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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-27
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Evening star., 1941-09-27
y Italian Vessels
Sunk in Reinforcing
Libya, British Say
September Total Termed
Worst Blow at SEQ
Since Motopon Bottle
By LARRY ALLEN,
Associated Press War Correspondent

hSsOtldAcG EItss " al wi 4csDOANCht
ALEXANDRIA. Egypt. Sept. 81
Italy was reported today to have lost
% ships totaling 100000 tons trying
to send reinforcements to Libya dur
ing September-her blacklist month
at sea since the defeat of her war
ships by the British at Matapan.
Information here indicated that
Italian efforts to crash the British
air and sea blockade between Italy
and the North African coast cost her
the sinking of one and the damaging
of two of every five conveyed troop
and supply ships.
A compilation of the losses listed
in British communiques since Sep
tember showed % ships of 5000 to
5000 tons sunk besides four liners
OF more than 20 900 tons each. In
addition the communiques said the
Italians lost two destroyers.
A 10,000-ton, 8-inch gun cruiser
was listed as torpedoed and 30 supply
ships were reported damaged Sc
verely.
Observers here believed the hopes
Of Axis legions in the North African
desert for much-needed equipment
and fresh troops were hard hit by
the sinkings.
Each of four big liners lost. it was
estimated, could carry up to 5000
soldiers. Loss of life, however, was
presumed to have been relatively
small, since the troopships were
heavily escorted.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Sergeant Found Dead
Under Calvert BRIDGE

The body of a 30-year-old man
was found today on park roadway
beneath the Calvert Street Bridge
Police said he was identified through
a War Department photo identiica-
ton badge as Technical Sergt.
Michael j. Eichmiller, U. S. A.. of
Pittsburgh, living here at 1861 Bilt-
more street NV.
A note pinned to the dead mans
clothing, addressed to police read:
Please notify Bob Barrett. He is
a personal friend of mine"
Assistant Chief of Detectives Rob-
ert J. Barrett said he was acquainted
with Sergt. Eichmiller, but had not
seen him for many years.
Detectives said Sergt. Eichmiller
was released from Walter Reed Hos
pital yesterday after being under
treatment for a nervous disorder
since last week. They said they un-
derstood Sergt. Eichmiller was at
tached to the Army Intelligence
Corps.
The body was taken to the Dis
trict Morgue. Louis Maurer. A, of
Brentwood, Md, a compressor
operator, who was arriving for work
on the Rock Greek diversion sewers,
discovered the body shortly before
6 am.
Evening star., 1941-09-27

in the vicinity of Nacogdoches, Tex,
about $50 miles away.
Long before I realized it, we were
over our target. I had fully expected
that Capt. Hipps, who had seemed
to be friendly sort of chap, would
give me the high sign before we
started down, but the thing came
without warning. At $500 feet, we
just tipped over and dived.
The wind came screaming into
the open cockpit and ripped of my
head set. While I was still fumbling
for it, we hit bottom and pulled out.
To be frank about the matter, !
didn't quite realize what had hap
pened. I didn't see the target. I
couldn't find the head set. I never
even thought of my three bombs
paper sacks filled with four-which
were racked in front of me. All that
I was conscious of was tremendous
pressure that was both pushing
downward through the seat and
turning me inside out.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
GUIDE FOR READERS

Then we leveled off and started that
dizzy hedge-hopping.
After we had landed at Lake
Charles, the pilot of the ship just
behind us came up and congratu-
lated Capt. Hipps on his lombard
ier-meaning me. One of my bombs.
he said, had scored a direct hit on a
tank-the first direct hit of the ma
neuvers. I didn't tell him that I
had never seen the tank. In fact. I
didn't say anything at all I was
content to reflect on the great things
that q determined man can ac-
complish, and to wonder what my
limitations, If any. would be with a
couple of weeks of practice.
But that is one of those questions
that must remain unanswered. /
will never know the limits of my
own prowess, for we are back
~-'-.-~rcd. And, tov. am I lIc ~!
Evening star., 1941-09-27
What With His

The Army flyers. I am told, are
bit more conservative in their dive
bombing than the Navy boys. They
operate from lower attitudes and the
angle Of their dives is not quite
so steep, but if they leave anything
to be desired in the way of thrills.
somebody else can have them. I am
prepared to file my -huttering
wings away with my Boy Scout
Merit Badges, and leave them there.
Dive bombing is definitely not my
dish.
Army to Get Faster Ship.
I took OF from the Lake Charles
Airport shortly after II am. in
Douglass A-24, piloted by Capt. w.
c. Hipps Of the 18th Bombardment
Squadron, 9th Bombardment
Group. The A-24 is an exact
counterpart of the Navy's dive
bomber, but the Army wants, and is
getting, q faster ship. Our target
was a group of 100 Red tanks and
armored cars which has been spotted
Evening star., 1941-09-27

But I was better prepared the next
time, for I caught the wing-wag-
Cling signal which preceded the dive
and was set for big things. And then
made another mistake-I looked
at the altimeter. The needle was a
little above $500 when we started
down, and I watched in amazement
as it spun backwards to 1000, 800,
and then TOO feet. I couldn't take
my eyes off that needle. When in
the name of Heaven, I wondered, is
this fellow going to pull out? And
then, suddenly, out we came. Once
again had failed to see the target
and had completely forgotten my
bombs.
As we climbed up for the third
and last-try grimly resolved to do
better. After all, could hardly let
the Blues down b. going back to
Lake Charles with all three bombs in
the rack, for the umpires score on
those things. 81 - the time we had
Evening star., 1941-09-27
BY JOHN HI. CLINE,
Star Staff Correspondent.

LAKE CHARLES, La, Sept. 81
Yesterday, a bright September day,
I won my wings as knight of the
air-one of those dashing fellows
whose innate modesty is all that
keeps him from forever soaring a
conversational cut or two above
his fellow men.
My break with the humdrum of
earthbound things came in the form
of an attack mission with the Armys
dive bombers . hours and 40
minutes spent wondering how any
thing turned out by man could
hold together under the stress Of
roaring power dives, giddy banks
and turns, and the inevitable hedge
hopping-a refined form of torture
in which we SKINNED over the tops
of trees that I could almost touch
while the pilot rocked the plane
from side to side to obtain q better
view of the ground.
Evening star., 1941-09-27

leveled of again. my mind was made
up. This time I would not fail.
With my left hand I braced myself,
and took the No. bomb out of the
rack with the other. Then I went
through couple of trial tosses.
using the little flip of the wrist that
Capt. Hipps had recommended to
avoid exposure to the slip stream.
It's dangerous to stick your arm out
of the cockpit in a power dive.
You're apt to leave 1t right out there
in Texas.
Last Bombardment.
In . moment or 50 we peeled on
and started down again. I took one
look over the side. The earth, crazi-
ly, it seemed, was rushing up at
about S miles a minute to smack me
in the face. I didn't look again, but
watched Capt. Hipps, and when he
tossed his last bomb / let mine go
one, tvo. three. in quick succession,
Evening star., 1941-09-27
RedsMoppedUp
In Kiev Pocket,
Nazis Announce
Successes on Other
Ports of Front Are
Claimed by Soviet

By the Associated Press.
The German high command today
announced conclusion of the battle
of encirclement east of Kiev with
destruction of five entire Soviet
armies and capture Of 665,000 pris-
oners.
But the Russians claimed new
successes everywhere else along the
front. and the British strongly lnti-
mated they might rush troops
through Iran to the defense of the
Caucasus.
Adolf Hitlers headquarters. claim
ing victory which is unparalleled
in world history" reported seizure or
destruction of 3,718 Russian cannon.
895 tanks and great quantities Of
other war equipment.
The exploitation of these Sue
cesses is in full swing" commu-
nique stated.
Virtually not a man of the Russian
armies trapped in the Klev region
escaped. German sources said. All
we're declared either dead or cap
tured-annihilated, in the full sense
of the word as used by German
military leaders.
New Air Smash at Moscow.
The German high command also
reported new air smashes against
Moscow and Tula, a rail and arsenal
center south of the Russian capital.
Informed Germans said the source
of the Volga River in the north, near
Seliger Lake, had been in Nazi
hands for several days.
A long distance scouting party was
said to have reached the headwaters
of the Volga, which is European
Russias longest and most important
river, on September and found the
spot vacated by the Russians. The
Volga empties into the Caspian Sea
1925 miles to the southeast.
Seliger Lake is 200 miles SOUTH
east of Leningrad and an equal dis
tance northwest of Moscow. 1t lies
about 70 miles west of the Lenin-
grad Moscow railway. the trunk line
which is a German objective in the
drive to sever communications be-
tween those cities.
Leningrad Repulse Claimed.
A Soviet communique, on the
other hand, announced Red Army
successes in a sustained drive on the
central front-north of the Kiev
Evening star., 1941-09-27

area-and repulSe OF strong Ger
man attack on Leningrad.
Defenders of the Crimean pentn-
sula, which is the key to full con-
troll of the Black Sea, were de-
clared to have cut down thousands
of German soldiers seeking TO storm
the approaches to that stronghold.
London sources put the Nazi at
tacking force at 10000 men, includ-
ing parachute troops. 1t was said
in the British capital that capture
of the Crimea would give the Ger
mans partial command of the Black
Sea and make a sea invasion of the
Caucasus a possibility.
Leningrad Pressure Continued.
The Germans continued pressure
against the Leningrad defenses and
fighting was general south of Rus
sia's second-largest city.
DNB. said German heavy bait
teries have put the waterways to the
besieged Russian city under telling
fire. The Leningrad waterfront it
self, as well as the harbor of the big
of Oranienbaum, on the narrow
neck of the Finnish Gulf west of
Leningrad. are under the range of
German guns, the agency said.
A cruiser of the Russian Kirov
class. already bombed, was hit bv
German shells yesterday and broke
into fire after a terrific explosion. 1t
said. A Soviet battleship was
forced to shift its position and a
submarine was abandoned in sink
ing condition.
1000 Killed Near Leningrad.
The Soviet midday communique
announced that over 1000 officers
and men of enemy forces had been
killed on the approaches to Lenin-
grad and IS aircraft and "a tanks
and other war material captured or
destroyed.
1t added that over 300 German
soldiers and officers we're killed on
the central front and "a tanks and
other war equipment were DESTROYED.
The Red Air Force giving full
support to the central front offen-
sive, destroyed 80 German airplanes
last Wednesday and destroyed IS
tanks and 220 trucks.
The British radio said the town Of
Zaporozhe on the east bank of the
Lower Dnieper was holding out
against German operations in the
Ukraine. The broadcast said the
railway line between the Crimea and
zaporozhe is being continuously
shelled.
Monastery Declared Taken.
On the Finnish Russian front
near Leningrad the Finnish high
command announced occupation of
Konevitsa monastery, on an island
off the west shore of Lake Ladoga in
territory seized by the Soviet in the
war of 1939-40.
Finnish troops which seized the
site yesterday found the principal
buildings unchanged and part Of
the Notifications intact.
In London Reuters quoted the
Leningrad radio as saying the Firms
had lost 800 men and "a great num-
Der of guns, trench-mortars and
machine guns" in an unsuccessful
(see WAR. Page A-3J
Evening star., 1941-09-27
6 From Foundered Ship
Rescued in Caribbean
Er the Associated Press.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Sept. 27.
United States destroyers today
rescued six of the crew of the foun-
dered steamer Libby Maine in the
Caribbean, with search continuing
for the IS listed as still missing.
The survivors, described as in good
condition, said one man was washed
off the raft by stormy seas dur
ing the 36 hours between sinking
Of the ship and the rescue.
Other rafts were reported farther
south, and destroyers and planes
were searching for them, Navy Of
flcers here said.
The Libby Maine carried a crew
of 81. She left Los Angeles, Calf,
August Is with steel rails for San
Juan. On Thursday she radioed she
' was sinking in a storm 400 miles
southwest of Puerto Rico.
The 1,811-ton vessel also was
known as the Ethel Skakel, name
she was to be given on arrival on
the East Coast.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Wounded Americans
Feared Lost With
Nazi Sea Raider
Germans Soy Ship Bearing
Survivors of Zumzum
Unreported 5 Months
By LLOYD LEHRBAS,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

The German Foreign Once in
formed the State Department to-
day that it had no information con-
cerning the Nazi raider Tamesis or
the fate of two Americans-Francis
j. Vicovari and Ned Laughinghouse
wounded when the Egyptian
steamer Zamzam was shelled and
sunk by the raider in the South At
lantic on April II.
Since more than five months have
passed without any clue to the dis
appearance of the sea raider with
the two wounded Americans, pre-
sumbaly in the ships hospital, fears
were expressed here that the
Tamesis has sunk, carrying Mr..
Vicovari and Mr.. Laughinghouse to
their deaths.
The British Navy has made no re-
port of the sinking of the Tamesis
or any other German vessel fitting
its description. but it was conjec-
tured that the raider may nave
oSSi ohIlh Ill SOlllc ulll CDOl lSu Sea
battle, hit mine or gone down in
a storm somewhere in the South
Atlantic.
The State Department has made
almost continuous efforts to secure
information of the two Americans.
On August 9 the German govern
ment, in answer to inquiries by the
American Embassy in Berlin, re-
ported Mr.. Vicovari and Mr.. Laugh
lnghouSe were believed to be still
aboard the raider, although 115 davs
had passed since any definite word
had been received.
Zone of the last to see the
missing Americans before thev
disappeared aboard the German
raider was Donald Stewart King.
Chevy Chase youth, a Zamzam
survivor who, with a companion.
Ray Colcord, escaped over the
Swiss border after eluding the
(See ZAMZAM. Page A-6)
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Fish S Secretary
Finds MaiIbags Near
Storage Room
'Presumes' They Are Sacks
Justice Department
Is Looking For

Representative Hamilton Fish's
secretary, Walter L. Reynolds, an
nounced shortly before noon today
that about 10 filled mail bags"
have been found just outside Mr..
Fish's storage room on the sixth
floor of the New House Office Build
ing.
Il presume he said, that these
are the sacks that the Justice De-
partment is looking for"
He referred to a Justice Depart
ment search for isolationist docu-
ment said to have disappeared from
the office of Prescott bennett, sec
retary of the Make Europe Pay War
Debts Committee, 1880 Rhode Island
avenue NV.
Was Grand Jury Witness.
Mr.. bennett has for more than a
week been a witness before the
grand jury investigating alleged
foreign agents. known German
agents" have contributed to his
committee, according to the assertion
of William Power Maloney, special
assistant to the Attorney General,
who is leading the inquiry.
Mr.. Maloney reported that 20 bags
Of material were hauled away from
Mr.. Dennett's Office on the~day he
was subpoenaed-in House of Rep
resentatives truck. Representative
Fish said his Office sent truck to the
bennett Office to remove only 500 of
the House members speeches, but
that it came back loaded with bulky
material which his Office refused to
accept. Some of this material was
then taken to the headquarters of
America First Committee, according
to the Justice Department, and re-
(See DOCUMENTS. Page AL
Evening star., 1941-09-27
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY,
Star STAFF Correspondent.

BETHLEHEM-F SHIP
YARD, BALTIMORE, Md, Sept.
27.-The steamship Patrick Henry,
first of the fleet of Liberty Ships,
her prov streaming with cham
pagne from a bottle smashed against
her side by Mrs Henry A. Wallace.
wife of the vice president, slid
easily into the waters of the Pa
tapsco River shortly after noon
today.
As the great mass of steel slowly
started its movement toward the
water, flock of doves f1uttered from
under her prov, circled the vessel
and headed off toward the north
east to their home at the Naval
Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J.
There message carried by one of
them, to President Roosevelt from
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chair
man of the Maritime Commission,
was forwarded by land wire. 1t
said:
Launching today of the Liberty
Ships Patrick Henry, John c. FIRE.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Skodo Arms Plant
Reported Blasted
By Soboteurs

Saboteurs have blown up the
headquarters of the electrical
distributing system at the Skoda
arms plant in Nazi-dominated
Czecho Slovakia, killing 900
persons and interfering with
munitions production for Ger
man needs, unconfirmed reports
reaching the Czech Legation
here from Russia said today.
Details were missing. Reports
came also that an electrical
plant at Prebinice in Czecho-
Slovakia was destroyed. and
saboteurs destroyed some ma
chinery that interferred with
the delivery of coal to the
Czech Pittsburgh"-K lavno,
west of Prague. a large indus
trial center now used by the
Germans for war purposes.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Continent Invasion
Vital, Says Wells

The whole future of the
world hangs on decisions
which the British government
must make shortly, declares
H. G. Wells. The defeat OF
Germany is certain, he argues,
if a B. E. F. hits at any one or
several spots extending from
Murmansk to Morocco.
In the Editorial Feature
Section of The Sunday Star
tomorrow you will find an ar
ticle by Mr.. Wells in which he
outlines his views of the crisis
now arising.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
British Told Basis
For Payment Under
.Lease-Lend Plan
Proposals Submitted to
London, House Informed,
But Terms Are Secret
Bv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The basis for repayment under
the first big lease-lend agreement
since the war-aid act was passed
last March has been forwarded to
the British government, but House
members who were told about it
said today they were still unaware
of its terms.
Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary
of State, told a House Appropria-
tions Subcommittee considering the
new s5,985 900 900 Iease-lend pro-
posal Yesterday that the basis Of
discussions" with Great Britain re-
garding conditions of repayment
for American supplies had reached
the point where Britain could be
asked how she felt about them.
He also told the subcommittee
that several agreements already had
been concluded with Latin-Ameri-
can governments. These are be-
lieved to be with Paraguay. Haiti
and the Dominican Republic. The
terms of those agreements also, ,have
not been made public. nor were they
furnished the subcommittee, mem
bers said.
Payment Method Unknown.
Under the lease-lend Act, the
President may sell, transfer title
to, exchange, lease, lend or other
wise dispose of" any military equip
ment or supplies of any kind to any
government whose defense the
President deems vital to the defense
of the United States"
President Roosevelt in first pro-
posing the lease-lend program said
he wanted to take the dollar sign
from aid to nations resisting Axis
aggression and make no more
money loans such as were made in
the World War.
He has never stated definitely
how he expected Britain. or any
other country benefiting under the
current aid program, to pay back.
He has indicated, however. that it
would be largely an exchange prop
osition, with beneficiaries repaying
in kind with goods or other COM
modities needed by the United
States after the war.
Land Lists Sinkings.
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land,
Maritime Commission chairman,
also appeared before the subcom-
mittee yesterday to testify regard
ing ALLEGATIONS from the new fund
for maintenance, operations, re-
pairs and charter hire of ships
needed to transport lease-lend
goods.
He told the group that between
100000 and 100000 tons Of
commercial shipping had been sunk
since the start of the war. This, he
said, was about Is per cent of the
world tannage existing when the
conflict started in September, 1899.
william S. Knudsen, director gen.
eral of the Office of Production
Management, told the subcommittee
he was mot satisfied with the prog
ress of production" of defense goods,
according to committee statement.
I'm saying this" the statement
added, "he (Knudsen) did not mean
to indicate that progress was not
according to schedule. but rather
that as a production official he was
of such a temperament that he was
never satisfied with the speed Of
delivery"
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Cabinets Chief Rulings.

Chief among the cabinets rulings
were these:
l. The basic daily bread ration was
fixed at 200 grams, about 6l2 ounces,
with ordinary workers allowed 300
grams, or about 10 ounces, and work.
ers at heavy tasks, 400 grams or
about 13 ounces.
Q A uniform 20 per cent tax on
profits from the sale of business Sc
curities listed on stock exchanges was
substituted for a previous scale run
ming up to so per cent. A new brok-
ers' surtax of 4 per cent, to be paid
by the buyer, was imposed.
3. Certain shares of private COM
panies were ordered registered to
prevent evasion of 20 per cent tax
on their profits.
4. Partly for military security
against air raids and partly to
stimulate industrial development.
plants are to be decentralized in
the zones of new hydro-electric
power in Southern Italy, Sicily and
Sardinia.
l vi CAS NClC dllOWCd W OuN
clothing and other consumer goods
on the same basis as italians provid-
ing they have fixed residence in
Italy
s. Government and Fascist party
agents and representatives of public
institutions are to see that private
concerns operate effectively"
7. The Fascist party was given a
voice in the filling of public Offices to
guarantee that appointees are good
FaScists.
Harvest Lower Than Forecast.
II Duce told the ministers that
the harvest had been lower than
the forecasts although slightly
higher than 1910. He estimated the
crop at 71,500,000 quintals or about
262 100000 bushels as compared to
100000 quintals last year.
The 1941 harvest does not cover
the needs of the population and the
corn harvest Is very deficient as
compared to last years while the
needs for the armed forces and
IllC OCCuplCu lidNC LII
creased said, a communique on
the decision.
Italy, it was said, is required to
send food to the occupied territories
In the Balkans, particularly Greece.
In those provinces where Italians
are accustomed to eating cornmeal
mush, called polenta. instead of
bread, the daily basic cornmeal ra-
ton was fixed at 300 grams with
. $50 to 600 grams Us to 20 ounces
allotted to workers of varying de-
gree.
Bread ration cards already have
been distributed.
The cabinet also granted tax ex-
emption to the fishing industry to
increase availability of that sort of
food.