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Evening star., 1942-04-23
Bomber Rescues
Companion PIone
Despite IL Odds
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SYDNEY, Australia, April 23.-
A report from an. advanced Allied
headquarters told today of a sue
successful fight by one Of 1t. Gen.
George H. Brett's bomber crews
against 7-to-1 odds to protect a COM
panion bomber crippled by Japanese
Zero planes.
The bombers were two Of a forma-
ton of six attacked by 40 pursuit
craft. Damaged by burst OF gun
fire, the one dropped to within 100
feet of the sea.
Seven Japanese fighters darted
down to finish 1t OF. They were
thwarted by the dive OF bomber,
piloted by a 1t. Stanwood Of Rhode
Island. He maneuvered his ship
protectingly above the cripple and
the gunners fought of repeated
japanese thrusts.
The gunners shot down three
Japanese planes. They were down
to their last "a rounds Of ammuni-
ton when the assault force with
drew.
Although riddled by bullets, both
the crippled bomber and its pro-
tector landed safely at their base.
The crippled plane was piloted
by a 1t. Bumbargner. 1t. Paul Ray
of Tulsa, Okla, was co-pilot Of the
protecting plane, whose guns were
manned by 1t. Ralph Harkey of
Charlotte, N. c., and 1t. Joseph
Morningside Of New York.
The four other bombers In the
formation also beat off their attack
ers and returned safely to their base.
Evening star., 1942-04-23
Botoon's Last Plane Made Final,
Futile Effort to Stop Jops
Flyer Tells of Bombing Enemy ond Returning
To Safety Without Use of Landing Geur

bombs gone and guns empty, headed
for another point where I had been
ordered to report. I never had been
there and didn't have a map, but be-
lieved I could find it in the dark.
Attracted Attention.
After a long flight I was over
what believed was my destination,
but everything was blacked out COM
pletely, So I circled, cunning nv
motor frequently in the hope that
the ground force would recognize a
friendly plane and turn on the
lights.
After while they did and went
in to land. started to put down
the landing gear and wing flaps. but
found neither would work. The
hydraulic machinery had been shot
, away over Bataan.
The plane had only q 10-minute
supply of gasoline left, so I had to
land. After three or four passes !
slowed the ship down as much as
possible, set her down on her belly
and climbed out unhurt."
1t. Donaldson was brought to Aus
tralia by the raiding force under
Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce, which
bombed the Philippines earlier this
month. During January and Feb
ruary the Oklahoman was among
the Air Corps men who fought with
rifles in the jungles of Bataan's
west coast and in early March he
took part in the air raid on Subic
Bay, in which several Japanese
/ transports were sunk.
Evening star., 1942-04-23
0. P. A. Acts 10 Prevent
Pre-Rationinq Sugar Rush

fSugar Canning Story on Page BID
BY the Associated Press.
Retail sugar sales will be halted,
as originally planned. April 27. and
all retail stocks will remain frozen
until consumer rationing begins
May S, Price Administration offi-
cials said today.
The action is designed to prevent
a laSt-minute pre-rationing rush
and enable retailers TO adjust their
stocks for rationed sales.
Leon Henderson. price admins
traitor, declared meanwhile that an
acute sugar shortage was threat
ened in Northeastern States unless
wholesale and industrial users in
the area act promptly in purchas-
ing supplies of beet sugar now being
offered them.
Rationing Of sugar TO such users
will begin April IS.
Mr.. Henderson urged wholesalers
and industrial users 10 begin buying
Immediately against May quotas,
pointing out that until SUFFICIENT
beet sugar is moved into the scarcity
areas. no other sugar would be
available.
Evening star., 1942-04-23
President Summons
Economic Warfare
Board for Talks
Immediate Purchasing
Of VitoI Materials on
Wide Scale Expected
BY JOHN c. HENRY.

President Roosevelt has sum-
moned to the White House today
the fun membership OF the Board
Of Economic Warfere for con-
ference expected to be followed by
immediate operation OF the board S
extended world purchasing powers.
About two weeks ago. the Presi-
dent vested in this agency unquah-
fed authority 10 locate and to buy
any accessible world markets ma
terials considered essential to the
Nations war effort.
Since that time, the board has
set up an once of Imports with its
purchasing staff and machinery AL
ready being organized for large
scale operations.
Those scheduled to attend today's
White House conference, first TO be
held there by the board as q unit,
include Vice President Wallace, who
is chairman; Secretary of State
Hull, Secretary Of the Treasury
Morgenthau. Secretary Of War
Stimson. Secretary of the Navy
Knox, Secretary of Commerce Jones,
Secretary Of Agriculture Wickard.
Attorney General Biddle, Executive
Director Milo Perkins and Nelson
Rockefeller, co-ordinator for inter-
American affairs.
In addition, Budget Director Har-
old D. Smith also was to attend
the session, indicating that there is
to be discussion Of financing
necessary for the boards expanded
activities. The agency Is author
lied to set up subsidiaries for
financing foreign purchases in case
such existing establishments as the
Metals Reserve Co. or others now
operating in this field do not prove
fully adequate.
Secretary Jones. who had pre-
viously exercised a major response
bility as Federal loan administrator
for most of this wartime buying,
was scheduled to confer with the
President in advance Of today's
meeting Of the full board. Secre-
tary OF State Hull was to remain as
a White House luncheon conferee.
The three engagements comprised
the full schedule prepared in ad-
vance for Mr.. Roosevelt, the White
House explaining that he would de-
vote large part of the day to fur
ther work on his message to Con-
gress on a comprehensive anti
imitation program.
Evening star., 1942-04-23
College Trustee Opposes
2-Year Degree Courses
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EASTON, Pa, April 23.-For the
average boy, war-accelerated edu-
cational programs reducing high
school and college periods by two
years each would mean "a step back
ward, not forward" Paul Bedford,
a trustee Of Princeton University,
said today.
There is danger in too great ac-
celeration," he said, in an address
before the eighth annual conferences
of college trustees. There are lin
its to assimilation. You cannot
change human nature In spasms.
You cannot expedite maturity By
mental indigestion"
Mr.. Bedford said II would be bet
ter for students, before their catl
to the armed forces. to have two
years of college training without d
degree rather than two years of
''confounded superficial dash for q
degree which has lost its meaning"
The college degree Is a standard" {"
he said. That standard gives value
to the entire educational process
and we must never permit It's cur
rency TO be debased."
Evening star., 1942-04-23
DC. Area Telephone
Rates, Supervision
Discussed al Hearing
Company Offieiol Quizzed
On Jurisdiction Over
Intervening Disputes

Telephone rates between Wash
ington and adjacent metropolitan
areas and the question of what reg
ulatory body has the right to super
wise them. were under inquiry today
at q joint hearing of the Federal
Communications and the District
Public Utilities Commissions.
The inquiry was to have resumed
the hearings in connection with the
charges made by hotels, apartment
houses and clubs, over and above
the registered telephone tariffs for
service.
But Harold J. Cohen, F. C. c. at
torney. launched Immediately into
the matter of metropolitan ex-
change, interZone and extended area
rates.
Wilbert H. Collier, assistant vice
president Of the Chesapeake a. Po-
tomac Telephone Co., was on the
stand for cross-examination. Com
missioner Gregory Hankin attempt
ed to get an answer from the wit
ness as to what body would have
the right to say what rates are Just
and proper between any Of the three
jurisdictions involved.
j. A. Van Orsdel, counsel for the
company, interrupted to point out
that In his opinion the line OF
questioning was developing close to
the border line OF legal conclusions
Mr.. Hankin then asked the COM
pany counsel II he would answer
Mr.. Van Orsdel said that the theory
of the telephone company is that
the Metropolitan exchange ares
complies with the provisions of the
Federal Communications Act, and
that In the case of q dispute 1t Is
a matter for settlement by joint
action of the two commissions In
the areas which might be involved
In the case Of dispute between
the two regulatory bodies, Mr.. Van
Orsdel was asked how 1t might be
settled. He replied that he couldnt
answer that question.
Evening star., 1942-04-23
Rural Youth Leaders
Meet 10 Coordinate
Work Of Agencies
Representatives Seek
To Prevent Duplication
Of Effort in Country

The Institute for Rural Youth
Guidance opened today at the Ma
tional Education Association head
quarters on Sixteenth street for q
three-day consideration OF rural
conditions and the war.
An opening session of leaders of
the institute. to plan the later meet
ings, was addressed by DR.. o.
Latham Hatcher OF Richmond,
president Of the Alliance for Guid-
ance for Rural Youth. the principal
co-ordinating organization behind
the institute
DR.. Howard A. Dawson, director
of rural service of the National
Education Association. explained to-
day that one OF the principal OBJ
jects Of the gathering was to bring
together representative Of several
different agencies looking after the
welfare of young rural people. to
improve coordination and prevent
duplication OF effort.
In addition to DR.. Hatcher and
DR.. Dawson. other speakers this
afternoon were Raymond s. Ward,
specialist in youth services Of the
United States Employment Service,
and the chairmen and vice chair
men of various sections for the
current institute.
Tonight's meeting at 8 O'Clock in
the N. E. A. auditorium will be pre-
sided over by DR.. George F. Zook Of
this city, president of the American
Council on Education. Several prob
lens will be discussed by at least
five scheduled speakers and by
others in open discussion to follow.
The institute will run through Sat-
urday.
The sessions are held with the
cooperation of several agencies. in
cluding: The American Council on
Education, American Youth Com
mission, National Education Asso-
citation, Selective Service System.
Department of Agriculture, Depart
ment of Labor. United States EN-
ployment Service, United States
once of Education, the Washington
Federation of Churches and the
United States Public Health Service.
Evening star., 1942-04-23
BY DANIEL DEUCE.

Associated Press War Correspondent.
WITH THE AMERICAN VOLUN-
TEER GROUP IN BURMA, April 10
delayed Driven out of Mingala-
don and then Magwe, the fighting
Yanks of the American Volunteer
Group, with the colors of China and
Britain on their plane wings, now
are braced against the inevitable
heavy japanese assaults on their new
base defending Northern Burma.
Already they have cracked down
on the enemy's numerically superior
forces, and have destroyed an entire
squadron of the invaders finest air
craft.
In..two dogfights spaced "a, hours
apart ranging 100 miles over the
mountains of China's Yunnan Prov
ince and Burmais Shan states, the
American pilots broke up a swarm
of Japanese air raiders and blasted
Is out OF the sky for certain.
Five other enemy planes probably
were destroyed in the combat.
The japanese planes were on a
special l,000-mile mission, equipped
with extra gas tanks, and were out
to catch the A. v. @. aground.
Twice, however, the heavily gunned
japanese Zero fighters fell into an
ambush in the clouds.
None of Americans Lost.
The waiting Yanks raked them
with a savage fire and Japanese
planes hurtled from the skies, trail
ing clouds of white smoke, to plunge
flaming into paddy fields and Yer-
dant jungle growths.
None of the American flyers was
lost.
A Texan, who was a ROYAL Air
Force sergeant pilot in Canada after
washing out at the United States
Air Corps rtaining school at Love
Field, Dallas, Tex, had the closest
call.
During the melee he got on the
tail of Zero fighter and, because oi
the difficulty he'd had confirming
five previous combat victims ir
Burma. he followed his adversary
Evening star., 1942-04-23
BY CLARK LEE,


ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Aus
tralia, April 23-The United States
Army Air Force fought to the end
on Bataan Peninsula and. with the
Japanese only a few miles away
sent its last flyable plane into the
air to attack and attempt TO check
the enemys final advance.
That plane was flown by 1t. Jack
Donaldson of Tulsa. Okla, who has
arrived safely in Australia. He told
this story of his flight:
The last days on Bataan were
pure he'll. The JapS bombed our
field day and night. plastering our
headquarters dugouts, gasoline
stores. munitions dumps and every
thing else in the vicinity.
The night raids did little dam
age. but kept US from sleeping or
repairing our few remaining planes.
"On April the Japanese COM
pleted their break-through along
the shores Of Manila Bay and were
driving rapidly toward our last air
field at the southeastern tip OF
Bstasn. We had a single plane left,
Loaded Up With Bombs.
1T was decided to make an effort
to check the Japanese and I was
chosen to fly the plane, a pursuit
plane.
Il loaded the ship with light frag-
mentation bombs. filed the guns
with ammunition and hoped off in
the early evening. Flying up the
eastern manila Bay shore OF the
peninsula, I was over the japanese
position within few minutes.
Y located the enemy advancing
on foot and in vehicles down the
T coast road and dove on the columns
+ letting go my bombs at low slti-
tude and returning TO strafe the
lines until my ammunition was ex-
/ hausted.
The Japs quickly opened fire anc
tracerS fioated all around the plane
l felt several bumps but did no
believe I had been hit badly.
Il circled and dove for about ar
hotr altogether and then. with
Evening star., 1942-04-23
Terror Is Reported
Instituted by viehy
On Madagascar Isle
Hundreds OF De GouIlists
Suid TO Have Been Seixed
BY Gov. Gen. Annet

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, April 23.-Agents OF the
Vichy government were reported to-
day to have instituted n virtual
reign Of terror on the strategic
French island OF Madagascar In
their attempts to round up all SYM
pathizers with the free French
movement.
Dispatches to the Daily Express
from Tananarive said Gov. Gen.
Armand Annet had arrested hum
dreds Of De Gaullists on orders from
Pierre Laval. Vichy's new chief Of
government and proponent OF coli
laboration with Germany.
Annet's own secretary as wen aS
other members of the island adj
ministrstion were among those re-
ported arrested.
The situation on Madagascar IL
of concern here because tha island.
situated of the east coast Of Africa,
lies athwart vital Allied lines OF
communication with India and
there has been speculation that ths
Japanese might try TO gain foot
hold there.
Annet was quoted recently as say
ing the island would be defended
against any aggressor and the
Madagascar radio has denied any
Japanese or German encroachment.
The Daily Express dispatches to-
day, however, declared:
Madagascar is not being defend.
ed against japanese infiltration and
it cannot be defended against Jap-
aneSe invasion"
Evening star., 1942-04-23
| SoIvogers Tow
| Two Torpedoed
| Ships to Port
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRUNSWICK, Ga, April %
Two merchant vessels, torpedoed of
the coast on April with the loss
Of 81 lives. were brought into port
here by salvage boats and will be
sent to another port for recondi-
tioning.
Sixteen bodies were recovered
from one of the boats and two were
missing. Two bodies were found
aboard the other vessel and one was
still missing. Thirty-flve were res
cued from one of the boats and 10
from the other at the time of the
attack
Officials said it would not be pos
sible to identify more than six or
seven OF the bodies recovered. Those
identified will be sent to their
homes for burial and the others
will be buried here.
Naval and private tugs brought
one of the damaged vessels into port
yesterday and the second today.
Evening star., 1942-04-23
Flying Tigers Bog at Least IS Jap Planes
In Two Dogfights Along Burma Front

down until he saw him crash In
flames.
While the Texan was thus en-
gagged another Japanese plane got
on his tail and sent burst of ma
chine gun fire through his instru-
ment board. Oil from broken line
spurted over the Texan, binding
him, and he made crash landing.
AS he sat in his wrecked plane,
half stunned, another enemy plane
swooped low with blazing guns and
narrowly missed finishing him of.
Wednesday noon april 81 a fast
twin-engined Japanese reconnats-
sance bomber, possibly a Heinkel or
JU-88 (German) model, secuted the
1eld and eluded two pursuing Ameri-
can flyers flying with throttles wide
open. Then in midafternoon a
Japanese fighter formation was re-
ported en- route.
Flyers Counterattack.
Squadron Leader Arvid Olson Of
Chicago and Bob Little Of Seattle,
Just arrived from Sinogo, went aloft
with Ed Overend of Coronado.
Calf; Fritz Wold of Shawano. Wis:
Cliff Groh of Chicago, and Fred
Hodges of Memphis at the controls
of the older planes.
The Japanese suddenly swooped
over the runway. but there were no
rows of stationary aircraft. They
combed the edges of the field, hunt
ing FOL. concealed prey.
Nearly 5 miles high In the cloud
patched sky, more Of the enemy hov-
cred.
Then the Americans counterat-
tackled!
Brown streaks of lightning dived
at the low-flying strafers. Above
the scream Of motors and cracking
gunfire, stricken japanese planes
sounded like exploding bombs when
they crashed to the ground.
The Japanese cruising high in the
sky stayed there, just dim silver
specks to ground observers, while
one after another 10 of their mates
died fighting and the remainder
broke and fed in their damaged
ships.
Wednesdays score was: Olson, one,
and Donovan. one. their first VIC
tories; Overend, Groh, Hodges and
Little, one apiece, and Smith and
Void, two each.
Hodges pretty bride of six days,
the former Helen Anderson of RAN
COON, saw from a hilltop the lanky
Tennessean's triumph of the air.
Japanese air activity the following
day dropped of to the point where
only one reconnaissance plane wan
dered into the defensive zone.
Japs Bomb Field.
Today FRIDAY, April 10) at dawn
! japanese NAVY Zero DlaneS sneaked
Evening star., 1942-04-23
Canada Rioters
Hurt Policeman
Through Error
sy the Associated Press.

Ey the ASSOCIATED Press.
MONTREAL, April 23.-Rookie
Police Constable Georges Durette
nursed q bruised head today after
a celebration in honor Of his ap-
preaching marriage was mistaken
for police measures against anti
eonscriptionistS.
Fellow officers had tied him to
q truck last night and, singing
loudly, were eScorting him toward
a midtown hall where they intended
to make q presentation.
A group OF youths returning from
q political rally mistook the pro-
ceedings for police measures against
anti conScriptionistS and wsded
into the celebrantS. Paving stones
and bottles were hurled and fists
swung wildly. Three arrests were
made by police reinforcements be-
fore order was restored.
Durette. struck on the head with
paving stone. was spirited TO the
nearby home of his hancee where
he Was given medical attention,
Canada viii decide in a referen-
DUN April u whether men may be
eonscripted for service outside the
dominion.
Evening star., 1942-04-23

over the Chinese hills and roared
toward the Americans field in q
technique apparently borrowed from
the American flyers devastating at
tacks on Moulmein and Chiengmai.
Mechanics Dan Keller of Pitts
burgh and Robert A. Smith Of
Oneonta, N. Y, were warming up
two Curtiss planes and dived for the
nearest ditch, bullets nearly dusting
their khaki jeans.
Up and down the field, twisting
and swerving like playful porpoises,
the Japanese emptied their guns.
They headed for their base, SEEM
ingly reluctantly, for they turned
and came back for a farewell sweep
before vanishing
But not single Allied plane on
the ground had been burned.
The worst Workmanship We ever
heard Of" said Olson with great
relief. The Japs should take an
other lesson from Bill Reed and Ken
Hernstedt at Moulmein."
This afternoon the Japanese re-
turned-in confident, buzzing v for
nations of three planes each-stalk-
ing 2 miles up in puffy thick clouds
for the kill. Possibly they expected
to find a manned American Volun-
teer Group helpless aground.
He'll Breaks Loose.
They tested their guns and made
ready to dive. .s-- .ez
Then what must be the Japanese
pilots idea OF hell broke loose
machine guns firing from above and
behind their tails with heavy tracers
and armor-piercing bullets slash
ing at the unarmored Navy Zeros.
Bob Keeton, a former blocking
halfback in Colorado collegiate foot
ball; Bob Brouk of Cicero, Ill, and
Big Bob Smith were drawing first
blood.
Smoke geysered from a crashing
Japanese plane midway up a noun
tain: another dug into ploughed
land beside a river; another burned
out Of sight across a bridge.
Bill Reed, Marion QowD ace, was
practically smothered with hot oil
when an oil cap ripped off his wind
shield, but hit Navy Zero with a
tough angle shot and saw 1t burst
in flames.
Then he slipped into a cloud bank
to escape pursuing enemy craft and
! few by instruments.
Get ready in case Of fire." he
radioed Olson. who was calling sig
mails at the communications shack
I'm coming in to land covered
with oil"
Another message came almost i'm
mediately from Smith:
Hey, If anybody isn't doing any
thing, come over here-three Zeros
! east Of the river over the hill"
Evening star., 1942-04-23
Hobby Show 10 Open
Al Riverside Tomorrow

A hobby show viii open at River
side Stadium at pm. tomorrow.
with a military note added by model
Army planes from Wright Field.
Ohio. and model Navy aircraft being
built by high school students
throughout the country.
There will be three operating rail-
roads, termed the finest collection
Of amateur built models in the
country. The show will, continue
through May 3, from l 70 IL pm
daily. Each day model airplane
motor boat, and auto races will be
staged.
The miniature autos are expected
to attain speeds of from 40 to 81
miles an hour as they speed around
l80-foot track.
Evening star., 1942-04-23
Viehy Denies Soviet Report
Nazi Sailors Reach TouIon
b the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
VICHY. April 23.-The French
government issued an official de-
nial today of reports attributed to
the Moscow radio that German
sailors are arriving at the French
Mediterranean naval base of Tou-
lon and that French naval units
are being turned over to Germany.
The, Moscow radio Is repeating
with insistence," the conmunique
declared, news relative to the ar
rival of German sailors at Toulon,
the cession of French naval units.
of a fight between Germans and
French sailors, etc.
THE most formal denial is given to
this news which, like SO many other
reports, fall in the realm of pure
imagination and which would merit
no comment If they had not received
a complacent echo on other foreign
radios"
Evening star., 1942-04-23
S. E. Resident Found
Shot Decd in Gorooe

Richard Dougerty, ~, who police
said had recently been released from
st. Elizabeth's Hospital, was found
shot to death early today in a
garage behind his home. 23l6
Nicholson street Sc.
A -22-caliber rifle was found beside
the body. Police quoted sister, Mrs.
Blanche Knapp, as saying Mr..
Dougerty went TO the garage shortly
after 9 am, Detective Sergt. Charles
Carver VISA investigating.
Evening star., 1942-04-23

Though the tollotDino dispatch
from Daniel DEUCE has been 13
days IN transit from the remote
interior OF erlbdttIed Burma, 1t
remains graphic picture OF the
grim battle against great odds
being fought by the heroic Fly
ing Tigers" OF the American VOL
nnteeT Group. Today, according
to the latest battle front conlnu-
ntques, the boys OF the A. V. G.
stiH are todging that fight, in the
face OF constantly rising japanese
air strenpth)
Evening star., 1942-04-23
Australian Radios
Now Broodcosting
News in Japanese

By the Associated Press.
MELBOURNE, April as
Japan's soldiers with radio
equipment can now hear the
latest war news from Australia
In their own language.
The department of informa-
ton has introduced q daily
news service broadcast to the
Japanese. directed particularly
to invasion forces In the South
west Pacific.