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Evening star., 1942-07-17
ItoIions Claim British
RepuIse by Counterottock

ROME From italian Broadcasts)
July II (P).-The high command said
today the British had been repulsed
by a counterattack after making a
small-soale thrust against Axis po-
sitions III. the Ell Alamein sector Of
Egypt. 6,
The forces were pushed back to
their original position, causing a
loss Of about 10 tanks" it was de-
clared. g.
A communique said another Brit.
ish mechanical thrust farther south
was broken up by Italian artillery
fire.
Axis planes were said to have
machine -gunned British advance
positions and communications lines
to the rear. The Italians said nine
British planes were shot down.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Woman Slain, 7 Union
Bosses Wounded in
Fight al Chicago
Shooting in Home Follows
Meeting Of Council
Of Painters
~ the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, July 1.-Two bosses
of Chicago's brawling painters
union were wounded and the wife
of one of them was killed in an
exchange of gunfire early today.
Mrs. Loretta Youngblood, 80, was
dying of bullet wound when police
arrived at her West Side home. In
another room, shot through the
right arm, was her husband,
Charles. one Of the leaders of Local
lat, and a member of the Painters
District Council.
Detective Marvin Nelson said the
Youngbloods told him they had been
shot by Arthur Wallace, secretary
and treasurer Of the Painters Dis
trict Council No. IA.
Later Wallace was found lying on
the lawn of the Franklin Boulevard
Hospital. Police said he refused to
tell them who wounded him.
Police learned that Youngblood
and Wallace had attended a meet
ing Of the council last night and
had been seen talking together
quietly. Later the Youngbloods
visited a tavern.
They had been home about five
minutes Mr.. Nelson said Youngblood
told him, when the doorbell rang,
Mrs. Youngblood answered it, and
they came in"
Apparently the shooting began at
once. Mr.. Nelson said. There were
10 bullet marks around the chair In
which Youngblood had been sitting.
Nearby was pistol with four empty
cartridges in it. A bullet of the
same caliber fell out OF Wallace s
clothing when he was examined at
the hospital, police said.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Roland Hayes Charges
He Was Beaten, Jailed
By Georgia Police
Fomed Tenor Soys Wife
Wos Ordered to Leove
Shoe Store at Rome
BIZ the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CALHOUN, Ga. July 17.-Roland
Hayes, famed colored tenor, said at
his farm home here today that he
had been beaten and jailed by police
in Rome, Ga. after his wife was
asked to leave shoe store.
The 55-year old concert singer.
who maintains farm near this
North Georgia community, said the
incident occurred last Saturday and
that both he and his wife were
placed in a cell after he returned
to the shoe store Ito rectify any
trouble"
Chief of Police Charles I. Harris
denied that Mr.. Hayes was beaten
by police and added that $50 bond
posted by the singer for his release
had been returned. Chief Harris said
no charges had been made.
Asked to Move in Store.
The slightly built Negro said his
wife went into a Rome shoe store
Saturday to buy a pair of shoes for
their daughter, Africa. He said a
clerk asked her to move from a
front seat to one nearer the back.
In Rome, Fred Higgins. manager
of the Higgins Shoe Store, said he
reminded Mr.. Hayes wife OF rules
governing segregation of Negroes
in public places, and asked her mot
to make scene"
when she continued talking
loudly" Mr.. Higgins said. Il asked
her to go elsewhere to buy, AS she
left the store she told the clerk who
asked her to move back, Hitler
ought to get you
The singer said he returned to the
store when his wife told him of the
incident ito rectify any trouble that
might have been caused" He said a
policeman caught him by the belt,
dragging him back into the store az
ne sought to leave.
Thrown Into Cell.
Stating that his wife was then
accused of cursing, Mr.. Hayes said
he told the manager his wife did not
curse
when said that" Mr. Hayes
continued, "a man not in oficer s
clothing gave me all he had on the
jaw. Then I was dragged to patrol
car and handcuffed between two Of
ficers. I was struck again by this
man not in uniform"
At the Rome police station Mr..
Hayes said he was beaten again by
officers when he denied that his wife
cursed. and the two Of them were
placed in q cell.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D. 1912
Final Services Today
For Sherman MitteI,
Head Of Foundation
Home Librory Editor
Died in Hospital Here
After Operation

Funeral services for Sherman
Mittell. president and editor Of the
National Home Library Foundation,
were scheduled at pm. today at
the Hines funeral home. 2901 Four
teenth street NV. Burial will be
private. Mr.. Mittell died yesterday
at Garfield Hospital.
The 39-year-old editor, who put
aside his editorial work few months
ago to serve Paul McNutt as secre-
tarv of the Labor Management Pol
icy Committee of the War Manpower
Commission. had been operated on
for appendicitis Saturday and ap-
parently had been on the road to
recovery
The active pallbearers named were
Slavelle Koss, Robert T. Highf1eld,
Wayne Coy. Jesse O. Irwin, Max
Stern and Harold Sothoron. Hon
orary pallbearers included Vice
President Wallace. Chief Justice
Stone, Federal Security Admins
traitor McNutt, DR.. Will Alexander
Lowell Mellett, administrative assist
ant to the President, and Donald
Richberg.
Mr.. Mittell was close friend OF
the late Supreme Court Justice
Brandies, and it was said to have
been at his urging that the Home
Liabrary Foundation was organized
as a non-profit institution to make
cultural literature available for
small home libraries in cheap book
form. 1t was founded in 1892.
Mr.. Mittell had arranged a few
weeks ago for the distribution OF
about 100000 worth of the founda-
tion books to men in the armed
services.
Born in Boston and gradu-
ated from Harvard University
Mr.. Mittell began his career in
Cambridge, Mass, in real estate
and also was active in real estate
in Newport, r. I. The Longfellow
Building, at Connecticut and Rhode
Island avenues NV, leased to the
Government last year, was one oil
his real estate ventures here.
| Mr. Mittell was member Of the
| Cosmos Club and made his home al
1918 st. Matthews court NV. He
is survived by his widow; q g.
month-old son, Lowell; his father
Abraham Mittell of Boston; sister
Miss Polly Mittell of this city. anc
q brother, Arthur Mittell of st
Louis.
Evening star., 1942-07-17

Thus, it was asserted, the RATS
scale apparently does not yet mean
relief for Russia.
Soviet sources here appreciate the
immense damage British bombers
have dealt to German war plants
but, in the opinion Of one:
"Only British and American SOL
diers fighting on the continent OF
Europe under the protection of their
bomber and fighter fleets will divert
German troops from the eastern
front"
An Raj commentator described
two prime aims OF Britains bomber
blows as:
l. The destruction of all industry
supplying Nazi armies on the Rus
sian front;
2. The curtailment Of the Nazi
submarine menace in American
waters by smashing the U-boats In
construction and at home bases.
Ruhr Hit Five Times.
4OWAIu bIlCSc CIluS, bAIS INuAh Ai CO
which forges much Of Germany's s
armament. has been hit five times
since June 1-once with 1,03o
bombers.
Bremen, arsenal Of the U-boat
fleet, also has suffered heavy At
tacks, with more than 1000 planes
in the heaviest of them.
More daylight raids such as the
recent far flung stab at Danzig may
help stem the flow of German ar
NOR eastward. This was in line with
the RATS long-standing bombing
policy, but such flights can be made
only under special conditions, such
as the cloud cover which cloaked
the l,750-mile round trip flight to
Danzig
Another barrier to such long
range attacks or swift trans channel
stabs is the Focke Wulf 190-a
formidable German fighter plane
which British say is superior to
the Spitfire at certain attitudes.
AS yet, they said, there is no
Allied fighter with the combination
Of speed, long range and maneuver-
ability to fight of the F-190
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Victory Over Axis Keynote
As Farm Congress Ends
Ps the Associated Press.


MEXICO CITY, July l7.-The
maximum production Of food and
strategic raw materials to insure vic
tory over the Axis and then provide
an abundant standard of living for
the peoples of the Americas and the
world was the keynote on which the
Second American Agricultural
Congress adjourned yesterday.
President Manuel Avila Camacho,
speaking to the final session Of the
meeting of 1913 delegates from 81 re-
publics, said the conference work
would result in a stimulation Of the
war effort and "blaze a trail for the
future of our agricultural economy" p"
United States Secretary of Agricul-
ture Claude r. Wickard and Argen-
tine Ambassador to Mexico Alberto
M. Candioti summed up the con-
ference work as a lasting contribu-
ton to a happier, healthier and
more prosperous life" for all the peo-
pies of the American continents.
The conference approved 80 resolu-
tions on essential war materials, on
transportation, on rushing compile
ton of the Pan-American Highway
and on greater food crops.
Evening star., 1942-07-17

Inc appraisal OF LneSe sources,
who would not permit their names
to be used, is based on the Al nights
since the Raj opened the Allies
second front in the air with the
mass attack on Cologne last May
80, the first of three 1,000-plane
raids on Germany.
Associated Press tabulations show
that, beginning with the Cologne
raid, the Raj has made about
$3.50 bomber trips against Germany
in fulfllment of Prime Minister
Churchill's promise to erase Nazi
industry city by city"
Only two raids with a thousand
or more bombers-against Emden
and Bremen-have been made since
the Cologne assault, but British air
sources say they left those cities so
devastated that they can make lit
tie, If any, further contribution to
Germany's war effort.
The air offensive. made at an an
nounced loss of 261 bombers up to
last night, is regarded by informed
British sources, however, as below
expectations.
They said they believed the high
hopes raised when the mass bomb
ing of Cologne thrilled the United
Nations were premature, and really
intensive" attacks on industry in
central and eastern Germany must
wait for the longer nights Of au-
tumn.
These experts agreed that three
reasons explain the RATS failure to
keep up the thousand-plane pace:
/. Exceptionally bad weather-air
officers say the nights must be "pret-
ty nearly perfect" or else targets
are obscured and fog imperils the
RATS huge bombers taking OF and
landing on home airflelds.
2. Drain on the Raj bomber COM
mand by operations elsewhere-the
campaign in Egypt, the threat to In
dia. These are said to have divert
ed heavy bombers earmarked last
winter for this summers raids on
Germany.
3. Failure of the Allied air forces
to produce a long range fighter Ca
pable of escorting heavy bombers
over targets in daylight attacks.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Egypt
Continued From First Page

which marked the first two weeks
In July and the degree to which he
has been able to strengthen his ex-
tended lines of communication.
dispatches received today from
Ankara, Turkey, said reports of
German Italian conveys plying
daily between Greece and Tobruk
indicated that Marshal Rommel
had been reinforced heavily with
both men and equipment. His air
force was said to have been boil
stored by planes ferried across to
North Africa from Crete.)
When Marshal Rommels drive
stalled before Ell Alamein At the
end Of June military experts agreed
that his troops probably were at the
end of their endurance after their
swift 350-mile advance across the
desert and that his supply lines were
too tenuous to permit further prog
reSS
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Puruchutes
Continued From First PaseJ

pArachutes were reported sighted
came from blasting operations In
tle vicinity.
Other nearby residents also clung
tothe balloon rather than the para
ctsute idea, and several police off,
GERS expressed the same belief.
Dutchess County Sheriff c. Fred
Close said, however. no celebration
releasing balloons had been found,
but added that I'VE have been un-
able to get any confirmation" OF
q parachute descent.
sWe seriously doubt that it hap
pened," he asserted. 1--WE have been
unable to find any airplane spoilers
inlthat area who saw any plane over
the region at that time"
Reports Seeing Plane.
Paul Stinson, superintendent OF
Lynnwood Farms, said, however that
he saw a plane with a red fuselage
nv south over the area about the
time the parachutes were reported,
Police at Kingston held on a dis
orderly conduct charge New York
City man picked up during the
check up. They said he could not
produce q selective service card. He
was being questioned concerning re-
cent movements.
Meanwhile, State police began a
search of woodland in the town of
Edinburg, Saratoga County, after
Harley Tenant, farmer, reported
having heard a plane and "a dis
trinct Tapping noise, as though a
parachute was Tapping in the
breeze"
For nine hours last night. Hudson
Valley residents and motorists within
so miles of Rhinecliff were ques-
toned as to whether they had seen
any parachutes.
The report originated from Clyde
r. Swendson, superintendent of Fox
Hollow Farms, former estate of John
Jacob Astor III, which is about IL
miles north of the Roosevelt country
home.
Military Probe Under Way.
The public relations officer of the
Eastern Defense Command an
r1ounced at New York last night that
a military investigation was under
way but emphasized that there had
been no confirmation of the report
A nine State police teletype had
reported Mr. Swendson AS saying he
had seen six large parachutes drift
ing down near Fox Hollow Farms
and his wife told Duchess County
Undersheriff Douglas Crapser she
had seen lone parachutist trying
to manipulate it down in woods
northwest Of the estate.
1t was the second time within two
days that parachutes were reported
seen in New York State. Searcher!
secured the Glens Falls area all day
Yesterday after residents OF Athol
about 100 miles north Of here, tolc
of seeing a parachutist descend.
Evening star., 1942-07-17

provision allows employees now In
the union IS days to withdraw from
1t II they wish. Failing to do that,
they must, as a condition to en-
ployment, remain members for the
duration Of the contract and be-
come subject to the "checkoff" Of
their union dues by the company.
New employees are not required to
join the union, but If they do they
must maintain their membership.
DR.. Frank P. Graham, public
member, wrote this union security
opinion. The decision of the board
in this case," he said, against 4
Government enforced compulsory
unionism and in favor of volun-
tarily accepted binding maintenance
OF membership and checkon protects
both the individual freedom of the
workers and the essential security
of the union
I'm this case the board protects
the rights Of the majority and the
minority, rejects the unions demand
for union shop and compulsory
checkoff and rejects the companies
demand for no change in present
union status. This provision
Is not a closed shop, is not a union
shop and is not preferential shop.
No old employe and no new en-
ploye is required to join the union
to keep his job. If In the union,
member has the freedom for IS
days to get out and keep his job.
If not In the union, the worker has
the freedom to stay out and keep his
lob ="
A dissenting opinion on the union
security issue, signed by all four en-
ployer members, stated that the
board "had imposed upon 80 these
companies and the union conditions
to which the companies are unalter-
ably opposed in principle, and has
made the companies unwilling COL
lection agencies for the unions"
Minimum Daily Wage.
Under the unanimous minimum
daily wage order, the companies
were directed to guarantee mini
mum daily wage. The order applied
only to those working upon a piece,
or so-called incentive rate basis, be-
cause all other workers know what
their daily wage is. The minimum
would be IS cents an hour.
Dean Wayne L. Morse wrote the
opinion on the minimum daily wage
guarantee and another opinion up
holding the power of the board to
act on the union security issue. He
concluded the latter opinion with
the statement that any attempt by
the companies Ito stay the carrying
out of this decision must be con-
strued by the board as a challenge
to the war powers of the President.
In such an event, the board will not
hesitate to recommend that the war
powers be exercised to whatever de-
gree may be necessary to meet sue
cessfully such a challenge"
Mr.. Kennedy, labor member of
the board, remarked at a press con-
ference at which the decision was
formally announced, that the policy
"stymied" collective bargaining.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
nazis Claim Columns
Have Cut StaIingrad's S
Railway 10 Donets
Mobile Units Declared
To Hove Mixed With
Reds Trying to Escape
u the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
SBERLIN (From German Broad
cAsts), July 17.-Driving south
eastward toward the lower Don
German mobile columns have
driven across railway lines con-
Y,ecting stalingrad with the
Opnets area to the west and have
mixed In with Red Army divi-
stons attempting to escape the
font and rear sweeps of Ger
msan forces, the Nazi high COM
inland declared today.
4 (The assertion that railway
lines connecting Stalingrad with
The Donets area to the west had
Seen severed by German mobile
columns indicated an advance OF
1t least SIS miles south OF Mil
lerovo, the last reported position
Of the German forces.
Z Can east-west line runs from
6talingrad on the big bend OF
8he Volga across the Donets just
below Kamensk and VoroShi-
5ovgrad.
i (The Germans appeared to be
1nenacing Rostov as well as these
two latter places by wide flank
ing move from the northeast.
Rostov is lbs miles southwest OF
Nillerovo, Voroshilovgrad so
miles southwest and Kamensk 40
miles south)
! Airdrome Occupied.
One mobile formation occupied q
Russian airdrome where SO planes
were captured or destroyed, the
high command said.
1T reported considerable use Of
German-allied troops. declaring one
Hungarian Army, an italian Army
III addition to the Italian Expedi-
tibnary Corps previously employed,
one Rumanian Army corps and one
0oat formation had been in action
o3 the eastern front since late In
u fne.
$The Russians were continuing I'd
make strong attacks on the German
nbrth flank around the Voronezh
btidgehead, the Germans said, but
they declared these assaults were
r6pulsed.
In the southern area between
the Don and Donets, the commune
cue said, a number of Red Army
divisions had been caught between
tie mobile Germans operating deep
irf their rear and on their flank
and other infantry forces which
w4re attacking in front.
Z Planes Attack in Waves.
German planes, attacking in
vlves, strongly supported the sweep
i'm mobile columns with high, low
add bombing attacks day and
night, and efforts OF the menaced
Russians to effect an orderly re.
treat were being broken up, the
communion said.
"A Soviet heavy cruiser was hit
by q very large bomb in an air at
tack on the Caucasus port Of Poti,
commnique said
The high command raised its
figures on prisoners taken in a
wooded area southwest Of Rzhev in
an ll-day battle west of Moscow
to 10000. Original announcements
on July Is said 10000 had been
captured.
The Murmansk railway has been
permanently broken by several
bomb hits, 1t was claimed.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
AIboniun RuiIrood Built

Italians have built new railroad
Biz miles long from Durazzo to
Elbasan in Albania and have used
It for military purposes, but now
have 1900 men making it suitable
for civilian trafflc.
Evening star., 1942-07-17
Britoin's Air Smash at Nozis
Still Short of Expectations
Appraised as Devastating in Spots,
But Not Decisive War Factor
BY the Associated Press.


July 17-Devastating it has been in spots Brit
against Germany still short expectations
still below the peak striking must-and Wilde
decisive factor experts said today
Evening star., 1942-07-17

War bonds are an investment In
Americas future. Nothing In the
world h safer today. Buy!
Evening star., 1942-07-17

Adolph, Benito and Hirohito-
the three blind mice. Make them
run with War bonds.
Evening star., 1942-07-17

Buy War savings stamps. Help
stamp out the Axls!
Evening star., 1942-07-17


Stutga It. g. o
of pn Is
dWay
Evening star., 1942-04-14

Mr.. Noyes has been in this coun-
try about year. He was not
bombed out Of his home on the Isle
Of Wight near England, but he was
so close to the bombing area that
he decided that the atmosphere here
might be healthier.
Mr.. Noyes' children are now in
school in Canada. He has been de-
nvering lectures since his arrival,
he says he has "no fixed home" un-
less 1t is his English one.
He has book Of poetry which win
be published soon that states his
case concerning bad current litera-
ture and the present war.
There are certain persons who
think that all changes ere for the
best" he declared, "but I'm for the
people. Basically. they know what's
good"
Evening star., 1942-04-14
Contract Of S145,444
Awarded for Underpass

The Colmar Construction Co., Inc.
OF New York yesterday was awarded
by the Commissioners the contract
for construction of ar underpass in
line of Virginia avenue at Twenty
third street NV. for an estimated
total of $145, ,444.
The company's bid was the low
est submitted, being also almost
SIS, 900 below the District estimate
Of the cost Of the job.
Highway Director H. C. White
hurst told the city heads the award
to the company has the approval
OF the Public Roads Administration.
The project is one of those designed
to relieve trafilc congestion around
the approaches to the Lincoln Me-
mortal Bridge.
Evening star., 1942-04-14
Poet Alfred Noyes BIomes
Conditions on Bad Literature

"Unethical literature is largely re-
sponsible for the condition OF the
world today" Alfred Noyes, famous
English poet. said yesterday In an
interview.
"A lack OF ethics, political and
personal. is In evidence today. A
reformation of these ethics must
come after this war, If we are to
survive"
Mr.. Noyes, who lectured yesterday
at the University Of Maryland, holds
that the public and the critics are at
odds today, the critics having one
set Of standards; the public, another.
For instance" he pointed out,
"the critics decry the literature of
the 10th century. That century
which produced gamut of ideas
from Newman to Darwin! Accord
ing to present day critics, only that
which Is new is good"