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Evening star., 1942-01-29
Congressional Club
To Entertain Stars

Although the Congressional Club
has curtailed all its customary
formal parties a number of in
formal events are taking place at
the clubhouse, 2o0l New Hampshire
avenue.
Tomorrow there will be a tea at
the club honoring visiting motion
picture stars participating in the
Presidents birthday anniversary
celebration.
Evening star., 1942-01-29

social events until she is 1urIner
along with her musical work.
Students From Colombia
Are Being Entertained.
A. furry of entertaining was in
spired by a group of students from
Colombia, who are attending the
University of Pennsylvania and who
came to Washington for a sight
seeing trip. Today they will be
received by Mrs. Roosevelt at the
White House. She returned this
morning from Philadelphia. The
students are 27 young men and three
young women who are studying
music, medicine, engineering, law
and other courses.
This evening they will be guests
ut the concert at the Pan-American
Union when the Argentine conduc-
tor, Senior Juan Jose Castro will
direct the National Symphony Or
chestra and Senorita Marisa Regules,
brilliant Argentine pianist, will be
the soloist.
Yesterday the visitors were guests
Of the Colombian Charge d'Affaires
and Sonora de Vargas at recep-
ton In the Embassy. Preceding the
reception Mr.. Nelson A. Rockefeller,
Co-ordinator of Inter-American
Affairs, was host to the students at
luncheon at the Mayfower.
Argentine Ambassador
And Wife Honor Musicians.
Senorita Regules and Senor
Castro were guests Of honor today
at luncheon of the Argentine Am
bassador and Sonora de Espil, who
entertained at the Embassy. Senorita
Regules gave half hours program,
much to the delight of those present.
This evening the Ambassador and
Sonora de Espil are expected to at
tend the concert at the Pan-Ameri-
can Union, for which officials of
that union of 81 American republics
have received twice the usual num-
ber Of acceptances.
Very informal have been the
parties for members of the Argen-
tine mission now in Washington.
Tomorrow the mission, which in
cludes both Army and naval officers,
will give a luncheon at the May
flower Hotel to entertain a number
of officials who have been hosts to
them.
Chilean Mission Members
Are Honored at Party.
Also on q special mission in Wash
ington are q group of Chilean
officers whose new head, Vice Ad-
miral Vicente Merino Bielich, ar
rived the first of the week. Vice
Admiral Merino succeeds Vice Ad-
miral Juan Gerkin, who will leave
for the southern republic tomorrow
Yesterday the Naval Attache of
the Chilean Embassy and Sonora de
Cortes gave cocktail party for the
new head of the mission and the re-
firing chief. Capt. and Sonora de
Cortes gave their party at the
Shoreham.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
MRS. DONALD E.
DRUCKEMILLER.

Her marriage to 1t. Drucke-
miller of Fort Beluoir took
place recently In the post
chapel at Fort LeUis, Wash.
The bride is the former Miss
Dorothy Dana Spence, ddugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Guy H.
Spence OF Arlington.
MISS MARTHA THERESA
HOWARD (Center).
Her engagement to Mr..
David Ne1ocomb Back, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Back, Is
announced by her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George B.
HoUard. Miss HoWard at
tended George Washington
University. Her fance is q
student at Pennsylvania State
College.
Harris & EDin1 Photo.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
EIizalde aGueSt

joaquin M. Elizalde. Philippine
resident commissioner to the United
States, will be q guest on the lecture
and book review program at the
Sulgrave Club at 10:15 sm. tomor-
row BY Mrs. o. w. McNeeSe.
Evening star., 1942-01-29
Mrs. Taber Hostess

Mrs. John Taber, wife Of Repre-
sentative Taber Of New York, will
entertain at luncheon Wednesday at
the Congressional Club. Mrs. Taber
Is president of the club.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Navy and Marines 10 Enlist
CoIored Recruits June

The Navy and the Marine Corps
announced today that enlistment of
Negroes will begin June l and that
the Navy will take approximately
l 900 month and the Marine Corps
about 900 during June and July
The Navy recruits will receive
training for general service at the
Great Lakes Station and in a spe-
cialiZed l6-week course at Hampton
Institute, Hampton, Va. they will
be trained as electricians. carpen-
tiers. shop filters. machinists. metal
smiths. fremen and cooks. In ad-
dition. there will be Is to "a weeks
training course as aviation ma
chinists and metalsmiths leading to
assignment at a naval air station.
Those who qualify for further
training at the Great Lakes station
will be eligible for one of three
groups-a l6-Week course TO become
gunners. quartermasters. yeomen,
Storekeepers and cooks. and a 10
week course to become radio men
and signal men, or a four-week
course to become armed guards
The Negroes accepted in the
Marine Corps will form a composite
battalion including all combat arms
of the ground forces and including
also billets for recruits who are
skilled in various trades and occu-
pations.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Nv the Associated Press.


A civilian does not have to be
rich or influential to obtain a COM
mission in the Navy, the Senate
Military Affairs Committee declared
today in an official publication.
A booklet prepared under the
direction of Chairman Walsh cited
a letter from Gen. Robert E. Lee
to Jefferson Davis, president OF the
Confederacy, to support the stand
that no commissions should be
granted on personal basis.
THE commissions which have
been sought and granted for service
in the intelligence unit have been
subject to most criticism" the pam
phlet declared, much of which it is
believed is based on suspicion due
to the large number of applicants
who have sought to bring pressure
on members of Congress and the
Navy Department for commissions
in this particular branch OF the
service.
ALLEGATIONS to the effect that only
applicants Of wealth and fine social
or scholastic backgrounds and In a
position to command influence are
given commissions, especially in the
intelligence unit, are, in the opinion
of the committee, unfounded.
The belief that favoritism exists
in certain cases in obtaining COM
missions and sometimes in obtain
ing waivers is, in our opinion, due
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Senate Committee Defends
Navy Commission System

to the publicity that has been given
to a few isolated cases.
Then it cited the letter from Gen.
Lee to jefferson Davis:
IF you can fill these positions
with proper oficers, not the rela-
tives and social friends of the COM
manders, who, however agreeable
their company, are not always the
most useful, you might hope to have
the finest army in the world
The committee also expressed its
determination to encourage per-
sonnel officials of the Navy to main.
tain a "hardboiled" attitude toward
requests for waivers OF age, 'educa'
tional or physical requirements by
applicants for naval commissions.
1t said members had been in
formed by recruiting officers thai
there have been frequent attempts
bv men to obtain waivers, gain COM
missions and escape duty in com
bat units of the armed services"
Waivers apparently are sought
mostly by those lacking all the quail
ifications for commissions in the in.
telligence, legal and supply branches
of the Naval Reserve" the booklet
continued. THE department admits
that there have been waivers grant
ed. but not as generally As alleged.
The pamphlet sets out the qualin.
cations for enlistment or commits.
sioning in the various grades .ant
ranks Of the Navy, Marine Corpl
and Coast Guard.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Campbell New Chief
Of Army Ordnance;
81 Are Promoted
IS Brieodiers and 46
CoIoneIs Stepped Up;
Many Reside Here

Mai. Gen. Levin H. Campbell,
jr., SIS. a native of Washington
and one of the Army's best
known arms experts. was nomi-
mated today to be the new chief
of ordnance, succeeding Maj.
Gen. Charles NJ Wesson. whose
four-year assignment expires
June 2. Gen. Wesson is await
ing retirement from active serv-
ice.
The nomination Of Gen. Camp
bell. one of 81 Army officers an
nounced for promotions in the
grades OF general by the White
House, came somewhat as a sur
prise, for President Roosevelt had
previously nominated Maj. Gen
James H. Burns to head the ord
nance department. Gen. Burns,
however, is being continued in his
present duty with the Munitions
Assignment Board at the request of
Harry L. Hopkins.
Mr.. Hopkins, who is chairman OF
the board and supervisor of lease
lend administration, was anxious to
retain Gen. Burns in liaison Ca
pacity between the War Depart
ment and the various activities of
the Assignment Board.
Given Permanent Rank.
Gen Campbell, who has been
holding a temporary rank, was
made a permanent major general.
The nomination lists included also
Is brigadier generals promoted to
the temporary grade of major gen.
eral and As colonies who will be
made temporary brigadiers.
Among the new major generals
are six who give Washington as
their home addresses, while eight
OF the new brigadiers also claim
this city as their home.
Among the officers is Col. Johl
T. Kennedy. field artillery, holder
(See PROMOTIONS, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Pacific War Council Slogan:
Japan for the Japanese

Eastern half of the world had been
spread before the council and that
"the general picture is not bad
although we have q long way to
CO.
The graver side Of event in that
theater was presented by DR.. T. v.
Soong, Chinese Minister of Foreign
Affairs, who reported that the jap
anese evidently are preparing for
a very serious effore to knock China
out of the war this summer. He
said that Japanese concentrations
of men and materials already have
been located along the China sea-
coast and at Hankow. The fighting
on the Yunnan front. however, is so
far favorable to the Chinese, he said.
DR.. Soong said that the United
Nations general stad Is considering
the situation and that there Is no
absence of confidence. He empha-
sized, however. that his government
and others joined with it will not
be satisfied with any effort except
q victorious one.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
WAR IS GERMANYS HARDEST SAYS GOER|NG
10000 Bombs
Used in Raid
On Mannheim
Earlier Story on Page ALL

Earlier Story on Page AID
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 20. One de-
tachment of our-motored Stir
ling bombers carried 10000 fire
bombs to Mannheim and at
tackled that Southwestern Ger
man city last night, Air Ministry
sources said
In the resumption of major air
attacks on German industrial CEN
ters after an ll-day lull, the Air
Ministry said other large forces of
HalifaXes, Lancasters, Manchesters
and Wellingtons attacked Mannheim
with great loads" of fire missiles
and "the heaviest high-explosive
bombs
The first reports OF the crews give
an encouraging description of many
fires left burning and of heavy high
explosives bursting among industrial
buildings" the Air Ministry News
Service added.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Earlier Story on Page AL

The Pacific War Council, repre-
senting seven nations joined in the
fight against Japan. reviewed the
course of conflict in that theater of
war today and coined a victory
slogan of Japan for the Japanese. y
Stimulated by an accounting from
President Roosevelt of details OF
the American air raid on Japan
proper. the council members con-
ferred for approximately 80 minutes
with the Chief Executive at the
White House.
As the group left their reaction to
the story of the daring raid led by
Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle was
expressed most clearly by Walter
Nash, New Zealand minister.
1T was q magnificent exploit,
Mr.. Nash said. We'll have to think
Of more of the same type. Our OBJ
jective now is Japan for the jap
anese."
Mr.. Nash said that q full presen-
tation Of war developments in the
Evening star., 1942-05-20
zdoa Rosa Impresses
With Belmont Victory

BY the Associated Press.
BELMONT PARK, N. Y. MAY 20.
Running more than six furlongs
for the first time and scoring the
most important triumph of her ca
reer. w. w. CrenshaW's Zaca Rosa
carried her California owned silks
to flashy victory in the 18th Acorn
Stakes. run at one mile before 15,547
fans here today. Outspeeding IA
other 3-year-old fillies. the fleet
daughter of Zacaweista held on to
register by length and a half over
William Woodward's Vagrancy. win
ner of the Pimlico Oaks and favo-
rite.
A. A. Baronis Bonnet Ann was
third, a half length farther away,
with Mrs. w. M. Jeffords' Red Ro-
settle. last to leave the gate, a game
fourth.
zaca Rosa. not named for the
$4,000 Coaching Club Oaks of IL
miles to be run a week hence, was
Sl040 for 81 second choice.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Al Crops Bad,
Rain AZ Need,
Reich Is Told
Terrible Winter
Campaign Described
To Home Front
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN From German Broad
casts, May 20.-Reichsmarshal
Goering, speaking at a ceremony
at which decorations were con-
ferred on workers, declared to-
night, This war is the hardest
Germany has had to fight"
There are two fronts-the exter-
nal front and the home front" ne
said. The winter campaign has
been terrible. The Fuehrer suffered
deeply for his troops, but he knew
he must not yield.
There was no question of giving
up our front positions because be-
hind us there was only a heap Of
ruins. Therefore we had to hold the
front-and only those who have ex-
perienced this know what it costs"
Goering said. "Russia's entry into
Rumania and Finland showed that
she intended to put Germany be-
tween two pincers and pounce upon
her while she was still engaged in
life and death struggle in the west.
The Fuehrer decided that it was
necessary to strike first"
Three extremely hard winters are
behind us" he added. The elements
have not been kind to us. Last years
harvest was bad. Even now. while
we rejoice in good weather, we hope
it will rain soon because we need
rain"
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Canada Requests Viehy
To Close Consular Offices
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, May 20-The Cana
dian government has asked the
Vichy government OF France to
close its consular Offices and agen-
cies in Canada. Prime Minister w.
L. Mackenzie King told the House
of Commons today.
The request does not mean a
breach of diplomatic relations with
France, however. The Prime Min
ister told Commons only yesterday
that the government had decided
not to change the status OF the
French legation here or the Cana
dian mission in Vichy for the pres
ent.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Senate Inquiry
Of Story Naming
Walsh |mpends
BorkIey Brands
New York Post
Article os False
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

A Senate investigation loOmed
late today of motives" back OF
the publication by the New York
Post of a story that Senator
Walsh Of Massachusetts, chair
man of the Senate Naval Affairs
Committee, had frequented a
house of degradation" in Brook
lyn, N. Y, and had been seen
there in conversation with Nazi
agents.
Earlier today Senator Barkley
Democratic leader, made a state
ment to the Senate based on an in.
veStigation of the charges and COM
pletely eXonerated the Massachu-
sets Senator
Senator Clark. Democrat. Of Mis-
souri,. charged conspiracy to de-
fame Senator Walsh and demanded
that an investigation into all the
facts leading up to the publication
of the story be ordered by the Sen
ate. In this he was supported BY
Senator Wheeler. Democrat, Of
Montana. and Senator Nye, Repub-
lican, of North Dakota
Clark Awaits Barkley Move.
Senator Clark, after the debate in
the Senate had ended. said that he
would wait and see if a resolution
calling for such an inquiry was pre-
sented by Senator Barkley. It prop
erly should come from him. Senator
Clark said. If no move was made
by Senator Barkley, the Missouri
Senator indicated he himself would
press for an investigation, probably
by special committee of the Sen
ate.
Senator Barklev. in his original
statement to the Senate on the
Walsh story. said: Il shall not &c
into tn. question of motives. I can
not read the mind of any human
in the effort to ascertain his motives.
Therefore / can make no intima-
ton"
Senator Clark, however. after con-
graduating Senator Barkley on his
statement to the Senate and prais-
ing the Attorney General and the
F. B. I. for the investigation which
had cleared Senator Walsh, con-
tinued:
1T does not seem to me that the
Senate will have sufficiently done
its duty simply by receiving that re-
port The Senator from Kentucky
he % ;y,1
into motives. 1 think for the main
tenance of its own integrity it is the
duty of the Senate to examine into
the motives behind this filthy con-
spiracy to smear a member Of this
body. Even though the member has
been officially exonerated, do not
think we ought to allow the Incl
dent to pass without examining into
the motives and personalities behind
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Lomonno Is Hero of Reds Victory
Leukproof Boxcors Seen
To Garry Gasoline to East

ployed successfully to line high
octane gasoline tanks of Martin
bombers, which had oeen used in
China for five years.
Mr.. Holzborn said the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad now Was lining a
wooden boXcar with the material
and expressed the hope chat 1t would
prove satisfactory for wooden
barges.
Mr.. Holzborn said mareng was
invented by r. L. Gray, an engineer
for the Glenn L. Martin Co. of Bal
timore
The material could be made up
into cells. the witness said, which
when filled with gasoline, expanded
like a balloon to the shape of the
outside container.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Earlier Gasoline Story on p

Earlier Gasoline Story on Page BID
By the Associated Press.
A Senate Interstate Commerce
Subcommittee heard today that a
patented material used to line the
wing tanks of Martin bombers
might be utilized in -proofing
wooden barges and railroad box
cars so they could transport sorely
needed gasoline to the East Coast
States
Ernst Holzborn, director of inter-
coastal transportation, described the
material to the group as mareng, a
substance which he said was rubber
like in consistency, but contained no
rubber nor any other critical ma
terials. He said it hao been en-
Evening star., 1942-05-20
House Hikes FILA. Loon
Limit to $500, ,000, 900
By the Associated Press.

BY the AsSociated Press.
The House completed legislative
action today on a bill to boost the
total amount of loans which the
Federal Housing Administration can
insure from $500, 900 900 to $500, ,OO0,-
900. The measure primarily de-
signed to relieve congestion in areas
where the population has been in
creased by the war. would permit
construction of housing projects
with a maximum valuation of S.
600 900.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
james Trial for Libel
DELAYED Indefinitely

BY the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDE, Mass, May 20.-The
trial of Edward Holton James, SO,
Concord lawyer facing an indict-
ment charging criminal libel of Pres
ident Roosevelt. was postponed in
definitely today-without explana-
tion-at the request of Assistant
Attorney General Frank G. Volpe
OF Massachusetts,.
James who had been held in
jail under $4,000 bail, was re-
leased in bail of $500 Statements
he had made in pamphlet, the
Yankee Freeman, were the basis OF
the indictment.
The elderly attorney said he was
prepared to prove that the Presi-
dent was beyond the jurisdiction OF
the Middlesex County Court and
that the charges therefore were be-
yond the court jurisdiction.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Senate FaVors Sale
OF Grain Stocks at
IS Per Cent Of Parity
Form Bloc FoiIs TO
Head OF Proposal
After Spirited Fight
Earlier Story on Page A-4D

Earlier Story on Page A-4)
BY the Associated Press.
The Senate tentatively ap-
proved this afternoon sales of
Government stocks of grains for
feeding purposes at less than
parity prices after a spirited dis
pute among members of the SEN
ate farm bloc.
BY vote announced as 55 to 25
it rejected the attempt Of Senator
Thomas, Democrat, Of Oklahoma
and some corn and wheat belt SEN
ators to require that any sales of
wheat be at the full parity price of
corn, or about 96 cents a bushel.
This left in effect proposal previ-
ouSly agreed to on voice vote per-
mitting sales of feed grains and 125.-
100000 bushels of wheat at IS per
cent of corn parity prices, nov about
SO cents bushel.
OMahoney Urges Subsidies.
Senator OMahoney, Democrat, of
wyoming told the Senate that under
present conditions it would be i'm
possible to produce sufficient food
TO meet war demands unless Gov
eminent subsidies are paid to
farmers
Urging the payment of honest
prices" for farm products. Senator
OMahoney supported the amend
ment by Senator Thomas.
Senator Russell. Democrat, of
Georgia. in charge of the bill, op-
posed the amendment.
Senator OMahoney argued that
to sell wheat at low price that
would automatically pull corn prices
down could only result in the pay
ment of more subsidies. II farmers
got fair prices, he said, these sub
sides could be cut down or elm
mated.
With conditions running as they
are" he declared, those in charge
, of the price control -ystem will
know that it will be impossible to
produce the agricultural commodi-
ties we need unless subsidies are
paid.
Subsidy Payments Favored.
Meanwhile the Senate Banking
Committee approved legislation
which would empower the Recon-
struction Finance Corp. and the
Commodity Credit Corp. to make
subsidy payments for the purpose
of holding prices down.
Borrowing authority of the R. F. c.
would be increased by $1,000 ,000, 900
and that of the c. C. C. by $1,000
600 900 under the measure.
The proposal. previously approved
(See FARM, Page 2-XD
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Suboteur Sentenced
To Five Years in Prison

BY the Associated Press.
HARTFORD, Conn, May 20. =
Frank j. Russo, %, convicted in
Connecticuts first sabotage case.
was sentenced today to five years
imprisonment in Federal court.
Russo, a native American, did not
contest the Governments charge
that on February rs he jammed a
file into gears of machine at a
machine gun plant where he was
employed.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
House Unit Asks
Surtax Rates
Of Z to81 Pct.
Would Double
Income LeWin
Lower Brackets
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House Ways and Means
Committee has agreed on new
individual surtax rates ranging
from II to 81 per cent, compared
with present rates Of 6 to II per
cent.
These new rates. combined with
lower exemptions and higher nor
NAL rates, have been estimated to
WELD an additional s2,756 900 900 in
revenue and would double the in
come tax bill of those in the lowest
salary brackets.
Examples Are Given.
Representative Cooper. Demo-
crat, of Tennessee announced the
committees action. which he said
was taken yesterday, and reported
that the committee currently was
discussing a Treasury proposal for
tax collection at the source.
Tables prepared for the committee
showed. for example, that a single
man with $500 net income who
now pays $50 would pay sl7l under
the new schedule and a single man
with a $4,000 net income who pays
sl.493 at present would be faced
with a s2.295 tax bill next year.
Likewise. a married man with no
dependents and a $500 net income
who now pays nothing would pay
s45 and the married person with
$4,000 net income and without de-
pendents. who now pays $1,305.
would have to pay $1,000
Raise Corporation Taxes.
The members decided to raise the
present 81 per cent tax on mutual
investment companies to 40 per
cent, the present 7l1a and 8212 per
cent rates on personal holding COM
panies to rs per cent and IS per
cent. respectively.
The 27ia per cent rate on non-
resident foreign corporations and on
nonresident alien individuals was
increased to 36 per cent.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Air Forces to Move
Ferryine Command

Headquarters of the Northeast
Sector. Army Air Forces Ferrying
Command, will move from the Mu-
nicipal Airport. Baltimore. in the
near future, the War Department
announced late today. No announce
ment has been made yet as to the
future location Of the headquarters.
Evening star., 1942-05-20
GUIDE FOR READERS

Page.
ADJUSTMENTS Be-
Comics B-22-23
Editorials --A-10
Editorial
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Finance --A-1S
Lost, Found--A-3
Evening star., 1942-05-20
Home Runs
American LeaEue.

American League.
Gordon, New York, I'd inning
National League.
OFT. New York, tst inning.
Pehlps, Pittsburgh, I'd inning.
Lamanno, Cincinnati, I'd inning.
Fernandez, Boston, Sth inning.
Koy, Philadelphia, Sth inning.