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The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-09-11
By MORRIS J. HARRIS
 and = JAMES D. WHITE

CFormer Associated Press
 staff men in Shanghai and To-
 kyO. released from iuternment
 in the exchange Of American and Japanese diplomats and
 newspapermen.)
 The patient. ploddlng millions oI Japan know fairly well how their army has been behaving itself dur ing the last ten years.
 Their first reaction To atroeity stories is the same as yours or mine would be. They are mortified and ashamed.
 But-and it is q very big and important but-they can condone whatever their armed forces do if by any twist Of reasoning they can believe 1t was necessary or in eyitable9 for the interests of the Japanese Empire.
 Always and forever, the Empire comes first. Japanese believe them selves descended rom Amaterasu. the Sun Goddess. and that the Elm peror is directly so. They are the Chosen Race. Consequently nothing that helps build the Empire or in crease its prestige can be wrong ultimately.
 Nanking Started It
 The Ranking holocaust in 1937 when thousands of defenseless sur rendered Chinese soldiers were butehered, burned, and excuted on a mass scale, and Chinese women were raped in the greatest orgy of modern times, shocked those Jap anese who learned about it. Many frankly said so = privately.
 Left to his own devices, the ay- craze Japanese is kind, considerate, simple, and intensely interested in the amusing and human things of life.
 But let the interests of Empire enter in and he becomes the fan atic, ready to sacrifice anything, including his humane self-respeet and his life fl necessary.
 Warlords Learned a Lesson
 Gradually the Japanese people learned about NanK1ng. But the process was so slow that they soon forgot as Nibpon's warriors went on to other victories in China. They probably know nothing of the rap ing of British nurses and bayonet- ing of surrendered Canadian sold iers at Hongkong.
 In Ranking Japan's warlords learned that the rest of the world, at least, could not by any device or trick Of standardization accept such behavior as civilized. They un- doubtedly issued stern instructions and there has been nothing else quite as frightful as Ranking.
 Propaganda Mill
 The Japanese pride was touched, and Japanese have their full share of national pride sharpened by a national inferioritS complex of consuming bitterness.
 Japanese are determined, among other things, to prove they are just as civilized as anyone else. People all over the world accept ed Ranking as proof of the Chinese claim that the Japanese are bar barians. Japan's propagandists en- dured agonies when the clippings
The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-09-11
CARPENTERS MEETING

A meeting of the carpenters un- ion will be held at 7:30 D m. Mon day in the Union hall. Important business is to come up and a full attendance is desired.
 Adv
The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-09-11
CATHOLIC SERVICES

Masses at the local Catholic church for Sunday, Sept. 13, are at 7:00 and 9:3O a. m.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1942-09-11
FOOD SALE

Ladies Aid Food Sale will be held at the J. c. Johnson store, Sat urday, Sept. 12.
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Violet Vonbrugh, Is,
British Actress, Dies

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Nov 1.-THE we'll
known British actress, Violet Van
brugh, rs, died. in her sleep at her
London home today.
Violet Vanbrugh. whose name in
private life was Mrs. Arthur Bour-
chier, played in long list of Shake
spearean and other productions. In
recent years she had appeared with
her daughter Prudence in Aldous
Huxley's play, This Way to Para
disc" In the sleep-walking scene In
the Festival IN memory Of Ellen
Terry, In "Evensong, and In The
Merry Wives Il windsor" |
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Nelson Reorganizes
WIPE, }, With tberstadt
In Key Position
Former Banker Put
In Charge Of Materials;
Labor Units Created
BY the associated Press.

BY tne hSSOCldtcd fTeSS.
Chairman Donald NJ, Nelson
reorganized the War Production
Board anew today, concentrating
all responsibility for the alloca-
ton of materials and their actual
distribution directly under Ferdi-
nand Eberstadt.
Mr.. Eberstadt, former New York
investment banker, acquired the
title Of program vice chairman.
The change placed Ernest Kanzler,
director general for operations,
directly under Mr.. Eberstadt in the
WPB high command.
A simultaneous move was the
creation of labor advisory commit
tees, to be made up of labor, spokes-
men from every industry to advise
each of WPB's 36 industry branches
Labor Given Bigger Role.
WPB long has had industry ad-
visory committees. This move fol-
lowed demands of labor groups fol
a bigger role in WPB. It was ac-
companied by elevation of the in
dustry branches to the status OF
industry divisions. with enlarged
powers of estimating the materials
needed by each industry and con-
trolling the allotment of materials
The WPB Requirements Commit
tee, which divides the country's ma
terials among various needs, will
have SO small counterparts, one as
signed to each industry division
Each of these "subrequirements
committees" will have a spokesman
from each of the seven claiming
agencies. which seek supplies
Army, Navy, Maritime Commission
Lease-Lend Administration. Boarc
of Economic Warfare, Aircraft
Scheduling Unit and the WPB Office
Of Civilian Supply.
A program bureau was set ur
under Mr.. Eberstadt to act as a stat
for the Requirements Committee IL
assembling figures on materials sup
ply and the needs and to max,
recommendations for balancing on,
against the other. It. will be heades
by Donald D. Davis, Wayzata, MINI
president Of General Mills Co
Minneapolis.
Another new bureau, called Re
sonrces Agencies" takes supervi
7Sse WIPE, Page x-25
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Ho|dup Murder Charged
To 'Patched-Face Bandit

Police announced today they had
placed seven charges-one charging
murder, another an automobile
theft, and five armed robberies-
against Leon w. Edwards, known as
THE Patched Face Bandit"
He was formally charged with the
holdup murder of Harry Kline, At
year-old grocer. who was shot to
death in his store at 1893 Fifth
street N. E.. october H..
"The Patched Faced Bandit" who
wore an adhesive patch on his face,
police said, was arrested in Harris
burg. Pa, by Capt. Robert Barrett,
acting chief of detectives, and De-
tective Sergts. Jack Baker and
Michael Mahaney Edwards, police
say, is an ex-convict.
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Burglars Cut Hole
In Roof to Get at
$1,000 in Jewels -.

Burglars early today stole about
$4,000 worth of jewelry from the
Kent jewelry store at Seventh and
G. streets NV, police reported this
afternoon. They got in by cutting
hole through a slate roof and
through the upper ceiling Of the
building.
Stolen were watches, rings. other
assorted jewelry and an unknown
amount of cash, police said. An in
ventory is being taken to ascertain
the total loss, according to store
officials.
The thieves dropped few feet to
balcony and then walked down to
the main floor, store officials said.
They must have been professionals,
and they must have worked several
hours on the job" an ofiicial of the
store added.
"They evidently knew the stores
layout perfectly, for they were care
full not to cut into wiring guarding
all the windows and skylight Had
they touched any of these wires, a
police alarm would have been
sounded.
They made their escape, evil
dently, by hosting one Of their
number on the shoulders Of another.
and may have used q rope to pull
the last man up. We found no trace
Of ladder being used"
Police admitted the robbery was
one of the most unusual occurring
here In several months. The dis
tance between the ceiling and the
balcony 10 about 7 feet, ofncials Of
the store said.
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Roosevelt Halls
Armistice Day
Light Of Hope
Welcomes French
Soldiers Joining
Allied Forces

(Tert of Roosevelt address on
Page AL
President Roosevelt told the
world in an Armistice Day ad-
dress today that the future is
'illumined by new light of
hope" as the NaZis and japanese
"face inevitable, final defeat"
Declaring that the United Nations
grow rapidly to full strength while
their foes have passed their peak"
the President told a gathering in the
Amphitheater in Arlington National
Cemetery:
"And-as the result OF recent
events-the United Nations forces
are being joined by large numbers
| of the fighting men of our tradition
al ally, France. On this day, of all
days, it is heartening for us to know
that soldiers of France go forward
| with the United Nations"
Pays Pershing Tribute.
At the end of his prepared speech
Mr. Roosevelt added extemporane-
ously that "at this moment great
events are taking place in France
and Africa"
He also extended "affectionate
greetings" on behalf of all Ameri-
cans to Gen. John J. Pershing, who
sat behind Mr.: Roosevelt.
The nearly 5000 persons in the
wind-swept amphitheater arose si-
multaneously and applauded. Gen.
Pershing nodded in acknowledge
ment.
The Chief Executive spoke during
Armistice Day ceremonies sponsored
by the American Legion after laying
q wreath at the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier.
He asserted that this war shall
make certain the survival and ad-
vancement of civilization" That is
why I'VE do not cease from our
work" on this Armistice Day, he
said, but turn "cur thoughts in
gratitude Ito those who have saved
our Nation in days gone by"
Accompanied by officials.
Mr.. Roosevelt and Gen. Pershing,
sitting in a White House automobile,
arrived at Arlington Cemetery short
ly before II o'clock and were greeted
with 21-gun salute. The car
stopped directly in front of the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and
the President and Gen. Pershing
alighted and stood in silent tribute
for a minute in front of the marble
tomb. Gen. Pershing, in uniform,
left the car first. He appeared to
be feeble and was helped out of
the machine by military aides. The
President, bareheaded and without
a topcoat, despite the chill Novem-
Der weather, followed Gen. Pershing
from the car.
In the party with the President
were Secretary of War Stimson, Sec
retary of the Navy Knox, Gen
George C. Marshall, Army chief of
Continued on Page 2-x, Column -
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Vichy Says Petoin
Has Asked Fight
Against Allies
Marshal Earlier
Was Reported Irked
At Marching Nozis
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fIeSS.
ON THE FRENCH FRONTIER,
Nov. Marshal Petain pro-
tested Hitler's move into the for
mer unoccupied zone of France
today, but the Vichy radio re-
ported later that he and his cab
met had called on French forces
in North Africa to continue re-
sisting the Allies Ito the limit OF
their powers in the interests OF
France and the empire"
With Hitler's forces sweeping
across Southern France toward the
Mediterranean on the pretext OF
countering an Allied attack, the
Nazi-controlled Vichy radio reported
nothing was known there of reports
abroad that Vichy French resistance
had collapsed in North Africa.
Immediately after broadcasting
the Vichy order for continued re-
sistance in Africa, the radio broad
cast an appeal by Hitler to French
soldiers there to keep up the fight
against the Americans and British.
Laval With Hitler.
The Havas News Agency disclosed
that Pierre Laval had been con-
ferring with Hitler at Munich since
Monday and had returned to Vichy
today.
It was after he was back in Vichy
that the Petain regimes decision
was announced. Earlier Vichy re-
ports had said that Petain, aroused
by the German violation of the 1910
armistice, had left the people and
army free to choose their own
course.
Quick to ring all the propaganda
value they could from the Vichy de-
velopments, the Axis radios de-
clared that the French government
had ordered all military and police
organs under its control to offer no
resistance to the German march into
the former unoccupied zone.
II protest solemnly against de.
cisoins incompatible with ths
armistice agreement" the S6-year.
old marshal said in reply to Hitler's
announcement that he was sending
his armies swarming across South.
ern France on the pretext of head.
ing OF an Allied assault.
Bluntly, Petain charged the Naz
Fuehrer with "suppressing the frs
assumptions and principles Of th'
armistice" signed by conquered
France on June ~. 1910, in Com
piegne Forest. It was in this SAM
woodland setting that another vic
torious France put her signature Il
IN armistice ~ years ago today.
| Despite Petain's bitter words th
(see PETAIN, Page 2-X3
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Daniels Urges Treaty Approval
By Majority Of Both Houses

added. 'They will not use the open,
frontal attack, but will adopt the
method of cutting the heart out
while processing devotion to peace.
I'm 1919 the overwhelming ma
jority of the American people
favored the ratification of the
League of Nations. The sappers and
miners who compassed its undoing
by scuttlirg amendments used as
their weapons the archaic provision
in the Constitution giving one-third
of the membership of the Senate
the veto power on treaties ..
THE sure way of preventing a
repetition of that crime against hu-
manity is to. amend the Constitution
so that treaties will 60 into. effect
when majority of both Houses of
Congress assent" .. ," -
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Draft Boards Told
Many in Essential
Jobs Must Be Called
| Rulings to Be Based
| On Time Required to
| Train requirements
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Selective Service headquarters
disclosed today that local boards
had been advised that "increas-
ing demands of the armed forces
require that large numbers OF
men in essential activities who
are liable for service be released
for induction"
Notices sent out to the boards,
however, added this caution:
TT is important that they be re-
leased and replaced in an orderly
manner, giving consideration to
their qualifications, and the time
necessary to secure or train replace
ments.
This is particularly true OF those
persons engaged in management,
engineering, planning. superinten-
dence, occupations requiring essen
tial skills, and those engaged in
the training of others" 8
The notices detailed operation Of
the Manning table plan," adopted
to improve present means of deter
mining how draft registrants in es-
sential activities may be replaced,
under which vital war plants will
furnish inventories Of their man
power requirements.
The tables will analyze each job
classification in a plant and pro-
vide comprehensive guide. based
largely on the time required to train
requirements, on the order In which
persons may be taken from the
classifications for induction.
A Since not all employees will operate
under the Manning table plan, the
boards were advised to continue con-
sidering under present regulations
afidavits for occupational classifica-
ton submitted by employers who dt
not file Job schedules under It.
Meanwhile, local boards were noti.
fied also that three mors activities
(see DRAFT, Page 3-x.)
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Bowie 7 rack Opens Tomorrow,
With No Bus or Rail Service

Joseph A. Farrell. track. general
manager, said he was "a little sur
prised" himself that the track is
opening.
II suppose we could have Cancelled
the meeting, but since the horsemen
are all here and there is no place
else for them to go, we did not like
to disappoint them. We thought we
would chance it for while and see
how it goes.
The situation is unprecedented, so
there is no indication what the
patronage might be like. Whether
we'll finish the meeting out I don't
know. Well be better able to tell
after we've run tomorrow, Friday
and Saturday" a
The meet is scheduled to close No
yember 80,
Evening star., 1942-11-11

. In the first major thrust Of
the Allied occupation east of the
Algiers region, one column had
reached and occupied the Medi-
terranean coastal town of Bou-
gle 110 miles east of Algiers. 1t
provides the Allies with a base
barely 200 miles from the Tunis
border.
Its occupation was disclosed
both by Mr.. Churchill and by
Allied headquarters in North
Africa.
An armored column striking in
land from Algiers was reported by
the Vichy radio to have reached Au-
male, 10 miles to the southeast, on
the road to Bou Saada. This is in
direct line toward Libya on a
route which might bypass Tunisia
and strike Italy's last colonial pos
session in the desert of interior
Libya.
Although German sources told Of
attacks on Tunis by Americans, and
Allied spokesmen announced that
the Germans were rushing air
forces and air-borne troops to the
protectorate, Vichy dispatches broad
cast from Tunis told of no such de-
velopments. These broadcasts said
the town was being closed up tight
Evening star., 1942-11-11
BY the. Associated Press.

BOWIE, Md, Nov. 11.-Bowie.
race track opens its fall season to-
morrow, but the spectators will come
by automobile or afoot, and Bowie
officials are uncertain whether the
meeting will be curtailed.
There are no rail or bus services
to the track because Of wartime re-
strictions. The Pennsylvania Rail-
road will not operate a peacetime
switching connection that took fans
to the track.
The track is three miles from the
railroad station, served early in the
morning and in the afternoon-the
afternoon train arriving after the
race program begins-bu there is
no bus service from the station to
the track. ,.,
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Bv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RALEIGH, N. c., Nov. lin an
Armistice Day address here today,
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy in the World War, urged adop-
ton of a constitutional amendment
removing the requirement that
treaties be ratified by two-thirds
majority of the Senate.
Mr.. Daniels urged the American
Legion "and all other patriotic and
forward looking bodies to register
a demand that when victory comes
in this war its fruits shall not be
denied by a minority, as occurred
after the World War"
Now as then there. will not be
wanting those who will wish to
sabotage the peace" Mr. Daniels
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Clio Urges Director
OF Federal Personnel
Be Appointed
Convention Demands
Lobor-Monogement
Advisory Committee
Earlier Story on Page B-12.)

Earlier Story on Page B-12o
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Nov. 11.-The ClO
In convention today adopted a
resolution calling for the estab-
lishment of an administrator OF
Federal personnel, with an ad-
yisory labor management com
nittee, the establishment OF
labor management production
programs and passage OF over
time pay legislation.
The resolution said that nearly IL
months after Pearl Harbor the two
million and half Government
workers are not fully mobilized for
war" and working conditions IN
Government are such as to harm
and impair morale. efficiency ano
production"
Eliminate Duplication.
The purpose of the personnel ad-
ministrator and Advisory Committee
would be ito fully mobilize Govern
ment personnel in the war program
in coordination with the Nations
requirements for the armed forces
and war production, to eliminate
present duplication and overlapping
Of functions by Federal war agencies
to eliminate discrimination against
NEGROES, and fully utilize their skllls
in the war program, and to insti-
tute adequate health, housing ano
recreational programs for Federal
workers"
The resolution did not detail the
purposes and objectives Of the labor
management production programs
It favored the overtime legislation
sponsored by the President ano
now pending before Congress ano
wage increase in the basic salaries
of Federal workers to meet the high
increase in the cost OF living"
Senator Pepper, Democrat, o.
Florida, In dramatic address K
1see CIo FARLEY, Page 2-Xo
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)

Earlier Story on Page A1.)
Associate
LONDON Nov 11-Vichys forces were ordered today
to end resistance in all French North Africa.
Allied headquarters said Admiral Jean Darlan had
issued the capuaon order after several days of secret
negotiation at Agiers with Maj Gen Mark w. Clark deputy
expedition.
Whether all Darlans direc
tons their their barracks how
clear but all the AEFs main obectivesOan gers
Rabat and Casabanca-were safely in American hands.
(The fate of the French fleet remained uncertain Among
these: That Touon, that
surrendered the Allies and that n dry dock
DarlanS position obscure The admiral who was
Marshal Petain himself all Vichys
signed himself commander of French forces In
North Africa.
other hand Petan reported from Vchy to have
exhoed forces in North Africa hold the bitter limits
Of their power
Gust how much credence be placed in Vichy radio
uncertain 1t is possible that Vchy radio
oed by the Germans since their march through Occupied
waiting cessation of hosites highly
mobile columns of American had whipped out rapidly
toward French Tunisa-and the Axis in Libya beyond
Ahead the impending first major collision of United States
strength battlefield the Second World War.
Both the Germans and Italians reported rushing air
Tuna block that corridor to Tr
potana the Marshal Erwin Romel crushed flee
ing the western desert.
Behind lay all of Frances North African empire, except
Tnisia suddenly ready to be converted by the Allies
great base for invasion of what Prime Minister Churchill
called the soft under belly of Axis Europe.
The capuaton of CaSabanca and the occupation of Raba
eliminating blows mpeled the Vchy forces
law and the Allies stretch of than 1000
miles of Atlantic Mediterranean Northwest Africa
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Seizure of French Ships at Alexandra Denied
Fighter Squadron Bags n Jops
Loses 4 in SoIomons Battle
Ensign H. A. March Of Washington
Shoots Down Torpedo Plane in Bottle

Navy on the intensity of the action.
A previous announcement, made in
a communique soon after the Jap
anese move was successfully coun-
tered, had given no detail OF what
happened.
Fighting Squdron 6, commanded
by 1t. L. H. Bauer of Philadelphia
was serving as part of a naval task
force in the Solomons area when
it was learned that strong Jap
anese air attack was imminent. The
Japs had at least two carriers, one
large and one small, in the vicinity
Fighting six was assigned to take
it's Gruman Wildcats aloft to pro-
tect the American ships, including
their own aircraft carrier. Seven
Continued on Page AS, Column -
Evening star., 1942-11-11
Billy De Beck, Creator
OF Barney Google, Dies

BY the Associated Press. ~
NEW YORK. Nov. 11.-William
Morgan BILLY" De Beck, 50, cartoon
ist and creator of the comic strip
Barney Google died today in
Lenox Hill Hospital after q long
illness.
A native Of Chicago, he main
tanned homes here and In st. Peters
burg, Fla,
Mr.. De Beck was considered one
Of the speedisst Of modern cartoon
lists and his hrst rough draft. wa
almost invariably linked In as thu
Anal copy.
Evening star., 1942-11-11
h the Associated Press.

n the Associated Press.
A single fighter squadron from
a United States aircraft carrier
shot down q enemy planes, prob
ably shot down another and
forced still another to fly into
the sea, the Navy disclosed to-
day, when the Japanese made
their first major thrust at the
newly won American positions in
the Solomon Islands August "a.
Ensign H. A. March, 1911 Monroe
street NE. shot down one OF the
enemy craft-a torpedo plane-dur-
ing the attack.
Although the action took place
almost three months ago, today S
report was the first issued by the