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Evening star., 1942-12-09
Seat Pleasant Line
Reduces Fare Toniaht

Reduction of the fare on the Seat
Pleasant to downtown Washington
line of the Washington, Marlboro &,
Annapolis Motor Lines from Is to 10
cents, pending an appeal to the
Supreme Court, will be effective at
midnight tonight, the company an
nounced today.
Leslie Altman. company president
announced the reduced fare as soon
as he had been given permission to
make the change by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The fare was increased from 10
to Is cents on this line some weeks
ago after ICC had made no objec-
tion to the proposed new rate, but
the case was taken to court by the
OPA. The company won the con-
test IN District Court, but lost in the
Court of Appeals. Mr.. Altman
then announced the case would be
carried to the Supreme Court.
Pending final court ruling, how
ever, the company decided to reduce
the fare to 10 cents.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
California Towns
Landlords to DEFY
| OPA Rent Rules
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VALLEJO. Calf. Dec. g.
Organized landlords in this
war-booming town went on rec
ord today to refuse to recog-
nize the rules and regula-
tions" of the OPA and said I'VE
separately and collectively
strike" in regard to specified
rents.
The resolution did not specify
what form the strike would
take but said it would last un-
til local and regional Offices Of
the ONCE of Price Administra-
ton comply with their own
rules and regulations, and show
by their deeds their Willingness
to Cooperate in fairness and
justice" with landlords and
tenants.
The resolution. adopted by
the Greater Vallejo Landlords
Association, said the OPA had
repeatedly and consistently
obstructed proper legal func-
tions OF courts in regards to
evictions to q point where
actual damages have accrued to
landlords and tenants" and
that petitions to the OPA for
relief had been returned
Wholesale"
Evening star., 1942-12-09
| Jack Doyle Dies
lOf Heart Attack
| In Florida
,y the Associated Press.

by me Associated PreSS.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Dec. g.
John T. Jack) Doyle. 66. New York
betting commissioner, died in hotel
here today of heart attack.
He had been in Florida for his
health.
Mr.. Doyle was widely known as a
price maker" for all sports, par
ticularly for baseball. His Zine
On the big league pennant races at
the start of each season for the
past several years was regarded as
official betting odds. He also
quoted prices on big races, including
a winter-book line on the Kentucky
Derby, and odds on all football
games, large or small.
For 81 years, until 1888. he oper-
ated Broadway billiard parlor Just
a few steps from Forty second street
in New York.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
100 Hostages Seized
AtLyon Reported
Awaiting Execution
French Group Declared
Arrested in ReprisoI
For Attack on Nuzi
E, the Associated Press.

Is tne hSSOCldteu fTeSS.
LONDON, Dec. g. Fighting
French headquarters asserted
today that the Germans had
taken 100 hostages from the
population of Lyon in reprisal
for an attack on a German
soldier there on December l and
that the hostages were reported
now to be awaiting execution.
The fighting French said this was
the first instance of taking hostages
in what was Unoccupied France be-
fore Hitler's November II occupation
Of the whole country, although
scores have been executed in the
old occupied zone Some of the
Lyon hostages are women.
"On November 29,' the headquar-
ters statement said, "a o-German
demonstration was organized in the
Place Belle Couer at Lyon. The
demonstration was broken UP by
crowds which hurled insults at Nazi
troops who intervened to restore
order.
"On December l an attack was
made on the life Of German soldier
In Lyon. One hundred men and
women were chosen Immediately at
random from the population of Lyon
and are now awaiting execution in
the Prison Centrale."
Meanwhile, exiled Czech govern
ment circles said today that Ger
man terror" In Bohemia and Nor
avia had killed IS more Czechs.
Twenty-nine men were shot in one
day for allegedly possessing arms
fSee HOSTAGES. PAGE A-6l
Evening star., 1942-12-09
ID. T.. Youth Is Hero
As u. 5. Ship Battles
Two Surface Raiders
Hudson A. Hewey, Radio
| Man, Stuck to Post os Shi|
Sank; Reported Missing

A District man was one of the
heroes in the first sinking of an
enemy surface raider by an
American merchant ship after a
shot-for-shot slugging match
with two opponents, the Navy
announced today.
The medium sized ships Navy gun
crew sank the smaller of the two
raiders and badly damaged the other
before the American ship went down.
her colors still flying, the Navy said
The battle took place late in Sep
tember in the South Atlantic.
Included as one of the heroes was
Radio Operator Hudson A. Hewey,
1881 Euclid street NV, who is listed
as missing
Only 10 men from a merchant
crew of Al survived the Commute
engagement and the ordeal of 81
days in an open lifeboat. In addi-
ton five men of the Navy gun crew
survived.
Hit From Stem to Stern.
The outgunned merchantman
was hit from stem to stern by four
salvos, the large guns of the smaller
raider apparently being fired to-
gether from central fire. control
system, the Navy said.
Ensign D. c. Willett, U. S. N. r..
Of Sacramento, listed as missing
directed his crew and although
seriously wounded later manned
the gun himself until direct shell
hit exploded the magazine.
The gun crew sent almost every
shell into the heavily armed small
raider at the water line.
At the radio in the battered super
structure of the merchant vessel
Operator Hewey stayed at his post
The ship continued to blaze away
at the enemy as she slowly flooded
(see HERO, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Big Ten Continues
Ban on Freshmen

Ey the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 9-Faculty rep
resentatives of the Big Ten" voted
today to table the proposal to lift
the ban on freshman competition
Cn varsity athletic teams.
The faculty representatives as
serted their belief there was no
immediate need for such action. If
in the future the draft of 18-year-
olds cuts too deeply into the ranks
of athletes. the rule prohibiting
freshmen participation might be re-
considered, the representatives
ruled.
Permission to increase the foot
ball schedules of l943 to 10 games
was granted. provided the tenth
game was played with service teams.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Mr.. Bracken presumably is not
squeamish, but he did not reply.
Words Cut Out, Film to Open
In New York December 23

NEW YORK. Dec. 9 R.-Noel
Coward's new movie, I'm Which We
Serve" will open on Broadway De-
cember %, but without the naughty
words because American good
taste frowns on movie realism which
Is painted in with words instead of
celluloid'action, motion picture ex-
ecutives said today.
we don't need that kind of Ian
guage in our films" member OF
the American industry's official re-
viewing committee, the Production
Code Authority, said in Hollywood
today
If we permitted those words to
get by in one film, we'd have to
go step farther the next time"
Another member of the code au-
thorlty said:
why don't those fellows over
there Tin England stop worring
about what we do here and concen-
trate on winning the war? English
censors slash and cut our pictures
but we don't make speeches in Con-
gress about It,"
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Raj Again Hammers Tu Heavy Damage Admitted by italians
Italian People
Reported Told
ToC|ear Areas
Only One Plane Lost
From Large Force on
1,200-MiIe Trip
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, Dec. ga flight of
British bombers which took an
hour to pass over the English
coast made the 1,200-mile round
trip flight over the Alps to Turin
again last night and battered the
Royal Arsenal city and the Ital-
ian Fiat works for the fifth time
in a month in raid which the
Italians admitted caused very
heavy damage.
The raiders again blasted Turin
with four-ton bombs-thc biggest in
the RATS arsenal of explosives-as
well as with many two-ton bombs
and tens of thousands of incendi-
aries.
Only one plane was lost from the
large force of Britain's most power
full bombers which delivered the at
tack. Premier Mussolini already
has ordered Turin cleared of nom
essential civilians.
Reuters quoted Geneva dispatch
to Moscow as saying the Premier
had ordered urgent evacuation of
the entire civilian population from
Southern Italy, west coast regions
and Sardinia and had declared these
regions defense zones.
Travellers arriving at Istanbul said
civilians in the Italian ports of
Brindisi and Bari, on the Adriatic
coast. have begun moving into the
interior since the destructive raid
by United States heavy bombers
on Naples last week.
BY both British accounts and the
admission Of the Italian high COM
mand the bombing was one of the
heaviest yet made in the campaign
to blast italy out of the war.
One of Heaviest Raids.
The Italians said the total of dead
was not yet known. They reported
that the single British raider shot
down plunged into the center OF the
city, killing all seven members of
its crew.
This morning after the Turin
raiders returned other RAF planes
were heard over the southeast coast,
headed for daylight offensive patrols
to keep up the day and night pace
of attack
Turin was the target for a force
of Strings, Halifaxes. Lancasters
and Wellingtons of the bomber COM
mand last night" an authoritative
British statement said.
The weather over Northern Italy
was clear and with the help of flares
tSee RAIDS, Page A-22)
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Film Censors in u. S. 'Fussy,
House Of Commons Is Told
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Dec. 9. Hollywood
movie censors are Just too "old
maiden aunt-like" to appreciate
two salty adjectives in the dia-
logue of a new British film, In
formation Minister Bracken
told the House Of Commons to-
day.
Owing to two naughty words, Noel
Coward's picture, I'm Which We
Serve" is currently banned from
American screens. They're spoken by
British seamen and applied to Ger
man planes. One questions the le-
gitimacy Of Germans and the other
describes the kind of nose you get
if somebody punches it.
Asked If he could use his influence
to get the uneXpurgated version of
the picture shown in America, Mr..
Bracken replied:
Il have no right whatsoever to
give orders to American film censors
and would not dream of so doing.
But think We can leave it to the
American press and public to- see
that sQueamishness and old maiden
aunt-like apprehensions OF those
Hollywood censors are overcome"
Members then asked, "can We be
told what the words are, sir?"
Evening star., 1942-12-09
BYRD 10 Ask Revival
OF Old Pay Bill for
War, Navy Workers
Senator Seeks to Aid
Field Employees os
New Measure Stalls
By ]. A, O'LEARY.

Senator Byrd, Democrat, of
Virginia announced this after
noon he will introduce in the
Senate Friday a resolution to re-
vive until April l the temporary
overtime pay law for field en-
ployes of The War and Navy De-
partments, which expired No
vember go.
No effort was made in November
to extend this provision because of
the expectation that a general over
time law would be enacted this
month for all Federal workers.
In view of>complications that have
developed in the effort to get a gen.
eral pay bill through in the closing
weeks of this Congress. Senator
Byrd decided to urge continuation
OF the temporary overtime rule for
War and Navy field workers, so that
If no general bill is passed, these
workers who have been getting
overtime will not suffer pay cut.
new Dill StalleQ.
The temporary overtime resolu-
ton would apply principally tc
supervisors and other per annum
employees in arsenals and Navy
Yards, working with mechanics who
have always been eligible for over
time on per diem basis, under
wage board control
There still is possibility of the
general overtime bill being taken
up, since the Civil Service Commit
tee decided this morning to advise
the Democratic Steering Committee
it wants that measure considered
rather than the straight pay in
crease of 20 or Is per cent provided
| for in substitute drafted two DAYS
ago.
The straight-increase bill encoun-
tered a deadlock in committee over
(See PAY, Page A-22D
Evening star., 1942-12-09
u. ). War Plants 10 Work
On New Year Day

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Donald M. Nelson OF
the War Production Board an
nounced today that war plants
would stay on the job New Year Day
and get out "a regular workday's
production of war goods"
Mr. Nelson's statement. requesting
observance of normal working sched-
ules, follows:
Ever since Pearl Harbor we have
asked workers and management in
war plants to folego their customary
holidays in order to maintain un-
broken production schedules. The
response to these requests has been
remarkably good and the effect on
production has been excellent. The
one exception that has been made
to this rule during the past year
has been in connection with the OBJ
servance of Christmas.
New Year Day should not cause
a break in the steady flow of pro-
duction. We can best start the new
year by staying on the job and get
ting out a regular workdays pro-
duction of war goods"
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Jap Worship Sunk, 3 Damaged
BY Flyers Off GuodoIconoI
Dive Bombers and Torpedo Planes Intercept
Force of 10 Vessels Headed Toward Island

ers, torpedo planes and fighters met
the enemy feet somewhere between
New Georgia and Santa Isabel
Islands. The Navy listed the fol-
lowing damage inflicted during the
attack.
(ao Two 1,ooo-pound bomb hits
on one cruiser.
(b> One 1,0O0-pound bomb hit on
second cruiser. .--..-.--
Co Two torpedo hits on a de-
stroyer COR cruiser.
Id Two possible torpedo hits on
a second destroyer (or cruiseU.
'e) Ten float-type planes shot
down by fighters.
Our losses were one dive bomber
one torpedo plane and one fighter
Although the Navy did not de-
scribe the type of planes shot dowr
other than to say they were of float.
type, it is known, that the japanese
| (See NEW GUINEA, Page A-22)
Evening star., 1942-12-09
By CLAUDE A. MAHONEY.

American dive bombers and
torpedo planes sank a japanese
warship and damaged three
others in an attack on a force
Of about 10 cruisers and destroy
ers $50 miles northwest of
Guadalcanal on December 8,
the Navy said in a communique
today.
One ship was seen sinking and the
other three in flames the morning
after the attack on an enemy force
streaming toward Guadalcanal, the
Navy said.
In addition, the communique re-
ported that 10 japanese float-tvpe
planes were shot down during the
engagement, which frustrated an
other attempt by the japanese to
reinforce their troops on Guadal-
canal
The striking force of dive bomb
Evening star., 1942-12-09
U. S., Argentina Rotify
Reciprocal rode Treaty
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Ambassador Espil of Argentina
and Secretary of State Hull today
exchanged ratifications making ef-
fective the reciprocal trade agree
ment between the United States and
Argentina which was signed Octo-
Der IA, 1941.
The agreement. approved by the
Argentine Assembly several months
ago. provides for mutual concessions
on duties affecting an extended list
Of products.
Afetr leaving Secretary Hulls Of
fee, Ambassador Espil conferred
briefly with Undersecretary of State
Welles on what he said we're rou-
tine matters.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Poughkeepsie Regatta
Is War Casualty Again
Earlier Story on Page d..

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-The Pough-
keepsie Regatta, which became a
wartime casualty last year, will not
be resumed in l943 because of trans
portation difficulties, the stewards
of the intercollegiate Rowing Asso-
citation announced today.
The board of stewards decided it
would be inadviSable to hold the
regatta next June, either at Pough-
keepsie or at another site, and
elected Lewis P. Andreas of Syra-
cuse as chairman for 1943.
The regatta, inaugurated in 1895
and held on the Hudson in all but
two years since then, normally
draws crews from Columbia, Cornell
Navy. Pennsylvania. Syracuse. Cali
fornia and Washington and occa
sionally Wisconsin and other invited
colleges. In some years the races
have attracted 100000 spectators.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Lute Bulletin
Project Approved

Philip B. Fleming, Federal
Works Agency head, today
approved expenditure of $780,
600 for paving and sewer ia
cilities on two women's dormi-
tory projects in Southeast and
Northeast Washington. Gen.
Fleming said contracts would
be awarded in the near fu-
ture." One is the Langston
project, south of Oklahoma
avenue at Benning road SEE,
and the other is the "Armory"
dormitory southeast of the
District Armory.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
J. T. Ellis, Writer, Dies

GHENT, KY, Dec. 8 (P.-James
Tandy Ellis, 70, writer and former
adjutant general of Kentucky under
three Governors, died today at his
home after a heart attack. Mr.
Ellis, renowned as raconteur of
Southern stories. conducted 4 news
paper column captioned 1.-THE Tang
Of the South"
Evening star., 1942-12-09
350,000 Rail
Workers Seek
30% Pay Rise
Members of 5 Unions
Vote on Minimum
$3-o-Doy Increase
By the Associated Press.

bS me ASSOCIATED Press.
CHICAGO. Dec. Repre-
sentatives of $4,000 railroad
operating employees announced
today that they would ask for
a 30 per cent increase in wages,
or minimum raise of SO a day,
from the Nations carriers.
Alvaney Johnston. president of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, serving as spokesman for
the five unions which operate the
Nations freight and passenger
trains, said increased wages were
necessitated by added responsible
tiles and hazards placed on en-
ployes, excessive hours, the man.
power shortage, higher living costs
and the inequality of railroad pay.
compared with that in other in
duStrieS.
Many Go Into War Work.
There has been a breakdown in
the railroad industry. Mr.. Johnston
declared. because many skilled work
ers were leaving to go into war work,
where they are paid more for the
same kind Of work.
The decision, by $50 union chair
men meeting since Monday was a
sequel to wage adjustment demands
by the Is n-operating brother
hoods, claiming membership OF
about 100000. They are asking an
increase of 20 cents an hour.
A year ago the railroad unions de-
manded and obtained, after threats
of A Nation wide strike, increases in
pay. A settlement accepted by man.
agement and labor December ], l94l,
provided a raise of 10 cents an hour
Tor the nom operating personnel and
9lz cents an hour for the operating.
Locals to Vote on Demand.
The general chairmen will present
the demands to their union locals
for ratification by the membership
at large. II approved by the rank
and file. the demands will be pre-
sented formally to each of the en-
ployer railroads.
The demands then would be ne
gotiated on Nationwide basis
through committees representing
both sides. The terms of the Ma
tional Railway Labor Act set up
elaborate machinery for the disposal
of disputes, including appointment
of fact-inding committee by the
President for adjudicating claims,
before any strike actually could be
put into effect.
Because of the vile variety of
work done by members of the five
operating unions, under various
classifications and sub clasSifications
of duties, it is virtually impossible
to summarize the workers present
wage levels or estimate how much
the increase, if granted, would cost
the railroad industry.
Mr.. Johnston said engineers re-
celve minimum Ct $3.50 a day
| Switchmen receive $5.82 a day, the
lowest of the operating workmen.
Compromised in War Crisis.
An agreement worked out by Mr..
Roosevelt 1act-nndlng board after
, months of conferences settled the
threatened strike of a year ago.
General chairmen ratified it for
their members on December 5, 1941.
At that time they said:
while realizing the increases
granted were not the amounts de-
sired the workers were willing
to make whatever reasonable con-
cessions were necessary in order to
assure national unity and the
strongest possible support of the
President and the country in this
critical time
The attack on Pearl Harbor came
two days later, the day which the
unions had set for the beginning of
their strike.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Markets at d Glance

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 R.-
Stocks irregular: selected issues
In demand. Bonds uneven; rails
dip on labor news. Cotton mixed;
hedge selling. trade and New Or
leans buying.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Situation Grows
Better After
.Foe's Repu|se
Great Strides Toward
Solving Lack Of Air
Bases Indicated
BULLETIN.


American armored units had
destroyed 20 German tanks in
fighting last Sunday.
The patrol fighting was spo-
radio. Bad weather and the
need to bring up more supplies
restricted action in the air
and on the ground.
A headquarters spokesman
said word had been received
of bad feeling between the
Germans and Italians in Tu-
niSia.
BY the Associated Press
LONDON, Dec 9.-Heavy artil-
lery and steadily-growing fleets
of planes were reported softening
the Axis in the Tebourba area to-
day as the Allies, their position
improved by the repulse of the
enemy's efforts to recapture
heights dominating the battle
field, apparently prepared for a
big new drive on Bizerte and
TuniS.
American pilots are taking a
very active part in ground opera
tlons,' said Morocco radio broad
cast quoting what it called a new
Allied headquarters communique.
The announcer added that every
day, fresh formations of aircraft
are put into action" suggesting that
the Allied command had made
strides toward solving the shortage
of air bases close to the hub of the
Tunisian fighting.
The broadcast attributed to the
communique its report that "in the
Iebourba sector of the Tunisian
front Axis forces were shelled by
heavy artillery after the successful
Allied ceunterattacks."
1t indicated also that the Allies
we're concentrating heavy land and
air forces, presumably to exploit the
| advantage won when the enemy was
forced to withdraw from wedges he
had sliced into the British-Ameri.
can lines.
Lull Is Reported.
A communique direct from Allied
headquarters, however, reported a
lull, with activity in the forward
area yesterday :. limited to patrol
ling after the battle for the heights
Sunday and Monday which ended
with the Allies still holding their
original positions.
The communique said the count
OF enemy tanks destroyed Sunday
had risen to 20. 1t also said three
more enemy aircraft were DESTROYED
in recent operations, one of them at
night, and that two more of our
planes were lost but one fighter pilot
is safe"
The Italian communique made
only the cursory report from Tunisia
that bad weather hindered activity
on the ground and in the air."
In Cairo an RAF-British head
quarters communique reported ex-
tensive Allied air operations over
both Tunisia and Libya, including
Continued on Page A-22. Column a.
Evening star., 1942-12-09

SEVENTH RACE-Purse. S4oo; claiming;
S-yesr-olds and up: / 1-16 miles.
Lady Divine Kirk $3.50 3a.2a 1910
jungle Moon tHernandeZ) 800 $50
Lady Jaffa tScocca) $50
Time. 200 2-5.
Also ran-Labeled Win. Ultima Thule.
Ben Grifith. Chestnut Bur. Roush Going.
New Orleans
SECOND RACE-Plrse, $500: claiming:
Ryear-olds: Ii. miles.
Ho Hung tRobertson) $3.50 800 $50
earneRat tNash, 4.40 300
6olute tBrooksl $50
Tine, :50h.,
Also ran-Duty First. Hattie Belle.
Workshop, Sidonia and Holly.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Late Races
Charles Town

Earlier Results and Entries for
Tomorrow, Page tx.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Weather Report

Continued cold this afternoon. ter,nar. .,,r.
Just below freezing tonight Temperat,,res 1 TO- :
oay-Hignest A. at $3.50 pm; lowest, SO. At 8
am. Fun report on page A-22.
of pe, a,in, H consumption should be 1s per cent
ai''meht Ter period ending January A.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-04
I'd Front in AIeutians
Predicted by Senator

ALBUQUERQUE. y. NJ. Aug. 4
GNS).--That the much discussed
second front will come. not in
Europe, but against the japanese
occupation forces in the Aleutian
Islands, was the forecast today of
United States Senator Carl Hatch
ID of New Mexico.
Hatch stopped in Albuquerque
while en- route to Washington
from national defense hearings in
the Pacific Northwest. He said
he found a general attitude that
as soon as the good weather sets
in of the west Alaskan coast,
which should be soon. we will put
forth our best effort TO drive the
,JapS out.