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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
tOPA Puts Order
In Plain English,
Breaks Tradition
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Once of Price Administration
broke with tradition today by put
ting one OF its orders into plain
English.
The order, which incidentally re-
vised the price ceiling on industrial
wooden boxes, was explained by
OPA as a first step in continuing
effort to put price regulations in "a
simple narrative and explanatory
style"
Besides emitting legal phrase
ology, the order is completely re-
arranged to present the scope and
operation of the new ceiling in
logical" fashion, OPA said.
The regulation, a model of COM
pleteness and clarity by comparison
with earlier OPA rulings, starts out
with section titled What products
are covered" It goes on to explain
that "the term industrial wooden
box as used in this regulation has
somewhat wider meaning than
may be customary in some parts of
the trade" Continuing in similar
vein, the order uses examples freely
to clear up points which otherwise
might be obscure.
Actual effect Of the order is to
provide a new set of formulas,
effective November 10, for determin-
ing ceilings, in place of the old
regulation which based prices on the
highest list price quoted in March.
That proved inadequate because
the boxes usually are custom-built
and few sellers had price lists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
Mother Of Pacific Victim
Chung 10 Hope 10 Last
BY the Associated Press.


TORRINGTON, Conn.,, Nov. IA
The mother of Staff Sergt. Alexan-
der T. Kaczmarczyk, a member of
the Eddie Rickenbacker party, who
died after they had been forced
down in the Pacific, chung until
the last minute to the hope that
her son would be rescued alive,
buoyed by the youths contention
that God is good to me-"
1--WE all pray often and place our
trust in God," said Mrs. A. P. Kacz-
marczyk only yesterday, after the
rescue of Capt. William T. Cherry,
pilot OF the plane carrying the Rick
enbacker party.
God is good and we hope Alex
will come back alive" said his
mother.
Only a short time before Sergt.
kaczmarczyk embarked on the trip
he wrote his mother:
Don't you worry, mother, God
is good to me-"
Mrs. Kaczmarczyk said that her
son had escaped death in a previous
accident involving an automobile
He knew used to worry about
him because he was in the air
forces" his mother continued. II
would tell him thought it was
dangerous up in those airplanes.
He told me often not to worry"
Just month after his brother
was reported missing, Edward Kacz-
marczyk, "a, enlisted In the air
force. Some time ago, another
brother, Henry, %. joined the Army.
The only son now at home is II
years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
Roosevelt MESSAGE
To Algerian Governor
Is Made Public
Expressed Confidence
Thot ChuteI Would :
Cooperate With U. S.

The White House today made pub
lie a message from President Roose-
welt to Yves Charles Chatel, COVER
nor-general of Algeria, expressing
confidence that the governor would
cooperate in the American effort
to drive the Axis from North Africa.
Presumably the message was one
Of those sent to a number of local
officials in French North Africa
simultaneously with the beginning Of
the American expedition last Satur-
day night. Its publication had been
withheld pending confirmation of its
delivery.
According to dispatches from
Algiers, M. Chatel, who returned
there from Vichy only three days
ago, now is cooperating with the
American forces.
Text of Message.
The text of Mr.. Roosevelt's mes
sage follows:
THE undeniable evidence which
has come to me of the design of the
Axis powers, opponents of brutality,
force and aggression, to execute
their program of domination and
occupation Of Algeria requires that
you and I cooperate in the defense
against the common enemy.
Il have not been oblivious to the
able resistance which you have ex-
tended to the application to Algeria
Of the cruel terms of the Armistice
of June, 1910, and your determina-
ton to defend the French Empire
on which the covetous eyes of Ger
many and Italy are fastened.
The intention Of the Axis tc
exploit French North Africa and de-
4ach # from France for the profit OF
the Central Powers undoubtedly is
obvious to you.
i: Expects Stout Resistance. notr
''Now that the Unsuitable AXIS de-
sire eliminates in an effort to seize
French North Africa, I know that
you will stoutly resist by every
means at your disposal this latest
manifestation of German and Ital-
ian cupidity and baseness.
BE assured that the powerful
American forces, equipped with the
deadliest instruments of modern
warfare, which I am dispatching
will support you to the limit of
their great resources to the end
that the Axis may be driven from
North Africa and the liberation of
France and its empire from despic-
able tyranny may begin. These
American forces are determined,
like yourself, that liberty and the
dignity of man shall not perish from
the earth. You know that those
American forces have only one aim
which they will achieve-the de-
struction of our common enemies
and that includes the liberation OF
France.
Long live France. Long live the
United States of America"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
A. P. Writer Safe
In Axis Hands,
Post Card Says
y the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Nov. 1.-THE
first direct word of the safety and
well-being Of Larry Allen came to-
day in a post card from the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent who has
been a prisoner of the Axis since
a British destroyer was sunk from
under him during Commando raid
on Tobruk in mid-September.
The card, to the International Red
Cross at Geneva, bore no date and
gave no clue to his whereabouts.
It said only that he was "all
right, war prisoner Of the Italians,
we'll treated and expects soon to be
transferred to a prisoners camp
He said he would write again then
to give his address.
The post card probably was a con-
siderable time in the mails, so the
question still is unanswered whether
Mr.. Allen would be freed by the
British recapture of Tobruk yester-
day. Although he was known to
have been captured there, the Axis
has not disclosed where he was
being held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
Former French Consular
AGENTS 10 Be informed. ..

oJ lie ASeoCldttQ FTeSS.. -;
BALTIMORE, Nov 14.-The State
Department has notified Joseph A.
Girard, former French consular
agent, and Francis Hekking, his as
'sistant in the Office Of the French
Tobacco Monopoly, that they would
be interned Tuesday at the Hershey
Hotel, Hershey, Pa.
Il am so surprised-and there
seems to be nothing to do but COM
ply" was M. Girard's reaction to re-
ception of the news from a State
Department official.
The Government has leased the
Hershey Hotel to house all French
government agents, and if the State
Department follows policy estab-
lished in treatment of Germans,
Italians and Japanese, M. Girards
wife and children also will be in
termed.
M. Hekking deplored the fact that
the news came ION the same day
that Gen. Pershing again urges all
Frenchmen to fight again for
France"
M. Hekking said he had been try
ing to enlist in the United States
Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
D. c. Man Sworn in
For Seaman Troininq

Walter Humphris Frazier of 10 H.
street NE, an employee of the May,
flower Hotel, was among seven vol-sf;
unteers sworn in. for apprentice
seaman training for the Merchant
Marine yesterday at the Maritime
Service enrolment office. ,oi
The other men, all from West II
Virginia. include Victor L. Cundi6I 81
of Nitro, Hugh p. Pierce OF Nitrowe
Harry R. Shinn of Charleston, James,
G. Schwartz of South Charleston;
Paul r. Wilson of Parkersburg and s
Don E. Young of Charleston. c5i
Ensign G. G. Gastrock, jr.. who g
conducted the induction ceremonies ~
said an increasing number Of vol-,
unteers are making application with !
the Merchant Marine. Men from !;
II years, months, to IS years, 0y
months of age are eligible for en-. sr
rollment. 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
Henderson Calls Gas,
Rubber Boot|eggersa as
Dangerous as Spies
Actual Needs to Govern
Rotionine, OPA Chief
Says in Dallas Talk
By the Associated Press.

DALLAS, Nov. 14.-Leon Hender-
son termed gasoline and rubber
bootleggers "as dangerous to on,
country as those German spies We
recently executed for their projects
to blow up our power plants anc
war industries"
I'VE have as great duty to trar
such criminals as we have to stor
a murderer, for they sacrifice the
lives of our own soldiers under fire
for the dollars they can STEAL" the
ONCE Of Price Administration, CHIEF
said last night at joint meeting OF
the Dallas and Fort Worth Cham
beers of Commerce.
Geography No Factor.
Commenting on Nationwide gas
oline rationing, to go in effect De-
cember l, he said:
1.-THE rationing plan may result
in a 4,000-mile average in some
States, while other States may pos
sibly average more than 5000 miles
year per vehicle" Mr.. Henderson
asserted. But an applicant isn't
going to get additional mileage ra-
tons because he lives in Dallas, or
San Francisco, or New York.
He is going to get it only because
he needs to drive to the shipyard
or munitions plant, and the basic
book won't give him enough mile
age. Or because he is a doctor who
needs more mileage on his pro-
fessional calls. Or because he is q
farmer who needs more mileage to
deliver his produce to market"
Gasoline rationing, Mr.. Henderson
emphasized, is a plan for insuring
transportation, rather than "Rube
Goldberg contraption guaranteed to
make people miserable"
Not Low on Gasoline.
'Efghfy-six per cent 81 the Nations
transportation depends on its a.
000, 900 passenger cars, he asserted
adding that when tires 90 bad, usert
Of those tires are forced to ride on
an already overburdened public
transportation system. A breakdown
in the Nations transportation sys.
tenn would paralyze war factories
Il want to be perfectly clear about
one thing" the speaker said. 1--WE
are not low on gasoline"
The only connection between gaso.
line and tires, he explained is the
controls that must be placed or
driving to save tires.
Speed of the synthetic rubber pro.
gram Is almost magical, Mr.. Hender.
son said, adding that it would take
miracle for the program to bear
real fruit before 1914.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
Steel Plant in Michigan
Taken Over by RFC
By the Associated Press.


DETROIT, Nov. 14.-With the full
cooperation of officials of the Re-
public Steel Corp, the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp. yesterday took
over the company's Monroe (Mich. J
plant to manufacture forged alum
mum cylinder heads.
Julius Kabatsky, assistant United
States attorney, and Republic Steel
officers appeared before Federal
Judge Arthur F. Lederle on an order
to show cause why the RFC should
not have immediate occupancy of
the plant, and, as no objection was
raised by the corporation, the RFC
was placed in control.
The RFC asked for the plant I'M
der the Second War Powers Act
and presumably will turn it over
later to whatever governmental
agency will have charge of the
operations.
Mr.. Kabatsky said corporation off,
Gals would confer later with the
Government over the price to be
paid. He said the plant already
was engaged in war work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
u. 5. Gives Argentina
Three Memoranda on
Nazi Spy Charges
Evidence Is Presented
X On WeIIes' Statement:
20 Arrests Are Reported
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 1.-THE
Argentine government announced
last night that the United States
had presented to it three memo
randa charging the existence Of Nazi
espionage in Argentina.
The Foreign ONCE said the mem
oranda were presented by United
States Ambassador Norman Armour
and that they were an answer to
an Argentine request to Washington
to give evidence in support of
charges that Nazi agents were using
Argentina and Chile as bases for
operation.
Undersecretary Of State Sumner
Welles, in an address at Boston
October 8, made the assertion that
two South American states were
tolerating the operation of Axis
agents. He did not name Argentina
or Chile, but both these countries
which still maintain diplomatic re-
lations with Germany and Italy
took offense.on s art1 :, en1
- Specific Information. So
President Juan Antonio Rios OF
Chile Cancelled a proposed visit to
the United States and Argentina
issued a statement strongly reject
ing Mr.. Welles' charges. It made
"a request for evidence and the
memoranda delivered yesterday pre-
sumably gave specific information
in the hands of the United States
Government.
The Foreign Office issued a state
ment saying:
"As a consequence of a request
made by the Argentine Ambassador
in Washington, as a result of state
ments made by Undersecretary of
State Welles, the Ambassador of the
United States, on November 3, 4 and
10 delivered three confidential mem
oranda to the Foreign Office regard
ing espionage in Argentine terri.
tory by Axis agents.
THE Argentine government saw
with satisfaction this concrete ex-
ample OF cooperation, and ordered
immediate consideration of these
reports, which at this moment are
being investigated by police author
tiles and other related departments"
20 Arrests Reported.
There have been many indications
in recent days that investigations
OF espionage were being made, and
it was reliably reported that at
least 20 Germans, or Argentines
friendly to Germans, have been ar
rested.
It was said that some information
contained in the Washington men,
oranda duplicated material already
in the possession of a Chamber Of
Deputies Committee which is in
vestigating anti-Argentine activities.
Indications that the Interior
Ministry was acting on complaints
from Washington included the arrest
November 4 of Claude Wolf, accused
Of having entered the country IL
legally from Chile: the detention
of Oswald Hiner, official of the Ger
man Workers Guild of La Plata,
and the arrests yesterday of six
employees of a German company
who, it was charged, operated a
secret radio station in suburban San
Fernando.
In his address at Boston Mr..
Welles said that data sent to the
Axis from South America resulted
in the sinking Of ships, and deaths
of many North and South Ameri-
cans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
D. {. Officers Role
In African Mission
Thrills Daughters
Col. HumbIen's Letter
limited Of Action,
They Realize Now

A hint that Col. Archelaus Hamb-
len of Washington was to take part
in some unusual" action with
United States troops in England was
contained in a recent letter to his
family, but didn't spoil their thrill
at reading that he. was a member
OF 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark's mission
to North Africa, his daughters, Aud
rey and Barbara, said today.
Still excited over their fathers
role in the mission which played
such an important part in the sue
cess Of the second front launched in
Africa by American ana English
troops, Col. Hamblen's two daugh-
tiers, who work for the British Army
Staff Headquarters here, said one
part of their fathers letter, received
about week ago, was not clear at
the time, but explained lot after
they heard about the mission to
Africa.
Audrey, 20, who did most Of the
talking with occasional promptings
from her sister, Barbara, 81, said a
reference in her fathers letter to
his wedding anniversary, which, in
cidentally, is today, was what gave
the hint, although they didn't rec
ognize it at the time.
Referred to New Clothes.
The letter to their mother, Mrs.
Ethelyn Hamblen of 4413 @ street
NV, they said informed the fam
lily that Col Hamblen was well"
and added that he was thinking
of his wife on their wedding ami
yersary."
I'VE thought this was strange,
but just decided that father had
forgotten the date of his anniversary
again." they said, land we didn't
pay much attention either to his
statement that he had just been by
the commissary to get a new outfit
of clothes.
OF course, when we read about
Gen. Clark's mission we knew that
father had spoken about the ami
versary because he didn't know when
he might get another chance to
write home. AS for his new clothes,
they must have travelled the same
road as Gen. Clark's $4,000, al
though Secretary Morgenthau prob
ably won't be worried about them"
Fought in World War.
A native of Gorham, Me, Col.
Eamblen served with the United
States Army in France during the
World War, where he rose from the
rank of first lieutenant to major.
Prior to being stationed in Washing
ton from where he was sent to Eng
land last May Is, he had been sta
toned with the Army in Chicago.
he also had served in Hawaii.
Col. Hamblen's son, Archelaus
Hamblen, jr., is senior at West
Point, and will be graduated from
the academy this spring.
Aubrey and Barbara said their
mothers first words on hearing that
Col. Hamblen was member of Gen.
Clark's mission were:
"Oh! I'll bet he lost the new pair
ct gloves I just sent him."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
Meat Vitamin Chart
To MisIead Public,
Wheeler Charges
Livestock Board Disputes
Senator's Claim 1t Will
Be Based on Raw Cuts
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. Il
The vitamin content of raw and
cooked meat is not the same, Sem
ator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon
tarla contends, and he wants house.
wives to know this when reading
charts on nutritional values of vari-
Gus cuts.
Il am advised" he wrote the
National Livestock and Meat Board
In Chicago yesterday, that your
organization is planning early dis
tribution = :" of a nutritional chart
for the consuming public, setting
forth the vitamin values of unlocked
or raw meat in manner calculated
to represent the vitamin values cited
as being for the meat when cooked"
After all, we are not Nation Of
cannibals, and I suspect even the
FBI would be hard put in an attempt
to locate an eater of raw pork or
veal" Mr. Wheeler wrote.
In Chicago the Livestock and Meat
Board replied promptly that Senator
Wheeler had spoken on the basis of
erroneous information, and said
the proposed vitamin chart was
drawn to show the value of cooked,
not raw, meats.
Telegram Made Public.
Board Manager. R. G. Pollock made
public a telegram. to the Senator
which said:
Your letter taking us to task for
planning distribution of a vitamin
chart in the nature of yardstick
showing the vitamin content of vari-
GUS meats is based upon erroneous
information.
The material to which you refer,
and which is the result of two wears
of intensive scientific research, shows
the vitamin value of cooked meats
as served on the table. It is re-
grettable that you did not see fit to
ascertain the facts before making
entirely unfounded and false allega-
tons with respect to the activities
of this organization"
It, is a known fact Senator
Wheeler said concerning his letter,
that cooking destroys meat vitamins.
In the face of anticipated meat
shortages, the Senator wrote, sit
would seem more important than
ever that what is offered as an edu-
cational campaign on the subject Of
the nutritional qualities of meat,
should be clear, concise and instruc-
tive in its discussion of such vitally
important subject as vitamins, in
which the Government tells us that
many millions of people are def
Gent"
Bearing on Law Seen.
moreover" Senator Wheeler con-
tlnued. "as co-author of the Wheel
er-Lea Act (having to do with false
Advertising, I cannot help but feel
that the subject matter of this letter
bears Importantly" on this act.
Meanwhile, the Office of Price ADJ
mlnistration said it is working out
a revised price ceiling schedule for
slaughtered beef products.
An OPA spokesman added, how
ever, that OPA did not presently
contemplate fixing a ceiling on live
cattle prices. \
The revised price ceilings would
apply uniformly to all packers in .
designated zones, fixing a rate in
dollars and cents that a packer
could charge for his products, the
spokesman said. /.
Present regulations had drawn
criticism to the effect that packers
who had charged relatively high.
prices in the base period could take
advantage of the greater profit mar
gin and outbid competitors on the
live cattle market. !;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
A. n. Lawson Indicted
By Alien Hearing Board

Alfred H. Lawson, vice. president
OF the Washington Loan and Trust
Co., and president of the local
YMCA, today was sworn In as q
member Of the Alien Enemy Hearing
Board. The brief ceremonies were
held in the Offices of District At
torney Edward M. Curran, head OF
the board.
Mr.. Lawson replaces the Rev
Robert White, former dean of the
Catholic University Law School. Mr.
White now is a commander in the
Navy.
Other members Of the board in
clude John S. Flannery and Alfred
F. E. Horn. The board is charged
with the duty Of considering the
rights Of aliens in the Washington
area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
Africa
Continued From First Page.)

French fleet at Toulon, the Paris
radio said the commander in chief
of the II French warships immobil-
lied more than % months at Alex
andria, British Egyptian naval base,
would take orders only from Marshal
Petain.
A French communique broadcast
from Vichy said the stationing of
German and Italian troops in the
formerly free zone did not affect the
sovereignty of the Petain govern
ment.
Again the French stressed the
vigor of the North African defense
before the final capitulation of
Morocco and Algiers, but said the
defenders were overwhelmed by SUI
perior force. The 35.000-ton vichy
battleship Jean Bart, the ministry
of information said, was set afire,
while three destroyers were put out
OF action and grounded and q fourth
was sunk. OF four submarines en-
gagged, one was reported sunk and
two missing, while the other reached
Toulon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
Pennsylvania Governors
Daughter to Wed Todoy
BY the Associated Press,

HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. IA
Pennsylvania executive mansion
was crowded with guests today for
the marriage OF Miss Dorothy
Jimmy James, 81, daughter of
Gov. Arthur H. James, and 32-year-
old Frank A. Simon, a deputy State
attorney general.
The ceremony, scheduled for 4
pm. in Grace Methodist Church
with a reception following in the
mansion, climaXes a romance which
began when the couple met at Gov.
James 1899 inaugural ball.
Miss James at that time was the
Governors Official hostess. posi-
ton she held until his second mar
rage last year. The brides mother
died several years ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-14
War Conditions Close
Colonial Parkway
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 14.-J. G.
Harrington, acting superintendent
of the Colonial National Historical
Park, said the Colonial parkway
between Yorktown and Williams
burg will be closed to public use
tomorrow because of war condi-
tions."
Regular traffic between Williams
burg and Yorktown will be routed
over Routes 168 and 238. This way
Will be only one mile further than
the parkway route.