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Evening star., 1942-07-22
Nazis Virtually Driven
From Air0ver Africa,
British Sources Say
Allied Bombers Blust
Axis Vehicles and German
Supply Base at Crete
BY tie Associated Press.

CAIRO, July 22.-The Allied air
forces have virtually driven the
Germans out of the sky over the
North African battle area. British
military sources said today.
These sources, whose identity 1t
was not permitted to disclose, said
hardly any enemy air activity was
observed yesterday by bombers and
fighters which ranged far beyond
the Ell Alamein front, blasting at
large concentrations of Axis We
hicles and attacking the Nazi sup
ply base in Crete.
Ground fighting, meanwhile, had
settled into artillery duelling, Brit
ish general headquarters reported.
Suda Bay, island of Crete, was at
tackled "in force" and direct hits
were scored on two vessels, the COM
munique reported. A near miss was
scored on larger ship and pier
was set aflre.
Large forces of German parachute
troops have been reported concen-
trated on Crete.
United States airmen probably
took part in the raid, RAF sources
said. American Liberator bombers
have been employed frequently on
assignments in the Mediterranean
and the mention of heavy allied
bofnbers" indicated that Americans
had participated, these sources said.
1000 Axis Vehicles Raided.
The Axis desert position at which
British artillery units were firing lie
from 2 to miles west of Gen. Sir
Claude Auckinleck's Ell Alamein
line, British military sources said.
In the central sector OF the 40
mile desert front the Allied bombers
attacked a concentration OF about
900 Axis vehicles and started many
fires, the communique said.
| Action yesterday was confined
mainly to artillery fire at the north
ern end of the front west of Ell Ala
mein, it was reported.
Coastal roads west of Ell Alamein
also came in for attention from the
! RAF as Marshal Rommel moved up
reinforcements of infantry in trucks
The mobilized infantry was described
as badly DISPERSED
Two Axis Planes Felled.
"Many direct hits were scored and
fires started" on enemy positions
and Axis vehicles, the communique
reported. The air action ranged over
| the entire 40-mile battle line, and al
dusk bombers attacked vehicles In
the southern sector.
Two Axis planes were Shot dowr
in air fights during the day.
RAF bombers continued to batter
Tobrunk, Marshal Rommels supply
port in Libya.
Long-range fighters, scouting owe
the Mediterranean, encountered al
Italian bomber off Sidi Barrani ant
shot it into the sea.
Five British planes failed to re
turn from their widespread mis-
sionS Yesterday.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Bombers Hit Jap Transport
In Convoy Off New Guinea
a, +hs Associated Press,

B, the Associated Press.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, July %
Allied bombers scored direct hit
on japanese transport in an attack
Yesterday on convoy off the South
east New Guinea coast, a head
quarters communique said today.
The convoy was spotted off Am
basi Buna, about 100 miles across
the Papuan Peninsula from Allied
held Port Moresby, indicating pos
sibly an enemy effort to broaden
holdings below Salamaua and Lac.
The convoy attack was the first or
japanese shipping in that sector
since July !, when bombs from an
American plane in mass raid on
Salamaua and Lac left a warshlp
in flames. In an attack six days
earlier 4,OoO-ton japanese ship was
sunk at Lac.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Truman Committee
To Probe Cancellation
OF Higgins Contract
Also Calls Hearings on
Air Fniehters and
Shortage of Steel
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate Defense Investigat-
ing Committee announced today
it would inquire into cancellation
of the Higgins shipbuilding con-
tract, a scheme to construct giant
air freighters in lieu of ships, and
the crucial problem of steel for
both projects.
Chairman Truman said in for
NAL statement that Andrew Jack
son Higgins, proprietor of the New
Orleans yard which was to build
200 Liberty ships, and officials Of
the Maritime Commission, which
Cancelled the contract, would be
heard in public hearings starting
July rs. ......
This morning Mr.. Higgins con-
ferred for more than hour witt
Maritime Commission officials.
He also conferred for more thar
an hour with White House Secre.
tary Marvin H. Mcintyre, but re.
fused to discuss the conference with
reporters until a press conference
he has scheduled for tonight.
To Consider Flying Boats.
The commission will hold a meet.
ing this afternoon, presumably tt
re-examine the Higgins contract.
Concerned lover the great mum
ber of sinkings Of American cargo
vessels" the Senate committee alst
will consider the proposal of Henry
K. Kaiser, Portland, Greg, ship.
builder, that nine United State.
shipyards be equipped for the man.
ufacture of 5000 flying boats veal
as a quicker way to thwart Axi!
submarines.
Hearings on the steel situation
are to start August 6, after the
committee has heard Mr.. Kaiser
Glenn Martin, whose Mars flying
boat would be adapted to the trans.
port of troops and supplies under
the Kaiser plan, and officials of the
War Production Board.
Chairman Truman said the com.
mittee was surprised to learn" tha
the Higgins contract was to be can.
celed after millions of dollars o.
Government money had been spen
on roads, canals and other basi'
construction for the Higgins cor
poration at New Orleans.
Land Refuses Comment.
Mr.. Higgins told reporters HI
might have a Every happy or yer.
unhappy" statement tonight.
Rear Admiral Emory S. Lane
chairman of the Maritime Commits
sion, refused to make any state
ment.
Another commission official, de
clining to permit use of his name
said Mr.. Higgins appeared ant
made statement" but did not elab
crate on what took place.
Representative Hebert, Democrat
OF Louisiana said he believed ther
is good chance for reinstatement
of the Higgins contract.
The War Production Board mean
while considered the proposals TO
construction Of the giant carg'
planes and indicated a decision
would be made shortly.
Donald M. Nelson, WPB chair
man, said the plans offered by th'
shipbuilders would be adopted
or rejected as quickly as possible
He cautioned, however, against "un.
due optimism.
Depends on strategy"
A decision, Mr.. Nelson added
would be based on consideration
of strategy" time required to con
(See HIGGINS, Page A-69
Evening star., 1942-07-22
| Mother Who Lost
| Two Sons Seeks
lOverseos Duty
z, the Associated Press.


DENVER, July 22-Mrs. Clara
M. Morse, whose two sons were
killed at Pearl Harbor short time
after her husband died of sudden
illness, has found surcease from her
grief, she said today, in work with
a Red Cross nurses aid class.
tits the only, way to keep go
ing" she said. They're all gone
now; I'm the only one left"
Mrs. Morse hopes that on her
graduation from her nurses aid
class at st. Anthony's Hospital, she
will be accepted for overseas duty
so she can go to Honolulu. Her
sons, Francis Jerome, %, and Nor
man Roy, 20, both Navy petty of
ficers, were killed there Decem-
ber 7. s0.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Peril to Sta|ingrad and Rostov
Grows as Million Nazis Advance;
Reds Co||apsing> Germans Claim
Don Is Crossed
On Brood Front,
Berlin Declares
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN (From German Broad
casts, July %. The German
high command said today "or-
ganized resistance of the enemy
in the Rostov region has col
lapsed," and reported that ito
the east of the Donets the lower
course of the Don was crossed on
a broad front"
Rostov was described as hemmed
in by Axis troops Standing before
a defended bridgehead position
which runs in a semi-circle outside
the town."
(The Donets joins the Don al
most 10 miles northeast of Ros-
tov. Russian accounts for sew
eral successive days have re-
ported Red Army Withdrawals in
this direction before the nu-
merical superiority Of German
forces driving southees. from
Millerovo, 130 miles northeast of
Rostov. Nothing in the Russian
dispatches has indicated, how
ever, that they had been pushed
back as far as the Don)
Face Defended Bridgehead.
"Organized resistance of the en-
emy in the Rostov area has col
lapsed," said the German war bull
letin. German and -allied
troops are standing before a de-
Tended bridgehead position which
runs in a semi-circle outside the
town.
ITO the east of the Donets the
lower course of the Don was crossed
in a broad front.
italian units succeeded on July
10 in taking the important coal re-
gion of Krassnijluch when pursuing
the enemy in the Donets loop.
Numerous prisoners were taken
and much booty was captured.
Repulse at Voronezh Claimed.
The communique said weakened
Russian forces in the big Don bend
were putting up "only slight resist
ance," and reported that the Red
Army's attacks north and northwest
of Voronezh were repulsed.
The war bulletin said that "in the
rear of the central front" west Of
Moscow, Russian forces which hac
been cut off were wiped out
OF the front southeast of Lenin-
grad the war bulletin said:
South of Lake linen and before
Volkhov bridgehead, several enemy
attacks collapsed with great cas-.
ualties being inflicted on the enemy
During this fighting German force.
defending the bridgehead destroyed
81 tanks. most of them in fighting
at close quarters"
Dive -Bombers Blast Artillery.
German dive bombers were said tt
have attacked Russian artillery bat
teries on the Rybachi Peninsula, a
the extreme northern tip of th'
battlefront.
The destruction of 829 Russian air
planes in operations from July t,
July 20 was reported in the wa
bulletin which said GAO of these wer'
shot down in air battles, 81 by anti
aircraft fire, 9 by army units ant
the rest on the ground in attacks or
airfields.
The communique said 10 planes
were lost during the same period.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Russian Worplones
Bomb Koenigsberg
For Second Time
Ry tire Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July 22-Soviet
planes bombed Koenigsberg in
East Pussia again last night,
the Moscow radio said today.
In raid last Saturday, 38
fires were reported set in the
city, many Of them large and
in the center of town.
Military and industrial targets
in the city and suburbs were
attacked in difficult weather
and six large fires and four
heavy explosions resulted in
last nights raid, the radio
added.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Hull Plans Radio Talk
On Seriousness of War

3. TIE Associated Press.
Secretary of State Hull will tell
the Nation of the seriousness of
the war in radio speech from
$50 to 1915 pm. tomorrow over
all networks.
President Roosevelt, announcing
the broadcast yesterday, said he
considered the speech an able and
conclusive summary.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Multu FeIIs 3 Bombers

VALLETTA, Malta, July % (P).-
Three Axis bombers were shot down
and others damaged by Malta's de-
tenders in the previous "a hours,
the British announced last night.
Evening star., 1942-07-22

(See RUSSIA, Page ABB
Evening star., 1942-07-22

(See IMITATION, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1942-07-22
A Tithe for Victory

The Government is asking citizens
to invest 10 per cent of earnings in
War Bonds. The money is needed
for war financing. Have you done
your part?
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Italians Claim Edge
In Eqypt Air Combat

sionS Yesterday.
Evening star., 1942-07-22

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages Tx and 2-X of this edition Of
The Star, supplementing the news of
the regular home delivered edition.
Evening star., 1942-06-04

the social swirl and the once gaudy
night life Of his community.
He makes his own choices that
way and they usually are respected.
n \ n
"Belvoircades," the strictly Army
talent show recruited from the 30th
Engineers at Fort Belvoir, played its
first public performance at the new
U. 8. o. Club In Alexandria Tuesday
night And demonstrated that
the armed forces can do a fine job
Of entertaining themselves as a sup
plement to the professional enter
tainment provided for them
Outstanding in the demonstration
were Sergt. Anthony Merolla, q
pianist and composer of merit, q CO.
median in his own comedy skits
Also William March, q very funny
fellow in his handling Of dialogue,
more talented as pianist with .
sturdy streak OF comedy In his play
ing And Frank Monarch, . tap
dancer who was at his best in a
paraphrase of Paul Diapers type of
dancing, on the standard side other
wise Comedy dancist, very
broadly comic, was Raymond Vnuk,
also good, and Henry Bausili, jr,,
who not only danced but sang an
effective imitation of Carmen Mi
randa :. A producer to set and
Evening star., 1942-06-04
Where and When

Current Theater Attractions
| and Time of Showing !
Stage.
National with q prize
cast for Bernard Shaw's drama:
$40 pm.
Capitol Twin Beds" a comedy
with George Brent and Joan Ben
nett: II am, 1:45, 4:30, tbs and
9:55 pm. Stage shows: 1880, 8:35,
$40 and 9:05 pm.
CoIumbia-"Rio Rita" Abbott and
Costello south of the border: 10:45
am, l, 3:15, $50, 7:45 and 10 pm.
Earle-"Juke Girl" Ann Sheridan
among swing addicts: II am, 1:54,
ABS, 7:25 and 1o:15 pm. Stage
shows: 1885, $50; $40 and 8 80 p m.
Keith'-"Syncopation," Adolphe
Menjou and Jam Sessions: 11:15
am, 1:2Q, 3:25, 5:s5, TAO and 9:45
pm.
Little-"Warsaw Concerto" gentle
people in the maelstrom: II am,
12:45, 2:30, 4:15, 6, 7:50 and $40 pm.
Metropolitan THE Invaders" !"
Nazis in a small attack on Canada. !.
IL am, ITO, 800, $50, TAO and
9:55 pm.
PaIace-'My Gal SAL" Rita Hay
worth on Tin Pan Alley: 11:20 am,
1:50, 4:25, and 9:35 pm.
Pix-"The Real Glory" Gary
Cooper with the Marines in the
Philippines: 2, $50, $50, 7:50 and
$50 pm.
Evening star., 1942-06-04


his film productions to melodramas
like "she loved . fireman"
These were pictures made at a
price, and designed to appeal td
the biggest common denominator in
the motion picture market. So, 1t
was no wonder, then, that Holly
wood thought Foys had gone soft
when he announced plans for the
Poe picture.
But Foy insists he has lost none
Of his realism. There are various
ways, he argues. of approaching
Poe. You can look at him reverently
with q Rembrandt eye" or you
can look at him as Bryan Foy does
Here is q guy" says the pro-
ducer, who has a great heart and
great talent, but he has weak
nesses. His talent makes him i'm
portant 70 that what he does is in
teresting. Nearly everybody has at
least read The Gold Bug 30 that
they're interested in him 1T the
start.
"As to heart, Poe covers the whole
field. He had one Of the most ideal
istic and romantic love affairs in
history, with his wife, Virginia
Clemm. Later on, he became the
sort of fellow on whom no man
would turn his back II his wife were
In the same room.
whether you like your love with
parsley or without it, Poe is an in
teresting lover.
Evening star., 1942-06-04

said he did not want to play any
more of these hero-gets-girl pictures.
There was the same old conviction
Evening star., 1942-06-04

DfuneCCe In your ssy Ssfnoos.
arms in the fadeout. MIR. Colman
was much too gallant to say it that
way, or perhaps even to think 1t
through to that unflattering con-
clusion. He just said he would like
to play some other phase of romance
from then on, leaving the choice to
the studio.
An eminently respectable fellow,
his wish in that regard has been
respected thus far He has not been
asked to play the suave charmer
since. In Random Harvest" his
latest picture, the situation still
maintains
People who have been Colman
fans for decades are beginning to
wonder, however.
Hollywood has been drained stead
lily of romantic young talent. James
Stewart went first And since then
the movies have lost Ronald Reagan.
Jeffrey Lynn, Burgess Meredith.
Now Tyrone Power is on his way to
the Navy, where he will meet Tony
Martin, Wayne Morris and a num-
ber of others of his old cinema
colleagues.
The studios have begun busting
off some talent long regarded as
worn out from the romantic appeal
standpoint. Mr.. Colman does not
need busting of. He still has what
the cinema wants in the way of ir-
resistible feminine appeal. Any day
t,A h4 ~ Hn hn
sacrifice of taking one more glamour
girl to his heart at the end of one
more picture. And the one more
after that, etc.
We can almost hear Hollywood
saying it:
WAR demands its sacrifices of all
men"
What Colman would reply Is
something that only he knows. He
is not like so many cinema actors in
so many ways One of the ways is in
his careful selection Of his picture
roles. There always has been a
strident demand for him to play
leads, but he has seen to 1t that the
supply never met the demand. Two
pictures a year have been his limit.
Other players have talked about
being equally restricted in their
work, the theory being that the
public never will be surfeited with
them. Colman has been the excep-
ton who meant what he said.
One factor In his firmness has
been his enjoyment of private life
He has insisted upon having one OF
his own, one with which his pro-
fession should not interfere. He
lives in retirement when he is not
making picture, far removed from
Evening star., 1942-06-04

For the literary audience, we
have John Shepperd, a fine actor,
reciting The Raven and Helen.
For the sociologists, we have Mr..
Poe's fight for the copyright law
For boys In the corner bar, we have
Mr.. Poe's well-known weakness for
the bottle, although actually we are
more interested in the effect OF
Evening star., 1942-06-04

IN his suavlCy
and gallantr-y Of
m a n n r, t h e
S a m e old be-
2uilement in his
voice, but Mr..
Colman in his
e arly SOS was
rather tired of 1t
all. The names
change, and the
faces, but after
20 years of such
pictures, the ef-
feet Is that of
taking the same
old bl on d or
Evening star., 1942-06-04

tighten the show would make BEL
voircades" a more than successful
show put together out of strictly
Army talent.
Evening star., 1942-06-04

whisky on his work and loves than
upon Poe, himself.
Gosh, we could leave the name Of
Poe out, make the guy a gangster
and we'd still have a great story"
Evening star., 1942-06-04
Colman Sticks to His Plan
To Avoid Heart ThrOb Role
But With Glamorous Heroes Leaving
He May Be Asked to Change Mind
About No More Screen Romance
By JAY CARMODY.

interesting declarations
policy Actresses They won't do this
then when look shoulder
they said
Coman being exception to the rule
exhausng his charm for the opposite
said want to play any*
Evening star., 1942-06-04
Here Is a Guy With a Heart
Brian Foy Approaches Life Story
Of Poe Realistically
HOLLYWOOD.
Wide World.

ID
q eyebrows few smiles around
would motion
picture Edgar Allan
The that in long career has always
anything confined
productions elodamas like Devils Island and to comedies
Evening star., 1942-09-13
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
u. s. Has Real Generals Now

Generals Macarthur and Wainwright
met the severest test OF military genius
by making defeat glorious.
A S THE war goes on, American leader
"A ship will get better-as General
Eaker demonstrates.
There must indeed be mo swivel-chair
brasshats in the United States bomber
command, as he has said.
Those in command, not only in the
bombing force but in all military oper-
atoms, must surely know what the boys
are up against and what missions are
wise
1t is good to have this evidence of inn
proving leadership in the war
1t improves our prospects of complete
victory with the least possible expenditure
of time and men and materials.
1t is a comfort to fathers and mothers
and other loved ones at home.
Swive-chair brasshats are not good
commanders in war.
They are not even good military COM
manders in peace, because they are
responsible for policies which result in air
forces being inadequate and obsolete, in
vulnerable battleships of great size being
built when aircraft carriers and SUBJ
marines and bombing planes are needed to
win modern wars and in political favorites
of statesmen being in vital commands
where alert and expert military naval and
aviation strategists should be.
W. AR is hard teacher, but interchangeable
Wv and memorable.
1t is hardest in its early phases, be-
cause there are so many mistakes to be
overcome. and there is SO much deadwood
to be shaken out and SO much lost time
TO be made up and neglect to be paid for
General Eakers words and example
give us heart to believe we are over at
least SOME of these hard early phases of
the war
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01

MAJ. GEN. IRA c. EAKER, COM
wi mander of American bombing forces
in Great Britain, has established the rule
that staff officers should know Just what
the boys are up against.
In order to prevent the sending of
unwise missions over Germany by staff
officers ignorant of the hazards bomber
squadrons face he has ordered officers of
the highest rank to accompany raids, and
has set the example by going himself.
1--WE are going to get maximum results
i'm destruction of enemy installations" he
explained, with minimum expenditure OF
men and planes"
That is good generalship.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-01
Nicotine
Acid for
Heart Attack
By G.. Il. LAL
~ Ne D' LII
international News Service Science Write

international News Service Science Write
A SIGNIFICANT new treat
"A ment for heart attack and
certain blood circulatory dis
eases with NICOTINE acid has
come to light.
Nicotine acid, one OF the B.
complex vitamins necessary 10
prevent the skin ailment known
as pellagra. has been found TO
check heart attacks due to
angina pectoris. a most painful
heart malady.
Also, this Vitamin has pro-
duced some spectacular cures
in caSeS-el cerebral thrombosis
the blocking Of the blood vessels
of the brain with blood clots or
plugs.
1. These new developments are
revealed in Lancet, official pub
LEGATION of the British Medical
Association. just arrived here
from London.
THE work on the heart dis
Il ease was done by the Brit
iSh medical scientist, DR.. Alan
Moncrieff. now on war duty.
This physician gave 10 TO so
milligrams of pure nicotine acid
TO a number of his patients suf-
fering from frequent and violent
heart attacks.
His results show:
1.-THE number of attacks have
been reduced i'm gratifying
manner"
Doctor MonCrieff points out,
however. that when an attack
has begun, relief from IL is bet
ter obtained by the usual treat
ment with nitric preparations
which widen the blood vessels of
the heart muscle.
II is the feeding Of nicotine
acid between the attacks that
is most helpful. Further re-
search Will show tho desired
range of the new treatment.
THE clearing up of the blood
Il clot in the brain by nico-
tinic acid injections was first
accomplished by DR. Dioga Fur
tado OF the University of Lisbon.
According 10 the Lisbon scien-
fist. injection of 5 TO 10 milli-
grams of NICOTINE acid in a few
hours cleared up the severe
symptoms OF cerebral throm-
boSiS. the stoppage of blood cir
culation in some Of the. vessels
of the brain by thick clots.
In such treatment pure nico-
tiniC acid is used. This vitamin
is present in yeast preparations,
different kinds of meat. eggs
DrS. w. j. Dunn and p. Han
der Of Duke University have
lust reported that cooking de-
SiroyS one-third TO one-half.
even two-thirdS. of nicotine
acid I'm meats Chicken liver
and beef liver are equally rich
and among the best food sources
Of this vitamin.