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Evening star., 1942-05-12
U. S. Newsmon Chouffeurs Jeep 300 Miles
Over Bog Trails in Fleeing Doomed Burma

Salween line in January, and the
smiling Chinese I saw deploying
around Toungoo below Mandalay
in March, were killed in combat.
Some retreated out of the death
pockets. Always there was a new
temporary line established farther
back. Always it was weaker than
the previous line.
For hundreds of miles it was a
case of fight, withdraw and fight
again.
Every mile backward Allied air
support faded until in April there
literally was nothing left. Always
enemy troops and Burmese treach-
cry increased.
The fall of Rangoon March 8
doomed Burma. The British in the
ranks knew 1t as well as the officers.
They kept on fighting. They are
fighting today. Surrender isn't in
their vocabulary.
What imperial troops reach the
rugged Indian frontier will move
their way on foot. Their 12-ton
American tanks with the CHEEKY
red desert rat insignia, their six
wheeled and four wheeled trucks,
their mobile anti-aircraft artillery,
their field artillery admittedly can
not be handled over the $50
miles Of sandy wastes and swampy
morasses to the nearest Assam
(see BURMA, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Order 10 Curb Deliveries
POSTPONED Until June |

Restrictions on local delivery serv-
ices, scheduled to take effect May Is
were postponed today until June !
by the ONCE of Defense Transporta-
ton, Joseph B. Eastman, director,
announced.
The postponement, 1t was ex-
planned, was decided on to give in
dustries affected more time in which
to revise delivery schedules and work
out plans for conservation of tires
and equipment in wartime.
The restrictive order provides for
elimination of special deliveries,
call-backs and more than one de-
livery to the same person on the
same day by any rubber-tired We
hicle. 1t eXemptS deliveries to hos
pitals and the armed forces of the
United States and all emergency de-
hveries made in the interest of life,
health and safety.
In announcing the postponement
Of the effective date, Director East
man expressed qualification over the
efforts being made by newspapers
and other industries to make de-
hveries conform to the order. At
the same time, he emphasized the
necessity for maximum conserva-
ton of existing transport facilities.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
BY DANIEL DE LUCE,

hssOCldbtO FIcSs WdI NOIIeSpOfQcnt.
CALCUTTA, India, May IL de-
layeO Across cactus plains scared
by desert heat, through steamy jun
gle swamps, hidden deep in black
leech-infested mud the survivors of
the little British imperial army in
Burma are fighting on in The tough
est evacuation of World War II.
Harassed by enemy fighters and
bombers which for nearly seven
weeks have been overwhelmingly
supreme, stabbed at from ambush
by blood-crazed bands of native
traitors, the haggard and weary
riflemen of half a dozen one time
crack battalions of British armored
force crews and wiry Sepoys from
Indian units are approaching within
few scores Of miles the noun
famous Assam frontier of India
frontier where the Japanese in
vaders can and must be held at
bay.
What happened in Burma consti-
tues a military tragedy for the
United Nations-as bitter in it's way
as Singapore, Java, Manila and per-
haps as avoidable.
For the pitifully small handful OF
imperial soldiers from two imperial
divisions who lost Lower Burma
for the few under strength Chinese
divisions which stemmed the Japa-
nese conquest for more than .
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Wafer CurfaiImenf
Faces District Area,
McCarran Warns
Federal Expansion
Blamed by Senator for
Increased Consumption

Warning of the possibility of
water curtailment here was
given today by Chairman Nc
Carran Of the Senate District
Committee. He gave as potential
reasons present rate of consump-
ton, a proportionately higher
rate expected during the summer
months and an increase neces-
STATED by Federal expansion.
Already indications are that the
use Of water will be curtailed this
summer" said Senator McCarran.
And while it is true that such cur
tailment can be attributed in gen.
eral to seasonal demand, yet the
increased use of water by the Fed
eral Government, both in the Dis
trict and nearby Maryland and
Virginia, contribute to this larger
demand on an already overtaxed
system of distribution"
The Nevada Senator emphasized
the need for additional facilities
but said that in his opinion "the
taxpayers of this city ought not to
be saddled with the expense in
volved in expanding a system OF
water distribution which Is not
necessary so far as the normal de-
mands of the city and its inhabi-
tants are concerned"
The Senate District chairman said
the investigation now under way
is expected to present to members
of the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee the true picture involved
in the request for additional funds
The Senator Is personally conduct
ing the water investigation.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Five Coal Miners Killed
In Blast Caused by Dust

By the Associated Press.
FORT SMITH Ark, May 12.-An
explosion at the Peerless Coal Co.
mine at nearby Excelsior, in which
five miners were killed and two
others seriously injured, apparently
was caused by gas or dust, w. H.
Lewis, mining company president,
said today.
An official investigation of the ac-
cident, which occurred last night
1,500 feet underground, is planned
by the Arkansas mine inspector, j.
w. Fitzjarrel.
Those killed lived in Greenwood,
Ark. They were George Young, SO;
Arthur Baggett, 80; Newt Durham,
80; Wallace Smith, As; and A. w.
Hanna, so. Harris McAlister, 80,
Greenwood, and Tony Farrante,
35, Excelsior, were severely burned.
They were part of a 14-man crew
working in the slope mine, pro-
ducing bituminous coal.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
) British Desfroyers
Sunk by hazi Bombs
In Mediterranean
More Thun 500 Officers
And Men Are Rescued
From Vessels
BY the Associated Press.

69s VIC 1ocVNidsSo 1ISc1s
LONDON, May 12.-The British
Admiralty announced today that
three British destroyers had been
sunk by German bombs in the
Mediterranean, bringing to II
the number Of British destroyers
sunk in 80 months Of the war.
The destroyers were the Lively,
Jackal and Kipling.
More than 500 officers and men
from the three ships were saved
Compliments of the three ships
were believed to total about 600
officers and men.
All three were new, the Lively
1920 tons, having been completed in
1910, and the other two, each of / ,695
tons, a year earlier Normal compile
ments Of the smaller ships were 183
men, the Lively's probably some
what larger.
Yesterday afternoon a force con-
sisting Of four of our destroyers was
heavily attacked by German aircraft
in the Eastern Mediterranean" said
the communique.
Qn Rome the italian high COM
mand announced that the action
took place off the Gulf of Salum
as part of aerial activity described
as intense over the Mediter-
ranean and North Africa)
The Lively was first hit and sank
When the remaining three de-
stroyers were subjected to further
heavy attack the Kipling was sunk
The Jackal, also badly hit, was
taken in tow, but had to be sunk by
the British this morning, the Ad-
miralty said.
During the attacks British Beau
(See DESPOVrPS pace 40
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Goering May Meet
With Pefain and Laval
i. ). Break Expected
Swiss Quarters Hear
Decisions Will Be Made
At Session Tomorrow
BY the Associated Press.


BERN, Switzerland, May 12.-
With ench-German negotia-
tions reaching a state Of urgency,
Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer-
ing may meet tomorrow with
Chief of State Petain and Chief
of Government Laval to reach
final decisions, it was reported
today in foreign diplomatic
quarters.
These quarters predicted the
French would refuse to accept the
Martinique negotiations as one of
the great decisions, with a resultant
break of relations with the United
States.
(Secretary Of State Hull said
today that the conversations in
Martinique are continuing, but
declined any comment on them0
1t was reported that Otto Abetz,
Adolf Hitler's representative in Paris,
and Laval met yesterday at Moulins,
on the French demarkation line, and
laid the groundwork for the expected
meeting with Marshal Goering.
Laval was said to have brought
France to the brink of the three big
INSTRUMENTATION of the American
proposals for clarifying the status Of
Martinique, the degree of military
collaboration with the Axis, and at
least a preliminary settlement Of
disputed points with Italy.
These were reported to have been
the matters of 'imperious concern"
which Vichy announced led Marshal
(See BERN, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1942-05-12
BIackout 10 Give Area
Taste Of Real Raid
Problems Tonight
Emergency Drill Slated
For Sometime Between
10P.M. and Z AM.

The Metropolitan Areas black
out practice tonight-some time
between 10 pm. and a.m.-will
be the closest this area has yet
approached the actual condi-
tions of an air raid, preparations
indicated today.
The exact time at which the city
will be thrown into darkness for a
half hour will not be determined
until the last minute, civilian de-
tense officials said.
Unlike the last total blackout
practice, when chiefs of emergency
defense services were advised ahead
of time to meet Defense Co-ordi-
nator Young at the District control
center at a certain time, the chiefs
will not be notified tonight until the
signal for the yellow warning. pre-
ceding the blackout by about half
! an hour, is given.
Phone Crush to Be Averted.
For many Of the rank and file OF
the protective services, the public
warning sounded by the sirens will
be the only notification to 60 into
action. This not only will give the
civilian defenders an opportunity to
act as they should under actual air.
raid conditions, but also will prevent
jamming the telephones.
Under the cascade system, which
Is thereby cut down, notification on
the yellow warning went down the
line through the deputy wardens to
their next in command and so on
until every warden was notified.
Particularly in the suburban areas
where switchboards are manually
operated, this system was said to
have jammed the wires.
To prevent clogging telephone
lines, wardens and others in the
protective services were advised to
use the telephone only when spe-
cial services had to be called to the
scene of simulated incidents.
The public likewise was request
ed by Col. Lemuel Bolles not to
make telephone calls during the
four-hour period during which the
blackout will come unless the calls
are absolutely necessary. Before and
after the blackout, it was explained,
arrangements and reports will keep
the telephone wires humming.
In response to complaints by lead
ers that their emergency vehicles
were stopped dozen times on the
way to simulated emergency tasks
Col Bolles advised air raid wardens
not to stop emergency vehicles since
that was the job of regular and
auxiliary police.
Extra Caution Urged.
He joined Traffic Director Will
liam A. Van Duzer in urging all
who are on the street during the
blackout to exercise extra caution
to prevent blackout traffic acci-
dents.
Drivers of emergency vehicles were
asked not to start out in the black
out until their eyes are accustomed
to the darkness and pedestrians
were advised to wait five minutes
before moving about, the length of
time 1t is thought necessary to ad-
just the eyes to the blackness. AS
in the previous total blackout reg
ular traffic will stop moving and
motorists and pedestrians are sup
posed to seek shelter.
Possible flaws in the communica-
tions system will be studied during
tonight's test, it was said. Although
(See BLACKOUT, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-05-12
japanese Invade India,
German Radio Reports
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May IA German
radio broadcast that japanese van
guard troops has crossed the Indian
frontier at several points was re-
ported today by Reuters.
The German broadcast said light
japanese forces also had taken con-
troll of the coastal zone between the
Burmese port of Akyab and the
Indian port of Chittagong.
The British Exchange Telegraph
agency said the Paris radio reported
Japanese troops fighting in the Bay
Of Bengal area" had reached a
point 13 miles from Chittagong.
II true, this would place the Jap
anese about rs miles inside India
from the Burma border. The Paris
radio, however. has been highly in
accurate concerning the Burma
campaign.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
GUIDE FOR READERS

subject should be thoroughly inves-
tigated by the Civil Service Com
mittee."
Under the bill, Federal and Dis
trict employees engaged on piece
work, by the hour or at per diem
rates would receive the additional
compensation prorated on the basis
of regular working hours. Substi-
tutes would get an increase on the
basis of proportional time worked.
Additional compensation would
not be allowed to increase the total
salary beyond 5000.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Downey Urges $500 Pay Boost
To U.S.. Workers Under $4,000

Senator Downey, Democrat, of
California, a member of the Senate
Civil Service Committee, today In
troduced bill providing additional
compensation of $500 year during
the war and for six months there
after for all civilian employees of the
Federal and District governments
whose pay is now less than $1,000.
Many Government employees are
drifting away to other better-paid
jobs because Of the high cost OF liv-
ing" Senator Downey said. THE
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Paper Boosts Prices

CANTON, Ohio, May II (P.-The
Canton Repository next Monday will
raise its weekday street sale price
from 3 to cents and its Sunday
price from 5 to cents. Home de-
livery prices will be 81 cents for
weekday issues, up 8 cents, and 6
cents for the Sunday, up l cent.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Heavy Fighting
Continues With
Enemy Remnants
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, May 12.-The
main force of Japanese inva-
sion column, which struck deep
into China's Yunnan Province,
has been driven back to the
Burma frontier at Wanting, but
heavy fighting continues with
remnants of the shattered enemy
in the Chefang- -Mengshih area,
a military spokesman said today.
If fighting still is progressing in
the Mangshih area, the Japanese
remnants are still SIS miles within
China on the Burma road. Mang-
shih lies 80 miles beyond Chefang.
Other Chinese forces which had
been by-passed in Central Burma
continued their advance in which
they captured Maymyo and drove
to the outskirts OF ruined Man
dalay, moving northeastward in an
effort to block the Japanese retreat.
The spokesman said the japanese
had reached Kalewa, 145 miles
northwest of Mandalay, after a
northwesterly advance from Man
dalay. He said the japanese were
attempting to encircle Chinese
troops in that section.
On the Salween River front in
the Shan states of Eastern Burma
another force of Chinese which
struck out from near Loilem was
facing the Japanese across the river.
All these Central Burma forces are
commanded by 1t. Gen. Joseph w.
Stilwell, U. S. A.
The government spokesman said
he applauded Prime Minister
Churchill's warning to Germany
against the use of poison gas and
said China might invoke similar
warning to Japan. China has pre-
viously charged that the japanese
have employed both poison gas and
bacterial warfare against their
armies.
Beaten Back 30 Miles.
He said the deepest japanese
penetration into Yunnan Province
was to a point IL miles northwest of
Lungling, but that the invaders were
beaten back 80 miles in the Chinese
counteroffensive.
At present, Chinese forces from
the north and south are trying to
encircle the japanese and the Japa-
nese are trying to do the same thing
to the Chinese. who will succeed
remains to be seen," the spokesman
commented.
The spokesman drew attention to
strong enemy reserves in Burma and
said the danger of invasion of Yum
nan Province still existed.
Wang Shih-chien, Minister of In
formation, said the Chinese tactics
in Burma and Yunnan were to press
the Japanese relentlessly, giving
them no pause for consolidation. He
added that air support was of the
greatest importance in order to
achieve this objective.
Battles Interlocking.
The Army spokesman said the
warfare in Burma and Yunnan
Provinces was fluid and that the
japanese lines were like a great
horseshoe linking captured Wyitkyina
and Bhamo in North Burma with
Wanting and other points on the
Burma Road.
Another section of the fighting
front extended from Loilem to
Wanting, while another stretched
east from Loilem to the Salween
River.
Heavy Pressure on Chang.
TOXIC, (From Japanese Broad
casts, May II R.-Gen. Sunroku
Hata, commander in chief of jap
anese armies in China, said today in
Nanking that the Japanese already
were applying heavy pressure
against Generaissimo Chang Kai-
shek's forces in Northern and Gen.
tral China and that great attacks
were coming.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Only TripIets Born
To British Couple
Expecting Quods

BY the Associated Press.
ABINGDON, England, May
12.-Shucks, they were only
triplets!
After getting half of England
all excited on the basis of med
ical reports and having neigh
bors knit layettes for quin-
tuplets-or quadruplets at least
three children were born TO-
day to Mrs. Emily Woodley, %.
and her soldier husband, Pvt.
Arthur Woodley.
Its boy" in triplicate.
Evening star., 1942-05-12

month in Central Burma observers
have had nothing but praise.
They were ordered to do what
events have proved impossible.
Their casualties were appalling.
The majority Of the stocky, sing
ing British I saw hiking into the
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Allied Airmen Blast
) More Ships Of
Hiding Jap Armada
Enemy Losses Roised
To q or "a Since Stort
Of Coral Sea Bottle
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Australia, May 12.-Japan ap-
parently still was paying a dis
astrous price today for her de-
feat in the Coral Sea as Gen
Douglas MacArthur's headquar-
ters announced that Allied flyers
tracking down the scattered, hid
ing remnants of the great enemy
invasion armada and other units
had damaged two, and probably
three, more ships.
This raised the count of Japanese
losses in the six-day battle in the
sea gateway northeast of Australis
and in its sequel, a ceaseiess search
Of island hideaways, to % or a
ships in the eight days from the
start Of the Coral Sea battle through
yesterday.
Nevertheless, Japan's plans have
only been delayed and the threat
still hangs over Australia that she
Will try again to smash southwark
Air Minister Arthur S. Drakeforo
warned.
Two more enemy tranSports-shir
casualties % and 23-were hit yes.
terday in the Solomon Islands, which
inclose the Coral Sea on the north
a communique from Gen. Mac.
Arthur's headquarters announced.
Large Tanker May Be Victim.
The possible oath Japanese cas-.
ualty was large tanker on which
the communique said, air raiders
registered two hits or near misse.
In the Deboyne Islands of the
Louisiade group, a cluster of tiny
(See AUSTRALIA, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1942-05-12

(See GASOLINE, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-05-12

(See BERN, Page A-3.0
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Gas Registration
Starts Today al
Schools Here
Rotionins Cords
To Be Issued to
A-to-L Group
picture on Page A-5.)

THUMBNAIL GUIDE on what you
need to know about gasoline ra-
tioning. Page B-l
Evening star., 1942-05-12

The Stars afternoon and evening
circulation Is more than double that
Of any other Washington newspaper
Its total circulation In Washington
far exceeds that of any of its contem-
poraries In the morning or on Sunday.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-12-25

This message is written TO you mothers
from your Government.
1t concerns the most precious thing in
all the world to you--your child.
il asks you to help protect that child
from fear, from starvation, from death
the fate that has befallen millions of
children under the rule of Nazi and Jap
tyrants.
1t asks you to urge your husband to join
the Payroll Savings Plan-the easy way
to buy War Bonds that will furnish the
ships and guns and tanks and planes 30
desperately needed to guard you and
yours from the horrors Of defeat.
Or, if your husband is already buying
War Bonds through the Pay.Roll Saw
ings Plant asks you to urge him to buy
more, to increase his savings to at least
10 percent Of his salary or wages.
Remember, millions of your brothers,
husbands, sons, friends are risking every.
thing. You are asked to risk nothing.
War Bonds are the worlds safest invest.
ment.
As you buy them through the Payroll
Savings Plan-today, you are doing your
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-12-25
"A PLEDGE AND A PRAYER

Of the Propagandists, and ALL
Factual. First, the Negro needs
and wants NO "Social Equality"
with the white citizen because he
already enjoys "Social Superior
ity" over them. The possession of
his women is the possession of All
women. Women of every age and
race and kind. The 1arest and
most varied specimens of feminine
pulchritude are ours to enjoy. =.
Bronze bodies which challenge Ven
us de Milo; golden countenances
1ivaling Helen of Troy. Their
eyes are glorious orbs of light
their lips are lyric; their teeth
like tiny fragments of pearl float
ing in seeds of alabaster. Their
smiles are like ripping streams
blown upon by summer breezes and
kissed by the sun. II the major
ity peoples can resist such great
er temptation and hold their lines
the Negroes position will remain
socially untranscended as mat.
ter of course.
The Negroes ambition desire anc
demand, however, is COMPLETE
and Not Fractional Indignation -
Economic, political and cultural
Indignation is the bringing togeth
er of all parts into whole; thu
combining Of several elements in
to complex entirety. This is Ma
tional Unity. This is Democracy
The Negro asks NO MORE!! Tht
NEGRO SHALL ACCEPT MOTH
ING LESS!
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1942-12-25
Conversation
Piece
BY Mare Moreland, Phi ID.

The New "Thunderbolt" Cor is
it "Thunderbolt")? produced by
it "Thunderbolt"O? produced by
the Republic people, which is re
ported as being able to go at a $50
mile per hour clip, will at this
speed, travel faster than sound it
self.
1t is not that we know how fast
sound goes; but the report is from
people who are presumed to know,
that this is somewhat faster than
the speed of sound The "rhunder-
bolt has, on its face, both tremen-
dous military and social implica-
tons. we submit. And men and
women and boys and girls--and
even the beast of the fields not
to say the birds that know and
love the air ah0ve--must be awed
by the coming of the THUNDER
bolt"
For it must be clear to one and
all that to have been somewhere
and gone even before one is heard
coming, is = tremendous and down
right frightening advance in prac-
teal human ingenuity.
1 Imagine the military possibiliti-
es; men could fly (perhaps we
shall have to make use Of the word
"lightning" in its verbal form and
say, rather, men could "lightningO
to an objective, drop their bomb
load and be hnck where they start
cd from, in less than flash, meet
ing their coming sound going a
way.
This condition will be far re-
moved from the time and manner
Of the fighting character Of Mr.
Lincoln's story who, commanding
group of his fellow native West
erners, would shout, "Mount TIE
critters boys, and git Y" as he
pointed TO their horses. The :.
"Thunderbolt" suggests something
nearer the Four Hosemen Of the
Aposalpse riding high, wide and
handsome across the fields Of the
sky---a sign that the old had