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Evening star., 1942-05-11
Henry-Hoye Sees HULL:
Hopes for Solution

French Ambassador CASTOR Henry
Haye said today he hoped salts
factory arrangement could be
worked out with the United States
concerning Martinique and other
French possessions in the Western
Hemisphere.
The Ambassador made this COM
ment after comforting for nearly an
hour with Secretary of State Hull
on instructions from Vichy concern
ing negotiations undertaken by an
American naval-diplomatic mission
directly with the French high COM
missioner at Martinique to elimin-
ate any Axis menace from Mar
Unique and other French possess
slons in the Western Hemisphere.
There was some speculation in un-
ofnclal quarters that the pro-Axis
Laval regime at Vichy, realizing that
some such arrangement as proposed
by this Government was the only
way to keep the French flag flying
over its New World possessions, was
ready to reach an understanding.
Secretary Hull emphasized, how
ever, at press conference that
the United States is dealing directly
with Admiral Georges Robert, the
French high commissioner at Mar
Unique. whose jurisdiction includes
the island of Guadeloupe and
French Guiana.
M. Henry -Haye remarked that
there was nothing new in such di-
rect dealings, recalling that previous
agreements pledging maintenance
of neutrality by the French posses
sions had been negotiated with Ad-
See MARTINIQUE. Page All
Evening star., 1942-05-11
| New Draft Test
Ordered for Men
| With Bad Hearts
By the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va. Nav 11.-Se-
lective Service registrants who have
been rejected for military service
because of heart disorders may soon
be called for re-examination, State
Selective Service headquarters dis
closed today.
Col. Mills F. Neal, State director
was advised by Col. Leonard G
Rountree, chief of the medical
division of the National Selective
Service System, that while 106 per
cent of registrants rejected for ply
sical and mental reasons had been
disqualified for heart trouble. it was
believed a substantial percentage
of these men might be found fit
for service on re-examination Con-
sequently, a re-eXamination of this
group was recommended.
In many instances. officers said
temporary factors. such as undue
excitement, nervous stress and
strain, may have caused functional
arrangement sufficient to result in
rejection. 1t was believed that
when the men are re-examined in
different environment they NAV not
exhibit these symptoms of tenn
porary nature.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
indianapolis Selected
For Legion Convention
By the Associated Press.

BY theAssocisted Press
CHICAGO, May Indiana polls
was recommended by the American
Legion's National Convention Liai-
son Committee today for the 1912
convention, to be held September
19. 20 and 81.
Leo J. Duster of Cedar Rapids
Iowa, chairman of the committee
announced that because of wartime
conditions the committee recon-
mended that this years national
convention be limited TO 10 per cent
of the regular number of delegates
and those national officers and men,
bers of standing committees essen
tian to the Legion's program
Thus most of the noise and color
OF previous Legion conventions will
not be evident this year
Mr.. Duster said his committee S
decision was subject to the approval
of the National Executive Commit
tee, which functions as the govern
ing body between national conven-
tions.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
WaveN Reorganizes
Indian Armies for
Smash al Japs
Enemy Continues Advance
Northwestwurd Towurd
Frontier in Burma
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, India, May IL
Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell
poised three reorganized Indian
armies to smash at japanese in
vaders today as the Nipponese
pushed northwestward toward
the frontier in Burma and con-
tinued to gather an invasion fleet
at Rangoon for a descent on
Bengal.
The r. A. F., following up blows
of United States Maj. Gen. Lewis H.
Brereton's air force, which has
sought to smash japanese bases
around Rangoon, struck again at
Magwe. just south of the Yenan-
gyaung oil fields in Burma where
the Japanese have occupied an air
drome. The Blenheim bombers
scored hits on the runways, a COM
munique said.
Recognizing his armies, Gen.
Waveu announced that three mill
tary commands in India had been
changed from static bases of admin
istration to fighting headquarters
prepared to move wherever the
enemy strikes.
What formerly were the northern.
y 1e{n
mands have been changed to the
northwestern, eastern and southern
armies.
The bulk of the armies probably
will be gathered into the last two,
since those areas are the most
threatened. This marks an abrupt
change from a 100-year- organ
ization which assigned the strongest
forces to the northwest to guard
against raids by tribesmen from
north of Khyber Pass.
The raid on Magwe was the second
in two days.
Returning, one of the raiders was
intercepted by a flight of japanese
have damaged one of them in the
ensuing engagement.
The war bulletin said all the
planes returned safely from the raid
and other reconnaissance operations
over Japanese-held territory.
A Berlin broadcast of D. N. B. dis
patches today said Japanese bomb
ers yesterday heavily raided the
Indian town of Imphal (Manipur), g,
40 miles west of the Burma frontier.
The report said British forces
were attempting to withdraw
through that town along a newly
built road
A Toxic broadcast by Domei said
yesterday that Allied resistance in
Burma was on the brink of COL
lapse and that the japanese had
cut off an Allied line of retreat
to the Indian province of Assam by
seizing all vital points on the Burma
India frontier and were tightening
their encirclement of British and
Chinese troops.
A British source in London de-
clared today however, there was no
confirmation Of the reports that the
British have been cut off in North
ern Burma and declared that, so
far as is known. Gen. Harold Alex
ander's army still was retreating up
the valley of the Chindwin River.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Snow and Cold Rain
Limit Russian Drive
In Northern Sectors
Counteruttock Hults
Nuzi Effort to Take
KuIinin initiative
BY the Associated PreSl.

MOSCOW, May 1l.-Winter Is
having a final fling at Soviet
Russia's northern and central
fronts after playing the domi-
nant part in the Soviet-German
war for the last five months.
CRussian dispatches received in
London reported increased activi-
ty on the ground and in the air
on the Leningrad front with in
dications that the Germans
might be preparing an assault
on the city which has been with
in range of their artillery for
months)
Military dispatches reported to-
day there were snow flurries in some
sectors, while cold rains were fall
ing as far south as the Kalinin front
more than 100 miles northwest Of
Moscow.
Soaked roads, these advices said,
were impossible at some points, linn
iting the Red Army's offensive oper-
ations. Local assaults continued,
nevertheless, on both the northwest
ern and central fronts.
In the Kalinin sector, dispatches
said, the Russians drove the Ger
mans from strategically important
hill with aerial bombing followed by
infantry assault, forcing the enemy
to abandon one of his main defense
lines.
Nazis Sought Initiative.
The Germans tried to take back
the initiative three days ago in that
area, military reports said. launch
ing frontal attack against Russian
positions with a strong infantry
force supported by 20 tanks.
Repeated Nazi assaults were re-
ported repulsed with heavy German
losses and the Red Army then coun-
terattacked
The Soviet Information Bureau
said the Nazis had been frustrated
IN an attempt to get behind Red
| Army forces on the Kalinin front
and lost 400 men as well as -four
guns, four radio transmitters ano
other equipment.
In the north, Soviet unit was
said to have slain 200 Germans ir
an attack on a strong enemy forti-
fled point" The communique saio
"a considerable group of others,
surrounded by Russian forces, sur
/ rendered
Russian advices said guerrilla.
continued to harass the German
rear and the Nazis were said to have
lSee RIISSIA PAGE Al
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Paris Radio Is Reported
Damaged by Dynamiters
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 1l.-Dyna-
miters damaged the station Of
Radio Paris and the famous Paris
ian restaurant of Marguerys, trust
worthy advices to the Associated
Press from Europe said today.
The extent of the damage was
not fully known, but several persons
were reported killed in the restau-
rant.
The British radio, in q broadcast
heard by the Columbia Broadcasting
System, said the main broadcasting
station of Radio Paris, located 100
miles south of the capital at
Bourges. had been blown up and the
aerial had been downed.
These same sources said 10 more
hostages had been shot near Rouen
after two German sailors were killed
and that five others faced q firing
squad at Saint Auben.
1t was. said that so more would be
shot if the guilty persons were not
turned over by May Is and that 500
would be deported to eastern terri.
tories.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Representative Cole Named
Judue Of Customs Court
q, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Representative Cole. Democrat,
of Maryland was nominated by
President Roosevelt today TO be a
Judge of the United States Customs
Court.
The nomination came as a birth
day anniversary present to Mr.. Cole,
who was SO today He was born in
Towson in 1889 and has continued to
make his home there.
Mr.. Cole. captain in the World
War. has served continuously in the
House since March 4, 1881, and pre-
viously had served one other term
In that branch. He is a member OF
the Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee.
He graduated from the Maryland
Agricultural College, now the Uni
versity of Maryland, in 1910, then
studied law at the university and
passed the State bar examinations
in 1912.
He would succeed George s. Brown
on the Federal Customs Court.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
u. ). Reported
Asking Garrison
On Martinique
DemobiIizution of
Vichy Worships Also
Said to Be Demanded
BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN From German Broad

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN From German Broad
casts, May 1.-THE German
radio broadcast a Vichy dis
patch today saying the United
States had demanded that
French warships in Martinique
be demobilized and that United
States garrisons be permitted on
the Caribbean island.
The report said the United States
further demanded that the high
commissioner surrender a number
of French tankers anchored at Fort
de France and hand over control of
strategic points.
The French aircraft carrier Bearn
and two cruisers have been in har-
Dor at Martinique since the fall of
France.
D.N.B. dispatches from Paris to-
day called United States demands
on the Governor of Martinique an
"ultimatum" and quoted LIE Matin
as saying 1T is not as brutal as that
which Britain handed to the Gov
ernor of Madagascar, but it Is no
less cynical"
The German news agency, quoting
the German controlled Paris press
in general, said the demands had
aroused indignation and that the
"Anglo-S -Saxons are chiefly interested
in the French merchant fleet. espe-
cially in the large number of tank
ers anchored at Fort de France
(Martinique)."
Vichy dispatches said French
youth demonstrated in front of the
United States Embassy building
yesterday in protest against the
British attack on Madagascar.
Karl Schmidt, a German corre-
spondent in Vichy, said yesterday in
a dispatch that considerable nerv-
business was noticeable in French
government quarters today about
the news that the United States
Government had sent two represent
ativeS to Martinique"
Evening star., 1942-05-11
D. {. Dealers Prepare
To Ration Gasoline
Ahead Of u. :. Order
Rush Exhousts Supply
At Many Stations
Over Week End

Washington's gasoline dealers,
their tanks scheduled to be re-
plenished today with the second
Today quota for this month,
were ready in most instances to
put into effect their own ration
ing system as a means of extend
ing their service until the Fed
eral Governments rationing pro-
gram starts Friday.
The rush that exhausted the sup
ply at many stations early Saturday
and caused others to limit sales to
from two to five gallons a customer
continued yesterday among the few
opened Sunday and caused a ma
jority of them to close in advance
of their usual time.
officials were divided in their
Evening star., 1942-05-11

opinion as to whether the gasoline
situation had increased or decreased
yesterdays traffic. The American
Automobile Association reported it
was definitely heavier, while the
Keystone Automobile Club and po-
lice officials said it was noticeably
lighter.
Bridge Traffic Affords Check.
All were agreed, however, that
there had been a sharp decline in
the number of motorists from out
of-town. The most accepted check
of this was made on the Highway
Bridge, the span over which moves
most of the outgoing and incoming
traffic north and south bound Lines
of cars there were lighter, but over
Memorial Bridge they moved at the
normal rate of 1,500 cars per hour.
The Keystone Automobile Club
(See GASOLINE. Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-05-11
7wo-DoyFiresSet
By II. S. Raids on
Japanese Cities
Base of Bombers Used
In Attack Not Told
In Army Communique
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
One minute the radio announcer
in Toxic was detailing the pleasures
of life in Japan and the freedom
from fear of bombing
And the next:
"A warning was broadcast in Jap
aneSe to the effect that Toxic was
then being bombed by a great num-
ber of low-f1ying airplanes. ."
And then an hour or so later:
80 - There were between 5000 and
1000 casualties. The japanese peo-
pie were asked to pray for rain to
extinguish fires and to decrease the
chance for further air raids"
That was what United States
Army bombers reported hearing in
their earphones as they approached
and left Japan on the Saturday aft
ernoon of April 18.
Forty EIGHT hours later, the
Toxic broadcaster reported that the
fires started during the raid were
then under control"
Three Weeks Silence Broken.
In is first communique giving
Japan" as the scene of action. the
War Department yesterday broke a
three week silence on the raids that
brought a welter of panicky and
contradictory reports from Japan.
The question that has been haunt
ing the japanese ever since-"where
did they come from?"-waS left
pointedly unanswered.
The communique, reporting that
United States Army bombers had
made the first attack in $500 years
on what the Japanese regard as the
(See TOXIC, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Loundries Will Cut Deliveries
To One Weekly, End Wet Wash

The Office of Defense Trans
portation order for a reduction
of truck mileage by Is per cent
by June l was accepted in laun-
dry and consumer circles today
as the forerunner of a lively
rush on shirts and sheets, items
already beginning to feel the ef-
feet of prioritieS.
Laundry operators revealed that
they already are at work, in answer
to the 0. D. T. order, on a plan
whereby laundry will be delivered
only once a week instead of semi
weekly as formerly.
Under the system, laundry will be
delivered and picked up each Mon
day, eliminating the Thursday de-
livery. That will mean that some
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Axis Sub Torpedoes
Ship Only Il Miles
I0ff Atlantic Coast
Crowds Stund on Shore
To See British Croft
Towed to Hurbor
BY the Associated Press.

by tnS AsSOClhtcd FIcSS.
LAKE WORTH, Fla, May H.
A British medium sized mer-
chantman was attacked recently
in broad daylight, within a mile
and one-half of an Atlantic
beach. by a daring Axis subma-
rine, but the vessel was towed to
safety at an East Coast port, the
Navy announced today.
The explosion startled residents
along the coast, and hundreds OF
the curious congregated on shore To
see the ship, her stern deep in the
water, before she was towed to
harbor.
Two men In the engine room
were killed by a torpedo blast
Thirty others escaped in life boats
that were towed quickly to shore by
small fishing craft that put out
from land. Fourteen seamen re-
manned on board with Capt. George
Legge.
SaA RChtCh OCCS ClISCVkCs
One man, Arthur Forshay. a car
penter working on a seaside resi-
dence, told of seeing what he as
sumed was the subs periscope.
1T looked like a stovepipe, NOV
ing through the water toward the
sea-" he said.
George w. Boynton. former sea
man, in a small fishing boat near
the scene, saw the vessel hit.
"I don't suppose we were more
than 200 yards away. toward the
sea-" he related. I'VE heard the
explosion and the aft end of the
ship seemed to jump a little. She
started settling fast and the cap
tain headed her toward the beach
right away.
Boat Heads for Ship.
Il looked carefully for any sign
of a submarine, but I didn't see any.
We headed right for the ship, SAIL
ing through mess of oil. They
asked us to stand by and later We
towed one of the lfeboats to shore"
Herb Schultz and Van Gibson
came up soon in other fishing boats
and helped with the rescue opera
ton.
Second Officer Frank Wright of
Cardiff, Wales, said the submarine
that fired the projectile apparently
lay in wait for the ship and prob
ably was not more than a mile of
shore.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
British Believed Prepared
For errib|e Gas Offensive

New gases and new techniques
have been developed by the British
According to one well-informed
source reserves of some of the most
deadly gases yet discovered" have
been built up.
Can Be Sprayed From Air.
The deadly partnership of the
bomber and gas has been developed.
Any liquid gas can be sprayed from
the air by replacing the bomb racks
with a tank Of the chemical.
Elected at an altitude of S miles,
the gas reaches the ground as. q
fine mist. Experts say that mustard
gas used in this way by the r. A. F.
would make useless entire sections
OF industrial towns like Stuttgart,
deny to the German Navy the use
Of Kiers shore installa tions and
(see POISON GAS, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Summary of Todoy's Star

Freezing of wages asked by Ford
company, Page Az
Price urges rule of reason in broad
casting news. Page AS
Peruvian President will visit Con-
gress today. Page A-3
Opposition developing to car-seizure
bills. Page AS
Susan B. Anthony, II, urges women
doctors in Army. Page Bill
Washington and Vicinity.
Rush to buy gasoline continues as
rationing date nears. Page Al
DR.. Phillips, dean of Cathedral
dies. Page Az
Oficial asks ban on free water to
institutions. Page B-1
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Foreign

Foreign
War Department describes U. S. raid
on Japanese cities. Page Al
Churchill warns Britain will use gas
If Germans start it. Page Al
Snow and rain limit Russian often
SlVe IN north. Page Al
Toxic gives its version of VAIN
wright's surrender. Page AS
British bombers strike again at
airdrome in Burma. Page A-3
NotionoI
Total blackout test for D. C. ordered
for tomorrow night. Page Al
Two compulsory savings plans Of
fered in Congress. Page Al
Evening star., 1942-05-11

customers will have to almost double
their linen supply.
The order is expected to have still
further repercussions. Laundry men
pointed out that it will mean def
nitely that the damp wash and
the thrifty wash-under the latter
all fiat work is ironed and the re-
mainder washed but not ironed-
will be eliminated. They explained
that would be necessary because
damp clothing cannot be kept q
week without mildewing.
George N. Walker, secretary OF
the Laundry Owners Association.
said the o. D. T. order seemed to
him to present an impossible" Sit
uation. He recalled that laundries
in JanusNy voluntarily reduced
their mileage an estimated 10 per
(see DELIVERIES, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-05-11
2 Enemy Submarines Smashed
By Allied Planes Off Australia;
Chinese Battle Jap Relief Force
Column Intercepted
Rushing to Free
Trapped Comrades
BY the Associated Press.

By the ASB0clated Press.
CHUNGKING, May 11.-Japa-
nese reinforcements rushing to
the aid Of a trapped column Of
their comrades in Western Yum
nan Province were intercepted
today at Chefang, Is miles in
side China on the Burma road,
precipitating heavy fighting, a
communique said.
The original japanese invading
force-of which the Chinese pre-
viously reported they had killed
4,500-was said to be still sur
rounded by the Chinese Army.
The communique confirmed jap
anese reports of the fall of Bhamo.
alternate terminal of the Burma
Road ITO miles northeast of Manda-
lay. and Myitkyina. $50 miles north
of Mandalay.
Chinese Resist Stubbornly.
The japanese were said to be at
tacking east of Loilem, 125 miles
southeast of Mandalay, striking at
Kunghsin. The communique said
the Chinese were resisting stub
bornly.
The japanese striking from
Loilem we're checked early this
month, but a second thrust was
made May 5 under the cover of
tanks. This too was repulsed. the
communioue said. A third attack
was made later with planes sup
ported land reinforcements and 500
of the japanese were declared killed
in another defeat.
This indicated that another
pocket of the Chinese troops in
Burma, under the general command
of 1t. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell, U.
S. A., still was fighting strongly in
the area through which the Jap
anese swept swiftly last month in
their thrust to capture Mandalay
and Lashio and invade Yunnan
province
japanese Keeling Back.
The japanese had been reported
reeling back from the invasion of
China, closely pursued and in peril
Of humiliation.
The Chinese announced last night
that they had deliberately allowed
the enemy to rush headlong up the
Burma Road into China's Yunnan
Province, then suddenly had
smashed the enemy's wings and
pounced on the main body OF the
invading force with an artillery
blast which left 5000 enemy soldiers
dead and the remnants in flight.
Now, they said, the routed jap
anese are facing certain annihila-
ton, sandwiched between their pur-
suers on the north and another
Chinese force to the south in East
ern Burma, which already has re-
captured Maymo, former Allied
headquarters, and is pressing to-
ward both Lashio and Mandalay.
Despite heavy Japanese shelling
and bombing, the Chinese were
said to have reached the outskirts
of Mandalay on the east and west
and to be aiming also at recapture
of Sinwun, a railroad point just
to the south, and Myinmu, 80 miles
to the west.
To start the stunning reversal,
the Chinese said they killed 1000
men OF the japanese left wing in
battle last week northeast of Che
fang, Is miles from the Burma bor-
der, then crushed the right wing by
wiping out 500 men Saturday after
noon.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Gen. Giroud Reported
Remaining in Vichy
pv ~. AxSoristed pr>x

Ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 11.-Private
advices reaching the Associated
Press in New York today said that
according to the best available in
formation Gen. Henri Honore
Giraud, the French soldier who
presented Pierre Laval with a di-
lemma by escaping from a German
war prison, was still in Vichy
France.
This was the latest word of the
whereabouts Of the general who on
Saturday was said in private re-
ports to the New York Times to
have been arrested in Geneva
Switzerland, while travelling with
false papers under circumstances
which seemed to indicate he was
attempting to escape to Lisbon
Portugal.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Annapolis Ferry Runs
All Night to Garry
'Pre-Rotion' Thronq
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, May 1.-THE
State-owned Chesapeake Bay
ferry operated all night to ac-
commodate hundreds of auto
mobile drivers taking their final
weekend drive to the Eastern
Shore before gasoline rationing
begins.
Ordinarily the ferry suspends
operations at 8 pm, but cars
were lined up for 3 miles last
night at the Matapeake terminal.
Without ferry service, motorists
would have been forced to drive
around the head of the bay to
reach Baltimore and other
Western Shore communities.
Evening star., 1942-05-11
Brown to Be Speaker
On Radio Forum

Senator Brown, Democrat,
of Michigan, member of the
Senate Banking Committee,
will discuss the anti-infia--
ton program outlined re-.
Gently by President Roose-
velt In the National Radio
Forum at 8 o'clock tonight.
The forum Is arranged by
The Star and broadcast over
the Blue Network. It may be
heard here over Station
WMAL.