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Evening star., 1942-07-28
Egypt
Continued From First Page.)

front and presumably led the British
attack. af z
German bombers attempted, to
raid the Suez Canal zone last night
and British night fighter4 shot down
two OF the raiders. ..
Supply Centers Blasted.
British medium bombers cof1tin-
used to blast away at Marshal Rom
mell's supply centers and attacked
targets at Tobruk and the landing
grounds In the III Daba area.
The joint headquarters-RAF COM
munique reported an increase of en-
emy activity over Malta, the island
base from which Britain threatens
the Axis supply lanes across the
Mediterranean.
Evening star., 1942-07-28
CoIesviIIe Pastor to Get
Farewell Reception

A farewell reception in honor Of
the Rev. Paul H. Groseclose. pastor
of the Colesville and Layhill Metho-
dist Churches. and his family viii
be held at 8 o'clock tonight at the
church at Colesville.
Mr.. Groseclose will leave Thurs
day to assume his duties at Solo
mons Island. Md, where he will
have three charges He has served
as minister ut the two Montgomery
churches for the last seven years
and during the early years Of his
pastorate also was the preacher
for the Four Corners Methodist
Church.
His wife and two sons will accom-
pany Mr.. Groseclose to Solomons.
Evening star., 1942-07-28

ue OuCe on C1-
VILLAIN Defense
" as announced
today by Dtrec-
tor James M.
Lands. He has
b cen acti n &
c hief OF the
OCD Legal Divi-
SION, Joining the
4gency's STAN
last February
Mr.. Newman,
q native OF New
OYleA MS, was
graduated from
Tulane Univer-
Evening star., 1942-07-28
Letters Introduced
Al Trial Of Officer
In Tony Marlin Case
Aroff Accused Of Askino
Reword for Helping
Singer Get in Navy

b. the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 2s.-Lt
Comdr. Maurice N. Aroff's two let
tiers asking the Beverly Hills Draft
Board to defer Actor Singer Tony
Martin were Government evidence
today in the court-martial OF the
naval procurement officer.
He faces charges of "scandalous
conduct" and soliciting = fee for
facilitating Mr.. Martins enlistment
Evening star., 1942-07-28
Sehwinn Pleads Innocent.
Held in $4,000 Bail

NEW YORK. July % (R.-Her-
man Schwinn. western district leader
OF the German -American Bund,
pleaded innocent yesterday to In
dictments alleging conspiracies to
violate the Selective Service Act and
the Alien Registration Act when he
was brought before Federal Judge
Francis G. Caf1ey. He was held in
bail Of 325 900.
One Of 28 Bundsmen named In the
two indictments. Schwinn has been
interned at Camp Mccoy, Wis. The
cases Of all 2s are to be called today
for the purpose Of setting trial date
and to ascertain II all the defendants
have engaged counsel. The United
States Attorneys Once said it was
unlikely that actual trial Of the de-
PENDANTS would begin before Sep
tember /.
Before his fnternment schwinn
was In the insurance business in Los
Angeles. The Government contends
he Joined the Friends Of New Ger
many In 1888 and later became a
member Of the Los Angeles unit Of
the Bund.
Evening star., 1942-07-28

SAN FRANCISCO-OFFICER TRIED AT COURT MARTIAL
1t Comdr Maurice N Aro eft procure
men ofcer here went trial before general court martial
yesterday He charged with accepting
Tony Martin trght radio singer as fee compensation
reward for facilitating the enlistment" OF Martin
chief specialist IN the Navy This picture made
Martin took his enlistment oath last January 2.
A. p Wirephoto
Evening star., 1942-07-28
H. " Newman, Jr., Named
General Counsel Of 0CD

Appointment Of Harold w. New
man, jr- q former assistant general
counsel Of the Reconstruction FL
nance Corp. as general counsel OF
Evening star., 1942-07-28
Philadelphia Pastor
Is Placed on Trial
On Espionage Charge
Officer in German Army
In World War Wos
Indicted With 4 Others
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
HARTFORD, Conn. July 2s.-The
Rev. Kurt e. B. Molzahn, Al, color
full pastor Of the Zion Lutheran
Church in Philadelphia. goes on
trial today In Federal Court on a
charge of violating the 1917 Es-
pionage Act.
former ofhcer in the German
Army who won the Iron Cross In
the World War. Mr.. Molzahn was
indicted with four other men. All
but Mr.. Molzahn have pleaded
guilty to the charges, which carry a
maximum penalty of 20 years in the
Federal penitentiary.
The others were Gerhard Wilhelm
Kunze, 36, former leader of the
German-American Bund; Anastase
Vonsiatsky OF Putnam, former head
OF the All Russian Fascist Party:
DR.. Otto Willumeit OF Chicago and
DR.. Wolfgang Ebell OF El Paso, Tex
The pastor. naturalized in l940
has been serving the church since
1924.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
agents charged that he had used his
parsonage as post ONCE" for
NaN spy ring.
This he denied. and his parishion-
ers raised $25 900 bail for his release.
Sunday, he closed his parish for
Summer vacation" packed his bag
and started for this city. He ar
rived yesterday and will be repre-
sented by Attorney James w. Car
penter Of this city and Francis
Fisher Kane Of Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1942-07-28

From Monday through Sunday
there sheulA b many . bend day.
Buy H0W.
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Oft Somebody
kes Joon o"fone ho"d luncheon the Left
Hollywood her visit
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Evening star., 1942-09-18
All Federal Agencies
Told 10 Obey Jeffers
On Rubber Program
President Puts NYA
And Other Units Under
Monpower Commission

President Roosevelt today or
dered all Government agencies
having anything to do with the
rubber program to give "full
compliance" to directives of Will
liam M. Jeffers, new rubber di-
rector.
The President also issued an ex-
ecutive order consolidating the Ma
tional Youth Administration and
three other employment and train
ing agencies under the War Man
power Commission headed by Paul
v. McNutt
The agencies directed to follow
orders of Mr.. Jeffers dealing with
the rubber program include the
Rubber Reserve Co., the Office of
the Petroleum Co-ordinator for
War, the Board of Economic War
fare, the Office of Defense Trans
portation, the ONCE of Price Ad-
ministration, the Agriculture De-
partment and any other agencies
Mr.. Jeffers may deem necessary
for cooperation in the program.
Jeffers Reports to Nelson.
The executive order stipulated
that Mr.. Jeffers, as rubber director
appointed by War Production Board
Chairman Donald NJ Nelson, shall
be responsible to Mr.. Nelson for
administration Of the rubber pro-
gram.
1t gave Mr.. Nelson full RESPONSE
(See RUBBER, Page A-20D
Evening star., 1942-09-18
War Department Clerk
Dies in Four-FIoor Fall

Miss Kathleen Louise Huff. a Wal
Department clerk, fell to her death
this morning from the kitchen win.
dow of her fourth-floor apartment
at 1880 Seventeenth street NV, hel
body landing in an areaway in the
rear of the building
Identification was made at the
Morgue by DR.. w. o. Huff of Be.
thesda, an uncle of the dead woman
1t. jeremiah Flaherty, head ol
the homicide squad, said the woman
about 80 years old, had been in i'll
health and had been under the care
of a physician for a nervous condi-
ton. He said she had been a resi-.
dent here for three months.
typewriter note and two notes writ.
ten in pencil were found by police.
She was wearing a red -flowered
house coat. Her body was discov-
cred by resident of the apartment
1t. Flaherty said Miss Huff wa.
alone in the apartment at the time
Evening star., 1942-09-18
OPA Considers Banning Gas
To Chronic Speed Law Vio|utors

Attorney for the Office of Price
Administration are studying the ad-
visibility Of denying gasoline rations
to persistent violators of speed laws,
a spokesman for the agency said
today.
The official said the OPA legal
staff was looking into the legal au-
thority for such a step. He said it
was highly unlikely that ration
book would be taken away from a
motorist for a single speeding vio-
lation.
IF we decide that OPA has the
right under the law to deny gaso-
line to speeders, it will only apply
to those who persistently and will
fully violate the law" the spokes-
man said. I'VE couldn't, for ex-
ample, deny a doctor the right to
use his automobile simply because
he overstepped the limit once"
Denial of gasoline to speeders has
been advocated in many quarters as
a way Of enforcing the conserva-
ton Of tires. The Baruch Committee
Evening star., 1942-09-18
Husband She Divorced in 1884
Divorces Katharine Hepburn
Star Doesn't Appear,
Judge Almost FoiIs
To Realize Identity

By the Associated Press.
HARTFORD, Conn. Sept. 18.-
Katharine Hepburn, stage and
screen actress, was divorced to-
day by her husband, Ogden Lud-
low Of Alexandria, Va, in Supe-
rior Court here.
Judge Patrick B. O'Sulliyan rem
dered judgment for the plaintiff on
grounds of descrtion.
Mr.. Ludlow told the court Miss
Hepburn had divorced him in 1894 in
Mexico, but that he doubted the
legality Of the decree.
The case appeared on the docket
simply as Ogden Ludlow VS.. Kath-
arine H. Ludlow and it was not until
the hearing was nearly over that the
(ses HEPBURN, Page A-z6J
Evening star., 1942-09-18

investigating the rubber situation
recommended the national 35-mile
speed limit to accomplish this pur-
pose.
1t was understood that the first
official act Of William M. Jeffers
newly appointed rubber director
would be an appeal to motorists tc
stay within speed limits to save theil
tires.
Moving also against black mar.
ket" gasoline transactions, the OPA
announced earlier that henceforth
it would be illegal for a person tc
possess a ration book not issued
to him, or to the use of which he is
not entitled.
A specific exemption to the
amendment permits person find
ing a lost book to return it to a
local rationing board without vio-
lating the regulations.
The plan to cut speeders' gas ra.
tions was first revealed when thu
(see OPA, Page A-20)
Evening star., 1942-09-18
Hankin Fight Flares
Again Over Pepeo
RATE Investigation
Former Chairman Clashes
With Flanagan and
Kutz on Regulation
BY DON S. WARREN.

A bitter battle between Gregory
Hankin and the other two mem
bers of the Public Utilities Com
mission over methods of utility
regulation broke into the open
again today when the commits
sion ordered investigation of the
rates of the Potomac Electric
Power Co. in the usual way under
its sliding scale plan, as Mr..
Hankin charged the company
had an inflated rate base and
had been making excessive earn
ings.
After James H. Flanagan. commits
sion chairman, and Brig. Gen.
Charles w. Kutz, Engineer Commits
sioner, ordered an investigation next
January of Pepco rates for the year
beginning next March /, "in accord
ance with the sliding-scale arrange
ment," Mr.. Hankin, who was PUG
chairman up to September l, issued
what he called doubling" opin-
ion. charging, by direct statements
and questions, that the PUG ma jor-
ity was neglecting its duty to the
public.
"DOubting Opinion" Assailed.
In response to this, Chairman
Flanagan declared the doubling
opinion" was so full of fallacies
that it is of no guidance to the
commission" Both Mr.. Hankin and
Chairman Flanagan used such high
figures about excessive" Pepco
Soc pEpC0 pana o0
Evening star., 1942-09-18
Raj Planes Bomb Docks
AT Nazi-HeId Bordeaux
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 18-While the
weather shielded Germany proper
from air attack last night, planes
of the RATS coastal command
bombed docks at Bordeaux, Ger
man-held port and submarine base
of Southern France on the Bay of
Biscay.
Preceding the assault Beaufight-
! ers OF the same command, on patrol
over the Bay of Biscay yesterday,
destroyed three enemy bombers and
lost one of their own number, the
Air Ministrys communique said.
Considerable damage and some
casualties were reported from Brit
aims own coast when at least four
Nazi planes strafed !. southwest port
with bombs and machine-gun fire
on daylight sweep.
British anti-aircraft guns doWned
one enemy fighter off the coast in
the same region during the morning
and home guardsmen captured four
German airmen who bailed out of
bomber destroyed over Britain
during the night.
Evening star., 1942-09-18
i. 5. Flyers Smash
Al buna 10 Offset
Port Moresby Drive
IS Borges Destroyed
Or Damaged, Supply
Dumps Set Afire
By the Associated Press.

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, Sept. 10.
While Australian troops bat
tied japanese forces in the New
Guinea jungles only 80 miles air
line from Port Moresby, Ameri-
can fighter planes struck a
smashing blow yesterday at the
enemy supply base at Buna, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headquar-
ters announced today.
Approximately $4,000 rounds of
cannon and machinegun fire were
loosed by the Allied raiders In a con-
centrated attack, destroying or dam
aging Is landing barges and setting
fires in supply dumps which were
visible for Is miles, a communique
said.
The American airmen pounded
Buna for As minutes, one of the at
tackers sweeping so low his plane
clipped of the top of a palm tree
and gouged large section from a
wing, but the pilot brought his plane
home safely.
The returning pilots said they
started fires which sent fame and
smoke swirling up 1000 feet in this
attack, which followed a 26-ton AL
lied bomb attack last Saturday on
the japanese air base at Buna.
The assault obviously was de-
l1vered with a view to relieving pres
sure on the Australian forces locked
in combat with the japanese near
the village of Ioribaiwa, on the
southern slopes of the lofty Owen
Stanley Mountains.
Maneuvering for Position.
The fighting in that area, which
the Japanese reached Wednesday
after a swift 8mile advance, appar-
emily had abated somewhat in in
tensity, the Allied communique de-
scribing the action as sporadic.
A spokesman at Allied head
quarters, however, said both sides
were busily maneuvering for posi-
ton, and it appeared probable that
the lull would be short-lived.
Australians were reported coun-
tering Japanese tactics with their
own flanking movements and in
filtration and this was taken here to
mean stiffening of resistance
against the invader
Typical of the sporadic fighting
which replaced the heavier combat
was one jungle skirmish in which
the Australians said they killed at
least 40 japanese and forced the
remaining members of the enemy
units to flee. There were no Aus
tralian losses.
The Japanese spearhead at lori
baiwa is approximately 80 miles
southwest of Buna, where the in
vaders established a base late in
July. All the supplies to feed their
overland push toward Port Moresby
flow through that base, being
brought there by ship from upper
New Guinea or from New Britain.
| The latter source of supply also
. Continued on Page A-2O, Column i
Evening star., 1942-09-18
Rome Claims 5inkino
At Gibraltar, Damage
To -Four Other Ships
Penetration of Roudsteud
Reported Made by
Tiny Torpedo Boots
By the Associated Press,

ROME (From Italian Broad.
casts, Sept. 18.-Italian storm
boats" presumably the swift
one-man, torpedo-carrying Mezz
boats which have been used be-
fore against Gibraltar) have
penetrated the roadstead at Gil
braltar in new attack, sinking
a steamer and damaging four
other Allied vessels seriously, the
high command said today.
(The Berlin radio broadcast
dispatches from Rome naming
the sunken steamer as the
Ravenspoint and saying the YES
sells damaged were the steamers
Meta, Shuma, Empire Snipe,
Baron Douglas and one unidenti-
fed ship
THE majority of the attacking
units returned to their base" the
announcement said
(The communique failed to
specify when the action at Gil
bralter occurred and the italian
claims were not confirmed by any
Allied source.
GA Berlin broadcast, however,
quoted dispatches from Algeciras,
Spain. as saying a submarine
alert had sounded at Gibraltar
Thursday night and that all de-
fenses were called out. Search
lights played over the harbor and
airplanes swept overhead in a
lengthy search for a submarine
which had been reported near
the harbor entrance, the dispatch
said)
The Italians also reported a re-
newal of air attacks on Malta and
acknowledged the loss of four planes
over that British Mediterranean
stronghold during the past two days
One British plane was reported shot
down there yesterday.
Activity on the Egyptian front was
limited to reconnaissance, the high
command said.
Evening star., 1942-09-18

Metal collected here Sunday will placed
gency stock piles that the gathered the
blz definitely may be determined, it today
BY keeping the Sunday collection
regular salvage depots there be doubt
collected emphasized by Horace Walker secretary the
Commissioners Special Salvage Scrap Committee.
Proceeds from the sale of will be
lied bodies in the
of the 81 emergency stock piles the North
Evening star., 1942-09-18

AIIhOugh theSe troops have been
in England for some time and their
booted uniforms have become a
familiar sigh in London streets.
their presence was kept secret
abroad until it was announced Off
cially today from headquarters of
1t. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
commander in chief of the AEF in
the European theater.
They are commanded by 1t. Col.
Edison D. Raft of New York City
and Joined forces with British para
chute troops for training here after
preliminary course in Georgia.
They form one of the United
Evening star., 1942-09-18

piles. Junk dealers with their own
trucks will be gathering scrap all
day from these 81 special piles.
Labor crews for the business trucks
will be provided by the Refuse Di-
vision. The donating firms are sup
(See SCRAP, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1942-09-18
Get in the Scrap
Metal Collected Here Sunday
To Be Put in 81 Stock Piles
Amount Gathered in One Day Bitz
Can Be Calculated Definitely

All District residents living east North and South Capitol
streets and east OF the Anacostia Riuer asked place metal
scrap the deDds the cubtng front their
by Sunday Trucks piU pick the starting
For further details Star Pictures Page
Evening star., 1942-09-18

States Armys veteran units spe-
clallzing in air-borne warfare.
Majority From South.
Most of them are from the South
and their accents are so thick that
even the British liason officer now
says, you ALL"
Even many of the minority from
the north have picked up southern
accent. Sergt. Alain Josephs of
New York, for instance, answers,
See PARACHUTISTs. Page AGO J
Evening star., 1942-09-18

Capitol streets and east of the Ana
costa River will be announced later
A fleet Of 220 trucks-l10 supplied
by the District Refuse Division and
ITO by business concerns-will begin
collecting scrap from sidewalks at
8 am. Sunday. These trucks will
haul material to the emergency
Evening star., 1942-09-18
u. S. Porochutists in Britain:
Reheurse Invasion Exercises
Force Abroad SweIed by Arrival
Of Many Big Conveys Recently
BY IVES GALLAGHER.

LONDON, Sept 18Lean, American
swelling the striking the
blow against Hitler exercises above the green hills
of this island $500 $4,000
Evening star., 1942-09-18

(See PEPCO, Page A-20.)
Evening star., 1942-09-18

(See RUBBER, Page A-20)
Evening star., 1942-09-18

(see OPA. Page A-N)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-04-23
Congress Steps In

Latest dispatches from New York State
seemed to indicate that Congress would
have to make good on it's threat to step
in and force reapportionment of congress
sional districts there. The Legislature,
apparently, faces the same hopeless task
in this respect that most of our law
making state bodies elsewhere do. In
short congressional reapportionment is
hard to secure agreement on. Connectl-
cut ought to know.
Just how Congress will justify such
step remains to be seen. We don't think
that it has ever happened before that the
federal government was able to proclaim
that all of states representatives should
be elected at-large and that district lines
would be abolished. Yet that's just ABOUT
what has been threatened now because the
N Y. Legislature refuses to 60 ahead with
plans for redistricting.
Actually we don't know under what
legal or legislative procedure Congress
would proceed to upset states existing
district lines and make all congressional
offices at large. If it is merely threat
to get action from recalctrant N. Y. leg
islatorS we don't think it will succeed.
If it's more than that then there may
be even a court test for legality. If that
is upheld then we certainly can expect
similar action in other states, plagued by
demands for rediStricting problems.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-04-23
Bad News to Hoarders

Any company or individual planning
a violation Of rationing regulations should
stay out of the jurisdiction of Federal
Judge Robert c. Baltzell of Indiana. Elk
pressing the sentiment Of a people united
to smash anything retarding the war
effort, Judge Baltzell sentenced at Evans
vile, Ind, two men to Is months and a
year and day plus heavy fines for con-
ceapg and 1b storing large quontt d
fined $1,000.
One of the men was castigated by the
iurist as "an enemy of the war effort and
lacking in essential patriotism" The
rubber they hid for their own personal
profit might have spelled the difference
between success and failure for a mechan-
lied regiment. The nation is more than
ready to back Judge Baltzell and other
officials in such actions.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-04-23
Slightly Exaggerated

The claims of New York newspaper
that a birth certificate mill was nelng
operated in Bridgeport has been def
nitely proved to be on the lurid side.
Bridgeport officials from Mayor Jasper
McLevy down are now convinced that the
city has not been making possible racket
for many years. Investigation OF the
issuance of birth certificates positively
reveals that over a period of 95 years 40
certificates only had been issued on AHA
davitS. Of these 81 were found to be per-
fectly all right. Four, termed somewhat
questionable, were surrendered by the
persons who had obtained them.
The N. Y. newspaper revelation may
have showed faulty law structure here IN
Connecticut, but if so it is no more apple
able to Bridgeport than to the remaining
1853 towns of the state. In obtaining
a fraudulent birth certificate to snow
what could be done the reporter himself
violated the law, got what was presumed
to be good" story, but actually failed
to produce the evidence to substantlate
any claims of racket. All OF which
only goes to prove that when an expose
is being made it should not be OF tllmsy
stuff.
AS a result of the exaggerated claims,
publicized far and wide, Bridgeport mas
been subjected to unwarranted notorlety::
Likewise the entire state has suffered
somewhat Never will all the people who
gulliblv swallowed the claims of great
racket being practiced get the real facts
of the case and learn that there was no
racket, simply loophole in the law allow
ing anyone who wanted to build up an
imaginary racket plenty of leeway for his
imagination.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-04-23
Better Neighbors

Mutual interdependence is drawing
Mexico and the United States closer to-
gether. Distrust and envy die hard. So
does superciliousness. We two neighborS
do not fully understand each other yet.
But we are learning. Strangely enough,
the betterment rests in part upon our
sudden discovery that the smaller repub-
lie can do something important for us.
So long as our country was the exclusive
we felt our superiority, and they resented
it.
Mexico still needs us. But today she
is our sole source of graphite, anthony
and Mercury. She supplies us with vana-
dunn, tungsten, some tin, hides, zinc,
copper, and sisal and henequen fibres.
These are war needs. Now the Latlnos
deal with us on basis resembling equal
ity. So relations improve.