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Evening star., 1942-11-29
Reich Military Glass
Must Be Crushed, F.,
Elmer Davis Says
owl Chief Sees No
Peace Till Power of
Group Is Broken

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 28.-Elmer
Davis. director of war information
said today that until the power of
the German military class is utterly
broken, there can be no secure
peace"
Citing an idea he said was ex-
pressed by Secretary of State Hull.
Mr.. Davis declared some inter-
national agency must be created
which can keep the peace among
nations in the future-by force, If
necessary"
He spoke over the Blue Network
from the Metropolitan Opera House
on a program sponsored by the Met
tropolitan Opera Victory Rally Com
mittee.
Mr.. Davis said the weak begin
nings" Of German democracy failed
after the World War because insult
ficient control was eXerted over the
German military class which, he
said, helped Hitler to power and
may survive Hitler"
The best practical hope of peace
and security lies in governments
that represent the will of the peo-
pie" he said.
Democracy is not in your ideas;
1t is something that on the whole
works better than anything else, that
makes more sense. After the Ma
poleonic wars, men tried to find
peace and security in the principle Of
Northumberland failed.
And that experience taught us
that = the only legitimate gov
ernments are those that the people
want"
Evening star., 1942-11-29

and American forces operating in
the foothills of the Tunisian high
lands were causing them consider
able difficulty"
For the second straight day
British Middle East Headquarters
at Cairo announced there was moth
ing to report" from it's land forces
which apparently had lost contact
temporarily with Rommel's troops in
the Ell Agheila sector.
United States Flying Fortresses
carried out heavy attack on Port
olago Bay on Leros Island in the
Italian Dodecanese last night. Amer
lean headquarters announced, caus-
ing fires on ships and drydock
facilities that were visible for q
miles.
Evening star., 1942-11-29
Bill Increasing Hours
OF Women 5 Jobs May
Pass House Tomorrow
PoyroII Tox Measure
Expected to Be O KID
At Present Session
By WILL P. KENNEDY.


The House is expected to pass by
unanimous consent tomorrow bill
sponsored by Chairman Randolph
Of the House District Committee
which would raise the limitation on
the number Of hours of employment
for women workers in the District
to relieve the manpower shortage
during the war emergency.
There is only one other piece of
important District legislation that
Chairman Randolph expects to be
passed before the close of the pres
ent session. That is the payroll tax
bill which would relieve District
employers from upward of S. ZOO, 900
a year in tax deductions. Repre-
sentative Schultz, Democrat, of
Indiana, blocked consideration of
this bill a couple of weeks ago un-
der the unanimous consent rule.
1t is to be brought up again on
the first District Day. when con-
troversial measures can be con-
sidered, and is expected to pass
without serious opposition. 1t would
set up in the District an efficiency
rating system. permitting payroll
taxes on sliding scale from 2.7
per cent to one tenth of l per cent
for employers who maintain a
steady work load without exces-
sive turn over.''
30-milliOn Reserve in Fund.
There is already a surplus of more
than $30.000.000 in the unemploy-
ment compensation fund and those
in charge have testified that under
the proposed system the fund will
be satisfactorily self sustaining.
The bill to permit women to work
longer hours during the war emerg-
ency has been urged by several
Government units. It's sole purpose
as stated in Chairman Randolph's
report to the House. is to vest the
Minimum Wage and Industrial
Safety Board, during the existence
OF the present war and for six
months thereafter, with authority
to issue to employers, on satisfac-
tory showing to the board that such
action is essential to the war ef-
fort, a temporary permit to employ
females for more than eight hours
in any work day or more than six
days or 48 hours in any week.
Under the existing 8-hour law.
the Minimum Wage Board has no
discretion, under any circumstances.
TO permit woman to be employed
more than the 48-hour week. Chair
man Randolph has explained that,
due to the national emergency and
the large number of workers with
drawn from industry to serve in
the armed forces. 1T becomes neces-
sary that women be substituted in
many positions formerly held by
men"
Safeguards Provided.
Certain safeguards are provided in
the bill. First. the granting of the
temporary permit is discretionary
with the Minimum Wage Board
second, the temporary permit must
be in such form and for such periods
as the board deems advisable, and
third, the provisions OF the bill are
applicable only during the period
the United States is engaged in
war. and for the readjustment pc
riod of six months after cessation
of hostilities.
The report filed by the District
Committee carries the approval of
the Maryland and District Indus
trial Union Council, affiliated with
the C1O and signed by Sidney r.
katz, secretary treasurer of the
local CIO organization.
Evening star., 1942-11-29
Africa
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assault was under way, an American
communique reported Nazi coun-
terattack at Tebourda, only IS miles
west of Tunis. repulsed with the
loss of 10 enemy tanks.
The enemy is generally on the
defensive in the Tunisian area" the
report continued. I'm an effort to
delay the progress of our troops the
enemy is attempting to blow up
bridges, roads and railway lines.
Although weather conditions and
muddy airfields were said to be
hampering air activities, Allied
night fighters we're reported to have
shot down four Axis bornbers that
attempted to raid A!giers last
night.
The Paris radio had reported
earlier that British, American and
French forces of the army envelop-
ing the last-ditch Axis garrisons in
Tunisia were attacking violently and
had driven several wedges into the
Nazis' defense lines.
The broadcast also said the Allies
had fnfiltrated into Axis lines in
the Mejez Ell Bah region, tactical
ly important communications point
outside the main Tunis Bizerte
fortifications.
Italians Report Raid on Bone.
Both the German and Italian
communiques mentioned only linn
tied local fighting, neither confirm
ing last nights report from Algiers
that the Allies had left their de-
fense lines" and had launched their
big blow to wipe the Axis from
Tunisia.
The Italian communique reported
raid on the Allied airfield at
Bone, in Algeria. where it said run
ways and grounded planes were hit.
The Germans claimed 20 Allied
planes had been shot down and
said their aerial attacks on British
Evening star., 1942-11-29
Woman Kills Doctor
Claiming He Was
lmposter.9
Former Patient Held
In Office Shooting Of
St. Louis Specialist

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 28.-Three
bullets-flred by a woman ap-
parently under the delusion she
was Staying an imposter-today
killed DR.. Marion L. Klinefelter
noted st. Louis surgeon.
well, Mr.. Madman, how are
you muttered a woman identified
as former patient as she fired
across the specialists desk at the
Missouri Baptist Hospital.
Nov. Mr.. Wilder, you're exposed"
she continued as the 69-year -old
physician, wounded around his left
ear, slumped dying in his chair.
Detective Walter Laturno dis
closed that Miss Florence Ferrara,
20, had been arrested. Police said
the woman told them the real DR..
Klinefelter died In 1904 and a man
named Wilder had impersonated
him.
Woman Relates Story.
Miss Ferrara, her voice quiet, re-
lated her version of the affair
DIR. Klinefelter is not the man
I shot. The man shot Is named
Meldrum Wilder and he is the one
who killed DR.. Klinefelter in 1904
He has been posing as DR.. Kline
felter ever since then and has been
chloroforming and crippling people
for years.
I'm 1896 I had an infected finger
and he treated me for that, but he
didn't get me, and hes been trying
to get me ever since. So last sum-
mer l went over to East st. Louis
and bought pistol for my own
protection, and this morning I de-
cided to 90 out and see him face to
face.
Il said. Mr.. Wilder here I am,
and he grabbed the telephone. He
wanted to get somebody to use ether
on me so I shot him in self-defense
Claims Men Followed Her.
He had been having me fol-
lowed, watched and the men who
we're following me were trying tt
place a cloth filled with chloroform
on my face so they could take me
to the doctor and he could break
my bones"
A witness to the shooting was
Nurse Gladys Wright, who was
seated at the desk with Dr. Kline
felter. The nurse and DR.. William
r. Bohne, assistant to DR.. Kline
felter, identified the woman as Miss
Ferrara
Miss Wright. sobbing, told police
the woman walked into the doctor
private office, greeted the specialist
as Mr.. Madman" and drew a pistol
from under her coat. She fed to
the hall after the shooting and
escaped.
Vincent D'Aneelo. parking lot at
tendanJ, told police he accompanied
the woman to the hospital after her
parents left the Ferrara automobile
He said he remained in a reception
room while she walked on to the
Klinefelter Office. ,
Hearing the shots he left the hos
pital and drove away, but police
picked him up almost Immediately
when he drove through stop sign
I've Just come from a shooting at
Missouri Baptist Hospital he told
the officers.
Brother Is Legislator.
Later he informed police Miss
Ferrara had left her machine at the
parking lot at which he is employed
Detectives arrested Miss Ferrara at
the lot little more than an hour
after the II m. Staying.
Peter Ferrara, lawyer recently
elected Missouri State representa-
tive, told police his sister had been
Evening star., 1942-11-29

burning fiercely and was then seen
to sink" the Navy's account of
Admiral SCOTS report said. United
States ships selected targets in the
enemy formation 1t was soon
lighted up by four of their burn
Ing ships. Seven minutes after the
action had begun, one of our de-
stroyers scored torpedo hits on a
Jap heavy cruiser of the Kinugasa
class and this ship was seen to
sink almost Immediately.
The United States DESTROYER Dun
can (which was mortally damaged
in the action, the Navy recently an
nouncedD also registered with tor
pedo hits on an unidentified cruiser
during this phase of the action.
When 10 minutes of fast action had
elapsed, Rear Admiral Scott recti-
ned the alignment Of his formation
and then changed course to the
right to close the range. A heavy
cruiser was recognized and fire was
reopened. At this time the Boise was
hit forward and set on fire. She
had successfully lodged enemy tor
pedoes and fell out to port, but con-
tlnued firing with her after guns, ,"
Admiral Scott reported the fire
on the Boise's forecastle was so
intense and of such size that at
one instance I feared we might lose
her"
AS the battle continued the
American ships once more closed
the range and after a few minutes
the enemy was silenced. Then as
the United States force was retir-
ing one of the cruisers encountered
an enemy destroyer and sank it. A
short time later an enemy cruiser
OF the Atoga class was seen to ex-
plode and sink.
The Duncan sank the next noon
after every effort had been made
by her crew and those of other
ships to save her.
Evening star., 1942-11-29

eventually for citations for seven OF
her gallant crew"
An accompanying Fortress was
surrounded by such a barrage of
anti-aircraft fire 'it looked like
acres and acres Of cotton" the pilot,
Maj. Robert B. Keck of Allentown,
Pa, said.
One great, sudden jolt and flames
like the tail Of a comet streamed
from a gaping hole behind the num-
Der two engine, fire squirting from
shattered fuel lines and threaten
ing to explode the wing tanks.
The pilots oxygen system was
shot away so suddenly he almost
tainted from lack of air before he
realized what was wrong.
Flames swirled through gun
aperatures. Sergt. Archie Cothren
Evening star., 1942-11-29
War Powers
Continued From First Paee)

Committee and how soon the House
acted.
Speaker Rayburn said the time
element required to complete con-
gressional action had been can.
vassed carefully at the meeting, also
attended by Senate Majority Leader
Barkley, Senator George, Mr.. Dough
ton and Representatives Cooper
Democrat. of Tennessee, and Reed
Republican, of New York.
Conferred With President.
Mr.. Rayburn disclosed he had
discussed the measure with Pres
ident Roosevelt Thanksgiving Day
While he would not comment on the
Presidents attitude. other legislators
said they understood Mr.. Roosevelt
was insisting on immediate consid-
Grafton
There were indications that many
Republicans and Democrats would
be reluctant to support the meas
ure in the form sought by the ad-
ministration.
AS it now is drawn, the measure
would permit the President to
suspend tariff and immigration laws
to allow the unhampered inter-
change with other United Nations
of persons, information and mate
rials.
Results Are Feared.
Critics have protested that this
might lower the bars to unrestricted
immigration of war refugees and
might destroy, temporarily at least
tariff barriers protecting American
products.
Representative Woodruff, Repub-
ican, of Michigan said House Re
publicans would demand public
hearings on the measure. expressing
the opinion that the chances OF
passing the bill in this session were
absolutely nil"
Senator George told reporters that
II any bill were to be approved
the presidential authority probably
would have to be specifically defined
and limited.
Evening star., 1942-11-29
Viehy Reports Landing
By British on Island
East Of Madagascar
Governor Of Reunion
Organizing Resistance,
Rodio Announces
e. the Associated Press.

E. the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 2S.-British
troops, mostly South Africans
landed this morning on Reunion
Island, 400 miles east of NADIA
gascar in the Indian Ocean, a
communique broadcast from
Vichy said tonight. The Vichy
governor was said to be organ
izing resistance.
An announcement read over the
Vichy radio from the secretary ot
state for colonies said:
AT 4:30 am. today British forces
landed on Reunion. .-
THE assilants. partly composed OF
South African troops, seized the town
Of Saint Denis La Reunion which
has no defense installation.
Thanks to the functioning OF
night patrol services and the prompt
decision of the governor. the plan Of
defense was carried out normally
and reistances is being organized
Martial Law Proclaimed.
The radio commentator added that
the attackers were under the order
Of De Gaulle," that martial law had
been proclaimed and that the civilian
population was remaining calm.
The announcement had not been
confirmed in British quarters.
Occupation of Madagascar was
carried out this summer by South
Africans, who began their task last
May with seizure of Diego Suarez
IN the north.
Stout resistance was put up at
Arst, then, after a lull, the occupa-
aon forces moved on into the cap
ttal of Tananarive after seizing all
the principal west coast ports. Re
sistance finally collapsed on Novem-
Der 6 when the Governor signed an
armistice.
Reunion, a French possession since
f643, was the last island of Frances
empire to remain under Vichy con-
troll.
Except French Somaliland in
northeast Africa all the French
empire is now occupied by warning
belligerents or has broken away
from Vichy.
While there was no official British
confirmation of the landing such a
step was regarded by observers in
London as logical sequence to the
occupation of Madagascar and of
the island of Mayotte, northwest of
Madagascar.
Reuters, British news agency, said
that since the rise of the Fighting
Frnch movement there had been a
sharp division of sympathy in the
s7o-square- mile island, along with
Madagascar, might become Japa-
nese springboard for attack on South
Africa,
The population is about 208ooo,
nearly all French. st. Denis, the
chief town, has a population OF
about 10000 The chief port is
Pointe- -Galets.
Evening star., 1942-11-29

Of Dierks. Ark. was wounded in the
jaw and his oxygen mask was torn
away. He bailed out.
The German fighters thought that
indicated that the ship was finished
and closed in. But in the next few
minutes the Fortress gunners had
shot down three of them.
One was credited to Sergt. O. r.
Billings Of Hereford, Tex, who was
wounded in the leg, and another to
tail-gunner Sergt. Carl A. Drake
of Fort Knox, KY.
Half way back across the Channel
the fuel ran out with the left wing
flap useless and the fabric on the
left elevator burned off"
But, the Army concluded, "the no.
flap, three-engined landing was ex-
ecuted safely on the home base"
Evening star., 1942-11-29
Womon-Cooched Eleven
Ends Season Unbeuten

By The Associated Press
MILLER, Nebr. - Miller High
School emerged as the champion
of the Wood River Valley Football
Conference with a record of no de-
feats. no ties. and 113 points to
their opponents Is.
The successful coach was Supt.
Addah Jane Ludden. 1t was her
first year of grid coaching.
Evening star., 1942-11-29
First-Aid Too Realistic

DENVER P).-The police depart
ment seeks new victim for first-aid
classes. Patrolman E. M. johnson
volunteered to pose as a man with
broken neck. Fellow officers gave
him the works, and then-they
rushed him into the hospital. He had
broken blood vessel.
Evening star., 1942-11-29

treated at Barnes Hospital last year
for mental disorder.
The slain physician, known
throughout the Nation for his bone
operations. had been chief of the
hospitals orthopedic department for
nearly 30 years.
Evening star., 1942-11-29
Elephants Registered

Ali elephants in the Indian prov
ince of Assam, bordering Burma,
must be registered under the De-
fense of India rules. those held for
the Army being excepted.
Evening star., 1942-11-29

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some OF the obstacles the lost group
surmounted.
July IA Lewis and Ravey work
over the radio equipment. They in
fate balloon with water-made
hydrogen, to send up an aerial. But
there is no wind 1t. Anderson and
his water hunters return in the
afternoon; they have found a tiny
stream after hours of hacking
through vines and underbrush and
dodging snakes. They had followed
1t downstream and report that it
widens gradually. They hope it
leads to river.
July 15-We have decided to take
chance on slashing our way
through the jungle.
/, We haul out the rubber life RATS.
Each is wrapped tightly in tarpaulin
to protect it if we march through
sharp branches.
We also plan to take four Ass,
two 80 rifles, emergency rations,
medical supplies and ammunition.
July 16-Our safarfi starts at 8
am. We destroy the secret radio
equipment and all secret papers.
Pushing through the jungle is
like untangling yourself from a steel
fish net. Heavy vines wrap them
selves around your arms, legs and
even your neck
We reach the stream about II
11 am. It's just a 3-foot rivulet
Of dank and stagnant water. - I.
Through the afternoon. the stream
widens gradually. The insects are
fierce.
The going gets tougher, the under
brush more dense. At each stop.
Hazel reads from the Bible.
At first we joke about it a little
and kid him. = Later on we quit
kidding him. We're in a tough spot
and all of us get a certain salts
faction from Hazel's Bible reading
Lone Meal a Day.
July 17-Down to one meal a
day.
Lack Of food is beginning to tell
Six days now since we had decent
meal. Evidently we're still miles
away from free-running body
where we can float the liferafts.
July 18-Now the water is deep
enough to launch our RATS. It is
treacherous going. Rubber is not
steel or even wood, and jagged
stumps lurk everywhere.
July 19-The stream widens. We
pass few scattered huts. We want
to buy their pigs, but are afraid
of trichinosis. We compromise on
q couple of dozen oranges and take
of again.
Further downstream we meet two
young native boys in canoes. We
finally make them understand we
are searching for river They
lead the way miles downstream.
and there is the river. They leave
us at small trading post. But
the trading post is deserted and we
Evening star., 1942-08-14
B! the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Aug. IA soldier
correspondents diary told yesterday
the story of how cigarette lighter.
which hasn't worked since, served as
a beacon to signal once month
| river boat to the rescue of 10 United
States Army men who had fought
death for II days after their bomber
made a belly landing in South
American jungle.
The diary of their desperate trek
through the tangled, tropical jungle
in an effort to get back to civiliza ton
was written by Sergt. Ed Cunning
ham, Army newspaperman who was
with the nine crewmen when their
B-24 bomber was forced down on a
stormy flight.
Sergt. Cunningham story ap-
peared today in Yank, new United
States Army newspaper.
Ten Reach Air Base.
The 10 who made the epic journey
safely back to an Army Air Force
base July "a after taking off from
port in the Caribbean July 13. were:
Pilot-Second 1t. Felix w. Kersh-
ner, "a, of Enid, Okla, who left the
University of Oklahoma in his Junior
year to become an aviation cadet.
Co-pilot-Second 1t. Wilfred L.
Grenfell, 26, bank clerk in McMinn-
vile, Greg.
Navigator-Second 1t. Richard H.
Turner, n, Du Bois, Nebr., former
music instructor of jamestown,
Kans., High School.
Bombadier-SecondL 1t Eugene G..
Anderson, 81, Hatton, N. Oak.
Tail gunner - Pvt. Morris Pen
nington. %, ex-boxer OF Tacoma,
Wash.
Radio operator - Pvt. Jesse H.
Lewis, %, Anton, Tex, who quit col
lege in his sophomore year to join
the Air Force.
Assistant radio operator Pvt.
Frank Janeshek, 20, former steel mill
worker in Follansbee, w. Va.
Chief engineer-Pvt. Milton Hazel
rs, Saugus, Miss.
Aerial engineer Pvt. Robert
Ravey, %, Pasadena, Calf, me-
chanic before he joined the Air
Force
Sergt Cunningham, formerly of
Burlington, N. j., along as an Army
staff newsman.
Sergt. Cunningham snapped a
picture Immediately before the plane
belly landed. 1t. Kershner managed
to keep the plane sufficiently un-
damaged that it can be flown out
Of its jungle lake bed field.
Excerpts from Sergt. Cunning
hams diary from July IA on show