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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-05-01

A bus trailer that will carry 141
persons has just been devised, the
inventor apparently being unaware
that ordinary buses In use in most
cities will do the same thing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-05-01

Curb for incomes? That's where
many . enc has been wrecked,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-05-01

The best way 10 beat a poor car
pet 10 to buy coed enc
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-05-01
Chances Favor onacials

Don't jump at the conclusion that
the world has gone up-side-down or
gone to pot. Just keep cool and
use your own thinking apparatus
and whenever you recognize the fu-
tility of trying to revise what may
look like a dream of some Govern
ment official it is just as well to adj
init that maybe he knows more
about the situation than we laymen.
If he doesn't, public opinion will
straighten him out eventually, or
even the Courts may take hand
in adjusting mistaken policies of
Government.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-05-01

Do you favor boarding another
COB Of daylights
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-05-01

Eventually--If Not Now
Millions Of people who have
Evening star., 1942-05-13
New Drought Threatens
Il. Y. A. Power SHORTAGE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A new drought threatens power
production at the great T. v. A
hydro-electric generators in the
Tennessee Valley, center of alumni
mum and other war production,
the Geological Survey reported to-
day.
The drought area extends from
the Virginia seaboard to Central
Tennessee, with April the dryest
month of record since 1879 in East
ern Tennessee. The survey added
there was yet no sign OF improve
ment.
Drought last year caused curtail-
ment of civilian and commercial
uses of electricity over a wide area
in the Southeast, but the new dry
area is more localized There is
yet no power shortage in the Ten
nessee Valley because Of the large
water storage behind T. v. A. dams.
The Survey said, Long continued
above normal rains are needed In
the Eastern drought area to avert a
repetition of last years adverse con-
ditions in that industrial and agri-
cultural area"
The War Production Board al
ready has set up machinery to ra-
ton power henceforth In any re-
gions where shortages occur.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Army Aliens Who Desire
Citizenship 10 Get Aid

The War Department announced
today that it is taking steps to facili-
tate naturalization of eligible aliens
in the Army who desire to become
citizens under the second War
Powers Act of 1912.
Those qualifying must have served
at least three months in the Army
since 1899 and must have their
applications approved by their COM
manding officers.
In the case of units scheduled to
depart for overseas or now serving
overseas, the War Department said
the three-month service require
ment may be waived. 1t will also
be waived for former citizens who
have lost their citizenship by serv-
ing in Allied military forces during
the World War or the present con-
f1ict.
To expedite matters, the Immigra-
ton and Naturalization Service will
send representative overseas.
No application will be approved,
1t was said, unless the applicants
commanding officer believes be will
make "a loyal and useful citizen"
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Two Million Germans
Reported Massed
For Ukraine Drive
1000 Dive Bombers Used
By Hitler in Crimeo,
London Reports Soy
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, May 13.-Adolf Hitler
has gathered perhaps 100000 of
his best combat troops in the
Ukraine and is reported to be using
1900 dive bombers to smash through
the Kerch Peninsula in the Crimea,
but informed quarters here today
discounted his claims of having
driven a breach into the Russian
lines.
One informed source said the
Kerch attack could be regarded as
the opening of three-speared Of
fensive to the Caucasus, with other
drives to be expected from Taganrog
and Kharkov.
Aviation Key to Battle.
Aviation is the key to the Kerch
battle, this source added, because If
the Russians maintain air parity
they have a good chance of smash
ing the Germans in any attempt to
cross the strait even if they push
the Russians of the peninsula.
The initial reports indicate merely
that the Germans are following
their usual tactics of seeking soft
spot into which to pour everything,
military informants said.
The Berlin claim to the capture Of
10000 Soviet troops was believed in
London to be greatly exaggerated.
Planes Cut Path.
A German war correspondent, de-
scribing the Nazi attack in the
Crimea, declared more than 1000
Stuka bombers smashed the first
Soviet lines and cut path for the
first infantry advance"
The correspondent, in a Berlin
broadcast recorded here by Reuters
news agency, said, "in front of the
dive bombers rises wall OF powder
and vapor. Bomb crater follows
bomb crater.
The deserted Soviet front lines
plainly show the effect of constant
attacks"
Evening star., 1942-05-13
'Sub-ControI Centers
For Afraid Calls
Proposed by Kutz
Use of Police Stutions
Suggested; BIoekout Jan
Charged ond Denied
Pictures on Page BIZ

Partial decentralization of the
Districts civilian defense COM
munications system, possibly
through setting up subcontrol
centers in the 13 police station
houses, was suggested by Col.
Charles Kutz at a meeting of the
Board of Commissioner today.
The Engineer Commissioner, who
was deputy co-ordinator of civilian
defense for last nights blackout
practice due to the illness Of De-
fense Co-ordinator John Russell
Young, visualized subcenters to re-
ceive calls on the effects of bomb
ings within their areas and to relay
to the central control center any
problems that were too big for them
to handle.
He specified that he felt in any
changes that might be made the
control over ire-f1ghting apparatus
should remain directly in the hands
of the chief of the Fire Department.
Plan a Compromise.
Such a plan, he contended, would
be a compromise between the pres
ent system and the procedure recon-
mended by o. c. D. Director James
M Lands, who favors half a dozen
control centers throughout the met
ropolitan area.
Commissioner Young said he did
not want to take sudden action but
preferred to wait for the full re-
ports on last nights test from the
emergency chiefs and further advice
on the whole communications pic
ture. Attention was focused on
communications after the April
blackout, when it was charged that
the system had broken down under
the congestion of incoming calls.
Officials said today that Herbert
Friede, who is in charge of COM
munications, had recently suggest
ed the use of police and fire call
boxes by wardens and others in
the emergency services to tighten
the load on the public telephone
system and on the control center.
A further check at the single con-
troll center in the District during
last nights blackout practice drew
criticism from Col. Kutz. Dean Lam
dis and other ranking civilian de-
fense officials and a blanket denial
that all was not running smoothly
from a spokesman for Mr.. Friede,
who was out of the city today.
Dean Lands, who spent the half
hour blackout period at the control
center and promptly made it clear
that unless the system is broken
down into smaller units there may
be a dangerous bottleneck in dis
patching already scarce defense
equipment to the places it would do
most good.
A spokesman for Mr.. Friede ad-
mitted there were still "a few little
kinks" in the present setup, but said
Mr.. Friede was under the impression
the operation had proceeded smooth
ly last night.
In three-quarters of an hour after
the all-clear, he declared, all the
messages received from the wardens
had been acted upon despite the fact
that some were still calling at mid
night.
With 500 calls coming in within
Is or 20 minutes, he said, it was
natural that the center would be
Continued on Page A, Column 10
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Gov. ToImodge Paroles
Convicted FIogger
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, May 13.-Dan Edison,
convicted of assault and battery
as one Of group of residents prose-
cuted on charges of carrying out a
series of nocturnal floggings, is free
on parole granted by Gov. Eugene
Talmadge.
Gov. Talmadge remarked that "It
is demoralizing to have a man sit
around Jail and do nothing" He
said he acted on the recommenda-
ton of the Prison and Parole Com
mission.
The paroled man was sentenced
in May, 1910, to pay . $1,000 fine,
serve II months in prison camp
and six months in Jail. Gov. Tai
madge said that with time OF for
good behavior he had completed his
prison camp term and the parole
was for the jail term.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Lord Gort Hurt in Raid
On Malta, Italians Say

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 13.-The Rome
radio asserted today that a bomb
splinter pierced the left arm of Lord
Gort, new Governor and COM
mander in Chief of Malta, as he
arrived at his post on the Mediter-
ranean island last week.
There has been no report from
British sources of an injury to Lord
Gort.
He took the oath of Office as
Governor and commander in chief
Sunday before a chief justice whose
hand was bleeding from cuts suf-
fered during a heavy Axis raid a
short time before. Bombs fell
throughout the ceremony and a
near hit at one time made the Of
ficials f1atten themselves on the
debris-strewn ground.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Senate committee urges subsidies for
squeezed" businesses. Page Az
Russell admits farm fund bill faces
stiff Senate fight. Page Az
Frances Robinson, former N. R. A.
aide, weds colonel. Page Az
House members predict cut in SOL
dier-sailor pay bill. Page AS
House group works to reach decision
on tax plan. Page AS
U. S. establishes $50, 900 900 fund to
buy motorists tires. Page A-6
Revocation of seven Germans U. S.
citizenship sought, Page AS
Washington and Vicinity.
Kutz suggests partial decentraliza-
ton Of blackout system Page Al
Dentist is first traffic fatality during
blackout. Page B-1
MiseeIIony.
Marriage Licenses. Page Clio
Births and Deaths. Page Clio
Evening star., 1942-05-13
w. P. B. Chief Sees End
Of War Plant Construction
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The days Of building new war
plants are nearly over, A. I. Hender-
son said today in taking Office as
director of the Materials Division
Of the War Production Board.
From now on, he told his staff,
the country must expect to swell
its production by conservation and
improvement of existing factories.
A former New York lawyer and
World War artillery officer, Mr..
Henderson has been deputy director
of material under William l.. Bait,
whom he has succeeded. Mr.. Bait
announced his resignation last night,
explaining that he had so many
official functions that all Of them
were suffering. He will continue
as chairman of the w. P. B. Re
quirements Committee and Ameri-
can representative on the British
American combined Raw Materials
Board.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Ensign Helped
Free Torpedoes
To Save Quezon
~ the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
WATERTOWN, N. Y, May 13.-
Ensign George E. Cox helped save
the lives of Philippine President
Manuel Quezon and his family dur
ing a torpedo boat trip through the
South Pacific, it was disclosed today
on his arrival here for a civic din
ner in his honor.
The 27-year-old hero of torpedo
boat attacks on japanese ships in
Subic Bay was reluctant to discuss
his exploits, brushing them aside
as merely in line of duty"
But Philippine government
citation for a Distinguished Con-
duct Star disclosed that, during the
rough passage of the Quezons from
the islands in a PIT boat, two tor
pedoes shook loose in their tubes.
Ensign Cox left his post behind
the wheel and assisted in the re-
lease Of the torpedoes, the mech
anisn1s Of which had been set
into action. This act. the citation
reads. saved the persons on board
the motor torpedo boat from death. /"
Evening star., 1942-05-13
0'Conor Considers
Invoking Compulsory
Work Statute
Asks McNutt Advice
After Prosecutor
Cites Shortages
By the Associated Press.

os tUc AsoOSldlcu I1eoS.
| ANNAPOLIS, May 13.-Gov
O'Conor disclosed today he had
asked Paul v. McNutt, Federal
Manpower Commission chair
man, whether the invocation OF
Maryland's compulsory work law
would fit in with the Govern
ment's mobilization of -manpow-
er plan.
Gov. O'Conor, conscious Of serious
labor shortages in Maryland coun-
ties, pointed out he did not want
the State at "loggerheads" with the
Federal Governments program
which is still in the formative stage
The Government is planning to
shift manpower to increase eff
cheney of the war effort. Mary
lands compulsory work law may
| assist the Federal Government in
Maryland, it was pointed out.
The compulsory work law, effec-
tive only when the Governor issues
a proclamation, can require all able
bodied men between 18 and so, not
engaged in regular useful occupa-
tions, to register with clerks OF
courts.
The Governor would be supplied
with lists of registrants and could
assign men to duties deemed neces-
sary for the safety of the State
States Attorney Marvin I. An
derson of Anne Arundel County
asked Gov. O'Conor today to invoke
the Statewide law, asserting that
the labor shortage in his county and
in other counties ''is of such enor-
nifty as to justify" invocation of the
law
Several Eastern Shore counties
already have started ork-f1ght-or-
jail" campaigns against chronic
loafers.
Eastern Shore farmers, Industrial
lists and businessmen have charged
that some persons are drawing un-
employment compensation and are
refusing to work.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Air Battle Expected
To Be Resumed Over
Australian 0utposts
Remnants Of Jap Fleet
Believed Hiding, Waiting
For Reinforcements
BY the Associated Press.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, May 13.-Resumption
Of the air battle for Australia's
outer island ramparts at an early
date was predicted today by OBJ
servers at advanced bases and
throughout the area Allied air
men were on the alert to detect
the first move of the Japanese
Navy to renew the battle of the
Coral Sea which it broke OF last
week.
The remnants of the first jap
anese invasion fleet were believed
hiding in the screen of islands, wait
ing for reinforcements.
Although dispersed, these units
could quickly come together at the
appearance of the main battle fleet,
which was believed to be gathered
somewhere north of the New
Guinea-New Britain area.
Japan's Marshall and Caroline Is
lands to the north afford a screen
for the movements of this fleet,
which Is believed to have centered
its operations of late about the
Island of Truk.
Air Activity Limited.
Weather coalitions were reported
to have limited aerial activity
throughout the northeast sector of
Gen. Douglas -MacArthur's land and
sea front and no combat was men
toned in any theater.
There was no reference in today's
communique even to the Louisiade
Archipelago, which has figured
prominently in Allied reports since
the battle Of the Coral Sea.
Correspondents who inquired at
headquarters about the absence of
further news from the Philippines
were told that communications with
the islands were cut.
Reinforcements Indicated.
Norman Stockton, war CORE
spondent of the Melbourne Herald,
wrote in a dispatch from an ad-
vanced operational base that the
appearance of japanese bombers
in raids Monday against Port
Moresby, New Guinea, and Horn
Island indicated the enemy had re.
ceived reinforcements for buffeted
air forces based at Rabaul, New
Britain, and Lac, New Guinea
Since bombers were wiped from
the New Guinea sky by success
full Allied Today camapign. only
Zero fighters had been used in
raids" he said.
Stockton forecast that air activ-
ity would increase considerably or
both sides On the next few days.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Madagascar Station
| Asks British to Aid
| Radio Reception
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press,
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, May
13.-The radio station at Tana-
narive, Madagascar capital still
controlled by the Vichy French.
was heard today asking the
British controlled station at
Diego Suarez, on the islands
northern tip, to alter its wave
length for evening broadcasts
so as to give better reception in
South Madagascar.
The request and its friendly
tone were regarded in this Brit
ish colony as a sign that nego-
tiations to end all Madagascar
hostilities were making good
progress.
Meanwhile the radio on the
nearby French island of Re-
union resumed violently anti
British broadcasts.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Detroit Gang Tips Off
Treasury on Plot 10
Sell Fake War Stamps
Underworld Credited
With Arrest of Six
In Counterfeiting
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 13.-The un-
derworld, which rarely turns down
chance to make a dishonest dol
lar, was given a big assist today in
the arrest of six men charged with
attempting to sell fake war savings
stamps.
Secret service agents of the Treas
ury Department, who collared the
men yesterday and seized 100000
unperforated stamps of 25-cent de-
nomination, told this story:
They said that some months ago
one of the prisoners went to De-
troit to sell block of the bogus
stamps at half price to Detroit
gang which in turn was to realize
a substantial profit by turning the
stamps in for defense bonds.
Members of the Detroit gang how
ever, not only turned down the
offer, but considered it their pa
triotic duty to let the Treasury De-
partment know what was up.
James j. Maloney, supervising
agent of the New York division OF
the secret service, asserted that his
men had learned the ring hoped
to dispose of $4,000 of the spurious
stamps in Detroit"
1--WE did, very naturally obtain
considerable information from
underworld sources" he said. Just
what the information was, and
from whom it was obtained cannot
be revealed for obvious reasons"
The charge against the six mer
was conspiring to counterfeit stamps
worth $52,500 had they been valid
Mr.. Maloney said that while sales
had not been started he had nc
doubt the gang contemplated pass
ing them on a Nation wide scale.
Accused by the Government of
originating the scheme and making
the plates were Abraham and Joseph
Perkes, brothers, who were held in
SIS, 1000 bail on arraignment before
United States Commissioner Isaac
PlatU.
Harry Horowitz, charged with
agreeing to print the stamps, was
held in $4,000 bail, and Abraham
Glickstein and Morris Rubin, re-
spectively, named as salesman and
contact man for the ring, were held
in $500 each.
Louis Samouski was released on
his own recognizance at the request
of the Government. All six are
New Yorkers.
Howard F. Corcoran, chief as
sistant United States attorney, said
he would ask indictments by a
Federal grand jury shortly.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Mississippi Capital Ends
Fight on Sunday Shows
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSON Miss, May 13.-Ofn-
cials in Mississippis capital have
given up officially on enforcement
OF the States l20-year-old law
against farces, interludes, bear-bait-
ing and other Sunday amusements
The City Commission acted yes
terday after a County Court jury
reversed for the second time a City
Court judgment flning Henry Seel
$50 for opening his theater on
Sunday.
Mr.. Seel, convicted five times by a
police magistrate under the 1922
statute. appealed on the ground that
other Sunday statutes-which would
shut of all but essential businesses
were generally ignored.
City officials announced that
police would no longer interfere with
Sunday shows.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Army Will Start
WA &C. With
Force Of $4,000
Texus Women Seen
As Choice for Director
When Bill Is Signed
6, The Associated Press.

.. tht Associated Press.
The Army made plans today to
start recruiting up to 10000
women for the Woman's Auxil-
iary Army Corps Immediately
after President Roosevelt signs
the legislation authorizing the
volunteer corps.
War Department representatives
told Congress there was immediate
need for that many women aux
iliaries, with some 10000 to be as
signed to the AFRAID interceptor
command.
The corps may have up to $50, 900
members between the ages of 81 and
As under terms of the legislation
which completed its congressional
course by Senate passage yesterday.
A director, who will have rank
equivalent at least to that of a
major, will be paid $4,000 a year,
with allowances in addition, and
Army quarters expressed belief Mrs.
Oveta Culp Hobby of Houston, Tex,
newspaper executive. would get the
War, possibly this week. She is now
chief of the woman's interest sec
ton of the War Departments Public
Relations Bureau
AS first step in building up the
corps tentative plans call for Sc
lection of Is to 80 volunteers in
each of the nine Army corps areas
ire mi nc - kA 4Nl-
lowed by general enrolment of
personnel.
Mrs. Hobby is SO and mother Of
two children, and has been inter-
preting the army to the women Of
the country since last fall.
For weeks all signs have pointed
to the selection of Mrs. Hobby on
whose shoulders has fallen a great
part of the burden of doing the
groundwork for the w. A. A. G. So
efficiently has the Job been done
the women's corps will be able to
function almost Immediately, Army
| circles report.
Mrs. Hobby is as well known here
as she is in Texas, where with her
husband, former Gov. william p.
Hobby, she publishes the Houston
| Post.
Last fall when Gen. George c.
Marshall was deluged with letters
| from women inquiring about their
husbands and sons In the Army, the
Chief of Staff decided the time had
come to create a women's interest
section.
Army Studies Canadian Setup.
The Women's Auxiliary Corps Is
patterned after similar organizations
in Canada and Great Britain. Mrs.
Hobby disclosed in q recent speech
in New York that the War Depart
ment had sent her to Canada to
make close study of women's activ-
tiles in the war She has visited
almost every section of the country
since coming here to acquaint and
arouse the interest Of American
women in our own Army and war
effort.
Mrs. Hobby has packed . full life
into her So years. Entirely feminine
in her appearance and mannerism,
she has done a mans work ever
since she graduated from the Uni
versity of Texas Law School. She
Is bank director and director of
Community Chest campaigns in
Houston.
She started newspaper work in
Houston as a research editor and
then advanced from book editor to
\ ocSiSt orA odifor uor avporiepea IN,
women,s affairs has made Mrs. Hob
by valuable asset to Gen. Marshall
and Secretary Stimson.
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Volunteers Leg Broken
In Fall in BIuckout

Hood Baxley, 24-year-old George
Washington University medical stu
dent, a member of the university
hospital emergency blood donor
squad, rushed to the hospital last
night with the wailing of the air
raid sirens, according to long
rehearsed plans.
In the pitch blackness he started
In the hospital entrance and fell,
suffering q fractured leg. He got
instantaneous attention from half
. dozen emergency squadA
Evening star., 1942-05-13
Nuzis Claim ; Million
Tons of Tonkers Sunk

(The following dispatch was sent
In releasing news is likely to be propa-
ganda Axis claims should be credited
only when confirmed BY American or
Allied sources)
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN (From German Broad
casts, May 13.-The German radio
asserted today that the United Ma
tions had lost 5000 900 tons of tank
ers from the start Of the war to
May 10 and that this approached
the United States tonnage prior to
last December I.
Evening star., 1942-05-13

concluded that the shells probably
were an improved version of those
reported to have been used in the
Belgian campaign, the chief effect
of which was temporarily to stupefy
large numbers of combatants.
The Zurich newspaper correspond
ent said the Germans claimed their
new weapon had taken the Russians
by surprise.
Regardless of various new weap-
(See GAS, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1942-05-13

The Germans have announced
they would not use gas as weapon
of attack, but this version indicated
they may consider gas freed in the
bursting of high-explosive shells a
different matter.
The German Foreign Office ex-
planation as quoted by the Swiss
newspaper said, Naturally there are
poisonous gases which escape when
modern explosives are detonated,
but that does not mean chemical
battle material"
Foreign military experts here