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there is no indication that he has
been released.
Story Of Attack Related.
First Officer Andres Cikoto told
this story:
I'VE first sighted the submarine
about $50 pm. and for four hours
she paralleled our course during
which time we f1ood-lighted our
Uraguayan flag painted on our side.
Then about midnight she fired a
shot across our bow, then fired three
shells at us and blinked the signal
boats
Our whole crew of 40 piled into
four lifeboats and rowed away. The
submarine fired one torpedo into
her and then started to cruise
about among our lifeboats.
THE submarine commander In the
coming tower called for the cap
tain and the chief engineer. The
captains boat rowed over to the sub
marine and the captain was taken
aboard. As the chief engineer was
about to step aboard the submarine
got under way and submerged"
Lifeboats Are Separated.
Cikoto added the submarine fired
a second torpedo into the freighter
breaking it in half and sinking it
Immediately.
For a few days the lifeboats kept
together, survivors explained, but
after several nights they lost con-
tact with each other. Only one
boat, bearing the 13 survivors, was
picked up of this coast port.
The men said they experienced
no particular hardships during the
two-week voyage except for the
small water ration of six ounces a
day. The boats were well provided
with biscuits, chocolate and fresh
fruit.
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'Work-or-Fight' Order Ends
Job Sinking in St. Mory's

tends to adopt a work or fight
policy"
Putting teeth In the order was
the fact that farm hands are de-
ferred because of their occupation.
Mr.. Duke reported today that "a
good many Of the men have mended
their ways"
Formerly it was usual for only
three or four men of 10-man crew
to show up for work on Monday
morning, he said. Now the attend
ance is pretty near 100 per cent"
The board chairman said he had
sought no outside advice, that he
just put through the work or fight"
order on his own, but spokesman
for National Selective Service COM
mented that while he did not know
the facts of this particular situation,
local board has the authority to
open cases at any time If 1t decides
q mans status has changed.
About five men who doubted Mr..
Dukes word have been reclassified
into IA @1ff E.fSty- IS.fEIt3 4EA
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Skipper Taken Prisoner
After Sub Sinks Vessel
By the Associated Presg

BY the Associated Press.
AN EAST COAST PORT, Aug
17.-Thirteen additional survivors
of the Uraguayan 5,285-ton freighter
Maldonado, torpedoed and sunk by
an enemy submarine west of Ber-
muda, August /, told yesterday how
the submarine commander took the
ships captain, Mario Gianbeuo,
aboard his vessel as prisoner and
left the best of the crew to drift in
lifeboats.
The survivors of the vessel, second
Uraguayan ship to be sunk since the
war began, were landed here Sat-
urday after having been picked up
by naval vessel. The Navy said l3
other crewmen were landed at Ber-
muda August 7.
The Navy said the vessels skipper
was still aboard the submarine when
it left the scene Of the attack and
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srecial Dispat tch to The Star.

GEtCldl DlSpdtCH 70 Inc othI.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, Aug. IL
A work fight" threat published
a month ago by st. Mary's County
Local Draft Board No. l here is
changing the lifelong habits Of
some of the residents, it was learned
today.
Before the draft, Board Chairman
w. Bernard Duke said, farmers just
"cussed out their hired hands and
made the best of 1t" when workers
failed to show up after a large
week end"
He said hired hands in the tobacco
fields were won't to hang around
bars" after receiving their wages and
didn't return to work until their
money was spent.
With harvest time coming, Mr..
Duke decided to take steps. In the
st. Mary's Beacon. he published a
work fight order, requesting
employers to notify the draft board
"of any employees who are not reg
ularly reporting to work" The no.
tice concluded that, this board in
Evening star., 1942-08-17
Life's Detroit Story
Attacked by Mayor
And Labor Chiefs
Official Coils Article
'ScurriIous';; Soys City
Is 'UnjustIy Impugned'
ry the Associated Press.

Ey the ASSOClAteu PTtSss
DETROIT, Aug. 17.-Detroit's
Mayor and leaders of its union
labor today took torrid issue with
an account of this citys perform
ance in the war production effort
published in the current issue OF
Life Magazine.
Mayor Edward J. Jeffries and r..
j. Thomas. president of the CIO
United Auto Workers, contended the
five-page article, entitled Detroit
Is Dynamite, had unjustly i'm
pugned Detroit's patriotism.
"I1l match Detroit's patriotism
against that of any other city in the
country" Mayor Jeffries said last
night. why, any one who lives
here knows we haven't had a major
labor dispute, except that on the
Detroit street railways last year, in
three years.
Story Called "Scurrilous."
THE whole story in Life is sour
rilous, with just enough half truths
to impress any one who doesn't
know the facts. Life doesn't tell
anything about the real miracles of
machines that have been performed; ;
nothing about Chrysler tank pro-
duction, nothing about what Ford
has done in making airp'ane en-
gines -"
Mr.. Thomas. declaring there have
been a few isolated strikes in the
automobile industry, but not one
tenth the number there were before
Pearl Harbor," added that there is
definite common purpose between
labor and management in Detroit
to maintain all-out war production
Mayor Jeffries said he didn't think
Detroit would take any official
action to repudiate the picture story
declaring I'D just call it a yellow
magazine and let it 60 at that. Any
one who would write anything like
that would not appreciate the facts.
Torn From Copies for Canada.
The Life article stated that De-
troits war production had been "cut
by wildcat strikes and sitdowns" and
that the city's workers, led by the
lusty UAW, seem to hate and sus-
pect their bosses more than ever"
Reporting "a morale situation
which is perhaps the worst in the
United States" Life also reported
Detroit was failing to solve its hous-
ing problem and reported on inter
racial strife
The article was torn from some
copies of the magazine by customs
officials before they were permitted
to cross into Canada under orders
which United States Collector ol
Customs Martin r. Bradley sale
came from Washington. Spokes-
men in Ottawa said Canadian cen
sorship was not involved.
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On Same Job II Years

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. II P)-
George Metzger, who's been on the
same Job "a years. thinks he may be
the oldest war worker in the Nation.
Mr.. Metzger, blacksmith in fac
tory, helped make dies for the Gov
ernment during the Spanish Amer
1can War. He's doing it again now
at 65.
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Allied Ship Losses
In Western Atlantic
Lowestin 16Weeks
Seven Announced Lost
Week; U. S. Vessel Sunk
OFF South America
By the Associated Press.

Last weeks announced ship losses
were the lowest in is weeks. Only
seven Allied merchantmen fell prey
to enemy submarines and none Of
these was in the East Coast and
Caribbean convoy lanes.
Another ship was added to the
list when a medium sized United
States merchant vessel was tor
pedoed by an enemy submarine in
the Atlantic late in July, the Navy
announced today.
Location of the attack was given
as seevral hundred miles off the
northern coast of South America
Survivors have been landed at an
East Coast port.
With only two sinkings in the
Gulf of Mexico and five off South
America announced last week, as the
Associated Press count of announced
wartime merchant victims in the
Western Atlantic rose to 427, indica-
tions were that the undersea raiders
were shifting southwark and away
from the supply lines now guarded
by naval vessels and aircraft.
56 Killed, 1874 Rescued.
The Navy set up a convoy system
for Atlantic Coast shipping in late
May, having by then built or con-
verted enough anti-submarine craft
to provide effective escorts. On July
it was announced that British and
Canadian warShips were actiVl
against the U-boats IN american
waters. Soon afterward the convoy
system was extended into the Car
ibbean and apparently increased
protection was provided in the Gulf
Movements Restricted.
These were the main protective
steps. Others have included such
methods as arming merchant ships
rigidly restricting ship movement:
| and dimming out coastal cities.
Because of these protective meth
DDS Germany's U-boat command ha
had to choose between fewer sue
cessful attacks and higher sub losses
on the one hand, and, on the other
retreating into some ocean are;
where the hunting would be goot
and the resistance relatively light.
Apparently the latter course wa
chosen, and the undersea prowler
concentrated their main operation
in the narrow stretch of Atlanti
waters between the South American
hump and Africa-waters through
which must pass ships loaded will
war supplies for the Middle Eas
| and India,
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Smaller Foods Asked

Growers Of fruit, vegetables and
meats are being encouraged to keep
their products small, it is reported
In Sydney, Australia. Because of
the decline In the size of families,
the demand for large foods has
practically ceased. as they are con-
sidered too expensive.
Evening star., 1942-08-17
Congress in Brief

By IRE Associated Press.
Senate.
May consider bill removing pro-
hibition against payment of service
mems allotments prior to Novem-
ber !. 7" %" a& 77~sis7't-
Judiciary Committee holds regular
meeting.
House. 1%.
Routine meeting. a ~
Evening star., 1942-08-17
Street So Bod Officer
EoiIs to Feel Flat Tire

DENVER - Patrolman George A.
Farrar said he wasn't guilty OF
negligence, just because he drove a
police car with a fiat tire.
The street was so full of chuck
holes I couldn't tell the tire was
fiat"
The Civil Service Commission dis
missed the case.
Evening star., 1942-08-17
Commons Nets MetoI

LONDON (P.--More than 300
tons of metal, enough to make Is
medium tanks, has been removed
from the burned out portion Of the
House OF Commons.
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Japs Claim 10 Allied Ships,

TOXIC From Japanese Broad
castS, Aug. II (P.-Imperial head
quarters announced today that jap
anese submarines operating in Aus
tralian waters had sunk 10 Allied
vessels, totaling approximately 10000
tons, from late July to early
August"
Evening star., 1942-08-17

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 90, on July q.
Lowest. g. on January IL
Humidity for Last - Hours
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, SO per cent, at $50 am.
Lowest. 6S per cent, at 80 pm. yester-
Evening star., 1942-08-17

The tide Of war Is about TO turn.
Push 1t along with War savings
stamps. Isl 10 s=.5.-.gl.y2 as.A-
Evening star., 1942-08-17
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN From German Broad
casts), Aug. 17-German submarines
have sunk 19 ships, totaling los, ,772
tons, and two sailing vessels off
the North American and Central
American coasts, off the West Afri-
can coast and in the Atlantic, the
German high command reported
today.
Three other ships were seriously
damaged by torpedoes, a special
announcement said.
The communique did not specify
the period within which the reported
sinkings took place, thus making
impossible any check with Allied
reports which might tend to dis
prove the claims.
Evening star., 1942-08-17

Several aluminium plants are re-
ported under construction In Hun
gary.
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Weather Report

FURNISHED by
District OF CoumbaCoor tonight light showers early tonight
VHgna-Cooer north portion tonight
mostly in portions
Maryland-Cooe with
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Nazis Claim Il, Japs 10
Allied Merchant Ships

CThe following dispatches were sent
from enemy capitals. whose motives in
releasing news are likely to be propa-
ganda. Axis claims should be credited
only when confirmed by American or
Allied Sources)
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Preclpi.atiOn,

Record for Last ~ Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest 81. 3 pm. Year ago, 70.
Lowest, "A. 7:2s pm. Year ago, 81.
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Japanese claim from any Allied
source.
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Keep 'em sunk-with junk.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
Ickes, Serving as Trustee,
Loses $50, 900 Judgment

Secretary of the Interior Ickes,
serving as trustee. lost a 100000
Judgment in District Court yester-
day when Justice BoItha J. Laws
ruled that sum must be paid to
H. E. Ledbetter of Ardmore, Okla,
after Is years Of litigation on Indian
land oil leases.
Justice Laws granted the motion
Of Attorneys Neil Burkinshaw and
Daniel B. Maher for summary judg-
ment. Mr.. Ickes. who was acting
as trustee for certain Choctaw In
dians in holding the money. con-
tended unsuccessfullv that the con-
tracts for the oil leases were
illegally entered into, inasmuch as
the Indians were without power to
enter into agreements because of
their legal status.
Mr.. Ledbetter's counsel advised
the court the case had been carried
to the highest courts of Oklahoma
and through the Federal Circuit
Court there and had won all along
the line
Mr.. Ledbetter was trustee for the
record owners of the property and
the funds represented royalties
from oil fields,
Evening star., 1942-05-23
Honorary Degrees Await
:
Two Washington Pastors

Two young Washington clerics
today receive their first honorary
degrees.
They are the Rev. Howard Stone
Anderson, So, pastor of First Con-
gregational Church, and the Rev
Clearence w. Crawford, pastor Of
Calvary Baptist Church, who will be
36 next month.
Mr.. Anderson. who has occupied
his present pulpit since 1886, will re-
ceive his doctor of divinity degree
from Doane College, Crete. Nebr.,
where he will give the commence
ment address. Mr.. Crawford, who
came here last February from SEQ
ond Baptist Church in Richmond,
takes his doctor of divinity at Buck
nell University, Lewisburg, Pa,
where he is delivering the bac-
calaureate sermon.
Mr.. Anderson is president OF
the Washington Ministerial Union,
president of the trustees of the
Washington Congregational Home.
president of the trustees of the Mid
die Atlantic Congressional Confer
ence and a member Of the directors
and Executive Committee of the
Federation of Churches. Senator
Butler of Nebraska, a trustee Of
Doane College. attends his church
and nominated him for the degree.
Mr.. Crawford, who succeeded Dr..
William s. Abernethy in the CAL
vary pulpit. Is . graduate Of Buck
nell IN 1929,
Evening star., 1942-05-23

The successful candidate, Mr..
Miller as 1t now appears, was
elected to serve until January 3,
1943. when the present Congress
expires. The district will elect
next November its representa-
tives to serve in the new Con-
gress.
This victory Of the RepubH-
cans. If the official count bears
it out, is another straw in the
wind, following on the heels Of
Republican victories in by-elec-
tions in Connecticut and Colo
RADIO congressional districts. The
18th Pennsylvania District was
carried by the Democrats in 1888
by upwards of 1000 votes, and
in 1910 by $1,000 votes. The per-
centage vote of the Republicans
in the district in 1910 was only
421. On Tuesday it was so per
cent or better.
G. O. p. Counts on Gains.
If there was any such percent
age change in the vote the coun-
try over, the G. o. P. would carry
the House next November and
have a majority of 30 or more
seats. Nothing like that is ex-
pected today by the Republican
leaders. But they do believe
that the results in these by
elections indicate the Republ-
cans will make gains in the con-
gressional elections in the fall
not losses.
The vote on Tuesday was ex-
tremely light. But the same rea-
sons which kept Democrats away
from the polls also kept Repub-
licans. 1t is apparent, therefore,
that the percentages of the total
vote cast by the two parties have
some significance. Indeed. the
Republicans are insisting that on
Tuesday the conditions were more
disadvantageoh for getting out
the Republican vote than the
Democratic, because the gasoline
ration system had gone into ef-
feet. The Republican strength
lies in the rural districts, while
that Of the Democrats is general
ly concentrated in the cities and
industrial centers.
The Republicans gave the
Democrats a close race in the
33d congressional district, too,
where a vacancy caused by the
resignation Of Representative
McArdle, Democrat, was filled.
The Democrat in that district
won by approximately 1000 votes.
as compared to $500 in 1888 and
$4,000 in 1910.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
This Changing World
Hitler Is Reported Urging Attack on Moscow;
Nuzis Need Oil Fields at All Costs This Year

to avoid useless waste of lives
and precious war material.
He hopes to keep the initiative
in some sectors in order to COM
pei the Nazis to draw even more
heavily upon the reserves they
have pooled for the campaign
against the Caucasian oil fields.
Northern Combat Likely.
1t appears that a new large
scale combat may devel pp soon
on the northern front. Reports
from neutral countries-and in
directly from the Reich-seem to
indicate a large concentration
against Moscow. Although the
final word concerning military
operations rests now with the
Nazi field marshals, Hitler is
reported to be urging them to
attack Moscow.
According to these reports the
Nazi marshals do not put much
stock in the psychological or po-
litical advantage Of such a con-
quest. But they do realize that
capture of Moscow would serious
ly hamper the Soviet armies lines
Of communication.
Moscow is one of the principal
Russian railway centers. Lease
lend goods sent through Muir
mansk reach the Soviets by rail-
ways within the Moscow network.
While it is apparently acknowl-
edged in Nazi military quarters
that conquest of all Western
Russias principal cities would
not break Soviet resistance, it
Is believed that such conquest
would place Soviet forces on the
defensive for a long time. This
would not mean the smashing Of
Soviet power. but would permit
the Reich to operate in other
Evening star., 1942-05-23
Dismissal Of Guard Asked
In Punishment Of Prisoner

Conrad Van Hyning. director of
the Public Welfare Board, yester-
day was asked to dismiss Guard
Hazard F. Schultz from the serv-
Ice. The request came from James
J. Laughlin. counsel for Guy E.
Oden, who is scheduled for trial on
flrst-degree murder on Monday. The
lawyer contends that Mr. Schultz
acted arbitrarily when Oden, who
is 10 years old, was given disciple
nary punishment by incarceration
in the hole" at District Jail after
he had smiled at the guard when
told to move faster to his seat in
the mess hall last Sunday.
Evening star., 1942-05-23

the coming fall elections. He
is making no predictions. how
ever, at this time, believing it is
far too early to judge correctly
the probable results Of the bal
loting.
In all probability the Repub-
lican chairman will not call his
proposed meeting of Republican
State chairmen for the entire
country until some time in Au-
gust. He wants the issues and
the situation to crystalline before
the party leaders in the various
States come together to make
final plans for the campaign.
The Republicans are still pleased
over the action taken by the
National Committee In Chicago
last month, when that body
virtually wrote platform" on
which the G. o. P. could prop
erly take a stand for the cam
paign. That document pledged
the Republicans to all-out con-
tinuance of the war and to in
ternational cooperation for
peace after the war is ended.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
$500 Pay Hike for US.
And D. T.. Workers Urqed

n
A fiat pay increase of $500 for all
Federal and District employees was
recommended last night by Ana
costa Citizens Association.
The motion, presented by John j.
Watson, president, also called for
time and half overtime payment to
workers in both Government set
ups.
The association also supported ac-
ton by the Bradbury Heights Citi-
zens' Association in requesting that
the District Commissioners approve
erection of an elementary school at
Hillside road and Alabama avenue
Sc, and obtain priorities so that
the school could be built to relieve
congestion in other schools of the
area. The motion was made by Mrs.
Carrie Smith.
Members also supported Mr. Wat
sons motion that the Federal and
District Government be asked to
share and share alike" any increase
in the minimum water cost in the
District
At the suggestion of the Member
ship Committee, the president ap-
pointed an Entertainment Commit
tee, headed by Mrs. Smith, to stimu-
late attendance at the meetings.
Other members of the committee are
Lorenzo Thompson, Mrs. Juanita
Thompson, Henry Willer, Robert
Helmuth, Frank Tew, Miss Helen
Griffin and Joseph Redd.
Mrs. c. D. Langhorne Of Bundles
for America. asked the members of
the association to cooperate with
the District of Columbia Salvage
for Victory campaign, especially in
regard to storage depots for dona-
tions to the campaign.
The meeting was held in Ana
costa Junior-Senior High School.
Evening star., 1942-05-23

theaters without concern about
Russia.
Out of strictly military neces-
sity the Nazis must conquer oil
fields this year, regardless Of cost
or effort. American strategists
consider this the theme of high
Nazi strategy. But where they
will strike this summer to achieve
that purpose is open to a good
deal of speculation.
For the time being the Ger
mans have not shown their hand.
Until now there have been only
major feints. None Of them
leads to a conclusive opinion as
to the time and place of a real
German offensive.
Evening star., 1942-05-23
The Political Mill
6. O. P Apparently Wins Another House Seat;
Some Members Fear Effect of Cos Rutionino

Returns from 8,055 out of a
total of 8,124 voting districts in
the Pennsylvania gubernatorial
primaries showed the Republi-
can had polled 92s, s,233 votes and
the Democrats 528,750. 1t is true
that only a little more than 80
per cent of the registered voters
took part in the primary elec-
tions. But again it must be en-
phasized that there was just as
much reason for the Democrats
to turn out as for the Republi-
cans. The Republican registra-
tion is larger than the Demo-
cratic in Pennsylvania.
The campaign is now to be
fought out with all the Repub-
lican and Democratic candidates
named. Both parties will put for
ward their best efforts to win.
Pennsylvania is big prize to any
political party. The chances are,
however, that the vote In the No
vember elections will be COM
paratively light. This will be due
in large measure to the interest
OF the people in the war, rather
than in politics. In "off years."
too, when there is no presiden-
tial election, the vote always
drops off to a considerable degree.
The gas rationing has some
Republican members of Congress,
up for reelection, worried. They
fear that it may prevent the
rural Republicans from turning
out to vote In as large numbers
as usual, while not interfering
materially with the Democratic
vote In cities and towns. That
goes for representatives from
Ohio, Illinois, New York and
Pennsylvania, where it is we'll
understood that Republican
strength lies principally in the
country districts.
If this rationing of motor fuel
initiates against the Republicans,
there seems nothing to be done
about it. Many OF the rural votes,
however. will get to the polls
no matter what. They did be-
fore they had automobiles.
Martin Encouraged.
Generally speaking, Chairman
Joe" Martin Of the Republican
National Committee is encour-
aged over G. o. P. prospects in
Evening star., 1942-05-23
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The Russian offensive against
the German stronghold Of Khar-
kov has been slowed down by the
ferocity of Nazi resistance, but it
is hoped in Washington that it
has achieved its initial tactical
purpose Of preventing the Ger
mans from sending large forces
into the Crimean campaign.
Field Marshal Semeon Timo-
shenko took advantage of the
enemy offensive in the Crimea
to push large forces against
Kharkov. Nazi reserves being
held for use after the capture of
Kerch had to be sent against
Marshal Timoshenko's army,
thus forcing the southern COM
mand to slacken the offensive
toward the Caucasus.
At present Marshal Timo-