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Evening star., 1942-12-20
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Evening star., 1942-12-20

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escape of liquid
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68 To bite
SO Fear (pl.)
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troops
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explode on contact
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IS A way
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78 Primitive Greek letter
70 Before
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sea
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IS In music, high in pitch
86 A river In Scotland
81 Mournful
80 Belonging to
80 Vegetable dishes
95 To be excessively fond
of
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100 A vessel for flowers
102 Objective
104 Adherent to British
cause in American
Revolution
106 To declare
lot A bird
108 A pace
ITO To goad
1l2 A poison
113 A cut Of meat
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lis An achievement
lit A compass point
119 To cut off
12l Charts
122 Mans nickname
124 Intertwines confusedly
126 At any time
127 Charitable
1913 Sesame (pl.)
129 A sumptuous repast
13l Symbol for tantalum
1873 A kind Of tree
1874 Personal pronoun
1856 Small bodies OF water
1873 Wolframite
l39 Fruit Of the palm (pl)
140 The wallaba
141 A portion
142 Arrow poison
143 Seines
145 To Gull
lat To rend
149 To unfasten
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152 The bitter vetch
l55 Cry OF sheep
157 False hair
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Evening star., 1942-12-20

Profits from the recent Stampex
show at Newark, N. j., were di-
vided equally between the United
Service Organizations, the Army
Relief Fund. the Navy Relief Fund
and the Red Gross.
Evening star., 1942-12-20

Don Houseworth, in the S. p. A.
Journal, remarks: Fifty years from
now our grandchildren will be try
Ing to learn the true story of many
OF the issues of the last decade" !"
They likewise may be trying to dis
cover the facts about why the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Sayre Is Appointed
Lehman S Deputy in
Foreign Relief Work
White House Secretary
Has No Word of Same
Job for Henderson

Appointment of Francis B.
Sayre, former high commits
Sioner to the Philippines, as a
special assistant to Secretary
of State Hull and deputy director
of Foreign Relief and Rehabili-
tation Operations was announced
by the White House today.
Mr.. Sayre will assist Secretary
Hull in other matters, the White
House said, in addition to assist
ing in the relief and rehabilitation
of war victims abroad.
Herbert H. Lehman, former Gov
ernor Of New York, is serving in the
State Department as director of for
eign relief
In announcing Mr.. Sayre's ap-
pointment, White House Secretary
Stephen T. Early told reporters he
had not heard of report that Leon
Henderson, retiring price admin
istrator, is slated to go to London
as another assistant to Mr.. Lehman.
Mr.. Sayre, who served as an As
sistant Secretary of State in charge
of the reciprocal trade agreement
program from 1888 until 1889 when
he was appointed high commissioner
escaped from the Philippines by sub
marine last spring while the Jap
anese were besieging Corregidor.
Mr.. Sayre submitted his regigna-
ton from the Philippine post in
March. President Roosevelt &C
cepted it June 30 on the understand
ing that he ~ould be available for
call back to Government service in
connection with the war effort.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
1000, 900 Pounds Of Butter
Released 10 Consumers

The War Production Board, act
ing on recommendations of the Ag-
riculture Department, today ordered
release of approximately 100000
pounds Of butter which was frozen"
in warehouses November 81.
This move is part of the effort to
relieve the butter shortage, but is
not expected to have any great eff
feet on the market. The Office of
Price Administration previously has
taken steps to help the situation by
adjusting price differentials on but
ter so as to spread the available
supply.
The freeze order of November 81
had immobilized approximately TO-
100000 pounds of butter in IS prin-
cipal markets. Most of this butter
was taken for the armed forces and
lease-lend, and the remainder-the
100000 pounds freed today-is to
be allowed to go back into civilian
marketing channels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Allied Wedge Splits
jap Lines Near Buno

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Dec. 81 (P).-The thin
ming Japanese defense line near
Buna, New Guinea, has been split
by Allied troops who have driven a
wedge to the sea, and the remaining
enemy strongholds are being pound
ed increasingly by both ground and
air forces, Gen. Douglas Macarthur
headquarters announced today.
The enemy is being forced into
an ever-narrowing area" COM
munique said.
"On the left, our troops have
driven their wedge to the sea and
split the enemy defense zones On
the right an attack with tanks
broadened and deepened the wedge
capturing much equipment, includ-
ing 3-inch naval guns, anti-air-
craft guns and machine guns"
The communique called the ground
action "tireless local assaults"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31

when she jumped from the second
floor.
Hunter Payne Tapscott, II, bruises
and exposure.
Other victims treated at Emer-
gency were:
Fireman Robert Eicholtz, No. I
rescue squad, cut hand from falling
debris.
Miss Diana Moore, 81, bruises and
shock.
Carried Down Ladder.
1t. Arthur L. Weber of Truck
Company No. carried Mr.. Tapscott
down a fire ladder from the third
floor and assisted a roommate, Ev-
erett Smith, down afterward. Mr..
Smith was not injured
Six persons who had jumped from
second and third floors huddled on
the roof of a grocery store adjoin-
ing and were helped down ladders
by firemen.
Miss Ruth Payne, 20, who was liv-
ing on the second floor, may owe
her life to the quick thinking of
her aunt, Mrs Beulah Sheets, 48,
who tied two bed sheets together
and dashed one end to a radiator.
The pair dropped to safety on the
store roof.
Il was awakened by the crash Of
glass" Mrs. Sheets said. After
awaking Ruth we went to the stair
way. 1t was blocked with smoke and
flames. We returned to the room,
and tore two sheets from a bed.
don't know how I did it, but the
sheet was firmly tied to the radi-
ator"
Mrs. Sheets let her niece down
first, then followed. She said they
remained on the store roof until
iremen came.
Witnesses said the flames spread
rapidly from the first to the third
floors. Within 10 minutes of its
outbreak, the brick structure was
mass of flames.
The alarm was turned in by
Policemen P. M. Zazanis and T. L.
Roland. who were cruising by in a
scout car.
1T was impossible to enter the
place. said Pvt. ZazaniS.
When flremen arrived flames were
shooting Is feet outward from the
first floor, according to witnesses.
1T was like blast furnace" Pvt.
George L. Earle of the thirteenth
precinct, one of the first to arrive
on the scene, said. II have never
seen anything like it."
Flee in Night Clothes.
The first alarm was turned in at
ABS am, the second at 4:43 and
the third and last at 4:47. Chief
Biondi said the fire was brought
under control about As minutes after
the first alarm. Twenty-Five pieces
OF fire apparatus, two ambulances
and hive scout cars were dispatched
to the scene.
Police said a total Of Is persons
were in the house at the time. FIJI
(see FIRE, Page A-5.)
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Strict Neutrality by NeutroIs
Nozis Only Hope, Berlin Admits
Spokesmon's Comments Hint Concern Over
Turkey, Sweden, Spain and Portugal

tenn to cope with tremendous trans
port problems; a New Year state
ment by Rumanian Premier An
tonescu, in which he spoke of the
sufferings of the Rumanian people,
and an article by Propaganda Min
lister Goebbels in the weekly Das
Reich, in which he wrote that Ger
many had successfully conducted
the war until now" and serenely
awaited its future evolution"
The Wilhelmstrasse spokesman, as
quoted in the Neue Zuercher lei
tung, emphasized that Germany
would respect the neutrality even of
those countries who do not regard
the war in the East as their war"
This was in marked contrast to
previous contentious that all of Eu-
rope is expected to indorse the fight
against Soviet Russia.
The diplomatic correspondent for
DNB declared: The attitude of
neutrals particularly interested Ber-
lin. Germany asks that none of
these abandon their neutrality, but
rather that they scrupulously main
tain it,"
Wllhelmstrasse circles expressed
(see GERMAN. Page AID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
BY THOMAS F. HAWKINS.


BERN, Dec. 31.-A spokesman
for Berlin's Foreign Office issued
the surprising statement today
that Germany's only hope was
that neutral nations would hold
steadfastly to their neutrality.
The statement, reported by the
official German news agency, DNB
significantly came two weeks after
the Voelkischer Beobachter criti-
cized Turkey. The Turkish press
retorted sharply, and there were re-
ports that Turkey seriously was con-
sidering siding with the Allied ma
tons.
ISecretary of State Hull said
at a press conference that the
German assurances of respect
OF other nations neutrality
sounded very much like some
thing he had heard on the same
subject back in 1899 and 194O)
The Wilhelmstrasse declaration
was one of four important Axis de-
velopments today. The others were
announcement of drastic reorgan-
ization OF the German railway sys-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
A Forecast of 1913
On the Home Front

Effects of total war in the
last year have set the pattern
for civilians in 1913.
At the start of a busy, and
IN many ways a confusing,
year, you will want to know
what the experts see ahead.
In The Stars annual busi-
ness and financial review to-
morrow, business, financial
and industrial leaders will
present their views along with
writer's of The Associated
Press, Cambridge Associates
and The Star.
Charts and a summary of
transactions on the New York
Stock Exchange and Curb Elk
change will be included.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Army Sentry
Found Shot
To Death Here

An Army sentry, Pvt. Edward
Kozlevchar, Is, was found dead at
his sentry post in Rock Creek Park
yesterday afternoon with bullet
from his service rife in his head.
According to police, fellow soldiers
found Pvt. Kozlevchar's body about
$3.50 pm. in a sentry house in the
park, near Sixteenth and Kennedy
streets NV. One shot had been
fired from his rifle which was lying
beside the body
Police said they were told by
other soldiers that the private had
been brooding for some time and
had not spoken to any one for
several days.
Army authorities are investigating
the death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
House Members and Clerks
To Escape First Victory Tax
Other U. S. Agencies, However, to Make
Deductions Despite Date Of PoyroIIs

Although Secretary Of the
Treasury Morgenthau has ruled
that any Government pay dis
tributed after midnight tonight
must be curtailed by the new S
per cent Victory tax, some pay
rolls, including that of the House
of Representatives, have been
prepared for distribution next
week without the tax deduction.
The House checks are dated De-
cember 81.
Difference Of opinion arose over
exact Interpretation of the new law
Some payrolls were understood to
be prepared and approved today for
distribution later without applying
the tax, while others were to be paid
with the tax cut.
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0neDead, 6Hurt
AsFire Sweeps
Rooning House
30 Flee as Flames
Consume BUILDING
On Euclid Street
pictures on Page BIZ

James H. Warren, 90, of 2606
University place NV, a member
of the Secret Service guard
force, died this afternoon at Gar
field Hospital as a result of
burns received early today in a
spectacular three alarm fire at
1865 Euclid street NV, which
injured six other persons.
Mr.. Warren, who police said was
visiting friends at the three-story
roomlng house, was given blood
plasma in an unsuccessful effort to
save his life. He had been taken
to the hospital suffering from first
and second degree burns and smoke
inhalation.
The District fire marshals Office
earlier had launched an investiga-
ton of the fire. An official there said
a preliminary survey indicated dam
age would be approximately $4,000.
More than 80 persons fled in night
clothes from the building and an
| adjoining home, while flremen res
cued seven persons.
John Bruce Walden, 10, was in a
critical condition at Emergency Hos
pltal from fractured skull received
when he fell from a third-story win
| dow to the street.
Building Is Mass of Flames.
Miss Eula Castenova, 20. was in a
serious condition at Garfield with
possible fractured ribs and pelvis and
cuts of the leg and feet. received
when she jumped from a second
| floor window.
Battalion Chief Frank Biondi, who
arrived at the scene on the first
alarm. said the fire started in
flrst-foor apartment The cause
could not Immediately be deter
mined, however.
The building was a mass Of
flames, and fire was coming from all
floors when we got there" he said.
Other victims at Garfield Hospital
were:
Miss Louise Crank, 10, cut Of
forehead and brush burns received
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Five Japanese Barges
Destroyed, Munda
Blasted in Air Attacks
Navy Also Announces
Strofine Of Enemy Planes
In SoIomons Area

Five enemy barges were de-
stroyed at Vangunu Island in
the Central Solomons and sew
eral "harassing attacks" were
made by American patrol bomb
ers on Japanese installations in
the Munda area northwest of
Guadalcanal, the Navy disclosed
in a communique today.
Results of the assaults on Munda
on New Georgia Island, ITS miles
above Guadalcanal, we're not an
nounced.
The communique also said the air
forces had destroyed large caliber
enemy gun, and bombed and strafed
f1oat-type planes in the Rekata Bay
area of Santa Isabel Island, approx
mately $50 nautical miles northwest
of Henderson Airfield on Guadal-
canal.
Participating in the repeated at
tacks were Catalina patrol bombers,
Airacobra and Wildcat fighters and
Dauntless dive bombers with Wild
cat escorts.
The text of communique, number
234, follows:
South Pacific: Cali dates are
east longitude)
Il. On December 20 and 30, Cat
alma patrol bombers CONSOLIDATED
PBY) made several harassing at
tacks on enemy installations in the
Munda area of New Georgia Is
land. Results were not reported.
80. On December 30
"(a) At am. a force Of ARA
cobra Bell P39) Wildcat (Grum-
man F4F4 fighters attacked and
destroyed five enemy barges al
Vangunu Island in the Central Solo,
mons.
"(b) At dawn a Dauntless Doug.
las SBD> dive bomber destroyed {
large -caliber enemy gun on Guadal
nacal
"(c) At 6 am. Dauntless div
bombers, with Wildcat escort, at
! tackled enemy installations in the
Rekata Bay area of Santa IsabeI
Island Buildings on the east side
of the bay we're bombed and strafeo
and three f1oattype planes were
strafed on the water"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Hospital Expansion
Discussed by WPB
And FWA Officials
Young Promises
Cooperation After
Talk With Maverick
HOSPITAL HEADS surveyed on
WPB proposals to increase num-
Der of beds. Page AS

War Production Board and
Federal Works Agency officials
were meeting today for discus
sion of the District hospital ex-
pansion program, after the Sen
ate District Committee hearing
on the present delay in the pro-
gram was recessed for one week
yesterday to give representatives
of the two agencies a chance to
"get together"
Everett w. Jones, chief hospital
consultant for the WPB, conferred
this morning with FWA officials
representing Henry J. Sullivan. re-
gional FWA director for the Met
ropolitan Area, it was revealed by
Maury Maverick, chief of the WPB' S
governmental division.
Mr.. Maverick said he plans to
meet with Commissioner Guy Ma
son, who has been In charge of the
hospital planning program for the
municipal government, when the
Commissioner returns to his desk
Monday. A general meeting of all
officials concerned may be held
early next week, the WPB chief said.
Promises ID. c. Cooperation.
Mr. Maverick went to Commits
sloner John Russell Young's resi-
dence to discuss the program last
night. Mr. Young this morning
said no new decisions had been
reached at the meeting. but prom
lsed full cooperation by the Dis
trlct government in working out
the hospital expansion program.
He informed Mr.. Maverick that
remodellng of the old tuberculosis
| Hospital at Thirteenth and Upshur
streets NV. is about finished and
that the building will be ready for
use as soon as kitchen utensils are
provided, the Commissioner said.
The property is to be used for con-
valescent or other tuberculosis
patients not requiring full hospital
care.
The one-Week recess in the Sem
ate District Committee hearing
came after Mr.. Maverick had made
a report before the committee and
had been told by Chairman McCar-
ran that he was beating the devil
around the bush" by showing utter
| disregard of things before you"
In answer to questioning, Mr.
Maverick admitted that he had not
conferred with the Commissioners.
but added that he would be willing
to talk with them and with the
FWA amy time they say"
Asks for Quick Action.
Senator McCarran interrupted to
ask the director if he thought he
could act quickly.
I'VE could do part of it right
away" Mr.. Maverick replied, turning
for confirmation to Everett w.
Jones, chief hospital consultant for
WPB.
I'VE could do it in three or four
days if we get men together who
want to work." agreed Mr.. Jones.
Surprised by Testimony.
The WPB director opened his
formal statement before the COM
mittee by complimenting 1t for
{See HOSPITALS, Page A-l2.)
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Capture Of Nozi Unit by Italians
Through Error Told in Records

inquiry on the affair, which was
pictured as follows:
An Italian battalion was ordered
to advance on foot as part of a
general attack. During the advance,
they came up under gun-fire and
promptly gave battle. After hours of
fighting, the Italians opponents sur
rendered.
Then it was discovered that the
prisoners were part of German
battalion which had advanced faster
than the Italians. The documents
showed that casualties were 20 Ger
mans and five Italians, killed or
wounded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Caribbean Air TruveI
Increases so Per Cent
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla. Dec 31.-The rising
tide of inter-American collabora-
ton in the war effort was reflected
during the year ending today by an
increase of more than so per cent
in the trans-Caribbean services of
Pan American Anyways as COM
pared with last year.
For the first time. the number OF
passengers arriving and departing at
Miami exceeded the 10000 mark.
All travelled under wartime priori-
ties.
Pan Americans clippers few more
than 5000, 900 miles during the year
Air express was carried at a rate
approximately 1000 per cent ahead
Of last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Thousands Homeless
As Flood Hits 36-Foot
Peak al PITTSBURGH
War Plants PoroIyzed;
Waters Now Recedinq;
Boy Conoeist browns

POTOMAC MAY REACH flood stage
today, but no damage is expected.
Story on Page b..
Ey the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 31.-The
worst flood since the disastrous
$200,000,00O St. Patrick's Day
inundation of 1886 reached a
peak of 1855 feet early today at
the junction of the Ohio, Mo-
nongahela and Allegheny Riv-
ers. This is III feet above flood
stage. The waters then started
to recede.
Thousands of persons were made
homeless, street, rail and bus traffic
was badly disrupted, numerous war
busy plants beside the streams were
paralyzed and many business firms
had to close.
The Red Cross reported it was
caring for $500 destitute persons
driven from their houses in this
allegheny county alone.
Only one life was reported lost,
however, in contrast to the 80 who
died in the 1886 disaster, when the
rivers reached a crest of 46 feet
here.
Flood Gates Save Store.
The muddy waters surged into
many streets of the city's down.
town Golden Triangle district.
RoWboats were used in parts of Penn
avenue, where the water ran a foot
over the sidewalk at the Joseph
Horne department store it's 81 900 900
flood gates, set up since 1896, kept
the big store dry.
w. S. Brotzman, weather fore
caster, said the rivers fall. starting
at dawn, would be very slow. The
streams were moving at the I'M
usually low rate of miles an hour.
Fitzwilliam Worcester, 20. of Wurt.
hemburg, Pa, near New Castle, lost
his life in swollen slippery Rock
Creek while canoeing with a friend,
John M. Caughey, jr., 10, son of a
clergyman. The boat capsized.
Young Caughey saved himself by
grabbing bridge support.
A Verona, Pa, man died of heart
disease after spending yesterday
lCoo ru N~D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Dec. 3l.-Documents cap
tured by the British army in the
pursuit Of Marshal Erwin Rommel's
forces show that an italian unit
fought an engagement with Ger
mans near Ell Alamein, Egypt-by
mistake-and won it, British sources
with access to the papers said today.
The Germans surrendered to the
italians before the mistake was
discovered. the documents revealed.
They showed that the Axis COM
mand subsequently held . court of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31

Secretary Morgenthau in a state
ment on the new tax, said
"Disbursing officers of the Gov
eminent are required to deduct the
Victory tax on compensation paid to
employees on and after January l.,
l943, even though the payment in
cludes compensation earned prior to
January l, l943, if the amount paid
for services in 1912 was not actually
available to the employe in 1912"
1t was understood Controller Cen
eral Lindsay Warren agrees with
this Interpretation.
On the other hand, Senators &C
tive in drafting the new tax bill.
among them Senator Byrd, Demo-
crat, of Virginia and Senator Dan
aher, Republican, of Connecticut,
(See PAY, Page A-l2D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Ey the Associated Press.

tSee FLOOD, Page A-5.D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31

CHS relayed a British broadcast
quoting the Morocco radio as re-
porting that continued Allied air
attacks on Tunis had made the air
drome there completely unusable, !"
and had closed the harbor Of La
Goulette to Axis shipping.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
Give Your Blood
To Suve q Life

You may enlist in the war effort
by giving blood to the Red Cross.
The process is painless and does
one no harm. For details call
RE. $500, Branch 212.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31

POTOMAC MAY REACH flood stage
today, but no damage is expected.
Story on Page B-1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31

tSee HOSPITALS, Page Aid
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31

tSee PAY, Page A-12.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31
GUIDE FOR READERS

(See RUSSIA, Page A-12D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-31

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages Tx and 2-X of this edition of
The Star, supplementing the news of
the regular home delivered edition.