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Evening star., 1942-06-21
Henderson Is Ready
To Quit if Necessary
To Get Price Subsidies
Declares Budget Cut
Would Hurt Consumer
Not Bureuucruts
By JAMES Y. NEWTON.

Price Administrator Leon Hen
derson offered yesterday to quit
if Congress should make his res
ignation a condition to authoriz-
ing subsidy funds to support
price control ceilings.
Mr.. Henderson said he had no
thought of resigning, but felt sub
sidization so essential in maintain
ing price ceilings and controlling
living costs that he would be will
ing to eccept such a challenge from
Congress if'it were the only way of
obtaining the objective
Congress has been asked to ap-
propriate sl61, 100000 to carry the
ONCE of Price Administration
through next year, Mr.. Henderson
announced. He admitted a posi-
bility Of Congress 'disciplining
him by cutting the budget. In that
event, he added, "the persons who
will suffer will not be Bureaucrat
Henderson and his loyal Bureau
crats-they will be the consumers
and the retailers"
Patronage Under Fire.
A group of New Deal Senators
complained to President Roosevelt
recently that the price administra-
tor had filled posts in their States
without consulting them. and, in
some cases, had appointed their po-
litical enemies.
To such criticism, Mr. Henderson
has replied that he had appointed
to each post the best available man.
Mr.. Henderson discussed his job,
his critics and the general price
control outlook at a press con-
ference.
MY job. as see it, is to resist
special pressures of all kinds, hold
the line and hope to survive" he
said at one point. Aside from the
subsidy question, Mr.. Henderson
added his job depends on the wishes
of President Roosevelt He said he
had resolved not to resign until the
job was done or his usefulness was
over, and Il don't think it is over" :"
I've got boss" he continued,
land over period of time we have
had one working relationship-an
understanding that when I reached
Continued on Page 4, Column D.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Bus Kills D. {. Man,
Years 54th Auto Death

A man about 30 years of age, ten
tatively identified as James w.
Lytle, 2124 P street NV, was struck
and killed by a bus at Twentieth
and K streets NV. early today.
bringing the District traffic toll for
this year to 54.
The victim was pronounced dead
on arrival at Emergency Hospital.
His body was removed Immediately
to the District Morgue.
Police said the bus, operated by
Larry B. Downs, 81, of 1924 H street
NE. struck the man as it turned
north into Twentieth street.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Summer Arrives Tonight;
Temperature Scars 10 q

Summer will arrive officially at
GIT o'clock tonight, but Washing
ton residents had a realistic pre-
view yesterday, which was the
second hottest day of 1912 in this
area.
High temperature of 80 and a low
of II produced a mean temperature
of 81, or nine degrees above nor
NAL. The humidity was the second
highest of the year. On June II
it was II degrees above normal.
Moderately warm weather was
forecast for today.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
800 Raj Warp|anes
Hammer Nazi-HeId
Coastal Sectors
lie Hovre, BouIoene, CoIois
And Dunkerque Among
British Targets
Hy the Associated Press.

E1 the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 20.-The RAF,
after a lull enforced by bad
weather, made large scale at
tack on LIE Havre today, sending
over many squadrons" of fight
ers and American-made Boston
bombers against the big French
seaport just across the Channel.
More than 300 British planes
were hurled into afternoon attacks
alone, the Air Ministry announced,
and they ranged up and down the
continental coast and as far inland
as St. Omer, in France. Furnes, on
the Belgian coast, came in for one
heavy attack.
An Air Ministry communique said
objectives at Boulogne, Calais and
Dunkerque also were attacked. Four
enemy fighters were destroyed while
six British fighters failed to return
to their bases.
Today's offensive followed night
bombardment on Germany.
The Air Ministry said a bomber
force. which it described only as
strong" dealt major damage to the
German naval base of Emden and
also attacked the rail junction of
Osnabruck overnight.
The raid was the heaviest in two
weeks, British sources said, noting
that use of the word strong" usually
indicates force of $50 to 300 planes.
Nine planes were missing from
these operations and raids over the
Netherlands.
The attacks on Boulogne and
Calais areas were the first large
daylight assaults since June 8.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Snapshot Contest
Winners Selected

The first six winners in The
Sunday Stars annual Snap
shot Contest appear today in
the Rotogravure section OF
The Sunday Star.
Weekly prize winners will be
carried each Sunday there
after until the end Of the
contest, which involves total
prizes of $12,500.
Evening star., 1942-06-21

(The British radio last night
quoted a dispatch from its cor
respondent on the Libyan front
as saying Axis forces had prob
ably" entered Bardia, 10 miles
from the Egyptian frontierD
The armored columns of the Axis
Africa Corps withdrew after a brief
fight with the sun-blackened vet
Grams of 1t. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie
and it appeared they were only test
ing the strength of the new British
positions and consolidating their own
stand.
Military experts said no Axis tank
or man came nearer than 80 miles
from the frontier-the approximate
Evening star., 1942-06-21

position of the new and stronger
imperial defense line.
Although driven out of their main
positions in the loose triangle bound
ed roughly by Tobruk, Ain el Gazala
and Bir Hacheim, British armored
patrols still were operating extern
sively in Cirenaica, especially in the
inland. desert stretches, and were
harassing the enemy with repeated
raids. Their attacks were exploiting
the main problem confronting Mar
shall Erwin Rommel-his heightened
supply lines.
The Germans surround Tobruk.
(See IIRYA Page A-A)
Evening star., 1942-06-21

one years taxes the next year to
program of paying at least part of
current taxes out of current income.
How Plan Would Work.
Generally speaking, the new plan
would work like this:
An individuals annual personal
exemptions would be determined
and divided by So to ascertain the
weekly exemptions. A 10 per cent
withholding tax" would be levied
on that part of the weekly pay
check not covered by the exemption.
Half of the pay deduction could
be used as credit against 1912
taxes due beginning next March Is,
and the other half would accum-
ulate as a credit against 1943 taxes
due March Is, 1914. Beginning in
1914, the full 10 per cent deduction
would be applied against 1914 taxes.
In order to reach those whose
income is not in the form of regular
checks, the Treasury proposed a
separate treatment for such persons
as business men and recipients of
rents.
The Treasury proposed-and the
committee approved-a stipulation
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Nazi Moves May Fix
Time Of Attack by
Allies, Cripps Says
British Army Takes Over
Eost AneIio Area, Obvious
Jumpine-Off Place
By tie Associated Press.

BY tie Associated Press.
LONDON, June 20.-Sir Stat
ford Cripps, parliamentary dep
uty for Prime Minister Churchill,
promised Britain today that this
country and the United States
will launch great and sue
ceSSful attack upon Hitler in the
west" but gave no hint as to
when or where.
He said Nazi measures to meet 1t
might influence its timing.
simultaneously, the nation re-
ceived what appeared to be evidence
that Britain is making steady prep
arations to cast the fateful die. The
army announced it was taking over
as a training area 36-sqHare-mile
zone in East Anglia, an obvious pos
sible jumping off place for drive
across the Channel.
Ordinarily these developments
would have produced a wild frenzy
of expectation in Britain, coming as
they did just when Mr.. Churchill is
comforting with President Roosevelt
in the United States, when there
have been recent arrivals of strong
United States Army and naval
forces, and when the war in Rus
sia is nearing its first anniversary.
Churchill Confers by Phone.
Speculation would have been
heightened by these other develop
mentS:
l. The disclosure that just before
Mr.. Cripps spoke, Mr.. Churchill was
in consultation by transatlantic
telephone with at least one of his
aides, Maj. Clement r. Attlee, Do
minions Secretary.
2. An announcement by the Ger
man radio, which just gained notice
today, that German authorities, ap-
parently in a defensive mood, had
widened to the east and west the
already extensive mine fields in the
skagerrak between Norway and
Denmark.
But the British reaction was con-
ditioned by growing measiness over
the German attack on Russia s Sc
vastopol and deterioration of the
British position in North Africa,
coupled with indications that Hitler
may be preparing to seize the intia-
tive in an even more decided man.
ner In the Mediterranean.
Hitler Demand for Ships.
The cause for disquiet over the
latter situation was found in
Reuters news agency dispatch from
the French frontier" reporting that
Hitler has demanded that Pierre
Laval, Vichy chief of government,
cede 100000 tons of French ship
ping-a demand which seemed to
say that the Nazis are planning a
vast movement of men and supplies
across the Mediterranean and per-
haps the Black Sea.
A Daily Sketch columnist said
Frame would be left only 100000
tons Of her own ships to trade with
her colonies. He estimated her
shipping in Allied hands totaled
10000 tons.
The accumulation of evidence,
mostly from American sources, of
heavy shipping losses in recent
(Continued on Page 8. Column -
Evening star., 1942-06-21
All 26 Aboard Escape
As D. C.-Bound Bus Burns

By the Associated Press.
BEDFORD, Pa, June 20.-All 25
passengers and the driver escaped
safely from Pittsburgh-to-Wash-
ington Greyhound bus before it was
destroyed by fire on the Lincoln
Highway two miles west of here
tonight.
A Bedford motorist saw flames
shooting from the rear of the bus,
and overtaking it. notified the
driver that it was afre.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
U.S.. East Coast Mined by Enemy;
15O>OOONazis Pound Sevastopo|;
Reds Fall Back in Kharkov Area
Ship Sinking Off
Virginia Loid to
New-Type Attack

Enemy mlneS-n0t submarines
were responsible for the sink
ing of one merchant ship and
damage to another off a Virginia
resort early last week, the Navy
Department announced last
night. The report was the first
of mine-laying operations along
the United States Coast in this
war.
The two ships were blasted with
the loss of one life. Survivors landed
at Virginia coast resort told of tor
pedo attacks. The Navy said, how
ever, that careful investigation"
had convinced it that the ship casu-
slties were not "as previously be-
lieved' the result of submarine at
tacks, but were caused by the YES
sells striking enemy mines"
Undoubtedly. these mines were
laid by an enemy submarine under
the cover of darkness, when detec-
tion is extremely difficult" the Navy
said.
Two Merchantmen Sunk.
The disclosure that mines were
being laid in American waters COIN
cided with announcement that two
more merchantmen had fallen vic
tim of torpedoes, with the loss of IS
men. A small American ship was
sunk in the Caribbean; the other
vessel was Nicaraguan. These raised
merchant ship toll since Pearl Har-
Dor to 298.
Concurrently, the Maritime Com
mission announced that the arming
of Americas s merchant ships will be
completed within few months"
Reporting rapid progress the
commission said the vessels were
being equipped with the most mod
ern weapons to fight off both un-
dersea and air attacks. Adding
that details of the arming could
not be made public, the commits
sion said 1t can be said that Off
GERS and men are protected to the
greatest degree possible against ma
chine-gunning by enemy planes"
Navy crews man merchant ship
guns.
Was Not Unexpected.
The minelaying development had
not been unexpected in naval cir
cles.
Germany is known to have a
number of long-range submarines
equipped for mine laying. Avail
able records show several ocean,
going U-boats of more than 1000
tons displacement are fitted for
minelaying and naval experts be-
lieve Germany has been busy build
ing more. These are in addition
to many coastal type U-boats used
for laying mines in the waters
around England and in shipping
lanes leading from that country.
Moreover. the Germans recently
announced what they called an in
tensive submarine campaign against
all shipping along the coast of
North America and extending east
to the shores of Europe.
While the announcement set June
26 as the deadline for action in that
area, it was possible the enemy had
started off his campaign early with
minelayers supplementing the al
(See MINES, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Navy BIames Weather
For Mystery About
Japs in AIeutians
Enemy Getting Smoked
Whenever Fog Lifts,
Spokesman Says
Py the Associated Press.

GS INT HSSOClhLcu FTeSS.
SEATTLE, June 20.-Japanese
invaders of isolated Aleutian Is
land points are getting smacked
whenever there is a rift in the
fog banks" a 18th naval dis
trict spokesman said today.
He declared the "so-called mys-
terry Of the Aleutian battle is merely
mystery of weather, of fog and
snow, coupled with desire to keep
the enemy in the dark"
"If the public is confused about
the situation in western Alaska" he
said, then so is the enemy-and that
is all to the good. You can't make
a statement about a battle until the
battle is decided AS Admiral King
has told the American people, the
battle for the Aleutians is continu-
ing. AS already announced the at
tack was no surprise and the initial
attacks at Dutch Harbor were met. /"
The statement continued:
Its a weird, wild country up
there. There are great patches of
fog and rain in which the enemy can
hide, as a band of guerrillas may
hide in the bush. There are literally
thousands of small bays and inlets.
The Japs know the country, but so
does the Navy.
Weather Explains 1t.
why haven't the Army and Navy
already driven the Japs out of the
Aleutians? The weather explains
that, in part. It's one thing to get
at them in clear skies and another
to get at them when the weather is
foul and thick and snow is in the
air and quick-forming ice burdens
the wings of planes.
You can depend on it. they are
getting smacked whenever there is
rift in the fog banks. Some of
the greatest stories of the war, some
of the finest contributions to naval
tradition, will come out of this
strange struggle of give and take in
the Aleutiaons.
/ wouldn't want to be one of
those Japs up there. Suppose you
had spent years as Jap fisherman
in Alaska, or as bus-boy in Seattle,
and had gone back home a few
weeks before Pearl Harbor. Then
suppose, because of your experience,
you were sent on this Aleutian ex-
pedition-to occupy the outer is
lands, to try to take the Alaska out
posts and, if successful in that, to
establish bases in Alaska from which
to attack British Columbia and the
Northwest.
Such a Jap knows where he is,
but he also knows with whom he
is dealing. He knows the type of
&C.. ar nYyrT a NYc
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Doriot Porty's Offices
Bombed at Cannes
B, the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
VICHY, June 20.-The Riviera
headquarters at Cannes of Jacques
Doriot's pro-Nazi Popular Party was
bombed Thursday night, it was dis
closed today.
Two unidentified persons threw a
bomb through the plate-glass win
dow front and the explosion dam
aged both the interior and exterior
Of the building
Two persons have been held for
questioning and the investigation
is continuing.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
7 British Hurricanes
In Russia Tackle u
Planes, Down 10
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, June 20.-An out
standing victory for British
Hurricanes manned by Russian
pilots was reported tonight
from the northwest front.
Soviet dispatches said seven
Hurricanes fought II Junkers
and Is Messerschmitts, shooting
down 10 and damaging three
others with the loss of only
one plane.
Evening star., 1942-06-21

MEXICO CITY, June 20 (R.-A
slight earthquake shook the Capt.
tai before dawn today. There was
no damage. The central seismo-
graphic station said the epicenter of
the disturbance was about $50 miles
to the southwest.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Axis Tests British Line in Libyo:
Entrance Into Bordio Reported
Enemy Withdrew After Sounding Out Strength
Of New English Positions, Cairo Says
BY EDWARD KENNEDY,
Associated Press War Correspondent,

CAIRO, Egypt, June 20-Brtans bloody but unbowed 9th
firm tonight 80 miles inside Lbya from the Egyptian
frontier columns of Axis forces which
passed encced Tobuk within Is miles of Bada
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Table Shows Income
Exempt From 1920
Withholding Tax
Bv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Following is a table of basic
exemptions under the proposed
plan for ieducting income taxes
from the taxpayers regular
pay checks. All income above
the amount listed in each cate
CORY would be subject to a 10
per cent withholding tax:
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Lexineton's Captain Asks Navy Department
To Keep Coral Sea Crew Intact on New Carrier

This is the last OF the series OF
stories supplied to the Associated
Press by the Chicago Tribune,
1UhoSe foreign correspondent,
Stanley Johnston, lDas the only
American nepSpapernlan aboard
the aircraft carrier Lexington tn
the Coral Sea bdttle.)
Evening star., 1942-06-21
BY STANLEY JOHNSTON,

Foreign Correspondent of Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO, June 20-The Lex
ington's crew-the survivors of the
fierce Coral Sea air fighting and
the bombing and torpedoing taken
by the gallant old carrier-came
home aboard three Navy ships, two
cruisers and transport. 1t was not
however, a retreat. 1t was only a
temporary lull in battle-for the men
came home to take over q new car
rier, Lexington II.
We didn't, of course, know this
Evening star., 1942-06-21

(See MINES, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1942-06-21

(See ALEUTIANS, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Weather Forecast

Moderately warm today, gentle winds.
Temperatures yesterday: Highest, 81,
at $50 pm; lowest, II, at 6:lo am;
81 at 10 pm.
From the United States Weather bureau report
Full Details on PAGE Az
Evening star., 1942-06-21

The Evening and Sunday Star is
delivered in the city and suburbs at
75c per month. The Night Final
Edition and Sunday Morning Star at
85c per month.
Evening star., 1942-06-21

Continued on Page 6, Column IL
Evening star., 1942-06-21

tSee LIBYA, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-06-21

(see JOHNSTON, PAGE AID
Evening star., 1942-06-21
SIiqht Quoke in Mexico City

(See RUSSIA, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1942-06-21

(See RUBBER, Page A-3)
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-15
Pho Leads Ypsi
High 10 Win

Lester Pic. southpaw freshman
was granted his first real chance
when he was given starting mound
duties Tor Ypsilanti High Schoo
against Plymouth Thursday.
Pho limited the Rocks to three
hits as the Warriors scored a IL
win over the Plymouth team.
Bob Moffett. shortstop, and Jack
Lawrence, catcher. led the Ypsi.
lanti batsmen with two singles
apiece, out of the seven hits made.
Three runs in the first. and four
in the sixth accounted for all of
lpsilanti's runs.
With the batting order shifted.
Clyde King led off by banging out
a single, as Jack Lawrence and Bob
Moffett duplicated the feat
Art Herbst then walked, as How
ard sacrificed him to second from
where he scored on a passed ball
and a wild pitch.
In the sixth, Moffett led off with
single, and Jack Lawrence fol
lowed by getting his second hit OF
the day. single, but was out at
tempting to come home on a wild
pitch.
Art Herbst then pounded out
double. followed by two-bagger by
Howard Herbst, and when the throw
to second went wild, moved to third.
He scored as short stop Schwartz
threw out Freeman.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-15
The vpyLANrI vpsANr MICH Friday NAV IS tsa
Contest Will
be Saturday

The cream OF the states school
boy track and field athletes, inelud
ing representatives OF two Ypsilant
institutions. will vie for top honor,
in four divisions Saturday in the
sixteenth annual regional high
school championships at Briggs
/ Field.
The entry includes 470 individual
! competitors and 80 high school
teams. Regional meets will be in
nine other centers Saturday in
order to select the field for the
Lower Peninsula finals at East
Lansing May %.
Preliminaries in the Npsilanti
regional will start at a m. and
finals will be held throughout the
afternoon. Pole vault and shot
put finals will follow the prelim-
inaries in the morning, however,
according 10 Manager George Mar
shall
The champions. Monroe. Birm
ingham and Ann Arbor University
ties, Michigan School for the Deaf.
winner in Glass d year ago, will
not send a team Saturday.
Monroe heads the Glass A en-
tries. which also include Dearborn.
Lincoln Park. Plymouth, River
Rouge and Wyandotte. Class b
teams competing are Adrian. Al
bion, Belleville. Berkeley, Birming-
ham, East Detroit Melvindale, Mil
ford. Redford Union. Roseville,
Trenton, Wayne and Ypsilanti Cen
trail
Other Glass c schools entered.
besides University High, are Dun
dee, Fowlerville, Grass Lake. Keego
Harbor, Lincoln. Milan. Morenci,
Ypsilanti, Roosevelt, Tecumseh.
Warren and WILLIAMSON. Fraser
and Bloomfield Hills comprise the
only Class ID participants.
A 20.man squad will represent
Central in the meet. while FIVE ath-
letes will compete under Roosevelt
colors.
At least four individuals will be
worth watching in the meet. They
are Forest Naveaux. Monroe pole
vaulter; Al Wehner. Monroe miller;
Jack Steelman, Birmingham sprint
err; and William Dale, Wayne high
jumper. Naveaux set a regional
record OF IL feet FIVE inches last
year besides winning the 100 and
220-yard dashes and running in the
relay.
Wehner and Steelman have turn
ed in near-record times in their
events this spring, and Dale un-
oficially bettered the state Class
B standard in his speciality last
week by soaring feet rs inches
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-15
Y. III. S. Meters
Take 81 Games

Taking SO out OF 70 games. Ypsi.
lanti METERS made it eight straight
at the expense OF Plymouth High
School Thursday.
Ellis Freatman. beaten only by
Roger Lewis. Ann Arbor. took his
match by beating Brit, So Ga.
L.. ID. Harmon after beating Mar
tin SO in the first set went -
games before finally winning the
second set, rs.
Bill Rowe beat Odds by taking IL
straight games. 60. so.
Norman and Strang also shut
out their opponents, Curmi and
Bower, 60. 60.
Bob Johnston and Jim Miller
completed the picture by beating
McGregor and Harshag, 60, 6-4.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-15
SPORTS Roundup

Lansing NSMichgan States baseball team today held
victory the University Detroit thanks the excellent
relief ninging of Don Feschmsn Flint right handler.
Dsro-Ns-The powerful New York Yankees the Detroit
their yesterday
because of the weather The Al Benton
hur Detroit Bonham, who has games
a Yankee noundsman
NsAs prepared
today
field Northwestern University looked
for individual honors.
New York-NS-Booklyn rushing along
ahead the National The
the challenge OF the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday
match that included three homer
DODGERS and circuit clous by Babe Phelps and Bob Elliott
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-15
High School Athletes to Vie Here
Roosevelt Tennis Team Wins
Fourth Match by 5 to O Score

Roosevelt High Schools state
championship tennis team won its
fourth match in a row by a so
score in turning back Detroit Unit
versity School Thursday. The
Rough Riders clash with Flat Rock
next Wednesday in a Huron League
meet.
Whitehouse won from Ray, 50,
So: Norman from Wilson, rs, 6-3
Richardson from Page, SO, 90;
Turner and Harris from Reynolds
and Fox. 81. 81, SIS: Gahlhagd and
Chisel from Getler and Worcester,
6-l, GO.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-05-15
CIVIL WAR VET DIES

Marine City, May 15-Rites are
being arranged for Rev. Isaac d.
Hodgkins. SO. last Cicil War vet
eran in st. Clair County. who died
here Thursday He was only Is
when he joined the Union Army.
Dec. 10. 1858. He served IS months
as a member of Co. F, 59th Massa-
chusetts Infantry.