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Evening star., 1942-07-16
THE STAR WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY. 49,

bomb explosions created . thrilling
but frightening pattern In the des-
est sky.
In the early hours this morning
one OF the heaviest dive bomber
attacks Of the campaign started
against the most northwesterly point
held by the Australians, about 10
miles beyond El Alamein.
One veteran of the siege Of To-
bruk declared, "Tobruk was beauti-
full compared to this morning: I
never saw 80 many bombs at one
time"
The Germans used SO to 40 dive
bombers in that single attack. In
fantry and tank assaults followed
against the forces holding the low
land between the coast road and the
sea.
I visited the most westerly point
Of the El Alamein positions and
found perspiring British soldiers,
stripped to the waist, firing Ameri-
can-made -millimeter guns.
The northern end Of the El Ala
mein position Is salt marsh near
the sea, trimmed by high sand dunes
and spotted with brush and holes.
It Is dismal place, but tough for
an enemy to take.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
RommeI Tank Forces
Halted After Taking
Railroad Station
Boyonet- Swinging Aussies
Cut OFF by Attack, Fight
Way Through Foes Line
BY HARRY CROCKETE,

Associated Press War CorreSpon0ent.
WITH THE BRITISH 9th ARMY
AT Ell ALAMEIN, July is De-
layed) Paced by the usual wave
OF -bombers, Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel's tanks which led
a force of at least 500 infantrymen
smashed against Australian defend
ers OF the Tel Ell Elsa railroad sta
E.tion last night and succeeded In
occupying it.
Today the battle still was going on
after a night Of the most spectacular
artillery fire yet seen In the current
phase of the desert war.
All through yesterday afternoon
the exchange Of snellfire was con-
tinuous as the German forces grad
ually disengaged from the South
Africans to the south and moved
north against the Australians hold
ing the railroad and the Tel FL Elsa
ridge.
As the evening wore on, with the
setting sun shining in their eyes,
the Australians stopped push after
push, smashing at the Nazi infantry
with rifles and bayonets, and taking
heavy toll OF the armored forces.
Artillery from the South African
positions to the south also exacted
q toll.
The German tanks finally reached
the station, which Is Of itself an un-
important spot, but were unable to
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Strikers Ask Ship Firm
To Join SiabiIization Pact
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
KEWAUNEE, Wis, July 15.-Be-
tween 20 and so employees Of the
Kewatnee Shipbuilding and Epgt-
nAering Corp. remained on strike
today, demanding union recognition
In collective bargaining and COM
pany adherence to the shipbuilders'
sterilization agreement.
The strike started last Saturday.
approximately Z month after the
American Federation Of Labor and
four aflliated unions had petitioned
the National Labor Relations Board
for certification as the employees
collective bargaining agents.
John =. Johonson, regional direc-
tor 81 the NTRB, said the company
agreed to Z consent election pro-
vided the men went back to work.
The unions refused, he said.
Nr. johnson said he was informed
the unions had wired the War Labor
Board saying that, while they de-
sired to co-operate In the war
effort. they would not return to
work until the company subscribed
to the sterilization agreement, which
sets wage scales In shipyards.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
push any farther.

push any farther.
BY 8 pm. the Australian, South
African and British artillery and
anti-tank guns had stopped the tank
attack completely, destroying at
least seven Of the machines.
The entire German forward move
ment was only matter OF yards.
The maneuver by which the Ger
mans attacked resulted in two
Aussie companies being cut Oh. But
these bayonet-swinging veterans
sliced their way through to the
north.
Through the night there were
constant patrol encounters and much
hand d-to-hand fighting.
A few Germans were captured and
these we're found not to be of 'front.'
line quality. Some anti-aircraft
gunners and light artillerymen were
being used as infantrymen, and the
British considered this q good sign.
Throughout the night the sky was
alight with star shells and flares as
bombing and Smelling continued,
with the British f1re much the
heavier.
Brilliant red bursts from big guns,
flaming hot chunks Of high explo-
sive shells, the red streaks OF anti
aircraft tracers and the flares Of
Evening star., 1942-07-16
0pA Penalty Order
Halls Gas Sales al
Sd. {. Stations
Two 30 Day, Six l5-Doy
Suspensions Imposed
For Rotion Violations

Eight washington filling stations
were suspended from gasoline opera
tions yesterday on once of Price
Administration charges that they
violated gasoline rationing regula-
tions.
The suspensions, in two cases for
30 days and in the other six for
is days, followed oPA hearings
conducted last week by lawyers Of
the enforcement division.
Investigators, who made a sample
testing of local gas stations, testi-
fied they had been able to pur-
chase gas at the stations either
without being required to produce
their gasoline ration cards, or, in
some cases. without having the
cards punched to denote the sale.
The two stations that drew the
heaviest penalties are owned by
the Federal Oil Co. and are in the
1900 block of Connecticut avenue
NV. and at 1860 lexington place
NE.
Fifteen-day suspensions were
meted out to the following:
Two Lord Baltimore stations at
Bladensburg road and New York
avenue NE. and Eighth street and
Maine avenue SsW.
Gulf Oil station at Wisconsin ave-
hue and Q street NV.
Lad Mills station at Wisconsin
avenue and @ street NV.
Glen Ohler station at Georgia
avenue and Piney Branch road NV.
Harry G. Coi1man station at 1915
Wisconsin avenue NV.
During the hearings. the oil CON-
panies involved testified that they
had given explicit instructions to
the station attendants on gasoline
regulations, and the attendants de-
MED that the transactions with the
inspectors had taken place.
The suspensions, first in Washing
ton, become effective tomorrow. For
the period of the suspension. the
stations can neither buy nor sell gas
cline, but can continue other opera
tions.
Evening star., 1942-07-16

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hectic wor days ]. you need plenty Of
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and field then rush them to norket 50
Evening star., 1942-07-16
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AGP Victory GnrdensI JOIN syour
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Evening star., 1942-12-16
Congress
Continued From First Page.)

his hands from normal peacetime
restrictions. The ban against use
Of United States troops on foreign
soil was lifted Salaries and wages
were stabilized a. home.
Laws were passed to protect the
soldiers civilian interests, to give
him the right to vote away from
home, to boost his base pay from $21
to $50. The draft age was lowered
to 18.
Women were accorded a place In
the ranks. First Congress created
the WAACS-the Womens Army
Auxiliary Corps-then their counter
parts in the Navy and the Coast
Guard, the WAVES and SPARS-
for behind-the- lines service to re-
lieve men for duty at the front.
Administration Had Setbacks.
The administration had its set
backs, as well as its victories, in the
last two years. Chief among the for
mer were its attempts to wipe out
State taxation of Federal war pur-
chases, its move to supplement
State unemployment compensation
with Federal grants-one which op-
ponents decried as an attempt at
Federal control-and Mr.. Roose-
velt's request for discretionary au-
thority to suspend tariff and immi-
grafton laws when necessary to
speed the war effort.
Labor successfully withstood nu-
merous attempts during the two
years to outlaw its right to strike, to
suspend time-and-one-half pay
ments for work in excess of 40 hours
q week, to prevent 1t from organiz-
ing activity In war industries, to
subject 1t to the provisions of the
anti-racketeering statutes.
The new Congress will nnd the
Democratic majority sharply re-
duced in the House, and facing the
possibility of a coalition of some of
its Southern members with the Re-
publican minority.
With that possibility, here are
some Of the issues which the next
Congress may be called on to re-
solve.
l. Retrenchment In non-military
expenditures.
2. Restrictions on the powers of
Government agencies.
3. Revision of labor legislation.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Chicoao Livestock

CHICAGO, Dec 10 up United States De-
partment Of Agriculture -salable hogs.
10000; total, 81, 900; active. fully steady
ieo-as0 pounds. 13.so:14.o5: bulk sales
all veishts.. 200 pounds up, 400 and
1905; top. 14.10; good and choice 10000
pounds. 13.75-eo;o sows mostly steady:
IA 90: bulk 450-560 pounds. 13.75-90;
extreme weights down to 1885.
Salable sheep, 1000; total, IL 200: late
Tuesday: Fat lambs slow, weak to mostly
IS lower: other classes weak: two loads So
90 pound lambs to shippers. Is. 40 so; bIik
good and choice wooled lambs and summer
shoIn and 10. pelts, IS .oo.25: medium to
dogn: good 70 choice ye.rlinss, 1900
today's trade: Fat lamb market slow: few
opening sales and bids weak to is or more
fed ~ o1oolsd lfmb., 1925: CAD lots natives.
ealable cattle, $500; calves, 500: fed
steers and yearlings, 1928 higher; active
at advance: bulk 13 Boil 8. 90: top. 1880;
several loads, 16.25-40: heifers shared
steer advance: best. 1900: bulk. 1900
d4so; ~ Gov, arm 70 Is hishss; cutters 70
1.,.I, II up; ., ,.:iEhty s:Nusoss bulls q 12,so:
slow, weak.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Washington Produce

BuTTER-Local supply situation too
uncertain to quote prices.
LIVESTOCK - Calves, 1884,; sprins
lambs, Is.
From Agricultural Msrketinr Hdmini..
tritton % tprises paid met fob; Washington).
redsrai-ststs sraded esss received 1 from ON
Eradins station December 16): whites:
g; extras. medium. 43:4l; aversse. 15S;
Medium ssanGesGi ss. isrgr, ; 40; o.t:ndsrds.
ss: Browns; n Q 8 extras. large, 5o-tS:
43; .averase. 4ah q. s. Standard. large,
4;,,. 4S.s4: AZ. sssrernse; 4$hi 9. .tsndards. me-
SO. Arrivals Of nearby unFrsded esss sea-
sonally. ltsht and prices largely nominal.
Current receipts: Whites 40-41; mixed
colors 3s-40. Receipts, Government sfaded
eggs. 255 cases.
LIVE POULTRY-Market steady. Fowl,
sclorsd, az sizes. 23-2b., Roosteys 10
R0csters 10. Chickens Delaware, Vifginia
and frysfs aM sises, 27-2s. Turkeys. yonns,
temA %; hens, 50; old toms. hens and
No. "a 70.
Evening star., 1942-12-16

Lumbard. He formerly was an as
sistant United States attorney and
assistant attorney general of New
York.
Mr.. Brooke also left the presi-
dency of the C. g. O.'s subsidiary,
Nickel Plate, in favor of John w.
DAWN, A. C. & O. vice president,
and was replaced as head of the
Pere Marquette by Robert j. Bow
man, that subsidiary's operating
vice president.
Making the announcement, Chesa-
peake & Ohio directors pointed out
that Mr.. Brooke is in his 65th year.
They said his retirement came at
his own request" but he would con-
tinue "in consulting capacity"
He had headed the three main lines
of the Allegheny Corp. system since
1887.
In selecting Mr.. Newton. G. & o.
directors said they had in mind the
excellent operating personnel of the
road and the fact that the major
problem affecting the interests Of
railroads and their security holders
today arise in the fields of law and
legislation, governmental relations,
war requirements, labor relations,
public relations, taxation, railway
consolidation and many others in
addition to operation.
Problems in these fields are Of
increasing compleXity and scope,
and call for special abilities which
in large measure are outside the ex-
perience of specialists in railroad
operations" the directors statement
added.
Chesapeake & Ohio reported to-
day November net income of 2,662,-
826 on gross of $16,087 1870 COM
pared with s5,831 ,093 on s13,254, ,349
in November a year ago. For II
months net income was $27,75I,115
on gross of S166.641 1928 compared
with S39,O92,546 on s138,084, ,266 in
the same period of 1941.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
S250,000 Fire Destroys
-Four Stores in Norfolk

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 16 R.-
Norfolk's most spectacular fire since
the great water front conflagration
of 1881 yesterday afternoon burned
through block Of the Main street
business district, destroying four
stores with total damage of about
$250,O0O
Three coast guardsmen, working
with the fire department, were hos
pital casualties, suffering from burns
or the inhalation of smoke.
While the fire was at its height,
the whole northeastern quarter of
Norfolk was in jeopardy from blaz-
ing embers. Two incidental fires
were started in this manner, but
auxiliary flremen spotted the blazes
and they were extinguished with
little damage.
Destroyed we're:
Hoffer Bros. furniture store, 224-
232 Main street, where the fire
started in a furnace room; the Army
and Navy store at 220 Main street,
the adjoining Thom McAan store
and an amusement arcade at 234
Main street.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
D. {. Gas Sales Set
An-Time Record
During November
New 11-Month Peak
Also Caused by Extra
Wartime Demands
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Sales Of the Washington Gas
Light Co. in November smashed all
previous records for that month and
the first II months of the year also
established q new peak by a SUBJ
stantial margin, company omcials
announced today.
November sales totaled 1911, ,627
m.c.f. (thousand cubic feet) as COM
pared with 1921 ,359 in November,
194l, q sharp increase of 23O, 1858
m.c.f., or 1897 per cent.
Entering new high territory in the
II months, gas sales reached A.
926,065 m.c.f. against 12,942,883 in
the like period last year, a Jump of
1,983,l82, or 1892 per cent, officials
reported. Both new records, oficials
said, are due to the present phe-
nomonal wartime service demands.
The years sales growth by months
Is pictured by the following COM
parsons In thousand cubic feet with
the corresponding months in 1941:
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Santa Claus. Arrives
In Gen. Grant Tank
AT Base in England
U. S. Soldiers Provide
Toys and Fun for
Children Of Village
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
AT A UNITED STATES TANK
BASE SOMEWHERE IN ENG
LAND, Dec. 16.-Santa Claus came
rumbling across the fields in Gen.
Grant tank yesterday. bringing
more candy for each of the children
of this village than they ordinarily
get in months.
Some day the English children of
the village may forget the war, but
1t Is doubtful if they will ever for
get the Christmas party the Amer
ican soldiers gave for them.
The beribboned tanks not only
brought candy but toys far better
than most children will see this toy
scarce Christmas, rare American
soft drinks by the gallon and
enough fudge, fruit and cake to sat-
isfy stomachs all around.
Children Of British Soldiers
Dolled up in their best party
clothes, even though some of their
careworn mothers had come in
faded house dresses-the hundred
squealing kids were mainly children
of British soldiers away at war.
In the three years since they had
seen their daddies go away, clothes
had become scarcer, food and fun
shorter. Bombers and strafers had
roared down over their homes and
villages. Every night was the
same-black and dark.
Then the Americans came with
their big machines. their laughter
and their jokes. And finally the
party.
The colonel at this tank base
suggested it. The officers sacrificed
a months candy ration to provide
armloads of sweets and peanuts
and Clipped in 81 apiece for the
toy fund.
Mess Sergt. Lloyd johnson of
Seattle sweated his willing staff
many hours overtime making a
mountain of fudge and sandwiches.
Chaplain Provides Toys.
Chaplain Father William j.
O'Brien of Auburn, N. Y. former
Rochester vicarate generaD went to
London and talked a big store into
parting with good part Of its slim
toy stock.
There was a flicker of the home
sick look in the Santa's eye as he
handed out the presents because
the 235 pound DIS in the red-and-
white suit belonged to Capt. Ray
mond Jennison and he was thinking
of his own 3-year-old back in Hop
kinsville. KY.
The officers, family men and bach
elors alike, jigged the kids in their
arms and grinned happily at the
successive squeals of delight at each
present Of candy and party food.
II guess If you can't be home
with your own this is the next best
thing" young lieutenant said.
Evening star., 1942-12-16

attempts to cut the supply lines to
North Africa to degree which has
lessened the U-boat menace else
where.
This source said the Allies whole
naval strategy in the Mediterranean
was to prevent great "buildup" of
troops and supplies for the defense
of Tunisia. While there has been a
recent dearth of naval news, he
added significantly. ''it's not because
nothing is going on-it's because 1t
cannot be revealed at this time"
The Rome communique reported
an attack on an Allied suadron in
Algerian waters and said a subma-
rine sank one vessel out of a force
of cruisers and destroyers.
Rule Rommel Retreat Line.
While bad weather over the Sicil-
ian narrows gave enemy airmen,
with hard-surfaced runways In
Sicily and Sardinia, an edge over
Allied flyers based on the primitive,
rain-softened fields in North Africa,
one of the brightest spots was the
Allies virtually uncontested air
domination over Marshal Rommel's
line of retreat.
Damage to Axis transport un-
doubtedly has been terrific" one
British source said, and the COM
muniques stress on vehicle targets
on the road to Tripoli indicated
that the enemy's flight was becom-
ing hasty and disordered.
American flyers of the 9th United
States Air Force, 1t was officially
announced, were operating with
British and Australian airmen In
the destructive attacks on Marshal
Rommel's troops.
A delayed dispatch from the
Libyan Desert said American flyers
made their strongest fighter attack
against Marshal Rommers forces
since their arrival in the Middle
East Sunday, shooting down six
Messerschmitts and spraying Axis
forces with thousands Of pounds of
bombs.
Storage Depot Fired.
OF the raid on Naples. a Cairo
announcement said an oil storage
depot east of the harbor was hit and
sent up flaming beacon visible for
80 miles. Other fires were started
blazing In the shipyards, a power
station and the new central railway
station. High-explosive bombs went
whistling into the Bagpoli Steel
Works, southwest Of Naples, 1t was
said.
Concerning Tunisia, the Morocco
radio reported that Allied patrols
were pursuing their activity for
ward Of our lines" Other mofflcial
reports indicated the fighting there
might flare up again at any moment.
The Morocco radio also reported
that Bizerte and Tunis were blasted
from the air again, as they have
been almost daily for several weeks.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Canadian Pilot Flies to Rescue
|OfU. S. Bomber Crew in Arctic

received that Capt. Wade had COM
pleted the first lap of his mission
safely
No details Of the bomber crash
have been made known here. How
ever, the scene of the accident is
known to authorities.
The plane Capt. Wade is flying
has been used on mail flights to the
Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, where skis are the only
means of landing when winter sets
in.
To replace 1t until he returns, a
plane of the United States Army
arrived here last night.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Budget
Continued From First Page.)

100000 on the Districts PWA debt,
$5oo,00o against Lanham Act fund
advances, 100000 as repayment
against loans to the District under
the Capper- -Cramton Act for pur-
chase of park and playground areas;
and 81 100000 as repayment of Fed
eral advances for blackout purposes.
Also, instead Of borrowing additional
money for blackout purposes for the
next fiscal year, the Commissioners
had planned an appropriation of
$750,000 out of the District revenues
for civilian defense purposes, the
District already having been author
lied to borrow $2,000,000 from the
United States.
Officials doubted that the Federal
Budget Bureau would recommend
using the funds to pay the increased
payroll costs, instead of using these
monies for curtailment of the Dis
trict debts. It was indicated that an
effort would be made to strip many
items from the pending budget so as
not to disturb the proposed debt cur
tailment program.
School Teachers Next.
The separate $500 pay increase
bill for District policemen and fire.
men, White House and United States
Park Police leaves District school
teachers as the only municipal group
left out of the pay increases ap-
proved yesterday for all Federal and
District personnel.
Chairman McCarran Of the Senate
District Committee promised to bring
out a separate pay bill for them
early in January, however.
The per diem employees of the Dis
trict also are omitted from the gen.
eral legislation. because, like some
mechanical groups in the Federal
Government, their pay is adjusted
from time to time by wage boards.
The $500 increase goes to all
privates in the Police and Fire De-
partments who have reached the
maximum grade of $4,000, bringing
C0em up W SL,tUU. IL SOCo dioS w
officers up to and including captain.
Entrance Rate $500.
For new appointees there is also
an increase, but in gradual steps.
The present entrance rate for police
men and firemen is $1,000. and in
creases 500 a year to the $2,400
maximum in the fifth year. The new
scale starts at $4,000 and goes up
$l40 each year to the new maxi
mum Of $2,700 after five years.
Because the bill originally passed
the House last March, it contains a
provision making the increases re-
troactive to February l, 1912. In
order to avoid sending the bill back
to the House, where it might have
died with the adjournment today,
no effort was made In the Senate
to amend it to change the effective
date.
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Africa
Continued From First Page .,

launched torpedo hit a beached YES
sci near Sousse.
On the Axis side of the Tunisian
air war, the Rome communique re-
ported a heavy German raid on
Bone, Allied supply port in Eastern
Algeria.
Reconnaissance Activity.
1t reported only reconnaissance
activity aground in Tunisia and said
I'VE made some United States
prisoners" The Morocco radio re-
ported, however, that the Allies were
entrenched firmly in all their posi-
tions in the Medjez-El Bah sector,
gateway to Tunis and Bizerte.
A British source reported that the
Allies had reinforced Malta with
no particular incident" despite Axis
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK, Dec. 16 R.-IAte foreign
exchange rates follow (Great Britain in
dollars. others In cents):
rates for United States dollars: Buying,
10 per cent premium; selling, II per cent
premium, equivalent to discounts on ca
madam dollars in New York Of BUYING, 9.9l
per cent; selling, 8 9.09 per cent
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
ket, I2A per cent discount, or S7.75 United
Europe: Great Britain official Bankers
Foreign Exchange Committee rates): Buy
4.O4
Latin America: Argentina, oficial, 2a.77;
free, 90: II. up 1-1OO cent; Brazil. oficial,
6.05n; free, 5.20n; Mexico, 2O66n
Rates in spot cebles unless otherwise
indicated. Nominal, -'s
Evening star., 1942-12-16
Carl Newton Named
|C. & 0. President 10
Replace Brooke
New Head Of Line, A.,
Is Member of New York
And D. G. Law Firm

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 16.-George
D. Brooke was replaced yesterday
as president of the Chesapeake g.
Ohio Railway by Carl E. Newton, a
A-year-old lawyer and compar-
ative newcomer to the raidroad
field.
Mr.. Newton is member of the
New York and Washington law firm
Of Donovan, Leisure, Newton &