabi-
net meeting he has attended in
five months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Berlin Hamburg Bremen Bombed
In Britains Greatest Offensive
As u. S. Aid Spurs All Our Drive
British Bomb Hits
Consulate General
OF u. S. in HAMBURG
by the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. March 13.-The
building of the United States
consulate general at Hamburg
was hit by a bomb in a British
air raid on that city last night,
an attache Of the United States
Embassy here said today.
No one was in the building
at the time, he said. The ex-
tent of the damage was not i'm
mediately learned.
NEW YORK, March Is (P).-
The National Broadcasting Co.
reported from Berlin today that
a British incendiary bomb fell
last night on the roof of an
apartment where an official Of
the United States Embassy lives.
He was not injured and the
N. B. c. report did not identify
him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Offensive Ordered
By Duce Has Failed,
Greeks Declare
Italians Have Lost 10000
In Lost Six Days, Soy
Dispatches From Front
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATHENS, March 13-Dispatches
from the Albanian front today said
the large scale offensive presumably
ordered by Premier Mussolini HIM
self from field headquarters had
failed before powerful Greek resist
ance.
An earlier report said Mussolini
had given his generals until Satur-
day to do something"
The italians, dispatches from the
front said, have been unable to gain
single inch of ground and in the
last six days their losses unofficially
have been placed at more than
10000, including 1000 dead. These
figures do not cover the $500
prisoners listed by the Greeks.
Duce in Albania Week.
A Greek spokesman said captured
Italian officers reported Premier
Mussolini has been in Albania almost
a week to bolster the morale of his
troops and himself had ordered the
recent ferocious series of attacks on
the central front, attacks which the
Greeks reported smashed over a r.
mile sector in four days of bloody
fighting.
Greek Army circles said the &C
CELEBRATED attacks-described as the
heaviest of the war and apparently
centered around the vital Tepeleni
area-cost the Italians heavily in
man power. The spokesman said
the battlefield was strewn with dead
and wounded Fascist soldiers.
(The Albanian fighting has
centered around Tepeleni since
the Greeks captured the nearby
town of Klisura January 10. The
town commands cross road, one
fork of which goes to the port of
Valona while the second leads to
Berati, heart of the Albanian oil
fields.)
A high command communique last
night said 200 more italian prisoners
had been taken.
Greek descriptions of the Fascist
attacks said they we're aimed at six
points along the line and indicated
(See GREEK, Page A-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Twins Are Born
After Mother Dies
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DARBY, Pa, March 13.-Twins
born a few minutes after their
mother died we're reported in excel
lent health today at the Fitzgerald
Mercy Hospital.
A physician delivered them by q
Caesarean operation yesterday. One
is an 8-pound boy, the other girl
weighing pounds II ounces.
The mother was Mrs. Sarah
O'Skaughnessy, 25, of Hsverford,
Pa. The twins were the first
children born to Mrs. O'Shaughnessy
and her husband, Joseph.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13

raider downed out of 80 heretofore
had been reduced now to a 1-to-20
ratio.
The Air Ministry announced that
large and numerous" fires were
started in Berlin by the raiders using
very heavy bombs"
At Bremen, it said direct hits were
scored on "a target of great impor-
lance" in the industrial area Of the
city and that at Hamburg many
fires and explosions" were started
in shipyards and the industrial sec
ton.
Five British planes were acknowl-
edged lost in these smashing blows,
which the Air Ministry itself de-
scribed as "the heaviest attack yet
made on Germany"
1.-The attacks extended from Ber-
lin to Boulogne." the official an
nouncement said. They were car
ried out by the light OF the moon
and were very successful.
IN addition to the older type OF
aircraft of the bomber command,
several new and more powerful types
my
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D. {. Lump Sum
.0f9 Million Gets
First Approval
Subcommittee
Reports Overton
Bill FovorobIy
BACKGROUND


Infur of estimated $4,000 Fed.
erdl 1UorkerS to District on ma
ttondl defense work since last
June has increased demands on
District municipal services and
Spurred ciUic support OF the OUer-
ton -HunteT formula, Which would
result in larger Federal part in
District expenses. No fired Shars
of expenses has been in practice
since adoption of lump-sunt pro-
cedure in 1925, and no legal basis
has eristed since repeal OF the
60-40 ldtU in 1888.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
BruziI Rutifies Accord on
Hemisphere Mandates
By the Associated Press.

ny TIE ASSOCIdleu FIeSS
RIO DE JANEIRO. March 13.-
Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil.
today ratified the convention
authorizing a provisional admin
istration of menaced European pos
sessions in the Western Hemisphere,
a measure approved at the Pam
American conference of foreign
ministers in Havana last July.
The So-called Act of Havana"
provides that if any American ma
ton considers that danger to a
European possession is imminent
immediate consultations will be
called to establish an American
administrative protectorate.
This convention is in the process
Of ratification by American nations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Seven-BilIion Aid Bill
May Pass tuesday,
Rayburn Says
Secret House Hearings
To Be Completed by
Late Tomorrow

For first IS months Of this ,Ddr
American aid to Britain 1UlS
handled in orthodox purchasing
fashion. In January, hotOeUer.
President Roosevelt proposed
lending or leasing OF all kinds OF
matertel to nations opposing arts
po,UerS. The measure became
ldU this week and is already in
operation.
By the Associated Press.
Speaker Rayburn told his press
conference today it was planned to
have the s7,0OO,OoO,OOO British-aid
appropriation pill ready for the House
Tuesday ard that efforts would be
made to pass it the same day.
A short time before a House ap-
preparations subcommittee was to
start brief, secret hearings on the
huge measure, acting Chairman
Woodrum told newsmen he hoped
to conclude the testimony late to-
morrow
The time has come for action,
the Virginian said. There's been
enough talk"
Although the magnitude of the
aid program was enormous, its an
nouncement created few ripples on
Capitol Hill. One informed legls-
lator said the size of President
Roosevelt's request had definite
purpose to demonstrate that
Uncle Sam means business"
Hull First on List.
This member of Congress, who
participated in the conferences at
which the request was drafted, re-
ported that originally the plans were
to ask only about half the present
amount in cash and the other half
in authorizations. Subsequently,
however, it was decided to seek the
full $1,000 100000 in cash, he said,
because of the psychological effect
that might have on the axis powers
Secretary of State Hull was the
first on the list of high administra-
ton officials called to appear before
the House Appropriations Subcom-
mittee for testimony. Representative
Woodrum said Mr. Hull would be fol-
lowed by Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau, Secretary of War Slim
son, Secretary of the Navy Knox,
Gen. George C. Marshall, Army chief
of staff; Admiral Harold R. Stark,
chief of naval operations, and Will
liam S. Knudsen, defense produc-
ton chief.
Representative Woodrum antic-
ipated little disposition to trim the
British-aid fund, despite its huge
size, once it reaches the floor.
Discussing plans for the hearings,
he said:
I'VE will go into the international
picture briefly with Secretary Hull,
and will try to find out from the
Army and Navy people what
weapons and other items of equip
ment they may be able to spare"
The details would be carefully
guarded, Representative Woodrum
said, and little will be made public
(See BRITISH AID, Page Aid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Four Die in Pennsylvania
In Coal Mine BIust
2, TIE Associated Press.

p tEt AsSOclated Press.
BEVLOC, Pa, March 13.-Four
men were killed early today by an
explosion in the Monroe Coal Mine
Co.'S mine in this Western PennSyl-
vania community a few miles from
Johnstown.
State Mine Inspector William
Lamont tentatively attributed the
explosion to an accumulation of gas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-13
Defense Plant Burns;
Loss Is $1,000, 900
By the Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
IRVINGTON, N. j.. March ia
fire which lighted the sky for miles
around last night destroyed a pat
tern storage building on the 412-
acre grounds of the Barnett Foundry
and Machine Co.
Herbert L. Edinger, vice president
of the plant. estimated the loss at
more than 100000 He said val
liable patterns were destroyed. The
patterns, he added, we're used by
companies holding national defense
contracts although the Barnett plant
itself had no defense contracts.