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Evening star., 1942-07-16
372 Saved, 3 Missing
As U-Boat Sinks u. ).
Vessel in 4 Minutes Z
Biggest Ships Company
Suffers 81 Casualties;
; Other Croft Victims
p, the Associated Press.

p, the Associated Press.
All but nine of total of 38l pas
sengers and crewmen aboard q tor
pedoed American merchantmen SUR
vived the sinking Of the ship two
weeks ago despite the fact 1t foun-
dered so rapidly they literally
stepped over the side into the sea.
This sinking, involving the larg-
est number of persons on any vessel
known to have been sunk IN the
Western Atlantic since the suoma-
rine campaign began there. was one
of four attacks announced by the
Navy yesterday.
Total Sinkings Now 374. a
With the destruction Of a large
British merchantmen, another me-
dunn sized United States cargo ship
and a Norwegian merchant vessel
the unofficial Associated Press tab--
ulation of Allied and neutral war;
time ship losses in the Western At
lantic area rose to 374. >
Tllty -Oilc VI tiic otz AlFAVpo "
the American ship with the large
passenger list were injured. Their
vessel went down within four min
utes after the torpedo struck. r.
Passengers landed at an East Coast
port said they owed their lives to
the bravery and efficiency of the,
crew of 48 who helped them escape
9v~tV, Nf
the ship was going down 400 miles
of the coast.
The British victim was sunk 800
miles of the East Coast. with the
loss of eight lives and the rescue OF
n crewmen and 20 passengers.
The second American sinking oc.
Cured in the Caribbean in broad
daylight July /, and Capt. William
r. McDonough of Mobile, Ala. ex-
pressed belief that "the crew Of the
submarine knew we carried q val
liable cargo, and our destination and
route were known to them"
Gun Crewmen Missing.
Three crewmen were lost in this
attack, and four of the 14-man naval
gun crew which fired four shells At
the raiders periscope without ap-
parent result we're reported missing.
Forty-nine other persons in hfeboats
were picked up in six hours.
Thirty -one survivors Of the Nor
wegian victim, sunk May II in the
Atlantic with one man killed, also
presented evidence that some U-boat
commanders have advance informa-
ton on merchant ship movements.
Following the sinking, the sub
onicer halted their lifeboats, they
said, and after asking the ships
name, nationality and tonnage, cor
rectly recited the name Of the port
from which they had sailed AZ well
as their destination.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Germans Reported
'Astonished' al Plea
For More Scrap Iron
Shortage Of Transport
And Labor Revealed by
Arms Minister'S Appeal
By PAUL GHALI.

Foreisn Correspondent OF The Star and
Chicago Daily News
BERN, July 16.-The "astonish-
ment" of the German public at an
urgent appeal for more scrap iron
launched by the reichsminister for
arms and munitions. Albert Speer,
is reported in Berlin dispatch
to Basler National zeitung today.
Reading the gargantuan figures
of booty in recent wehrmacht Ger
man Army communicates. the Ger
mans apparently imagined that the
Reich's scrap iron reserves were
gargantuan too.
The National Zeitung corre-
spondent says Berlin experts are
trying to reassure the public by
explaining that the booty must first
be cut up on distant battleflelds
and then transported to central Ger
many. This takes valuable time
manpower and transport and re.
serves can be collected more quickly
at home, the Nazi ofncials explain.
But, however valid the explana-
ton might be, 1t reveals clearly
Germany's shortage of transport
and labor. The economic CORE
spondeut Of the Dienst aus Deutsch'
land agency gives today another re-
assuring but somewhat contradic-
tory explanation. Scrap iron, hi
writes, is not required for immediate
needs, but merely to build up re-
serves.
An indication that the collection
| of SCRAP metal also is being mor'
| energetically pursued In the occu
pied countries came from Vich!
yesterday. A report stated that the
Germans have been considering
taking the famous bronze column
| in the Place Vendome in Paris com
memo-atlng Napoleon's victories
Chief Of Government Laval, 1t Il
said, pointed out to the Nazis tn.
regrettab'e effect the demolition o.
one of the most well-known monu.
ments In Paris would have on public
opinion in France and Throughout
the world. The Germans apparently
| backed down.
copyrisht. 1912, BY CHICAGO Daily News
Evening star., 1942-07-16
C|ubwomen Plan
Drive Against Vice
In Military Areas
Federotion's Campaign
Started in Response
To Protests of Mothers
p, the Associated PreSa.

Ps the Associated Press.
The General Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs is mobilizing its $500 900
members for a drive to force
cleanup Of vice conditions which 1t
finds are rife around many Army
and Navy areas.
Mrs. John L. Whitehurst OF Bal
timore, federation president, said
Yesterday that the drive, intended
to reach every center where soldiers
and sailors are concentrated, Is in
response to rising demand by
women throughout the country.
Every place I go-and I've been
in % States from coast to coast IN
recent months-women are con-
cerned over the increase in prosti-
tuition, venereal disease and drink
ing" she said.
Il haven't addressed a meeting OF
clubwomen and I'm constantly
speaking to clubs, big and little
that women don't get up in the au-
| dience and want to know what can
be done
She reported receiving hundreds
of letters asking the same thing,
many of them from mothers.
Program Drafted.
Women are concerned not only
with stamping out vice around mil
itary areas, but in cleaning up home
communities so that they will be bet
ter places when the boys return, Mrs.
Whitehurst said.
! AS a result a comprehensive pro-
gram has been drafted by the fed
eration's department of public well
! fare of which Mrs. Horace b
Ritchie of Athens, Ga, is chairman
Copies of the program, now being
printed. will be sent to the feder-
atoms 16.5OO clubs with the recon-
mendation that it be made main
project in the new club year open
ing in September.
The programs main objective:
are community venereal disease
clinics, repression Of prostitution by
law enforcement. by elimination Of
the exploiters of prostitution and
by rehabilitation of prostitutes; ed
ucation of the public to the need o.
venereal disease control and thu
provision of wholesome community
recreation facilities for young peo.
pie.
Blood Tests Urged.
Club members are urged to sup
port health officers to get adequate
funds for venereal disease control
Urge blood tests of industria
workers, food-handlers, domesti'
employees, expectant mothers ane
couples planning to be married,
the program instructs. If the Ma!
law has not been invoked, you car
inaugurate such action in your com
munity."
The program advocates sex edu
cation program for adolescents b
provided with the aid Of school au
thorities.
The May law provides that by tn
direction of the Secretary Of Wa
/ or Secretary of the Navy an are'
may be designated around Army o
Navy reservations within whicl
prostitution becomes Federal of
tense.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Two Men Found Dead
On West Virginia Rood
P3 the Associated Press.


CHARLESTON, w. Va, July 49,
Two men identified as Harry Stev-
ems, SIS, Of Kanauga, Ohio, and John
Leon Arthur, 80, of Marmet, w. Va,
were found dead early today near
the entrance to the Edgewood Coun-
try Club.
A bus driver making his first trip
of the day discovered the bodies,
a short distance from the road, and
reported to police.
City police said Stevens bore
Identification cards indicating he
was employed by the Union Barge
Line.
Coroner Max Goldman said the
cause of death had not been de-
! termined but there was no evidence
of violence.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Biggest U. 5. Tax Bill
Before House for
Debate Today
Move to Recoinmit
Measure for Firm Levy
Changes Seen Falling

By the Associated Press.
The largest tax bill in the Ma
tions history-a Sc, IA, 900 600
wartime measure carrying heavy,
new income and corporation
levies-went before the House to-
day for debate.
AS the Representatives gathered,
An attempt was being made to get
support for returning the bill to
the Ways and Means Committee for
revision of proposed new corpora
ton rates.
Representative Knutson, Repub-
iican, of Minnesota, one of the two
members who voted against the
legislation in committee, announced
he would move to recommit the bill
with instructions to raise the ex-
cess profits rate from 871a per cent
to at least 90 per cent and to cut
the normal and surtax rates from
a combined As to 40 per cent.
Three Days Of Debate.
Representative Knutson said he
had "a good chance" of winning his
motion because of the close division
in the committee itself on those
controversial points. But, with q
bill before the House after Is weeks
of committee work. 1t was consid-
cred unlikely that the members
would do other than accept it.
The procedure arranged by the
Rules Committee called for three
days Of general debate, then a vote
or two on Monday without consid-
Grafton of any changes in the COM
mittee's work.
Excise Taxes Increased.
The bill calls for a 6 per cent
normal tax and surtax beginning
at 13 per cent for individual in
comes-rates approximately double
last years In the lower brackets: !:
and a "A per cent normal tax, a 81
Der cent surtax and an 87h per
cent excess profits tax for corpora
tions.
It provides for corporation taxes
to be increased $2,479, ,400, 900 from
the present level of $7,647 ,1O0, 900 to
&10,l26, 100000. The boost in in
dividual taxes would be $2,906,-
100000 from $5.044, 1900. 900 to ST.
951, 100000. In addition, new and
increased excise taxes on such
things as liquor. beer, wines, to-
bacco, train fares, freight and ex-
press shipments and pari-mutuel
bets would produce still another
S758,200,000.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
R. D. Leigh Made Chief
OF Monitorinq Service

Robert D. Leigh, now with the
National Resources Planning Board
has been appointed chief of the
Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Serv-
ice of the Federal Communications
Commission, it was announced to-
day.
Mr.. Leigh succeeds Lloyd A. Free
who has entered the Army.
Evening star., 1942-07-16

Van Vliet, John Hun
Keyes. Geonrey
Greene, Douglas T.
Perkins, Robert M.
Weeks, Lawrence B.
Danielson, c. H.
Peale, James Nixon
onsidine. John A.
Falk, David B.
Foote. william c.
Fuller. Francis r.
Russell. Clinton w.
Schmidt. william r.
Craig. Louis Aleck
Lowell, @. E.. tr.
Sadtler. Otis X.
Jones, w. H., jr.
Ardrey. John Z.
Wa sh. Carlyle Hilton
Perrine. Henry Pratt
McCunnin. Dennis E.
Lewis. Henry B.
Cheadle, Henry B.
Gibson Samuel A.
Newgarden. Paul w.
King. Chas. A., jr.
Patch, Alex. McC
Lyman. Charles B.
SpraRins, Robert L.
Duvau. Ward E.
Herwig. Hans r. w.
Davidson. Howard c.
Roberts, William l..
McCulloch, VIM. A.
Row, Lathe Burton
Price, George w.
ClArkson. Herbert 8.
Helmick. Charles g,
Pearson. Madison
Brown, Robert d.
'Dalao, Esteban b.
Barker. Ray Wehnes
Carr. Mack
Halbert. Edward o.
Jordan Frank B.
Camp. Thomas J.
Amin, Robert o.
Prentiss. Ausustin M.
Hospital. Ralph
Hayes. Casey Hewitt
Burwell. Harvey 3.
Hazeltine, Charles B,
Osmun. Russell A.
Erickson. Sidney
Yeaser. Emer
Adamson. Keith r.
Bonney, Frank Earl
. Hazlett, Harry F.
Smith. George L. .
Dawson, Paul Root
Holconibe. William H,
Gross, Charles p.
Bullard. Peter c.
Price, Xenophon H.
Crawford, Robert w,
Elliott. Dabney o.
Herman. Frederick w
; Carruth. John H.
Thurber. Philip L.
q. Wyeth, John c.
g.. Harris, Arthur r.
Stuart. La Rhett L.
Brooks. John A.
Anderson, John B.
Lewis, Cedric W.
1nsles. Harry c,
Bradley. James l..
Tack Willis ].
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Congress in Brief
Ey the Associated Press.
TODAY.

Senate:
Continues consideration of $1,857,- :
600 900 supplemental defense appro-
priation may take up Florida pipe
line barge canal bill.
Labor Committee considers bill
to regulate private employment
agencies.
House:
Begins debate on Nations largest
tax bill
Naval Affairs Committee continues
Investigation of war contracts.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Chile Liqhts Up Ships

Chile has notified the nations at
war of Chilean ship markings and
has instructed its ship masters to
have their vessels fully lighted so
the markings can be seen at all
times.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
British Ship Torpedoed
OF Surinom Capital

RIO DE JANEIRO, July Is tR.-
Advices received from Fortaleza,
Brazilian seaport, yesterday baid
that the British freighter Cortona
was torpedoed OF Paramaribo.
Dutch Guiana, last Monday Addi-
tional details were not available.
Lloyd's shipping register lists the
Cortona as a 7,093-ton freighter,
sailing from Glasgow. She was COM
pleted in 1921.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Turkish Submarine Sunk
In DurduneIIes Accident
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 16.-The Vichy
radio today broadcast dispatch
from Istanbul saying the Turkish
submarine Saldiray. 1000 tons, had
been sunk as the result of an acci-
dent near Chanak In the Darda-
nelles.
Salvage vessels have been sent to
the spot in the hope OF relocating
the boat and saving the crew of 81,
the broadcast said.
Evening star., 1942-07-16


Delamater. B. r.
Mallon, Francis B.
Clapham. L. B.
Won Holtzendorn, J
Pitz. Otto Godfrey.
Read. Burton Y.
Stark. Harry w.
Richart, Duncan G.
Buyers. Archie s.
Borden. William A.
Armstrong, F. T.
Waldmann. Carl A.
Wtngate. Henry A.
Washington, w. c.
Quinton. A. B.. ir.
Frankenberger, B.
Boles. John Keith.
Witsen. Edward r.
lockwood. A. l..
Hurley, P. J.
Parker. Edwin P.
Eager, John M.
Ha rdigg. Carl A.
Allen. T. de Ia M.
Mcdonnell. John c
Caption. Carl L.
Gruber. William r..
Wagner. Otto.
Patterson. r. B,
Lawes. Herbert J.
Williams. Robert c.
English. Paul x.
Smith, Estil Virgil
Richmond. Joseph
Walsh. Roland F.
Murray. Paul
Jones. Roy Messick
Brooks. John B.
| Coulter. John B.
ModiSette. Welton ]
Wheeler. John p.
Strauss. Harold A.
Kiser, Sherman L.
Chynoweth. B. G.
Eager, Howard
Bartholf, J. c. p.
Thompson, Harold
Barrett, Robert H.
| Carr. Ernest j.
Keen, Hugh Broadu
Rawls, Walter Over
Newcomer =. X.
Weaver, william G..
Williams. Charles +
| Young. Gordon r.
Nicholas. Richard q
Underhill. Lewis K.
Dorst, James Arch,
Oliver. Lunsford Z.
Young, William c.
Crane, william c.
Brewer, Carlos
Cain. David Edwar'
Mcmahon, John Z.
Englehart, T. A.
Copthorne. VIM. A
Sliney, Georse w.
| Frank. Selby Harnt
Spencer, Eugene T.
Crittenberger. w.
| Van Volkenburgh.
Johnson. Alfred b.
Heard, Falkner
Gaugler, Roland l
Heidner. Samuel j.
Jones, Junius w.
Brown. Thoburn i
Kimmel, M. NJ. jr
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Russia
Continued From First Page.)

ministrative center 800 miles
south Of Moscow.
German dispatches reported
dive -bombers and mobile ar
mored groups combined to attack
Red Army columns at strategic
road functions and to fire Red
Army trains. Detachments Inn
modified behind the wreckage
were declared subjected to in
cessant machine-gunning.
(The Transocean News Agency
asserted more than 500 Soviet
motor vehicles were destroyed
yesterday ION completely blocked
roads between the north Donets
River and the Don")
Flyers Destroy Three Gunbeats.
Red Navy flyers attached to th'
Baltic feet have destroyed thre'
Axis gunboats, a patrol boat ant
an armed transport and damage'
eight patrol boats, two gunboat
and torpedo boat, the Moscow
radio announced.
The operations, bringing concen
trations of Axis naval vessels unde
bombing and machine cunning at
tacks, were said to have been car
ried out lin the last few days"
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Isl CoIoneIs Named
For Regular Army,
5omerveII Included
Chief Of Supply Services
Now Holds Rank Of
Lieutenant General

President Roosevelt sent to the
Senate today the nomination of l57
officers for promotion to the rank
of colonel in the Regular Army.
Among them was Brehon B. Som
ervell, who holds the rank of lieu
tenant general in the wartime Army
and commands the Services Of Sup
ply. Gen. Somervell holds the rank
OF lieutenant colonel in the Reg
ular Army and is being made a full
colonel.
The President at the same time
nominated Comdr. (E) Ellis Reed
Hill of the Coast Guard for promo
ton to captain and Col. Eugene r.
Householder. adjutant generals de-
partment, to be colonel in the Air
Forces. Regular Army, by transfer.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
ItoIy Claims Domoee
To British Cruiser
By tbe Aseociated Preee,

8y the A160ClALeu F10ob.
ROME From Italian Broad
casts. July 16.-The Italian high
command said today that . British
cruiser had been damaged in the
Mediterranean by hits from Italian
and German warplanes.
Evening star., 1942-07-16

To keep our independence, instead
Of being kept in dependence, start a
regular bond buying program right
now.
Evening star., 1942-07-16

Stop grousing about the things
you can't spend your money for.
You can still buy War bonds with It.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Report for Last "a Hours.
Record for Last "a Houra

Record for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon Yesterday to noon today
Highest. S6. at R:45 pm. Year aso, 81
Lowest, 81, at 6:l5 am. Year $50, 81.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 80. on July IA.
Lowest. g, on January IL.
Weather In Various Cities.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Weather Report
FURNISHED by the United s


Coumbia-Moderate temperature tonight gentle
Maryland Virginia-Moderate temperature tonight.
Evening star., 1942-07-16
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches In tn
ra pifaI Icurrent month to date):

Humidity for Last "A Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday TO noon tonaSJ
giebest, rs per cent. At $50 an.
Lovest, IS per cent. at $50 p'm.
Evening star., 1942-07-16

Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1942-06-12
National University Plans
73rd Convocafion Toniuhf

National University will hold It's
73d annual convocation at S:l5
o'clock tonight in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall, when degrees in the
school of law and the school of
economics and government will be
conferred. Chancellor Leslie c.
Garnett will preside
The invocation will be delivered
by the Rev. Edward Hughes Pruden.
pastor of First Baptist Church. The
address to the graduates will be
made by Chief Justice Edward C.
Eicher of the United States Dis
trict Court for the District of Co.
lumbia. Eldred Wesley Cox is vale
dictorian. Candidates for degrees
in the school of law will be pre-
sented by Dean Charles Pergler: in
the school of economics and gov
ernment, by Acting Dean Josef E.
Gellermann.
The Reception Committee Of stu
dents is headed by Dixie T. Smith
and the following are members:
Charles L. Carroll, Morton Jensen
Davis, Ellinor Ann De Lind. Mar
garet c. Fitzpatrick, Frederick A.
Frohbose. Faye M. Lacy, E. Mar
garet Lamoreaux, Brockton R Lyon,
jr: Ann H. Monroe, Dale F Norton,
Geraldine w. Pikul, Helen v. Ryan,
Morris Seltzer, Mary Ruth Sink,
Henry L. Splller. Grant Thomas,
Ida Wollstein, William E Wright.
Polk L. Young and Rita Marion
Zuch.
Evening star., 1942-06-12
\X%&:; \X%&;:iis +; s.
"

MUSIC.
Concert, United States Navy Band.
bandstand, Walter Reed Hospital.
$50 pm. today.
Concert, United States Army
Band. east front Of United States
Capitol, 7 pm. today.
Concert. United States Marine
Band. Marine Barracks, Eighth and
I streets Sc, 10 am. and pm.
tomorrow.
Concert, United States Army
Band. Army War College, 1l:30 am.
tomorrow.
DINNER.
Sunshine Circle. Eldebrook Church.
club studio, Fairfax Hotel, 8 pm.
today.
MEETINGS.
Annual election OF officers, Study
Guild, Catholic Library, 1725 Rhode
Island avenue NV, 7:45 pm. today.
Federal Employees Union No. 2,
Willard Hotel, 8 pm. today.
Alpha Province. Sigma Chi Fra
tenity, Mayfower Hotel, 8 pm.
today.
Forty-third annual encampment,
District Department, United Span
ish War Veterans. Pythian Temple,
1912 Ninth street NV, 2 pm.
tomorrow.
DANCES.
All States Club, Hotel Washington,
$50 pm. today.
Prom, Western High School, May
flower Hotel, 10 pm. today.
Game Animals of Our National
Parks" by George A. Petrides:
wild Life at Denali," by Victor H.
Cahalane, illustrated talks spon-
sored by the National Capital Parks
Service, Sylvan Theater, $50 pm.
today.
Barge trip, up the old C. & o.
Canal on a horse-drawn barge,
sponsored by the National Capital
Parks Service, leaves Key Bridge at
II am. tomorrow and Sunday and
leaves the Glen Echo Firehouse at
pm. tomorrow and Sunday.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Dance, sponsored by the Women's
Battalion, Bureau of Engraving,
Fourteenth and C streets S.W., 8
pm. today.
Orchestra concert. First Baptist
Church, Sixteenth and o streets
NV. BIS pm. today.
Games. National Baptist Memo
rial Church, Sixteenth and Colum-
bia road NV, 8 pm. today.
Bowling, sponsored by the Young
Adult Fellowship of the Hamlins
Methodist Church. Takoma Park
Recreation Center, 317 Cedar street,
Takoma Park. D. c., pm. today.
Bowling with the 20-40 Club,
Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church. Fourteenth and Columbia
road NV, 7:30 pm. today.
Open House. Church of the As
cension, 1901 Massachusetts avenue
NV, 8 pm. today.
Sightseeing tour of Washington,
sponsored by Washington churches.
meet at the rotunda. National Gal
lery of Art. Sixth street and Con-
stitution avenue NV, 2 pm. to-
morrow.
FOR COLORED SERVICEMEN.
Swimming, Photography Club,
YMCA. 1916 Twelfth street NV,
beginning at pm today
Party. Phyllis Wheatley YWCA,
90l Rhode Island avenue NV.
7:30 pm. today.
Evening star., 1942-06-12
Kappa Beto Pi to Hold
PurIey Here June n

Province Two of Kappa Beta Pi
International Legal Sorority will
hold its ninth biennial convention
June 81 at the OAR Chapter House,
1882 Massachusetts avenue NV.
The business session will be fol-
lowed by tea after the new off,
GERS are installed.
Province Secretary Carolyn r.
Just, attorney in the Justice De-
partment Lands Division, will pre-
side, and Mrs. Evelyn Boyer will
act as secretary.
Evening star., 1942-06-12

Aircraft carriers carry planes, but
War bonds carry everything neces-
sary to win. Carry your share; buy
now. Ten per cent Of your earnings
Is requested by the Treasury.