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Evening star., 1942-05-17

she thought grimly, IF shoot from hand
bag, as Wilma did,
All during that long afternoon in the pat
tern shop. though, persistent false note kept
striking in Sues subconscious mind. At last
she placed it.
wilma hasn't done that much candid
work." she thought. That picture showed
lots of savvy: exposure right on the nose,
focus clear and sharp"
She frowned. Could Wilma know more
photography than she'd let on? Was some
thing sinister back of that print, that anony-
nous note?
Loyalty Sue told herself. NO" But uneas-
lily she remembered last week seeing Wilma
talking with Hugo VAIN. clerk in Account
ing. She didn't fancy Wahn. He led his de-
partment in buying war bonds. but Sue
couldn't forget seeing him. years ago. at a
then-innocuous bund meeting at Pedersons'
farm.
! HEN Sue remembered, with start, that
she had recently seen Burt talking to Wahn.
And Maurice Gruber, the office boy. Maurice
owned camera too. 'Tll be suspecting deep,
dark things of the whole force if keep on!'
Sue laughed off her suspicious and concen-
trated on picture-taking.
She needed to concentrate. All afternoon
in the pattern shop accidents happened exas-
peratingly under her very nose. A heavy
timber fell unacoountabiy from its rack,
smashing Sanders foot. Forester gashed his
hand on broken glass in the sawdust box.
But they were all over before Sue could
catch them on film And they were queer acci-
dents Not pure carelessness With startled
little jerk she remembered Mr.. Samuels' hint.
Sabotage Could these mishaps have been
planned? She refused to believe it. The shops
were too well guarded
"Yes." she thought, ''on the OUTSIDER
Don't be grandmother she rebuked
herself. Next thing. you'll be saying maybe
Wilma took that picture to - to satisfy me,
to keep me away from the pattern shopr'
She shivered guiltily. That was just what
had occurred to her! She put the traitorous
thought away angrily, and recklessly shot
roll of film.
Next day the worried redhead had little
better luck. The whole morning went by
fruitessly. That noon, as Sue waited in line
at the shop cafeteria, Burt, Wilma, and
Maurice Gruber breezed in.
They greeted her joyously. grabbed trays,
and crowded in behind her. Sue inspected the
steam table without enthusiasm. Dutifully
she reached for some stewed broccoli. Then
she saw it - on her tray. A motel
0HE glanced about. her heart pounding.
The others were intent on the food Surrep-
titiously she unfolded the note. 1t was crudely
printed in pencil - an unfamiliar. cramped
hand. on unfamiliar paper. 1t read
LAY off the pattern SHOP"
Sue felt her scalp tighten. Incredible that
mere note could affect her 50, in the bust
ling cafeteria. surrounded by friendly people.
But the menace of those plain words lay
upon her like a sitting blanket.
She turned RI tho othorc ,r~ bald <,,,% tl,o
Evening star., 1942-05-17

wrote it," she laughed Il know he'd be glad
to get rid of me-
But after lunch. at headquarters, MIR.
Samues' face went grave over the note. I'm
consulting the FBI," he said Somebody
seems awfully anxious to get you out of the
pattern shop during working hours, Sue"
And they succeeded" thought Sue, in
sudden dismay. I'm not there, right nowy'
The more she thought, the less positive
she was that Burt, Maurice, or Wilma
couldn't have slipped that note on her tray.
Who else could have done it? All three were
intelligent enough to appear surprised.
The FBI officer. summoned, reviewed the
whole puzzling sequence of events - the
photograph. promptly treated for finger
prints; the first note; the accidents in the
pattern shop; the second note
Anything else, Miss Wallace?" Federal
Agent Knowles searched her face keenly.
If this is sabotage, it's serious business.
Railroads are vital to our country's defense"
Sue swallowed. That's all know"
What do you suspect?" he probed.
Sue detailed her deductions on the first
note: then, reluctantly. her talk with Burt,
day before yesterday, and the fact that Wilma
was camera fan. But neither of them"
she finished passionately. would harm the
GIG, or cripple our country ="
O course" The investigator nodded.
Now. Miss Wallace. please 60 back to the
pattern shop at once W0nt you to stay there,
after closing hours. You're familiar with that
shop See if you can detect anything out-of-
the-way. Ill be in calling distance, outside"
LATER that afternoon Mr. Samuels dropped
casually into the pattern shop, where Sue
kept vigil for photogenic accidents.
They found four ingerprints on the face
OF the picture" he whispered. And they've
identified them as Burt Andrews'r'
Sue almost reeIed. Burt? What nonsense!
And then. typically. she strove to back up
her hearts conviction with her minds logic.
And failed Il as the long afternoon dragged
by. Failed abjectly.
Burt had known about the photograph on
her desk. Was his naming Wilma simply an
adroit attempt to shield himself? Sue refused
to believe it. But Burt undoubtedly had the
run of the shops. 1t would be easy to cadge
a shot in the pattern shop, easy to slip an
enlargement on her desk. drop bobby pin,
and exit Fingerprints, after all. don't lie!
mo! Not Burt!" Sue quivered with the in
tensity of her denial. He was too fine. too
decent. :.
The quitting whistle startled her out of
her fist-clenched reverie. The big room emp
tied of workmen.
Sue faced the silent. gloomy shop with a
fast-beating heart.
Outside, the dull, gray sky was bringing
on premature night. She waited until the
vast yards were quiet and deserted. Then she
obedienty began her inspection. She knew
every workbench every machine.
1t was well that she did. The shop was
almost pitch-black. now. She had half circled
the big room when door lock clicked family.
Sue whirled in the darkness, her fist on her
huot 49,
Evening star., 1942-05-17

keeps on pleasing. And how satisfy.
ing it is to know that this whole grain
breakfast is a good source of natural
Vitamin B., and other needed food
values from the rich whole wheat.
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Germany Again Curbs
Civilian Railway Travel
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Feb. 3.-For
the second time in less than three
weeks, Germany has imposed re-
strictionS on civilian railway travel
in order to release every possible
piece of rolling stock in q tremend-
GUS effort to transport fresh sup
plies of men and arms to the eastern
front.
The restrictions were necessitated,
according to the Berlin newspaper
LokalanZeiger, by more and in
creasing demands on the railways to
supply the eastern areas and to put
at the disposal of the army means
of transportation for staff and
freight"
The first series of restrictions this
year was announced January IT.
The fact that much rolling stock
has been converted for use as am
bulance trains and troop barracks
and the difficulties in getting re-
placements for damaged or worm
out cars and locomotives under an
industrial, set-up geared almost
solely for arms production also have
contributed to cutting train service
in Germany and its Allied countries.
A major factor in the nations
linked with the Axis has been lack
Of coal and lubricating oil. An ON
cial announcement gave this as the
reason for curtailed passenger train
service In Bulgaria, which last year
sent locomotives to Germany pre-
iminary 10 the Balkan campaign.
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Two Trains Crush
Cab, Trapping
Driver J Hours
BY the Associated Press.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. s.
Robert Timm, 30, was trapped for
seven hours in the wreckage of his
taxicab after it was pancaked be-
tween two trains in an unusual ac-
cident today. Scores of mortified
onlookers watched efforts to extri-
cate him.
Timm, who suffered severe leg
injuries, remained conscious while
q train wrecker lifted one end of a
locomotive from the rails.
The cab was struck at 2:25 am,
in downtown Springfield, by a
freight train. The taxi was crushed
against and between another loco
motive, standing on an adjoining
track. Timm was lifted from the
wreckage shortly before $50 am.
and taken to q hospital.
Physicians said he was suffering
from shock as well as leg injuries.
They were undecided whether one
or both of his legs would have to
be amputated
The injured mans wife, mother Of
five children, waited at the scene
Throughout the rescue work.
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Sponsor of Curfew
To Ignore Curfew to
Go on Air With Girl

Representative Wilson. Re-
publican, of Indiana, advocate
of a 10 pm. curfew for Govern
ment girls, will go on the air
at 10:15 o'clock tonight-with
a Government girl.
Fifteen minutes after his pro-
posed curfew hour Mr.. Wilson
will explain over WJSV his
program for increasing the ef-
ficiency of Federal departments.
Part of his plan is the curfeW
for girls who persist, according
to the Indianan, in appearing
at work worn out from the night
before without makeup and
breakfast and requiring half
the morning to prepare for the
days labor. {
Mr.. Wilson said today he had
not yet picked the girl he will
interview over the Nationwide
network. But she will be q
Federal worker, he assured.
Evening star., 1942-02-03
A. f. F. Signifies Unity
Of Purpose, King Says
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Feb.
3.-King George vi, in a written
message opening a new session of
the Parliament of Northern Ireland,
declared today the recent arrival
Of American troops in the British
Isles was "a demonstration of the
unity of purpose" existing between
Britain and the United States.
Il am confident that the result
viii be a further strengthening of
those ties of kirship and those
common ideals which mean so much
for the future of the world" said
the message, read to Parliament by
the Duke of Abercorn, governor of
Northern Ireland
The first contingent of United
States combat troops, thousands
strong, landed last week at North
Irish port after an uneventful At
lantic crossing under the protection
of the British and American navies
The King expressed a "fervent
hope" that more recruits from
Northern Ireland would join the
empire fighting services, the Ulster
Home Guard and civil defense or
carnations.
Service in the armed forces is on
. purely voluntary basis IN North
ern Ireland.
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Deferment Of Reserves
In ". P. B. Cancelled

Reserve officers who have been
deferred from active military duty
to hold key civilian positions in the
War Production Board were notified
by Chairman Donald M. Nelson
today that their deferments had
been Cancelled.
"All Reserve officers are consid-
cred available for active duty at
any time hereafter" he stated in
a notice distributed throughout the
w. P. B. Offices.
To determine what effect the
change in status of these employees
will have on operations of the
w. p. B., Mr.. Nelson distributed
with the notices questionnaires
which will show the position and
the nature of the work of each
officer affected. Mr.. Nelson tndi-
Gated that continued defermeuts
may be asked IN some instances.
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Ihider Cites Danger
In Crowding Homes
With War Workers

John Ihlder, executive secre-
tary of the District Alley
Dwelling Authority. warned the
House Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee of the dan
ger of attempting to fill every
vacant room here with war
workers.
wv a shington is already
crowded beyond the danger
point, despite a few unoccupied
bedrooms" he declared. There
is danger in filling every spare
room-danger of spreading dis
ease and also the danger of not
having any space to put people
whose homes might be bombed"
If a disease epidemic occurs,
he said, it probably will first
hit in the overcrowded, insani-
tary slum areas. and then
spread rapidly to other sections.
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Nazis Announce Spread
OF Typhus Into Germany
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Feb. g.
Spotted typhus has spread from the
Eastern front to Germany and the
Nazi-occupied areas, the German
Health Ministry announced today,
listing 126 cases in Germany and
1873 in the occupied Eastern coun-
tries.
A demarcation line has been
established at which persons coming
from the East are examined for the
lice, a primary typhus carrier. The
small village of Pernik, in Bulgaria,
was mentioned as one where typhus
has broken out.
German press dispatches also re-
ported a number of cases among
Bulgarian Gypsies.
Most of Poland's Jews are
confined to the cramped quarters
of Nazi-ordained ghettos in
which any sort of hygienic pro-
lection is lacking)
Though the German Health Min
istry professed the belief that Ger
many and Western Europe are not
threatened by typhus, Danish doc
tors who met at Copenhagen to dis
ctss the disease noted Q sharp in
crease In the number of persons in
tested With the germ carrying lice.
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Summary Of Todoy's Star

1talian-American civic group gives
500 to Red Cross. Page AS
Pacific Fleet utilized to - fullest,
Nimitz declares. Page AS
Congress continues work on bills
speeding war effort. Page A-6
Washington and Vicinity.
More Agriculture employees to be
moved out of D. c. Page Al
Early House action on fringe park
ing lots predicted. Page Az
Board. headed by Leary, takes over
rationing automobiles. Page A
Eicher sworn in as District Court
Chief Justice. Page A
Two doctors leap into Potomac when
launch burns. Page B-1
Special study of D. c. hospital needs
urged. Page B-1
Lodge sworn in as head of Alcohol
Beverage Board. Page B-1
Evaders of auto use tax will be pros
ecuted. Page B-1
Miscellany.
Natures Children, Page b.
Births and Deaths. Page b.
Marriage Licenses, Page B.S
Evening star., 1942-02-03

Foreign.
Mobile British units ferreting out
Axis forces in Libya. Page Al
400 Germans slain in three sectors,
Russians claim. Page Al
New Chilean President lauds hemi-
spheric unity. Page Az
Egypt Kings loyalty to Allies put
under suspicion. Page AS
Nazis execute six French youths, ex-
lie 100 others. Page AS
Britain to lend Halle Selassie
$4,000, 900. Page AS
Nazis claim destruction of 63 mer-
chantmen in January. Page "A
National.
Army entrance standards lowering
seen by Gen. Hershey Page Al
Martin says he will keep G. o. P. post
during campaign. Page Al
Wickard, and Henderson agree on
price-control policies. Page Al
Leader says striking welders chart
new course. Page Al
Washington missionary Is Jap
prisoner IN China. Page A
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Army Will Bring
10000 Civilians
Here byJu|y,' '43
Housing Badly Needed
For Low-Poy Group,
Committee Told
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Although striving to keep its
civilian personnel in Washington
at an absolute minimum because
of the acute shortage of housing
accommodations, the War De-
partment expects to add 10000
to its pay roll by July l, 1943,
Joseph H. Henderson, civilian
personnel officer, today told the
House Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee.
The committee has under consid-
Grafton legislation authorizing an
appropriation of $4,000, 900 to pro-
vide housing and necessary public
works in the District and Metropoli-
tan Area for the steadily rising in
fux Of Government war workers
Mr.. Henderson testified the War
Department now has $4,000 civilian
employees in Washington, $500 of
whom were added in January, and
is having extreme difnculty in find-
ing suitable housing facilities for
newcomers.
30 Per Cent Below Sc 900.
There is complete dearth here
OF satisfactory, sanitary living &C
commodations for employees in the
low-income groups" he declared.
Eighty per cent of the War De-
partment's civilian employees, Mr..
Henderson pointed out. have in
cCppeS halouy e0 mn q vaar
The witness declared that one out
of every four persons for which the
department attempts to find living
accommodations are replacements-
employees who have resigned and
gone home because they either can't
live within their income or are dis
lllusioned about Washington.
He cited problem faced by the
department last Thursday when 100
girl appointees arrived at the Wash
ington induction center" at 6 pm.
and had mo place to stay" Sixty
went to the homes of friends. he
explained, and the other 40 were
taken care Of by employees.
Mr.. Henderson said it would be
extremely desirable" if possible. to
locate employees assigned to the new
War Department building in nearby
Arlington County, in close proximity
to the building.
think It patriotic to fill up every
room and bed in Washington" John
Ihlder, executive officer of the Alley
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Jap Bombers Pound Singapore;
u. S. Planes Sink 2 TRANSPORTS;
Macarthur Thwarts New Landinqs
Big Allied Movement
Begun, Australian
Minister Declares
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CANBERRA, Australia, Feb.
3.-Army Minister Francis M.
Forde told the Australian forces
overseas in a broadcast today
that "a big movement by the
Allies is under way"
Addressing especially the men
of the Australian imperial force
at Singapore, Mr.. Forde de-
clared that each hour the Jap
anese are held at bay permits
the concentration and deploy-
ment of more reinforcements
and the accumulation of more
weapons.
1T does not need my words to
impel you. therefore, to hold
on" he said.
Prime Minister John Curtin
gave premiers. of all Australian
states at a conference here a
confident outline of the war
situation.
The democracies' resources
are being marshaled, he ex-
planned, but problems of dis
tance and time prevent plans
from being carried out imme-
diately on a great scale.
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Nazis Sending Tanks
80 rofrt 80 pe1s os4 - ,,a "a. ,
And Planes 10 Combat
Reds Southern Drive
Reinforcements Are More
Than Matched by Soviet
Weapons, Moscow Says
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Feb. 3.-The Ger
mans are sending air and tank
reinforcementS to parts of the
southern front to combat Mar
shall Semeon Timoshenko's in
creasingly active army but are
being more than matched by Red
Army weapons, Soviet dispatches
reported today.
c'Despite the reinforcements
which have already been brought
up to the Russian front from the
German-occupied countries. the
German generals have demanded
from Hitler the immediate dis
patch of 20 fresh, picked divi-
sions," the B. B. c. said in
broadcast heard by N. B. c. in
New York.
1.-THE generals have threaten
ed it added, that otherwise it
would be very hard, if not impos-
sible, to prevent general Rus
sian break-through.'D
Testifying to Red Air Force SUI
periority, dispatches from the front
credited one Russian air unit with
destroying II Nazi planes in a week
and long-range bombers with deep
ening their offensives far into the
German rear. At one vital German
railroad junction, they said, three
supply trains or more than 200 cars,
were destroyed.
Cannon Dragged on SIedges.
Dragging machine guns and can
non on sledges in 40-below-zero
Fahrenheit) cold over the same
roads used against Napoleon, the
Russians were pressing forward on
several fronts, all pointed toward
Smolensk. 210 miles west of Moscow
and keeping up their fast pace de-
spite determined German resistance.
Russian forces were reported to
have killed some 1,400 Germans in
three different sectors of the front
and to have thrown back Nazi
(See RUSSIA, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1942-02-03

Dwelling Authority, told the COM
mittee. This might be a tenable
policy if we knew the war was to last
only six months, but that is un-
thinkable since we face the prob
ability of a long struggle.
Disease Danger Stressed.
They should recognize that there
is greater danger than that from
aerial bombs. 1t is the spread Of
disease We are told to stay home
when we have colds to prevent
spreading them in the places where
we work. There is much greater
danger of spreading them In places
where we live if living quarters are
overcrowded.
Others emphasize the danger OF
overbuilding Washington for fear
property values will be depressed.
Here again we must emphasize, in
stead, the greater danger of epi-
demic If we do not build more hous-
ing at once. If many houses are
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Big japanese Convoy
Of 50 Ships Sighted
In Formosa Strait
n Transports Included
In Group En- Route
South OFF Amox
By the Associated Press

CJIUNGKING, Feb. 3.-A huge
Japanese convoy, including Al
warships and enough transports
to carry an entire division, has
been sighted Steaming south in
Formosa Strait off Annoy i'm one
of several moves by the Toxic
high command to make up for
its heavy losses in manpower in
the Southwest Pacific, a Chinese
Army spokesman said today.
He said the convoy consisted of
50 ships in all, with nine large, one
medium and IL small transports,
six launches and hospital ship in
addition to the warships.
The spokesman said several other
divisions which had been reported
moving south along the Tentsin-
Pukow railway on January % were
diverted at Tsinan to the North
China port of Tsingtao, where they
embarked on waiting transports.
Tens of thousands of additional
japanese troops, he said. were pour
ing into Shanghai by train to board
ships there.
AS one of the heaviest blows to
the Japanese in the Pacific area.
the spokesman reported the virtual
annihilation of the japanese 10th
division at Johore Bahru, across the
narrow Johore Strait from Singa-
pore. He said 10000 bodies already
had arrived at Saigon, in French
Indo- China.
The spokesman told a press con-
ference the Japanese were making
thorough preparations for a drive
into Burma from Northern Thailand,
and already had thrown pontoon
bridges across the Salween River.
Concentration point for the jap
anese forces, he said, was at
Chiengmai, 100 miles due east of the
river and ITS miles northeast of
Moulmein, city at the Salween River
mouth which already has been
evacuated by the British.
A Chinese war communique today
said Chinese forces had counter
attacked in the Nanchang area of
Central China after repelling two
japanese thrusts south and west
of that city, capital of Kiangsi
Province.
More than 300 casualties were in
flicted on the japanese west of the
capital and 500 on the Yon River
to the south, it said Among the dead
listed was a Japanese lieutenant
colonel.
Evening star., 1942-02-03
Enemy Suffers
Heavy Losses in
Philippines

Two more Japanese landing at
temptS on the west coast of
Batan Peninsula were broken up
by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
outnumbered American and Fill
pino forces last night, the War
Department announced today.
Gen. MacArthurs forces also sue
ceSsfully counterattacked the jap
anese on their right flank, over
running three lines of enemy
trenches.
On the left flank of the Batan
line, where frontal pressure of the
Japanese 18th CKimura Division
has been relaxed, operations were of
a minor character. Isolated groups
of Japanese soldiers were being
mopped up.
Heavy enemy losses in men and
boats in the landing attempts were
revealed when dawn broke and
litter Of barges broken up by artillery
fire and some of them still burning
was seen scattered along the rocky
shore. None of the enemy reached
the shore to effect landing, the
communique, summing up the mil
itary situation at $50 a m, reported,
Gen. Pierce Slightly Wounded.
Gen. Macarthur reported that
Brig. Gen. Clinton A. Pierce was
slightly wounded in action during
the recent fighting in the Philip
pines. but did not specify the date.
Presumably Gen. Pierce is recover
ing. and still with his troops.
Gen. Pierce was one of six officers
whose promotions from colonel to
brigadier general were confirmed by
the Senate on January % on Gen.
MacArthur's recommendation. Gen.
Pierce, a cavalryman, who was born
In Brooklyn June IS. 1894, entered
the Army as a corporal in the
Illinois National Guard in 1916. He
went to the Philippines in January,
1910 His wife now lives at Sierra
Madre, Calf.
The first raid by the Tatori group
of special japanese shock troops
occurred early last evening, but
was frustrated by a concentration
Of ARTILLERY fire from the defending
AsssstsaAssnd Phiiirpine batteries,
the Var Department communique
said.
Veteran Troops in Raid.
The communique described the
attack as "a raid. indicating it was
made with veteran troops, but not
with great strength. 1t was a con-
tinuation of the attempts by the
Japanese to flank the American
position by an attack behind Ameri-
can Philippine lines stretching
across the peninsula from east to
west and similar in method to tao
(See PHILIPPINES, Page A-6)