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Evening star., 1942-03-13
Henderson Goes on Vocation,
Keeping Destination Secret

The o. P. A. has lost Its chief and
can't tell where to find him.
Which Is by way Of saying that
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son, who probably has earned it, is
taking a vacation, and even his
closest associates say they don't
know where he Is. At least they
aren't telling.
Among those who profess to be in
the dark concerning his whereabouts
is Mr.. Henderson's secretary, Miss
Lou Landreth.
"Au I know" Miss Landreth said,
'.is that he headed out of here Tues
Evening star., 1942-03-13

day afternoon and said he would Be
gone for q week or 10 days"
One o. P. A. official said Mr.. Hen
derson probably was somewhere In
the South"
In his absence, John e. Hamm.
who has been a deputy price admin
istrator since the President issued
the executive order setting up the
old Offlce Of Price Administration
and Civilian Supply. is serving as
acting price administrator. Mr..
Hamm was connected with the Rus
sell Sage Foundation before coming
into the Government.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Snow Collection
Hobby of Texun

LUBBOCK. Tex. R.-Collecting
snow is the hobby Of Dr.. Julian Paul
Blitz, head Of the music department
at Texas Tech. He has 900 bottles
Of snow collected in Siberia, New
foundland, Little America and other
far-flung places. They are sealed,
labeled and buried deep in the
ground.
Evening star., 1942-03-13

allow the Once Of Government Re.
ports for the year beginning July
l, wherever It is located. Senator
Mcclellan said this question would
be determined, probably next week.
when the Senate Appropriations
Committee acts on the independent
ofiices supply bill.
Evening star., 1942-03-13

crat, OF Tennessee, who took an
active part IN hearings on the
question before the Joint Congress
sional Economy Committee yester-
day. .....,
At the same time, however, there
remained unsettled the question Of
how much money Congress will
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Three Planes Shot Down
Over KieI, Germans Say

BERLIN From German Broad
casts, March 13 (P.-British bomb
ers attacked Kiel. site Of a big
German naval base, during the
night, causing some casualties. the
Nazi high command declared today.
Three of the planes were reported
shot down.
The announcement said residential
quarters were damaged slightly.
The German radio also reported
the r. A. r. was over a city in
Northwest France during the night,
carrying out raid IN which 1t was
stated there were some civilian cas-
ualties and small damage.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
British Planes Bomb
Battleship Gneisenau
AT kie| Navy Base
installations Set Afire
In Continuation Of Air
Offensive, London Soys
By The Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 13.-The R. A.
r. bombed the 26,000-ton German
battleship Gneisenau and set
naval installations on fire at the
Kiel base in continuation last
night Of the great spring air
offensive" begun last week end.
The Air Ministry said today that
improved flying conditions. after bad
weather Wednesday. enabled me-
dium force of four and two engined
bombers to strike at Northwestern
Germany and mine German waters.
The loss of eight R. A. F. planes
during the latest raid on Kiel was
attributed by Air Ministry sources
to strong German anti-aircraft de-
fenses ringing the Kiel base.
German night fighter planes also
engaged British planes during the
attack.
The raiders left many fires burn
ing in the Kiel shipyards after a
big attack on the German naval1
base during the night. the Air Min
istry announced.
The raid on Kiel was the 65th and
the fourth since the Gneisenau was
berthed at the naval base for repairs
after running Dover Straits.
The R. A. F., using improved. faster
bombers, already has begun full-scale
raids on Germany and will continue
them into the spring and summer
despite the shorter nights, an official
source declared yesterday.
He said the recent attacks on Essen,
site of the Krupp munitions works
in the industrial Ruhr Valley, were
comparable in weight to the Ger
man raids on Coventry, II not
heavier"
The total tonnage Of bombs
dropped on Germany" he added. "is
approaching the tonnage the Naz1s
dropped on the United Kingdom.
Within two months the r. A. F. may
exceed the Luftwafie, ton for ton"
Evening star., 1942-11-08
Decisive Battles

The President twice has taken a
Star headline as the text for a little
sermon at his press conferences on
appraising the war news. The head
line in question used the adjective
decisive" in connection with that
phase of the battle for possession OF
Guadalcanal which then was in the
news. While the headline as whole
was accurate, in the Presidents estl-
nation, he questioned the use OF the
adjective. a...
The headline writer was justified,
in a manner of speaking, for the bat
tie under way at that time would and
did decide a number of things, the
retirement, for instance, of the Japa-
nese fleet covering the landings and
the subsequent landing OF more
American supplies and reinforce
ments and the repulse OF repeated
japanese assaults on the airfield. But
the President was entirely correct IN
questioning a word which is apt to De
misleading if read in relation to the
outcome Of the war as whole, or
major battle as whole. For one
thing, it is hard to know when the
decisive" blow is struck. The Battle
of Gettysburg might now be called
decisive, but not many people con-
sidered it so at the time. AS the
President says, Guadalcanal Is merely
a part of a continuous operation that
is, unfortunately, most indecisive az
the moment. Decisive undoubtedly
is best used in retrospect, BY the
historians who have plenty OF time to
weigh the various factors. the mead
Evening star., 1942-11-08
B. and O. Wreck Report

3II0 ~ w
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion report on the Baltimore and
Ohio wreck near Dickerson MARY
land), September "a, bears out earlier
indications that failure of an engine
man to observe a warning block
signal was primarily responsible for
the triple collision costing more than
a dozen lives. An important con-
tributing cause cited was inadequate
flag protection given to the Cleveland
Night Express from which crowded
Pullman was hurled against passing
freight train when the express was
struck from the rear by another
passenger train.
The human factor usually weighs
heavily in accidents, and the fact
that the engineer of the Detroit
train missed a signal denoting the
presence of the train ahead, while
the fagman of the Cleveland Express
who was killed in the crash-did
not take what the ICC thought were
sufficient precautions to guard
against possible danger to his train,
may be looked upon, consequently, as
one of those tragic combinations of
circumstances which so often bring
disaster.
There are certain phases developed
by the report, however, that call for
studied consideration by railroad
officials. The commission said that
eight accidents in the past twenty
one months resulted from the failure
to observe operating rules. This fall
ure, according to the commission, was
in evidence in the Dickerson collision,
indicating that no corrective steps
had been taken. Widespread speed
violations also were alleged. Further
questioning of trainmen and officials,
it was said, disclosed differences of
opinion as to what constitutes ade-
quate flag protection, and the COM
mission said in conclusion that "this
accident undoubtedly would have
been prevented" had the automatic
train stop system been in operation
on the line.
The lax practices described here
are far out of line with the principles
on which the Baltimore and Ohio
and, as a matter of fact, American
railroads as a whole, have built a
reputation for safety, and the COM
mission order to the Baltimore and
Ohio to take remedial measures un-
doubtedly will bring prompt
response.
Evening star., 1942-11-08
and both are available now, but
y,eithcr ie entirely corcoria1

and both are available now, but
neither is entirely congenial.
A similar remark applies to the
famous Brenner Pass, where II Duce
and Der Fuehrer repeatedly have
met for conferences from which no
good to the world at large resulted.
Traversed by a railroad, it is the
lowest OF all the Alpine crossings
only 4,490 feet in elevation. But the
line threads no less than % tunnels
and moves over so bridges, any or all
of which might be demolished in the
face of advancing troops. Possibly
the Julier Pass between Thusis and
the Engadine would be the safer and
the more convenient, providing the
Swiss were friendly to its employ
ment.
Curiously, yet logically enough, all
of the principal passes mentioned by
Mr.. Platt lead to Augsburg in Bavaria.
Were that city attained, Munich,
Ratisbon, Nuremberg, Bamberg,
Worms and Frankfort-on- the Main
would be convenient of access. Be-
fore they were reached, Hitler almost
surely would have surrendered-or
been "uquidated."
None of the avenues to Berlin Is
short or easy to negotiate. It is well
to remember, however, that the Axis
has no monopoly on efficiency. The
Russians at Stalingrad, the. British
in Egypt and the Americans in the
Southwest Pacific are demonstrating
their powers of achievement with
increasing zeal and profit.
Evening star., 1942-11-08
Passes Of the Alps

Current events on the north coast
of Africa have turned the thoughts
of not few Americans to what has
been called "the soft side of Europe"
Italy, of course, is referred to in that
phrase. It is notorious that MusSolini
is the weakest and least effective Of
the Axis partners, and there is reason
to believe that Italians might offer
little resistance if they strongly were
attacked by English-speaking forces.
Supposing then that the whole
Apennine Peninsula were in the
hands of the Allies: How would they
get into Germany? The answer in
wolves careful study of the passes
of the Alps, and the present perhaps
is not too early time for such con-
sideration of them. J. I. Platt of the
University College of Wales, an
acknowledged authority on the sub
ject, fatty declares: "The Alps have
never formed an impassable bar
rier." He continues: "The native in
habitants were naturally the
first to use the Alpine passes, but to
the outer world these passes :
became known when the Romans
traversed them in order to conquer
the world beyond"
Mr.. Platt hastens to concede that
passes with which the Latins were
familiar were comparatively few"
In the Central Alps, he observes, only
two were certainly known" to the
Roman legions of antiquity. These
were the Splugen and the Septimer.
Lying between Grisons and Lom-
hardy, the former is $500 feet above
the sea and runs through three
covered galleries which are described
as very long," The alternative route
is $500 feet high. Both were used
by early barbarian invaders Of italy
Evening star., 1942-11-08

can weapons can MAKE their weight felt
In actual combat.
Yet, it appears that the men who make
such decisions are convinced that 1t IS
to the interest Of this country to build
its own strength rather than to empha-
size the strengthening Of other nations.
If the war should last three more years,
or even two more, years, the power Of
this country almost certainly will be ir-
resistible. In that time, Germany's Eu-
rope would be pretty well pulverized.
Japan would be hammered numerically
from Chinese bases. Russia would be
seriously hurt England is likely to be
pretty we'll battered by air attack as
Germany seeks to protect herself.
Only the United States would remain
relatively unscathed. with war industry
Of immense size and an Army. Navy and
air force OF great size and power resting
upon that industry. Under those Cur
cumstances, this country could pretty
we'll writa IT. own ticket for the post
war world.
Evening star., 1942-11-08

There is a deep resurgence OF spiritual
fervor in our world today. What Linke
so finely expressed in his book, "The
Return to Religion" is literally coming
true. Out of the confusions of life, men
and women are turning to the church as
a place of refuge. A heightened obllga-
ton is laid upon those who minister to
the seeking throng to make both worship
and preaching healing, consollng ana
stimulating The days OF the week are
crowded with the tragic stories OF
warning world. The airways day by Gay
and night by night take up the sad tale;
hence the yearning desire Tor the
church's quiet ways Of peace. Letters
received from men and women OF all
types and kinds and from servicemen
having a respite from their arduous
duties express in certain terms their
desire for that which the church alone
is designed to give them.
The words of Christ seem to have
deeper significance today than at any
time in our generation. Speaking to
confused disciples, He said to them on the
eve OF His crucifxion: Let not your
heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid" He was seeking to ease the
strain and to allay their anxiety at a
time when their faith in Him was put
to its severest test To minister in His
spirit to a distracted world is a rare
privilege afforded the church today. In
times remote and in communities where
great cathedrals stood those in distress
and frequently those who were the
victims of stern persecution sought their
clustered walls for sanctuary. There no
offending hand touched them. There
they were secure from the worlds dis
Evening star., 1942-11-08
REFUGE
BIZ the Right Req. JAMES FREEMAN D. D., ILL., d. D. c. l.,
Bishop OF Washington.

fractions and ills. Under changed con-
ditions, but in, a sorely tried world the
churches on our highways stand today
to give refuge and furnish peace to
troubled men and wollen.
The Christian religion is designed
primarily to bring peace in the midst OF
strife, courage in the hour Of emergency
and exacting strain, surcease from the
fear that accompanies misfortune and
disaster. Everywhere the condemnation
of evil and cruel practices was demanded
Christ spoke with tenderness and deep
understanding of human weaknesses. He
commended and exempliied course for
His followers that the world greatly needs
to follow today In its highest conception
Of service the church is designed to be a
reservoir of power, a healing spring,
place where for the while the harassing
and discordant noises and confusions OF
the world are shut out and men stand as
in the presence of God To make His
presence real through prayer and praise
and reverent worship, to hear His word
and know His will, this is the true func-
ton of the church. Tired men and
women will come to it where its ministry
is centered in these things. They will
responsively listen to voice that is
charged with a message of spiritual
power. LET our prophet come with a
new mandate for the soul upon his lips
and the people will hear him gladly"
wrote one who had the gift of persuasive
speech. The church will ever stand for
all that is best for the State and for
the individual SOUL but it reaches it's
highest place of service and value where
it sends men from its courts renewed
and made strong to meet and bear the
] ills and trials of life
Evening star., 1942-11-08
Evolution in Trophies

Centuries ago the frst American
warrior, rejoicing in some such jaw
breaking name as Big Chief Pain-in-
the Neck = to All Who Stand
Against Him, wanted tangible tro-
phies of prowess against the enemy.
The custom of his day decreed that
the trophies should be scalps; and
his confidence as -blooded
American was so great that in
variably he carried with him the
means of collection-a scalping knife.
Chief Pain-in the e-Neck-etc., is
gone, to be replaced by more pro-
saically named but equally deadly
American warrior successors. The
coveted trophy nowadays is evidence
of the downing of a Jap plane; the
pilot who gets confirmation is
allowed to adorn the tail of his plane
with a miniature Rising Sun flag, the
equivalent of Jap scalp. AS proof
that his confidence is as great as
that of his Indian predecessors, al
ready many pilots are complaining
that it takes too much time to put
these flags on with paint and brush,
and have sent in acquisitions for
decalcomanias that can be stuck on
with lick and a promise. The Navy
Department has accepted the chal-
lenge; every plane from now on will
be supplied with a dozen Rising Sun
decalcomanias. It may safely be
said that if they are all used, the sun
will rise no more. It may also be
said, by those who cannot resist
saying it, that our hard-hitting flyers
fight like decalcomaniacs.
Evening star., 1942-11-08
The Work Week

o' The prospects of coming to some
agreement on what the appropriate
work week should be for the dura-
ton of the war would be much
brighter if some one were to devise
"a method of keeping the discussion
reasonably we'll related to the prob
lem which actually confronts us.
br On the one side there is the point
of view expressed by the President
Friday Experience in Germany, he
said, has shown that production
efficiency falls off when men are
worked from 10 to 80 hours week.
No doubt that is true, but what is its
relevancy? The question before this
country is whether we should cling
to a statutory 40-hour week, with an
sactual work week Including over
time) of less than 43 hours, when
sthere is supposed to be labor short
'age. Mr.. Roosevelt seems to believe
that a 48-hour week is about right
from an efficiency standpoint, and
takes the position that nothing in
the law prevents any employer from
maintaining such a schedule. Tech
nically that is true, but actually the
law does discourage work in excess
of 40 hours, and it was intended to
do Just that. So long as there per-
lsists a refusal to recognize this fact
1t is going to be difficult to get down
to the real issues.
At the other extreme is the view
represented by Senator ODaniel OF
Texas, who has offered legislation to
suspend the 40-hour week law, but
who apparently also feels that an
ideal work week should be some
where around 72 hours. Obviously,
this is Just as bad as the refusal to
face the fact that laws intended to
sfx a 40-hour week tend to accom-
plish that purpose. Common sense
should teach US that 72-hour week,
while it might bring a temporary
spurt in production, eventually would
defeat it's own purpose in long war,
as this one is going to be. Certainly,
nothing constructive can be achieved
by trying to 60 from one extreme to
another.
AS a first step, a serious effort
should be made to determine what
is the maximum work week at which
top efficiency can be maintained. The
President seems to think that 48
hours is about right. If that is cor
rect, then we should proceed to ex-
famine the wisdom of requiring
overtime pay rates for the last eight
hours.
4 In the first place, employers whose
business has been hurt by the war,
but whose function is nevertheless
essential to the maintenance of our
civilian economy, cannot meet these
higher costs. Secondly, the time
and-a-half provisions of the law
were intended, quite frankly, to
,penalize employers who worked their
employees overtime. But why should
employers Cor the taxpayers who ul-
timately foot the bilD be penalized
for doing what has to be done to pro-
'tect the country in time Of war? In
& total war the workers and soldiers
labor to the same end-victory over
the enemy Why should only the one
group be rewarded for service after
20 hours?
These are the essentials of the
Issue, and not until we get down to
a discussion of them will there be
any hope of solution.
Evening star., 1942-11-08

line writer is taking big chance who
pins 1t to any one item in the hurly-
bury rush of the days war news.
Certainly the use of understate-
ment in newspaper headlines as well
as in official communiques is sound
policy, and nothing is to be lost on
any front by a persistent skepticism
as to the Importance of any victory
as long as an enemy remains under
arms.
Evening star., 1942-11-08

Transport will be modernized for
postwar use, says the President.
Good news, but world war is a
rather stiff price to pay for train
windows that can be opened without
dynamite.
Evening star., 1942-11-08

Quite a few Democrats were either
sunk or badly damaged in last Tues
days battle by voting machines
spouting deadly barrage of Repub-
lican, ballots.
Evening star., 1942-11-08

Though repeatedly sunk in the
Toxic press, the American Navy
somehow manages to take most Of
the ease out Of the Japanese.
Evening star., 1942-11-08
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One other cause of delay is the OBJ
vious decision to build an immense
American air force and large American
Army, rather than to send American
weapons abroad for use by other armies
and other air forces 1t takes time to
build an air force of 2,500,000 men and
an army of 5000 900 men and to trans
port those forces to scenes of action.
The result probably is some prolongation
of the war; However, the result also is
to be that the United States, without
doubt, will be the most powerful nation
on earth when the present war Is ended.
This country is to have an aircraft
industry that will dwarf the industry OF
other nations. It will have an air force
both for the Army and the Navy that
will overshadow the forces Of other ma
tions. Its Navy is to be Of stupendous
size and its Army is to be more heavily
armed, If not numerically superior, to
the other armies Of the world.
In word. there is going to be no argu-
ment after this war about who is the
| real winner. or about which nation Is
the strongest.
T American industry today is turning
out more war weapons Of better quality
than any other industry on earth. In
very few months. the volume Of those
weapons will represent veritable flood.
BY keeping the bulk Of those weapons
for use by Americans, instead OF ship
ping them to Russia Or China Or Aus
tralia or England for use by the men
Of other nations. this country may be
delaying the end .of the war. IT GER
tainly y delaying the time thst Ameri-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-19

Rio de Janeiro: Brazil had placed
japanese diplomats under guard fol-
lowing reports from Tokyo that Bra
zirs ENJOYS had been held incom-
municado, and that the embassy
had been occupied by the military.
Burma: American-made tanks
were said to have arrived on the
British fighting front near Rangoon.
A second squadron of American vol
unteer fiers also had arrived.
CRANKY, Mo-: Six persons, four of
them soldiers, and As others, 20 of
them army men, were killed and in
jured in the crash of two passenger
trains head-on while crossing tres
tie.
SmithfieId, N. c.: Four dead, more
than 100 injured had been the toll
when an ammunition-laden motor
truck collided with an auto. the truck
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-03-19
LEON HENDERSON
His statement challenged.

cars off the roads by July, and that
within a year some 12,000,000 autos
might be demobilized.
Henderson had said that the gov
eminent might even be forced to
take tires from the cars Of some
owners and give them to others
whose uses for their cars was more
essential"
The New Yorker, Elliott Simpson,
went further. In his argument that
all was not being done that should
be in order to give the country a
sufficient supply of rubber, he said
there were thousands of tons of
wild rubber" in the upper Amazon
country, and in parts of Central and
South America.
AS to rubber from guayule plants,
which Henderson said there was
little chance" of realizing, Simpson
had declared that there were mil
lion of acres" of guayule in Mexico
which could either be harvested and
sent to the United States, or that
rubber sheet factories could be set
up in Mexico.
At the same time the Petroleum
Industry War Council, meeting in
Chicago, had denied there was any
gasoline shortage, and said 1t was
''unequivocably opposed" to the gov
ernment's plan for rationing of gase-
line on a nationwide scale.