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Evening star., 1942-08-03
Third Irish QuintupIet
Dies in Hospital
B, the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
DUBLIN. Aug. 3.-The third Ley
don quintuplet, a boy, died early
yesterday in the National Maternity
Hospital where he and his brother
and sister had been brought Satur-
day from their birthplace In County
Sligo, 200 miles away. r.
Evening star., 1942-08-03

Make your decision to get in the
metal now; such iron determination
will win. 9. -.
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Weather Report

Furnished
District
and early tonight becoming cooler this
Maryand-Cooer tonight
Vrgna-Cooer tonight, scattered
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Use Of gliders has increased II,
Switzerland in the last year.
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River Report.
Potomac and shenandoah Rivers cloudy
1T Harpers Ferry.
Potomac muddy At Great Yalls
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches In ths
Capital tcurrent month to date):
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Record for Last "a Hours
fFrom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. "a, 4:2e pm. So year aso
Lowest, "A, 6:15 am. SO year ago.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 90. on July 19.
Lowest, 8. on January IL.
Humidity for Last "a Hours
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 76 per cent. at $50 pm,
Lowest. so per cent, at 2:30 pm.
Tide Tables.
l(urniShed BY United States Coast And
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Violent Artillery Duels.

VFo1ent ATCfIIery Uue8.
ROME From Italian Broadcasts).
Aug. R.-Violent artillery duels
on the Ell Alamein front In Egypt
were reported by the Italian hiah
command today which said the op-
posing air forces were very active. >
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Report for Last 4s Hours
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GeoIoeist Honored

Routine session (noon) =.
Evening star., 1942-08-12

Three out Of four styles have FEATHER-AND-
DOWN cushions! Some Of them have solid Hon.
duros mahogany fromes . some Of them solid
Pennsylvania cherry frames finished in glowing
mahogany tone Imagine getting chairs like these
for SIS in this doy and oee! And you can :.
just because we bought them way back lost
April! Decorator type chairs ;. studded with
antique noilheods exquistey loop trimmed
-. luxuriousIy fringed! Lounge chairs, grip
arm club chairs, borref chairs and fon chairs,
generously proportioned for real comfort :. (. .
noenificenty upholstered to give your room that
"Deoorotor" touch.
Evening star., 1942-03-28

BOG Ninth street NV, 8 pm. today.
Dancing. games. refreshments.
Parish House. st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Sixteenth street between
H and streets NV, 8 pm. today.
Community Singing, Non-Sec-
tartan Tabernacle, Youth Center,
644O Piney Branch road NV, 8 pm.
today.
Dance, games. Y. M. C. A., 1876
G street NV, $50 pm. today.
Breakfast, religious discussion,
Y. M. C. A., 1736 G street NV, 9:30
am. tomorrow.
Sightseeing trip in Washington,
sponsored by the Auxiliary Group,
Red Cross Motor Corps, Soldiers
Sailors and Marines Club, 1015 L
street NV, 10 am. tomorrow.
FOR COLORED SERVICE MEN.
Dance, swimming, games, Y. M. C.
A.. 1916 Twelfth street NV, 6 pm.
today
Dance. Phyllis Wheatley Y. w. c.
A.. 90l Rhode Island avenue NV,
8 pm. today.
Special Church Services for Serv-
ice Men. meet at Y. M. C. A.,
1916 Twelfth street NV, 1890 am.
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1942-03-28

Marshall, chief Of our Army staff,
or Admiral Ernest j. King, our su-
preme Navy chief, has only to cross
the street for conference.
1t would seem that only one more
forward step in concentration OF
authority could be taken, and this
to put either Roosevelt or Churchill
over the whole, with one supreme
commander of all the armed forces
OF the United Nations at his right
hand.
Over the world wide area of action
In this war there must be regional
supreme commands, such as we
have in Bataan, Australia. India,
China, Syria and the Middle East.
At sea the British have supreme
command in European waters and
we have off our Atlantic Coast and
on the Pacific. And the great Rus
sian Army, which is striking the
only direct blows at the German
Army, has very distinctive unified
command under Joseph Stain.
Advantage of Same Language.
With the combined staffs having
all common and regional informa-
ton at their command they are in
a position to make the decisions in
meeting needs in relation to dis
tances and to power and materiel
available in the complicated prob
lem of the whole.
In the First World War the Ger
man high command had as an ally
Austria, largely German speaking,
with a similar army organization,
and Turkey under the German
thumb. Today Hitler has his prob
lem with ally Mussolini whom he
cannot put under guard to make him
obey orders, or Mussolini might try
for separate peace.
italian officers, even those who
speak German, cannot be very happy
under patronizing German contempt
lOI lIdildll NllllldI lIClllClCllCy, VI
the Italian soldiers when Field Mar
shal Rommel tells them they are
good only as laborers. The Russian
Army is giving Hitler lot OF worry
in his plans for his spring campaign.
Ambassador Franz Won Papen brings
word the Turks may and then they
may not bow to Nazi demands. The
Hungarians are not suppliantly
amenable and the Rumanians are
sore over their losses in Russia.
II Hitler risks his new battleship
Won Tirpitz to raid our conveys to
Archangel in aid Of Russia will he
lost it as he lost the Bismarck
Without mentioning the garrisoning
of the occupied countries and
Vichy's refusal to turn over the
French feet to him, Hitler is hav-
ing his troubles with his unified
command as he looks ahead to the
offensive which may one day hit
him
Evening star., 1942-03-28
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MUSIC.
Organ recital, Stanley Plummer,
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, 8 pm. today.
DANCE.
All States Club, Hotel Washing
ton, $50 pm. today
DINNERS.
Dinner dance, Employees of the
Fish and Wild Life Service. De-
partment of the Interior, Hotel 2400,
7 pm. today.
Overseas Writers. both bathrooms.
Willard Hotel, 7:30 pm. today.
Washington genealogical Soci-
ETY., Willard Hotel. pm. today.
MEETINGS.
Washington Radio Club, 1924 Six
teenth street NV. 8 pm. today.
Philosophical Society of Washing
ton, Cosmos Club Auditorium, 8:15
pm. today.
Archaeology League of Washing
ton, Arts Club, 8:15 pm. today.
HIKES.
Eight-mile hike to Watts Branch,
Md. sponsored by the Wanderbirds
Hiking Club, buses leave the Nation
al Theater at 9 am. tomorrow.
Along Broad Run. sponsored by
the Red Triangle Hiking Club, meet
at Seventeenth and New York ave-
nue. NV, 10 a m. tomorrow.
Along Goose Creek. sponsored by
the Capital Hiking Club, buses leave
1416 F street NV. at 10 am. to-
morrow.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Dinner, Covenant First Presby-
terian Church, 1868 Massachusetts
avenue NV, 6:15 pm, dancing
7:45 pm. today.
Dinner. Foundry Methodist
Church, Sixteenth and p streets
NV, 6:15 pm, dancing. 8:15 pm.
today.
Dancing class, Jewish Community
Center. Sixteenth and @ streets
NV, $50 pm. today.
Dance, hostesses. refreshments,
Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth and K
streets NV. 7:30 pm. today.
U. s. o. dance and floor show
Willard Hotel, sponsored by the
National Catholic Community Serv-
ice Club, $3.50 to $50 till 9 pm.
Sunday.
Dance, refreshments, Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines Club, lois L
street NV, 8 pm. today.
Dance, sponsored by the Women's
Battalion. Departmental Auditori-
um. Constitution avenue between
Twelfth an Fourteenth streets NV,
8 pm. today.
Party, Service Mems Club No. !,
Evening star., 1942-03-28

synthetic rubber produced from oil
The allegation that the I. G. was
at that time withholding technical
information from Standard on Ger
man synthetic rubber, and there
fore Standard should not have lived
up to its commitments, is untrue.
I. @. was at the same time supplying
Standard with much desired infor-
nation on the production of raw
materials for buna rubber from oil.
The only thing l. G. was withhold
ing was the detail of their Govern
ment-sponsored program of produc-
ing buna rubber from coal in Ger
many. While the butyl rubber was
recognized from the beginning to
have commercial possibilities, it was
obviously Of no value to Germany's
self-sufnciency program, because the
main raw material for its manufac-
ture, isobutylene, which comes from
oil refining, Is not available in Ger
many in the necessary large guam
tites. If it were available, the first
use for it would be to make 100
octane gasoline, which the Germans
were never able to make on large
scale, for lack of the same type of
raw materials. The same situation
applies to Italy.
Military Implication Denied.
For the reasons stated, the, dis
closure of the butyl rubber at its
early stage Of development to the
I. G. in 1888 was entirely consistent
with the relationship of the parties,
and could not possibly have had
any political or military implica-
tions of any kind. All exchange of
information was discontinued in
January. 1910.
AS to the allegation that Standard
refused to disclose the product to
the American Government, the facts
are that in January, 1899, when only
few persons even considered the
desirability of looking at the rubber
problem in America from a mill
tary standpoint, Standard recog-
nized the potentialities of butyl rub
ber in this connection, and brought
it to the attention of the Army and
Navy Munitions Board. We sup
piled samples produced in our
laboratory to the Government and
to several private companies at its
suggestion. The report on these
samples by these companies was to
the effect that the product had
promise but it was still of doubtful
quality.
AS to the allegation that butyl
rubber is cheaper and better" than
any other rubber, the fact is, that
while unquestionable cheaper than
other synthetic rubbers, butyl is
Evening star., 1942-03-28
Allies Unified Command
Combined Chiefs Of Stoff Headquarters
A Citadel Of M|itory Secrecy
By COL. FREDERICK PALMER.

BY COL. FREDERICK PALMER.
We have been told often enough
for the lesson to sink in that the
handicap of the democracies Is that
they have to make war with COM
mittees against the single-headed
direction of the autocracies. Shall
we ever achieve unity of command?
Many people who pass small
marble building on Constitution
avenue think that 1t is still the
headquarters OF the Public Health
Service. They are quite unaware
that it houses the combined chiefs
of staff, land, sea and air, or that
there is any such institution. But
isn't this just another committee?
Since it was established seven
weeks ago it is worthwhile to have
some picture Of just how it is func-
tioning, and also to inquire whether
the Axis, which has been so much
admired for its timing and CO.
ordination, is not now having Just
as tough problem as our combined
chiefs of staff.
That marble building is the very
citadel Of military secrecy, OF all
the strategic plans OF the United
Nations. The experts within hear
all, tell nothing except to one an
other, and that in an inner circle,
and they aim to see into the enemy
mind
If you would enter the portal of
the citadel, unless you are a Ger
titled off1cial member of the exclu-
sive club, the American soldier SEN
try will not let you by even into the
hall until you offer certified proof
from inside the citadel that you are
asked there on business.
Guard Accompanies Visitor.
Thus authorized, after having
signed his name in a book, the Wis
itor to the Office where he is going
is accompanied by a guard who re-
mains outside the door to accom-
pany him back to the front door
when he has finished his mission,
Maps are so craven in the ex-
perts' minds that I wonder they
do not get run over from failing to
see the lights in Washington's 8
crowded traff1c when they are Wis
ualizing a detail in the terrain of
Burma or Australia.
The combined chiefs of staff was
established by President Roosevelt.
who gave the organization its name.
after his conference with Prime
Minister Winston Churchill. 1t has
direct authority of immediate ac-
ton while that of the Supreme War
Council in the First World War was
only advisory and informative.
And the combined means British
and American. Field Marshal Sir
John Dill, former chief of the Brit
ish Imperial Staff. is chief of the
British section. Gen. George C.
Evening star., 1942-03-28

has urged it; Congress, labor
and industry have shouted for it.
Unity has had all the lip service
IN the world. 1t is time 1t had
something else.
Pre-War Measuring Stick.
One great difficulty has been
the idea that this war must be
won by just one group of the
people-those who happen to
belong to the party in political
power. Further, there has been
In many quarters an avowed
determination to put in Office or
to keep in office only those who
stood in favor of the Presidents
foreign policy before Pearl Har-
Dor. Even Mr.. Willkie is leaning
to such course. If you happened
to have been an isolationist
before Pearl Harbor. your ears
are to be slapped down. your
offers of aid are looked upon
askance. If you happened to be
a conservative and opposed to
the New Deal, you are of no use,
and indeed, you should be elimi-
mated from any post of i'm
portance. in the opinion of some
OF the 100 per cent New Dealers.
Labor and industry are driving
hard bargains with their Gov
ernment and with each other,
and have been doing so ever
since the great national defense
program got under way. Labor
has had the bulge. take it by and
large. backed up by the Govern
ment, in its frequent contests
with management. Some indus
trialists, as revealed in congress
sional hearings, have been max
ing unconscionable profits from
war contracts-despite the wages
paid to labor.
Evening star., 1942-03-28

Dealers in strength, they could
send hostile majority to the
House in the new Congress which
comes into Office next January.
Such an event has been de-
scribed by Chairman Flynn of
the Democratic National Com
mittee as worse or equal to a
major military defeat in the
war. If that Is the way it is re-
garded, no wonder there is an
intense and bitter struggle on the
home front.
The war, it has been dinned
into American ears. is war of
production, OF the greatest num-
bers OF weapons and ships. 1t
can, therefore, be only won by
maximum production. Labor
wants to win the war with 40
hour week still on the statute
books, even though labor is work.
ing more hours. Industry is in
tent on doing away with the 40
hour work week. Labor wants to
win the war with the closed shop
installed in every plant, and in
dustry is violently opposed to the
evident purpose to extend the
closed shop to the entire industry
Of the country.
Two Battle Causes.
1t is over these two questions
that conflicting groups and in
terests are warning especially to-
day. The farmer, with his de-
mand for higher prices, has
temporarily been pushed from
the front row. Industry and its
gains are also in the limelight,
with demands for recapture of
all profits over 6 per cent. either
by restrictive legislation or
through excess profits taxes.
The selfishness of big industrial
concerns can be tremendous.
This country today might have
had a synthetic rubber industry
equal to that of Germany, or
greater, had it not been for the
withholding of patents from use.
Fortunately for America, the
training of millions of young men
to fight the country's battles is
progressing rapidly. Fortunately.
too, production of all kinds of war
materials has been tremendously
stepped up. The republic is
muddling along, as it has mud
died in other wars. There is no
slightest doubt that 1t will win.
But how much quicker, If all
could lose sight for time. at
least. of their own selfish aims,
and pull together.
Evening star., 1942-03-28
This Changing World
Hitler Putting Finishing Touches on PIqrs
For Spring Drive From Africa to BoItic

headquarters that while the Bull
gars would make first-class cam
nom fodder in a battle against the
Turks or the Yugoslavs, they can
not be relied on against the
Russians.
Hitler hoped to use the avail
able 100000 well-trained and
well-equipped Bulgars for an
eventual offensive against the
U. s. s. r. by sending Bulgarian
forces across the Black Sea into
the Caucasus. For this purpose
he expects to persuade-or force
the Turks to permit Axis ships
to 60 through the Dardanelles
and the Bosphorus into the Black
Sea.
The reluctance of the Bulgars
to cooperate with the Germans
against Russia may necessitate
certain changes in German plans
regarding southern Russia. In
any event, it is reported that
King Boris has promised his Nazi
boss Bulgaria's full cooperation
in the event the Axis decides to
force its way into Turkey.
Preparations in the Eastern
Mediterranean are said to be
nearly complete. The continuous
pounding of Malta, with heavy
losses to the Axis air forces, is
regarded as a preliminary to the
offensive. Hitler apparently is
confident that he will succeed in
the Near East this summer and
will reach the rich oil at Mosul,
which is far more important to
the Nazis than any gold mines.
Thousands of small steel barges
in the Greek Islands in the East
tern Mediterranean are ready to
carry the precious petroleum to
the Axis bases as soon as military
operations have been successfully
completed.
Evening star., 1942-03-28

The lamentable show put up by
the italian feet in the battle near
Malta brings to the fore once
more the question of the French
feet. The Germans need it more
than ever If they wish to clear
the Mediterranean of the British
feet. The chief difficulty is not
20 much the Vichy government as
1t is the personnel Of the navy.
While the officers, all hand
picked by Admiral Darlan, can be
relied on to obey whatever orders
Vichy chooses to give. the sailors
and petty officers can not be re-
lied on. This explains why there
are now between 1000 and 5000
German officers and sailors at
Toulon. They do not attempt to
conceal their identity. The
streets of that principal French
naval base in the Mediterranean
are crowded with smart looking
NaI officials in blue and gold with
the classical naval dagger at
their side. Thousands of young
Nazis, on whose naval caps the
words Reichsmarine" in golden
letters can be read. also are to be
seen in Toulon.
These men. who appeared in
Toulon only a few weeks before
the arrival of Frances fast bat
tleship Dunkerque. are believed
to be getting acquainted with the
complicated machinery of French
men-of war. French warships
are entirely different from those
of other nations and it takes some
time before even experienced
naval men can learn to handle
them.
1t is believed that these Ger
man officers and sailors were sent
to Toulon to familiarize them
selves with the French men-of-
war in order to replace recall
citrant French crews If it becomes
necessary.
Evening star., 1942-03-28
STANDARD Oil Statement
Company Soys Rubber Process Was CoIIed
To Governments Attention in 1899
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March "a The
teIt OF statement issued last
night BY William S. Farish, pres
ident OF Standard Oil Co. fNe,C
Jersey, commenting on testi-
mony By Assistant Attorney Gen
erul Thurman Arnold before the
Truman Committee in Washino-
ton Jollo1Ds:
The substance of Mr.. Arnold's
statement before the Truman Com
mittee is that the Standard Oil Co.
has hindered and delayed the pro-
duction OF synthetic rubber in the
United States. This charge was
contained in the original draft Of
the proposed antitrust complaint
upon which we entered negotiations
with the Department of Justice.
Because the charge was wholly
without foundation we declined to
consider any settlement unless this
charge was withdrawn The charge
was withdrawn
I have been asked to appear be-
fore the Truman Committee at a
public hearing. This appearance
will be next Tuesday morning, at
which time I shall undertake to give
the company's position in full on
the questions raised in Mr.. Arnold S
statement.
There is one outstanding state
ment. however, that the press have
headlined that I should like to an
swer without any further delay.
That is that the company gave to
the Nazis but not to the American
and British governments informa-
ton on butyl rubber.
How Research Was Conducted.
The facts on the butyl rubber de-
velopment are as follows:
Butyl rubber was the outgrowth
of research conducted, first CO.
operatively and then separately by
the German I. G. Co. and Standard
in an effort to find a way to vul-
canize a rubber-like product called
vistanex which had originated with
the I. G. Standard discovered that
by adding a minute percentage of
another ingredient and changing
the process. there could be produced
a true rubber. capable of being vul-
canized. The raw materials for this
product, which we call butyl rubber,
were cheap, but it was difficult to
make, and its quality was bad. In
1888, soon after Standard had dis
covered this product, it reported it
to the I. G. in the normal way, pur-
suant to the research arrangement
between the parties in the field of
Evening star., 1942-03-28
The Political Mill
Bottles Of Selfish Groups on Home Front
Muddie U. S. Effort in Victory Tosk
The great game Of name call

The great game Of name call
ing has reached new heights,
with the Chief Executive ex-
coriating his critics. and his crit
les doing the same kind OF a Job
on him. Congress has been at
tackled from all sides-taking the
blame in many instances for
things over which 1t has no con-
troll. Indeed, it has become a
kind Of whipping boy for the ad-
ministration. Millions of letters
are addressed to members asking
them to do things which alone
can be done by the Executive.
Congress is on the spot, since
1t has to stand for reelection
this year-the whole House and a
third Of the Senate. The Execu-
tive does not have to worry about
being elected until 1914. 1t is
clear, however, that should the
voters turn against the New
Evening star., 1942-03-28
Church to Dedicate
Memorial Window

A small stained glass window
given st. Margaret's Church, Con-
necticut avenue and Bancroft place
NV, by Col. and Mrs. Paul S. Bond
of 2205 California street NV, will
be dedicated at the IL am. service
tomorrow.
The window, containing three
panels, was given in memory of Mrs.
Bonds father, the late Col. John
v. White. On the two side panels
are paintings of the coat of arms
of the Military Academy at West
Point and the Seal of the United
States. Under the latter is displayed
the Coast Artillery insignia On the
center panel is cross.
Evening star., 1942-03-28
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

The war on the home front Is
intensifying in bitterness. The
most important issue is becoming
not production, but how 1t is to
be had. Labor and industry,
Congress and the President,
throw brickbats at one another
with all the abandon of a cluster
of Kilkenny cats. 1t only remains
for units of The Army and Navy
to start fighting one another to
make complete a picture that no
ordinary American a few years
ago could have conjured up for
this country when engaged in
a life and death struggle with
foreign foes. 1t makes no sense
except that selfish points of view
continue to control large groups,
as we'll as individuals.
At the same time every one
publicly proclaims the great thing
today Is to win the war. They
proclaim their adherence 100 per
cent to this purpose. They volun-
teer their services with eagerness.
Yet each group. each individual
wants to win 1t his own particular
way. And while he is winning
the war, he also is intent on win
ming his own personal war here
at home.
From the time when it be-
came evident this country could
not avoid being dragged into this
war, and especially since Pearl
Harbor, the demand expressed on
all sides has been for national
unity. The President has de-
manded it. Wendell L. Willkie,
his opponent In the last election,
Evening star., 1942-03-28
Ry CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Only scattered and incomplete
details regarding Adolf Hitler's
tremendous preparations for the
great spring offensive have
reached Washington so far, but
these lead naval and military OBJ
servers to forecast one Of the Bit
terest struggles in history.
While none of the observers
venture to predict where the first
blow will fall, 1t is believed the
battle will extend from the North
African shores to the plains Of
Syria and Iraq and from the
Black Sea to the Baltic.
All the headline generals of the
first Nazi adventure in Russia,
including Field Marshals Won
Brauchitsch, Won Book and espe-