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Evening star., 1942-03-15
Allies Turning to Roosevelt
For Supreme War Leadership
President Is Called Only Man Able to Unity
Axis Enemies Sufficiently for Victory

war with the means Immediately at
its disposal, and efficiently organized
under its control, the United Nations
are compelled to devise means OF
co-ordinating their efforts and pool
ing their resources. They must set
up agencies of joint command. or
at any rate Of joint supply, wherever
they have to fight.
This means, to begin with, that
they must find means of co-ordinat-
ing policy. The policy of each nation
flows from its own national charac-
ter and necessities. 1t is not easy
to unite these varying policies into
a single channel from which a single
strategy may be developed and yet
some means OF accomplishing this
must be devised if the strategy is
10 be effective and If the still limited
fighting power at our disposal is
to be effectively employed against
the Axis.
All OF our action must be joint
action. To be effective. Joint action
requires joint thinking and joint
planning. Two or more persons or
two or more nations can work to-
gether only when they have pre-
viously agreed not only on what is
to be done but also as to how it is
to be accomplished and Just what
share Of the Joint effort each of
them IS TO provide.
Obviously. this is a situation which
calls for the highest type OF leader
ship. That leadership must be not
only wise ana far-sigh:ed. it must
also be inspiring and convincing. II
must not only do the job but it must
er4gerder in the hearts ana minds
OF Americans Brltons. Russians and
Chinese. full confidence in It's
ablllty 20 do the lob.
II must do even more than that.
It must be able 70 sound forth A
trumpet which all those throughout
tie world VINO believe in freedom
and struggle ageinst tyranny shall
hear and arise 10 follow. a trumpet
which all Of them know will never
cal! retrt&t.
Becomes More Than Arsenal.
america has already become the
srcar arsenal of democracy. II is
now becoming far more than that.
Bv geographical position no less than
oy its vast resources in man power
and industrial strength, this re-
public is stepping into place OF
world leadership in the struggle for
freedom.
1t is the heaviest responsibility
which this people, or any people,
has ever had to bear since the dawn
of history. We are fortunate, and
with al due humility We may say
that the world is fortunate. that in
this dark hour We have a leader
whose words, whose deeds, and
whose personal qualities have earned
the confidence Of all those who fight
in the good cause everywhere
throughout the world.
That Mr.. Roosevelt will rise to
these new and tremendous demands
upon him, no one who reflects on
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Farragut Square Trees
Charted by Parks Office

A chart identifying and locating
$40 trees and shrubs in Farragut
square has been prepared by DON
aid Edward McHenry, naturalist of
the National Capital Parks.
Twelve Of the 81 varieties are Of
foreign origin. From England came
the horse chestnut, hedge maple.
lockwood and yew trees; China fur
nished the gingko. juniper and schol-
ar trees and cotoneaster plants:
Japan the Towering crabapple trees
and dwarf yew plants; Norway a
maple, and Austria a pine tree.
Copies Of the chart, with a de-
scription of the varieties and other
information relating to the park
may be obtained by addressing the
superintendent, National Capital
Parks, Interior Building.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
Army Recalls Gen. Fechet,
Retired Air Corps Head

The Army has recalled to active
duty one of its pioneer aviators,
Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet of La
guna Beach, Calf, who was the Sec
ond officer to become chief of the
Army Air Corps, the War Depart
ment announced yesterday.
Gen. Fechet has been assigned to
duty at headquarters of the Army
Air Forces in Washington and re-
turns to active duty in the grade
of colonel. the permanent rank he
held at his retirement in 1881.
AS a 40-year-old cavalry captain
he completed his flight training in
1917 and served during the remainder
OF the World War as an air officer.
He is also veteran of the Spanish
American War, having been wound
ed in the battle of Santiago.
1t was in 1927 that he became
head of the Air Corps, succeeding
the late Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick
who served as chairman of the Dis
trict's Public Utilities Commission
after he retired from the Army.
Evening star., 1942-03-15
BY MAI. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

The ineXorable logic Of events
no less than the teachings of eX-
perience, is demanding that Presi-
dent Roosevelt shall assume an ever
! increasing measure of responsibility
for the supreme command Of the
| war effort of the United Nations.
More and more, the free peoples
of the world are looking to Mr..
Roosevelt for leadership, for de-
| cisions, for the development of a
strategy of battle which will bring
them victory and strategy OF pro-
| duction and transportation which
will enable battles to be successfully
. fought.
To point out that this must nee
eSsarlly be so is no diSparagement
of the war leadership of Winston
Churchill. Joseph Stain or Gen.
Chang Kai-shek. II is rather TO
accept Tie inevitable and to seek
BY frank discussion to find some
means o. bringing the Joint efforts
Of the United Nations under more
effective ard efficient control.
1t is commonplace to observe
that while our difficulties are great,
and the consciousness OF them is
always with us, we ought to re-
member that the enemy has his
troubles as we'll and that these may
be even greater than our own. But
in the matter Of a supreme COM
mand. the enemy's difficulties are
obviously much less acute than ours.
Each Has Own Theater.
From the military point of view.
the Axis consists of only two powers
Germany and Japan. Each OF
them is fighting in a separate and
! distinct theater of war Each ot
them exercises within that theater
full control over all its fighting
| forces. including the fighting forces
of such lesser allies as it may pos
sess. There Is 20 difficulty in CO.
ordinating policy with strategy. be-
cause there is but a single policy
under a single direction, from which
strategy naturally aows,
Coordination between Germany
and Japan involves suCn separation
in time and distance as tc He opera
tive only along the broaGest and
most general lines without requiring
anything like a Joint command or
calling for the conduct of joint
operations. AS long as there Is
agreement on the general objectives
to be sought. no difficulty in this
sphere seems at present likely to
arise.
The case of the United Nations Is
different one. No single one Of the
United Nations disposes of sufficient
in any of the several widely
scattered theaters Of operation with
which we have to deal The Rus
slams perhaps come closest to having
this advantage but even the Rus
slams are in part dependent on sup
| plies from outside, the safe delivery
of which must be entrusted to
! others.
In case of a powerful German
offensive in South Russia this
! spring, active military aid from
1 other nations may be needed by
the Russians In fact all of the
major activities of the United
Nations are in greater or less degree,
| and seem likely to- continue to be,
joint operations.
Must Coordinate Efforts.
! Whereas the German high COM
mand in Europe and Africa and the
japanese high command in East
Asia and the Pacific can each 20
right ahead with the conduct of the
Evening star., 1942-03-15
New Heir for Kents
Indicated in London

By the Associated Press
LONDON, March l4-The Duchess
of Kent is mot undertaking any
further engagements for the next
few months an official announce
ment said today.
Such announcements usually in
dicate new heir is expected in the
royal family.
TIE Duke and Duchess of Kent
are the parents of two children,
Prince Edward, 6, and Princess
Alexandra, s. The Duchess was the
Princess Marina of Greece before
she was married to the Duke.
youngest brother Of King George
VI. in 1884.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
Wi|Ikie Says Machines
Won for IsoIationists
Py the Associated Press.

= Py the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-Declaring
that in the primary victories Of
"isolationist" House members, "the
personal machines of the candidates
have spoken" Wendell L. Willkie
asserted yesterday that "the people
will speak In the fall"
"I do hope that by fall the almost
shocking apathy of the voters will
be dissipated," Mr.. Willkie said.
I'VE are fighting for democracy and
we must give a better demonstra-
ton of its functions than is shown
In the primary results, or we may
turn out in the end to have been
fighting in vain"
Mr.. Willkie expressed the view
that 'the major issue is to win the
war and combined with that, and
inseparable, is an appreciation that
America is part of the world"
IF we elect men who, by their
record prior to Pearl Harbor,
thought otherwise, and who since
have shown their minds are still
unchanged, then we may find there
will be a repetition of what took
place in 1919 and 1920"
He added that he would intensity
his efforts against "isolationist
leaders" stating that this is the
time to fight"
Evening star., 1942-08-14
Mo|zahn Says u. 5.
Attorney Called Him
Head Of Gestapo'
Testifies Thot He Loves
Germany, But Is
'Poined by Its Vices
By the Associated Press.


HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. IA
The Rev Kurt E. B. Molzahn,
charged with conspiracy to furnish
military secrets to the Axis, re-
suned the witness stand in his own
behalf today as a Government at
torney, who the Philadelphia Luth-
eran pastor said accused him of
being head of the Gestapo," piled
him with questions under cross
examination.
Mr.. Molzahn said yesterday that
Assistant Prosecutor Joseph P.
Cooney pointed a finger at him
in an office in the courthouse before
he had been indicted and shouted
You are the head of the Gestapo." !"
Il do forgive you, but I cannot
forget it," was the way the witness
summed up the situation.
Panied by Its Vices
Mr.. Molzahn said that while he
loved Germany, his native land, he
was "pained by its vices"
You want us to understand that
you despise the Nazis?" Mr.. Cooney
asked.
Absolutely" was the reply.
The witness was not permitted to
answer question by Mr.. Cooney as
to whether he remembered being
asked by the grand jury if he was
member Of the German American
Bund, because OF a defense objec-
tion.
Judge j. Joseph Smith ruled that
If the Government referred to the
grand jury in cross-examination, it
must make transcript of what Mr..
MolZahn said at the secret session
available for the defense.
Rarely Raises Voice.
Mr.. Molzahn has held steadily to
his story that he never was a bunds-
man, that he never attended a bund
meeting and that he even refused
lone or two" invitations to speak at
such sessions.
Throughout his day-long ques-
tioning yesterday, the 47-year-old
pastor rarely raised his voice and
remained outwardly calm.
Indicted with him were Anastase
Evening star., 1942-08-14
Jersey Machinist Held
On Sabotage Charge
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j. Aug. l4.-Albert
Bright, So, of Jersey City, a natur-
allied Englishman who, Federal
Bureau Of Investigation agents
said. told his employer the war was
"a wonderful thing" and he didn't
want it to end too soon because he
was making good money, was ar
rested yesterday on charge OF
sabotage
He was locked up at Newark po-
lice headquarters pending arraign-
ment today.
E. E. Conroy, assistant FBI di-
rector in charge of the Newark ofice,
charged Bright with interfering
with and delaying war production
at the Teller 4; Cooper Co. plant,
Jersey City, where he was employed
as a machine setup man.
Mr.. Conroy said Bright ordered
machinery in the plant shut down
several times because "the noise
bothered him" and on other occa-
sions ordered employees to throw
stones into the machinery and dull
tools so the plant would have to
shut down and he could leave for a
while.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
Siohhess N. P. Offers
Aid 10 Blinded Soldiers
B. ths Associated Press.

Bs fbt ABSoclhteD FGeSe.
NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-Lt. Col.
Sir Ian Fraser, member Of the Brit
ish Parliament, arrived yesterday to
make a formal offer to the Ameri-
can and Canadian governments re-
garding the care Of blinded soldiers
from the two countries.
Sir Ian, himself blinded in the
World War, said he had come on
behalf of the British government to
help In the formation of an aid pro-
gram for blinded servicemen.
1--WE acknowledge with grateful
thanks the generous help the Ameri-
can people have already given to the
British War Relief and other socie-
ties" he declared. Now it Is our
turn. We will give all possible help
to American and Canadian soldiers
and airmen whose eyesight may be
damaged by warfare during the time
prior to their transportation home. "
He said organizations for such aid
already have been established in
Cairo, Egypt, and in India and South
Africa, and that a hospital and
training center has been established
In England to rehabilitate men
whose sight has been impaired or
destroyed.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
Woman Hit by Bus;
Five Others Hunt
In D. T.. Traffic
Driver Faces Charge
After Auto ColIides
With Street Car

Six persons were injured last
night in traffic accidents involving
streetcars and buses.
Mrs. Florence Syphax, 48, Of 159
Randolph place NV. received a
possible fracture of the left leg
when struck by bus at Third street
and Florida avenue NV. last night.
She was taken to Freedmen's Hos
pital.
Mary E. Jones, SO, of 1888 @ street
NV. was struck by a streetcar at
Fifteenth and r streets NV. She
was treated at Emergency Hospital
and discharged.
Levonia Porter, IA, of 2 Patterson
street NE. suffered cuts to her left
eye when the streetcar in which
she was riding and an automobile
collided at the underpass at Min
nesota and Kenilworth avenues
NE. Wylie Holmes, IS, Of 217 F
street NV, passenger in the au-
tomobile, was treated at Casualty
Hospital for possible broken Jaw.
Police charged Edward Webster, n,
of 760 Girard street NV, driver of
the automobile, with failing to give
full attention and time to opera
ton Of the machine
Elmer Ruble, 3, Of 1923 Wisconsin
avenue was struck by streetcar at
Wisconsin avenue and o street and
taken to Georgetown Hospital.
Physicians reported they found no
injuries.
August F. Peterson, 66, of Ben
ming, D. c.. told police his automo-
bile was struck at Nineteenth street
and Benning road NE. by street
car as he was making left turn
He was not injured.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
Week End Events Listed
For Hiking Enthusiasts

The week end parks program for
nature lovers includes 4-mile hike
through Rock Greek Valley, starting
at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from
Sixteenth street and Alaska avenue
NV.
Sunday morning park naturalist
will conduct a bird walk through the
National Geological Park. The
mixers will assemble at 7::30 am. at
Adams Mill road and Kenyon street.
The former Letter estate on the
Potomac above Chain Bridge will be
toured on Sunday afternoon, the
party leaving the Virginia end of
Chain Bridge at O'Clock. Trans
portation will be arranged on q
share your car" basis. For trans
portation information, telephone
Republic 1920, extension 2557.
The mule drawn barge will make
It's trip on the Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal as usual tomorrow and Sun
day. There will be two trips each
day. The morning barge leaves
from Thirty-sixth and M streets al
ii o'clock, the afternoon barge re-
turns from near car stop 80 on the
Cabin John car line at 3 o'clock.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
Two Cuban Vessels
Sunk; Hunt Pressed
ssgss
For Axis Raider
Small Merchantmen
Are Torpedoed in Gulf;;
BroziIion Tunker Lost
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Cruisers and warplanes today
pressed their hunt for an Axis sur
face raider preying on Allied ship
ping in the South Atlantic. Other
developments in the battle of the
Atlantic included the sinking by
enemy submarines of two small Gu
ban merchantmen In the Cult of
Mexico
Brazilian sources in Rio de Ja-
metro indicated heavy warships and
planes had joined in a search since
radioed reports last Monday that at
least two United Nations vessels had
been attacked by q surface ma
rauder 1000 miles east Of Rio.
Count Increased to AZ.
Pending further information, the
reported South Atlantic victims
were not included in the Associated
Press tabulation of announced
Allied or neutral ship losses which.
counting the two Cuban craft. put
at 422 the number of such Western
Atlantic merchant sinkings since
Pearl Harbor
Likewise withheld from tabulation
pending further details was the
sinking of Brazilian tanker by
German submarine in the Carib
bean 450 miles from the nearest
land. This attack was disclosed
yesterday with the arrival Of 18
survivors at Caribbean port.
Destruction of the Cuban vessels
was announced yesterday by the
Cuban Navy general staff, which
said five crewmen were dead and
26 others missing after attacks on
the 1,685-ton Santiago de Cuba and
the 1,025-ton Manzanillo. All but
3 OF 27 seamen who were rescued
were landed safely at a Gulf port,
the announcement said.
July Cut in Losses Reported.
Although British Minister OF Pro-
duction Oliver Lyttelton declared
yesterday in London that Allied
shipping losses decreased in July"
and that the sinking of U-boats
during the past three weeks was
well above the average" informed
British naval sources predicted Ger
man surface and undersea raiders
soon would launch large-scale Of
fensive against heavy shipping in
the important South Atlantic lanes.
The British naval sources pointed
to the German high commands re-
cent claim that its U-boats had
sunk more than As 900 tons of ship
ping bound for Egypt off the Amer
ican and West African coasts as an
indication of forthcoming intensi-
| fed sea campaign.
Because such a campaign would
greatly imperil not only the supply
route to India and Egypt, but also
to Russia via Persia, the same
sources said the waters between the
Brazilian bump" and West Africa
were potentially the most dangerous
to the United Nations war effort.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
Death Deprives
Flyer of Post
IUnder u. S. FIoq
By the Associated Press.


LONDON. Aug. 14-Alex (Scotty)
Cooke. 80, of Hollywood. Calf, the
last of a gallant band of 10 Ameri-
cans who paid their way to Eng
land early in the war to fight with
the Raj, died yesterday in Cam
bridge hospital after II agonizing
months.
His back was broken in three
places when his bomber was badly
damaged after raid on Frankfurt.
Germany, last fall. Scotty, who
had held the most dangerous job In
bomber-that of rear gunner-had
clung to the hope that he would re-
cover to fight under his native
colors.
Brig. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
had written him offering him a
place in the American Army, a note
that sustained him for some time
longer.
You bet I'm going to join-some-
how" he had said after getting the
generals letter.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
U. 5. Stops Regulating
Price Of Is Services,
Including Shoe Shines
OPA Also OverhouIs
Ceilings on 81 More
important Groups
~ III. Associated Press.

~ III. Associated Press,
Prices on 25 services ranging from
shoe shining to termite eradication
were free of Government regulation
today.
The services which included watch
repairing, boarding dogs and horse
shoeing were exempted from price
ceilings. the Offlce of Price Admin
tstration explained, because they
had little relation to the cost of
living"
simultaneously, price regulations
on 81 more important groups of
services which cost the Nation about
IS, 600 900 goo annually, underwent
an OPA overhauling.
Formerly controlled by specific
service price ceilings or by the gen.
eral maximum price regulation pre-
scribing use of the highest prices
charged in March, rates on the 81
services now will be fixed by use of
the same pricing methods employed
In March.
Price Determination.
II no pricing method used in
that month can be applied, the SELL
ers must determine maximum
price by using the highest price
charged for the same service in
March, the highest March offering
price, the highest March price for a
similar service, or the highest March
offering price for a similar price.
If none of these applies, the seller
may set maximum price meeting
rates charged by competitors or fol-
low the same pricing method used
in supplying any other service last
March.
The new regulations apply to
rental and repair of automobiles,
bicycles, business machinery. store
and kitchen equipment; develop
ment and printing of photographs,
shoe repairing, dry cleaning, picture
framing, radio repairs, knife sharp
ening, repair of farm machinery,
commission selling, car loading,
rental of transportation equipment,
Sand-blasting services Of custom
brokers, and other related classifica-
tions.
Livestock Ceilings Studied.
Meantime, Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wickard considered an OPA
inquiry about advisability of ceilings
on live cattle, hogs and lambs.
Mr.. Wickard observed at a press
conference yesterday that he could
not see how price ceilings on live
stock would increase meat supplies.
Present shortage of meat, he added,
reflect a problem of distribution of
available surpluses and the prob
lem might be solved by consumer
rationing.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
Foes of Collaboration
Are Doomed in France
HI the Associated Press,

By the Associated FresS
VICHY, Unoccupied France. Aug.
14-Three dissidents to Frances
policy of collaboration have been
condemned to death at Clermont
Ferrand and So Communists ar
rested at Montpelier and Roussil-
lion.
The Clermont Ferrand trial was
one of the first cases in which cap
ital punishment has been pro-
nounced on political prisoners in
Unoccupied France. Seventeen men
and one woman were charged with
activities of q Communist nature. F"
Besides the death sentences, IA
sentences to five years Of imprison-
ment and 20 years hard labor and
one sentence of 10 years to hard
labor were meted out in absentia.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
SoiIor's Body Found
In Anucostiu River

The body Of Edward Drummar.
e3-year-old sailor attached to a ship
docked at the Washington Navy
Yard, who was drowned early yes
terday while swimming with a
woman companion in the Anacostia
River, was recovered by harbor po-
lice late yesterday.
DR.. J. Christopher Murphy, dep
uty coroner, was still investigating
the case today. Mr. Drummar's S
home was in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
10000 Overseas Army Kits
SOUGHT by Red Cross

Ten thousand overseas soldiers
comfort kits must be donated to the
District Chapter of the Red Cross
II Washington Is to meet it's quotas.
The kits are given free to all SOL
diers leaving for service abroad, and
are distributed by the Red Cross at
points Of embarkation. The Ameri-
can Red Cross nationally has prom
ised the War Department that every
Evening star., 1942-08-14
DFC Given American
Flying With RAF
Bytft Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. 14.-The Distin-
guished Flying Cross has been
awarded to Donald James Mathew
Blakeslee, 25, an acting flight lieu
tenant in the RATS Eagle Squad
ron, from Fairport Harbor, Ohio, 1t
was announced today.
A native Ohioan, Blakeslee was
a second lieutenant in the United
States Infantry Reserve who en-
listed in the Royal Canadian Air
Force In 1910.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
Jewish Center Comp
Ends Six-Week Season

Camp JCC, the recreational arts
camp of the Jewish Conn.4~---..
Center, entertained night Govern
ment workers today, bringing its
week session to close.
Mrs. Flora B. Atkin, organizer
and director of the camp, staged the
program for the benefit of the
Early Birds Club, headed by Hill
lard Edell, comprising night Gov
ernment workers.
Three plays under the direction
of Miss Nathalie Sherman, were
presented by camp workers, inter-
mediates and seniors The camp is
an experimental project to furnish
boys and girls healthful recrea-
ton during the summer.
Evening star., 1942-08-14
Miss Mary E. Bolond
Funeral Rites Held

Funeral services were held this
morning in Central Presbyterian
Church for Miss Mary Elizabeth
Boland, 73, who was fatally injured
by a streetcar at Fourteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Tuesday. She was to be buried
this afternoon in her native city
of Lynchburg, Va.
A public stenographer here for
IS years and active in the Sunday
school and other organizations of
the Central church, Miss Boland is
survived by two sisters, Miss Susie
Boland and Mrs. Sally Emerson,
and a brother, Comdr. Micajah Bo-
land, u. S. N, stationed at Norfolk,