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Evening star., 1942-03-16
Hitler Promises Reich
Victory Over Soviet /
In Coming Summer =
Also Predicts uItimate
Defect OF. America; Il !. !.
Makes Trip From Front

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN (Front German Broad
casts, March 1e.-AdoIf Hitler
appealed to the German people
yesterday for new. w.sacrifaces and
warned them "a hard struggle"
lies ahead, but promised q crush
ing victory over Soviet Russia
during the coming summer.
Speaking at memorial exercises
for Ger1nany's war dead, Hitler also
predicted the ultimate defeat OF
what he called President Rooseyelt's
attempts to build a detestahle new
alien world" - - .
(Acting Secretary of State =
Welles said today that the !;
Fuehrer's speech yesterday gave :
clear indication Of "Hitler,s: own
recognition Of his impending
downfall and of the inevitable
conquest OF the German Army"
(There Is increasing evidences, ~.
MIR. WeIles said, that tbs. German
people themselves, as weli ,aS:. the
Italians, fully recognize that
Htler's declarations and promises
are but tissue Of Hes. offered
solely for purposes of=deceit.") &
Politicians, army generals, wound
ed soldiers and war widows crowded
into the zeughaus-in1posing old
Berlin arsenal used as q military
muselm-to hear Killers address,
which alse was broadcast 10 the
nation. .-; -..s
Special Trip Frem Front.
The German leader made spe-
cial trip, from his headquarters on
the Russian front to attend the
state ceremonies; later he! reviewed
units Of the army, navy and air
force and placed q wreath. ON the
war dead memorial In. Inter den
Linden.
He acknowledged frankly that the
German armed forces had met un-
anticipated obstacles In RUSSIA
after achieving victories which lie
said had no parallel In history p
Winter, for instance, he said, came
weeks earlier than expected.
But one thing we know today"
Hitler declared, 'the Bolsheviks
who could not defeat the German
troops and their allies in one winter
will be annihilatingly defeated by
us in the coming summer"
Russia's only hope of ultimate
victory. Hitler said, vanished when
her armies failed to infiict on Ger
many "Napoleonie" defeat In the
snow and cold of a. winter he
described as the worst In 140 years.
Hitler reiterated assertions that
Jewish and capitalist conspirators'
had caused the war and laid rnllch
Of the blame on President Roosevelt.
Denounces Roosevelt. -.
I'm what kind of a werld the
American President wishes to live
lis a matter Of complete indifference
to us Germans" he said. But his
aims to organize Germany or even
(See HITT ,ER PAGE A-11 =
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Roosevelt Asks Head
OF Railroad 10 Obey
Arbitration Order
President Insists Pact
Against Strikes During
War Be Enforced
BY the Associated Press.

og TIC hoSOCldbeu FItses
The White House disclosed to-
day that President Roosevelt had
asked George P. McNear, ir.,
president of the Toledo, Peoria
& Western Railroad, to comply
with a War Labor Board order
for arbitration of a strike of 104
employees of the line.
Stephen Early, presidential Sec
retary, said the Chief Executive had
written to Mr.. McNear Saturday re-
viewing the strike and calling at
tention to national agreement that
there shall be no strikes or lockouts
during the war.
His letter was sent after report.
of violence in the strike and the
wounding of three members OF {
train crew last Friday night.
Mr.. McNear said at Peoria, Ill, III
received the Presidents letter thii
morning, but added:
I'm view of the fact that the White
House did not disclose that the let.
ter was sent until it had reached me
I feel that the President is entitled
to the same courtesy and will not
make public my answer here until
it has been received by the Presi-
dent"
Dispute Began December 2S.
The line, which operates 239 miles
of track with terminals at Elmer
Ind, and Keokuk, Iowa, has beer
disputing with representatives of the
Brotherhoods of Railroad Trainmen
Locomotive Firemen and Engineers
since December 28.
The dispute has centered around
a proposed contract which the en-
ployes have contended would ignore
their security rights and reduce
wages. The company has said the
contract would boost wages an
average of 26.7 per cent.
Mr.. Early said that the Presidents
letter to MIR. McNear concluded in
this manner:
In these times Of war, must In
sist that the national agreement
that there shall be no strikes or
lockouts for the duration of the war
and that the procedures for the
peaceful settlement of labor dis
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Russions' Breok-T through.
Closed, Germans Claim.

BERLIN prom German Broad
casts, March 1s stP.-The German
high command acknowledged today
that the Red Army, pressing the
offensive from the Leningrad area
to the crimea. had preached the
Nazi defenses ut one point on the
central front during q binding
snowstorm, but said q German
counterattack closed the gap.
A communique declared that in
the Crirnea Russian forces strongly
supported by tanks had been re
pulsed in the second day Of mass
attacks from the, Kerch Peninsula
against German and Rumanian
lines.
Virtually everywhere else along
the. battlefront fierce fighting was
said to be taking place in intense
billiards, with temperatures of
more than 20 degrees below zero
Cd on; the front west of Moscow.
Heavy Defense Fighting.
A special statement by the high
command said heavy defense fight
ing developed yesterday" In the
central sector where the German
line had been preached by Russians
advancing through q dense woods
during the height Of the snow
storm.
The high. command said the
breach was closed by a German
counterattack after Is hours of
aerce fighting. -
The supplementary statement ac-
hiowiedged that the Russians still
were pressing an offensive on the
Leningrad sector OF the front and
said three successive Red Army at.
tacks there yesterday afternoon
were repulsed with heavy. losses.
The regular communique said the
Russians lost 40 tanks In their on
slaught. from the Kerch Peninsula
Yesterday. This brought the claims
(See RUSSIA, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1942-03-16

card physical education .ss impor-
tant s,.say, Latin ors stgebrs. {
According to HARDY Pearee, acting
director Of health and physical edu-
cation la the white schools, teachers
and ofaeials must give greater REG
ognisipai,s To- the importance of a
phssiea1 edAeatsca program, II the
1Bse 30 BICAL 1f19Xl56, A-zy :
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Gustof Reqoins Strength

STOCKHOLM, March is (R.-
The general condition Of King GUS
taf v 'is improving and he is re-
gaining strength" medical bulletin
said today. The S3-year-old Swedish
monarch was operated on a week
ago for removal of a bladder stone.
Evening star., 1942-03-16

pupils on q four-period aweek basis.
The schools now have an average
Of only two periods a Eeek-tWo As
minute periods devoted to, physical
education. According TO n 'recrea-
ton ofiicial, when. time is to be made
up during the day, the time comes
from cutting down La music, art
and physical education" School
cfficials, In other words, Do not is-
Evening star., 1942-03-16
For Stronger America
SO More Teachers Needed
For Physical Education
Additions Would Enobls .. C. Schools
To Offer Effective Program
GNe.s , Of g ssriss.J
BY JOHN W.. THONfPsON. Jr.

....I' y -"
Ofcals estimated today would take the addition roughly
SO physical education instructors both women the
staff give the public Junior and high
effective training physical ntEfess 81
This would permit the extension of the Calvin Coolidge High
School senior high school la
Evening star., 1942-03-16
British Capture, Then Give Up
3 Towns in Burma Diversion
Jops and Native Traitors Reported Driven
Out in Fierce House -to-H House Fight
~ the Assoeiated Press.

= = =
MANpALAY, Burma March British imperial
forces snenng their resistance after uno
cay reported today TO have bank of the
Sttang River counterofensye captured shwegyn
mile Of - < .
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(See STRIKE, Page A-20
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(see AGENCY, Page A-6D
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(See ME1LETT, Page A-30
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For q Stronger America

(See HITLER, Page A-2J
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tSee RUSSIA, Page A-3.D
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(See SANITATION, Page
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Continued on Page AS, Column
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Late news and sports are covered on
Pages t-x and Ak Of this edition OF
The Star, stipplementing the news Of /
the regular home delivered edition.
Evening star., 1942-03-16

(See AUSTRALIA, Page A-3)
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-03-19

Watch out for rubber profiteers!
The government is asking Mrs. Am
erica to watch prices on rubber goods
and not to buy when the price APP
pears excessive. Many rubber pro-
ducts now offered for sale were
made months ago, and there is no
excuse for charging customers more
than before Pearl Harbor. Spoil the
profiteer's plans by refusing to pay
his price.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-03-19

SEWING MACHINES-New and
and used, Repairs and service on
all makes. Write to Singer Shop,
Box TIT, Grand Coulee. adv. If.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-03-19

Watch for the labels when you
buy your next bed linens. The label
ing provisions ordered by the Office
of Price Administrator went into ef-
feet March 2, and they are designed
for the one purpose Of consumer pro-
lection. For instance, when sheet
is second, it must be labeled so
exactly. The term Second selection
will not do.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-03-19

II you've been thinking for some
time of replacing the old wall or
desk phone by a hand set, it's too
late now. And if you were planning
TO have an extension in the upstairs
bedroom, you may not get that Ell
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-03-19

Your husbands in luck if he has
one of those sturdy English tweed
sports jackets that wear lifetime.
Changes in the new mems suits were
definitely ordered last week and
turned out to be pretty much as ex-
pected. Suits will be a little simmer
but not noticeably different except
for the absence of trouser cuffs.
With sports Jackets, however. it's
a different matter, because they have
what is known as fancy back
which involves such style devices
as pleat, tuck, bellows gussets, yokes
and belts. All these material users
are now prohibited, as well as the
patch pocket, time-honored trim of
most sports coats The clothing or
der also abolished entirely such lux
ury fashions as the full dress coat
cutaway coat, and the double breast
ed tuxedo coat.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-03-19

Landlord or tenant, if you live in
a defense area, you will be interest
ed in the latest price control move,
1t concerns rents. IN certain areas
rents have been going up and up
and now the Office of Price Admin
stration is taking action. Owners
have been given sixty days to lower
rents voluntarily Or safe federal re-
gulation. OF the twenty comnunities
50 far notified, two areas in the
West. San Diego, California, and
Puget Sound, Washington. San Diego
must bring rents back to where they
were on January 1874: and Puget
Sound to April 1, 1941. An addition
al one hundred defense areas
throughout the country are also i'll
line for rent regulation.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-03-19
COULEE CITY DISPATCH
I. W. (BC4l HIISoN. Editor
0ntered at the postofficn at Coulee
City. WASH, as seIond-ciass matter.
In the Interest Of Coules City and
the Neishboring Vicinity.
MRS. AMERICA MEETS THE WAR

Mrs. America, you may not like
it, but you don't know how TO feed
your family. Only about a fourth of
the American people are really fec
we'll, Selective Service records show
that about one-third of I'll men re-
jected for physical disability had de-
fects related to malnutrit.oR. It's
Time the cooks of America became
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. TO help house
wives understand the basic princip-
les of good nutrition the Office of
Defense Health and Welfare services
has prepared food guide. 1t is in
broad, general terms, SO that YOU
can work it out in accordance with
the special preferences of your own
family. Check over the following list
and see If you serve these foods with
regularity: Milk and Milk Products.
at least pint for everyone, more
Tor children. Oranges, Tomatoes,
Grapefruit, at least one a Gay. Green
or Yellow Vegetables, one big help
ing or more, either raw or cooked.
Other Vegetables ana Fruit, every
day, varying according to season
Bread and Cereal, whole grain or
enriched Meat, Poultry or Fish, or
occasionally dried beans, peas, or
nuts. Eggs, or d week, any way
you choose. That's all. but study
this list seriously. Unknowlngiy, you
may be neglecting one of your big
gest jobs. of vital Importance to your
family and your country.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-03-19

Light bulbs are the --latest prospects
for the simplification treatments.
And they ought to be good subjects.
for there are now some $500 diff
ferent sizes and types Of incandes-
cent bulbs in this country. They III
clude lights for all proposes. home
and store lightino, flashlights, radio
nd auto i, Ole panels and alvertis.
ing signs Since every bulb contains
critical materia;s Copper. brass.
nickel and tungstenl ana ATTEMPT
will probably be made to reduce sic
es to 1000. Also the number of diff
ferent voltaess HAY se reduced.
There are now seven powers, ranging
from 105 to 1875 volts, and they
may be simplifiel to three-...l10,
115 and 1876.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-03-19

Their. The War Production Board has
ordered the telephone companies to
limit all luxury installation in pri-
vate homes and offices and to re-
place no more phones with hand sets
Too, all conversion Of manual tele-
phone offices to the dial system is
to be discontinued. So, if you, like
Fiber MCGEE, have special operator
pal, you can plan on her company
for the duration.
Evening star., 1942-09-06
Germans Remove Statues
Of Czech NotubIes

By order of the Nazi authorities the
monuments of Palacky at Rieger Quay
and of Svec at Pohorelec, Prague, were
removed. Frantisek Palacky is known as
the father of Czech historians and was
The political leader of the Czechs hun
dred years ago. Josef Svec was a hero OF
the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia in the
First World War.
1t is expected that the monument of
Jan Hus at the Old Town Square will be
removed soon.
The name of Hradcany Tin German
"Hradschin'o, an ancient castle in
Prague. which has been the seat of the
Kings of Bohemia and of the Presidents
of Czechoslovakia, was recently changed
TO the German name of Prag Burgstadt
Likewise the names of purely Czech
towns must be designated in German.
Domazlice is now called Taus, Usti mad
Orlici Is named Wildenschwert, etc.
Evening star., 1942-09-06

reason for further cutting down Of
civilian activities will be the need to
conserve manpower for direct war needs.
The chief agency in shutting down
nonessential production will be the War;
time Prices and Trade Board, which is
now under direct orders from tthe gov
ernment to eliminate every nonwar ac-
tivity except that required to maintain
minimum requirements for the civilian
population.
In order to keep finger on all avail
able workers, selective service forbids
employers from laying off workers with
out notice, and employees from quitting
without notice, which must be filed in
the nearest employment Office. No en-
ployer is permitted to hire any worker
who does not possess a permit, and per-
mission to take up work is being regu-
lated in such way as to fill all labor
needs in the nation that are running
short
Evening star., 1942-09-06

mentally alert and physically tough.
They must be well grounded in mathe-
matics and physics when they put on
their country's uniform. The Army and
Navy say they do not have the time or
the facilities to do teaching job-their
job is to teach men to fight, applying
the principles of modern warfare to
lessons absorbed in the classroom.
Every segment of the school population
will have a part to play. From the coll
leges and universities will come officer
material, men indoctrinated in the
sciences and engineering. High schools
are to be the Nations secondary man.
power reserve. Elementary school pupils
will be organized into salvage groups so
that steel needed for armaments can be
produced. In short, every educational
resource of rural and urban America is
to be modified for war.
Because time is not necessarily on the
side of hte United Nations, military
authorities are stressing the urgency for
speedy training. While scientific knowl-
edge is being mastered, the war directors
also are emphasizing that youths phys
ical stamina must augment moral
stamina.
These hard facts emerged from the
recent Nationwide Conference on Edu-
cation and the War held at American
University. Educators then agreed with
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,s philosophy
that when you are in a lifeboat, it
doesn't matter what deck or stateroom
you once occupied
President Roosevelt had asked them
to help us mold men and women who
can fight through to victory /. we ask
that every school house become service
center for the home 'front.'"
State Conferences Held.
With this challenge ringing in their
ears, the educators have swung into ac-
ton. Conferences are being held in every
State to teach pre-induction courses.
This means that next year the Army and
Navy can concentrate their energies on
fitting human material into a war
machine, rather than doing teaching
job as a combat preliminary. The cry
(see SCHOOLS, Page B-3)
Evening star., 1942-09-06
i. S. Interest in Africa Turns ii
To Continents Postwar Role
Committee Proposes Changes in Status of Colonial
Preserve, Although Creation of New
Nations Is Not Envisaged
- BY Felix Morley.
By Felix Morley.

Despite the global character of the
war, relatively little consideration has
as yet been given to the part which the
continent of Africa will play in the
postwar world,
That there will be substantial modi-
fication of old arrangements In China,
India and other parts Of Asia Is now
generally taken for granted. But it
seems to be assumed that Africa, though
twice the size of Europe. will indefinitely
continue to fulfill the passive role of
colonial preserve for dominant nations
Of the smaller continent.
The assumption that there will be no
fundamental alteration of the pre-war
situation in Africa is not due to any
isolation of that continent from hostil-
tiles.
The fighting which has again famed
out in Egypt involves large contingents
from the Union of South Africa, at the
other end of this huge land mass. East
Africa, from Kenya to Eritrea, has seen
the gradual reduction of Italian colo
nies by British troops. Dakar, the
French base $500 miles west of Italian
Somaliland, is more than ever in the
news since Brazil entered the war. So
far as belligerent operations are con-
cerned, Africa is very much In the lime
light.
A consequence of ali this military ac-
tivity has been to stimulate an Ameri-
can interest In Africa which is always
latent because OF the fact that 10 per
cent of our population has its ancestral
home there. And this interest, among
far-sighted persons, applies not merely
to the shifting fortunes of war on At
rican soil and in African waters, but
rather to the changes which this revo-
lutionary upheaval is likely to bring to
a manifestly arbitrary and imperma-
nent political setup.
A Premise of Promise or Danger.
For those who have this interest there
Is now available, through the initiative
of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, thoughtful
and important study on THE Atlantic
Charter and Africa From an American
Standpoint" Issued earlier this summer
by a special committee, of which DR..
Anson Phelps Stokes served as chair
man, this report serves to direct atten-
Evening star., 1942-09-06

, developments connected with the war
| effort The chief" was furious and the
two officials did not appear at the ap-
pointed luncheon. They phoned to say
that their necks were not long enough"
and it would be highly dangerous for
their future if they were to be seen in
such company.
Mr., Roosevelt, who at one time con-
sidered the press the best means of con:
tact with the people, is said to be chiefly
responsible for this clamping down on
reporters. Whether this is true is diff
cult to ascertain, just as it is difficult
to determine why rubber stocks were
not built up in the two years before we
went to war.
Recent Change in Attitude.
During his difficult first term, Mr..
Roosevelt took reporters into his conf
dence and expressed through them all
his hopes and misgivings He used to be
proud of his personal relations with the
working press. Unlike Herbert Hoover,
his predecessor, he kept in close touch
with the public through reporters and
not through publishers.
In the last years and particularly
since December 7, he seems to have
changed his opinion regarding the in
tense patriotism and loyalty of the rep
ortorial corps in the United States. He
realizes, of course, the necessity OF
building morale in the country, but
apparently believes this can be done
through fireside chats and canned news
from public relations Offices. Thus, many
high-ranking officials forget that the
people of the United States can take
good and bad news with equanimity.
They must, however, have the unadul-
terated truth Fireside chats will not
warm the circle beyond the immediate
vicinity of the glowing logs of rhetoric.
To date, the vast majority of the press
has been more than loyal. Even those
opposed to the administration realize
that this is not Roosevelt war" as his
isolationist opponents describe it, but
the most difficult struggle this country
has ever had to fight. Every newspaper
man from cub reporters to editors know
this.
In spite of orders to freeze news at
the source there are few developments of
Importance which are not known before
hand in the newsrooms