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Evening star., 1942-05-19
Enough Oil Reported
On Martinique Cruiser
To Go 10 Dakdr
Aircraft Carrier in Poor
Shape; Her SO PIones
Rottine on Beach
BY NAT A. BARROWS,

Foreign Correspondent Of The Star and
Chicago Daily News.
CASTRIES, st. Lucia, British
West Indies, May 19.-Like faded
beauties quietly watching the
outcome Of a duel for their
favors, the French aircraft car
rier Bearn (22,146 tons) and the
cruiser Emile Bertin 1886 tons)
roll their barnacled sides to the
slap of the trade winds at Mar
Unique and await the outcome
of great events.
Below decks the Bertin Is reported
to have enough fuel to take hel
to Dakar where she could join the
Axis fleet. She can put to sea al
short notice and, in fact, she has
been permitted to make several runs
into the Caribbean since she raced
into Fort de France June %. 1910
with the $3.50, ,0O0 900 in gold bars
now stored at Fort de Saix in the
hills above the present anchorage
Oh Ine TWO WdTSIllpS.
But the Bearn is In poor condi-
ton, from all reports. And so are
the 98 planes she had aboard when
she found refuge here four days
after the Bertin arrived. They are
rotting on the beach.
From a vantage point of the
harbor of Fort de France today
saw the Bearn at anchor. She is
indeed a faded beauty, seen even
from q distance. Her war paint
is faded and she shows many marks
Of her long enforced stay in the
French West Indies.
Tanker Tied Alongside Bearn.
One of the six French tankers
anchored at Fort de France Is tied
up alongside to port Of the Bearn.
The red hull paint marking her
water line Is well above the surface,
indicating little oil cargo. I saw no
sign of activity on either ship. Two
elevator doors pointed skyward from
the broad, unobstructed landing
deck of the carrier.
The other tankers were all
anchored on the Caribbean side Of
the Bearn, as If purposely to shield
her.
Only one merchant ship could be
seen in the harbor anchorage, the
French liner Sagittaire, which came
In about three weeks ago on the
run between Martinique and Casa
blanca
French Negroes moved through
the scudding whitecaps in small
boats, their passage unhampered by
the harbor sentries. seeking to pre-
vent additions to the several hun
dred French subjects at Martinique
and Quadeloupe, who already have
fed to join the De Gaulle movement.
Somewhere in the hills overhanging
(See MARTINIQUE, Page A-60
Evening star., 1942-05-19

Labor Member John H. Martin, who
said something would have to be
done to create closer unity with
Russia.
Although the sea route to Muir
mansk "is very difficult" at this time
OF the year, Mr.. Attlee said. the
government was holding to its
schedule Of shipments to Russia.
Opening the war debate the Do
minions Secretary said the govern
ment had few details Of the Soviet
front fighting but declared we are
perfectly certain that we are right
to continue to do the utmost to sup
port Russia"
The DominionS Secretary added
Every month increases our
strength. Every month gives us
more cause for believing our po-
sition will steadily improve and
that IN due course we shall change
from the defensive. which we still
have to hold in many areas, to the
offensive"
Mr.. Attlee declared that I'VE are
at the moment in something of a
pause before the full summer cam
paign breaks upon us. but we can
have sober confidence in the fu-
ture"
Referring to the struggle in the
Pacific, he said, Because America
has accepted responsibility for re-
inforcing Australia. it does not
mean there Is indifference on our
part or any shrinking of responsible
ity toward Australia"
Sir Stafford Cripps informed the
House that Prime Minister Church
i'll would not participate in the de-
bate.
Evening star., 1942-05-19
Government to Drop
Holiday Observance
On Memorial Day

Memorial Day will not be OBJ
served as a holiday in the Gov
ernment this May 80. Executive
agencies have been advised by
the Budget Bureau that en-
ployes may be required to work
if the war effort will be fur
thered by observance of regular
working hours.
The bureaus statement was
prompted by questions from
several groups as to whether
May 80 automatically would be
observed or whether the general
pattern of New Year and Wash
ington's Birthday would be fol-
lowed. when regular hours were
for the most part observed.
All the principal war agen-
cies, 1t was said today, were
expected to work as usual on
Memorial Day.
Evening star., 1942-05-19
First Demonstration Held
In Vichy Against British
BY tbs Associated Press.


VICHY. France, May l9.-Forty-
two youthful extreme Rightists
shouting English murderers, down
with the Anglophiies" and other
nti-British slogans were permitted
by the French police last night to
demonstrate under the balcony Of
the apartment where Chief of State
Marshal Petain was sleeping.
Under the guidance of two older
men. the noisy band, led by cheer
leaders, marched down the Rue de
Marechal Petain after attending a
keep the empire" meeting at Vichy's
Casino.
This was the first anti-British
demonstration in this capital, al
though the French Legion, the coun-
trys only sanctioned political party.
had organized anti-British outbursts
in various parts of unoccupied
France since the British occupation
of Madagascar.
Evening star., 1942-05-19
BY c. YATES MCDANIEL,
Press War Correspondent


MELBOURNE, May 19.-Twenty-
four men. women and children
among them baby born In an open
boat on the high seas, have escaped
Japanese internment and reached
Australia from the Netherlands In
dies after, i've hazardous weeks,
thanks to the courage and fortitude
of a Dutch woman school teacher.
Toward the end Of March, after
the collapse of Allied resistance In
Java, the Dutch community of one
little island heard the Japanese
planned to deport it to Amboina
where most of the European resi-
dents Of the eastern Netherlands
Indies were interned.
The teacher not only resolved to
make q break but to warn Euro
peans Of other smaller islands Of
what vas coming.
Evening star., 1942-05-19
Foreign

U OICiSu
Attlee reafirms Soviet aid policy de-
spite difficulty. Page Al
Convoy nearly as large as greatest of
1918 reaches Ireland. Page Al
Empress of Asia sunk by planes;
most of $500 saved. Page Az
Much bombed Port Moresby becomes
virtual ghost town. Page Ar
U. S. public health mission escapes
from Burma. Page AS
AT Soviet tanks destroyed near
Kharkov, Nazis say. Page A-4
British raid Akyab and blast Burma
river craft. Page Al
Free French freighter in three hour
running fight with sub. Page A
Prinz Eugen may be out Of battle for
three months. Page A
Himmler is reported sent to Neither
lands. Page AS
China appeals for planes to meet
Jap drive. Page AS
Interned Americans had better fare
than average German, but lost
weight. Page AS
Cardinal Baudrillart, rector of in
stitute, dies in Paris. Page ALL
Mexico to greet men on torpedoed
tanker as heroes. Page Ala
NotionoI
Spending money may be rationed,
official says. Page Az
Hough urges no discrimination IN
radio licensing. Page Az
Evening star., 1942-05-19
Empress Of Asia Sunk
By Planes; Most Of
2,5O0 Troops Saved
Converted Conodion Liner
Destroyed by Jap Bombers
OFF Sumotro February 5
BY the Associated Press.

by INT hsSocla<o Fress.
MONTREAL, Canada, May Is.
The 5000 ton Canadian liner
Empress of Asia, a converted
transport, was sent to the bot
tom by japanese dive bombers
while en- route to Singapore last
February S, but most of the $500
imperial troops she carried were
saved.
The story Of the sinking was dis
closed today along with the official
announcement of the liners loss.
Her chief officer. D. Smith. re-
ported that she went down of Sui
tan Shoal near Sumatra in the
Netherlands Indies.
One survivor said that some 80
Japanese bombs were dropped and
that five of them made direct hits.
Soon, the whole of the ship was
aflame. About 100 seamen escaped.
he reported, but many of the a
others were known to have been
lost.
Escape by lifeboat was impossible
for they, too, were burned-and
the little Australian sloop Yarra
was the heroine of the rescue
Coming alongside the blazing liner,
she took of her people, at the same
time pumping steel at the enemy
bombers.
The official announcement said ::
THE Admiralty have granted
permission to Canadian Pacific
Steamships limited to announce
that the Empress of Asia was sunk
last spring by air attack in the
Far East whilst engaged in trans
porting troops to Singapore
The liner served as transport in
two wars and was long known on
the Canadian Orient run.
The Empress of Asia was built in
1918 at Glasgow. Her home port
was Vancouver, British Columbia.
The liner had an earlier brush
with Japanese bombers before the
war with Japan began. On Septem-
Der IA, 1910, the japanese Admiralty
announced she had been hit by a
test bomb dropped by japanese naval
pilots in bombing practice at the
mouth Of Toxic Bay. She was not
damaged but four Chinese members
Of the crew were injured.
Japanese officials and surgeons
hurried aboard to apologize and at
tend the wounded.
Evening star., 1942-05-19
u. S. ArtHIerymen
Study British Guns
For Possible Use
Ex the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
A. E. F. HEADQUARTERS,
Northern Ireland, May 19.-
United States artillerymen have
started an intensive study of
British field guns since the AL
lied aim is to have the Ameri-
cans and British function as a
team If necessary, 1t was dis
closed today.
United States gunners who
have been practicing with the
famous British 25-pounders al
ready have equaled the best
British records. The 25-pound-
ers checked Nazi Marshal Erwin
Rommel in Libya.
Groups Of United States Off
GERS are being selected to attend
the British battle school.
Evening star., 1942-05-19

pOrC problems.
Prime Minister Churchill did not
take part In the debate, which
ranged from the battles in Soviet
Russia to Australia and Burma and
India.
What the people wish to know is
that the government Is determined
to deliver a great attack on the
enemy in the west" Arthur Green
wood, former minister without port
folio, had said.
The people are insistent. he said,
in order ito give the Soviet Union
ever increasing and powerful aid"
and also ito take the initiative
against Hitler on territories overrun
by his panzer divisions"
You may be sure that possibility
is in our minds and that it is in the
minds of the German high COM
mand," Mr.. Attlee said.
The matter of sea transport Is
constant anxiety" he added.
There is no need to remind the
government that this is a tender
spot.
with the best will in the world
we cannot always get the forces we
want to the place we desire at the
time we wish"
This was particularly true in the
Pacific and Indian Ocean areas,
he indicated, but he reminded the
House that Ceylon had been REIN
forced and declared. I'VE are doing
all we can to strengthen our forces
in India"
The suggestion that roundtable
war conference be held at Reykja-
vid, Iceland, by President Roose-
welt, Prime Minister Churchill and
Joseph Stain was advanced by
Evening star., 1942-05-19
IS BeIgions Reported
Executed by Germans
NJ fhs Aesn>;afAd prnss

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. May 19.-The Belgian
news agency said today that IS more
Belgians had been executed by the
Germans, five in reprisal for at
tempted attacks on German air
force headquarters in Brussels.
Charges against the others were
not known.
Evening star., 1942-05-19
Convoy OFF Portugal Hit
By Planes, Nuzis Claim
Nv the Associated PrSsa.

BY the Associated FrOsa.
BERLIN From German Broad
casts. May 19.-Several merchant
men sailing in British convoy were
attacked by planes of Portugal,
north of Lisbon, at noon today and
hits were reported scored, the Berlin
radio reported today.
Columns of smoke arose from sew
eral vessels, the radio said.
Evening star., 1942-05-19
Summary Of Todoy's Star

U. S. occupies and develops defense
areas in Panama. Page Az
Senate fight seen likely today on
sale of grains. Page Ar
Increase in output of present war
factories anticipated. Page A-3
Roosevelt makes major suggestions
to air training parley. Page A-3
Quezon says Filipinos are continuing
resistance. Page A-4
Pennsylvania votes today; governor
race holds interest. Page As
Postwar Christian crusade planned
by Baptists. Page B-6
Washington and Vicinity.
Is gasoline rationing boards to be
set up here. Page Al
Alvis sues Jacobs for accounting of
D. C. boxing bouts. Page AS
Curtailment of war projects program
may hit District. Page AS
D. C. may have AFRAID alarm tests
every 10 days. Page B-1
81 400 900 allotted for recreation IA
cilities here. Page B-1
Witness saw no wrong In removing
files. Page B-1
Jap Consul's secretary testifies in
conspiracy trial. Page B-1
Miscellaneous.
Marriage Licenses. Page Bis
Births and Deaths. Page Bis
Natures Children. Page BIS
After Dark. Page Ala
Evening star., 1942-05-19
Transport Problems Delaying
West F. 'front.' Move, AttIee Says
Possibility Of Offensive Being Kept
In Mind However, Commons Told
~ the Associated Press.


LONDON May lo-Cemen Attlee Domnions Secretary told
the House OF Commons possibility
OF opening western front against Germany lis in minds but
he added that every the board conditioned
Evening star., 1942-05-19
Assistant MeteoroIoeist
At Cincinnati Office Dies
BY the Associated Press.

CINCINNATI, May 19-William
B. Schooner, 64, assistant Weather
Bureau meteorologist and a we'll
known flood forecaster, died today.
Evening star., 1942-05-19
.S13,500,000
Restored toD.C.
Housing Bill
Senate Committee
Coils House Fund
inadequate

81 400. 900 RECREATION ALLOT-
MENT from Lanham bill is ap-
proved Page B-1
Evening star., 1942-05-19

Miscellaneous.
Marriage Licenses.
Births and Deaths.
Natures Children.
After Dark.
Evening star., 1942-05-19

(See A. E. F., Page A-3o
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-09

phi ans Scholarships activity.
Through this movement, the
bridge players of the country
hope to raise $15.000,0O0 for the
education of the children of our
service men killed in action.
One of the men actively asso-
ciated with the War Orphans
Scholarships is Albert H. More
head of New York. While kibitz-
ing him recently, / saw him
make an interesting and instruc-
tive play. Declarer held off one
round of clubs and won the Sec
ond. Then he led a heart. More
head (West) unhesitatingly made
the clever play of jumping up
with the king. Dummy had to
win, but now the declarer was
in hopeless situation.
Morehead's play of the king OF
hearts was made to try to kill
dummy's suit. Obviously the de-
clarer would have to finesse, II
South held the jack, the suit was
solid anyhow. The only hope was
that East held j X and could
hold up the jack through More
heads forcing the ace.
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going to pay their 1912 taxes on
the first 6O-something thousand?
Besides, the 100000 isn't exact
ly still intact, either, and how
are they going to give that back
if they can't GET it back?
In the meantime, the interpre-
tation is that those contractees
who already have earned their
quota of lettuce for 1912 will
have to 60 right on working the
year out-for NOTHING.
Even the extras are worried.
For when Washington sent
through its order freezing sal
aries below $4,000 it was payday
at Paramount and one of the
company's jittery New York
lawyers telephoned to hold up
the checks till he had time to
interpret" the decree. Near
panic reigned at the cashiers
window. But General Manager
Henry Ginsberg saved the day.
He decided to pay first and ar
que afterwards.
No grousing is heard about
the limitation itself, but some of
the boys and girls feel that the
retroactive clause caught them
off balance. And if it be asked
whether Hollywood doesn't
know there's war on, the an
swer is that it's as war conscious
as any city in the country.
MORE TROUBLES
Dimouts, searchlights finger
ing the sky, and interceptor
planes constantly roaring over
head keep the threat of air raids
still thing to be reckoned with.
Tire rationing, in a sprawling
community built for a system of
automotive transportation, has
made distances seem greater and
slowed everyone down to
Sunday gait. Yachts have been
turned over to the Navy.
Hollywood is facing war like
a trouper. But it recoils at the
thought of pockets that do not
jingle jangle- Jingle. For, like
Scarlet O'Hara, it never wants
to be hungry again.
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. SO THEY SAY

Absolute and unlimited state
sovereignty have been carried to
the absurd extreme of world
wide murder. II each nation is
to remain the supreme judge of
its own cause there can be no
real treaty of peace - DR.. JOS
eph F. Thorning of Mount St.
Marys College, Md.
We in America must be full Of
admiration (for British women) i.
One of the most difficult tasks
we face is to make women think
internationally. Mrs. Roose-
welt.
The stern sacrifices for which
war calls are a summons to self
discipline. T h tribulations
through which our country at
war must pass should give
birth TO more conscious and
more chastened high national
purpose. - Rabbi David de Sofa
Pool of New York.
Let us not forget that in
many parts of the world our
relatives are engaging in bat
tie. We can do no less than
pledge every aid to them. -
Navy Commander Henry H.
Hermann.
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BY PETER EDISON

No proposed legislative re-
striction on the Army's conduct
of the war thus far has caused
the generals such embarras-
ment as the brain-child of SEN
ator w. Lee (Pappy) O'Daniel
of Fort Worth, Tex, requiring
that all ID and 19-year-old SOL
diers be given a full years
training before being sent over
seas.
This O'Daniel idea was pre-
sented to the Senate just before
the congressman went home to
vote in the form of an amend
ment to the amendment of the
selective service law VIII C h
would lower the draft age from
20 to 10. 1t will be among the
first things to be taken up when
the senators get down to bust
ness again after the election
headache is over.
You can get pretty maudlin
over the idea that beardless
boys should not be sent to the
front. and you can collect a lot
of sincerely bitter mail from
mothers of teen age sons pro-
testing against sending their "ba-
bies"to the war. Pappy O'Dan-
iel, who has never been averse
to jerking a tear or pulling a
gag for an emotional buildup,
will undoubtedly get lots of sup
port for his amendment from
this element.
Sure. There is an argument
to be made in favor of drafting
the old coots first sending
off to war the old men of 35
to As who have already lived
half their lives and haven't
made much of them. Why
shouldn't these men 60 first and
give the boys half their age a
chance to stay at home a little
longer and make up for the mis-
takes of their seniors
It is right at this point that
the argument against drafting
the young men of Is and 10 falls
down. For the experience of
the Army thus far is that too
many of these old men of 40
and more simply can't take the
gaff.
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BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Service staff Corresponden

AS though Hollywood didn't
already have troubles enough,
now Poverty has to 60 and rear
its ugly head. Anyway, it looks
like Poverty to some of your
favorite movie stars, and it looks
even worse to some of their
agents, none of whom knows
where his next meal ticket is
coming from.
Here they all are, worrying
about air raids, dimouts, the
draft, taxes, tires. gasoline, pri-
critics on building materials,
and you can't guess what all,
when along came that compli-
Gated retroactive order from
Washington stating that they
now couldn't earn more than
60-something thousand dollars a
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. IN HOLLYWOOD

year, couldn't keep more than
$25 900 of that, and had better
find out right now whether they
hadn't already earned-and
spent-more than they were en-
titled to.
Sixty-something thousand dol
lars year! Why, shucks, some
of 'em had made more than that
by last March IS. BY that time,
however, it seemed that some
had spent a good deal Of what
the government had left them
out of their earnings of the year
before, so most of the 6O-some-
thing thousand went in taxes on
their 1941 incomes.
PROBLEM-HOW TO PAY
Maybe they've earned another
100000 since then, but If they
can't have that, how are they
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-09
. BARBS

The 35-miles per hour speed
law makes it a good idea for you
to know what you're driving at.
It's a break for the Axis fore
es that some roads on the desert
are as wide as they are long.
An Iowa woman is city treas
urer at 30. Any woman who
admits she's 80 deserves some
sort Of honor.
Some girls as pretty as q pic
ture turn out to be just another
talkie.
Lots OF us can see how styles
have changed by comparing our
clothes with the new ones.
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. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
BY The Associated Press n,
EDIBLE BOMBS

BY The ASsOctateo fress
EDIBLE BOMBS
Hampstead, N. Y. - Police
were told strange man had
placed a paper bag in a tree as
night fell.
They rushed to the scene and
found the bag - it contained
hard, round objects, and this
note was attached:
Little grains of sand are
piled one and half miles
north of intersection"
The bomb squad was sum-
moned and with great care
opened the bag and found -
apples.
Then they learned it was part
of a treasure hunt.
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. BEHIND THE SCENES
INfWASHINGTON



This Army of today is SO in
finitely better than the u. S.
Army Of the last war that there
isn't any comparison. The new
Army Is better of.icered, better
equipped, better trained. In the
A,E.F. of the last war were
thousands of soldiers sent over
seas with practically no training
at all. They distinguished
themselves, which is all the more
credit, but there is little of that
in this new Army, in which no
one is sent any place unless and
until he is trained for his job.
1t is the Army's responsibility
to see that yery unit is trained
before it goes overseas, whether
the time required for the train
ing is a year, six month, two
years.
Not all service overseas is nee
essarily combat service, and
right there is one of the pc
culiar inconsistencies of the
O'Daniel amendment. It would
permit the Army to send soldiers
to Alaska, which is not consid-
cred overseas, almost as soon
as drafted. But it would not
permit them to be sent to places
like Puerto Rico or Bermuda
or London or Hawaii or Ire
land. The hazards of Alaska,
not only from cold but from the
threat of possible japanese in
vasion, are obviously greater
than the hazards of Puerto Rico,
where the most serious cause of
injury thus far has beer sun
burn.
Take the air force. Seventy
five per cent of its personnel is
ground crew. Should a young
ham radio operator or grease
monkey be KEEP from going over
seas with their team" just be-
cause they may not have had a
full years training at home?
IMPOSSIBLE TASK
Administrativel.-, the problem
of separating the younger men
from the older men and keeping
track of service records to make
sure that no soldier was sent
overseas before he had gone
through his year of training,
would be almost impossible.
And so far, no one has proposed
that there be entire divisions of
ID and 19-year-old boys train
ed together for year before
being sent abroad.
There is a certain leavening
influence of older EN- on young
err men when they are thrown
together, and the young men
mature faster when mixed in
this way.
If the young men under 20
can't be trained for active serv-
ice by next summer or autumn,
it means that half a million old
er men must be taken from
trades of various skills, thus fur
ther draining the manpower re-
serve.
For the mothers of the 10 and
19-year-old boys there is the
final safeguard that Army phys
ical and psychiatric examina-
tons will see to it that none
physically and rentally below
standard will be called upon to
serve. 1t has taken all these
centuries for the generals to
learn that dead soldier or a
sick soldier or an unframed SOL
dier is no good. But the idea has
apparently caught on now, and
there should be no restriction on
the employment of trained men
when they are fit.