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Evening star., 1942-04-14

the action because he was so busy
maneuvering his own ship, but he
did see the destroyer Peary and a
Matson freighter 60 down. He saw
a japanese bomb make a direct hit
Evening star., 1942-04-14

on an American munitions ship. He
ducked to avoid the falling frag-
ments.
But nothing came down." he said.
That ship was blown to dust"
Evening star., 1942-04-14

were completely armed is an in
centive for the men to intensity
their. drilling and training" he de-
clared.
Gov. Darden of Virginia said yes
terday the State will cooperate
fully with the Governments plan to
repossess rifles.
Evening star., 1942-12-23
ChennduIt Given DSM
For Service in China
BY the Associated Press


CHUNGKING, Dec. % CDelayed) =.
Brig. Gen. Claire l.. Chennault to-
day was awarded the DISTINGUISHED
Service Medal, his first American
decoration. by 1t. Gen Joseph w
StllWell, chief of staff of Allied
forces in China.
The medal was pinned on the COM
mander OF the China Air Task Force
IN ceremony in front of his head
quarters. The citation said:
For exceptionally meritorlous
service while in a position of great
responsibility as commander of the
China Air Task Force since last July
4. you demonstrated keen knowledge
OF japanese technique and air tao
tics.
Although greatly outnumbered in
personnel, alrplaneS and other es-
Sential items. you succeeded in pro-
tectlng a large section of Unoccu-
pied China from enemy air attack
and have caused severe losses 10 the
enemy.
Your appreciation and under
standing of the many problems of
the China theater resulted not only
IN highly successful air operations.
but also in a high degree of good will
between the United States Army
forces and the people of China
Gen Chennault. So. Is a native Of
Texas, who lived in Louisiana before
he entered the Army in 1917. He
went to China shortly after the out
break of the Chinese-JapaneSe War
to train pursuit units of the Chinese
Air Force. and there organized and
led the Flying Tigers"
Evening star., 1942-12-23
Fair and Mild Weather
Expected for Christmas

While the Weather Bureau usually
is prevented by wartime restrictions
from giving information in advance,
special forecast today indicated
that fair weather will prevail on
Christmas eve. In fact. the next two
or three days will be mild with the
temperature above normal
Today's clearing skies and mod
crate temperatures should continue
tomorrow, the forecaster said. The
thermometer may fall to about 80
degrees tonight, but no severe cold
weather is in immediate prospect.
The rain last night, coupled with
higher temperature, probably spelled
the end of the snow which had made
streets here dangerous to pedestrians
and motorists. The sun was expected
to finish off the remainder of the
snow today, ending chances for a
white Christmas in this area.
Since midnight the thermometer
had hovered around "a degrees and
at 9 am. it was IS.
Evening star., 1942-12-23
Senator O'Mohoney
On Radio Forum

Senator OMahoney of Wyo-
ming will speak on "Oil for
the Fighters of America" in
the National Radio Forum
this evening at 1915 O'Clock.
The forum is a Blue Network
feature arranged by The Star
and heard locally over Station
WMAL.
tor O'Mahoney has
been a consistent advocate of
legislation designed to stimu-
late the greater development
and recovering of Americas
mineral resources, including
oil, and he conducted a Sen
ate inquiry into the subject in
the past session of Congress.
He will speak this evening on
the part that new oil produc-
tion plays in the war produc-
tion picture today.
Evening star., 1942-12-23
Picture on Page BIZ

Holiday travellers packed bus
depots and Union Station today
as thousands sought seats on
trains and buses for trips home
for Christmas.
The peak for train travel appeared
to have been reached yesterday
when Union Station was jammeo
with civilians and men in the armed
services. Most transportation Off
cials reported passenger traffic was
about equal to heavy loads last
Christmas.
Hundreds of bus travellers bound
south from Washington waited in
depots for as long as eight hours
last night as all trips below the city
were Cancelled because of icy roads
Traffic had returned to normal to-
day, however.
National railways System said its
buses did not leave Washington for
Southern points between 7 pm. and
3 am. following reports of ice-coated
highways. The lines New York runs
also were Cancelled for several hours
last night
Evening star., 1942-12-23
Allies Hammer Japs
Trapped Near Buna;;
Advance Is Slow
Resistance Desperate;
Boueh- Disguised Ship
Sunk by Flying Forts
Ry The Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Dec. %. - Allied
troops continued to hammer at
Japanese forces trapped in the
Buna area of New Guinea today
and Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters reported they were
slowly making headway against
an enemy fighting desperately in
intricate and thoroughly pre-
pared positions"
Air units smashed at the en-
trenched japanese. AsSaultlng Allled
ground troops chalked up compare
lively small gains yesterday, with
American and Australian infantry
moving across a creek to come to
closer grips with the enemy holding
out on the main Buna airheld and
at the government station.
This action was on the right OF a
three sector line where the Japa-
nese still chung to positions on the
Papuan Peninsula.
On the central sector. military
spokesmen said, the Americans and
Australians fought fierce clashes
with japanese patrols to push with
in about miles of the coast in
the Sanananda area. west of Buna.
On the left, American troops
Joined Australians in the job of
clearing the japanese from the area
northwest of Coma, which is in
Allied hands.
Another medium sized japanese
supply ship disguised by tree
branches and foliage was sunk of
New Britain yesterday by American
Flying Fortresses, the Allied COM
munique said. The vessel ap-
parently was bound for the north
coast of New Guinea.
Allied air units also attacked
enemy installations near Villa de
Aviz at Timor, while a single Japa-
nese plane early yesterday dropped
incendiary and explosive bombs at
Port Moresby in the 96th enemy
raid on that Allied port on the
southern coast of New Guinea. The
communique said little damage was
done.
Evening star., 1942-12-23
Transportation Lines Jummed
As Crowds Leave for Ho|idoys

Greyhound Lines Cancelled it's
routes to Roanoke. Va, and Clarks-
burg, w. Va. last night. but resumed
service to these points this morning
1t reported Richmond Washington
buses one to two hours behind sched-
ule through the night.
Men in uniform outnumbered
civilians seeking transportation.
One bus line said it was serving
servicemen before civilians Many
of the latter had to wait an hour
or more for buses.
Trains returned to normal sched-
ules yesterday after many lines had
been slowed by snow and cold
weather.
A worker at the Travellers Aid
Society booth at Union Station said
many servicemen stretched out on
the floor Of the large waiting room
early this morning while waiting
for their trains. Most of the
benches were occupied.
At the servicemen's lounge a
volunteer reported 800 men in uni
form had come through the ter
minal center between midnight and
7 O'Clock this morning.
Evening star., 1942-12-23
10 Axis Ships Sunk or Damaged
On North African Supply Line
Allied Planes. British Subs Cooperate;
toy Claims Five Enemy Vessels Hit

nisian theater as we'll as in Libya
where British and American planes
have ranged the skies virtually un-
challenged by Axis fighters.
A spokesman at 1t. Gen. Dwight
D. EisenhoWer'S headquarters in
North Africa said Allied warplanes
recently seized the upper hand in
the Tunisian campaign despite such
handicaps as muddy sirdrome run
ways and a shortage of good ad-
vanced fields. He said Allied flyers
now were able to carry on a more
widespread offensive against Ger
man ground troops than the Nazi
air force.
Persons familiar with Tunisia
said the rainy season might con-
tinue to the end of January, in
terfering with operations both
aground and in the air.
Vanguards OF the British 9th
Army were reported unoficially to
be nearing Buerat El Hsun, only 18O
miles from Tripoli. in pursuit of the
remnants of Marshal Rommel's
Afrika korps.
The Cairo communique did not
tSee AFRICA, Page A-16D
Evening star., 1942-12-23
nDie, Three Escape
AS Huge Rocks Wreck
Bus in Pennsylvania
BouIders ToppIe 100
Feet on Coach Loaded
With War Workers
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALIQUIPPA. Pa. Dec. %. .--
twenty-five persons died last
night when two boulders. one
weighing more than 100 tons.
crashed down on a big yellow
Ohio River motor coach bus
crowded with homegoing war
workers. Only three passengers
escaped, two of them with crit
ical injuries.
The Christmas tragedy oc-
CURED a mile east of here at $40
pm, as the bus threaded its way
around treacherous IS" curve on a
narrow, slippery road, Three other
buses were just ahead of it and two
were trailing.
The boulders toppled down from 2
1O0-foot high perch with little warn
ing, although the driver of the bus
behind said Dymptro DAN Kara
pan. 27. who was driving the i'll
fated machine. sWerved sharply to
the left as if trying to escape the
falling, death-dealing mass Mr.
Karapan Of Fair Oaks was killed.
This swerve saved four persons in
the rear of the bus although one of
these died later in hospital.
There was no warning said
Joseph NJ Manko. the lone pas
senger able to go home after the &C
cident Just a crash and not so
loud either. I didn't hear cry, nor
a moan. But I guess I was stunned.
I was pinned by broken seats on
top of me but managed to pull out
my legs.
Men kept calling to me to climb
out. They were from the bus be-
hind. I got my legs through a
broken window and they pulled me
out. Outside / saw that huge rock
resting where the front of the bus
should have BEEN
Mr.. Manko. who is 80, is grad
uate of the University of Pittsburgh
His friend, James Burger. %, also
a Pittsburgh U. man, who was rid
ing beside him on the rear seat, died
after being taken to hospital.
Both were metallurgiSts for the
Jones 81 Laughlin Steel Corp.
John A. Mccarthy. q, of Monaco.
regaining consciousness. asked the
undertaken driving him from the
Wreckage to the hospital:
"Oh. where am I? What hap
pened?"
Mr.. McCarthy's left leg had to be
amputated.
Helen Phillips, 81. of Aliquippa
an employe of the Pittsburgh Mer-
camille Co. j. e. L. subsidiary
suffered severe shock and lacera-
tions and is in the Rochester Hos
pital.
Miss Martha L. Gearing, 33. of
Pittsburgh, a travelling supervisor
(See BUS WRECK. Page A-2)
Evening star., 1942-12-23
Sharp Revision
Of Labor Laws
Taking Form
4O-Hour Work Week
Would Be SheIved,
New WLB Created
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An all-embracing legislative
program for sharp revision of
Federal labor laws, including
suspension of the 40-hour pro-
vision as standard work week,
was reported today to have been
drafted tentatively for presenta-
ton to Congress early next year.
In its present form the plan would
strip the administration Of power
to deal independently with labor
management problems
Instead. that authority would be
turned over to a new War Labor
Board. created by Congress but re-
stricted by law from laying down
any orders and assuming any pow
ers not specifically delegated by
Congress.
Suspends Premium Pay.
AS outlined by one member Of
the group, who declined use of his
name. the legislation would
/. Suspend the premium pay re-
quirement in the wages and hours
law, although permitting overtime
pay for work in excess of 40 hours
with the specification that it be paid
| IN War bonds.
/ 2. Outlaw strikes in war indus
/ tries.
| B. Prevent closed shops and
| maintenance of membership clauses
IN labor contracts in industries
handling Government work.
Would Restrict Unions.
Amend the Corrupt Practices
Act so as to bar labor unions from
making contributions TO politica
campaigns.
5. Set up the new War Labor
Board, its membership to be COM
posed of representatives of the CIO,
the AFL. the National Association
OF Manufacturers, the United
States Chamber Of Commerce and
the public
6. Revive the Hobbs bill. which
would subject labor unions to pros
ecutlon under the Federal antitrust
and anti-racketeering laws
Will Move Cautiously.
Proponents Of the legislation al
ready are discussing the best STRAIT
egy for overcoming parliamentary
difficulties
In move to sidestep the House
. Labor Committee, which in the past
has pigeOnholed restrictive" labo,
legislation, the maneuvering NAV
start in the judiciary Committee
with Introduction of the Hobbs bill
The Congressman who disclosed
the plans emphasized, however. that
It's advocates must proceed cautious
, ly TO avoid disruption of war pro-
, duction. He said also that the pres
ent general wage scale must be
maintained in order to avoid dis
ruption Of the Nations economic
balance.
Evening star., 1942-12-23
Girl, 5, and Woman, Is,
Die as Result Of Burns

A 5-year-old girl whose dress
caught fire when she was playing
with matches, and a 26-year-old
woman injured in fire early today
are dead from burns.
Mrs. Carolyn Wilson, 26, of COG
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. died in
Casualty Hospital shortly after
am from burns TO the face, legs
and body. received when the day
bed on which she was lying at 500
Third street NV, caught fire about
2:30 am.
The blaze, which caused little
property damage, was of undeter-
mined origin, flremen said.
Gloria Donaldson, S. of 735 North
Capitol street, died in Casualty Hos
pital last night as the result of body
burns suffered Monday afternoon
when playing with matches in her
home The child's mother and Miss
Maxine Dye of the same address
eXtinguished her burning clothing
but the first and second degree
burns she received proved fatal
Evening star., 1942-12-23
0PA Denies Rumors
That Fuel Oil Price
Will Be Increased
Washington Dealers
Complain Thot Rotioning
Cuts Into Their Profits

Assurance was given by the
Office of Price Administration
today there is no immediate
prospect of an increase in the
ceiling price on fuel oil.
Reports had been circulated that
a rise in the maximum price as high
as one-half cent gallon was con-
templated. The OPA. however, de-
clared these rumors were ''unauthor-
led and premature.
The present ceiling price on No.
fuel oil-the type used chiefly in
Washington-is 81 cents a gallon.
Complaints have been made by
numerous dealers that the rationing
program has added materially to
operation costs. and as result their
profits this year from the sale of
fuel oil would be the lowest in
history.
Plea Against Deliveries.
Meanwhile. the OPA was reported
to be planning an appeal to fuel Oil
consumers in the Washington area,
asking that no unnecessary demands
for delivery of oil be made on dealers
until the end of the 'eMergency"
created by the recent cold spell.
Dealers were being aided by
warmer temperatures in their at
tempts to catch up with several
day backlog of requests for deliveries.
(See FUEL OIL, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-12-23
Brazil Pledges Export
OF $4,000 Tons Of
Rubber 10 j. ).
Argentine Proposal Foi|s;
Held Seeking Accord in
Fear Of Being Isolated
RY he Associated press

BY The Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 23.-
The United States and Brazil
have signed a new agreement
calling for a 1943 export of $4,000
tons Of Brazilian rubber for
North American war production
Thousands OF workers will be
rushed into the Amazon interior,
using all means of transport, to in
crease rubber production further
The accord was signed yesterday
in the Office of Joao Carlos Vital,
interim national economic co-or-
dinator, and provides for transport
ing $4,000 laborers to Amazonia by
May /, l943, and 100000 by the end
of the year
Planes, trains canoes. trucks
steamships and foot marches will
be employed to transport them over
the 2000-mile distance from the
/ Northeastern Brazilian States. where
the workers will be assembled to the
Amazon interior, where wild rubber
grows in abundance
The output is based on an esti-
mated two workers to each ton OF
rubber produced annually.
An authorized spokesman said the
agreement assured a steadily in
creasing flow of rubber to United
| States industry, adding that present
war needs were so pressing that
there virtually was no hope of Ar
gentina pusaing through an ex-
change plan.
1t is known that the Argentine
| transport industry faces a crisis be-
cause OF rubber shortage and Ar.
gentine buyers are securing the
South American continent, paying
fantastic prices for the smallest
Isolated amounts of crude rubber.
The agreement was signed as Ar
gentine Ambassador Adrian Escobal
arrived by air after months sta,
in Buenos Aires bearing a propose
to exchange 5000 cubic meters OF
Argentine refined gasoline for ar
annual export of some 1000 tons ol
Brazilian rubber to Argentina
Argentine sources argued such ar
agreement would relieve the present
United States obligation to furnish
Brazil gasoline and aid in solvine
the tanker shortage problem. but au-
thorized North American and Bra
lillian spokesmen insisted the Ar
gentine plan would not be realizec
because every ounce of exportable
Brazilian rubber is going to the
United States according to a pre-
vious agreement"
The same high source which re.
Gently predicted Chilean break
with the Axis by the first of the
year yesterday voiced the opinion
that Argentina was moved to seel
an accord with Brazil in view of the
currently close cooperation between
the United States. Brazil and Chile
The source said that the return
late this month of Chilean Minister
of Interior Raul Morale Beltram
from Washington to Santiago prob.
ably would be followed by rupture
of Chilean relations with the Axi!
and an announcement of a NORTH
American Chilean program for the
development of Chilean strategic
materials, similar to that now in ef.
feet with Brazil
Evening star., 1942-12-23
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Dec. 23.-Two Axis
warships and eight merchant
vessels were reported today as
sunk or damaged along the Med
iterranean supply routes to the
remaining German Italian
StrOngholdS in North Africa.
Power of the British and Ameri-
can efforts to reopen the Mediterra-
mean from Gibraltar to Suez was
further indicated by an Admiralty
announcement that large reinforce
ments of war materials and sup
plies had been landed at Malta
without major interference from
the enemy" A challenging U-boat t
was said to have been destroyed.
Allied planes and British sub
marines and light surface ships CO.
operated to slash at the arteries of
reinforcement for Marshal Erwin
Rommel and Gen. Walther Nehring
while British. French and American
ground troops made ready for final
tightening of the Libyan- Tunislan
wise
Allied aerial superiority was in
dicated authoritatively in the Tu-
Evening star., 1942-12-23
Surveys Of Hospitals
Won Halt Epidemics,
McCarran Warns
Calls D. c. Committee to
Meet Wednesday and
Seek Expansion

Warning that continued sur
veys of hospital needs will be Of
little help if an epidemic hits
Washington. Chairman McCar-
ran today called the Senate Dis
trict Committee to meet next
Wednesday to see what action
can be obtained
Reviewing developments during
his absence from the city the last
few days. the Senator said:
We are being oversurveyed on
this question, and I am going to
ask the various officials connected
with the problem to bring their
chains and transits' up to the Sem
ate committee room and get the
surveys over with
Meanwhile, Francis j. Burns, citi-
zens' association representative who
conferred yesterday with the WPB
IN support of the hospital program.
revealed that he had been requested
by Harry S. Wender, president of
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions, to draw a resolution in sup
port of Senator McCarran's fight for
hospital expansion.
Invites Hospital Heads.
Senator McCarran. who began
months ago trying to obtain more
bed space in District hospitals. said
he plans to write to the heads of all
private hospitals, asking them to
attend the conference Wednesday
Officials of the Federal Works
Agency, War Production Board and
District government also are to at
tend
Senator McCarran will ask each
hospital to present detailed infor-
nation on present occupancy, the
number Of vacant beds, if any, and
the trend of occupancy figures since
the committee held a similar meet
ing several months ago.
The latest congressional move for
action came on the heels of yester-
days letter to Representative Ran
dolph from Maury Maverick. chief
of the War Production Board S
Division on Governmental Require
ments, indicating priorities would
prevent local hospital expansion and
(See HOSPITALS, Page AID
Evening star., 1942-12-23
French Railroads Blocked
By Widespread Raj Raids
Ey the Associated Press

~ the Associated Press
LONDON. Dec 23-Throughout
Northern France and the Low Coun-
tries many railroads were blocked
and vital German military transport
facilities were in smoking ruins to-
day in the wake of widespread
fighter and light bomber operations
by the Raj under last nights full
moon, British sources said.
The Air Ministry reported attacks
on many railway targets and the
Damaging of many locomotives, Au-
thorities indicated the intruder
sweeps were the largest in weeks.
The Air Ministry disclosed that
the raiders included Hurribombers,
Whirlwinds and American made
Bostons. Attacks were made on rail
Yards near Ghent and at Saint Lo.
Abbeville, LIE Preport, Saint Pol and
La Chapelle
Air fields also were assaulted. All
planes taking part in land operations
returned safely.
Evening star., 1942-12-23
Finn Premier Reported Toosting
Jops at Dec. 7 Victory Party
Story Of Coy Affair
At HeIsinki Legation
Finds Way to U. 5.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Whether it was the powerful
japanese sake alternating with
the equally powerful Finnish
vodka which produced an out
burst of pro-Axis enthusiasm on
the part Of Finland's Premier,
Juho Rangell, or the bestowal of
the japanese decoration Of the
Rising Sun by Emperor Hirohito
on the Premier has not been
ascertained in Washington.
But. according to short wave news
broadcasts to Finland from the
United States, there was great
shindig on December at the Jap
anese Legation in Helsinki, where
the japanese victory at Pearl Harbor
was celebrated and the Finnish
Premier drank toast for the victory
of tn eAxis and the destruction of
the American Navy.
The Japanese Minister gave a
lavish banquet. attended by promi-
nent officials of the Finnish govern
ment and representatives of Hitler
and Mussolini. According to report,
many Finnish and Japanese courses
were served and. following the Finn
Evening star., 1942-12-23
Spain Protests Limit Set
On Code Transmission

BUENOS AIRES. Dec. % tP.-
Spain joined Germany. italy and
Japan yesterday in protesting the
Argentine governments communi-
cations control decree which limits
diplomatic missions to transmitting
only 100 words in code daily.
While Axis diplomats called per-
sonally to protest. Foreign Minister
Ruiz Guinazu disclosed that the
Spanish Ambassador. Marques de
Magaz, sent cordial note" to the
Foreign Once asserting that the
limitation handicapped the labors
of the embassy in view of the neces-
sity for caring for the needs of the
large Spanish colony in Argentina.
DR.. Ruiz Guinazu reiterated that
the measure was not likely to be
modified in view Of the study made
before issuance Of the decree.