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in other localities, but a spokesman
at national headquarters pointed
out that national w. P. A. quotas
were reduced by 10000 in March,
and that an additional cut is due to
be made in April quotas.
Reasons for Reductions.
They said the reductions were
made partly because of dwindling
appropriations and partly in an ef-
fort to help rural areas in obtaining
needed farm labor.
Mr.. Haworth said that the closing
down schedule calls for liquidation
of virtually all white collar projects,
such as art and music, by the end
of April. He estimated that there
are about 500 persons employed on
these projects.
The only project in this category
which will be allowed to continue
until June 80 is the one at the De-
fense Housing Registry, clearing
house for defense workers seeking
living quarters here.
Mr.. Haworth emphasized that the
school, lunch project and other i'm
portant ones such as the sewing,
health department, surplus COM
modities, housekeeping aid and Gal
lnger Hospital projects also will be
continued until June 80.
They'll be the last to CO." Mr..
Haworth said.
Hopes for Congress Action.
The w. P. A. manager said he
was unable to say how many workers
would be left on the rolls on June
30, but declared it would be "a con-
siderable number"
MIR. Haworth voiced hope that
Congress would make provision for
w. P. A. and declared that, "if there
is justification for a w. P. A. pro-
gram anywhere, it is here"
80 long as there is vital work To
be done here, and needy eligible per-
sons to do it," he said, "the District
should share in any appropriation
which Congress might provide"
Mr.. Haworth added that he was
experiencing considerable difficulty
in trying to get a definite answer as
to whether w. P. A. is to be con-
tinued.
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Admiral Hart Says
Axis Foes Will Win
Last Campaign
War Now Is 'Amphibious.
He Declares; Sees Jops
Able to Increase Power
ny the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 16.-Admiral
Thomas G. Hart, although admit
ting the Japanese could greatly in
crease their military power by gain
ing time and exploiting captured
territory, said last night that "at
least we shall win the last cam
paign.
Ter1ning this an "amphibious
war" the commander Of the United
States Asiatic feet said In broad
cast over G. B. 8. that that is the
most difficult kind of war. requiring
all the arms. Most specifically does
1t call for ships and planes"
"Parenthetically," he said, IT must
point out that any ship-versus-plane
controversy is just plain silly. Am
phibious warfare Is primarily q
matter Of ships and planes. The
ships and planes must be handled
and fought together and that can
be successfully done only IL all the
personnel continuously trained TO-
gether, understands each others
problems. and speaks each others
language. My inference is obvious"
The former commander of the
combined naval forces Of the United
Nations in the Southwest Pacific
said Japanese successes have not
been without cost to them-far from
1t, though Just what their losses are
cannot be now known"
But he said there is "a very con-
siderable list in the category of ships
certainly destroyed and there is also
another list Of enemy ships which
will be licking their wounds In port
for q long time-if indeed they ever
reach their ports"
American submarines have been
operating In front and In the rear
Of the Japanese, he said, adding "the
submarines total bag Of enemy ships
is large-and nearly all OF them re-
main as an experienced force Of
great power for carrying on the
war"
He said '4the remaining elements
Of the Asiatic feat also have operated
throughout according to plan ="
Admiral Hart called for discipline
at home as well as along the firing
line '1f we are to win against enemy
nations whose peoples are disciplined
all the way through.
TT Is not pleasant, he said "for
any Of us to have to do otherwise
than ss we severally wish to do, but
there Is no other road to the unity
Of effort and to the equality of in
dividual sacrifice which Is required
to meet the emergency In which we
flnd ourselves"
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Large Dutch Force Is
Hiding in Hills Of
Java, Japs Report
Americans and British
Declared Arrested in
Capital of Sumotra
BY tbt Associated Press.


TOXIC (From Japanese Broad
casts, March 16.-Domei News
Agency. In a dispatch from Ban
doeng, said today ut is understood
that q large number Of soldiers be-
longing to the Netherlands Indies
forces in Java are hiding in the
mountains"
(Dr. Hubertus J. van Nook,
lieutenant governor of the
Netherlands Indies, said in Mel
bourne Saturday that Allied
troops still were resisting Japa-
nese forces in Java)
All of fewer than 20 American
and British residents of Medan,
capital of Sumatra, have been ar
rested, a Domei dispatch said today.
1000 Confined in Homes.
-Four thousand Dutch residents
are confined to their homes pending
the establishment Of q Japenese
military administration.
Meanwhile, 1000 armed police,
mostly Malayan, are maintaining
order in the city.
Capture of the airdrome at Kota
Raja on the northern tip of Su-
matra was reported by the news
paper Yoniuri, which said japanese
forces had landed nearby last
Thursday and disarmed the garrison
Of 800 men.
Yomiuri reported that the same
forces also had seized the airdrome
at Lhoknga.
Enemy Pursued.
Meanwhile" the paper added.
"other Japanese forces are pursuing
enemy troops and have advanced to
Peudawa."
Complete peace and order have
been restored in Japanese occupied
Soerabaja, and shops have resumed
business throughout the metropoli-
tan area, according to a dispatch
yesterday from that Java naval base.
Railway communications with
Batavia were re-established March
II, five days after japanese troops
entered Soerabaja, it was said.
Evening star., 1942-03-16
tax, STAT, 900 900.

tax, tT,471, 900 900.
He estimated that II sales to the
Federal Government were exempted,
the per cent retail sales tax Yield
would drop to 50, ,000, 900. II exc
emptions also were given food, medi-
cine, clothing, fuel, sales to States,
local governments and to war con-
tractors and to items now subject to
excise taxes, the yield would be-
come $394, 100000.
Speaks for Brooklyn Chamber.
John w. Hooper, speaking for the
Brooklyn chamber, urged liberali-
Zation Of present methods Of COM
putting corporate taxes as he sug-
gested q sales levy. He said the
sales tax was based on "the ability
Of peoples TO spend rather than to
earn
Mr.. Paul's memorandum said,
THE increase In price as a result
Of sales tax may be larger than
the sales tax itself"
The burden Of general sales taxes
Is distributed regressively: that Is,
the tax borne by final consumers
constitutes q larger per cent OF q
small income than Of larger In
come"
For example, he said that an over
all retail sales tax which would take
/ per cent Of the income of q person
with less than $500 annually, would
take but SO per cent at the $1,000
s., 500 level, 40 per cent at $4,000
5000 and .27 per cent at $4,000 and
over.
The Treasury's tabulations were
inserted In The record of the COM
mittee's hearings without discus
sion.
Kenneth G. Richmond of the Ma
tional Retail Dry Goods Association,
like several previous witnesses, also
advocated a retail sales tax which be
said would yield $4,000, ,000, 900 to S4,-
000, 100000 at rates ranging from q
per cent to 5 per cent.
Anticipating questions that it
might be considered unusual for a
retail organization to advocate q
retail, consumption tax, Mr.. Rich
mond told the committee:
The answer-the only answer
TO all these questions is-the Nation
Is at war. Large revenues are needed
and we believe the easiest and ths
quickest way least disturbing to the
economy Of getting the money to
achieve victory Is by such o tax as
we propose"
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Public Urged TO Aid Drive
For Crippled Children

Asserting that only 10 per cent Of
Americas physically handicapped
children are receiving an education
in schools adapted to their needs.
Senator Capper, Republican. of
Kansas yesterday appealed to the
public to aid the work of the Dis
trict Society for Crippled Children
by supporting its annual seal sale.
Senator Capper was interviewed
by Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, presi-
dent of the Board of Education, in
the first of a series of broadcasts to
be presented during the seal sale
now in progress. The program was
presented over WJSV.
Senator Capper outlined a seven
point program to insure the Grip
pied youth of America a Just posi-
ton In our national scheme Of life,
emphasizing the need Of the ply
sically handicapped for adequate
medical care, educational oppor-
tunity, recreation, vocational train
ing and employment opportunity.
He also stressed the relationship
of a good program for the handi-
capped to maintenance of morale
in time of crisis.
Mrs. Doyle voiced hope that school
services for crippled children will
be expanded. She pointed out that
Washington has two schools for
crippled children and a home in.
struction corps of teachers for han
dicapped children unable to come to
school.
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Burmu
Continued From First Page)

mingled with a labor gang digging
trenches for the Japanese. He OBJ
tanned all the necessary information
about Japanese strength, DISPOSE
tions and plans, and returned to
the British lines. He also was re-
ported to have brought with him a
list of Burmese fifth columnists.
In London, a military commenta-
tor described Snwegyin, which is
three miles east of the Sittang, as
possibly a cornerstone of the new
British Chinese defense line across
central Burma which the British
commander, Sir Archibald P. Wavell,
has declared will be defended to the
utmost.
The commentator described the
Chinese lines as running northward
from Shwegyin. He said 1t was
likely Chinese reinforcements would
attempt crossings of the Sittang
also.
He said 1t could be assumed Brit
ish troops were in two main con-
centrations, one on 10-mile line
between Shwegyin and Nyaunglebin
across the Rangoon-M -Mandalay rail-
way. This is about 280 miles south
of Mandalay.
The other, it was assumed, was
some 10 miles to the southwest at
Tharrawaddy, across the Rangoon-
Prone railway, about go miles north
Of Rangoon.
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Deaths Reported

Juiiane werney, SO, 5437 Connecticut ave
George G: Holt, 70. United States Soldiers
Home Hospital
william W. Taylor. rs, 1884 T st. NV.
Anast Tahon. "a, Garfield HOSPITAL.
Katie Moore, 70. 403 4th st. ne.
Alice Mse0rssog' g, 1913 ? st; ne.
Charles F. DalzalL "a. 1910 Lawrence ct.
ne
william smithers, SO. Gallinger Hospital.
John A. Pringle. ,6s, United States Soldiers
Home Hospital.
Lawrence Holman. So. GaIlinger Hospital.
Alice HAYES. SO; Georsetown Hospital.
Eva Zipkin, 45. 3119 18th st. ne.
Patricia L. Schwartz, 3. Casualty Hospital.
Infant Karyl P. Hoyle, Providence Hospital.
Infant Betty A. Thornton, Gallinger Hos
pital.
Clara Keating. 81. Gsllinger Hospital.
Louise p. johnson, SO, Freedmen's Hospital.
Martha @. White, az, 460 L 81. s.w.
Blanche wirgins. 81 st. Elizabeth's Hos
Ollie Brown, As, Gallinger Hospital.
Thomas NJ Wynn. Is. Casualty Hospital.
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Five Pei. Sales Levy
Would Raise 5 Billion,
Treasury Aide Says
Senators Told, However,
Thot Department Still
Is Opposed to Tex
Hr thu Annotated Press.

By thu Associated Press.
The Treasury Department est
mated today that q general 8 p1r
cent retail sales tax with no ex-
emptions would yield $5,0ls, 900 900
In new revenue, but renewed its
objections to that type of levy.
A sales levy has been suggested
by the National Association of Man
ufacturers and was proposed today
by the Brooklyn Chamber Of Com
merce.
At the specific request Of the
House Ways and Means Committee,
Randolph Paul, tax adviser to Sec
retary Morgenthau, gave committee
members statistics on various types
OF sales taxes and said In O memo
randum:
For q variety of reasons, any
type OF general sales tax would not
AFFECT all taxpayers uniformly.
Even though levied on all
items at q uniform rate, q sales
tax Of whatever form Is unlikely to
affect all prices equally"
Committee Seeks Alternative.
Ways and Means Committee
members have been considering the
advisability Of resorting to some
form OF sales tax to help raise
$1,000, 100000 as an alternative to
Secretary Morgenthau's recon-
mendations for steeply increased
individual and corporation taxes.
Mr.. Paul's statistics showed:
One per cent retail sales tax, ST.
Ola, ,00O, 900.
Ten per cent retail sales tax, So
702 900, 900.
One per cent manufacturers' sales
tax, $759, ,000, 900.
Five per cent manufacturers sales
tax, $3.50. .000, 900.
Ten per cent manufacturer sales
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Sanitation
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the Health Department on the way
to Congress, he told the committee.
Health Officer George G. Rutland
explained his department had been
handicapped seriously in enforcing
sanitary regulations. First, he said,
requests had been made persistently
for $50, 900 for the sanitary inspec-
ton staff and only $4,000 had been
allowed. Second, he declared, the
District government Is working un-
der cumbersome" setup.
There are no fewer than seven
District agencies dealing with hous-
ing, the health officer pointed out,
with the result that there has been a
tendency toward buck passing"
$50 it's developed to a point Of q
family squabble," remarked Repre-
sentative Schultz.
II didn't say that" DR.. Ruhland
replied.
Reads From Testimony.
Representative Hebert, Democrat,
Of Louisiana, read excerpts from DR..
Ruhland's testimony before the COM
nittee last November 26 during
which Mr.. Schultz advised him to
get tough" and make demands on
the Commissioners for the depart
ment's needs.
What have you done since them"
Representative Hebert demanded.
DR.. Ruhland explained steps had
been taken 10 improve sanitary con-
ditions in restaurants and boarding
houses and tighten venereal dis
ease control.
Chairman Randolph proposed the
investigation after pointing out that
legislation he sponsored two years
ago giving the Commissioners
authority to promulgate regulations
to improve sanitary conditions land
bring them in line with modern
practice" apparently had not been
enforced.
THE picture given the Public
Buildings and Grounds Committee
last week has shown that has not
been DONE" he declared.
Cites Lack Of Policy.
Commissioner Mason said exist
ing conditions are due to "a lack Of
policy" condition continuing since
the Civil War.
THE real trouble now" he added,
"is that we are trying to run city
of a million on a budget for 100000.
"We've got slum sections due to
economic conditions. No one in
particular is to blame. We're all to
blame"
Representative Randolph said he
believed very definitely the new
sanitary law enacted two years ago
was not being carried out.
Then the Commissioners are to
blame" Mr.. Mason remarked.
Representative Schultz indicated
he would start the investigation late
this week. Even before starting the
inquiry he said he was aware DR..
Ruhland did not have an adequate
staf.
Representatives Burch of Virginia,
and Darden Of North Carolina, both
Democrats, protested to the COM
mittee against provision in the
District income tax law which re-
quires an out-of town manufacturer
doing business here to pay a tax
on his net profit from the local
business as well as an annual $40
license fee.
The committee asked Its Fiscal
Affairs Subcommittee to consider
the protest, and it arranged to begin
hearings Friday at 10 am. Repre-
sentative Hunter, Democrat, of Ohio,
is chairman OF this subcommittee,
A favorable report was ordered by
the committee on a bill which would
authorize the Commissioners to pro-
mote the assistant chief Of detec-
tives to head the Detective Bureau,
even though he does not have the
rank of captain as required by ex-
isting law.
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Army 10 Put 3More
Infantry Divisions
In Active Service
10th, 18th and Slst, Eoch
With II, 900 Men, to Be
Organized at Once

Three additional infantry divisions
OF approximately $4,000 ofncers and
men each, will be brought into ac-
tive service Immediately as q part
Of the Army's expansion program
the War Department announced
yesterday.
The divisions, all Reserve units
which have existed only In paper
form since their demobilization after
the first World War, are the 10th,
to be commanded by Brig. Gen.
Emil r. Reinhardt; 10th by Brig.
Gen. Ira T. Wyche. and s1st by Brig.
Gen. Gustav H. FRANKIE.
The 10th Division will replace the
29th at Fort Meade, Md. The 18th
will train at Camp Pickett, Black
stone, Va, becoming the first unit
to use this new Army training base,
while the 51st will be stationed at
Camp Rucker, Ala.
Organization Begun.
Steps to organize and supply the
division began today and will con-
tinue for three months, the War
Department reported. Months of
intensive training will follow.
Under q policy put into effect
since the attack on Pearl Harbor,
most of the enlisted men will be
drawn directly from reception CEN
ters rather than from replacement
training centers as heretofore. No
announcement was made as to the
States from which these selectees
will come.
Each Of the new divisions bears
q name famous in the first World
War. The 18th, known as the Lib
erty Bell Division because of its
choice of that emblem as its in
sigma, was made up largely OF
drafted men from New England and
New York. Its acting chief Of staff
at the close of the war was Mai.
Jonathan M. Wainwright, now
major general with Gen. Douglas
Macarthur and recently decorated
for heroism in the Philippines.
The 10th was called the Lorraine
Division because of the Lorraine
Cross used as its insignia and was
made up largely Oh troops from
Maryland, Pennsylvania and the
District of Columbia. 1t played a
major role and suffered heavy
casualties during the fighting of
the MeuSe-Argonne offensive.
Faculty Additions Listed.
The 81st was known as the wild
cat Division because of the snarling
wildcat on its insignia. Its troops
were from Florida. North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee.
In another announcement yester-
day the War Department named
six new members of the faculty of
the Training School for Army Rec
reational Ofiicers at Fort Meade.
They are DR.. Charles Hubbard Judd,
Pasadena, Calf, education coach
and head of the civilian faculty;
Elmer Dayton Mitchell, Negaunee,
Mich, and Seward c. Staley, Ur-
bana, Ill, directors Of the athletic
instruction program; DR.. Earl VIM
cent Moore, University Of Michigan
director of q course in orchestral
work and mass singing; Joseph Lee
Brown. 4th Corps Area theatrical
adviser, director of dramatic in
struction, and Harry D. Edgren,
George Williams College, Chicago,
director Of recreation classes.
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Women DIG Trenches

Enthusiastic groups of women, in
cluding Mayoress Hislop and Coun-
tess Wodzicki, wife of the Consul
General of Poland, recently dug
trenches and performed other
shelter work in wellington, New
Zealand
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Hitler 'Busts Melted

Police In Santa Maria, Brazil, re-
Gently raided German-owned cera-
mics plant and dumped back into
the melting pot the factorys
products, which were busts Of Hit
18s
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Advertising Club TO Meet

A shirt sleeve session" on the EFF
fects of the War on Advertising,
Planning and Production" will be
held at 1890 pm. Wednesday at the
Raleigh Hotel by the Advertising
Club of Washington.
Evening star., 1942-03-16
Japs Bomb Burma CITY.

JapS Bomb BURMA CITY.
TOXIC (From japanese broad
casts) March is R.-Japanese
planes bombed Nyaunglebin, 80
miles north of Rangoon, and de-
stroyed 20 tanks, so automobiles, 80
railway cars and other war material,
1t was reported yesterday.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-06-26

their stead Two make right Negroes should
clearly that for and cooperation to prevail between the
both must be seespecmg and respected both must find advantage
relations In plain language and improbable for
hate whites for them conviction
that usces ought to be corrected should make that
not unjust to others
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impractical Stop minute and remember that virtue of numbers
whites will determine the pattern here in America Granted that
mstreated still must offer than wounds qualify for
equality with them AS matter will be
equality We do seek leadership That being should
the bitterness born of looking back and lay foundation for
mutual respect between the
An employee in seeking raise sits the opposite side
of the bargaining table from his employer Yet in the majority
after conference they and their better friends
for talking So it be and must be with the Both have
their wbng dependent the principles which call American
ISM Since equality liberty fraternity opportunity be attained
quickest and easiest by cooperation whoever blocks accord hurts him
self and all the That when it done when done
by whites.
forcing acceptance degree that seemed
possible before is for ourselves worthy of the partner
ship which being taken 1t for keep clear of the
old idea entitled because been hated
Providence that has opened the the harm
done prejudice and seize the faith in the
principle of brotherhood by practcng 100 ourselves
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-06-26

Pilgrim Baptist Notes: Last
Sunday mornings sermon was well
received. Advance payments on
the rally We're made by several
members. Mr.. Ed. Moore, Chair
man of the Trustee Board, led the
way. Mr.. Benjamin F. Taylor paid
his full pledge of ten dollars. The
rally for the purpose of raising
funds for the outstanding indebt-
edness of the church promises to
be a great success.
After services the new Twen-
tieth Gentry Club was organized by
the new members of the church.
The elected officers were: Presi-
dent, Mrs. S. Vincent Owens; Vice
President, Mr.. B. F. Taylor; Secre-
tary, Mrs. Colonel Milligan, Jr.;
Asst. Secretary, Mrs. Parker;
Treasurer, Mr.. F. P. Phillips;
Chaplain, Mrs. Harris, and Sun
shine Chairman, W. Owens.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-06-26
PineY Woods School
Offers Opportunity

The nationally known Piney
Woods School desires to get in
touch with a settled man musician
to be adviser for their young mems
travelling orchestra; a settled lady
teacher for utility teaching in
high school mathematics, biology
or English; a young man below
draft age who plays saxophone or
trombone; an elderly blacksmith to
teach blacksmithing and woodwork
and a nurseryman, also a settled
woman for matron or the laundry.
They can use folks who are mas
tiers of their profession whether
college graduates or not. For fur
Their information write: Laurence
c. Jones, Piney Woods School,
,Piney Woods, Miss.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-06-26
Halle @. Brown Notes

AS busy as bees are the recruits
at Camp Halle. Seventy five
recruits enrolled for a six-weeks
training course, and is it fun!
Strains of popular music as we'll as
martial music fill the air when 1t.
John Whitaker leads opening drill.
The music is so catchy that
throughout the camp recruits can
be heard humming strains of "a
Sleepy Lagoon" or "Indian Dawn"
all through the day.
Model airplanes that are worthy
to enter in any competition are be-
ing built under the leadership of
1t. AL Schwab.
In the craft group, Its. Helen
Shaw, Florence Mitchell and Lor-
aine Pearce are directing the max
ing of wooden scrap book backs,
book ends, waste paper baskets and
many other items.
Its. Martha Dieters and There
STA Ray are assisting 1t. Priscilla
Kirk in drilling the little Home
makers in beginning sewing, and
the older girls in garment making,
Trashcraft under 1t. Idelle Pat
ton is proving engrossing to a num-
Der of recruits.
Under their favorite leader, It.
Joe Camp, the grass and weed
corps is beginning their campaign
to beautify the lawn in front of the
gym.
Its. Rosamond Collier and Jane
Murphy have charge of the young
est recruits. Their nature hikes are
the highlights of their camping
experience.
1t. Elsa Mannheimer of miniature
doll house fame, comes every Tues
day to teach the making of peep
shows which can be used to amuse
young children and children who
are i'll.
Commander in chief 1. Myrtle
Garden and Capt. Hazel Butler are
well pleased with the way the
recruits have entered into the spirit
of camp life and with the efficient