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Evening star., 1942-04-06
58,313 Chinese Killed
In 4 Months, Japs Say

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC From japanese Broad
casts, April 6-Imperial headquar-
ters declared today that japanese
troops had killed or captured 76,766
Chinese troops in 30 encounters from
the beginning of the Greater East
Asia war" through March.
The total said an extensive sum-
mary of japanese operations in
China during that period, includes
5s,313 killed and more than $4,000
captured.
japanese losses, the communique
asserted. amounted to 2,536 killed
, and 6,382 wounded.
1t listed as japanese booty:
Five planes, II tanks, 1,470 trucks,
800 railway cars, two torpedo boats.
2o1 guns Of various caliber, 1858
machine guns and 12,443 rifles.
japanese forces also shot down 30
enemy planes and either sank or de-
stroyed 4 gunboats and Is mer-
-chantmen, 1t added.
Evening star., 1942-04-06
Canada S Army in Britain
Sets Up Headquarters
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND,
April 6.-Formation of a Canadian
1st Army headquarters in the
United Kingdom was announced
today and its first commander, 1t.
Gen. A. G. l.. McNaughton, de-
clared it would provide Canadian
organization competent to under
take the planning for eventual
offensive operations on the con-
tinent."
1T will keep the closest liaison
with British organizations set up
for similar purposes" Gen. Nc
Naughton said in a statement from
the new headquarters which was
opened this morning in southern
England.
He said formation of the 1st
Canadian Army 'is clear recog-
milton that the war can only be
won by attack-aimed at the heart
of Germany"
Evening star., 1942-04-06
StockhoIder Sues for Policy Shift
By Saturday Evening Post

the 1898 ,s21 shares Of Curtis COM
mon stock, said that already the
Posts "isolationist" policies had
caused numerous subscription cam
cellations and that numerous ad-
vertisers had refused to renew their
contracts.
An article entitled "The Case
Against the Jews" written by Milton
Mayer and published in the March
% issue of the Post, especially an
tagonized both readers and adver-
tisers, the stockhofder asserted.
Mr.. wanderman asked the court
not only to compel the Post to
change its policies but also to direct
the company to withhold the salaries
Of 10 officers and directors whom
he also named defendants.
Evening star., 1942-04-06
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Fleet called stronger than before
Pearl Harbor. Page Bill
Washington and Vicinity.
Rent reduced in rs per cent of cases
handled. Page Al
Zoo is main attraction for egg rollers
this year. Page Al
Eight burned when auto hits gas
main, causing fire. Page Az
Tourists missing in Easter parade;
uniforms predominate. Page AS
Washington observes Army Day
without parade. Page B-1
Federal workers here reach all-time
high of 233. .4o3. Page B-1
New Municipal Court hailed by
judges and lawyers. Page B-s
Miscellany
Natures Children. Page Bib
Evening star., 1942-04-06

destroyed and still another Is as
damaged.
Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Laytan,
commander in chief of armed forces
on Ceylon, supported the belief that
the raid was sea-based and declared
1t was doubtful whether the dam
aged planes could have reached their
ship.
Japanese naval units have
been battering at Colombo since
Saturday and have inflicted heavy
damage, imperial headquarters in
Toxic announced.
(Raids yesterday were directed
against enemy warships, mer-
chantmen, air facilities and the
principal military establishments
in the Colombo area" 1t satd)
The harbor area of this city. cap
ital and southwest port of Ceylon
(See CEYLON, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1942-04-06
Rent Cutin 75Per Cent
OF Cases Handled,
.CogsweII 1estifies
Only One Boost Granted;
Senate Unit Approves
S., 400 for More Help

Rents have been reduced in IS
per cent of the 1900 cases dis
posed of thus far under the Dis
trict rent law, Administrator
Robert F. Cogswell testified at
Senate hearings on the sixth
supplemental war supply bill,
made public today.
Although committee members ques-
toned the need of increasing funds
for the Rent Administration, they
granted IS 400 for additional person.
mel for the current fiscal year,
after Senator OMahoney, Democrat,
of Wyoming said he would go care
fully into the rent control budget
for the next fiscal year when the
regular District supply bill is taken
up.
Congress started the rent control
Office with s22.57O, based on six
months operation, but Mr.. Cogswell
said he believed nearly 100000
would be needed for the next fiscal
year.
In what percentage of cases did
you prevent an increase in rent?"
Senator OMahoney inquired. That
would include the reductions"
One Increase Granted.
Mr.. Cogswell said there has been
only one case where an increase was
granted.
In other words. in more than SO
per cent of the cases you have kept
the rents down." Senator OMshoney
continued
Asked by Senator McCsrran,
Democrat, of Nevada what he has
done about putting a ceiling on
hotel rates. Mr.. Cogswell replied. Il
have something I am going to pro-
ceed on within the next week or 10
days" He explained his office had
been busy registering roomlng
houses having three or more ten
ants
5000. 900 in Requests Delayed.
Mr.. Cogswell said he had been told
there were 5000 rooming houses
here. but guessed the NUMBER Will
be closer to $4,000. Already. he said
5000 returns have been made in the
registration.
The committee also heard other
District officials on a variety of de-
ficiencv estimates. as a result OF
which S328.817 was added to the bill
for District institutions for the re-
mainder of the fiscal year.
The committee postponed ap-
proximately 100000 of local items
until the regular District bill is
taken up.
Most of the money granted was
the health. welfare. refuse disposal
keeping schools open at night for
civic work and completing one six
room addition to the La Fayette
School.
Evening star., 1942-04-06
Conodion Party Leader
Urqes Druft Defeat
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MONTREAL, April 6.-Ligouri La
combe, leader of the Canadian party
and member of Parliament, said at
an anti-conscription meeting last
night "the supreme duty of all
true Canadians is to vote mo- in
the forthcoming plebiscite" through
which the government seeks release
from previous commitments regard
ing conscription for military service
overseas.
THE government has violated
enough promises, renounced enough
of its commitments" said Lacombe
at a public rally. The defense of
Canada is and must remain our
front line"
Evening star., 1942-04-06
White House Party
For Children Today
Is First Durino War

The first White House party
to be held since the United
States entered the war was to be
for children only this afternoon.
Although none of the Roose-
velt grandchildren are in town.
a dozen or so youngsters were
to gather in the Executive Man
sion to hunt Easter eggs and see
a movie. The invited guests,
probably including Mrs. Roose-
velt's nieces from Michigan who
we're to arrive at the White
House today, ranged in age from
4 to II years. Mrs. Roosevelt
herself had no Easter fnery
with which to greet her young
guests. She was too busy to buy
spring clothes.
Evening star., 1942-04-06


one of the main targets of the
r. A. F., but British bombers also
attacked the Gnome- -Rhone works
at Gennevilliers, about three miles
from Paris. which the British
charged was making aero engine
parts and other war material for
the enemy.
Cologne Raid Is 105th.
Indicative of the weight of the
attack, it was reported that more
than half of the 300 planes took part
in the bombing of Cologne, raided
for the 105th time.
British sources estimated that the
big R. A. F. bomber squadrons un-
loaded about 1000 tons of high ex-
ploSives and many incendiaries in
the raids which spread from LIE
Havre, on the Occupied French
coast, to the Rhineland.
Scores of four -engined Strings,
each carrying eight tons of bombs,
were believed to have taken part.
The loss of only five-less than 2
per cent-of the air armada, one of
the heaviest r. A. r. raiding fleets
Evening star., 1942-04-06
BY the Associated Press

q
PHILADELPHIA, April GA
stockholder of the Curtis Publishing
Co. asked United States District
Court today to compel the Saturday
Evening Post to abandon what he
termed its "isolationist" policies and
to cease publication of articles he
said tended to stir up racial feeling.
In one of the most unusual suits
ever filed in the Federal Courts
here, George E. Wanderman OF New
York declared such policies are in
furious to the financial interests of
the 25,500 Curtis stockholders and
ultimately will result In complete
dissipation" Of the conpany's good
will
Mr.. Wanderman, who owns 50 Of
Evening star., 1942-04-06

Foreign.
Mandalay death toll in bombing by
Japs placed at 1000 Page AS
Grips mission to India believed
near climax. Page Al
Battlefield thawins, Nazis and Reds
jockey for positions. Page Al
$50 Rabaul defenders killed $500
Japs, survivors relate. Page Az
Nazis to boost slave labor force to
1000 ,000. Page Bill
Special U. S. envoy confers with In
dia's native leaders. Page Al
National.
Freighter sunk after four escapes
from U-boats. Page A
Widespread fraud to circumvent
blacklist Is found. Page Bill
Evening star., 1942-04-06
British Scour Sea for Carriers
Which Launched Cey|on Raid; ;
300 R. A. F. Planes Blast Nozis
Two Aircraft Vessels
Hunted by Worships
After Abortive Blow
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COLOMBO, Ceylon, April g.
Japan tried a sudden death" air
blow on this island flank to India
yesterday, but alert defenses
turned the attack into one of the
sharpest air defeats the Japa-
nese have suffered.
About IS raiders streaked out OF
the early Easter morning sun in the
first raid of the war on Ceylon
which lies in the Bay of Bengal
just southeast Of the tip of India
and the British declared 81 of them
may never have regained the air.
craft carrier from which they were
presumed to have come.
British warships were believed
securing the Eastern Indian
Ocean today for at least two jap
anese aircraft carriers from
which the attack on Colombo was
launched. informed naval experts
said at London.
(The fact the surprise attack
was launched against Colombo
instead of the great naval base at
Trincomalee found no official ex-
planation. Some observ vers
thought it probably was aimed at
war supplies en- route to the
hard-pressed British troops in
Burma.
Can enemy naval force, includ-
ing an aircraft carrier, is operat-
ing in the Bay of Bengal. the
British announced officially at
Delhi)
81 Raiders Shot Down.
Twenty-seven of the IS raiders
were counted definitely as having
been shot down, 5 more as probably
Evening star., 1942-04-06
Johnson, u. 5. Envoy,
Confers With India's
Native Leaders
Cripps' Cancellation Of
Press ToIks Believed
Sign Of Progress
By the Associated Press.


NEW DELHI, India. April g.
Louis johnson, head of a special
mission named by President
Roosevelt, held exploratory con-
versations with India's native
leaders today in what was widely
believed to be a projection of
United States influence in an ef-
fort to smooth the country's diff
f1cult political problem.
Mindful of the importance Of
India's political problems If India
is to be converted into a military
bulwark against the Axis, Mr.. john
son conferred for "a hours yesterday
with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, past
president of the powerful Congress
Party.
Mr.. johnson conferred for an hour
this afternoon with Nehru and the
congress president, Maulana Kalan
Azad.
Mr.. johnson, a former assistant
secretary of war who heads a mission
to build up India's war industry
potential and who in addition has
been made a special Minister to
India, did not give to Nehru letter
which he has brought from President
Roosevelt for some one of India S
native leaders.
Neither the contents of the letter
nor to whom it is addressed has
been divulged.
Series of Meetings Planned.
Mr.. Johnson's meetings were the
first of a series he has planned in
what was described as an effort to
familiarize himself with India s
problems and see what can be con-
tributed toward solution. His
whole attitude, however. has been
to impart an attitude of vigor and
urgency toward the problem.
The Congress Party Working
Committee. which has conditionally
rejected the proposals brought by
Sir Stafford Cripps, met for two
hours this morning. The exact text
of the committees resolution on the
proposals still are undisclosed. but
Azad said it might be published to-
morrow
AZad was expecting today a COM
munication from Cripps which pre-
sumably would give the British wal
cabinets decision on the Congress
Party's proposals concerning Indian
defense.
Sir Stafford and Congress leaders
are expected to have further dis
cussions after the British envoy
receives a reply from Prime Minister
Churchill and the British war cab
met to the Congress proposals for
India's immediate future.
Sir Stafford Cancelled a press con-
ference set for tomorrow and with
held publication of the Congress
proposals, and this was considered
an indication that negotiations are
making progress.
Grips and johnson Meet.
anese raid on Ceylon as a warning
to political leaders to bring nego-
tiations to a speedy conclusion
which would permit the mobiliza-
Mr.. johnson and Sir Stafford met
yesterday and the United States
envoy was informed of the course
of the negotiations. Some quarters
attached even greater Importance
to the conferences Mr.. johnson
held with Nehru and Azad.
The Indian press used the jap
Evening star., 1942-04-06
Gen. SomerveT
To Talk in Forum

1t. Gen. Brehon B. Somer-
veil, commanding general Of
the Army's services Of supply,
will speak on Army Day,
1912" in the National Radio
Forum, sponsored by The
Star, at 9 o'clock tonight over
Station WMAL and the Blue
Network. He will be heard in
an address at the Army Day
banquet at the Mayfiower
Hotel.
Evening star., 1942-04-06
z Dutch Forces Battling
In Jovu, Van Nook Says
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
UNITED STATES ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April
6.-Two Dutch forces of consider
able size still are battling the jap
snese in Java. 1t. Gen. Hubertus j.
Van Nook of the Netherlands Indies
told Gen. Douglas Macarthur to-
day.
The forces, under command of
Gems. Schilling and Pressman, are
we'll supplied with food and NUM-
tions and should keep Japanese
forces occupied for some time, Van
Nook said.
Evening star., 1942-04-06
Paper Says U. S. Blocked
Petoin-LuvoI Accord
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY, Unoccupied France. April
6.-The Paris newspaper Nouveaux
Temps said today United States
pressure had blocked a rapproche-
ment of Marshal Petain and Pierre
Laval and that the Axis powers were
through with France" because of
her failure to collaborate.
Evening star., 1942-04-06
BuIooriun Town Shaken

LONDON, April LP.-A Rome
broadcast reported today by Reuters
said an earthquake had caused seri-
Gus damage in the Bulgarian town
of Tutrakan.
Evening star., 1942-04-06
RhineIond and Paris Arms Plants
Are Targets in Night Assaults
Cologne Is Pounded for l05th Time Of War;
Loss Of Only Five Bombers Reported

ne Asociat Press
LONDON, April 6-More than A F. bombers, al
fleet approaching the than raiders
which attacked London than
the night at the German industry the Rhnand
in the Paris reported authoritatively today
Evening star., 1942-04-06
North Manchu Border
Ordered Reinforced
By tn. Associated Press.

ny lHt hsSOCldtcu FIcee
LONDON, April 6-Premier Chang
Ching-hui Of Manchukuo. returning
to Harbin from visit to Toxic, said
he had received orders to reinforce
the northern frontier of Manchukuo,
Exchange Telegraph said today in
dispatch credited to the Rome radio.
1t said Chang declared the REIN
forcement was ordered so Japanese
military operations in the south
might proceed without being ham,
pered by fear Of surprise interven-
ton from the rear.
Chang left Toxic March "a after
a weeks visit in honor of the estab-
lishment Of Manchukuo under jap
anese sponsorship.
Evening star., 1942-04-06
Attention to North Urged.

BERLIN from German broad
casts, April 6 (P.-Maj. Nakajima
of Japanese Imperial Headquarters
was quoted in dispatches from Toxic
yesterday as declaring that from
the standpoint of national defense
nothing would be more dangerous
than concentrating all our energies
in the south and neglecting the
north"
"Over our great successes in the
south, the Japanese people must
never forget that the center of our
national defense is situated in the
japanese -Manchurian Chinese Sec
tor" he said in an article in the
periodical Diamond.
TOXIC from japanese broad
casts, April 6 (P).-Lt. Gen. Yoshit-
sugu Tatekawa, retiring Japanese
Ambassador to the Soviet Union,
said yesterday on his arrival at
Manchouli, Manchukuo. that he be-
lieved Japan and Russia would ad-
here strictly to the Soviet jap
anese neutrality pact.
Evening star., 1942-04-06

(See CEYLON, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1942-04-06

(See INDIA, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-04-06

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

(See EGG ROLLING, Page A-2
Evening star., 1942-04-06

(See AUSTRALIA, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1942-09-04
War 10 Be Shortened
When u. ). Hits British
Stride, Board Told
Junior Commerce Unit
Hears Dr.. Mineles
Observations on England

The war will be shortened when
America hits the stride achieved by
Great Britain, members Of the Jun
ior Board of Commerce were told
yesterday by DR.. C. K. Mingle, as
sociate veterinarian Of the animal
disease station at Beltsville, Md, as
he outlined impressions OF his SIX
months stay in England.
Among his observations were the
following:
British morale is high, con-
tributing factor being equitable food
rationing.
They have no thought of losing
the war, though they realize the
struggle will be hard.
Women. replacing men as porters,
bus operators, street cleaners, farm
and plant workers and even at gun
placements are doing AN amazing
job
Auxiliary Firemen Praised.
London auxiliary firemen proved
themselves heroes during the Nazi
bombing blitz.
Britain, formerly importing most
OF it's food, especially dairy supplies
from Denmark and Holland, is now
reclaiming swamp and barren land
for agricultural production, as well
as converting pasture lands to grow
ing of foodstuffs.
The British are grateful to Amer
lea for food supplies and other aid,
the entrance of Russia and America
on their side improving their morale
greatly.
Few horses but many American
tractors are found on British farm
lands.
DR. Mingle said he was sent to
England at the request of the Brit
ish Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries to improve live stock pro-
duction through vaccination and
disease control programs. Because
the British in peacetime had relied
on Denmark and Holland for dairy
Evening star., 1942-09-04

products, they had made no serious
attempts to solve their own live
stock disease problems, DR.. Mingle
stated.
Evacuees Flocking Back.
English farmers told him they
prefer women to men as farm work
ers. he said, adding "the ladies have
a winning way with the cows"
London evacuees are ffocking back
to the worlds largest city as an after
math of British air control there,
DIR. Mingle stated. This fact, coupled
with the housing of refugees from
Allied Nations, has crowded hotel
space to capacity, he said.
Describing his airplane trip from
Canada to England in 10 hours at
an altitude of 5000 feet, DR.. Mingle
said he withstood the rigors of my
first plane trip anywhere" better
than Fighting French admiral
who was one of 10 passengers
aboard the bomber.
The extent of Nazi blitz destruc-
ton in London, he emphasized
must be seen to be appreciated. Il
came back with a great respect for
the British war effort" he said,
adding when the United States hits
the stride of the British, this war
will be shortened"
Vice President Howard De Fran
ceaux presided. DR. Mingle was in
troduced by Mark Matthews, former
president of the United States jun
ior Chamber of Commerce.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
U.S.PiIot in'Tokio Raid
Killed With 5 Others
In Arkansas Crash
1t. Kenneth Reddy
One of Victims of
Bomber Cruckup
Ry the Associated Press.

ES the Associated Press.
SHREVEPORT, La, Sept. 4.-Six
Barksdale Field flyers, including First
1t. Kenneth E. Reddy, who was a
co-pilot on the famous Toxic raid
with Brig. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle last
April, were killed when a twin
motored bomber from Barksdale
Field crashed and burned in hilly
wooded section 7 miles from Little
Rock, Ark
The crash occurred about mid
night Wednesday. The entire crew
of three officers and three enlisted
men were killed.
Besides It. Reddy, who was pilot
of the plane, the other five victims
were identified at Barksdale Field
as.
Second 1t. Phillip Williams, jr., a.
son of Phillip Williams, sr., Hinsdale,
Ill.
Second 1t. Charles S. S. Brachbill,
81, Williamsport, Pa.
Sergt. Thomas T. Roberts. %. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. William D. Roberts,
Knoxville, Tenn.
Corpl. Dominic T. Moduno, 20,
whose uncle, Stanley Russo, lives in
Brooklyn, N, Y.
Pvt. Thomas A. Naylon. 33, son
of Mrs. Mary E. Naylon, Pittsburgh,
Pa
1t. Reddy, %, was the son of Mr.,
and Mrs. John w. Reddy, Bowie,
Tex. He was co-pilot for Maj,
Charles R. Greening, who now is at
Barksdale Field.
1t. Reddy was one of nine of the
Toxic flyers, now stationed at Barks-
dale, and had been awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross. He was
a graduate of North Texas Teachers
College at Denton in 1910 and re-
ceived his wings at Stockton Field,
Calf, the same year. He came to
Barksdale Field August 13.
1t. Brachbill attended Pennsyl-
vania State College for three years
and graduated at Turner Field, Ga.
August 5. He came to Barksdale
September 8,
Evening star., 1942-09-04
WPA ANursery School
Project Applications
Being Drawn Up Here
Preparations Under Way
In Anticipation of
Randolph Bill Pussoge

Project applications for District
WPA Nursery Schools are already
being drawn up in anticipation of
speedy passage of the Randolph Bill
introduced yesterday, it was learned
today.
The Randolph Bill provides for
the restoration of WPA nursery
schools to the District. missing
since 1889 when they were elimin-
ated from the 1889 District appro-
priation act.
Miss Una Franklin, chief of the
Service Division OF the District
WPA said today that her Office is
writing up the application to cover
as many nursery schools as local
WPA can find personnel to staff
The Federal WPA has said that 30
war nursery schools would be
satisfactory number for the Dis
trict.
Miss Franklin explained that 1t
takes several weeks to obtain ap-
proval for nursery projects, first
from the regional WPA Office at
Baltimore, next from the Federal
WPA Child Care Protection Pro-
gram, and then from Mrs. Florence
Kerr, Assistant WPA Commissioner.
She is in charge of allocations of
the Federal $6,000,000 nursery
school fund appropriated in July
of this year for war nurseries. Miss
Franklin said she hopes the nursery
school projects will be approved by
the time the Randolph Bill gets
through.
The District Board of Education,
the required sponsor for WPA
nursery schools, will meet Wednes-
day and consider proposals for re-
newinb its sponsorship of WPA
nurseries. Board officials have ex-
pressed the desire that the WPA
nursery schools be located In the
public schools if the Randolph Bill,
opening public schools to children
under five as we'll as restoring WPA
nurseries, is passed.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Two u. S. Flyers Killed
In Crash on Island

SAVANNAH, Ga, Sept. GA
plane crashed on Middlemarsh
Island near here yesterday, killing
the pilot, Lit. Justin J. Haley, and
the gunner, Sergt. Roger F. Fish.
The wreckage was sighted by a
plane sent out from Hunter Field
after the airmen were reported over
due. Crash boat crews removed the
bodies.
1t. Haley, 25, completed his pilot
training August and was commits
stoned at Spence Field, Moultrie, Ga.
His nearest relative is his mother,
Mrs. John j. Haley, Winthrop, Mass.
Sergt Fish, 81, was a native of
Knoxville, Pa. He enlisted Septem-
Der 2, 1941, at Fort George G. Meade,
Md. His nearest relative is Mrs,
Cecil Fish of Knoxville, Pa.