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Evening star., 1942-10-25
SOMETHING To Be PROUD Or

For years Joh1,
haunted by his
HE boots of the men thumped
over quaking wooden bridge,
and John Barrett thought of
the morning he and Little John had
fished for pumpkin seeds in the
brook beneath. At the foot of the
slope beyond, men moved in the
shadows of an old shed.
The siren still screamed on
from the prison.
desperate" Barrett.
heard someone say, and S
warning hand gripped his
arm. He looked into his
brothers face. ~
Wightman, the store
keeper, paused before them.
Cant get at him. He's got
rifle he stole at Maynard's
house. Looks like Maynard's
boy up there on the slope.
The devil took the boy for
ahostage, dragged him here,
struck him down when he fought"
Barrett saw the lifeless shape on
the hill, midway between the knot
of muttering men and the farmhouse
above.
A boy like Little John. Hurt.
Helpless. Barrett suddenly hated
this man who had escaped from the
prison and run wild in the night.
He felt himself surging forward.
Angily he shouted, "Well, what
are we waiting for? Are we going to
stand here doing nothing?'
Freeman, the village garage man,
stepped in front of him. mo one
here aims to commit suicide. Quiet
down. We're waiting for the war
den."
The warden. Barrett drew back,
trembling, to seek shelter by the
shed. Warden Pressman. How long
was it since he'd read that name in
the paper, and burned the page in
the kitchen range to keep the news
from Anne and the boy? Was it
months or years?
No matter. The time had been
one long interlude of dread, built
upon the inevitability of exposure.
There'd been no peace for him in
this Vermont village since the day
Pressman was put in charge OF the
gray prison on the hill behind the
house.
He should have known, he sup
posed, that it would be mistake.
His crime had not been great; few
more years would have paid for it.
But the weeks of planning had been
something eagerly snatched at, to
occupy an imprisoned mind. The
escape itself, the nights in the swamp,
the furtive journey from Georgia
to Vermont, had been little more
than an anticlimax
E1E RECALLED the night he had
stopped on the crest of the hill and
looked down at the house for the
first time. The rambling old farm
house Anne had bought with their
savings. Life had begun again that
night. A strange kind of life in a
Evening star., 1942-10-25
For years John Barrett had been
haunted by his past. And then. (.

HE boots of the men thumped
over quaking wooden bridge,
and John Barrett thought of
the morning he and Little John had
fshed for pumpkin seeds in the
brook beneath. At the foot of the
slope beyond, men moved in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27
Thunder Birds Tells Tale
OF Army's Aspiring Aces
Raymond Massey Becomes
Major in Canadian Army;
Other News of Theaters
BY ANDREW KELLEY.

unner opens the new picture Thunder Birds the Capitol
lhea With an inspiring its
screen shows romantic triangle which
OF the aspiring airmen and enisee striving
Terney e 49, ' N ".
Photographed has fra story structure but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27
Charles Boyer Statutes
His Love Scene Partner
Barbara Stanwyck Given
Chaste Caress on Hand
AS Good Job Tribute
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

at work Charles Boyer and Barbara
Stanwyck hero and heroine in Flesh
Universal to do retak One OF their
seems and nothing do but get the all steamed
The setting Boyes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27

special signs lend emphasis to the
demand for privacy. the one stage
in town on which everybody wants
to get is the HI rlem set for Thank
Your Lucky Stars"
About $50 Negroes are dancing in
front of an apartment house. The
house flares five stories high and
leans off-balsnce. Even the fire
plugs in the street bend to a As
degree angle. 1t seems to be a we'd
ding.
Willie Best, in his soldier suit.
is being given in marriage to Hattie
Mcdaniel. Hattie is nothing less
than lovely in purple. red, yellow,
white, green. blue, pink, cerise and
puce. Trouble is. she's got misery
in her feet. Shoes too tight. Oh,
Lawdy, what misery. But she dances.
Everybody dances while LIE Roy
Prinz, the director, rides in glory.
Ike a cigar-smoking cherub. on the
camera boom. AS the music boogies
into blast Of hot stuff the dancers
ripple their long legs and give forth.
The dance Swirls to a blasting
conclusion and the music stops. But
the dancers don't. They like to
dance, keep right on practicing
steps. lie Roy Prinz looks on in
wonderment. shrugs and says to the
crew. "Okay, let EN- wear them
selves out"
released BY the North American
Eewspa per Alliance, Inc)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27

mental swing for the film version
Of the Broadway hit. "Dubarry Was
q Lady
Duke Ellington joins Louis Arm
strong and the cast in Cabin in the
Sky"
Kay Kyser, the "Ole Professor"
will be featured in the MGM musi-
cal, Right About Face.
Gene Krupa. Harry James, Dick
Jurgens and Vaughn Monroe have
been signed to contracts and will be
assigned to important Metro must
cal properties, which include Girl
Crazy" Best Foot Forward and
Anchors Aweigh," among others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27
Producers Like Her
AS a Sister
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD.
For the second time in recent
months red-haired Nancy Coleman
will portray the youngest of three
sisters for a motion picture. She has
been selected to play the third of
the Bronte sisters in Warner Bros.
Devotion" Ida Lupino and Olivia
de Havilland are the other two.
Not long ago Miss Coleman played
the most youthful of the Gaylord
sisters in The Gay Sisters" in
which Barbara Stanwyck and Ger
aldine Fitzgerald had the other
roles. AS soon as she finishes work
in her current Edge of Darkness. T"
Miss Coleman will report to Director
Curtis Bernhardt for her new as
signment.
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Flying Fortress
Another Lark
With Raj
Some Day Adequate
Film Tribute May
Be Paid Heroes
BY J. w. STEPP.


British film studios would appear
still to lean most heavily on the
Raj for their subject matter. With
utter Justification. they pay tribute
to the greatest and smallest single
force in the fight against the in
vader. II a thousand movie salutes
should eventually be made Britains
airmen, every one will have been
made to good cause. 1t will be re-
grettable only if such eXpositions
continue to be of the low caliber
manifested in the past few importa-
tons. latest being Flying Fortress
now at the Metropolitan.
In this picture the already out
worn formula has been applied again
with just one minor difference-the
aerial battles, painfully slammed;
incorporation of actual aerial scenes
and the vacuous incidental story told
with the punch of lukewarm tea.
Variation in this instance is not the
Eagle Squadron, the Raj over the
Mediterranean or the women's aux
Hilary air arm, but Americans in the
RCAF over Europe in American
bombers. This alteration of cir
cumstances is hardly noticeable in
the face of shots most of which
have been seen before in newsreels
if not Flying Fortress" predeces-
sors,. and in the welter of bombed
target" models and banality of the
dialogue.
There is one more added touch
but of equal unimpressiveness:
sequence where the male principals
Orchard Greene and Donald Stew
art) are seen in the Ferry Com
mand. This consists of harsh words
and blows in an instruction class,
then flashes of a Fortress winging
through the clouds to England.
After the pair, for personal reasons
becomes attached to the military
there is a development of conse-
quence. and it is beautifully incredi-
BILE. Some Messerschmidts pulled by
strings race past the Fortress setting
fire to one of its motors Mr.
Greene. alternating with a dummy
crawls out on the wing and stops the
conflag grafton with a cushion.
OF the generous fstful of shorts.
one by the British Ministry of In
formation offers more new action
shots than the feature attraction.
and interviews with the people of
battered Dover. In technicolor. our
own Government with "A Ship Is
Born depicts the creation of a
mighty merchant marine fleet and
the sailors to man it. There are
also Curious Occupations" install
ment and newsreels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27
Bands Becoming More
Active These DAYS

Ten of the Nations top bands
have been scheduled for forthcom-
ing Metro Goldwyn-Mayer produc-
lions with music. Here are the
bands and the pictures:
Louis Armstrong, old "Satch"
himself, will be seen in the cast Of
Cabin in the Sky" with Ethel Wa
tiers, Rochester, Lena Horne, Rex
Ingram and the Hall johnson Choir
Bob Crosby will assist Judy Gar
land, Van Hef1in and a cast of top
notch players in Presenting Lily
Mars"
Jimmy Dorsey. top saxophonist,
will be prominent in the Red Skel-
ton comedy, Il Dood It,"
Tommy Dorsey will provide senti-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

StAkS.
Observation-Disclosures" presented
by the Boston Comic Opera Co.: To-
night at $50.
Screen.
CapitoI-"Thunde soldiers
of the air in technicolor: II am.
1:45, 4::30, 7:20 and 1905 pm. Stage
shows: 1885, $40, 625 and Obs
pm.
Columbia-"A Yank at Eton,"
Mickey Rooney defyine tradition:
ll:45 am, Las, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Earle-"Gentleman jim" life Of
the boxer: II am. l:45. 4:30, 7:l5
and 1905 pm. Stage shows l, $50,
6:35 and $40 pm.
Keith's-"Who Done TIP" legiti-
mate murder by Abbott and Co.'S
tello: 1l:40 am, las, 3:45, $50, 7:50
and 9:55 pm.
Litte-"A Star Is Born" behind
the scenes in Hollywood: II am, l.,
3, 5. 7:l5 and 9:40pm
MISUNDERSTANDING Fortress, y
English pilots over Europe: II am.
12:45, 2:30, AIS, 6. 7:55 and $50
pm.
Palace-"For Me and NV GAL"
about musical with Judy Garland:
II: 80 m. 2, 4:35, ITO and $40 pm
Pix-"You Can't Take It With
You" the Jean Arthur James
Stewart hit: 2, 4:35, $40 and $40
pm.
Trans-Lux-Newsa and shorts; con-
tinuous from 10 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27

in watching these aviators in en-
bryo from various Allied nations.
acquire the skill which brings them
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Firmament Expands

Edward Everett Horton and S. z.
Sakall have joined the cast Of War
ner Bros Thank Your Lucky
Stars as stage director and the
atrical producer. respectively. The
film, directed by David Butler, has
every top-ranking player on the lot
in leading roles and introduces
songstress Dinah Shore to motion
picture fans. Sakall played a stage
producer in Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27

thing from building an anti-aircraft
gun to writing poem-and some
times at the same time; thirdly,
they modestly apologized for the
briefness of the cable. Simonov. we
were told. was in besieged Stain
grad and they hadn't heard from
him in several weeks!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27

coveted wings.
Story S t e m S
from an original
written by Col.
Daryl Zanuck,
who maSquer-
AIDES under the
pseudonym, Mel
vile Crossman.
All the action
occurs at the
Thunder B / r d
Army Air Force
flying field in
Arizona. terrain
which lends it
self to colorful
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-27

ADJUSTMENTS.
Evening star., 1942-04-12
Bulgarian Cabinet Quits,
Protesting Hifer's Plan
BN In, Associated Press.

oN tnt Associated PreSS.
BERN, Switzerland, April Ii
The Bulgarian government resigned
today after refusal of a majority to
approve Hitler's program for the
Balkan nation-believed by diplo-
matte quarters here to call for ac-
tive participation in the war against
Russia or Turkey or both.
Premier Bogdan Philoff immedi-
ately formed a new cabinet in Sofia
with only two of his former minis
tiers represented. This was taken
to indicate that the other seven had
opposed German proposals handed
to King Boris in Berlin two weeks
ago.
In addition to the premiership,
Philoff took over the foreign min
istry portfolio heretofore held by
Ivan Popoff, one of the resigned
ministers. Among the other who
quit was War Minister Gen. Theo-
dossy Daskaloff, who was succeeded
by Gen. Michoff, former command
er of the Sofia Army Corps.
Bern sources with close Bulgarian
connections said Hitler's plans for
Bulgaria in the Axis program had
been under discussion ever since
Boris returned to Sofia and that
most cabinet members had stead
fastly opposed active participation
in the war.
Evening star., 1942-04-12

ian participation adviser at S. 800 a
year.
Thelma Tabb, assistant racial re-
lations adviser at $500 a year.
Daniel Lang, rowing reporter"
and senior business specialist, at
sl2.77 a day when employed.
Sara G. Matscheck, consultant, at
s10.55 a day when employed.
Mrs. Morgenthau Leaves Post.
Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, deputy
assistant director; Pauline Gore,
consultant; Eleanor Pierson, con-
sultant; Doris D. Rafler, consultant;
Mrs. Nathan Straus, consultant:
Alice Pentlarge. consultant; Mrs.
Lucille Hill, Mrs. Lex Green, Mrs.
Stanley Resor. Mrs. Lawrence
Cramer, Mrs. Edward Berle, jr.,
all volunteers.
Agnes Reynolds, business special
ist in youth activities, at slO.55 a
day when employed.
Gilbert Harrison, civilian partici-
patton adviser in youth activities,
at 5000.
Jane Seaver, junior administra-
tSee o. C. D.. Page A-9O
Evening star., 1942-04-12
Fresh Jap Advances
In Burma Fighting
Reported by Chinese
1000 Enemy Soldiers
Declared Casualties
In Three-Doy Bottle
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, April 11.-Se-
we're fighting and fresh Japanese
advances on the Chinese front
in Burma were reported by the
Chinese today, but they said
1000 japanese were killed or
wounded and many prisoners
taken in a three day battle.
A communioue said heavily-rein-
forced japanese renewed attacks
westward across the Sittang River
and infiltrated through advanced
Chinese positions northeast of Ye-
dashe, 18 miles north of Toungoo
The attacks were made under cover
of many tanks.
Fighting continued along the Swa
River, which runs west of the Sit
tang at Yedashe
Farther east the japanese
launched new attacks April 6 from
the east shore of the Salween
River along the Thailand border
region toward Mawchi, where they
were held in check in fierce fighting
A further British withdrawal on
the Irrawaddy, or West Burma
front, also was reported in a COM
munique from New Delhi, which
said no activity had been reported
since Wednesday when light recon-
naissance troops in the vicinity of
Nyaungbintha' engaged three Jap
anese vehicles
Nyaungbintha is 18 miles north of
Thayetmyo, So miles above Prone
Thayetmyo was the last reported
position of the British.
Evening star., 1942-04-12
Chungking Awaits End Of Fog,
Opening Brief Bombing Season
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, China, April IL
The fog, which for seven months
has protected Free Chinas capital
from bombs, will lift in a few weeks,
and Chungking must be ready again
for the ordeal by blast and fire.
They call it the bombing sea-
son"-last year it opened May 8
and closed August 81. 1t was
marked by a week-long siege Of
horror which began August Z and
in which the city was under almost
constant alert, without light or tele-
phone service, with the water sup
ply disrupted and the food growing
scarce. The blitz was intended to
make the Free Chinese cry for
peace and in this it failed COM
pletely.
This year the Japanese bombers
are assembling at Hankow, the once
Evening star., 1942-04-12

great Yangtze port used since 1888
as the main springboard for air
attack on Chungking.
This year Chungking is getting
ready for anything. An anti-gas
corps of 5000 has been organized.
1t will go into action at the throb
of great drums if gas bombs are
dropped. Special anti-gas observa-
tion posts have been built, and
already many of the city's dugouts
have been equipped with anti-gas
screens.
Lecturers have told the people
what to do if there is gas. Simple
mouth masks are being sold and
warnings are being issued against
walking barefoot, as most of the
poorer Chinese do.
There are roughly 100000 persons
here now, but at least 100000 of
(See CHUNKING, Page. .A-100
Evening star., 1942-04-12
George Submits Plan
To Deduct War Bonds
From Income Tax
Compulsory Saving Held
Not Far Awuy' and
Price Ceiling Certoin
BY ]. A. OLEARY.

Chairman George OF the SEN
ate Finance Committee last
night advocated writing into the
pending s7,61O,OOO,OOO tax bill a
savings plan which would allow
deduction of Is or 20 per cent
from taxable income if it is in
vested in war bonds.
While emphasizing he would make
it voluntary at this time. the Georgia
Senator said a "brutally realistic"
view of the outlook leads him to
believe I'VE are not far away from
the question of compulsory savings" a"
Coupling a savings plan with the
tax program, and repaying the saw
ings to the taxpayer in series of
annual installments after the war,
undoubtedly would help curb infia-
ton, would give the Government the
use of more money during the war,
and provide a backlog for business
after the war, the Senator said.
Price Ceiling Held Inevitable.
At the same time, he said he re-
CARDS the adoption of general price
ceiling as inevitable.
Il think it is coming too slowly"
he added. "It must include wages as
we'll as prices-not a hard and fast
ceiling-but along the lines of the
Canadian system, permitting adjust
ments in cases of subnormal wages,
or to meet drastic changes in the
cost of living"
Senator Georges views on tax
savings are of special significance
because he will have charge OF the
revenue-raising bill when 1t reaches
the Senate, probably in June. House
hearings on the measure are drawing
toward a close, but it is likely to take
the Ways and Means Committee
several weeks in executive session to
draft the bill in detail.
The voluntary savings plan he ad-
vocates for adoption at the start
would not prove an inducement to
the ordinary wage Garner, Senator
George pointed out, but there would
be many individuals and corpora
tions that could take advantage of it.
In explaining he had in mind a
deduction rate of about 20 per cent
for the voluntary savings plan, the
Senator said 1t would work as fol-
lows: If a man had net taxable in
(See TAXES, Page A-l0D
Evening star., 1942-04-12
By JAMES E. CHINN.

The Budget Bureau sent to
Congress yesterday a revised 1943
budget for the District calling for
appropriations totaling about
$50, 500, 900, or $2,OO0,OO0 in excess
of the amount it originally rec
commended to operate the mu-
nicipal government In the II
months beginning July l.
Hearings on ths enlarged budget
are scheduled to start at 130 pm.
tomorrow before subcommittee Of
the House Appropriations Com
mittee headed by Representative
Mahon, Democrat, of Texas.
Additions and changes in the
original s54,500, 900 budget were
made at the direction of the sub
committee, which regarded it as
obsolete" because it was framed
last fall, nearly three months before
Pearl Harbor The alterations are
designed to carry the District gov
ernment through the first year of
the war.
SI,000,000 Anacostia Span.
Outstanding among the new items
is 81 1000, 900 to begin construction of
a new bridge across the Anacostia
River connecting the foot of South
Capitol street with the AnacoStia
Parkway-a project long contem-
plated to relieve congestion on the
Eleventh Street Bridge. The cur
rent appropriation act provided s25,-
900 for engineering surveys and
plans for this span.
Another major item in the revised
estimates provides $250000 for a
large dual purpose water main that
will increase water facilities in the
Capitol Hill area as well as in the
rapidly developing Anacostia section.
This main, ranging in size from 20
to 80 inches, will run from Second
and East Capitol streets to penn
sylvania and Kentucky avenues Sc.
Health Department Boost.
An increase of $4,000 was rec
commended for the Health Depart
ment, to raise the total for that
agency to s3,616000. The nursing
staff will be almost doubled. Where
the original estimates provided for
an addition of six nurses to the pres
ent staff of 70, the revised figure
proposes 66 more, to raise the force
to ISL.
There also will be 20 food inspec-
tors and five sanitary inspectors
added to the existing staff of l8 in
Evening star., 1942-04-12
Ex-Gov. Noe Acquitted
On Income Tax Churoe
Pv The Associated Press.

Pv the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, April Thames
A. Noe, Democratic national COM
mitteeman, and the Win or Lose
Corp. were acquitted on all four
counts on charges of income tax
evasion in Federal Court here to-
night.
The jury returned the verdict five
and a half hours after getting the
case, which had been under way all
week. Former Gov. Noe embraced
his wife as the jury verdict was
read to Federal Judge Wayne G.
Borah.
Four counts charging evasion of
income and excess profits taxes in
the year 1885 were alleged against
Noe as president and the corpora
ton in an indictment returned
October 3, 1910.
Evening star., 1942-04-12
300 German Planes
Smashed in ; Days,
Red Army Claims
Many of Croft Just Shifted
From Africu and France;
5000 Nuzis Killed
BY the Associated Press.

DS lut hSoUtldttu FItSo.
LONDON, April 11.-Still in
tent on achieving victory in 1942
despite reports that Germany
is accumulating huge forces
for new assaults, the Russians
smashed hard today at the Nazi
air strength being mustered for
Adolf Hitler's poSt-thaw drive.
Dispatches from Kuibyshev saio
Soviet airnen and ground defenses
had destroyed 300 German air force
units in the last three days, l23 OF
them on the ground.
The heaviest toll was reported
from the northwest front around
Staraya Russa, where the Red ARM
still is hacking at immobilized units
of the German 18th Army.
Many of the planes destroyed were
transferred only recently from Yu-
goslavia. France and North Africa
captured pilots said.
On the land, battle reports from
both sides indicated stiff engage
ments from Finland to the Black
Sea, but no conclusive advance was
claimed by either. The Russians
did, however, report that 5000 Ger
mans had been killed in the Bryansk
area of the central front in the last
few days, and Pravda, the Commun-
iSt Party newspaper, said the Ger
mans had lost the approach to an
important city in this general sector
The Moscow communique tonight
reported the sinking of a 3,OOO-to
enemy transport in the Barents Sea
1t said there were no significant
changes on the land front during
the day.
Axis reports claimed the German.
on the Kerch Peninsula of the
Crimea had destroyed or put out Of
action SO Russian tanks during 6
recent Red Army attack; that Ger.
mans and Rumanians had begur
new and heavy assaults on the Rus.
sian Donets Basin lines and that
on the Leningrad front the Rus.
slams had made hard new attack!
with tanks, with the battle still
laundering.
On the Lapland front in the Arc.
tic, Nazi mounted troops and Finn
were reported to have taken well.
fortified strong point, destroying A
Russian posts,
Evening star., 1942-04-12

with the enemy at the gates,
Sir Stafford announced, his pro-
posalS had run afoul of "Spate of
criticism" and critical and uncon-
structive attitude" He said he was
withdrawing the offers and return
ing to London tomorrow.
Neither the Congress Party in
which the country's 24O 100000 Hin
dus are dominant, nor the Moslem
League, which widely represents the
100000 Moslems, the two powerful
parties, found the proposals accepta-
BILE.
1t was on the issue of formation of
an interim government pending
settlement of India's constitutional
problems after the war that nego-
tiations were wrecked. Involved
were defense powers which such a
government would WELD
Congress Party leaders insisted on