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Evening star., 1942-06-24
lngersolI Induction Stayed
I Weeks on Field Appeal
Talks Continue Meanwhile.
(Picture on Page BIZ

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 24-The in
duction Of Ralph M. Ingersoll, editor
of PM, into the Army was postponed
today for at least two weeks pending
the outcome OF an appeal for defer
ment filed by Marshall Field, pub
Usher of the newspaper.
Mr.. Ingersoll, who is Al and has
no dependents, appeared at his local
draft board at 5:45 am. today pre-
pared to leave with other inductees
for final physical examination at
Fort Jay, Governors Island. but was
told to return home until further
notice.
Local Board Chairman Walter
Mallory said Mr.. Field had tele-
graphed his formal appeal-an ac-
ton of which Mr.. Ingersoll said he
was unaware-late yesterday both
to the local board and to selective
service headquarters in Washington.
Mr.. Mallory said Field in his ap-
peal described the editor as "indis-
pensable" to the management OF
PM and asserted he was more val
liable to the Nations war effort as
q newspaper editor than as soldier
In Chicago Mr.. Field said he
believed the question of Mr.. Inger-
soils draft status should 60 fur
ther than the local draft board, but
whatever the result of the appeal
it will, of course, be accepted The
publisher said he presumably would
be called before the appeals board
to explain further his reasons for
interceding in behalf of Mr.. Inger-
soil.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Hiqher Third-C|uss Mail Rates
Approved by House Committee

rates, affecting newspapers, would
be raised a total of $78, 1000, 900 under
committee decision last week. 1t
said this was the amount of the an
nual deficit in handling second
class matter.
The members voted to exempt
sensitized Photographic paper and
unexposed film from the increase it
has voted on Photographic equip
ment and made imported bitters sub
ject to new distilled spirits taxes.
The new Photographic equipment
tax would be raised from Is to Is per
cent under committee proposal.
Would Exempt Goods for Prisoners.
Representative Cooper saids the
committee also had approved and
sent to the House a resolution
recommended by the State, War,
Navy and Treasury Departments to
exempt from duty and internal taxes
any goods sent to Axis prisoners in
the United States. 1t also would ap-
ply to articles made by American
prisoners in Axis countries and to
articles imported for the use Of
armed forces of the United Nations
in the United States.
Protests were beginning to pile up
against the committees decision to
grant certain corporations postwar
refunds of II per cent and to impose
(See TAXES. PaRe A-2O
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Holiday July a
Is Doubtful for
War Aqencies

Whether July will be a holiday
or just another Saturday for Gov
ernment employees is matter to be
decided by heads of Federal depart
ments and agencies, the Budget Bu-
reau announced today.
The bureau said it was advising
all agencies the White House has
indicated that where the war effort
can be furthered by observance of
regular working hours by all or part
of their employees on independence
Day. July 4, the heads of depart
ments and agencies may require the
attendance of such employees on that
day"
1t is the same arrangement that
was applied to three preceding holi-
days-January l, February % and
May 30-the Budget Bureau said.
On those holidays most of the Gov
ernment employees in the Washing
ton area worked as usual. it was said
In view of the White House atti-
tude, it is believed certain that key
war agencies will work as uusual
on July 4.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Senate Unit Refuses
To Vote S80,S1S,000
For orCCCContinuance
House Action Eliminating
Agency Upheld, IS to 9;
NYA Fate at Stoke

The administrations fight to
save the Civilian Conservation
Corps received another setback
today when the Senate Appro-
priations Committee refused to
vote the sSO,s1S,OOO budget esti-
mate for continuation of the
corps on reduced scale.
The committee was reliably re-
ported to have voted, IS to 9, in
support of the House action elini-
mating the agency as a wartime
economy move.
The committee then began con-
sideration of the fate of another
New Deal agency, the National
Youth Administration. Both items
are parts of the labor social security
supply bill for the coming fiscal
year.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Jap Landing in AIeutians
BIood|ess, Nazis Report
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN (From German Broad
casts, June 24.-First photographs
and first eyewitness report of jap
anese landings on the Aleutian
Islands were published in Toxic
papers this morning, the German
radio reported.
The account said a landing was
made on one island June without
bloodshed, six barracks being occu-
pied by the japanese but only two
United States marines being cap
tured. 1t said the remainder had
fed.
On another island the japanese
were declared to have taken pos
session of q wireless station and
four barracks in which the lights
still burned but which were aban-
doned.
Evening star., 1942-06-24


non sent shells over the British lines
and Italian forces engaged
British mobile units west of Salum,
apparently as mask for German
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's
flanking scheme.
The British were making final
dispositions in their plan to hurl
the invaders back. however. and
there was every indication that if
the Axis armies should lunge into
Egypt one of the desperate and de-
cisive battles of the war would en-
sue.
Big Airdrome Bombed.
Smashing at Marshal Rommel's
supply lines by land and sea, British
and South African bomber and
fighter planes were in operation day
and night in an attempt to impede
the reorganization and massing Of
Axis assault forces.
A communique reported repeated
attacks of enemy transport concen-
trations between the coast and the.
Ell Add track west Of the Egyptian
border. The big Ain ell Gazala air
field was bombed in force with good
results last night, the war bulletin
said.
Extending their operations to the
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Senate Unit Approves
Rubber rSupp|yAge
Using Farm Products
Legislation Would Give
Organization Supreme
Authority Over Field
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Senate Agriculture Com
mittee approved legislation today
to create rubber supply agency
to have supreme authority in the
field of increasing synthetic rub
ber production from agriculture
and forest products.
The President would appoint a di-
rector whose duty it would be. the
legislation said. to make available
at the earliest possible time. an ade-
quate supply of rubber which, when
added to rubber being supplied by
other agencies, will be sufficient to
meet the military and civilian
needs"
Meanwhile. pioneer expert
menter in synthetic rubber told a
Senate Agriculture subcommittee
that the country had sufficient raw
materials now to produce enough
rubber for military needs.
The Senate group, seeking a
method of producing an abundant
OoiliCoeAS supply Va lObOO1 4lolll dI-
cohol derived from grain, heard Dr.
o. R. Sweeney of the Ohio State
College of Agriculture, contending
that grain was the sole source avail
able in enough quantities to meet
the Nations rubber needs.
Therefore, he asserted, "it would
be advisable to make alcohol from
grain and produce it in quantities as
rapidly as needed and convert it into
rubber.
IF we do this within the year. We
will be able to produce enough rub
ber for our war needs
d.. Sweeney also declared that
from his experiments and other
knowledge of synthetic rubber pro-
duction, the use of alcohol was a
cheaper process.
TT would be more complicated
and would take longer to produce it
from petroleum than from grain,'
he added.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Recdpture
Town, Pushing Back
Claw Of Jap Pincer
$4,000 Nipponese Stort
Chekiung Drive Aimed
At Highway Center
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, June 24.-The
Chinese command announced to-
night that its armies in Kiangsi
Province had recaptured Kweiki,
thus pushing back the western
claw of the Japanese pincer
which had come within so miles
Of closing on the strategic Che
kiang-Kiangsi railway.
At the same time communique
said $1,000 japanese troops had
started a new drive in Chekiang
province, east of Kiangsi, aimed to-
ward Lishui, important highway
center ITS miles south Of Hangchow
and midway between the coast and
the rail line where fighting previ-
ously has centered.
Japanese broadcasts described
the new thrust as a strong often
sive and said Lishui was the last
airport still in enemy hands in
Chekiang provinceD
Lishui Is Objective.
Kweiki, seized by the japanese on
June 16, was the limit of the in
vaders' advance along the railway
from Nanchang, its western termi-
nus. The japanese column driving
in from the east was last reported
a little west of Shanghai, which is
so miles east of Kweiki. For the
past week the Japanese have been
unable to narrow this gap.
The Chinese communique said the
enemy drive in Checking had car
ried past Tsinyun, only Is miles by
highway northwest of the objective
Lishui. This town has been bombed
at intervals for weeks by the Japa-
nese, who apparently have ticketed
it as one of the points from which
United States planes could bomt
Japan.
The communique reported an ac-
cident at the Japanese-held air.
drome at Hangchow, former Che
kiang capital, in which IS Japanese
pilots and a number of mechanics
we're killed. AS three planes were
taking off one exploded, damaging
the other two and killing many of
the ground personnel, the Chinese
said.
Soong Seeks More Planes.
China's need for more planes and
big guns in anticipation of full
scale clash with the japanese was
believed here to have been a prom
inent factor in Chinese Foreign
Minister DR.. T. v. Soong's recent
discussions with President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill in the
United States.
(Stephen Early, President
Roosevelt's secretary, said yes
terday that talks with DR.. Soong
had dealt with China in a mill
tary sense.")
Observers have noted increasing
indications that Human province
one of the richest sections of China
and an important breadbasket fol
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek'.
armies, might become the battle.
ground for such a major test o1
power.
Human battle-ground Favored.
The stakes, of course, would be
higher than in Kiangsi and Che
kiang Provinces to the east where
the heaviest fighting now Is under
way. 1t was believed. however, that
(See CHINA, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Fisher Plants Turning Out
Biq New Anfi-Aircraf Guns
Hl tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
DETROIT, June 24.-E. F. Fisher,
general manager Of Fisher Body Di-
vision of General Motors Corp. dis
closed with War Department ap-
proval today that his company is in
production, five months ahead of
schedule, on anti-aircraft guns de-
scribed as among the hardest hitting
weapons known for aerial defense.
Specific details of the gun have
not been made public, but it is
known to have q range in excess of
10000 feet. 1t is mobile, shoots an
explosive shell and can be fired by
remote control.
Mr.. Fisher said that, at maximum
production, the giant weapons will
be built on a progressive assembly
system. To facilitate production, the
project was divided among several
plants.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
San Juun Waterfront
Fire Under Control
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, June "a.
"A spectacular fire which appeared
for a while to threaten much of the
San Juan water front was brought
under control before dawn today by
Army. Navy and municipal fire
fighters after its flames had light
ed the downtown district for nearly
three hours.
Several warehouses were de-
stroyed, but oil cars in railway
yards in the fire area were pulled
out of danger. There was no au-
thoritative statement Immediately
on the origin of the fire, which
broke out amid explosions Of what
appeared to be drums of oil or gaso-
line.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
RAAF Reorganized 10 Act
More Closely With u. :.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus
tralia, June 24.-Air Minister Arthur
S. Drakeford announced today that
the operation and functional control
OF the Royal Australian Air Force
had been reorganized for closer CO.
operation with the United States
Army air forces.
Details of the reorganization were
not disclosed, but one result was the
assignment of United States air
units at airdromes previously used
as RAAF training bases.
Mr.. Drakeford said the new set
up placed Allied air forces in Aus
tralia in a much stronger position
He added that every vital part of
the continent was now covered by a
protective screen of either American
or Australian fighters.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Roosevelt Approves
Service Allotment
And Allowance Bill
U. S. Will Help Provide
For Dependents; Family
Men to Be Released
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt signed the
servicemen's pay allotment and
allowance bill today, paving the
way for financial aid to depend
ents Of fighting men and re-
classification of married men for
the draft.
Providing for Federal payments to
supplement allotments from service
mems pay checks to support depend
ents. the legislation also contains a
provision enunciating a congress
sional policy that Selective Service
should mot break up the institu-
ton of the home"
To carry out this policy, Congress
wrote into the bill authority for
Selective Service officials to defer
any and all categories of men hav-
ing dependents with whom they
maintain a bona fide family rela-
tionship in their homes.
Will Set Up Groups.
Under this provision. members of
the House Military Affairs Commit
tee said, Selective Service probably
soon would set up separate groups
Of registrants now in Glass 8. In
the first group would be men with
working wife, in the next men with
a non-working wife, then men with
one child and on down the line. Be-
fore any men in Glass 3 would be
inducted. all eligible registrants
from Glasses l and 2 would be
called.
The legislation recognizes the
financial aspects of dependency but
departs from existing policy in that
it stresses the family relationship.
Congress wrote in the deferment
provision after members voiced fear
the allotments provided for in the
legislation might persuade local
draft boards to start drafting men
with dependents on the ground the
payments provided were adequate to
maintain the dependents. While
the payments are to be considered
by draft boards, Congress empha-
sized that they were not to be
deemed conclusively to remove the
grounds for deferment.
Includes Line Sergeants.
The allotment and allowance pro-
visions apply to men in the Army
up to and including the rank of line
sergeant and in the Navy to men up
to and including third class petty
officers.
They provide for financial aid to
two groups of dependents, defined
as Glass A and Glass B. In the
former are wives and children and
former wives entitled to alimony;
in the latter are parents, brothers,
sisters and grandchildren"
In cases where a serviceman has
Glass A dependents, the deductions
from his monthly pay are manda-
tory and amount to $22. To this the
Government adds s28 for a wife,
plus $12 for the first child and $40
more for each additional child, $40
for child but no wife, and $40 for
each additional child and no wife.
The deductions for Glass B de-
pendents are optional with the SER
viceman and amount to $22 monthly
if there are no Glass A dependents
and IS monthly if there are Glass A
dependents. The Federal payments
to Glass B dependents are SIS for one
parent, $25 for two parents, and IS
for each brother, sister or grand
child designated for aid.
The payments are effective as of
June l, 1912, but first payments, in
Guiding accruals from June /, are
not payable until November /.
Evening star., 1942-06-24

supply lanes across the central Med
iterranean, British torpedo-carry-
ing planes were said to have scored
several hits on two mediums sized
merchant ships as well as hit caus-
ing an explosion on one Of four
escorting destroyers.
The communique said this attack
took place yesterday off Cape Spar
tivento, the southern tip of Italy.
Powerful Force Marching.
A powerful enemy force of all
arms was on the march south of
Gambut, desert town midway be-
tween Axis occupied Tobruk and
Bardia, and military commenta-
tor declared a major action for
Egypt imminent.
Hour by hour. the opening Of a
mighty invasion attempt was eX-
pected as a sequel to the whirlwind
German-Italian campaign that
wrested Eastern Libya from British
hands.
British forces engaged small Axis
parties all day yesterday west Of
Salum, Egyptian port near the from
tier, and "our mobile columns were
(See LIBYA, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Foreign

Foreign
Churchill expected to silence critics
by showdown vote. Page Az
More planes, big guns for Chinese
believed Soong's plea. Page Al
Two Britons blow up selves in de-
stroying supplies. Page AS
Canadians faced with sharp rise In
income taxes. Page AS
Argentine relations with Axis tense
after sinking. Page A-6
NotionoI
Subs sink 13 ships in Caribbean in
IL days. Page Al
Probe of "sordid' war contract waste
to go on. Page Al
Dies report sees plot to "obliterate"
Congress. Page Az
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Price ceilings set for consumer
services Page Az
Record $4,000, 100000 Army bill
reaches Senate. Page A
Washington and Vicinity.
Gasoline price increase expected this
week. Page Az
House will consider civil service bills
granting raises. Page B-1
Man sentenced nine years ago wins
new trial. Page B-1
Only three commissioners sign $1.5O
Montgomery tax levy. Page B-1
Charities expect to salvage 10000
pounds Of rubber. Page BIS
Miscellany.
Natures Children. Page B-23
Marriage Licenses. Page BIZ
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Pine Newsprint Pioneer
Dies of Heart AiIment
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 24.-Thomas
]. ONeil, 68, who was a newspaper
man in the South and East for 40
years, died last night at his home,
New Brighton, Staten Island, of a
heart ailment.
After retiring in 1890. he pio-
neered in efforts to acquaint Ameri-
can publishers with possibilities of
using Southern pine for the manu-
facture of newsprint. He was one
of the founders of "Newsdom," a
publication for newspapermen.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Jap Fighter FeIIed
By Allies Over Timor

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus
tralia, June 24.-One Japanese
fighter was shot down over the
Japanese-occupied Island of Timor
yesterday and seven other fighters
were driven OF when they tried
to intercept Allied reconnaissance
planes at Rabaul, New Guinea, q
communique said today.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Empress Gems Looted;
Museum Worker jailed

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, June pa Ma
tional Museum employe is under
arrest on a charge of looting jew
elry of Empress Charlotte, who died
in Belgium in 1927 after so years
of insanity induced by failure in
attempts to win European support
for the regime of her husband,
Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico
from 1864 to 1867.
Police said the prisoner took IS
Jewels and other articles, all valued
at $4,000, from the collection and
pawned them for 500.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Daylight Afraid Test
Will Be Held Saturday

A daylight AFRAID test lasting
not more than a half hour will be
held Saturday between 10 am. and
noon for the Metropolitan Area.
Civilian Defense Co-ordinator
Young announced today.
Civilian Defense Director Col
Lemuel Bolles said the same rules
enforced at the most recent AFRAID
test would apply During the
alarm" period, all trafic will be
halted except authorized emer-
gency vehicles
Evening star., 1942-06-24
French Accuse British
Of Strofinq Pilot Boot

3! the Associated Press.
VICHY, France, June 24.-The
Marine Ministry announced today
that four French seamen were
killed and three wounded June 20
when a British plane machine
gunned the pilot boat Cote de Nacre
of the Ouistreham pilot station on
the English Channel.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Pacific Council Called to Map
War on Japan; Mackenzie King
And Churchill to Attend Session
Cunudiun Minister
Is on Way Here
For Conferences
By GARNETT d. HORNER.

The war strategy conferences
OF President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill will be broad
ened tomorrow to give special
attention to the battle against
Japan in the Pacific, the White
House disclosed today.
Mr.. Roosevelt called special
meeting tomorrow of the Pacific War
Council, composed Of representa-
tives of those United Nations ac-
lively engaged in the war against
Japan. Mr.. Churchill and Canadian
Prime Minister Mackenzie King will
attend.
Talks Continue Meanwhile.
Stephen T. Early, presidential sec
retary, said in announcing the meet
ing that the British American dis
cussions were continuing today
while Mr.. Mackenzie King is en-
route to Washington. The Cana
dian Prime Minister also will par
ticipate in later conferences, Mr..
Early said.
Besides the United States, Great
Britain and Canada, nations repre-
sented on the Pacific War Council
include China, Australia, the Meth
erlands, New Zealand and the Phil
ippines.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Roosevelt con-
Quoted a special conference today
with DR.. Eelco van Kleffens. Meth
erlands Foreign Minister, who has
just arrived in this country, and DR..
A. Loudon, Netherlands Ambassador
here
Wilhelmina's Visit Discussed.
The Netherlands Foreign Minister
told reporters on leaving the White
House that he would attend on the
Pacific Council meeting tomorrow.
He said he discussed with Mr..
Roosevelt some details of the forth
coming visit here of Queen Wilhel-
nina of the Netherlands, who ar
rived today from Canada at the
Massachusetts, summer home of her
daughter, Princess Juliana. He said
the time of her Washington arrival
was uncertain.
Late in the afternoon the Pres
ident will receive King Peter II of
Yugoslavia. who is arriving for an
official visit here. The visiting King
will be entertained at a state stag
dinner at the White House tonight.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
RAF Torpedo Planes
Hit Three Axis Ships

By the Associated Press.
CAIRO. June 24.-The Raj an
nounced today that torpedo planes
scored hits on two Axis merchant
ships and a destroyer in the Central
Mediterranean yesterday.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Ortiz's Physician Barred
Operation to Save Siqht

NEW YORK. June Is (P.-Dr.
Ramon Castroviejo. New York eye
specialist, said last night that he
recommended an operation for Ar
gentine President Roberto Ortiz.
who is partly blind, but that at
tending PHYSICIANS would not per-
nit it on grounds that President
Ortiz general conditions was un.
satisfactory
He arrived by plane after having
spent month in Buenos Aires,
where he studied the condition Of
President Ortiz eyes.
Il made my report to his attend
ing physicians and recommended
an opel alton asserting that would
collaborate in such an operation"
DR.. Castroviejo said. The attend
ing physicians, however, seem to
feel that the Presidents general
health would not permit it."
He said that since he was an eve
man and had given his opinion as
to the eye condition, the matter
was entirely up to them" adding
that so far as he knew the matter
lis now status quo"
Evening star., 1942-06-24
German Film FIounts
Submarine Drive in
Aroused Argentina

By tie Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, June a.
With the Argentine public
aroused over the torpedoing OF
the Argentine ship Rio Tercero
by a German submarine, the
German film company UFA
presented today a new motion
picture: Submarines West
ward"
Large newspaper advertise
ments described the movie as
"a theme Of palpitating
actuality."
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Axis Units Skirt Egypt Border
In Moneuver for Push Eastward
Germans Endeovor to Mask Movements
With Skrmishes West of Suum
BY the Associated Press.


CAIRO June 24-Axis arored forces southwark
the byan side OF the Egyptian frontier today apparently intend
ing to wheel eastward crash Egypt many miles below
coast in the hope of outfanking the British deense
Evening star., 1942-06-24

(See RUSSIA, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1942-06-24
A Sound Investment

y. s. Savings Bonds and Stamps
are better than cash because they
bear interest The Government
asks you to invest 10 per cent Of
your income or earnings every week
to help finance the War.
Evening star., 1942-06-24

(See TAXES, Page A-20
Evening star., 1942-06-24

(See LIBYA, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1942-06-24


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