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Evening star., 1942-03-13
German Military Machine
Worn Out, Russians Claim

MOSCOW. March 13 CP,-Red
Star, voice of the Soviet Army, de-
clared today the offensive this spring
would be Russian. not German. and
described the NaZi military machine
as worn out from its costly fall drive
and the battering it has received
this winter.
Dispatches from the front said
the Germans were trying desper-
ately to hold on. counterattac cking
repeatedly and at heavy cost. but
that the Red Army still pushed
steadily. If slowly. to the west.
Reports from the southern front
said Marshal Timoshenko's big
Donets Basin offensive, instead of
being halted by the counterattacks.
had wiped out two strong points
and swept on into an unidentified
town where German bodies Uttered
the streets after a fierce fight.
COunterattacks Futile.
Elsewhere on the southern front
Russian artillery fire was said to
have broken up Rumanian coun-
terattack
The German counterblows were
described as hardest in the Staraya
Russa area where the 10th NaZi
Army is trapped and desperate, but
that these. too. were said to have
failed.
On the central front. where the
Red Army is driving past wanna
and Rzhev toward Smolensk, three
companies of the 365th Regiment Of
the German 211th Infantry Division
were killed attempting a counter
(See RUSSIA, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Nazis Reported
Unable 10 Halt
New Red Drive
Germans Said to Have
Dipped Again Into
Reserve Forces
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 13.-MarShal
Semeon Timoshenko's terrific
southern front onslaught with
perhaps 80 Red Army divisions
was reported today to have beat
en- the Germans to the punch in
a pre-spring offensive for control
of the Donets Basin and the road
to the Caucasus
From Stockholm came word that
the Germans had been forced to
dip anew into reserves trained for
their own spring push and still were
unable to stem the new power drive
by the Soviet forces estimated at
l,250000 to 100000 strong.
The Germans in their communi-
que acknowledged their troops were
on the defensive in the Donets
Basin. counterattackipg against
strong enemy forces
London observers said the objec-
tive Of the hard hitting Red Army
marshal was the Dnieper bend. nat
ural defense line in the heart of
the Ukraine His forward forces
have been reported within 30 to 40
miles of the bend in sectors north
east Of Dnieperopetrovsk
Snow Still Extremely Deep.
A military commentator said that
the SHOWS still are so deep on the
Staraya RuSsa front below Lenln-
grad. where the German 18th Army
is trapped. that ski troops bear the
brunt of operations. He said the
Russians still held superiority in
SUCH operations
Transportation, he said, still is
difficult along the whole northern
half of the battlefront. and trucks
are able to get through only over
newly roads.
Russian dispatches said the Ger
mans were attempting repeated
counterattacks, but said these had
failed. particularly in the Staraya
Russa area.
Evening star., 1942-03-13

Foreign.
British and Chinese join forces for
first time in Burma. Page Al
German resistance being broken,
Russians claim. Page Al
Three German subs sunk in attack
on convoy identified. Page Az
British bomb Gneisenau at Kiel navy
base. Page A-4
Brazilians. angered by ship sinkings,
smash Axis stores Page Al
Four more Japanese ships sunk by
U. S. submarines. Page AS
Argentina backs Rio parley but gives
no indication of break. Page A-19
Sub ran down lifeboats, tanker sur
vivors say. Page BIZ
National.
Roosevelt reported considering veto
of farm supply bill. Page Az
Federal sales tax advanced as pos
sible plan. Page Az
Politics should be out for war. Roose-
welt says. Page A
Seven convicted In spy trial get total
of 1T years. Page AS
Evening star., 1942-03-13
10 Per Cent Fare Boost
Granted 10 Pullman Co.

BY the Associated Press.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission authorized the Pullman Co.
today to increase its rates, fares, and
charges by 10 per cent.
The company was authorized to
put the increase into effect within
10 days after filing the necessary
tariffs with the commission.
On the basis of 1941 business, it
was estimated the increase would
produce additional gross revenue of
S6,171 1876, of which S2,979,517 would
90 to railroads under operating con-
tracts and $989,4l7 for additional
income taxes, leaving the company
a net increase of $2,2O2, ,252.
Because of uncertainty as to the
future volume of troop movements,
however, the company was unable
to give the commission any close
estimate of probable traffic volume or
gross revenue in 1912. The company
predicted there would be a slight
decrease, or at least no increase. in
civilian travel, and that troop move
ments would increase.
The company's revenue from the
sale of berths and seats and the
charter of cars approximated SOL
650,000 in 1941. The commission
estimated that the increase would
be about So cents per passenger.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Rubbish Fire Subdued
On Liner kormandie

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March ia fire
apparently originating in rubbish
aboard the f1ame-ravaged $50 900 900
liner Normandie was quickly ex-
tinguished today.
Workmen engaged in salvaging
the 83,432-ton craft sent an alarm
that brought 100 armed coast
guardsmen, fireboat and an engine.
They brought the blaze under con-
troll in Is minutes.
The liner. seized by the Govern
ment last December and converted
into the naval auxiliary Lafayette.
was damaged by blaze February o.
She capsized after this fire was
extinguished.
A seven-man House Naval Affairs
Subcommittee investigating the
February 8 fire concluded hearings
here yesterday after questioning rs
witnesses.
The subcommittee will reconvene
In Washington next Tuesday befors
submitting its report to the House
Naval Affairs Committee.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Murder Charge Faces
Girl, IS, Slayer Of Father
b, tht Associated Press.

bs lTt ~ SUCldlcu fEcSS.
POTTSVILLE, Pa, March 13-A
motherless. 15-year farm girl
Emma Peoletti, calmly related today
District Attorney c. A. Whitehouse
said. that she shot and killed her
father with shotgun as he lay on
a couch because "he beat me once
too often"
Peter Peoletti, A. was found late
yesterday in his isolated Schuylkill
County home near Valley View, the
back of his head blown of.
Mr.. Whitehouse said a charge of
murder would be filed later today
against the girl.
He chastised her at noon yester-
day and then went to sleep on the
COUCH" he quoted her. She said
she made up her mind then to shoot
him and got the shotgun and loaded
it. At o'clock, her father awoke
and as he raised himself on one
elbow, she shot him"
She then fled to the home of two
brothers. County detectives said the
brothers also told Of i'll treatment at
the hands of their father.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
'Co-ordinotor of Rifle Shooting
RevoIts Against 0. C. D. Play
$1,000, 900 Sought
For Sports Agency
Byrd Reveals

c. B. Lister, national co-ordi-
natOr of rifle shooting began a
one-man revolt within the Office
of Civilian Defense today. an
nouncing that he was sitting
down to write to Senator Byrd of
Virginia a candid account of his
own experiences.
I'm burned up he told a re-
porter for The Star. about the
expensive physical fitness setup in
Philadelphia.
Il am opposed to this Government
egimentation OF sport.
Il am against getting appropria- =
tionS from Congress to get people
to play He'll we want to stop them
from playing-we want them to
work"
$1,000, 900 Sought.
The outburst of this o. c. D.
executive against the Physical Fit
ness Division of which he is a part
followed the report that John B.
Kelly, former Olympic oarsman who
heads the outfit. is seeking 1000
900 appropriation and threatens to
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Jury probe ordered in Flynn paving
case. Page Az
Suspension of freight rate increases
asked. Page A-9
Japanese pleads guilty to violation
of Registration Act. Page B-4
Washington and Vicinity.
Gas light stock decision delayed un-
til next week. Page A-3
Draft registrants' serial numbers
soon to be posted. Page B-1
Change sought in afraid rule of
key in car. Page B-1
Stimson asked authority for closing
Van Ness street. Page B-1
Report recommends abolition of &C
cident prevention unit. Page B-1
Tire bootleggers are warned of heavy
penalties. Page B-1
Miscellany
Births, Deaths. Page AS
Marriage Licenses. Page A-16
Natures Children. Page B-5
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Mad Dog Killers
Go to Death in
WheeIchoirs
BY the Associated Press.


OSSINING, N. Y. March l3-
Anthony, 81. and William Esposito.
%. so emaciated from their hunger
strike that they had to be wheeled
into Sing Sing prisons death cham
Der, were electrocuted last night.
Virtually 10 month of lying in bed,
abstaining from all food except that
which was fed them forcibly. had
reduced the mad dog killers" to
skin and bone
The brothers ran wild. blazing
away with guns at midday on Janu-
arv IA. 194l.
They killed Alfred Klausman, SIS,
in an attempted pay roll robbery.
William was wounded by Patrolman
Edward F. Maher, SO, after COM
Wandering a cab and wounding the
driver.
Wounded superfcially. William
played dead While his brother was
being arrested, he waited for the
policeman to lean over him then
raised on one elbow and killed him.
From the start. the brothers, their
family and their lawyer contended
they were insane. Throughout their
trial they feigned insanity.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Torpedoed British Cruiser
Has Sunk, Nazis Claim
Rsthe Associated Press.

bv Ire Associated Press.
BERLIN From German Broad
casts. March 13.-The German
high command said today British
cruiser reported hit twice yesterday
by torpedoes from German sub
marine in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean had sunk.
The cruiser was identified as of
the 7,2OO-ton Leander class of ships
some 10 years old.
The cruiser was one of five men,
toned by the high command yes
terday as damaged in sustained
action by German and Italian air
and undersea forces.
Italian torpedo planes were said
to have scored hits on three cruisers,
German bombers hits on another,
and the fifth was reported at that
time to have been heavily damaged
by the U-boats torpedoes.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
.S1S,0o0,00o Sought
To Guard u. ). Offices
Against Sabotage
President Bores Subversive
Plots; City Set for
4-Hour BIockout tonight

Disclosing that sabotage had
been attempted or contemplated
on Federal buildings here and
elsewhere in the country, Presi-
dent Roosevelt said today that
Congress will soon get request
for S18,000,000 to safeguard Fed
eral buildings as we'll as to black
them out.
AS Washington and nearby coun-
ties prepared for four hour black
out from 8 o'clock till midnight
tonight the President told his press
conference that the problem of safe
guarding Federal buildings against
subversive agents had been added
to the problem of backing out build
ings against air raids.
He said there was reason TO be-
lieve that there have been quite a
few cases recently where sabotage OF
Federal buildings here and else
where had been attempted or con-
templated.
To insure a blackout of Federal
buildings-other than merely switch
ing off lights, which will be done for
a half hour during tonight's prac-
tice-and to provide safety from
sabotage. he said. sum OF Sl8,OOO,-
900 will be needed. This is $1,000, ,OOO
less than the estimate sent TO the
Budget Bureau by Public Buildings
Administration officials for protec-
tive construction. including backing
out. for Federal buildings through
out the country.
Covers Entire Country.
The sl8,OOO,0OO will provide for
protection of Federal buildings all
over the United States.
The President said he had had the
letter prepared by Dean James M
Lands, director OF the Once OF
Civilian Defense, rewritten. This
letter is being directed to Brig. Gen.
Philip B. Fleming. Federal Works
Administrator, and gives instruc-
tions about preparing Federal build
ings to comply with the blackouts
ordered for this Metropolitan Area.
Details of the safety responsibility
are still being worked out, the Pres
ident said.
Repeating their tour of inspection
Defense Co-ordinator Young and
Dean Lands will travel through the
Metropolitan Area for about an hour
tonight. winding up at the DISTRICT
Building to confer with Commis-
sioners Mason and Kutz. Chairman
Randolph of the House District
Committee and various civilian de-
Tense officials who have been in
vited to make the tour. AS was done
last time. each of the Commissioners
will follow different route.
Fire watchers and messengers OF
the air raid warden service will join
the wardens on duty tonight in areas
where they have been organized
The fire watchers will take their reg
ular posts. More than $4,000 volun-
teers are included in the air raid
warden service and large majority
of them will be on duty tonight. in
addition to the auxiliary policemen
and the regular police force.
Assurance of compliance in Gov
eminent buildings for a half hour
of tonight's blackout, even if en-
ployes have to sit in the dark. was
(See BLACKOUT, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-03-13
U. S. Officer Reported
Killed in Iroq Crash
Rs the Associated Press.

BIZ the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 13-The London
News Chronicle reported today in a
dispatch from Bombay that Col
John A. Gillis of the United States
Army had been killed in plane
crash north Of Basra. Iraq.
Other passengers in the plan, an
aircraft of the Russian Army. also
were said to have been casualties.
British censors passed the dis
patch.
Col. Gillis was a. Reserve officer
and a native of Amarillo. Tex. He
formerly was railroad man. The
War Department had no official no.
tice of his death. He is listed as
missing.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
u. 5. Flyers Down Five
Planes in Raid on
New Guinea Bases
Heavy Damage Inflicted
On Jap Airdromes at
Sulumuuu and Loe

Five American Army flying
fortreSSeS shot down five enemy
planes and inflicted heavy dam
age in a raid on Japanese-held
airdromes at Salamaua and Lac
in New Guinea Wednesday, a
War Department communique
reported today.
The American bombers were at
tackled by formation of Japanese
fighting planes during their raid on
the harbor of Lac where a direct hit
was made on a pier It was during
| this engagement that five enemy
fighters were shot down. No Amer
/ ican plane was damaged.
In the raids on the airdromes at
both places mentioned in the COM
munique. all buildings were destroyed
and bombs inflicted heavy damage
on runways.
A War Department spokesman
/ said reports of these raids presum-
ably had been included in dispatches
from the area attributing the action
to United Nations planes. Accounts
of the destruction done by the five
American bombers were contained
in separate dispatches reported to
the War Department.
Bataan Situation Unchanged.
Today's communique reported
! that the situation confronting Gen
Douglas MacArthur's outnumbered
forces in Bataan remained "un-
changed"
There has been a prolonged lull
in the fighting on Bataan since Feb
ruary 26, when Gen. Macarthur
made a surprise assault on the Jap
aneSe forces, throwing their advance
positions back from l to miles.
News of the Army's land success
in New Guinea followed closely the
Nays announcement last night
that three more enemy freighters
and one passenger-cargo ship have
been sunk in Japanese waters by a
United States submarine.
This brings to eight the total of
enemy ships sunk near Japan, and
to 149 the number of vessels of all
types damaged or destroyed by
United States forces in the Western
Pacific.
The Navy also announced that on
Tuesday two large japanese Jour-
engined seaplanes we're intercepted
by four of our fighters based on
Midway Island. One of the enemy
planes was shot down in the air fight
west of Midway and the other
escaped. One of our fighters was
damaged and the pilot wounded. but
he succeeded in returning to the
base
This was the first word of enemy
activity near Midway since January
%, when the Navy reported that two
Japanese submarines had been
driven off by artillery fire.
The impression of naval circles
here is that the whole vast area OF
the Pacific lying west of the
Hawaiian Islands and east of the
area where Japan is now dominant
has become something of mo
mans land" where enemy air and
sea patrols and American planes
and ships are constantly on the
rove, feeling out each others
strength and seeking the advantage
of surprise for sudden thrusts
against the islands which dot that
part of the ocean.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Me||ett Says Ha|ting
0. 6. R. Building
Would Be Mistake
Boykin Suggests Attempt
To Settle Controversy at
White House Conference
By J. A. O'LEARY.

Director Lowell Mellett of the
Office of Government Reports
told the House Public Buildings
and Grounds Committee today 1t
would be a mistake to halt con-
struction on the S6OO,O0O tempo
rary building on the parkway at
Fourteenth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. while a deci-
sion is being made as to who
should occupy it.
AS the committee was about to
recess until 10 m. Monday without
taking any action, Representative
Satterfeld. Democrat, of Virginia.
author of the pending resolution to
prevent o. G. r. from using the
structure unless Congress sanctions
it, asked Mr.. Mellett if he would be
willing to hold up the project until
Congress can act.
Mr.. Mellett replied that, in view
of the need for furthering the war
effort, he thought it would be better
to go ahead with the building. He
pointed out that If Congress later
ruled his agency could not use it for
a proposed central information bu-
reau, it's direction, of course, would
be followed.
Byrd Considers Resolution.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, Of Vir-
ginia had indicated earlier that he
is considering advisability of offering
a Senate resolution, designed to
turn the building over to some
agency more closely related to war
work.
Representative Boykin, Democrat,
of Alabama suggested the commit
tee seek to settle the controversy at
a White House conference. pointing
out that Mr.. Mellett finds himself
in the position of having directions
from the President to establish the
central information bureau, and
facing congressional opposition. No
action was taken on the suggestion
today.
After Representative Satterfield
had opened. the hearing with plea
to Congress to begin eliminating all
expenditures that can be avoided
during the war, committee mem
bers devoted most of the morning
to verbal tilts between themselves.
With the House convening at II
o'clock, the committee had to ad-
journ soon after Mr.. Mellett began
testifying.
Wants Bureaucracy in Retreat.
Mr.. Satterfield told the commit
tee that the tank, the ship or
plane-the lack of which the Presi-
dent has so wisely warned us may
mean the difference between vic
tory or defeat-may be bound up in
this and other expenditures to fol-
low"
IF we could get just one glimpse
of bureaucracy in retreat" he went
on, mot necessarily rout, but just
(See MELLETT. Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Nozi Reinforcements
Reported in Norwuy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 13.-EXchange
Telegraph, in a dispatc from Stock
holm, quoted the Swedish newspaper
Svenska Dagbladet today as saying
considerable German reinforce
ments had arrived recently in the
Stavanger region of Norway and
that schools had been requisitioned
to house them.
The arrival of the troops COIN
cided with imposition of fine of
6,000,000 kroner nominally about
81 ,500.000) on Stavanger-the fourth
such fine levied on the city by the
the Germans. the dispatch said.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
jap Banker lnterned

LONDON. March 13 (P.-Viscount
Hisaakira Kano, Japanese banker,
arrested after ridiculing Foreign
Secretary Eden's report on Japa-
nese atrocities In Hong Kong. was
interned on the Isle of Man today.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Circulation

The circulation of The
Evening Star in Washington
in the afternoon is more than
double that of the afternoon
circulation of any other
Washington newspaper, not
including morning or noon
editions.
Practically all of today's
news is in today's Star and
most complete in the late
afternoon editions.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
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resign unless he is granted at least
s300.00O
Senator Byrd who is chairman OF
the Senates Committee on Nom
(See o. C. D., Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-03-13

(See BLACKOUT. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-03-13

(See AUSTRALIA, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1942-03-13

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages TX and 2-X of this edition Of
The Star. experimenting the news Of
the regular home delivered edition.
Evening star., 1942-03-13

lSee LABOR, Page A-3D
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-22

CLAUDIA: A revival Having toured after A
~ long run here. it hoped back TO catch some
OF the summer resort takingS
IL was born way back before the war ana
started out by making star out q Dorotny
Mcclure.
colleagues, Donald Cook and Frances START
QUEST IN THE HOUSE: Guest. hell-gestapo
VI This fragile. helpless little cobra drifts In
with her suitcases and her neuroses, ana what
have you got? -
The invalid, stunnngly portrayed by Mary
Anderson convalesceS by needing the wife
versus the hubby, and vice versa, and educating
their young 'un on how to be hypochondriac
IL must be remembered that the poor gal IS
II she had her health she'd really think up
something vicious
L the Winter Gardens best headliners, and
right away people said vaude was back TO stay
Lou Hotz, Phil Baker, Willie Howard and
Paul Draper graduated from the two-a-day
Sure, they went back for fsh-and-chps CON-
but vaude is still a sobbng- nto-the- beer dream.
Hazel Scott is a fresh starter. but If there had
been more like her in variety it wouldn't be play
ing in scrap books now.
DORGY g. BESS: The Gershwin opera brodied
Il when it first showed its face half dozen
years ago.
The present management scissored away a
lot OF its double talk and gave II some pace
Most of the performers, including Todd Duncan
the Porgy of the first try, reappeared in II.
They have improved in the interim. which is
why they able 10 sing il into the sugar.
Not that the score doesn't aid having such
superbas as Summer Time" i've Got Plenty OF
Nothin' " and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now
MY SISTER EILEEN Two gals from the sticks
WI who have TO fight of the males and hunger
in Greenwich Village basement nat
It's broader than the Gulf OF Mexico at its
widest, but who you 10 be yelling for subtiety
at your age?
Shirley Booth, who can wiring laughs out of
death scene helped lug this entertaining item
through a couple OF tough winters.
The chase of the six Brazilian future admirals
after a blonde is still the funniest sprint since
the Keystone cops were chasing Chaplin.