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Evening star., 1942-06-05
Hundreds Yield
X Cards Here
After Warning
Investigations Made
Into Cuses Thut
Looked Bod

Hundreds of Washington mo-
torists have yielded their x gaso-
line cards on demand by inves-
tigating officials of the local ra-
tioning boards, it was revealed
today. L. P. Steuart, gas ra-
tioning chairman, predicted that
hundreds Of other drivers will be
questioned before their cards ex-
pire July /.
The Office of Price Administra-
ton last night gave local boards
specific power to call in holders of
x cards for investigation, but the
IS Washington units and their
Executive Board have been doing
that since rationing began.
In every case that looked bad to
us We have warned the K card
holder that he faced prosecution
o444 oCNCAO 4NOO O1lC pCI@
son, faced with this, has refused to
turn in his extraordinarily" Parke
A Galleher, vice chairman, re-
ported.
Most persons have been ques-
toned on complaint OF "next-door
neighbors," it was said. Some other
cases are phony on their face-for
instance, the man who signed for
an x card and declared his coupe
was used as an ambulance.
Fewer B card holders have been
questioned. because statements con-
corning mileage are harder to check
than those regarding occupation.
An investigation of every x card
holder would be ideal, said Mr..
Galleher, but impractical. The
same boards are also burdened
with sugar rationing and prepara-
tionS for beginning a new gasoline
ration system next month.
Of1cials indicated that newspa-
pers will not be permitted to publ
cize names of K card holders until
after the present wedding process
is completed.
Under the permanent rationing
program, expected to be introduced
before July Is, motorists seeking
supplemental ration cards for travel
to and from work will be required
to prove either that they have
| joined car-sharing or pooling groups
or that it is impossible for them to
DO so.
Those who say they take others
to work will have to list the names
of those transported and obtain
their signatures. In car-sharing
groups whose members rotate the
use of their cars, each one will be
given supplemental rations only for
the mileage actually driven.
IF there are less than three per-
sons, in addition to the driver, IN
the club, the applicant will be re-
quired to state the specific reason.
He will have to show that he has no
fixed place of work, that he must
travel at unusual, or irregular.
hours, that he has been unable TO
find passengers, or that for any
other reason it is impossible, or
impracticable, for him to form a
club of four members"
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Two Chinese Sailors Shot
In New York Dock Riot
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 5.-A riot by
20 Chinese seamen, attempting to
60 ashore from Staten Island dock
was quelled last night by Pier Guard
Max Mineck with a single bullet
which severely wounded two Of the
participants.
The riot, one of several such dis
turbances reported in New York
Harbor recently, was ascribed by
police to resentment against regula-
tions governing shore leaves OF
Chinese sailors aboard United Ma
tions vessels.
Because of Federal regulations re-
quiring $1,000 bonds for Oriental
seamen permitted ashore, steamship
companies have been giving Chinese
sailors leave only in the company
of private guards of whom Mr..
Mineck was one.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
ArmyCaII for DC. Men
In July 10 Be Heavy;
Perhaps Biggest Yet
Local Boards State
They Have Enough IA
Reeistrunts, However

The Army's call for men from
the District in July will be one
of the heaviest, if not the heavi-
est call levied on the city's local
boards since the draft began, it
was learned today.
Local selective service headquar-
ters made the announcement after
disclosing it had just completed a
series of conferences with draft
board officials to relieve them Of
unnecessary reports and procedures
so they can concentrate on process
ing the men required to fill the call,
Local boards, it was said, have
assured headquarters they have
enough men to fill the call without
dipping into deferred groups. At
the same time, they were cautioned
against any forcing of classtflcations
to get enough IA men.
A high percentage of the July in
ductees will be February is regis
trants, 1t was said. The first of
these to be drafted went yesterday
although several have previously
volunteered and some more will 90
before this month is out.
The August call probably will be
just as heavy as the July one. it
was thought, and local boards,
through continuing to classify the
February 16 men, again will be able
to fill it without scraping the bot
tom of their reservoir of la men.
1t was understood that the call for
colored men probably would be
somewhat increased.
In concentrating on classifications
the local boards will eliminate three
monthly reports which now will be
prepared at local headquarters, it
was announced
In addition, the men on furlough
who were supposed to report to their
local boards to be sent to camp will
report instead to local headquarters.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
British Drive Off
Second Axis Attack
On Libyan Base
Imperial Forces Strike
To Relieve Free French
And Indian Garrison
BY the Associated Press.

CAIRO, Egypt, June 5.-British
imperial columns and air squad
rons drove off a tank-supported
Axis force attacking Bir Hach-
elm, desert anchor of the East
ern Libyan defense line, for the
second time in two days yester-
day, a communique announced
today.
British and Indian troops struck
from the rear to relieve the Free
French and Indian garrison at that
southern outpost of a 50-mile line
from the Mediterranean at Ain El
Gazala. line broken by wedge of
Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommels
army at the center.
Our air forces were also very
active in this area" British head
quarters announced, destroying
dive bombers and bombing and
shooting up enemy concentrations. y
There was nothing to report from
other sections Of the front, it said.
Rommel Masses Forces.
Marshal Rommel, however, ap-
peared to be massing his forces for
determined assaults on both Bir
Hacheim and Ain Ell Gazala to re-
lieve pressure on the Axis-held cor
ridor between them.
Strong Axis reinforcements. in
cluding a considerable number of
tanks. were reported moving east
ward in parallel columns, one along
the Libyan coast and the other ap-
proximately so miles inland.
There were indications, too, of
increased German aerial activity,
suggesting that Marshal Rommel
was about to throw his carefully
boarded dive bombers into an all
out attempt to smash the British
positions blocking his advance to-
ward Egypt.
Sharp fighting continued to swirl
indecisively over a large desert area
southwest of Tobruk as British
mechanical forces slashed at the
Axis tank spearhead extending
through the breach in the Ain El
Gazala -Bir Hacheim line.
Artillery ranging from anti-tank
guns to big 9-inch pieces hammered
out a grim, unending refrain as the
battle of position went into its l1th
day only slightly abated by the
wear and tear of men and machines
Dispatches from the front indi-
Gated the position of the Free
French forces holding Bir Hacheim
with the support of British Indian
troops was unimpaired. The Free
French were said to have twice re-
(Sae IIRYA Page A-ll
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Commercial National
Receivership to Close

Making plans to close the recelv-
ership of the Commercial National
Bank, Receiver Harry J. Hall an
nounced today that thousands Of
depositors have failed 10 call for
their dividend checks.
These checks will be available at
the receivers office only up to and
including June 13, Mr.. Hall said.
After that all the checks will be
tabulated and turned over to the
ofice of tn Controller of the Cur
rency, where it will take much
longer for a depositor to get his
check, by mail only.
The last dividend of the Com
mercial amounted to about $730, 600,
bringing the total dividends to S2.57
per cent of the funds depositors had
in the bank when it closed in Feb
ruary, 1888.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Summary of Todoy's Star

Forty casualties reported in Illinois
arsenal blast. Page Al
House will consider today contin-
uance of NYA and CCC. Page Az
UNIV accuses Murray of affiliation
with Communists Page Ais
Congress turns attention to postwar
planning. Page A-16
DR.. Gros to be sentenced Monday
for espionage. Page Bill
Morgenthau and House tax commit
teemen settle dispute. Page Bal
Washington and Vicinity.
More money asked for coroner's Of
fice If it is continued. Page B-1
Taxicabs will try to work out CO.
operative plan. Page B-1
Miscellany
Vital Statistics. Page BIS
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Excessive Demands
Held Menace 10
Overtime Pay Plan
Representative Monosco
Worms Federal Workers
Of House Opposition
By J. A. FOX.

Government employees were
warned today by Representative
Manasco, Democrat, of Alabama,
that excessive demands might
wreck the program for a wartime
pay increase.
His statement at the House Civil
Service Committee hearing followed
testimony of witnesses who urged
enactment of $500 overall bonus
bill, which is sponsored by several
unions. The administration has pro-
posed an overtime bill, principally
applicable to departmental en-
ployes, which would grant time and
one-half pay for hours in excess
of 40.
IF we try to pass an overall bill
to give everybody bonus. I'm afraid
that we're going to run into trouble
with the Appropriations Committee
and the Ways and Means Com
mittee." Mr.. Manasco said. When
we get to the floor Of the House it
might cause the defeat of every
thing. We don't want that"
Overtime Bill Endorsed.
Mr.. Manasco told reporters later
he didn't believe there was a chance
that the House would consent to a
bonus for any one with salary of
more than s2,500.
1t has been estimated that the
bonus plan would cost approximately
$500, 900 900 on the basis of $500 900
employes-the personnel figure that
is expected to be reached next year.
Representative Manasco said he
was approached a couple of days
ago by a member of the Ways and
Means Committee who commented
on the potential cost OF the bonus
and asked, What are you fellows
trying to do to us" The committee
for weeks has been wrestling with
tax bill to raise $4,000, 900 900.
Employe witnesses today con-
tinued to follow the pattern of the
previous hearings by indorsing the
overtime bill, but insisting that it
does not 60 far enough inasmuch as
approximately $4,000 workers would
be excluded from its provisions.
The Government printing trades
went step further, urging that
basic salary scales be revised up
ward. John B. Haggerty, chairman
of the board of governors of the
International Allied Printing Trades
Association. declared 'rHighly-skilled
workmen who have been denied a
wage increase for Is years do not
look upon a $500 bonus with en-
thusiastic acceptance"
Speaking in behalf of the crafts
men in the Bureau Of Engraving
and Printing, the Government Print
ing Once and other Federal print
Continued on Page AS, Column -
Evening star., 1942-06-05
IA Army Flyers Killed
As Bomber Hits Hilltop

By the Associated Press.
SAN RAFAEL, Calf, June S.
Fourteen Army flyers died in the
crash of a heavy bomber near here
last night, the Army said today.
Flames consumed the wreckage
when the plane hit hilltop as the
pilot circled for an emergency land
ing.
The plane developed trouble soon
after a take-of and radioed nearby
Hamilton Field to clear runway.
The pilot circled toward the field.
The big ship lost altitude and
then dived into a hillside on the
Herzog Ranch, three miles north
west of Hamilton Field.
As it crashed, great flames swept
through the wreckage. Not a man
ESCAPED
Evening star., 1942-06-05
B-3 Cards Issued to 46b
Of Drivers in MARYLAND

BALTIMORE, June 4P.-Leo Il.
Mccormick, State director Of the
Office of Price Administration, said
today the total number Of gasoline
rationing cards issued In Maryland
in the initial registration last month
was 394,519, with As per cent OF
them taking the B-3 card.
The report showed that the con-
troversial X card went to 46,650
motorists, or II per cent, and A or
pleasure" driving only cards to
e2.521, or "a per cent.
There were 3l.784 B-1 cards. 9
per cent; and 39,204 BE- cards, 10
per cent.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Foreign

Foreign
Property Of 10000 persons destroyed
In Cologne, Nazis admit Page Az
Japs rushing troops in Burma toward
India border. Page Az
Allied planes sink two Jap subs of
Australia. Page "A
British weapons used in attack on
Heydrich, Nazis assert. Page Az
Reds hammer bases of Nazi planes
raiding conveys. Page AS
Germans fired at each other In Com
mando raid confusion. Page AT
Hitler flies to Finland for Manner
helms birthday Page Ais
Landon blames President for rubber
shortage Page B-8
Notionol
Senate passes bill for servicemsn,s
dependents allowances. Pass As
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Nazis' Tirpifz and Hipper
Reported Hit by Raj
B, the Associated Press.

3, the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 5.-1he German
battleship Tirpitz and the German
heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper re-
ceived several direct hits" during
the last Raj bombing raid on the
Trondheim area, Norwegian sources
reported here today, quoting ad-
vices from Trondheim.
One of the ships, not specified
developed definite list, these
sources said.
The Norwegians said the Raj
raids April 1890 also scored hits
on airfields at Vaernes and Ger
landet. The Germans blocked Oh
the Oerlandet field, but it was
learned the barracks were hit and
II Germans killed at Vaernes.
After the raids, these sources
added, workmen ON the German
naval base being built at Trond-
helm went On strike and many left
the area.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AN EASTERN PORT, June S.
Torpedoed-five days in an open
boat-rescued at last and then
torpedoed again-three more days
in an open boat on the Atlantic
and, finally, safe ashore.
That was the experience of two
British lads, one Is years old. the
other II. whose first reaction to the
torpedo's crash into their rescue
ship was here We 60 again"
The torpedoing OF the two ships,
one Norwegian, the other Dutch,
was announced today by the Navy.
OF the 4s crew members on the
Norwegian ship at least IA survived
the two torpedoinss, The others
were unaccounted for, but believed
rescued.
On the Dutch ship thsfs vefe -
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Here We Go Again. Two Boys
Shout at I'd Sinking in Week

crew members and two passengers,
in addition to the IA rescued from
the Norwegian vessel. More than
Is Chinese crew members were
killed when the Netherlands vessel
was torpedoed 500 miles of shore
May rs, but the number rescued
was uncertain.
At another eastern port. % sur
vivors of the two sinkings were
landed, 10 of them-two Norwe-
gians and eight Dutch-were
brought in by a fishing boat which
picked them up after they had
been in their hfeboat for five days.
Two days later, Is more survivors
two Norwegians and II Dutch
were brought In after . plane had
Gee eINK1Nde, PaEe A.l4J
Evening star., 1942-06-05
u. S. Can Fully Equip
Army Sent Abroad,
SomerveH Says
RY the Associated PrtSs

BY the Associated Press.
WITH THE AEF IN NORTH
ERN IRELAND. June Sit.
Gen. Brehon Somervell. United
States Army supply chief, de-
clared today that we can
fully equip any troops we can
send abroad"
He said there had been no
delay in moving equipment to
the British Isles.
1T looks like the job is being
handled very creditably," he
said after visiting United
States establishments in North
ern Ireland with ranking
American officers. The COM
mand seems to have vim and
dash and is ready to do a job"
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Man Hanged for Assault
On Woshinqton Girl
By the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, June Frank
Haywood, colored, 80, convicted of
criminal assault on an 18-year-old
Washington girl near College Park
last Christmas eve, was hanged early
today at the Maryland Penitentiary.
Prince Georges County police said
the man forced the girl and her
companion, Fort George G. Meade
soldier, to drive him to side road,
where the crime was committed.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Midshipmen Are
Real Sailors

The remarkable perform
ance of the United States
Naval Academy entries in a
recent Chesapeake Bay race
opening the season nearby is
told today in The Stars yacht
ing and fishing page. Twenty
big yachts started the race
and only five finished. OF
these, three hailed from the
academy.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Store of German Firm
Bombed at Buenos Aires
BY ths Associated Press.

BY tht Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, June 5.-A small
bomb thrown by unidentified per-
sons smashed the show window of q
large electrical supply house oper-
ated by the German firm of STA
mems -Schuckert last night on Ave-
nida de Mayo, one the the principal
streets OF the capital.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Planning Shopping

Wise buyers have the habit
on planning their purchases
by reading the advertisements
in The Evening and Sunday
Star, the great shopping guide
for the people of Washington.
The Stars afternoon and
evening circulation is more
than double that of any other
Washington newspaper.
Its total circulation in
Washington far exceeds that
of any Of its contemporaries
in the morning or on Sunday.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
u. S. Plans War of Gas if Jops
Continue Use, Roosevelt Says
Reports of nhumon Practices Confirmed,
President Declares in Statement
By JOHN c. HENRY

President Roosevelt served public notice today that this Gov
ernmen prepared poison warfare against Japan
the latter persists in such tactics against China other of
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Yesterdays Advertising
Ueeal display

II you are not already a
subscriber, telephone National
5000 and have a copy of The
Evening and Sunday Star de-
livered to your home.
Evening star., 1942-06-05

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(See POISON GAS, Page AS
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CONTINUED on Page Ala, Column 3
Evening star., 1942-06-05

Continued on Page AS, Column /,
Evening star., 1942-06-05

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages TX and Tx Of this edition Of
The Star. experimenting the news Of
the regular homo delivered edition.
Evening star., 1942-06-05

(See MIDWAY, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1942-06-05

Gee 9INK1Nde, PAEe A.l4)
Evening star., 1942-09-04

perate, it remains for Miss Cradle
to mug up a storm and for Mr.
Mature to show the great personal
conceit for which he is supposed to
he noted in and out of pictures.
And, OF course, for both to flash the
physiques wholesomely. These ef-
forts provide a woefully insufficient
stop-gap.
What passes for continuity
amounts to one overdrawn cliche;
the gags by Comedian Phil Silvers
and sundry others just as stale,
Even Jimmy Gleason seems tired of
it all.
On the actual stage. Jay G. Flip
pen and the Three Diamonds have
moved in. Mr.. Flippen, formerly
connected with an institution
known as "Hellzapoppin'," brings
the same type of violent good
humor for which his former affili-
alton is best known. In this project
he receives the gallant aid of the
wacky- Diamonds and Sam Jack
kaufman, Mr.. kaufman getting the
mauling of his life-and, it is to be
hoped, a new shirt. The Divons
execute some slick ballroom steps;
Diosa Costello. lesser Latin
American bomb fragment, sings;
and there are the Rhythm Rockets.
Evening star., 1942-09-04

the life of Benjamin Franklin, and
copy of an American weekly maga-
zine.
Il wasn't exactly truthful, but I
got the part" he shrugged.
The mistake was made by Gilbert
Miller, American producer, who
cabled from New York that he
wanted that middle aged American
playwright at the Criterion" who
was Laughton.
II fooled Gilbert Miller, anyway"
Laughton went on with sly chuckle.
But Laughton wouldn't face an
American audience at that time in
an American role, nor even much
later, after he had played all Ameri-
can gangster for two years in Lon
don in another show. His New
York debut, for overnight fame, was
in thoroughly English play, Pay
ment Deferred" However, curing
the last 10 years he has been a IA
miliar figure on the Hollywood
scene, in stirring American parts.
IN The HlgH HSnC Oh his current
picture, the destroyer commission
ing speech, he particularly likes the
lines in which he points out that
John Paul Jones was the son of a
farmer.
only in America" he concludes,
could farmers son become a IA
nous naval commander. I think it
is fine commentary on true de-
mocracy."
Copyright, 1912, by North American
Newspaper AllianceD
Evening star., 1942-09-04

ana nan StTlpeS Oh leutendnl'
commander in the same branch of
our armed services.
At the end of the procession Is a
powerful shaggy dog on a leash,
paving along and pulling large
man who wears the uniform of an
American admiral The man with
the dog and all the gold braid Is
Charles Laughton.
Laughton as Admiral.
Down cid fellow" says Laughton
and the dog quietly curls down be-
side a canvas chair into which the
actor then drops with sigh.
We notice Laughton's English ac-
cent on "old fellow" and even more
in the lines which he soon is re-
hearsing on the set, which is a
replica of the bridge of a United
States cruiser. In his current pic
ture, Clear for Action" Laughton
is the commander of an American
convoy escorted by American war
ships.
It's all strictly 100 per cent Amer
ican, except Laughton intonations
and this starts us thinking of the
many outstanding roles this Eng
lishman has taken; his famous de-
livery, for instance, of Lincoln S
Gettysburg address in "Ruggles OF
Red Gap" number of others and
finally his present part as an
American admiral, with another
stirring patriotic American speech
during the commissioning of a de-
stroyer, sequence previously filmed
Between takes we ask him If he
ever has tried to do something
about his accent.
Nothing" he replies. II con-
cluded it was no use, so just let il
alone. There is always the chance,
with a smile, that I'll be mistaken
for a Bostonian."
Fooled Gilbert Miller.
Laughton then reveals that early
in his career he was by some strange
chance mistaken for an American
That was shortly after he got his
first American part on the London
stage, by telling the producer he had
been in the United States many
times and knew the country ano
people well, when as matter ol
fact his only contact with the New
World had been through one book
|
Evening star., 1942-09-04
BY ]. w. STEPP.

Those of you whose visit, per-
chance. to the Capitol Theater this
week may be premeditated will see
precisely what you will have gone to
see: the handsome torso. limbs and
face of Betty Cradle and the hand
some ditto of Victor Mature Also
the physical features of John Payne,
Jane Wyman and the customary
bevy of beauties assigned to motion
pictures with names like "Footlight
Serenade." Thus. to say the film is
superficial is to pay it glowing COM
pliment.
"Footlight Serenade" loiters con-
stantly on the brink of becoming
musicale. 1t is set as constant
series of rehearsals, with a dour di-
rector muttering disapproval from
the front row, minions shouting ION
stage" and that's all, girls" to the
chorus line. and painless difficulties
arising among the principals who
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Gurrent heater Attractions
and Time of Showing
Stage.
National -- Private Lives" the
Noel Coward comedy, with Ruth
Chatterton: $50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol - "Footlight Serenade, e
musicale with Betty Cradle and
Victor Mature: ii am. 1:45, 4:3O,
tbs and 10 pm. Stage shows
1880, $40. 6:25 and 9;l0 pm.
Columbia-"Mrs. Miniver," epic of
an English family under fire: IL
am, lao. 4:20, 7:o5 and GAS pm,
Earle-"Across the Pacific" Hum
phrey Bogart and Mary Astor VS.
the Japs: l1:05 am. las, AIS,
7:10 aud $50 pm. Stage shows
l, 3:45, 6;25 and 9:o5 pm.
Keith's-"Eagle Squadron" story
of Yanks in the RAF: 11:15 am
1:20. 3:25, 5:35, TAO and GAS pm
Little-"Night Train the English
thriller with Rex Harrison and Mar
garet Lockwood: IL m, 40, 4::30
7:20 and 1915 pm. Woman
Alone" 1890, 800, COS and pm
Metropolitan Talk of the
Town. the Cary Grant-Jean Ar
thur Ronald Colman comedy: 11:3(
am, 2:05, 4:40, ITO and 9:45 pm.
Palace Somewhere I'll Fine
Evening star., 1942-09-04

SOMEWHERE I'LL FIND YoU"-At
Doews Palace Theater. A Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer picture, co-starring Clark Gable and
Lana Turner. Directed by Wesley Ruggles.
produced by Pandro S. Berman. Screen
Relish from a magazine story by Charles
Hoffman. Running time. los minutes.