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Evening star., 1942-08-07
Turn Statues Into Scrap Metal
For War, President Suggests

President Roosevelt suggested to-
day that many OF the bronze statues
in public parks as well as old cannon
and other souvenirs of past wars be
given to the scrap metal salvage
campaign and replaced after the
war with something more modern.
Mr.. Roosevelt said War Produc-
ton Board Chairman Donald Nelson
had asked him to call attention
again to the intensive scrap drive,
pointing out that the Government
wants to accumulate at least IT,
000, 900 tons Of scrap steel to insure
steel production next year.
Although steel furnaces now are
being kept going, the President
emphasized that all the scrap pos
sible should be collected for con-
tinued production needs. The Gov
ernment wants such things as the
steel from old and unused buildings,
railroads and machinery, - well as
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Amos Pinchof Hospita|ized; !;
Wrist Veins SIashed
By tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
WESIPORT, Conn, Aug. 7.-Nor-
walk Hospital described as "fair"
today the condition of Amos r. E.
Pinchot, 68, New York lawyer and
brother OF Former Gov. Clifford
Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who was
admitted Tuesday night after what
Chief John A. Dolan of the town
police said was a suicide attempt.
Mr.. Pinchot, Chief Dolan said,
slashed several veins in one wrist
while visiting at the estate of Will
liam P. Emo of Norwalk and WASH
ington, relative by marriage. The
hospital would not say whether his
condition had improved since he
was admitted.
The police chief said Mr.. Pinchot
had been in i'll health and was men,
tally depressed and arrived here,
accompanied by a nurse, last week.
The nurse, he related, became
alarmed Tuesday night at Mr.. Pin
chot's long absence from his bed
room and went to look in the bath
room, but found the door locked.
The door was forced and Mr.. Pin
chot was found.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
974 Million Navy Bill
Signed by President
~ the Associated Press.

A measure authorizing expendi-
lure of S974,634, 900 to develop Unit
ed States naval outposts and to
provide funds for "a kind of secret
weapon" was signed today by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
During the debate on the bill in
the House, Chairman Vinson of the
Naval Affairs Committee declared
that $4,000, 900 was earmarked for
"a kind Of secret training and a
kind of secret weapon" He said
that for obvious reasons he could
not elaborate on that statement.
Biggest allotments in the au-
thorization were 1899 ,949 900 for
naval aviation facilities to provide
training for 81 500 aviators and SIS
100000 for miscellaneous structures
and advance bases"
Other allotments included $780,
o00, 900 for feet facilities, $4,000 900
for storage facilities, $4,000, 900 for
underground fuel storage facilities,
S11 .000.0 900 for Marine Corps train
ing facilities. S5200O,0O0 for ord
nance facilities, S25 5000 for per-
sonnel training and housing facili-
ties, $25.000,000 for hospital facili-
ties, 5000, 900 for shore radio fa-
cilities, $2,000,0 900 for the Naval Re-
search Laboratory, and 5000, 900
for passive defense facilities.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
100000 Job Increase
Reported for June
By the Associated Press.

B, the Associated Press.
Employment increased TOO ,0O0
from June to July, bringing the
total number of persons at work
to new record high Of $4,000, 600
the Works Projects Administration
reported today.
Unemployment, however, re-
manned unchanged at 100000 the
WPA said, explaining that while
100000 persons found jobs, an equal
number entered the labor force,
mostly young people leaving school
and seeking employment for the
first time.
The total labor force, those en-
ployed, plus those seeking jobs, was
placed at $4,000 900 during Juy. The
number Of employed set new rec
ord for the third successive month
WPA said employment had in
creased by 100000 since July, 1910,
and by 100000 since July a year
ago.
Non-agricultural emp o YIN n
reached 42,3OO,0OO last month, up
100000 from June and 5,5O0,0O0
from July Of two years ago. Agri-
cultural employment was estimated
for July at 100000, a rise of
about 100000 in the last IL
months.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
MOslems Seek Safeguards.
Nazis Finish Maneuvers
In Interior Of Holland
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 7-German troops
have completed maneuvers in the in
terror of Holland in the course of
which special attention was given
to defense against parachute troops,
1t was reported today by the Meth
erlands news agency Aneta.
Air Gen. Friedrich Christensen,
commander of German occupation
forces, participated in the exercises.
He and several German major gen.
erals inspected Notifications and
heavy naval artillery positions along
the coast, Aneta said.
The Netherlands agency added
that the Germans had taken sew
eral new precautions against an in
vasion of Holland A military order
required the slaughter Of all carrier
pigeons in Holland by August 13.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Senate Subcommittee
Aqrees 10 Ease Curbs
On Pension Trusts
Backs Proposal to Lower
Worker Participation
To Sc Per Cent
BY the Associated Presa.

BY the Associated Press.
A Senate Finance Subcommit-
tee has agreed unanimously to
compromise House-approved pro-
visions of the new revenue bill
imposing tax restrictions on pen
sion trusts which witnesses said
would cause many businesses to
pay inflationary cash bonuses.
Chairman Brown said the sub
committee had agreed to modify a
requirement that 10 per cent Of u
firms employees must participate in
a pension plan before the employer
would be permitted to make tax
free contribution to the trusts re-
serve fund.
The group voted, he said, to per-
NIT such contributions If, in effect,
Sc per cent Of employers were cov-
cred. 1t also relaxed a provision
limiting the amount of immediate
tax credit an employer could take
to 5 per cent Of his pay roll total.
Tax Dodge Charged.
The Treasury has complained that
In some instances pension trusts
have become repositories for "hid-
den dividends" by which officers
and other favored employees could
be paid large sums with the COM
pany escaping immediate taxes and
the individual recipients spreading
their tax payments over a period
OF years when their earnings would
be in lower brackets.
On the other hand, businessmen
asserted before the committee that
they could not afford to maintain
legitimate pension funds or profit
sharing plans for employees if they
were not permitted to charge of,
for tax purposes, the full amount
(see TAXES, Page A-1s)
Evening star., 1942-08-07
By IRVING PERI.METER,
Associated Press Staf1 Writer.

President Roosevelt's special
committee to survey the Nations
rubber situation went to work
today on two open-air park
benches.
Washingtonians strolling through
Lafayette Square, across the street
from the White House, discovered
the committee, which could hardly
be distinguished from nearby per-
sons feeding pigeons.
The 6-foot frame of Bernard Ba-
ruch, however. was the give-away.
With him were DR.. Karl Compton,
president of the Massachusetts, In
stitute OF Technology. and Dr.. James
B. Conant, president Of Harvard
University, the other two members
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Rubber Board Meets on Park Bench
Boruch, Compton and Conont Shoe Away Reporters
And Pigeons From 'Offce' Near Jackson Statue

of the committee, and one or two
assorted rubber experts.
All were hatless and in shirt
sleeves except the chairman, who
wore summer jacket and a straw
hat.
The only thing secret about the
conference was that the conversa-
ton was in low tones. The two
benches were in the very heart of
the park, in the shadow of the IA
nous Andrew Jackson statue.
Reporters, however, could ap-
proach the meeting only long
enough to be shooed away, along
with pigeons, by Mr.. Baruch.
TITS a good place to meet, isn't
it?" Mr.. Baruch replied to an ex-
clamation OF surprise from one of
his discoverers.
Actually, Mr.. Baruch can nearly
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Seaman Listed Missino
Now Reported Safe

The Navy brought Joy to the fam
lily Of Machinist's Mate Clarence Lee
Slaughter, jr., yesterday with an
nouncement that the young man,
listed as missing" in a casualty
list on Wednesday, now is reported
to be safe"
Machinist's Mate Slaughter Is the
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Lee
Slaughter. sr., of Merrifield, Va. The
parents received a letter dated De-
cen1ber from the son, then in a
Philippine Navy Hospital recover
Ing from q hand injury.
Evening star., 1942-08-07

always be found in the park when
he Is in Washington. He calls it
my office"
When in the Capital, he lives at
nearby hotel, but likes to walk and
sit IN the park for the fresh air
and exercise.
The committee was appointed yes
terday by President Roosevelt at the
time he vetoed bill through which
Congress sought to set up special
rubber agency to emphasize the
manufacture of synthetic rubber
from grain alcohol The President,
who has complained frequently that
no two rubber experts seem to agree
on what the needs and the solution
OF the rubber problem were, named
the trio to survey the needs and
possibilities and to make an early
recommendation.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Canal Portly Reopened
At Chesapeake City
By the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, Aug 1.-The
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal,
blocked July % when a tanker
crashed into bridge at Chesapeake
City, Md, has been partly reopened
to traffic, Army engineers said today.
Huge cranes removing debris from
the bridge, which collapsed onto the
ship, have cleared a 65-foot channel
IL feet deep. Fifty feet of the chan
mel has a 20-foot depth. Normal
travel through the canal, which is
221 feet wide at the bridge, will be
resumed next week, the engineers
added.
The accident occurred when tugs
handling the tanker lost control in
the swift current. One man was
injured slightly.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
205 Billions Voted
For War by Congress
In Three Years
Glass Reveals Billion
Slash in'NormoI Budget
Below 194l Expenses
B, the Assoc =" ted Press.


A com ion of Congress fls-
cal actiI showed today that
the staggering sum of $205, 5,514,-
657 ,286 had been appropriated or
authorized between June /, 1910,
to June 80, 1943, for expenditure
to provide the Nations defense
and war needs.
The figures, including a break
down of both War-necessitated and
normal" appropriations voted this
year, were prepared by the Budget
Bureau and were placed in the Con-
gressional Record by Senator Glass
of Virginia and Representative Can
non of Missouri, chairmen Of the
Appropriations Committees.
OF the $139,770, ,II4,641 appropri-
ated during this session, Mr.. Can
non pointed out that approximately
$133 ,370 100000 was earmarked for
war purposes while approximately
Sc. .400, 100000 was tagged for ordi-
nary costs Of Government.
0I0SS hhdAyZCS rig uTCSs
Senator Glass, in his analysis of
the figures, declared that Congress
had reduced appropriations for the
normal activities of Government by
81 ,667, ,005. .15O8 89 below last years fig
ures, and made increases in that
category of $579,872,154, leaving a
net cut of $1,087, 49,, ,99671.
In citing the three-year $205 ,514,-
657 ,286 total on the books for war
expenditures Mr.. Cannon empha-
sized that the figure did not repre-
sent actual expenditures.
Appropriations and authorize
tions," he said, need to be made
far in advance in order that pro-
grams of orders for material, weap-
ons, naval vessels, merchant ships
and all other war effort require
ments may be integrated with the
recruitment and training of man.
power, and the long-range planning
and conduct of the war in the va
rious theaters of action where that
war may be fought"
He said that the expenditure bur-
den had been heavy in the fiscal
year of 1912, will be heavier in the
fiscal year 1943, and beyond that will
be determined by the course of the
war"
Figures on Actual Outlay.
The Budget Bureaus figures on
actual expenditures for war pur-
poses:
Fiscal year 1941-$6 ,3O1 ,OOO. 900.
Fiscal year 1942-$25 1854 ,O00, 900.
Fiscal year 1943 (estimated)-
$67 ,OO0, 900 900.
simultaneously, Mr.. Cannon re-
ported that the total gross public
debt on June 80, was So, ,422 900 900,
and estimated that it would reach
$125 ,443, 100000 by that date next
year.
Chief cuts in normal" appropria-
tions, as listed by Senator Glass, in
cluded:
Executive Office OF the President,
$34.743,76O.
Emergency Relief, WPA, $685.
100000.
National Youth Administration,
$83, ,767 900.
Civilian Conservation Corps, $246,-
100000.
Public roads, $50, ,300,OO
Public Buildings Administration,
$34, ,584 ,576.
Agriculture Department, $402,-
656, ,52l.
Commerce Department.. $7,639, ,316.
Interior Department., $63. .056,814.
Tennessee Valley Authority, $780,
100000.
Veterans Administration, $685.
400.
State Department., $4,554,840.
Treasury Department, $31, ,6O6, ,595.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
IS More Merchantmen
Sunk, Germans Claim
Hs the Associated Press

E3 the A8SOclated Press.
BERLIN CFrom German Broad
casts, Aug. German submarines,
continuing their assaults on Allied
overseas lines OF communication
were crdited officially today with
sinking Is more merchant ships to-
falling 100000 tons, a destroyer and
q patrol vessel.
(The Germans failed to specify
the period within which the re-
ported sinkings took place, thus
making a comparison with known
facts impossible)
The sinkings took place 'in the
Atlantic and OFF the West African
coast" the announcement said.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Indian Congress
Votes Appeal
To Roosevelt
Passive Resistance
o. K. by Committee
Also Forecast
BY PRESTON GROVER,
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent

associated PreSs Forelgn correspondent.
BOMBAY, Aug. THE Work
ing Committee of the All-India
Congress Party voted today to
appeal to President Roosevelt,
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
and Ivan Maisky, Russian Am
bassador to Britain, to support
its demands that Great Britain
grant India immediate indie
pendence.
Maulana Abdul Kazan Azad
president of the Congress, was au-
thorized to dispatch the appeals as
soon as the Congress Committee
passes on a resolution calling for a
mass campaign of passive resistance
to continued British rule.
Endorsement of the resolution.
backed by Mohandas K. Gandhi, was
regarded as foregone conclusion.
Want Armies to Remain.
Azad opened the meeting with a
speech calling for immediate Indian
independence but saying the COM
mittee did not want British or
American armies to leave India.
Gandhi, who followed him and re-
ceived an ovation, told the commit
tee he did not want the japanese in
India because that would mean the
end OF China and perhaps Russia.
"As matter of fact, I am a
greater friend of the British now
than I ever saw" Gandhi said. MY
friendship demands that / make
them aware of their mistakes.
Never believe, as I have never
believed, that the British are going
to fail, he told the assemblage. Il
do not consider them a nation of
towards. I know that before they
accept defeat every soul in Britain
will be sacrificed" -a
Message Sent to China.
Gandhi himself sent message to
the Chinese today to "let China
know that this struggle is as much
for her defense as it is for India's
liberation" He declared India's
ability to give effective assistance"
is dependent on her freedom.
Meanwhile, having heard that
Azad had said Congress leaders were
even willing to let the Moslem
League take over the running of
India If the British would get out,
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, president
OF the Moslem League, declared the
Moslems would be glad to do so but
that the Congress leaders don't
mean a word of what they say"
Jinnah, as spokesman for the
second-largest of India's complex
religious and political groups, said
the Congress leaders mean to play
on the credulity of the Moslems and
attempt to divide them. They sim
ply are trying to put the English
into a corner"
Moslems Seek Safeguards.
Insistence of the Moslem League
that Mohammedans be safeguarded
against Hindu domination has been
one OF the numerous problems in
volved in Britain's efforts to solve
the India nquestion. The All-India
Congress Party on the other hand
has objected to proposals for Mo-
hammedan independence.
J1nnah says the Congress party is
(see INDIA, Page AID
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Great Britain Claims
Very Heavy Toll of
Axis Submarines
BY tht Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. I've are
continuing to take a very heavy
toll of Axis submarines" A. v.
Alexander, first lord of the
admiralty, told a London audi
ence today, but explained that
strategical considerations for
bade publication of details.
With the growing strength
Of escort ships of the United
States Fleet and the help we
already had from our own air
force and the gathering help we
are getting from aircraft of the
United Nations, this good work
Is going to 60 on"
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Fourth of Quints Dies

DUBLIN, Aug. 7 P.-Teresa, last
remaining girl among the Legion
quintuplets who were born last week
in County Sligo, died today, leaving
her brother, Thomas, the sole sur
vivor. Two other girls died soon
after birth, while boy, Joseph, died
Sunday in Dublin Hospital.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Soviet Tanks Smash Nazi Infantry
On Entire Front Near Sta|inqrad;
Save Russia Talks on in Moscow
Chinese Trained
In India to Use
Latest Weapons
b. the Associated Press,

b> tie ASSOCldted fTeSS.
LONDON, Aug. THE Ex-
change Telegraph Agency re-
ported today that a Chinese
army was being trained some
where in India" in use of the
Allies latest weapons.
Most of the Chinese are sea-
soned soldiers who have fought
the Japanese in Burma and
China and travelled over the
mountains from Burma to In
dia. the story said.
At their temporary camp in
Northeast India, the Chinese
train in cooperation with
Americans and Indians. the
agency's correspondent said.
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Reds Gain South
Of Don; Center
Sector Says
MAP on Page A-6.)
3. tie Associated Press.

3! tie Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 7.-Hurling its
own huge tanks against the
mechanized Nazi onrush, the
Red Army checked the Germans
today along the whole Stain
grad front in one of the great
tank battles of the war, with in
fantry crushed by hundreds un-
der the treads of the steel war
wagons, battlefront dispatches
said today.
Only in the critical Belaya Glina
sector 100 miles into the North
Caucasus were the Russian defenSes
still reported sagging before the big
Axis offensive. There dive bombers
blasted ceaselessly at the Russian
lines as they battered the way for
German gains.
Cossacks Hold Village.
The Russians reported rolling the
Nazis back in hard counter attacks
at the Don bend approaches to Sta
nngrad, and said fierce charging
Don and Kuban Cossacks sabred
more than 5000 Germans as they
beat of the assault of two tank and
two infantry divisions in fight
for a Cossack village south of the
Don. Reports from this front said
the Russians were driven from the
town twice, but each time won it
back.
(The German high command
took significant cognizance of
the arrival of Red Army reserves
In the battle, mentioned large
scale Russian use of tanks in
the Caucasus for the first time
and said the bolstered Soviet
forces were counterattacking
against German and Rumanian
troops between the Sal and Don
Rivers, in the Don bend, and
in the Rzhev salient, northwest
Of Moscow.
(The Germans said they had
thrown large air forces into a
heavy defense in the Rzhev area,
indicating that the scale of the
Russian attacks there was con-
siderable.
(The Berlin communique said
Axis forces had penetrated deep
er into the Caucasus, driving
across the Kuban River to
point 80 miles northeast of the
Maikop oil fields which produce
per cent Of Russia's oil.)
Summary of Key Points.
The Russian communique gave
this account Of operations at key
points on the battlefront:
South Of Kletskaya go miles
northwest of StalingraO our troops
launched a number of counter
attacks and pressed the enemy
back. ="
I'm the Kotelnikovski area (95
miles southwest of Stalingrad the
Germans are sending in large num-
bers of tanks in an attempt to
smash our defenses. Our troops have
repelled these attacks. '''
South of Kushchevka $50 miles
south of Rostov) the Germans
launched repeated attacks against
(See RUSSIA, Page AID
Evening star., 1942-08-07
Powerful Raj Fleet
Bombs Duisburg and
Other Ruhr Points
Nozis Busy Over Britain,
Dropping New Type Of
Phosphorus Incendiories
BY tie Associated Press.

bN u Associated freSS.
LONDON, Aug. IA strong
force of RAF bombers last night
attacked the big German indus
trial center of Duisburg, target
of repeated raids in July, and
other points in the Ruhr Valley
the Air Ministry announced to-
day.
Nazi airdromes in the Low Coun-
tries also were attacked by British
raiders, six of which failed to re-
turn from their night missions, q
communique said.
The size of the strong force was
not disclosed officially, but British
source said that in the days before
the British hurled more than 1,00O
bombers against Germany in a
single night, last nights total would
have been considered "whopper."
Duisburg. an important communi-
cations center at the junction of the
Ruhr and Rhine Rivers as we'll as
the site of many vital war indus
tries. was last bombed by the Raj
on the night of July 25-the fourth
attack on the city in six nights.
Last nights foray was the third
successive night assault on the Ruhr
region.
Nazis Use New Type Bomb.
German raiders also were busy
over Britain again during the night,
dropping high explosives and in
Notwithstanding new-type
phosphorus fire bomb--at scattered
points in East Anglia and on the
east coast of Scotland.
The raids were not on a heavy
scale, however. and although there
were some casualties first reports
indicated the number was not large.
Britons had been prepared for the
new phosphorus bombs by a bull
Ietin from the Ministry of Home Sc
curity, which gave explicit instruc-
tions for dealing with these incen-
diaries. AS a result fires which were
started were extinguished with a
minimum of damage.
In one southwest coast town the
Nazi raiders demolished a section
of hospital, causing several fatali-
ties and trapping a number of pa
tients in the debris.
A coastal resort, crowded with va
cationers, was attacked by a single
low-f1ying plane which sprayed the
streets with machine-gun fire. Sew
eral persons were injured.
A few planes were heard over
London during the night and
searchlights fingered the sky, but no
alert was sounded and there was no
gunfire.
420 Axis Planes Claimed.
The Air Ministry issued sum-
mary today of aerial operations in
all theaters for July which placed
British losses at 432 planes and cred
tied the Raj with destroying 42O
Axis aircraft.
Attacks against Germany and oc-
cupied European territory, the state
ment said, cost the RAF $50 planes,
while In defending Britain the Raj
destroyed 113 Nazi planes-55 over
this country and So over the con-
tinent.
German planes were over Britain
on l8 nights and 19 days.
Edinburgh, Cambridge Targets.
BERLIN From German Broad
cad Isl, Aug. 7 R.-German air
RAJ 1ers attacked Edinburgh. Scot
Lard, and the English university
town of Cambridge last night, DNB
renort ed tOday
Evening star., 1942-08-07
De GuuIIe Arrives in Cairo

LONDON, Aug. 7 (P)-Fighting
French headquarters announced to-
day that Gen. Charles de Gaulle
had arrived In Cairo to inspectDhis
troops in Egypt. Syria and French
Equatorial Africa.
Evening star., 1942-08-07

Edinburgh, Cambridge Targets.
BERLIN (From German Broad
Isl, Aug. 7 R).-German air
ra( aers attacked Edinburgh, Scot
Lard, and the English university
town of Cambridge last night, DNB
today.
Evening star., 1942-08-07

(See RUSSIA, Page AID
Evening star., 1942-08-07

(See TAXES, Page A-18.)
Evening star., 1942-08-07

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages TX and 2-X Of this edition Of
The Star, supplementing the news Of
the regular homo delivered edition.