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Evening star., 1942-04-11
Showdown Seen NeaI
On Bill for Union
Financial Reports
Vinson Measure to Be
Considered by House
Committee Next Week

The issue over public control Of
union labor business activities was
moving today toward congress
sional showdown as a result of ap-
proval of a control bill by a sub
committee of the House Judiciary
Committee. The full Judiciary
Committee will consider the measure
next week. ..
The bill, sponsored by Chairman
Vinson of the House Naval Affairs
Committee, would require labor or
report to the Secretary Of Com
merce details of their financial af-
fairs and statements of their pur-
poses. The same requirement would
be applied to business and trade as
sociations. but the principal oppo-
Mr.. Wilson's committee will hold
hearings Monday on the Smith-Vin-
son bill, which limits war profits,
suspends the 40-hour week and for
bids the closed shop during the war
The favorable report on the regis
tration bill was written by Repre-
sentative Hobbs, Democrat, of Ala
bama, chairman of Judiciary Sub
committee No. 3. Chairman Sum-
ners of the full committee is ex-
pected to return Monday from a
Texas vacation.
The bill has been the subject of
vigorous discussion ever since its
Introduction. Its far reach would in
clude control Of industrial associa-
tions, business leagues, business as
sociations. chambers of commerce
and boards of trade.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
STAR, WASHINGTON c. SATURDAY II,
Airdrome al Koepang
Is Pounded Again by
Australian Planes
Field at CopitoI Of
Dutch Timor Blasted
From Low Level
Bx ths Associated Press.

Bv tht Associated Press.
CANBERRA, Australia, April
11.-Australian bombers, contin-
uing their assaults on Japanese
bases in the islands north Of this
threatened continent, carried out
another successful attack yester-
day on the airdrome at Koepang,
invaded capital of Dutch Timor,
Prime Minister John Curtin an
nounced today.
The raiders pressed home their
assault from q low level. dropping
high explosives on hangers and
other buildings from q height Of
only 1,500 feet, q communique said
Despite intense anti-aircraft fire
which met the attack. all the planes
were reported to have returned
safely to their bases.
Returning pilots said large fires
had been left burning at the air
drome.
Port Moresby Raided.
The communique also said Jap
ariese planes had again raided Port
Mofesby in Southern New Guinea
yesterday, but declared the attackers
had been kept up 10 10000 feet and
that they caused no casualties and
little damage.
ut Is reported, but unconfirmed,"
the bulletin added, that one enemy
bomber and one fighter were shot
down"
"a Reuters dispatch from Sgd
ney said later that destruction OF
the two planes had been con-
firmed.)
Meanwhile. Army Minister Francis
M. Forde expressed confidence in
the position Of Allied forces In the
Southwest Pacific, but warned in a
statement that Australia must con-
tinue to organize on the theory that
she faces a full-scale invasion soon.
Cites Fall Of Bataan.
The fall OF Bataan was described
as another indication of the need for
concentration Of the full energy of
the people against the enemy. Mr..
Forde said he believed the true spirit
of Australians was something COM
parable to this offensive, aggressive
spirit" of the men who fought under
Gen Douglas Macarthur in the
Philippines.
In a broadcast next Wednesday
Prime Minister Curtin will open a
national campaign in behalf of
new commonwealth security known
as national savings bonds and to try
to double the sale of war savings
certificates.
Since the outbreak of the war
about 5000 civilians withdrawn from
battle. zones have landed in Au-
stralia and are being cared for by the
state governments, in cooperation
with their own governments. Many
still are arriving from Singapore and
Java.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Bourd Authorizes Nine
Purchases of Autos

Purchase of nine automobiles has
been authorized by the Alexandria
Rationing Board since March /, 1t
was announced yesterday.
Cars were rationed in March for
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
Thomas j. McAndrews, George H
Balance, Louis F. Finfrock, the
Alexandria Division of Motor Vehi-
cles, the Alexandria Police Depart
ment, DR.. c. E. Arnettee and Law
renee A. Fair. The Rev. Joseph B.
Reid is the only applicant to re-
ceive car in April.
During March the board author
lied the purchase Of tires and tubes
for % applicants.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Soerabaja Naval Base
Blasted When Abandoned

By the Associated Press.
PERTH, Australia, April 1.-THE
last Dutch warship to leave Soc
rabaja has arrived safely in an Aus
tralian port and her commander de-
clared today that the big Java naval
base had been blasted to bits before
1t was abandoned to the Japanese.
Oil storage tanks and docks were
dynamited, the officer declared, and
several large ships and many smaller
vessels were sunk in the harbor to
render it virtually useless.
When the officer last saw Soc
rabaja, 1t was covered with a huge
pail of smoke which extended far out
to sea, he said.
To escape detection on the voyage
to Australia, the Dutch vessel was
decked out with foliage by her crew
of SO until she resembled a veritable
floating island
The camouf1age was discarded
after the ship had run through g.
mile wide Atlas Strait between Lom-
box and Soembawa Islands east OF
Java.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Burma
Continued From First Page

tacking the Northern Burma air
drome. they strafed it and damaged
two or three grounded planes. No
casualties resulted, the bullets
mostly hitting empty spaces in the
field
The American volunteer flyers are
Aghting with new equipment and
reinforcements which came after
the japanese succeeded in damaging
their base in Central Burma few
weeks ago.
Their two victories this week
were reported as the British COM
mander in India, Gen. Sir Archi-
bald P. Wavell, lined up every man,
ship and plane for the defense Of
the Ganges Basin of India, men
aced by Japanese air and naval
units in the Bay of Bengal and by
the Japanese in Burma.
On the Burma front, the Japanese
and Chinese were fighting north Of
Toungoo after a weeks hull, the
Chinese reported. The fighting still
was in progress when the Chinese
communique was issued.
Part of the amazing success OF the
A. v. G. apparently is due to the
hard work and careful attention to
duty of every man on the team back
of the planes. A day in the life OF
the average A. v. G. man, as re-
ported from group headquarters,
goes like this:
He is up at 4:30 am. has cup
Of coffee and begins work. At am.
he has breakfast from food truck.
He lunches in the A. v. G. mess
room, where local produce supple
ments his diminishing supply OF
canned goods. His work ends at 5
p.n1., but he stands ready for action
If Japanese planes are reported
coming over.
The average A. v. G.. man is a
6-footer, slim, sports a mustache,
has dark hair and is sunburned.
The A. v. G. man-behind-the-
pilots belongs to one of five groups;
The first, engineering, includes
crew chiefs, which mean airplane
mechanics.
The second, armament, includes
the men who keep the guns in
shape.
The third, communications. in
cludes radio men operating chain
of stations, telephone hnesmen
clerks and codemen.
The fourth is headed operations,
meaning the executive branch.
The fifth, supply, includes trans
portation, the issue of gasoline OBJ
tanned from the Chinese contro
board, spare parts, stationery AND
canned goods
Evening star., 1942-04-11
By the Associstsd Press.

By the Associstsd Press.
NEW DELHI, India, April IL
The tert OF d press statement by
Str Stafford Cripps on Indian ne
gotiations.
I have now received replies from
all the principal parties and COM
munities to whom submitted the
draft Of q declaration of his majes-
tvs government.
Negotiations have been prolonged
in the case of the (All-India) Con-
gress only.
There have been many meetings
and q number of formulae and sug-
gestions, especially upon the ques-
ton OF a defense minister.
After Q very lengthy deliberation,
the outcome of which seemed un-
certain from day to day, received
the reply of the Congress in the
form Of letter at o'clock last
night
1t made it clear that the Working
Committee (of the Congress- was
not prepared to accept the scheme
or TO enter national government.
Draft Withdrawn.
AS q result of this and other an
swers I have had most regretfully
to advise his majesty's government
that there was not the necessary &C.
ceptance of their proposals such a.
to justify their making a declara-
ton in the form of the draft.
The draft is, therefore, withdrawn
and we revert to the position as II
was before came out here, though
not quite perhaps t2 that position;
Discussions and negotiations have
been carried on in the most frank
and friendly spirit on all sides.
+ We have acknowledged the gen.
eral sincerity of this spirit and al.
though We must for the moment
agree to differ there is no rancour
In our disagreement.
Sometimes In the heat snd excite
ment of discussion and argument we
are apt to overlook the area OF
agreement.
There Is a large and very impor-
tant area Of agreement as to the
Evening star., 1942-04-11
StreumIiner Junked;;
U.S.. to Get Aluminium
B, tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
OMAHA, April 1.-THE City OF
Salina, described by the Union Pa
ciflc as "the worlds first streamlined
train" is being reduced to scrap in
an Omaha junkyard.
In service for eight years. the
train was first inspected by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and placed on display
at the Century of Progress Exhibi-
ton in Chicago.
1t ran between Kansas City, Mo-,
and Salina, Kans. Because the
combination power unit and bag
gage car and two coaches were too
small to accommodate the traflc,
the train was scrapped.
The three cars will yield approx
mately 100000 pounds of aluminium,
to be sold to the Government to help
in the war effort.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Operation Continues
As Japanese Bomb
Bataan Hospital
Nightmare Scenes
Related by Doctor
Who Survived
BY DEAN SCHEDLER,

Associated Press War Correspondent.
CORREGIDOR FORTRESS, April
8 delayed Shortly before 10 am.
yesterday three heavy Japanese
bombers unloaded big bombs on q
base hospital at Bataan, scoring di-
rect hits on exposed wards and
wounding numerous soldiers, doctors
and nurses.
Weary. grim Filipino and Ameri-
can soldiers, wounded in the bitter
front-line fighting, were bombed out
Of their hospital beds.
Only recently Japanese planes
dropped stick bombs on the hospital
base, clearly marked by white sheets
forming crosses. American pro-
tests drew an apology from the jap
,anese high command at Manila,
which called 1t unintentional.
Operation Continues.
Edwin R. Nelson of Huntington,
w. Va. who had been working night
and day in the operating room treat
ing wounded soldiers, was In the
midst of an amputation. The pa
tient was under a spinal anesthetic,
and Nelson's aides were trying to
comfort him with assurance that the
bombers were a safe distance away
A bomb struck the ward, and the
surgeon and his staff dropped to
the floor. The operating room was
a shambles.
When the dust cleared. Nelson
resumed the operation. though his
instruments and gloves were no
longer sterile.
Through 1t all the patient never
complained, although the anesthetic
had worn off
Nelson described the bombing as
a nightmare I never want to see
again"
Patients in triple-tier beds were
scattered about like toy soldiers.
Doctors and nurses sought fran
tically to restore order, calm the
hysterical, give aid where possible,
sometimes operate on the spot.
A nurse, Rita G. Palmer of Hamp-
ton. N. H., on duty when the bombs
first struck, related:
Nurse Tells Of Experience.
"All morning long bombers were
roaring about dropping bombs. I
was under the table most of the time
at first, then I realized I should be
about my duties.
Suddenly I heard the swish of
big one coming. There was a
terrific blast. The air was dark and
cloudy from thick dust and powder
smoke
II don't remember just what hap
pened next-I guess I passed out" :"
She suffered only a couple of
scratches.
Nurse Rosemary Hogan of Chat
tanooga, Okla, who also suffered
only slight injuries, was thrown to
the floor by one conclusion.
The noise and confusion were
terrible" she said. The air was
thick with patients calling for help,
unable to get up."
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Text of Cripps' Statement
Neeotiotor Tells of Missions Failure;
Pleads for Strong Defense Of Indio

future freedom of India. I do not
propose to 60 into details of many
arguments that have been made.
Plans TO Leave New Delhi
I have heard and spoken enough
of these over the last three weeks
and will say word about this over
the radio tonight.
shall be leaving New Delhi on
my return journey on Sunday morn
ing.
want to first to thank you all for
your help and then want to ask you
to continue that help, not to me but,
to India.
The discussions are over. They.
will slip back into history and they
will leave their impress, a good, clear
and healthy impress which will in
fluence the future. But the present
and future press upon us and must
be faced.
India is threatened. All who love
India as love India and you love
India must bring their energies, each
in his own way, to her immediate
help. That help cannot come through
dissension and differences. 1t must
come by a joining together of vital
elements into a closely knit unity.
This is your task where you can help,
whatever your party or community.
Stresses Need for Effort.
We have tried our best to agree.
| We have failed. Never mind whose
| fault it is. Let me take all the
blame if that will help in uniting
, India for her own defense. =
Gresa BBriittstff' viii IL hsf utmost.
America is doing all she can and
now India must devote herself
wholeheartedly, with special effort
in every field of activity, in defend
ing her soil and protecting her
women and children from those
ghastly horrors that have befallen
her Chinese friends and neighbors.
You have my best thanks for what
you have done TO help me. You
have my even greater thanks for
| what you will do to help India.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Good Prospects Reported
For Winter Wheat Crop
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Agriculture Department re-
ported yesterday that the important
winter wheat crop, which got an
excellent start last fall, still shows
good prospects with production in
dicated at ga 1888 900 bushels on the
basis of conditions prevailing April /.
A crop of this size, while 7 per
cent less than last years compare
lively large harvest, would be about
10 per cent above average.
The reduction from last year re-
fleets largely crop control program
calling for the production of less
wheat because of the existence of a
record surplus and prospects of q
shortage of storage facilities.
The winter wheat crop will be
supplemented by the spring wheat
crop which has been tentatively
placed at 164 900 900 bushels on the
basis of average yields for pros
pective planting, and by a surplus
of $50, 900 900 bushels from previous
years.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Ex-Premier Of Egypt
Reported Held in Cuiro
By the 4 ssociated Press.

3, the Associated Press.
LONDON. April 11.-Discovery of
British plan for defense of Egypt
among the papers OF an Italian
general captured In Libya led to
the arrest of former Egyptian
Premier Ali Maher Pasha earlier
this week, Reuters reported today
from Cairo.
Ali Maher, the dispatch said, was
one of a limited number of persons
who had access to the plan. He
now is under house arrest" some
where in Cairo.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Soldier Likes Book;
Types Copy for Self
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAMP DAVIS, N. C.-The librar-
ian had a hard time trying to get
soldier to return long overdue
book.
Finally the soldier showed up
with it.
Il liked the book so much that I
typed copy Of it" he explained.
Evening star., 1942-04-11
Traded Prisoners in Eoypt

CAIRO, Egypt, April II (P.-Brit-
ish prisoners of war, exchanged for
Italians under international conven-
tions, arrived at Alexandria today
from Smyrna, Turkey. and are en-
route to Cairo by train.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
BY Lillian Cox Athey

have received the pollen. 2 to inch
dark green pointed cones closely
attached to the parent stem have
matured their many seed children.
Each cone scale is broadly thickened
at the end and armed with strong
recurved prickle.
Because the cones may hang on
for several years and may or may
not open to release the brown seed
babies. pitch pines always seem
loaded with cones. One cone may
shelter from IS, 1000 to $4,000 seeds! 4!
Pitch pines are remarkably free
from insect enemies, and fire does
not destroy them so easily as 1t
does most trees. 1t Is we'll known
that this pine can have It's trunk
badly burned for several feet high
and recover: also. its seed children
have been released to cover the fire.
Scared land with sturdy new trees
That is why you see pine
youngsters in burned areas.
These trees do not demand special
soil conditions in order to do their
part. Gravelly slopes, rocky cliffs
at high elevations and swamps pro-
vide a foothold for these sturdy
natives. Winged seeds light as a
feather are carried by the wind to
these out ut-of-the-way. places. The
small seed. upon landing, gets busy
and steadily reaches toward its place
in the sun.
Evening star., 1942-06-23

This he exclaimed right out loud,
for he had just come in sight of the
fiat stone where the sandwiches
should have been. and they were
not there. No, sir, there wasn't SO
much as a crumb left Of those two
thick sandwiches. You see, Old Man
Coyote had found them and gObbled
them up while Farmer Browns boy
was away.
But Farmer Browns boy didn't
know anything about Old Man
Coyote. He rubbed his eyes and
stared everywhere. even up. In the
trees, as If he thought those sand
wiches might be hanging up there.
They had disappeared as completely
as if they never had been, and Old
Man Coyote had taken care to leave
no trace OF his visit. Farmer Browns
boy gsped foolishly this way and
Evening star., 1942-06-23
Uncle Roy's Corner
nv RAMON COFFMAN.

These days we hear 4 great deal
about tires, because they are hard
to obtain. II something is easy to
get. we may spend less time think
ing about it than when 1t Is not.
When a person speaks OF a tire.
ne usually means an automobile
tire. That is the most common kind
of tire today.
Yet the tire has . history which
goes back to a time long before there
we're any automobiles. There were
tires on wagon wheels hundreds of
years ago.
The word tire" is a short form of
sattire." The first iron tires were
spoken OF as the attire. or clothing,
OF the wheels!
There was reason to have iron
tires on wagon wheels. A simple
wooden wheel wore down 40 fast
that q new wheel was needed before
D. long. The iron tire, on the other
hand. took the shock and wear Of
travel very we'll
The chariots OF the ancient Ro-
mans had wheels with metal tires
Sometimes these tires were made OF
bon, sometimes of bronze. During a
visit in Pompeii saw deep ruts
which Roman chariot wheels wore
h the streets before that city was
buried under ashes.
The people of Europe had a great
deal of use for blacksmiths and
wheelwrights in the Middle Ages. In
fact, the need for wheelwrights
lasted into modern times.
The wheelwright fixes wheels. To
some extent he is like a blacksmith
since he needs a forge to handle the
Eon tires around wheels
In England there is a family OF
vheelwrights In a Hampshire vii
Evening star., 1942-06-23
BY Art Huhtd
BY Harold Gray
BY Fronk willard
-By Will Eisner
BY Bud Fisher

that way. Then, instead Of growing
angry, a slow smile stole over his
freckled face.
II guess some one else was hungry.
too" he muttered. wonder who
it was? Guess this Old Pasture Is
no place for me today. I'll NIL up on
berries and then I'll so home"
So Farmer Browns boy made his
lunch on blueberries and then rather
sheepishly he started for home to
tell of all the strange things that
had happened to him in the Old
Pasture. Two or three times as he
trudged along he stopped to scratch
his head thoughtfully.
Il guess" said he at last, that
I'm not so smart As thought was.
and I've got q lot to learn yet"
Which also shows that he is becom.
ing something Of . pAl-os-o-phss.
Evening star., 1942-06-23
NATURES CHILDREN
PITCH PINE
(Pinus rioidd

All members OF the hard-pine
group are needed for defense pur-
poses. Today, more than ever. trees
are helping us make history and
keep the ideals OF our forefathers.
Pitch pine is used for rough con-
struction. mine props. fencing. pulp.
Grating and railroad ties-millions
Of board feet of the coarse-grained,
yellowish wood is being used for
this purpose today.
This is the only three-needled
pine OF the Northeastern States.
It's wide scraggy crown is known to
the rougher sterile slopes, where
it's roots hold the soil firmly. Some
times, this pine is found In swamps
from Northeastern Maine to North
ern Georgia. west along the slopes
of the Alleghenies through Eastern
Tennessee, Kentucky. Ohio. Penn
Evening star., 1942-06-23

sylvania and New York to the East
ern Great Lakes and the st. Law
renee River.
In youth. pitch pines are rather
symmetrical. but with age the pines
crown becomes irregular and even
grotesque. Trees Of 40 to so feet
high and / to 2 feet In diameter are
common. Those Of 200 years may
attain . height of 80 to 100 feet and
have q diameter of 30 inches.
In April. or May, clusters Of yell
low, cylindrical staminate blossoms
are produced at the base Of the new
seasons growth. Great clouds OF
pollen are lifted by the wind to sift
this vital dust on the pistillate fow-
ers that may be In clusters or single
along the sides Of the new twigs.
Two years after the female flowers
Evening star., 1942-06-23

IF he is 80 afraid Of me. I guess
I needn't be afraid Of him." said he.
I've lost my berries, but it is worth
it to fnd out that he Is afraid Of
me. There are plenty more on the
bushes and all I've got to do is to
pick them. 1t might be worse"
He walked over to the place where
the pail had been and then he re-
membered that when Buster ran
away he had carried the pail with
him hanging about his neck. He
whistled. 1t was q comical little
whistle Of chagrin. as he realized
that he had nothing in which to put
more berries If he picked them.
Its worse than I thought" cried
he. That bear has cheated me out
of that berry pie my mother prom
ised me" He began to laugh as he
thought Of how funny Buster Bear
Evening star., 1942-06-23

had looked with the pail about his
neck, and then because. you know
he is learning to be q philosopher
he once more repeated, 1T might
have been worse. Yes, indeed. II
might have been worse. That bear
might have tried to eat me instead
of the berries. I guess I'll 60 eat
that lunch I left back by the spring
and then I'll 60 home. I can pick
berries some other day"
Chuckling happily over Buster
Bears great fright, Farmer Browns
boy tramped back to the spring
where he had left two thick sand
wiches on a fiat stone when he
started to save his pail Of berries
MY, but those sandwiches will
taste good.' thought he. I'm glad
they are big and thick. never was
hunsrier In my life. Hello!"
Evening star., 1942-06-23

been very sure that it was one Of
the cows or young cattle who live
in the Old Pasture during the sum-
mer. He had been afraid that they
might stupidity kick over the pail
and spill the berries. and he had
hurried to drive whoever 1t was
away. 1t hadn't entered his head
that it could be anybody who would
eat those berries.
When he had yelled to scare away
the unwelcome visitor, and Buster
Bear had suddenly appeared. strug-
Cling to get of the pail which had
caught over his head, Farmer
Browns boy had been too frightened
to even move. Then he had seen
Buster tear away through the brush
even more frightened than he was,
and right away his courage had
begun to come back.
Evening star., 1942-06-23

"Sights in Strange India" Is
the title Of a new picture leafiet.
1t contains 10 pictures by Frank
G. Pape and several hundred
words Of text by Uncle Ray. To
obtain = copy send 4 stamped o.
cent? self addressed envelope to
Uncle Ray in care Of The Evening
Star.