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Evening star., 1942-04-05

pike and the new Army and Navy
boulevard and the ether on q por~
ton of the tract formerly owned
by the Washtngton-Hoover Airport.
Provision for handling q heavy
volume OF trafnc Is provided In q
large bus terminal and taxicab
stand to be erected in the basement
At the head of each stairway, q
turnstile will be located and pas
sengers may deposit fares in a man
ner similar to the system in New
York's subways.
The main concourses on the first
floor, which lead to the bus lanes,
will contain cafeteria, drugstore.
barber shop, newsstand and other
facilities for convenience of en-
ployes.
5000 to Eat at a Time.
The cafeteria facilities, according
to the Welfare and Recreational As
sociation, which will operate them
will provide a total of 200 900 square
feet of space for eating. The actual
seating space at one time will be
about 5000, an official of the associa-
ton said. But this doesn't include
three special rooms-an officers din
ing room seating about $50; a mes
senger's room seating about the
same number, and dining room for
cafeteria employees, seating about
$50.
In the basement, where every
thing will be cooked, will be store
rooms, refrigerators, ovens, work
tables, sandwich tables, loading plat
forms, salad preparation tables,
baking shop, lockers and restrooms
Then on the first floor will be one
cafeteria, with II steam tables and,
OF course, as many service lines.
There will also be a soda fountain
there 286 feet long, and ID alcoves.
Eight more steam tables and serv-
ice lines will be available on each of
the second and third floors, ard on
the second floor will be the officers,
messengers and cafeteria employees
dining rooms.
Sandwich Counters, Too.
In another section, there will be
two lunch counters on each floor for
serving sandwiches etc.
1t is estimated by the Welfare and
Recreational Association that the
cafeterias will be able to serve % 900
hot meals during lunch period.
Along with construction of the
War Building, the Public Roads Ad-
ministration is going ahead With
construction Of a $1,000, 900 network
Of highways to serve the new build
ing and adjacent areas. This is ex-
pected to be completed when the
building Is finished. The roads be-
ing built are equivalent to Is miles
OF two-lane highways.
Evening star., 1942-04-05
New Agency Will Push
Prison War Production
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Government is establishing a
special agency to seek increased pro-
duction by prisons of goods useful
in the war effort.
The agency will be a division of
the Bureau of Governmental Re-
quirements, headed by Maury Ma
verick, who said today that it was
expected other Allied governments
would purchase most of the prison.
made goods.
1T was emphasized" an an
nouncement said, that production
of goods by prison industries will not
interfere with normal labor or in
dustry inaSmuch as articles made
in these shops will be used only for
war purposes and will not enter nor
NAL comercial channels"
Dan Turner former Governor of
Iowa, will be in direct charge of the
program.
Evening star., 1942-04-05
Toll Of Bomber Crash
In Idaho Is I Killed
And One Missinq
Four-Motored Army
Plane Falls While
On Truining Flight
BY the Associated Press.

by Tue AoSOCldLeO fTess.
BRIDGE. Idaho, April A four
motored Army bomber on a night
flight crashed near this Utah-Ida-
no border town, killing seven flyers
and presumably an eighth whose
body has not been found late today
First reports were that nine were
aboard, but Capt. r. S. Gibbs.
Gowen Field public relations officer
at Boise, said clearance papers
showed only eight. The dead were
listed as:
1t. James r. Walker, pilot; 1t
Albert j. Rich, co-pilot; 1t. Maurice
Victory Bradley. Sergt. Hugh P.
Jennings, Sergt. Henry o. Williams,
jr.; Pvt. Joseph w. Koury and Pvt.
Charles j. Gneiding.
Also listed as a crew member was
Pvt. Kenneth S. Biddinger. His
body is believed covered by part of
the plane.
The plane left Hill Field at Ogden,
Utah. approximately $50 miles from
Bridge, on a routine training fight
at S:l5 pm. The wreckage was
discovered this morning about 10
miles north of the Utah line.
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of from the Army Ferry Command
Base at the Wayne County Airport.
killing its two occupants.
The dead are 1t. Eldon E. Powell.
%, West Decatur, Pa, pilot, and Joe
G. Frost. 42. Nashville, Tenn,
civilian co-pilot.
The bomber touk of on a ferry
command mission, turned sharply
to the left and spun into a group
of trees and was demolished.
The crackup was the second at
the Wayne County Airport today.
Capt. Lance Call, Houston, Tex,
escaped injury at l1:50 am. when
his plane smashed its landing gear
as it came down on the field, over
turned and burst into flames.
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this left a net usable Office space Of
approximately 100000 square feet.
Just how many War Department
workers will be assigned to the new
building remains somewhat unclear.
War Department officials have said
nothing since announcing that the
building. as revised, was designed
for 10000 workers. Army officials
in charge of space control said the
number which would be assigned to
the new building would depend
largely on whether the departments
high officials transfer their Offices
there.
May House $4,000.
If high Army officials should move
their headquarters to the new struc-
ture, then the total to be sent there
would be smaller. On the other
hand. if the shift consists mostly Of
lesser. officials, clerks. stenographers.
ETC., as many as $4,000 might be
housed in the new building, one
ofiicial said. E
Army officials said they had not
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occupants. but added they expected
to make decision on this soon.
So big Is the project that more
than 10000 craftsmen and laborers
are employed on it, and some go
special policemen are on the job
maintaining order and directing the
endless streams Of truck traffic in
and around the building and the
contractors headquarters. Active
direction of the job for the contrac-
tor is under J. Paul Hauck. Mr..
Hauck has been with John McShain,
Inc, of Philadelphia. one of the
three contracting firms for the job,
for IS years.
300 Architects, Craftsmen.
For this project alone, more than
300 architects and craftsmen are at
work constantly, under the direction
OF George E. Bergstrom, the noted
architect who designed the building.
and they have prepared thousands
Of drawings and blueprints to guide
the builders.
Each face of the outer ring of the
building is 921 feet long, thus max
ing walk around the structure q
jaunt Of about four -fifths of a mile.
Each face Of the pentagon facing
the inner court is $50 feet long. The
distance from the face of the outer
court to the face of the inner court
is 386 feet. The building is being
constructed Of buff Indiana lime
stone on framework of reinforced
concrete, with slate roofs.
There are only two pentagonal
rings as far as the first floor is con-
cerned, but above that on the second
and third floors of the three-story
structure, there are actually five
pentagonal rings, with each section
being divided into five wings con-
nected by corridors
There will be more than 5000
windows in the building with a
heating unit located beneath each
window. Communication between
floors will be provided by stairways
and ramps, with escalators in spe-
cial places.
Evening star., 1942-04-05
Big Thow Turns
| Red. Into
Sea of SIush
BY EDDY GILMORE,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
KUIBYSHEV, Russia. April A.
The Great Russian thaw has started,
turning millions of acres of snow
into one tremendous sea of slush.
After living in and riding through
the thaw for six days, I know what
the mechanical German Army is up
against.
The slush looks and acts far more
formidable than mined fort or
moated citadel.
Imagine all the swamps you ever
saw. Imagine all the muddy bitches
your automobile has whizzed past.
Imagine millions and millions of
mudbaths. Into this mixture, dump
billions of tons of grayish snow and
stir thoroughly.
Now you've got something-you've
got a Russian thaw.
Gen. Weather certainly smiled
on the Russian army this winter and
if that was smiling, this slush is ac-
tually beaming
A tank or autox obile would have
the same chance IN this slush as
flea in bathtub full of mud mixed
with mola5ses
The Russian slush is not the kind
you put your foot in and then take
out and kick away. It clings.
Riding through one section of the
country I saw a man who had
jumped off the track to let a train
60 past. He was buried to his waist
in slush that gripped him like
quickSand. His comrades came along
and threw him rope AS we went
around q long bend they were try
ing to pull! him out.
Evening star., 1942-04-05
Ferry Command Bomber
Falls at Detroit; 7 Killed

DETROIT, April 4 GA twin
engined medium bomber crashed
this afternoon shortly after taking
Evening star., 1942-04-05
Space for 5000 Cars.

space TOT 8,UUU CARS.
Parking space for approximately
5000 cars will be provided in two
areas adjacent to the building, one
near the intersection of Columbia
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-06-22
.DR0TTNINCHOLM
WILL SOON SAIL
949 North And South
Americans Wait For
Sailing

LISBON, Portugal, June 21-RE
The Swedish liner Drottingholm,
with e49 North and South Aneri-
cans being repatriated from Axis
countries, awaited sailing orders
hit from the State Department
in Washington.
Passengers - many of w h m
had come from German concen-
ttation camps-spent Sunday impa-
tiently on board. Under Portuguese
regulations, once aboard, they ccan
not disembark. They were not even
allowed to use a ship-to-shore tel
ephone.
One group sent a petition to port
authorities to allow them off, "un-
der escort" to go to bullfight
but their request was refused.
Perhaps the most spectacular OF
the passengers was Ruth Mitchell,
author, traveller and sister OF the
late Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell, who
spent a year in German inter-
ment camp at Leibenau after her
capture while serving as member
of the Chetniks or Comitadji, the
Yugoslav guerrillas.
Miss. Mitchell said one woman,
an illiterate British subject from
Cyprus, went insane in the camp.
Therewere three deaths, including
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-06-22
House Group Lining Up
Observation-Disclosures

WASHINGTON, June 21.-R-A
strong Congressional bloc was re-
ported authoritatively today to be
lining up for an effort to curb the
appointive powers of price admin.
istrator Leon Henderson when his
request for OPA appropriations of
approximately $161, 100000 reaches
the House floor.
One administration leader, ask
ing not to be quoted by name, said
that he wouldn't be a bit sur
prised" if Congress inserted a
clause giving the Senate power of
confirmation or rejection of ap-
pointees to jobs above the $4,000
level.
The move was bi partisan, he
said, and had grown out of Hender.
sons refusal to heed suggestions
from Congress for appointments to
state and regional jobs in the rap.
idly growing office of price admin
istration.
Why" he declared, Gin n e
case Leon appointea republican
state committeeman to an impor-
tant position when there were DEM
ocrats just as well qualified for the
post. In another case, he picked
for a state director republican
who ran two years ago against a
democratic senator"
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-06-22
Stains S Sons Honored
For Air Corps Service

MOSCOW, June 21- R Joseph
v. Stalin's son, Vassily, today was
awarded the Order Of the Red Ban
ner for his services as a colonel in
the Russian air force.
The decoration awarded young
Stain, who still is in his 20's, was
in long list announced on the eve
of the first anniversary of Ger
many's invasion of the Soviet un-
ion.
Another of Stalin's sons. Jacob
lieutenant, was mentioned in dis
patches last Aug. 16 for fighting
with an artillery battery until his
last round of ammunition was fired.
THE Germans claimed the cap
ture of Jacob Stain last July 21
and the Berlin radio subsequently
carried an interview purportedly
with him.
Vassily's citation said Stain S
son had "excellent,y carried out
military command projects in front
line battle with German aggressors
showing simultaneously bravery
and valor."
This was the first disclosure that
Stalin's second son was fighting at
the front. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-06-22
$4,000 English Soldiers
And Several Generals /,
Reported Captured 4
SUPPLIES ARE TAKEN
Most OF Equipment Con-
voyed To City A Few Days
Ago Said To Be Lost

CAIRO, Egypt, June 21-tREThs
Second SIEGE of Tobruk has end.
ed abruptly in short, overpower-
ing assault which toppled that key
supply harbor into Axis hands and
advanced Nazi Marshal E W i n
RommeTs armored hosts to the
borders of menaced Egypt, Ger
man and Italian communiques
claimed today.
Informed quarters at this British
headquarters city said they believ-
ed the report was true. although
it lacked official confirmation, for
Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck's COM
munique today admitted that the
enemy had penetrated the defenses
in fierce, sharp action and oc-
cupied large area inside tn
stronghold
Several hours after the Axis
claims were broadcast, the situa-
t on of Tobruk was authoritatively
described as precarious."
Captured in the overwhelming
rush, said German and Italian
communiques, were $4,000 British
soldiers and several generals - al
most a duplication of the number
of Italians taken prisoner VIII n
the town surrendered to the British
on January %, 1941.
1t was possible, too, that most
of the equipment conveyed to To.
bruk by the British Navy at grea:
cost only few days ago had fall
len into Axis hands for the enemy
announcements claimed the cap
ture of vast stores:
With this thorn removed from
the side of the Axis coastal flank.
the Germans claimed to h " e
rushed on and seized Bir Ell Cobb,
a desert track crossing 40 miles
southeast which has bee:, m U h
fought-over. and Bardia, only eight
miles from the Egyptian border.
Observers did not doubt these
claims, either, for if was not be-
lieved these places were strongly
held.
There was no ready explanation
| OIL Llle SlQllIllllS DlOW IIldt tilC Div
ish thus apparently had suffered,
but it was feared that the British
had lost a large proportion of their
tanks and were unable to give bat
tie to the Axis arlnored columns
or they would not have surrender
ed so readily the fortress to which
they clung through thick and thin
in a siege last year.
Tobruk, the best deep harbor be-
tween Alexandria and Tripol and
thus a key point in the vital prob
lem of supply in the desert, had
been British since January %.
1941 when the British seized it
from the Italians in the first Liby-
an offensive.
1t was cut off on April II when
the Germans led the Axis rebound,
but for eight months the British
held on despite terrific dive bomb
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Henderson, indicating he believ-
ed Congress was holding UP the re-
quested OPA appropriation be-
cause of dissatisfaction with his ap-
pointees, said yesterday that he
would resign if that was what the
legislators wanted as a price for
voting funds for the agency.
He has called his policy one of
appointing the best available per-
son to the job without regard for
politics.
There was no Indication whether
the OPA appropriation would be
brought up this week
The House expects to receive
early in the week a rev Army ap-
preparation bill of about forty bill
lion dollars. Before the week is out,
it may get the new $6,640, 600, 900
tax bill from it's ways and means
committee. 4
The Senate will resume tomor-
row its consideration of a broad
termed bill for government pay
ments to civilians suffering in
juries from enemy action, and to
the dependents Of these killed or
captured. Senator George D.-Ga.)
has served notice he will ask that
the measure he sent TO the Finance
committee, Of which he is chair
man, for stAdy. 5
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-06-22
LARGE CARGO SUBS
THOUGHT FEASIBLE
Navy Considers Building
OF Undersea Carriers
Possible

WASHINGTON, June 21- ZAP -
Declaring that construction of sub
marines capable of carrying $500
tons of cargo was considered fea-
sible by the Navy Senator Hill
tD-A1a) urged today an immediate
program to build scores of these
undersea craft to carry military
supplies to United Nations forces
in all parts of the world.
fThe answer to the submarine is
the submarine" Hill told report
ers. IT see no reason why we can't
build submarines to carry cargoes
as well as torpedoes. There may
be a question of obtaining the ma.
terials but if there is a choice
between constructing surface car
60 ships that may be sunk and
submarines that could get the sup
plies through, I think it ought to
be made in favor Of the subma-
rines."
Hill disclosed that he had written
Secretary of Navy Knox, after con.
ferences with Simon Lake, the in
ventor of the submarine, to ascer-
tain the Navy's view toward con.
struction of the hinge undersea
craft.
"The first question in your let
ter" Knox replied, ''is disregard
ing the angle of economy n d
shortage of critical materials, do
you think it would be possible to
construct submarine capable of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-06-22
ITALIAN ADMIRAL
TELLS OF BATTLE
Admits Hits On Two Ships
But Claims Very Heavy
Loss To English

BERLIN (From German Broad
casts) June 21.- Up Admiral AL
berto Di. lara, commander of the
Seventh division of the italian Navy
told a German correspondent in an
interview today that the Italian
light cruisers Eugenio Di Savoie
and Raimondo Montecuccoli received
hits, in the battle with British con.
voy last Monday off Pantelleria is
land in the Mediterranean.
In addition one destroyer was bad
ly damaged, he added. but the de-
stroyer Lanzerotto Malocello twas
not damaged at all and neither was
one of the other two destroyers. (He
did not explain what happened te
the other destroyer of his flotilla
which he said included two cruisers
and five destroyers.)
Describing damage done to the
British, the admiral said a British
cruiser of the Cardiff type and three
destroyers were sunk, and six trans.
ports set afire by shellfire. The
transports burned all day, he said
and planes had established that the
Caediff went down in spite of the
fact the British surrounded the area
with smoke screen.
One other British destroyer was
hit and another light cruiser or de.
stroyer damaged, he declared.
The Eugenio Di Savoia, :. 1888.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-06-22
Chinese Repulse Japs
North Of Yellow River

CHUNGKING, June 21.- B -
Chinese troops. fighting with rocks,
hand grenades and machine-guns
against 10000 japanese troops sup
ported by planes and heavy guns.
have repulsed seven attempts ct
the invaders to storm a mountaitl
pass in a bitter struggle along the
Honan-Shansi border north of the
yellow river, the Chinese high
command announced today.
This heroic stand was reported
as spokesmen claimed that the
Chinese still were holding a 50
mile gap along the Chekiang-
Kiangsi railway in the area sout,1
of the Yangtze and were locked in
still indecisive combat at Kwang-
feng where the Japanese had tried
to turn their Kiangsi offensive
southwark toward Fukien province
on the eastern seaboard.
Opening a new offensive north
of the Yellow river, the Japanese
drove northward from Linhsien, III
North Honan province 80 miles
west of the Peiping-Hakow rail-
way, on June II, the communiquf
said, and succeeded in driving thu
Chinese back to the foothills of the
Taiheng mountain range.
There in rugged pass, the
Chinese hurled back three attacks
on June 13 and IA and four the
next day, rolling stones down upon
four attacking columns to supple
ment their concentrated machine
gun fire.
Although the Japanese suffere
heavy casualties, the fighting was
said to be continuing. The Japa.
nese were said to have lost 1,2OU
men in the first day of the fight
ing.
At Kwangfeng, in Easter
Kiangsi, fighting was said to b5
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naziis Drive
Wedges Into
Red Defense
pnssians Admit Maneuver
Rut Claim Tremendous
Enemy Losses
100000 WIPED OUT
Forts Surrounded; Hand
To Hand Fighting
AT Points

MOSCOW, Monday, June Or
beginning the second year of the
msr against the Axis with mo sur
..nder" s resistance along the entire
soON mile front, Russia acknowl-
,sepd officially today that the en-
,ny had succeeded in driving a
,pdee w into the defenses of Sevas-
tonoI although lat the cost of tre-
nendous sacrifices"
The price paid by the Axis was
Indicated in newspaper dispatches
rpporting that at least seven Axis
iivisions - five German and two
7unanian - totaling up to 100000
men have been wiped out in the
hitter battle for the Crimean port.
During the course of June 81,
M the Sevastopol sector, our
-oops repelled constant fierce at
scks Of German Fascist troops"
HE Soviet bureau of information
announced in the first communique
ot the new year of war.
THE enemy at the cost of tre-
mendous sacrifices succeeded in
driving a wedge in our defenses.
Earlier newspaper dispatches
from the roaring battle front said
that the Germans, by dint of su-
peror numbers and repeated at
lacks, forced the Red army back
to central defense lines in the
southern zone of the Sevastopol for
thcations yesterday.
Forts were surrounded in some
Instances; there was hand-to-hand
fighting at many points.
Some of the fighting was report
ed TO have gone underground when
German soldiers occupied the up
per stories of huge Notifications
and the Red army fought on from
ubterranean corridors and de-
lenses.
On other sectors Of the front, the
Soviet bureau of information said,
there were no substantial changes
but unofficial reports told of local
engagements in the Ukraine, on
the central and northwestern fronts
and on up to the far north
The Russians said 264 Axis
planes were destroyed last week
while the Red air force lost 103.
Russian planes are playing a big
part in the defense of the Soviet
land, the communique indicated. 1t
announced that last Saturday the
air force in various areas of the
lSont destroyed or damaged 16
German tanks, 60 motor vehicles
with troops and war materials, two
guns, IA mortars, 20 anti-aircraft
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The Wilmington morning star., 1942-06-22
EDWARD RUTLEDCE
LAUNCHED SUNDAY
Is 18th Liberty Freighter
Buik By Local
Shipyard

Under threatening rain | o d s
the Edward Rutledge, third Lib
erty freighter to be launched here
this month, and the sixteenth since
December 6, slid down the ways
at the North Carolina Shipbuilding
company at o'clock Sunday after
noon into the waters of the Cape
Fear, soon to enter a fight for
freedom as did the Colonial hero.
in whose honor it was named,
nearly two centuries ago.
As a sudden rumbling began,
caused by laborers knocking the
blocks from under the Edward
Rutledge, Miss Anne Blake Rut-
ledge, of Charleston. the sponsor,
stood holding the bottle of cham
pagne anxiously awaiting the first
movement of the freighter down
the ways.
Several hundred spectators about
16 of them from Charleston, raised
on tiptoes when a siren sounded
and were peering along both sides
of the freighter when a second
siren whined, the Edward Rutledge
moved toward the Cape Fear and
the sponsor threw the bottle Of
champagne against her bow.
Miss Ruthledge, a fifth genera
ton descendant Of Hugh Rutledge,
brother of Edward, had as her
maids of honor, Miss Emmy Rut-
ledge and Miss Eliza Huger Rut-
ledge, both of Charleston.
AS the freighter slid down the
ways and began rippling waves in
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