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Evening star., 1942-12-21
War to ( md in 1913,
Frenchmen Assert,
Pointing to History

BY Tie Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa. Dec. 2l.-Some
Frenchmen who believe in the
periodic recurrence of historic
events advance this chain of
circumstances to support their
belief that the war will end
IN 1943:
The French Revolution took
place in 1889. The German
Revolution took place in 1918.
129 years later.
Napoleon became Emperor of
France IN 1904. Hitler came
into power in 1888, 129 years
later.
Napoleon started his cam
paign against Russia in 1912.
Hitler made the same mistake
in l94l, 129 years later.
Napoleon abdicated in 1914.
In 1943, l29 years later, Hit
Evening star., 1942-12-21
Rejecting Pool Due
To Be Opened for
Skating Tomorrow

Park police announced today
that an effort will be made to
open the Rejecting Pool to the
public for skating tomorrow
night.
Snow will be cleared from
the pool today and it definitely
will be opened if the cold
weather continues, they added.
This will be the first time this
season that skating has been
permitted there, although police
headquarters has been swamped
with calls each time the tenn
perature dropped well below the
freezing point.
Evening star., 1942-12-21
BY the Associated Press.

by tne ASSoCldteO fTeSS.
Treasury officials disclosed today
that plans to enlist the aid of hun
dreds of school teachers throughout
the country in lnstructing citizens
in handling income tax returns next
spring have been discussed with
representatives of educational Or
ganizations.
Emphasizing that the plans were
still in the conference stage" off,
cials said that proposals under con-
sideration contemplated using teach
ers in an educational program to
spread tax information. It was not
planned, officials said, to have
teachers help taxpayers fill out re-
turns,
Evening star., 1942-12-21
War Boosts Exports Sc Per Cent
Above Year Ago in II Months

November exports were $785 ,092.-
600. surprising the previous 1912
monthly high of $766, ,036 900 estab-
lished in September.
The value Of general imports OF
merchandise during the first IL
months OF this year was of 20 per
cent from the 1941 total and i'm
ports for consumption were of IT
per cent. General imports in No
vember amounted to $l67, ,543, 900,
the lowest monthly total of the
year.
Evening star., 1942-12-21
Honors for Cumming

Hugh S. Cumming, retired sur
geon general of the United States
Public Health Service. was author
lied to accept decorations from the
republics of Colombia, Haiti and
Chile for scientific service under
legislation signed today by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1942-12-21
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The value of exports for the first
Ii months of this year rose to more
than $1,000, 900 900, an increase of
56 per cent over the first II months
of 1941, the Census Bureau reported
today.
The total value of exports up to
the end of November was .S7.018,-
564 900, including lease-lend goods,
the bureau said. as compared with
s4.494, 100000 in the period last
year.
Evening star., 1942-12-21
Markets at q Glance

NEW YORK. Dec. 81 tP,.-
Stocks mixed; specialties favored.
Bonds steady; B. e. O. issues ad-
vance. Cotton higher; commits
sion house buying.
CHICAGO.-Wheat lower: profit
taking. Corn, deferred deliveries
lower: hedging sales. Hogs, 25-
80 higher: top $l4.60: small run.
Cattle. steers, yearlings, Is higher:
bulls at record high.
Evening star., 1942-12-21
RUSSIANS PRESS DRIVE TO EDGE OF UKRAINE
Late News Bulletins

Rommers Army Reported at Misuroto
LONDON up-The Morocco radio said tonight that Mar
sha Rommes retreatng Axis already reached the
vicinity Msuraa only 100 miles east of Tripo Cairo dis
last reported pursuing British troops operating beyond
Sultan, $50 miles from Trpoli.
Abetz Reported Recalled to Berlin
BERN Switzerland t4-French quarters reported today
Ambassador Paris personal
appontee Foreign Minister Joachim Ribbentrop has
been recalled to Berlin and will not be replaced.
Burma Yunnon Border Clashes Continue
CHUNGKING D-Continued clashes along the border OF
the Shan Yunnan Province where the
japanese driving norhward toward the Burma road
reported by the Chinese high command today
Axis Raid in Tunisiu Thrown Back
Allied forces in Tunisia beat off small enemy raid on
of their forward positions Saturday night War De-
parment communique reported today Fighter planes pa
trolling yesterday also destroyed enemy
bomber and a fighter without loss to themselves.
Evening star., 1942-12-21
Lute Races
Earlier results, entries and sklec'
tions for tomorrow on Page 2-X.)
Tropical Park


Tropical Park
THIRD RACE-Purse, $500: claiming;
3-year-olds and upward: 6 furlones
Yes or No fStevensont $500 1910 $50
Selmalad tRienZil $50 80
Perfect Rhyme tG0rmanl $40
Time. iii Id.
Also ran--Pony Express. Argella Re-
mote Control, st. Dismas, Donna Leona
FOURTH RACE-Purse, s1, 200: allow
ances: a-year- -olds: 8 furlongs
No Wrinkles (Atkinson) 1910 $40 500
Unchallenged tGonzales) 1870 1890
Samhar ,Thornbure) $50
Time, 1:11as.
Also ran-Ballacon. Queens Risk, Joe
Burser. Blue Pom. Bridleour, Wise Paisano,
Momentito.
FIFTH RACE-Purse, $1,000: Inau-
gural Handicap, hrst division; 3-year-oids
and upward; g furlonss.
Dispose tMcCombsf 20.70 1l.40 $40
Three Clovers tSmith) $500 IL 30
Blue Pair fMcCreary) 500
Time, l:I03s.
Also ran-Arsonne Woods, Cousin Nan.
Augury. Sir Marlboro. Joe Ray, Doepatch,
Cerberus Ship Biscuit.
Evening star., 1942-12-21

(See DIVORCES. Page 2-XD
Evening star., 1942-12-21
Weather Report

o' 80 colo tonight with lowest temperature near
40 oegrees. Temperatures today-Highest %,
at pm; lowest, l, at 2:45 am Full report on
page Alb va
p1ei oii consumption should be 50 per cent
Vi aotment for period ending January f.
Evening star., 1942-12-21

(See WEATHER, Page 2-X.)
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Mcpherson Placed
Under $4,000 Bond
On Robbery Charges
U. S. Commissioner Fixes
High Boil Because of
Staying Confession

Raymond Stanley Allen McPher-
son, %, said by police to have con-
lessed two killings, was held under
S25,0 900 bond pending action of the
| grand jury after he had been ar
raigned today before United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage
Oh ROBBERY charge in connection
with the holdup and robbery of a
| service station in the HOO block of
Twentieth street NV. February 25.
The defendant, through his attor-
hey, Daniel B. Maher, waived pre-
| lIminary hearing. Commissioner
Turnage explained that he had set
the high bond in view of the al
legged killings, although no formal
murder charge had been placed
against Mcpherson.
During the arraignment, the COM
missioner asked the youth if he de-
sired to make any voluntary state
ment in connection with the murder
of a motorist near the Texas-Okla-
homa line last week. After talking
| with his attorney, Mcpherson said
he was on his way to Galveston.
Tex, and had obtained a ride with
a man in Oklahoma He added
that he had been drinking at the
time.
Tells Of Struggle.
En- route to Texas. he related, he
and the man had a tuSsle in which
he shot the motorist in the head.
He then went to Dallas, he re-
ported, and there took a bus to New
Orleans and Miami. He said he
did not know the name of the man
! he said he had shot. When shown
revolver by Detective Sergt. j. J.
Tolson, he identified it as the one
he had used in the shooting.
| Meanwhile. it was indicated Texas
authorities would seek McPherSons
extradition promptly in connection
with the murder of the motorist.
Judge H. H. Nelson of Collin
County, Tex, who questioned the
/ youth at police headquarters yester-
! interview to the district attorney
in his county and turn over to him
a bullet from the gun police said
. was taken from Mcpherson. The
bullet will be compared with one re-
moved from the body of the motor
ist, Rudolph Canan of San Antonio,
after it was found near Dallas.
Confession Put in Writing.
Judge Nelson said extradition pro-
| ceedings probably would be ex-
pedited. The magistrate was in
Washington for meeting and was
asked by the Collin County district
attorney to hear the suspects's story.
/ Local police said Mcpherson placed
in writing his alleged confession of
the Texas killing yesterday after
previous refusals.
1t was said further check would
be made on the assertedly vague ad-
mission of shooting a man during a
holdup in Miami. Fla. about a year
ago. Detectives here have been puZ-
zled by this part of what they say
was McPherson's story, since Miami
authorities so far have been unable
to supply information substantiating
such shooting or indicating
whether the supposed victim died
The youth was arrested Tuesday
in a theater here. Police had been
seeking him for questioning in con-
nection with the holdup.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Moe|ders' Letter Embracing Catholicism oFoke
Germans Declare, Offering Reward for Writer

from the fighting fronts a year ago.
These men are more serious and
more anxious about the future,
these sources said. They try to find
SecluSion and rest and avoid any
talk of the war and heroiSm.
This picture presents the return
ing soldiers as openly critical of
NaZi propaganda. especially such
catch-phraSes as "Bolshevist mons
ter" and Russian He'll"
Their attitude, it is said, is that
the Russians and the Germans are
suffering the same hardships.
One source with German contacts
said the soldiers know a hard fight
awaits them this spring. that they
disapprove of heroic tales appearing
in the Nazi newspapers and that
many are worrying over deep prob
lens of religion and philosophy
which never troubled them much
when they were always victorious
and welcomed home with gifts and
flowers.
In this connection. not only the
Moelders letter but also the official
denial OF its authenticity was said to
have created widespread talk among
Germany's soldiers.
Evening star., 1942-03-13

The letter was addressed to the
Roman Catholic prior Of Stettin and
spread in many parts of the
Reich" said the German broadcast
of a statement by D. N. B., the off,
cial German news agency.
The contents were not divulged
but the radio statement cited the
Stettin clergyman and the Roman
Catholic army bishop as agreeing
they were forged
The prior of Stettin," it said, "as
alleged recipient Of the letter, has
stated plainly that he had never
received a letter from him Noel
derS).
The Roman Catholic army bishop
of the armed forces announced in
No. l of his gazette of January /,
1912, with regard to the letter. it
has been established beyond doubt
that this was a matter OF crude
forgery II this letter is found any
where its circulation Is TO be sup
pressed
Information from sources in close
contact with Berlin said there has
been a marked change in German
soldiers returning from Russia as
compared with those who came back
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Maryland Man Is Reported
Shot at Susquehanna Bridge

b. the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 13-Brig
Gen. Dwight H. Mohr, State Guard
commander, said a three-man board
Of inquiry arranged a meeting at
Havre de Grace today to investigate
a report Warren Chamberlain, 40.
of Perryville, Md, had been shot
by State guardsman patrolling the
Susquehanna River Bridge.
Gen. Mohr said Chamberlain was
slightly injured in the back at $50
pm. Wednesday by a missile which
may have been one of four shots
fired by Pvt. John Ferguson, 81, on
guard at the highway bridge.
Gen. Mohr reported that Pvt. Fer
guson told him he heard what ap-
peared to be rifle fire along railway
tracks several hundred yards from
the east end of the bridge. He said
he saw a man whom he ordered to
halt, then fired three shots in the
air and fourth at the man when
he continued to disregard the
guards warning.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Robert R. Cooke Dies
After Long Illness

Robert Randolph Cooke, Sc, treas
urer of the Fruit Growers Express
Co., died last night at his home,
1924 Tilden street NV, after a long
illness.
A native of Washington. Mr..
Cooke was the son of the late
DR.. Robert Randolph and Alice
Morrow Cooke. He received his
education in District schools.
Mr.. Cooke had been with the
express company 81 years and be-
fore that was with the Southern
Railway as a cashier.
Prominent in frateynal circles,
Mr.. Cooke was a 32d degree Mason
and past master of the Washington
Centennial Lodge, No. IA. He also
was member of Almas Temple of
the Shrine and of the Columbia
Country Club.
Services will be held at II am.
Monday, at Lee funeral home,
Massachusetts avenue and Fourth
street NE. Burial will be in Con-
gressional Cemetery.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Prosecutor Hickey
Called to Navy Duty

Special Prosecutor Edward j.
Hickey, jr., will leave the propa-
ganda squad of the Department OF
Justice to go on active duty next
week as a lieutenant q. g. in the
Navy. He has been member OF the
Naval Reserve for several years and
applied for active duty soon after
Pearl Harbor.
His call to active duty came early
In March when he was prosecuting
the German agent, George Sylvester
Viereck, and he was allowed to COM
plete the case before reporting. Vie
reck was convicted of failure to reg
lister properly as foreign agent.
Hickey is a native of Washington
and was graduated from Central
High School. Brown University and
the Georgetown Law School. His
father is assistant parliamentarian
of the Senate.
1t. Hickey and his wife live at
3l50 Sixteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Civilian Defense School
To Move 10 U. ofM. April 19

BY the Associated Press.
Col. George J. e. Fisher announced
yesterday the civilian defense school
of the Edgewood Chemical Warfare
School would be transferred to the
University of Maryland. effective
April 10. DR.. S. S. Steinberg, dean
of the engineering school of the uni
versity, will be the director of the
school at College Park. Army officers
will teach the courses.
The school is for policemen, fire
men, teachers, industralists and
others who wish to learn all phases
of protective services, including
blackoutS, incendiary bomb ham
dlings, gas protection and decon-
tamination.
Students at the school will live at
the Lord Calvert Inn at College
Park, which has been taken over
by the Army. Glass room space,
demonstration grounds and adminis-
trative Offices have been set aside
by the university.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
O. E. N. Still Trying to Find
Results of Aluminium Drive

from the pots and pans went into
plane production because Of its
inferior quality. but that the
campaign produced highly
valuable stock of secondary
aluminium capable Of being used
in a wide variety Of military
items.
Last September "a the o. p M.
and the Office of Civilian Defense
reported jointly that an esti-
mated 1885, ,l39 pounds of pots
and pans were collected. These
would yield approximately 7.000,-
900 pounds of aluminium, they
figured.
The aluminium collected in the
Districts drive last summer has
been shipped to smelling plants,
Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, District
highway director, who was In
charge of the drive, said today.
He added he didn't know to what
plants the scrap had been sent
because the Federal Government
took charge after the aluminium
was collected. The local drive
netted 84,460 pounds of alu-
mlnum.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March l3.-Germany
today offered a reward of 100, 900
marks for help in arresting the
writer of an allegedly forged letter
signed by the late Col. Werner
Moelders, saying the Nazi pilot ace
became a Catholic before he died
The Berlin radio, announcing the
award, disclosed the Gestapo already
had sent several persons to con-
centration camps for circulating the
letter. although they knew it was
forgery
The Berlin correspondent of the
Stockholm newspaper Dagens Ny
heter concurred with the German
assertion that the letter was a
forgery, but it said the Gestapo
considered it dangerous propaganda
(Moelders, at %, was a popu-
lar hero to the Germans for his
official record of 115 fighter
planes destroyed in two wars.
He was killed at Breslau Novem-
ber %, 194l, in the crash of a
transport plane.
For 103 air victories in this
war and the rest in the Spanish
Civil War. Adolf Hitler ordered
state funeral0
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Situation Is Stabilized,
New Delhi Reports

NEW DELHI, India, March 13 (Pl
British imperial troops withdraw
ing from Rangoon have established
a front on the Prone road near
Tharrawaddy, British headquarters
here announced today.
The situation in this sector was
described in brief communique as
Stabilized" but the bulletin indi-
Gated fighting was under way
farther east on a 10-mile front
astride the Toungoo highway.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Continues debate on exclusion of
Senator LANCER, Republican, of North
Dakota.
Finance Committee calls Secretary
Morgenthau on raising debt limit to
,OO0.O00,00O.
Judiciary subcommittee continues
hearing on anti-poll tax bill.
Senate-House conference on war
damage insurance.
immigration subcommittee hear
ing on naturalization of persons in
armed forces.
Military Affairs considers routine
bills.
House:
Debates S25 ,OOO,OOO cut in farmer
rehabilitation allotment in agricul-
ture appropriations.
Rules Committee considers re-
quest for inquiry into Federal Com
munications Commission
Judiciary Committee hears Cham
Der of Commerce official on bill to
require registration of labor unions
and trade groups.
Ways and Means Committee con-
tinues tax hearings.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Office for Emergency Man
agement is still trying to find out
what happened to all the pots
and pans donated by housewives
in the aluminium salvage drive
nearly seven months ago.
The information division of the
office has telegraphed the 20
aluminium smelters which han
died the scrap asking for the
exact status of utensils still at
the smelters or already in ingot
form.
Some Of the questions which
o. E. M. has been unable to
answer. in the face of repeated
inquiries, are: How much alumni
mum, if any. has not yet gone to
the smelters? How much alumi-
mum collected during the cam
paign actually has got into war
production? How much of it
was bought by the r. F. C. Metals
Reserve Co. and how much Of 1t
was sold by the smelters direct
to industrial users?
One War Production Board
spokesman said comparatively
little of the aluminium reclaimed
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Tax Plan Including
Sales Levy Advanced
By House Members
Compromise Between =
Treasury and N. A. N.
Proposals Predicted
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A Federal sales tar, larger income
and corporation taxes, and drastic
war profits levYs&ere advanced to-
day by Lawmakers seeking an extra
81 900, 900 OO0ss year toward financ-
Ing the war.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee. after receiving Treasury
suggestions for stiff increases in in
come taxes, listened yesterday to a
proposal by the National Association
Of Manufacturers for 4,400, 900 600
sales tax. Some committeeman pre-
dicted that a compromise between
the two plans might be adopted.
For instance" said Represent
ative Carlson. Republican, of Kan
sas. I'VE might find that we could
raise 81 500 ,000, 900 from a sales tax
and perhaps $4,000, 100000 each
from the corporation and income
schedules.
That would tap some of the in
come Of the little fellows who would
not pay any income tax and yet
WOuld PlOouIC dO
individuals and corporations as the
Treasury recommended"
Morgenthau's Proposal.
Secretary Morgenthau opened the
current tax hearing with a proposal
that SO 1000, 900 900 more b. obtained
from CORPORATIONS. an almost equal
amount from individuals and ST.
$40 900 900 from new and increased
excise taxes.
J. Cheever Cowdin. spokesman for
the Manufacturers Association,
tax, and individual and corporation
tax, an Individual and corporation
increases Of $1,000 600, 900 and ST.
400 ,00O, 900, respectively.
Four members of the Senate FL
nance Committee declared that Con-
gress must take the initiative in
enacting drastic legislation to re-
claim most of the profits from war
production.
Senator'S Connally of Texas, Byrd
of Virginia, Brown of Michigan. all
Democrats, and La Toilette. Pro-
gressive. of Wisconsin said in sepa-
rate interviews that an administra-
ton proposal for a IS per cent in
crease in excess profits tax rates was
likely to fall far short Of meeting
public demands for the elimination
of war profteering.
Firms Cleaning Up"
Senator Connally declared that
some firms with Government con-
tracts were cleaning up" and Sem
ator Byrd said the need for legisla-
ton to recapture profits was dem
onstrated by testimony before the
Joint Congressional Economy Com
mittee. which heard yesterday that
the Todd Shipbuilding Corp. was
to receive fee of s40700O0 for the
construction of 81 Maritime Com
mission vessels at Houston, Tex.
Senator Byrd, who is chairman Of
the committee, told Charles F..
StrenZ, Todd Co. treasurer, that
profits represented in this fee were
"eXorbitant," despite the company's
contention that rs or 80 per cent of
the amount would be returned to
the Government in taxes.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Secretary Stimson Ends
|nspection Of Canal
Bv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALBOA, Canal Zone, March 13,
Secretary of War Stimson has de-
parted by plane after an inspection
tour of Panama Canal Zone de-
fenses.
Mr.. Stimson on the third day of
his inspection trip went by boat up
the canal as far as Pedro Miguel
yesterday.
Before leaving for Panama, where
he called on President Ricardo
Adolfo de la Guardia, Mr. Stimson
said he was pleased to find here
grim energy and determination"
and nowhere any dangerous spirit of
overconfldence.
Il also am very greatly pleased
with the spirit of complete and
friendly cooperation shown by the
government and people of Panama, "
ne said.
Evening star., 1942-03-13
Price Asks Amateurs
To Avoid Pictures
Of Military Objects
Censorship Director
Urges Photographers
To Protect u. S.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Byron Price, the censorship di-
rector, asks amateur photographers
to refrain from using their talents
on military objects.
There are many good photo
graphic subjects besides fortifica-
tions, airports, troop transports and
equipment Of the armed forces" he
said in a statement issued last
night, adding that even the private
circulation of many such pictures
domestically can do harm, and of
course no military pictures can be
permitted to leave the country un-
less they have been made under
Government supervision"
Stresses Waste.
He reminded photographers that
prints or films stopped by censors
at the border are wasted and in
these days waste is unWise."
Mr.. Price commended camera
clubs which have made known a de-
side to cooperate with the Govern
ment in this connection and said
detailed information about the
handling of all types of films by
international mail, freight, or ex-
press is being prepared and will be
made public soon"
Acknowledging that his Office had
been asked why photographs of
Army camps. warships and war pro-
duction plants had been made pub
lie by magazines, news reel COM
panies and newspapers, Mr.. Price
explained:
Pictures Carefully Passed.
Il believe there is little real cause
for apprehension. These pictures
normally have been approved in ad-
vance by the Government for pub
hcation in order to show the Ameri-
can people what the armed services
are doing and what American fac
tories are producing. They have
been closely inspected to make cer-
tain that they contain no details
which the enemy might like to see
Editors voluntarily are making a
careful check on the photographs
they use
TT must be remembered also that
until the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor last December 7, there were
no limitations on the mailing of
pictures to foreign countries. II
would be futile to ask American edi-
tors not to print photographs which
could have been taken before that
time, fol- the enemy unquestionably
has the information.
In line with the policy stated by
Mr.. Price, The Star will not accept
in its annual Amateur Snapshot
Contest any pictures of military OBJ
jectives or other subjects which it
considers banned by the regulations.