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Evening star., 1942-05-05
London Claims
Casualties Light
In Invasion
BULLETIN.


ralty and War Office an
nounced tonight Operations
are proceeding Ton Madagas-
carr and our casualties have
so far been light"
Earlier Story on Page AID
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 5.-British
Commands, marines and infan-
try landed on the northern tip
of Madagascar today. and a
Vichy news agency broadcast
that they were attacking the
strong French naval base of
Diego Suarez from the rear
while warships and squadrons of
airplanes assaulted the harbor
frontally.
British parachute troops also
we're used in the attack, the
Vichy broadcast said.
The troops landed at Courier
Bay and started pushing 10 miles
across the northern isthmus against
the base. in an attempt to forestall
its seizure by the Japanese.
The Vichy broadcast said the
British naval forces consisted of
two cruisers, four destroyers, two
troop transports and probably an
aircraft carrier. Two British planes
were reported shot down.
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Markets at q Glance

NEW YORK. May 5 (Pl.-
Stocks irregular: selective indus
trials higher. Bonds steady: rails
and utilities improve. Cotton
quiet; price fixing equalizes
c. c. c. hedging.
CHICAGO.-Wheat moderately
higher in last-minute rally. Corn
fractionally higher. in sympathy
with wheat.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
MistriuI Motion Denied
In Records Theft Case
Earlier Story on Page B.

Earlier Story on Page BID
A move for a mistrial in the
civil service file theft case was over
ruled late today by District Court
Justice James M. Morris.
The motion was made by defense
counsel when a prosecution witness
described public disclosure of in
formation contained in Government
records as "reprehensible." The de-
tense claimed the remark would
prejudice the jury.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Chino Names First
Minister to Iron

Fy the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, May ST. r. L.
senior secretary of the Foreign Of
nee, was appointed China's first
Minister to Iran today.
Ii, Al, is 1881 alumnus of the
University of Wisconsin and was di-
rector of publicity in the foreisn
ministry before its removal from
Marking to Chungking.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Todoy's Home Runs

American League.
w. Moses, Chicago, I'd inning
j. Di Maggie, New York. 4th inning.
Williams, Boston, 4th inning.
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PimIico

FIFTH RACE-Purse. Il 800: allow
ances: 4year-olds and upward. s furlougS
Pompion KEEPER l400 40 3 90
Third Desree tArcarol $50 $50
pesignator (GormanD $50
Time. l:1145.
Also ran-Comedian, JonEleur. Jay jay
and Westnesia.
SIXTH RACE-Purse 50. 500 added
allowances: 3-year-olds; ! Lie miles.
Grey Wings tDeCamillis) 500 $50 80
Incoming MORA $40 80
Rascal (Maddtn) go
Time, 46 2-5
Also ran-Antichmax. Coochs Bridge.
Sroon
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Sportsmun's Park

THIRD RAcE-Purse; $500: allow
1nceS; maiden 2-year-oldS: ) furlonSs
Prince Puck tM'Andrew) 500 $40 200
Risht Cara tLitzenberser) $40 40
Mighty Lucky tHigley) 800
Time, OBS
Also ran-Lissa, Hot Spark Fin Try.
1nsood. Greenock's Coin, Who Kan. Miss
Amanda.
FOURTH RACE-PurSe. $500: claiming;
l-year-o,os and upward; furlongs
Commxion tJones) 500 $40 400
Miss Grief Haley 1880 7SO
Mental Banker tGuerin) $50
Time, 80 2-5
Livery, Tetanagra.k Jay D. Ban,, sure
eEift, Lookout Below.
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Jomuicu
NurruqunsettP Park

SIXTH RACE-Purse, Sl.l00: claim
tns; 4-year-olds and UPWARD, furlongs.
Marion Collins IT bulb $50 800 $40
Time o. War fHoWelD SO 3.l0
Graustark Atkinson 240
Time, 1:ll%s.
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Other League Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

At New York
Chicago -- 211 600 600 O-4 8 |
New York 600 103 900 Is 8 2
Batteries--Rigney and Turner; Lindell,
Borowy and Dickey.
At Boston
Cleveland - 100 0O1 100 3 II
Boston O16 302 10x II IS l
Batteries-Kennedy, G. Brown, Embree
and Desautels; Chase and Peacock.
At Philadelphia
Detroit ---- 900 coo 001-1 3
Philadelphia 600 600 OK II
Batteries-Trout and Tebbetts; Chris
topher and Wagner.
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Churchill Downs

FOURTH RACE-PurSe. 81 900; allow
snces: 3-year-olds; furlopss
Pig Tails tStrickler) 1850 7.2O $40
Guestyive tParise) 100 & 40
Emolument (Craigl 40
Time, .262s.
Also ran--Sis Baker. Filllbes, Crystal,
Xaldina MAlia Cinld PrinrheS
Evening star., 1942-05-05
7 Naval Flyers Save
Victim Of U-Boat
Off East Coast
Gun Crew Risks Death
To Keep Firing on Sub;
Ruiders Get Two Ships
BJJLLETIN.

In the third ship sinking
announced today, the Navy
disclosed late this afternoon
that a medium sized Norwe-
gian merchant vessel had
been torpedoed and sunk off
the Atlantic Coast, with sur
vivors being landed at an
Eastern port.
- 3
b. the Associated Press.
COCOA, Fla, May 5.-Eighty-
eight survivors from two torpe-
doed freighters-one British and
one of the United Nations-have
reached safety with spectacular
stories of a heroic naval rescue
at sea and Of a gun crew that
risked death to keep firing on an
Axis submarine.
The Navy revealed today that the
two vessels fell victim to torpedoes
of the Eastern United States coast
early Sunday. Twenty-three men
lost their lives in the sinkings.
Seventeen of them died when a
torpedo struck their lifeboat as it
was being lowered over the port
side of the medium sized United
Nations freighter. Another of the
ships crew was killed. and 46
survivors were brought to an East
Coast naval air station.
The other five were killed in the
engine room of the medium sized
British freighter, from which AZ
survivors were brought to the naval
station.
Two Navy Men Heroes.
Two Navy men. Ensign John F
Gray of Champaign, ILL.,, and Ra-
dioman James Wesley White OF
Jacksonville, Fla, were heroes in
rescuing Thomas Jones, 27-year-old
able-bodied seamon of Birkenhead
England.
Jones suffered a broken leg when
tSee SINK1NGS, Page 2-X)
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Box Score
WASHINGTON.
b. the Associated Pres.

Chriscola batted for Harris in 7th.
Cullenbine batted for Swift in 9th.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Late Races

tions and Entries for Tomorrow,
Page TX.
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st. Louis 900 20l O00- 3 s 4
Washington 900 302 O01-5 so
SUMMARY:
Runs batted in-Swift (2l. EstslelIa t2),
Pofahl stephens, Wynn (2).
Two-base hits-Clift. Laabs, Swift.
Three-base hit--Lzabs.
Double e-plays-GomeE and Vernon.
Left on bases-St Louis, 5; Washing
ton, 5.
Bases on baiIs-On Harris. 2; of Wynn, I.
Struck out-By Harris, /; by Wynn, 4;
by Biscan, 2.
Hits-On Harris. 5 In 6 inninss: of Bis
can, O in 9 innings.
Wild pitch-Wynn.
Winning pitcher-Wynn.
Losing pitcher-HaTriS.
Umpires-Messrs. Stewart adn Basil.
Time Of same-i Aeur snd ~ minutes.
Attendance (artusI Or 900.
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At Cincinnati
New York. 100 900 600 0-1 so
Cincinnati - 900 O10 600 l. 2 so
Batteries-vSehumacher and Danning;
Walters and Lamanno.
At Pittsburgh
Boston 1850 02l 900 013-
Pittsburgh 900 OO1 90 -
Batteries-walIace and KIuttz; DietI
Lanning. Hamlin and Lopez.
At st. Louis
Brooklyn - 900 600 |
St. Louis 600 900
Batteries-Freneh and Owen: PoIIett
and Cooper.
At Chicago
Philadelphia 200 OO1
Chicago 49, 900 II
Batteries-Pedsajny and Warren; Pas
seau and McCullough.
Evening star., 1942-05-05
K. A. F. in -Four More Raids

LONDON pP.-The R. A. F. made four offensive sweeps
the Channel today, attacking Zeebrugge in Belgium
points in Occupied Six British planes lost
and four Nazs shot down. learned authoratvey
Earlier Story on Page AID
Evening star., 1942-05-05
Nozis Machine Gun East Coast Town

LONDON QP1.-Four bomb carrying German fighter
planes raided southeast coast town briefly tonight
chnegunfn the streets and bombing property. Several
casualties resulted in small homes which crumbled.
Evening star., 1942-05-05

(See WAR COUNCIL, Page 2-X0
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(See VICHY, Page Ok,
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Late News Bulletins

Jops Launch Landing Attack on Coregidor
The War Department reported late today that the
japanese had launched landing attack against Cor
regidor.
.. E>,. A>~. Dill.
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tSee BASEBALL, Page 2-XJ
Evening star., 1942-05-05
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Batteries-Trout and Tebbetts; Chris
topher and Wagner.
Evening star., 1942-02-25
Turnage Continues Hearing
In Gaminq Table Raid

United States Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage yesterday con-
tinued until March 4 the hearing
for two defendants held for operat-
ing a gaming table in the one time
mansion of William F. Draper,
former Ambassador to Italy, in the
l700 block of K street NV.
Following questioning by Defense
Counsel T. Edward O'Connell OF
one of the arresting officers, Com
missioner Turnage declared he
wanted more witnesses to be sub
poenaed for the continued hearing
-"regardless of their regulations"
At the time of the raid last
Saturday afternoon eight alleged
players, some of them said to be
well known here, were taken into
custody as Government witnesses.
The defendants were booked as
Howard Orr Seal, 43, Of the 1400
block of Meridian street NV, and
Fred B. Harper, 81, of the 540o
block of Ninth street NV. Com
missioner Turnage continued bond
at $500 each for the defendants
and s100 each for the witnesses.
Evening star., 1942-02-25

ton and the Federal Works Agency,
the Public Buildings Administration,
the Division of Defense Housing and
the Mutual Ownership Defense
Housing Division in the Federal
Works Agency, the War and Navy
Departments Except for buildings
on military reservations), the de-
fense housing of the Farm Security
and the Division OF
Defense Housing Coordination.
Transferred to the Commerce De-
partment are non-housing func-
tions Of the Reconstruction Finance
Corp, Electric Home and Farm Au-
thority, r. F. c. Mortgage Co., Fed
eral National Mortgage Association,
Disaster Loan Corp, Export Import
Bank of Washington, Defense Plant
Corp, Rubber Reserve Co., Metals
Reserve Co., Defense Supplies Corp.
and War Insurance Corp.
BIandford Formerly with T. v. A.
Mr.. Blandford has been serving as
the assistant budget director since
the fall of 1899. From 1888 to the
time of his appointment to the
Budget Bureau he was co-ordinator
and later general manager of the
Tennessee Valley Authority.
He was formerly director of pub
lie safety in Cincinnati, in charge
of police, fire, welfare and buildings
inspection and director of the Gin
cinnati Bureau of Municipal Re-
search. Mr.. Blandford has also been
director of governmental research of
the Newark IN. j. Chamber of
Commerce, assistant to the city
manager, Petersburg, Va, and engi-
neer with the Texas Co. in Texas
and Virginia. For several months
in 1929 Mr.. Blandford served as a
member of the Presidents Emer-
gency Committee for Employment
under the Craftsmanship Of Col. Ar
thur Woods.
Mr.. Blandford was born in New
York in 1897. He was graduated
from Stevens Institute of Technol-
ogy with the degree Of mechanical
engineer and later studied public
administration and became a staff
member of the National Institute Of
Public Administration. During the
first World War he served, in the
United States Naval Aviation Serv-
ice, o..-.
Evening star., 1942-02-25
Ship With $50 Refugees
Reported Blasted by Mine
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VICHY, Feb. 25.-The small
steamer Struma with 750 Jewish
refugees from Rumania and Bull
garia aboard was blown to pieces in
the Black Sea about miles north
of the Bosphorus. apparently by a
stray mine, an Istanbul dispatch to
the Vichy news agency said yester-
day. There have been no reports
of survivors, but search was begun
Immediately.
The vessel Of less than 400 tons
was flying the Panama flag and at
the time of the explosion was being
towed by Turkish tug. The Struma
sank Immediately, it was said.
1t was reported here that the
Turkish vessel Chankaya went down
in the same locality under similar
circumstances simultaneously with
the sinking of the Struma.
The refugees did not have entry
papers either for Turkey or Pales-
tine and the Struma had been Or
dered to leave the harbor, the dis
patch said. The captain of the ship
had repeatedly declared the vessel
was not seaworthy.
Evening star., 1942-02-25
Bidd|e Predicts Industry
Will Have 10 Hire Aliens
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 25.-Attorney
General Biddle predicts that the Ia
Dor shortage soon will force Ameri-
can war industry to employ foreign
born workers.
Describing discrimination against
alien workers as a stupid policy"
Mr.. Biddle said, Il think the pres
ent policy of industry not to employ
foreign-born workmen will be
changed"
The Attorney General spoke last
night at a dinner meeting of the
Law Institute of the Baltimore Bar
Association.
There is a great mass of skilled
labor in this country-many Ger
mans and others of alien origin
who can't find jobs" Mr.. Biddle said
Many of the group, he added, are
loyal Americans.
On the West Coast. where Japan
eSe farmers at present raise nearly
so per cent of the truck garden
crops used by the Army in that area
any large-scale evacuatio nof jap
anese would present a tremendous
probelm," Mr.. Biddle said.
Evening star., 1942-02-25

President acknowledged that there
have been duplication, conflict, dis
putes and overlapping among these
public agencies themselves and also
between them and the private build
ing agencies"
The consolidation order, he said,
"simplifies and improves admins
tration 1t does not change
purposes" Personnel eliminated by
the merger can be used in defense
agencies.
Affected by the housing transfer
are the housing activities which
have been carried on by the Fed
eral Housing Administration. the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board,
the Federal Home Loan Bank Sys-
tenn, the Federal Savings and Loan
Insurance Corp, the Home Owners
Loan Corp, the United State Hous-
ing Corp, the United States Hous-
ing Authority, the Defense Homes
Corp, the non-farm public housing
of the Farm Security Administra-
Evening star., 1942-02-25
House Votes Repeal
OF Pensions, 1897,
|Under Protest Flood
Lowmukers See Foil
Election Cumpoiens
Bosed on Single Issue
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Congress has washed it's hands
of the pensions for Congress
law, which has brought tons of
angry mail from taxpayers since
it was signed by the President
January 26.
The House vote was 389 to 7.
Actually it was on a technical
motion instructing House con-
ferees to retain a Senate amend
ment to a minor naval bill. The
Senate amendment repealed the
congressional pensions.
I'VE are on a spot" one Repre-
sentative said, looking ahead to the
fall campaigns. land don't you think
a lot of the boys aren't worried.
Regardless of the repeal vote the
fact remains that no one opposed
the pensions when they came up
originally on unanimous consent
procedure.
Next summer, when the congress
sional campaigns get going good. a
lot of opponents are going to base
their campaigns on this single issue.
They are going to say the incum-
bents voted for pensions originally
by not blocking them under the
unanimous consent rule.
Then, when the harassed incum-
bent points to his repeal vote, his
opponent is going to counter with
the charge that vote was cast under
pressure from the people back home,
and that a Congressman who has to
be forced to vote the way his con-
stituents want him to ought to be
replaced"
The seven who voted against the
repeater, all Democrats, were Ma
jority Leader Mccormack, Party
Whip Boland and Representatives
Flaherty and Casey of Massachu-
sets, Mitchell Of Illinois, Moser OF
Pennsylvania and Rogers of Okla
homa.
Evening star., 1942-02-25
Is Units Merged,
BIundford Named
Administrator
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

The far-reaching and varied
activities of the Federal Gov
''ernment in the field of housing
were in process of being stream
lined into single administrative
agency today under an executive
order issued late yesterday by
President Roosevelt.
Vested with the task of bringing
order and efficiency out of the fire.
quent confusion and duplication
which has marked the housing effort
under war conditions was John B.
Blandford. jr., assistant budget d.
rector, whose nomination as ma
tional housing administrator is to
be sent to the Senate for conflrma-
ton. The post will pay salary Of
$4,000 yearly.
Swept up in the consolidation
directive were the activities of l6
separate organizations heretofore
operating under general supervision
of the Federal Works Agency and
the Federal Loan Agency.
Transfers F. l.. A. Functions.
With transfer of the housing re-
sponsibilities of the Federal Loan
Agency to the new master organ
ization, the President issued a COM
panion executive order abolishing as
such the Federal Loan Agency and
transferring its non-housing func-
tions to the Commerce Department.
Under the new National Housing
Agency will be three subordinate
administrative structures.
One of these will be the Federal
Housing Administration, which will
supervise all Federal efforts to en-
courage private building and will be
under direction of Abner Ferguson.
present F. H. A. administrator, as
commissioner.
A second will be the Federal Home
Loan Bank Administration, to be
directed by John H. Fahey, present
chairman of the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board, and to include all
Federal housing loan functions.
The third will be the Federal
Public Housing Authority, to direct
all housing construction with public
funds. and to be administered by
Commissioner Leon Keyserling.
Shifts Personnel.
With certain specific exceptions,
personnel and officers of the affected
agencies will be transferred to the
new National Housing Agency, or, in
the case of the remnants of the
Federal Loan Agency, to the Com
merce Department.
These exceptions, however, include
the directors and officers of the
Defense Homes Corp, the members
of the Federal Home Loan Bank
Board other than Chairman Fahey.
the directors of the Home Owners
Loan Corp. and the trustees of the
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance
Corp. In general, these Offices are
to be vacated.
While the F. H. A and the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board will remain
under Mr. Ferguson and Mr.. Fahey,
all members of the bank board ex-
cept Mr.. Fahey will lose their 1000
jobs. These members are T. D.
Webb, Franklin w. Hancock, jr.;
Fred w. Catlett and w. H. Husband.
Mr. Hancock, former Representa-
tive in Congress from North Caro-
Evening star., 1942-02-25
Communiques
U. S. Flyers Rout Jop
Bombers Over Juvo

The War Department communion
No. 123. reporting on Development
up to $50 am. today, tollotos::
/. Philippine theater:
There were sharp encounters
between our patrols and the
enemy all along the line in
Bataan. Small elements of our
troops were uniformly successful
in aggressive local actions.
2. Netherlands Indies:
A formation of nine Japanese
bombers, protected by IA fighting
planes, was intercepted over Java
by seven American Army. P-40
pursuit planes and turned back.
Our planes shot down one enemy
bomber and one fighter. Four
other enemy bombers and two
fighters were damaged in the at
tack. Our planes suffered no
losses.
There is nothing to report from
other areas.
Evening star., 1942-02-25

lima, was appointed to the board in
1888 after unsuccessfully running
for the seat of Senator Reynolds.
1t was specified that the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank Board Of
fees shall not be vacated until so
days from February "a. The Divi-
sion of Defense Housing Co-ordina-
ton and of the Central Housing
Committee are not transferred, ex-
cept that the national housing ad-
miniStrator is authorized to take
over such personnel as needed.
1t was made clear, also, that the
new agency will not take over farm
housing activities, nor will it have
jurisdiction over housing on Army
and Navy reservations. Legislation
to merge the Federal housing activi-
ties was introduced Monday by Sem
ator McKellar, Democrat Of Tennes-
see.
Palmer to Go to England.
In doing away with the Division
of Defense Housing Coordination,
the President asked Charles F. Pal
mer, who has headed that division,
to undertake an assignment in Eng
land to study housing activities Of
the British government during the
last two and one-half years of war.
II understand" Mr. Roosevelt
wrote Mr.. Palmer, that England
has made great progress in working
out the difficulties of of housing
under wartime conditions and af-
iliated problems, as we'll as postwar
housing planning. Such things-in
addition to the many problems
which we have already faced in this
ountry-include emergency repairs
of wartime damage, stock piles of
materials for such purposes, finan-
cial help and abatement Of rent in
relation to wartime damage, insur-
ance funds for wartime damage, re-
ception centers for housing evacuees,
postwar housing construction and
related subjects.
Il should like to have you adapt
the experience gained by you in your
work over the last l8 months to the
working out of foregoing and similar
problems.
Duplication Acknowledged.
In a statement accompanying his
housing consolidation order, the
Evening star., 1942-02-25
Correction

Through typographical error,
The Star yesterday incorrectly
quoted Chairman Ramspeck of
the House Civil Service Commit
tee as stating that there had
been secrecy or concealment" in
the original passage of the PEN
sions for Congress legislation.
The story should have quoted
Mr.. Ramspeck as saying that
"there had been no secrecy or
eoncealment."
Evening star., 1942-02-25
Congress in Brief


Senate:
Considers proposal to require sales
Of Government-held crop surpluses
at or above parity prices.
May take up s32, ,762 900 900 de-
fense appropriation.
Banking Committee hears War
Production Board officials on small
business bill
Foreign Relations Committee
meets with State Department off,
cials for general discussion.
Defense subcommittee continues
closed hearings on rubber supply
situation.
Conference Committee meets on
bill to repeal congressional pensions.
House:
Resumes consideration of second
war powers bill. 90. .--.--. -.-- .-.-.
Naval subcommittee, behind closed
doors, investigates Normandie burn
ing. a.. -..... ....
Interstate. Committee studies pc
troleum supply. --a,4r a4r -.
Evening star., 1942-02-25
Rita Hayworth Of Films
Files Suit for Divorce
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 25-Count-
less masculine hearts beat a little
faster today. Rita Hayworth filed
suit for divorce and soon will be
back in circulation.
Miss Hayworth took time out
from making MY Gal Sal" to ex-
plain that she isn't going to ne
Gilman Ed Judson's gal any more
his business takes him to Texas and
Oklahoma too frequently. She
charges cruelty. They were mar
ried in 1887.
Coincidentally - nothing more
Victor Mature, co-starring in MY
Gal SAL" told reporters a few days
ago that he had separated from his
wife, Martha Kemp Mature.
Evening star., 1942-02-25
War in Retrospect
One Year Ago Today

One Year Ago Today.
Britain tells Japan peace with
Germany is out of question
without victory.
Two Years Ago Today.
United States Undersecretary
of State Sumner Welles arrives
in Naples on European fact
finding tour for President
Roosevelt. American clipper
planes to skip Bermuda stop as
result of British mail censor
ship.
25 Years Ago Today.
British liner Laconia tor
pedoed without warning, two
Americans lost. German retreat
on Ancre described by Allies as
greatest western front retire
|. ment in two years. 10
Evening star., 1942-02-25
TotuI Druft Possible,
Gen. Hershey Declares

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb. 24-Brig. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey, national Selective
service director, declared last night
the time might come when every
able-bodied man may be compelled
to Join the armed forces"
Addressing the Illinois Manufac-
turers' Association, he said "it is
essential to make efficient use Of
every man, woman and child capable
of assisting in America S war effort" 4"
Before next January /, Gen.
Hershey said, the armed services
must add two million men and war
industries 10 million.
I'VE may have to look into the
educational program to determine to
what extent the training of boys and
girls can be made productive" he
added.