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Evening star., 1942-02-08
Miss .Llewellyn
And M. H. Lowe
Wed in Bethesda

The marriage of Miss Jane Ellen
Llewellyn, daughter Of Mrs. Myrtle
Pardue Llewellyn of Winston-Salem,
N. c., and Mr.. Myron H. Lowe, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. I. w. Lowe of Wild
Rose, Wis, took place yesterday
afternoon at $50 O'Clock in the
Bethesda Presbyterian Church. The
Rev. James s. Albertson ofilciated.
The church was decorated with
white gladioluses and ferns. An
organ recital was given preceding
the. ceremony by Mr.. Maurice
Hughes, and Mrs. Theresa Shrader
sang solo.
The bride, who was given In mar
riage by 1t. Col. r. r. Snyder, was
dressed in a suit Of powder blue
wool with brown accessories and
wore a corsage of violets.
Miss Ruth Avis Stevens of Charles
ton; S. c., was maid of honor, wear
ing . blue suit and a corsage Of
gardenias.
Mr.. Craig Nunan Of Camarillo,
Calf, served as best man, and the
ushers were Mr.. Theodore Snyder
and Mr.. Robert Snyder.
Mrs. Lowe was graduated from
Montreal Junior College in North
Carolina and has been with the
Navy Department for about eight
months. Mr.. Lowe, who Is also with
the Navy Department, received his
B. s. degree in electrical engineering
from the University Of Wisconsin.
The couple will reside at No. !
AnacoStia road Sc.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Sorority Plans
Tea for Students

A tea honoring new students ut
National University viii be given
by Omicron Chapter Of Kappa Beta
Pi International Legal Sorority this
afternoon at the Mayflower Hotel.
Other guests will be Judge Ellen
K. Raedy of the Municipal Court
of the District Of Columbia, Miss
Helen Goodner, grand chancellor
Of the sorority; Miss Carolyn Just,
province dean; Mrs. Charles l..
Carusi and Mrs. Hayden Johnson,
patronessess of the chapter; Mrs.
D. Lawrence Groner, Mrs. Charles
Pergler, Mrs. Godfrey l.. Munter,
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Miss Frances Hunter
And Mr.. Fischer to
Wed at Easter

DR.. and Mrs. Oscar Benwood
Hunter announce the engagement OF
their daughter, Miss Frances Eliza
beth Hunter, to Mr.. Richard Henry
Fischer, son of Mrs. Hubert F. Teit-
man and Mr.. Melvin F. Fischer OF
this city.
The bride-elect attended Western
High School, received bachelor of
science degree at the University of
Maryland and is member OF Kappa
Kappa Gamma Fraternity.
Mr.. Fischer was graduated from
Central High School, received a
bachelor of science degree at George
Washington University and is now
student in the junior class at the
medical school. He is also member
of Alpha Kappa Kappa Fraternity.
The wedding will take place in the
Easter holidays.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Mississippi Writer
Guest Speaker

Miss Barbara Blount, Mississippi
writer, whose first book, Eyes
Light" has recently been published,
will be guest speaker of the Pro-
fessional Writers Club at 8 pm. to-
morrow at the Y. w. C. A. The
author, whose box deals with
circus life, also has furnished the
illustrations.
The subject Of her talk will be
Prom the Profit Angle for the
Capable in Writing"
Mrs. Florence Dieterich Is In
charge of the program and Miss
c. Virginia Diedel will preside.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Mrs. Ruth Keyes
HerndOn Hostess

HERNDON, Va, Feb. 7-Mrs,
Ruth Keyes will entertain 16 guests
Monday afternoon at q dessert
bridge party. -s-s'
Mr.. Frederick j. Heron has re-
turned from Ashville, N. c., where
he has been visiting relatives for
two weeks.
Mrs. William Meyer was hostess
Wednesday afternoon at a dessert
bridge.
Miss Lillian Shear has returned
to her home in Washington after
visiting her sister, Mrs. Cassius M
Lawrence for a week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Spencer OF
Philadelphia are the guests this week
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Ramsey
Bready. Mr.. Bready's sister. Miss
Maria r. Bready, 81 spending a
month in Roanoke as the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs Rudolph Moss.
Mrs. Herbert L. Seamans has re-
turned to her home here from an
extended visit to Richmond.
Evening star., 1942-02-08

Richardson Prescott Of Rockville,
Miss Betty Jane Dillinger Of Balti-
more and Miss Paralee Ritter OF
washington. They were dressed in
similar frocks Of taf1eta, fashioned
with dropped shoulder lines and full
skirts, the maid Of honor in duckling
yellow and the others in powder
blue. Their coronets we're Of flowers
matching their gowns and they
carried early spring blossoms, the
maid Of honor having blue and the
others yellow.
Mai. Frederick Mitchell Hopkins,
u. s. A., was best man for Mr..
Archer, and the ushers included 1t.
Thomas Wilson of Aberdeen, Mr..
Carvil r. Archer, brother Of the
bridegroom: Mr.. Lawrence Harris
and Mr.. Stewart Day Of Bel Air.
The reception for only the men,
bers Of the two families and the
wedding party was held in the War
wick Hotel in Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1942-02-08

Mrs. Wiley D. Rutledge, Mrs. Eugene
Carusi and Mrs. Walter Bastian,
wives OF the patrons of the chapter.
A musical program will be pre-
sented by Miss Martha Isaacson,
soprano, and Mrs. Margaret Ryan,
contralto and accompanist.
Mrs. Esther Quinn and Miss Leila
Terrill are In charge Of arrange
ments.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Circle lePlansLuncheOn

The Chevy Chase Circle Of the
Florence Crittenton Home will hold
luncheon meeting at ! pm. to-
morrow at the home of Mrs. Wins
ton E. Hobbs, 2757 Brandywine
street NV.
Evening star., 1942-03-06
u. 5. Supply Mission
To India Will Leave
AS Soon as Possible
Personnel Is Expected
To Be Made Public
By OHicioIs Shortly

A United States technical mission
Is going to India to cooperate in
plans for development OF a supply
base there for United Nations forces
in the Neer East and Far East, the
State Department announced for
mauy today. The move had been
reported unoficially for some time
and had been announced in London
before the State Department state
ment. -. W
The announcement, bare of de-
tails, said the mission would proceed
to India "as soon as possible" end
that its personnel probably would be
made public shortly.
The text Of the statement follows:
"The military situation in South
eastern Asia emphasizes the need
to develop fully, and as rapidly as
feasible. the industrial resources of
India as q supply base for the
armed forces Of the United Nations
In the Near East and the Far East.
The Government of the United
States. accordingly, inquired whether
the government Of India would
agree to the dispatch to India of
technical mission which could ex-
anime and report on the possibili-
ties OF American assistance in such
development.
THE government of India has ex-
pressed its readiness to receive such
a mission and has invited 1t to be
its guests during the missions stay
in India. Accordingly, it has been
decided that the mission should pro-
coed to India as soon as possible.
1T Is hoped to announce the per-
sonnel of the mission shortly. The
Government Of the United States
and the government of India earn
estly hope that this step in Ameri-
can-Indian collaboration may serve
to make an effective contribution to
the success Of the United Nations in
the war against aggression"
Evening star., 1942-03-06
Jops Announce Botovio
Was OCCUPIED Last Nioht

TOXIC From japanese Broad
casts. March 6 (P.-Imperial head
quarters announced today that jap
anese forces on the island of Java
had occupied Batavia, capital OF
the Netherlands Indies.
The occupation was completed at
$50 pm. last night, the announce
ment said, at the end of the fifth
day of the japanese campaign to
CONQUER Java.
The public was told, meanwhile
that additional Japanese troops
landed on Java yesterday. This in
formation was carried by Domei and
attributed to the Bandoeng radio
Imperial headquarters, reporting
on widespread air activity over Java,
declared Japanese naval aircraft
made a mass raid on the Bandoeng
Airf1eld Wednesday, shooting down
or destroying on the ground 18 air.
craft.
During the two preceding days
Japanese naval planes were credited
with destroying SO planes over Java
and nearby islands.
Evening star., 1942-03-06
Ford to Poy Woman Workers
Mems Wages for Same Jobs

"The wage rates in the bomber
plant" said Richard T. Leonard
the unions Ford director. ARE
based on the rates for the same or
comparable operations in automo-
bile manufacturing as established
by the union in Ford plants He
said the agreement also includes a
training program and added:
In view of the anticipated en-
ployment at the bomber plant OF
approximately $4,000 women work
ers, the union asked, and the COM
pany agreed, that women workers
shall receive the same wages as
men when they perform the same
operations. This provision is unique
In the aircraft industry
Ultimate employment at the
bomber plant has been estimated at
from 10000 to 100000 persons.
Evening star., 1942-03-06
Germans Report Raid
On Port of SeYostopoI

BERLIN From German Broad
casts, March (P.-Night bomb
raids on the center of Moscow and
on the Russian defended port of
Sevastopol in the Crimea were re-
ported today by the German high
command.
A communique said heavy artil-
lery behind the German lines at
Leningrad also kept up q heavy
pounding OF that port.
Bitter fighting in increasing cold
was described in the war report,
which said the Red Army WAS at
tacking on several sectors Of the
front.
The high command said all Rus
sian assaults were beaten of with
heavy losses and that the Red Army
lost 81 tanks in two days. Several
hundred" prisoners were taken, the
communique added.
Evening star., 1942-03-06
50 Student Leaders
Honored al Lunch
Al White House
IS Scheduled to Make
Tour Of War Production
Board This Afternoon

About IS college editors and stu
dent government presidents were
scheduled to get an inside view Of
the new War Production Board this
afternoon.
They are part of the second Wash
Ington conference Of the United
States Committee Of International
Student Service. The whole group,
about so student leaders from col
leges all over the country, were en-
tertained at lunch at the White
House today to hear an off-the-rec-
ord discussion of war employment
opportunities for young people by
National Youth Administrator Au-
brey Williams.
They will meet in a body again at
8 o'clock tonight to hear DR.. Floyd
Reeves, director of the American
Youth Commission. DR.. Reeves will
speak at the E street Y. w. c. A.
on the philosophy underlying Gov
eminent youth programs.
Visit Government Offices.
Both before and after lunch, the
NbuuCllOS dOSo III 1Oul S1odJo w
visit various Government Offices. One
group conferred this morning with
the clerks of the House Committee
on Education and the Senate Com
mittee on Education and Labor. An
other visited DR.. Bess GoodykOontZ,
assistant commissioner Of the ONCE
of Education; one with DR.. George
Mann and DR.. George Bickel Of the
student aid division of the National
Youth Administration, and a third
with the clerk of the joint COM
mittee on reduction of non essential
Federal expenditures.
About Is Of the students will tour
the War Production Board Offices at
Fourth street and Independence ave-
nue. S.W. this afternoon. Afterward
they will be greeted by Miss Thelma
McKelvey, chief Of the women's
division; William K. Updike, expert
on training within industry, and two
Government training program OFF,
cials. Col. M. E. Burnell and Philip
van Vyck.
Three other groups were scheduled
to go to the Office of William F.
Patterson, of the apprenticeship sec
ton OF the Labor Departments Divi-
sApn Of Labor Standards; of Civilian
Conservation Corps Director J. j.
McEntee, and of J. c. Wright, as
s1stant commissioner OF education
IN charge of vocational education.
Wider Deferments Urged.
The conference opened at the E
Street Y. w. c. A. last night with a
plea for more widespread deferment
Of college students for industrial
training. DR.. Francis j. Brown, ex-
ecutive secretary of the Committee
on Education Of the joint Army and
Navy Committee on Welfare and
Recreation, declared that if 18 in
dustrial workers have to be behind
every two men in the Army, more
college students should be deferred
from selective service for this pur-
pose.
Tomorrow the conference will hear
addresses at $50 am. by Mai. Err
nest M. Culligan. public relations
officer of Selective Service, and Miss
Pauline Redmond, associate director
of the youth section of the Office of
Civilian Defense. Mrs. Roosevelt
will speak at the closing session at
pm. at the E street Y. w. C. A.
on the future Of Government pro-
grams for youth.
Evening star., 1942-03-06
Mrs. Mclean Before Jury
To Ask Libel Indictment

Seeking an indictment charging
criminal libel against q writer for
the New Masses, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
Mclean appeared today before the
District grand jury Accompanying
her was her attorney, Everett L..
Bono, but because grand jury pro-
ceedings are conducted in secret, he
was forced to wait outside the jury
room.
Recently, Mrs. Mclean sought a
criminal libel warrant against Bruce
Minton, Washington correspondent
of the New Masses, but United
States Attorney Edward M. Curran.
acting in conformity with Justice
Department policy, refused to is
sue it.
Evening star., 1942-03-06
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the Preanger plateau with its tower
ing volcanic peaks, was seen as the
center of the next phase of the war
1t is the temporary capital of the
Indies, headquarters of the Dutch
Army and site of Java's young war
industries.
The official communique said the
battle RACES generally over the 622-
mile-long island. with the defenders
putting up a courageous, delaying
fight.
Communications Broken.
The backbone of Java's COM
munications from west (Bandoeng)
to east (the Soerabaja naval base)
was broken yesterday when the
Dutch announced loss of Soerakarta,
seat of a native principality and
junction point on the Soerabaja-
Bandoeng- Batavia Railway.
The loss of Jogjakarta, acknowl-
edged today, marked an advance of
81 miles along the southern branch
OF the eaSt-West railway system
Jogjakarta and Soerakarta are sister
principalities, centers of Javanese
cultural life which fourished under
the paternal Dutch colonists.
Several places in East Java, in
Guiding Jogjakarta, are now held
by the Japanese as a result of jap
anese air mastery and continuous
bombardment," the Dutch COM
munique said. Our troops are
tiring."
Among other points believed to be
in Japanese hands is Buitenzorg,
about Is miles due south of Batavia,
summer residence of the governor
general. The town was said to have
been taken after a fierce delaying
action by Dutch and British troops.
Fighting Offensively.
Official sources stressed that the
Dutch and their allies were fighting
extensively as well as defensively.
In East Java, 1t was said, the de-
tenders in some cases even managed
to push back the foe.
"Our troops retain their spirit and
are determined to make Q stand to
Evening star., 1942-03-06
Nv tho Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, March 6.-An agree
ment between the Ford Motor Co.
and the United Automobile Workers
&C. I. o., announced by union Off
cials today, provides for wage rates
of 95 cents to Sl.60 an hour in the
new Ford bomber plant, now rap
idly nearing completion at nearby
Ypsilanti.
The 95-cent minimum for the
most unskilled worker, the U. A. W.
c. I. o. said, is the same as that
which prevails at the Ford River
Rouge plant.
The agreement, which covers the
bomber plant on the same basis as
the contract signed by the union
and the Ford company for the big
Rouge plant last June, includes the
dues checkoff provision.
Evening star., 1942-03-06

emy anti-aircraft batteries went
into action apparently mistaking
the raid Of the special attack flotilla
for that Of the Japanese aerial
forces"
(Oficial United States accounts
of the attack on Pearl Harbor
have not mentioned any such at
tack on the night of December 7,
although the presence of two
man submarines early that day
was known
Attackers Destroyed.
"At Gil pm. the same day Q0:4
pm. Hawaiian time),", the an
nouncement continued, "a wireless
message from one of the special
attack flotillas was received an
nouncing its successful mission.
Vessels of the special attack
flotilla are regarded as having either
blown themselves up or having been
sunk by the enemy after TIA pm.
on the same day when wireless
communication from the flotilla
ceased"
The announcement added that the
flotilla had been instructed to re-
turn after the attack but no vessels
returned.
Eulogizing the spirit of self-sac-
rifice" shown by members Of the
f1otilla, the announcement con-
cluded:
THE offensive spirit. inspired by
an answering devotion to his
majesty, the Emperor. is true to the
best traditions of the imperial navy.
having no parallel in the world. 1t
is the opening pages of the annals
Of the current war"
The Roberts Commission report on
the Pearl Harbor attack called it
the work Of planes from either three
or four Japanese carriers with sup
porting surface craft and "a few
small submarines" three Of which
were accounted for.
One was sunk between 6:33 and
6:45 am. of Pearl Harbor, another
depth-bombed. rammed and sunk
inside the harbor between 8:35 and
S:43 am. and a third which ground
ed in Kaneohe Bay and was cap
tured.
The third was found to be a two
man craft Of short range and with
an explosive charge built into its
nose so that it could be used as
torpedo itself.
On the question Of their action,
the Roberts report summarized:
There is no evidence of any dam
age by torpedoes fired by these sub
marines" The first assault on
Pearl Harbor was delivered by planes
at 7:55 am, Hawaiian time. The
Japanese gave the time Of the f1o-
tilla's attack at 9:01 pm.
The Roberts report said Pearl
Harbor's anti-torpedo net, which
would have revealed the entrance OF
a submarine, had been opened at
4:58 am, to allow entrance OF two
United States mineSweepers and was
left open until $40 am, when it was
ordered closed.
Hitherto. the practice had been
only to close the net during the
hours of darkness.
Secretary of the Navy Knox, after
his return from a personal investi-
CATION at Pearl Harbor, told a press
conference here December Is that
the battleship Arizona was de-
stroyed by the explosion Of. first, its
boiler and then its forward maga-
zine, due to q bomb which was said
to have literally passed down
through IT. mokestack~
Evening star., 1942-03-06
Priority on Stripes

WAUPUN. Wis. (P.- Striped
shirts for State Prison inmates in
Wisconsin will soon be a thing OF
the past. No longer able to buy the
striped material because Of prior
tiles, the State Bureau Of Purchases
and prison officials have agreed to
substitute plain blue cloth resem-
bling denim
Evening star., 1942-03-06
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clared to have been newly reinforced
by troop-carrying planes.
German wounded were abandoned
and the retreat was so precipitate
that even ammunition dumps in
Yukhnov were captured intact, the
information bureau reported.
Fifty miles northwest Of Yukhnov
lies Vyazma, q German-held city on
the Moscow-Smolensk highway
Eighty miles north Of Vyazma is
Rzhev, a Volga River strong point
still manned by Adolf Hitler's troops
Russian spearheads veer toward the
highway from both north and south
so or so miles to the west.
Evening star., 1942-03-06
the last" one authoritative source

the last" one authoritative source
said.
Continuous japanese air activity
in the daytime has largely paralyzed
all but defensive operations, it was
said, but with nightfall the defend
ers thrust out to recover lost ground
without chance of air attack
The heavy rains brought by the
seasonal monsoon have turned
many parts of the coastal plains into
bogs, but give no appreciable advan-
tage either to attack or defense.
Evening star., 1942-03-06
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far away from the Hawaiian naval
base.
"At 4:31 pm, December 8 9:01
pm, December 7, Hawaiian time =,
just two minutes after moonrise, q
tremendous explosion occurred in
Pearl Harbor sending fiery columns
into the air at the same time scat
tering red-hot iron splinters.
I'm few minutes the fiery COL
umns disappeared, whereupon en-
Evening star., 1942-03-06

eng, and early in the invasion-now
IN its sixth full day-the Dutch an
nounced that the rule Of 'scorChed
earth" had been applied to the
capital.
Two Forces Peril Bandoeng.
The threat to Bandoeng, IS miles
southeast of Batavia, came primarily
from a branch of the thrust from
Indramajoe Bay. At the closest, the
Dutch communique yesterday put
the Japanese at Kalidjati, Is miles
to the north, where an airdrome had
been occupied, and at Poerwakarta,
the same distance to the north
northwest of Bandoeng.
Four hundred miles east OF Ba-
tavia, two-thirds the length of the
narrow, 622-mile- long island, a
third Japanese force was closing
toward Soerabaja, and apparently
attempting to slice Java in two with
q drive to its south shore.
Seventy miles inland from their
landing place in the Rembang area
the Japanese had occupied Soera-
karta and cut Java's last remaining
railroad.
These inroads, deep and grave as
they we're, however, evidently did
not disrnay the Dutch, who were
told by their leaders that the north
ern shore was virtually indefensible
against such might as the Japa-
nese could bring to bear.
RaIIying Hope for Dutch.
The inference, therefore, was that
the defenders were taking as heavy
q toll as possible while working
back to lines where they intend to
make a bitter-end stand.
The Dutch. whose resistance is
reported to be unf1agging despite
the adverse odds, were given a
rallying hope yesterday in the hint
of 1t. Gov.-Gen. DR.. Hubertus J.
van Nook that "at any moment the
attack on the enemy will be launch
ed from another side"
Except for the plain on which
Batavia lies. most of Java is noun
famous and it was believed here
that the Dutch, finding themselves
overpowered, might be falling back
into the hills to try to emulate Gen.
MacArthur's defense OF Bataan.
which the Japanese have found
costly and time consuming.
Evening star., 1942-03-06
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transferred from Batavia to Bando-
eng, and early in the tnvasion-now
IN its sixth full day-the Dutch an
nounced that the rule Of "scorched
earth" had been applied to the
capital,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-25
Wheat
Stocks
At Peak

WASHINGTON. July 25 (UP)
The agriculture department
today had estimated production OF
all spring wheat in Minnesota
North Dakota, South Dakota and
Montana at 216.4S3, 900 bushels, ar
increase of 13,406.000 bushels over
estimates based on July l condi.
tons in the four principal spring
wheat states.
The report covered only the four
states. North Dakota production
was estimated at 122, 298. 900 bu.
shells, an increase of S,28S, DOC
bushels over July l.
Minnesota production, based or
July II conditions. was estimated
at 1905, 900 bushels compared
with 1886, 900 bushels on July /
South Dakota at 37,791, 900 bushels
compared with 35. 295 900 bushels
on July l.
The state breakdown did not
spring wheat from Winter
wheat in Montana. The total for
Montana was given as rs. 154. 00C
bushels on July II, compared with
73, 820,000 on July l.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-25
Rio Grande Rail
plans Approved

WASHINGTON. July Is (UP).-
Alternate plans for reorganization
of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad were approved today by
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. which modified an original
plan objected 10 by federal
court.
The original plan called for con-
solidation OF the Denver and Rio
Grande and the Denver and Salt
Lake Railway Company. The fed
eral court where the bankruptcy
petition was filed objected to that
plan but agreed 10 consider a plan
for consolidation only if at least
663s per cent OF the holders of
Salt Lake income bonds accepted
modification Of interest provision.
The ices first alternative plan.
calling for consolidation. would be
effective only if at least 80 per
cent of the Salt Lake bondholders
accept the notifications. II the
consolidation is effected. the in
terest obligations Of the Salt Lake
first mortgage and modified in
come mortgage bonds would be
assumed by the new company.
The second alternative provides
for reorganization OF the Denver
and Rio Grande without conSolida-
ton of the other railroad.
The new plan must now be APP
proved