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now has almost certainly
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ment and no real end OF IN
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fighting on the eastern
brought 10 the peak OF
Stalingrad-also are sure
a demoralizing effect OF
fighting and home fronts.
STEP UP PROPAGANDA
AZ a result. the attempts o.
propaganda 10 explain To tn
pie why stslingrsd has no.
and why the Caucasus C.
as a whole has not yet 81
have had To be stepped U
frequency and intensity.
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Russians by superhuma
have managed to delay
cisions" does not CONT
more to the Germans ~
body else. They know .
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and To draw the conclusion
collapse In morale In immine.
That should not he done In TIA,
present case either.
Hitler can go ON dismissing
generals without getting into
serious trouble. The German
people still are being kept ig-
norant of most of the real
facts about the progress of
the war. and being kept un-
der strict discipline.
None of which alters the fact
that everything that widens the
cracks In German morale by even
a little bit Is as calcuable as Fly
Ing Fortresses and General Grants.
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srment in Tacoma
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-09-24

Job hers
I'd an early end
Pbrtage Of home
land lids.
bccted rush for canning
by housewives cleaned
yupplies in many stores. II was
borted. but jobbers said sddi-
tional supplies were available for
those wishing 10 build stocks
Of fruit and vegetables against a
possible commercial shortage.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
w. P. B. Expected to Order
Drastic Private Building Curb
Few Hundred Dollars May Be Limit
Allowed Spent on Non Defense Houses

ment of policy" on building priorities
issued by the Supply Priorities and
ALLEGATIONS Board last october,
which forbade priority aid to nom
essential building. The S. P. A. B.
statement did not. however. forbid
construction if materials were avail
able. The new order, it was said,
will permit no non-defense conStruc-
tion whose estimated cost exceeds
the prescribed dollar limit.
May Hit Some Dealers.
While the order does not freeze"
building materials in the hands
of dealers, it was expected that
some dealers in non-defense areas
might be left with materials on
their hands which could not be
sold in a reasonable length Of time.
In cases where such stocks are
large, officials said, the Army, Navy
or other war agency might be noti-
might proceed to acquire them
through negotiation.
If the armed services do not need
the supplies w. P. B. is expected
to arrange contacts between these
dealers and others in defense areas,
so that diversion of the materials
may be accomplished by private
sale.
1t was understood that no COM
pulsion was contemplated to divert
materials from areas where they
are not needed to the housing crit
ical areas.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Allied Forces in Burmo
Fioht Under 2 Commands

LONDON. March Is tP.-A Brit
ish military commentator disclosed
today that Allied forces in Burma
are fighting under two commands,
but declared there was cooperation
between the Chinese troops under
1t. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell. U. S. A.,
and the British under 1t. Gen. Har-
old Alexander.
He said Gen. Alexander was re-
sponsible to Gen. Sir Archibald p.
Waveu, commander for Burma and
India, and Gen. Stilwell to Chinese
GeneraliSsimo Chang Kai-shek,
United Nations supreme commander
in the China theater.
Apart from the fighting on the
Chinese-held Toungoo front, he
said the situation in Burma was
quiet" Nothing more had been
heard from the three small Japa-
nese columns last reported moving
across the Yoma district from the
Toungoo road west toward the
Prone road.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Mothers Health Group
Plans Annual Meetinq

Sponsors and members Of the
Board Of Trustees Of the Mothers
Health Association met yesterday at
the home of the associations presi-
dent, Mrs. Prentiss Wilson, 2940
Albemarle street NV, to make final
plans for the groups annual meet
ing.
This is to be held at 1890 pm.
Tuesday. April 7.
Speaker at the meeting will be
Kenneth Rose of New York City,
director Of the Planned Parenthood
Federation Of America, who will
discuss Birth Control in the State
Public Health Programs.
Arrangements for the annual
meeting are being made by Mrs
Fontaine Bradley. Her committee
includes Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Keith
Merrill, Mrs. Ganson Purcell, Mrs.
Henry King, Mrs. Thomas Bradley
Mrs. Horace White, Mrs. David Craig
and Mrs. John B. Martin, jr.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Women See Divorces
Deferred Weddings
In Joint Tax Returns
Fear Separate Property
Rights Will Collapse
If PIon Is Adopted
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee was told today that the
Treasury's proposal for mandatory
joint tax returns by husbands and
wives would lead to divorces" and
tend to defer marriages or to elude
marriages"
The statement was made in a
brief by Margaret Culkin Banning,
writer, presented by Mary H. Donlon,
New York representative of the
Federation Of Business and Pro-
fessional Women's Clubs.
THE suggested plan for joint
income return by husbands and
wives would yield additional revenue,
no doubt, and tax people who could
and should in some cases perhaps
pay more taxes" the brief said, "but
those ends can surely be achieved
without tampering with the Demo-
cratic principle which in every mod
ern democracy gives a woman sep
arate property rights from those of
her husband"
Miss Donlon expressed opposition
to any proposal that would tax a
married woman at higher rate
than if she we're single" and added:
Looked at from the income tax
view, it paid to get married. Now
the Secretary (of the Treasury pro-
poses that 1t shall hereafter pay to
stay single. cost dearly in taxes to
get married"
Secretary Morgenthau told the
committee three weeks ago that the
present permission for married
couples to file separate returns could
not be justified in time of war and
termed 1t an example Of special
favoritism." He said mandatory
joint returns would yield $500. 900.
900 in additional revenue.
The witness placed in the record
q statement by Carrie Chapman
Gait, suffragist. which said This
mandatory joint return for husband
and wife would indeed suspend her
freedom of choice and her inalien-
able right to the pursuit of hap
piness.' The Government has man.
ifestly no innate right to determ-
Inc how a woman should compute
her taxes. 1t is her business to fol.
low the law and the Government
should consider her a human being.
Evening star., 1942-03-25

the "calamitous trend of events" at
Singapore, he said. and the general
acceptance of that view may well
indicate turning point in the war"
provided it is followed by swift and
resolute action.
Australia's two foremost needs
are equipment and an equal voice
with her allies, Mr.. Curtin de-
clared as he informed the House OF
Representatives that the dominion
had given Gen. Douglas Macarthur
authority of the highest order"
THE commonwealth government
has now become a much more ac-
tive partner in operational direction
of the war" the Prime Minister
said, adding that when the Pacific
War Council is established in
Washington there will also be an
accredited representative Of the
commonwealth government there"
Mr.. Curtin declared Australians
appeal to the United States last
December 26 was made not because
of any reluctance on Britain's part
to do her share in the Pacific strug-
gle but because of the realization
that Britain already had heavy OBJ
legations in other theaters of war
and because of the geographical po-
sition Of the United States.
Tartly Replies to Tojo.
The weight of Australia's voice in
United Nations councils, he as
serted, will bear direct relation to
the resolution we bring our own de-
fense and to the exertion we apply
In the common cause. -.
IF we had to stand alone. Aus
tralians would fight in the only way
consonant with the traditions of the
British race and our own spirit.
That, in passing, can serve as our
answer to Gen. Tojo's suggestion to
Australia to consider a separate
peace"
Thus Mr.. Curtin tartly disposed Of
japanese Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo's
warming of March IL that Australia
must fall in line with the Axis or be
conquered.
The Prime Minister'S first mention
of Gen. Macarthur was greeted en-
Enthusiastically by the House.
High Obligation on Australians.
He explained that under Gen.
MacArthur's supreme direction, Aus
traian commanders would head the
dominion's army and navy and that
the American lieutenant general,
George H. Brett, would command
the air force.
1.-THE succor that has now reached
us" Mr.. Curtin said, imposes high
obligation on Australians to spare
nothing in their own efforts. 4.
There have been forecasts that Aus
tralia would function as an offensive
base in the ultimate process of driv-
ing Japan from the Southwestern
Pacific.
"This is in fact our goal but let us
not exaggerate the speed with which
we can reach it. We must first in
sure that Australia is held"
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Raft Which Saved Three
To Be Annapolis Exhibit

HONOLULU, March 25 P).-The
rubber life raft. on which three Navy
flyers, forced down at sea. hoated
for "a days before they reached a
tiny South Seas isle will be sent
to Annapolis as permanent his
torical exhibit.
A plaque accompanying the raft
will carry the names Of the men,
Gene Aldrich, "a, Sikeston, Mo-;
Harold Dixon, AZ, La Mesa, Calf,
and Anthony J. Pastula, "a, Youngs-
town, Ohio.
The men, rescued last month. ar
rived here earlier this month. They
were forced down the night Of jan
uary is.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
0.C.D. Chief 'sRight
ToFire Aides Upheld
By Judge Whitaker
Board Reviews Custer
Of Raid Warden Hill
And Mrs. E. W. Howard

Judge Sam E. Whitaker of the
United States Court Of Claims, Judge
advocate general of the District ci-
villain defense organization, has up
held the authority Of o. c. D. serv-
ice cheifs to suspend any subordin-
ate whenever in his or her tudg-
ment suspension is advisable"
Col. Lemuel Bolles, director Of
civilian defense, revealed today that
the decision had been given after
a review of the case of Hallett Hill,
deputy AFRAID warden, by two
members of the Judge Advocate
Generals Advisory Board, Paul E.
Lesh and Frederick r. Gibbs. Mr..
Hill was suspended by Chief Air
Raid Warden Clement Murphy
along with Mrs. Ernest w. Howard,
deputy warden.
The director said the Advisory
Board also had considered the
suspension of Mrs. Howard, on
charges Of Chief Murphy that the
service would be improved by her
removal, but that no action was
taken in her case because a prece-
dent for it was set in the decision
regarding Mr.. Hill.
In a report to Col. Bolles, Judge
Whitaker said the advisory board
was of the opinion the chief afraid
warden should have authority, sub
ject to the approval of the co-ordi-
nator, Commissioner Young. to re-
place wardens when advisable.
Col. Bolles said any friction be-
tween Mrs. Sarah Montgomery,
whose removal from the local civil
liam defense Office was asked in
February, and Mrs. Howard had
nothing to do with the latter's dis
missal.
The case of Mrs. Montgomery, one
of the American Peace Mobilization
pickets of the White House, also is
before Judge Whitaker. She re-
Gently announced she would take q
leave of absence, but has not re-
signed and has not yet left her work
at AFRAID headquarters. civilian
defense officials reported. They said
they found no reason to ask her
resignation from her "no-pay, nom
confidentiar' work.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Burnnu
Continued From First Page)

fighter planes were said to have
made intensive new attacks on r. A.
F. Airdromes.
Both sides. apparently, were wag-
ing an air warfare above the Bur-
mese battlefronts which may have a
heavy influence on the outcome Of
the struggle In interior Burma's
jungles and rice fields.
AS the Japanese struck at British
fields, evidently to remove the air
threat from over their advancing
ground forces, so the United Ma
tions raided Japan's fields to cripple
their challenge for air mastery at its
source.
That was the objective of the sur
prise raid yesterday by the Ameri-
can Volunteer Group-the Flying
Tigers swooped down at dawn
on a japanese airbase at Chiengmai.
Thailand, and destroyed or disabled
40 to so planes.
The Andaman Islands are q chain
north of Sumatra and some $50
miles southwest Of Rangoon. They
lie along the sea routes to CAL
cutta and would be stepping stone
for the japanese in their westward
thrust toward India itself and
toward the vital British naval base
of Trincomalee on the island OF
Ceylon.
The Andamans first came under
air attack February q. CToday Lon
don heard the Rome radio broad
cast Toxic dispatches that the
islands again had been bombed)
Chief target in the first attacks
was the airdrome at Port Blair,
principal town in the island group.
These raiders were presumed to
have come from bases in the enemy
occupied Burma panhandle some
400 miles to the east.
The group consists of 204 Jungle
covered islands which from 1858 to
1921 were used as an Indian con-
vict settlement and where since
1868 the British have operated a
large meteorological station for
shipping.
After 1921 no additional convicts
were brought in and the islands
we're left to develop along free lines.
In 1910 there were 6,069 convicts In
the islands, of whom 1919 were on
parole and supporting themselves.
The total population was 21,028.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Angry Workers Turn
Production Rally
Into bedlam
Leaders Charge Meeting
AT Houston Was Blind
To Attack 40-Hour Law
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, March 2Sy-Angry
laborers interrupted I'VE want
action" rally last night which spon-
sors said was called to unite senti-
ment for a war production speed-up,
but which leaders asserted was a
blind to invoke action to rescind the
40-hour week.
Throughout the 21z hour meeting
the workeres, most of them from
the Houston Shipbuilding Corp.
Yards, shouted against expressions
of the speakers.
The Sam Houston Coliseum was
a bedlam as the roars rolled over the
estimated crowd of 1000 persons.
Workers Demand Hearing.
When John H. Crooker, Houston
attorney, was about halfway through
his speech, the workmen left their
seats in one corner of the audito-
rum and surrounded the platform,
demanding that labor be given a
chance to present its side Of the
case.
Labor leaders went up on the
platform and crowded around the
microphones with the meeting
sponsors.
A radio station cut of its broad
cast of the affair because of the
confusion.
Quiet finally was restored when
RAYMOND Elledge. lawyer, who pre-
sided, promised that labor would be
given its opportunity at the con-
clusion of the regular program.
Sewall Myer, former city attor-
ney, who said for "a years he had
represented American Federation OF
Labor unions, presented labor's side,
declaring the 40-Hour Act had not
impeded war production.
Presidents Support Claimed.
He asserted President Roosevelt,
Donald Nelson and other national
leaders favored retention OF the 40
hour week and urged the audience
to stick by the President.
Just before turning the meeting
over to labor, Chairman Elledge
asked the audience to vote on a
declaration and pledge" printed and
passed around on dodgers before
the meeting started.
It included the clause, that "all
restrictions and restraints whatso-
ever, on hours of labor and on
freedom of individual employment
must be Immediately removed, so
that men and women in whatever
walk of life may give of their patri-
otic utmost for victory"
A chorus of "ayes" went up and
Mr.. Elledge declared the resolution
adopted.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Ha|sey and 3F|yers
Receive Awards
From Nimitz
Vice Admiral Honored
For 'BriIIiont' Attack
On MurshuII and Gilbert

BY the Associated Press.
PEARL HARBOR, March 16 (de-
Iayed) The brilliant and auda-
cious" strategy Of Vice Admiral VIII
liam F. Halsey and the "extraor-
dinary courage" of three Navy flyers
received ofncial recognition at i'm
pressive ceremonies aboard an air.
craft carrier today.
High-ranking officers, hundreds Of
sailors in white uniforms and . con-
tingent OF khaki-clad marines stood
at attention on the flight deck while
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, COM
mander in chief Of the Pacific Fleet,
presented awards previously an
nounced in Washington.
Admiral Halsey received the Dis
tinguished Service Medal for great
skill and determination" as COM
mander Of the naval task force
which inflicted heavy damage to
enemy ships and planes" in the
smashing blow against the Japanese
held Marshall and Gilbert Islands
six weeks ago.
Harold F. Dixon, AZ. of La Mesa.
Calf, aviation machinistS mate and
pilot, received the Navy Cross, and
Anthony j. Pastula, "a, of Youngs-
town, Ohio, Navy ordnance, and
Gene D. Aldrich, "a, of Sikeston,
Mo, received citations. The three,
after being forced down at sea
January l6, floated for "a days on a
rubber liferaft before they reached
safety on a tiny South Seas isle.
Dixon received the Navy Cross
for extraordinary heroism, excep-
tional determination, resourcefulness,
skilled seamanship, excellent judge
ment and highest quality Of leader
ship"
Pastula and Aldrich were cited for
extraordinary courage, fortitude,
strength of character and excep-
tional endurance"
The assault on the Marshall and
Gilbert Islands constituted the
Navy's first major offensive action
in the war.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Struck Paper Misses Issue
First Time in Is Years

By the Associated Press.
BOISE, Idaho, March 25-The
Idaho Statesman missed an issue to-
day, the first time in 78 years, be-
cause of a pressmen's strike
The Boise Capital News was
closed down because Of union ac-
ton yesterday
Taylor G. Robertson, publisher
of the papers, said he was "un-
willing to meet demands of press
men, who sought wages in excess of
any paid in the allied printing
trades"
The union representative, K. F
Stevens of Seattle, expressed hope
that an understanding could be
quickly reached.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Adult Nutrition Class
To Sturt in Rockville

An adult class in nutrition will be
started tomorrow afternoon in Rich
ard Montgomery High School, Rock
vile. The class will meet from $3.50
to $50 pm. each Thursday for IL
weeks.
A night class at the same school
will be started tomorrow, instruc-
ton beginning at 7:30 pm. Mrs.
Mary Holme Biting will teach both
day and night classes. The Red
Gross nutrition certificate will be
awarded those who complete the
course, according to Mrs. Gertrude
Bowie.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Australia
Continued From First Page.

strengthening Allied defenses would
not only hold the port but from it
would hit back hard at the whole
far-stretched Japanese assault front
in the New Guinea area.
Commenting that the Japanese
radio had announced capture of Port
Moresby, the Prime Minister said
indications recently given by the
Allied forces Of their ability to hit
back - suggest that it is not
going to fall into Japanese hands
merely by radio proclamation"
Mr.. Curtin said that so far Port
Moresby "has given the Japanese
more than it has receive6-as the
enemy bombers shot down in the
area in the past few days can
testify"
Darwin Free Of Raids.
Darwin, naval base and flrst-line
bastion against Japanese attack
from Timor or the captured islands
northwest of Australia, had a raid
free day enlivened by a land and
naval hunt for Japanese pilot re-
ported to have parachuted from q
plane shot down here Sunday.
Ships searched offshore and the
military command sent hunting par
ties into an area 20 miles wide along
the coast.
Planes were reported heard last
night over Katherine. on the defense
highway ITS miles south of Darwin,
but no bombs were dropped. The
town had its first raid of the war
Sunday.
The Japanese apparently have
concentrated on an attempt to knock
out Port Moresby in an effort to
counter the intensive Allied air blows
against the principal Japanese bases
at Lac and Salamaua, Northeast
New Guinea and Rabaul, New Brit
ain.
Port Moresby Is Key.
This effort seemingly has super
seded the earlier Japanese move
ment to fan out through the Solo
mon Island chain farther south
east.
Port Moresby's location, within
short air striking ditance of the
japanese concentrations and also
within hitting distance of North
east Australia across Torres Strait,
makes it key to the situation.
Observers here said that if the
Japanese are unable to seize the
port their sacrifices of men, ships
and planes in occupying Northeast
New Guinea and New Britain will
have been largely in vain.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Nazis Claim DAMAGE
By Raiders 10 Soviet
Port Of Murmansk
Planes Said to Have Felled
Eight Fighters; Main
Front on Defensive

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN (From German Broad
casts, March Sin a fresh
outburst of activity in the Far
North, the German high COM
mand asserted today that its air
raiders had damaged a merchant
ship and harbor installations at
the Soviet Arctic supply port of
Murmansk and had shot down
eight fighter planes, seven of
them British-made Hurricanes.
The daily war report on operations
on the main Russian front, however,
stressed defensive actions.
] In a northern presumably Len
hgrad or Kalinin) sector Elite Guard
formations were credited with help
ing to drive back Soviet forces which
had penetrated their lines. The Goth
Tank Division was said to have beat
en- of 40 attacks by numerically
superior Russian units and to have
destroyed IS tanks in defensive bat
ties" which lasted several weeks.
The Nazi high command paid trib-
ute to an Italian fighter plane for
nation for its effective work in
escorting German bomber squadrons.
Kerch Attack Repelled.
Fresh and strong Russian attacks
on German positions in the Kerch
peninsula of the Crimea have been
renelled. the German high command
said.
In the Donets area, where heavy
fighting has been in progress, the
high command said constant Rus
sian attacks In force had been fruS-
trated by German and Rumanian
troops.
East Of Kharkov, chief Nazi posi-
ton in the Northern Ukraine, Nazi
troops were credited with inflicting
heavy losses in men and materials in
what were described as successful
local attacks"
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Unlimited AustroIion
Cooperation PIedqed

CANBERRA, Australia, March
Is (P.-Prime Minister John Curtin
told the House of Representatives
today that recognition of the high
Importance of Australia in Allied
strategy may be the turning point
in the war and declared Gen. Doug
las Macarthur would have the un-
limited cooperation of the AUS
tralian government and people.
The Australian view of the i'm
portance of the Southwestern Pa
cific area had been reinforced by
Evening star., 1942-03-25
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Evening star., 1942-03-25
Greek Organizations
Mark independence Doy

Marking the 121st anniversary Of
separation from the Ottoman EN-
pire, Greek Independence Day was
observed here today by Greek or
ganiZationS.
During q rally in the Roosevelt
High School resolutions were to be
adopted urging American aid for
Greece through shipments Of food.