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Evening star., 1942-07-22
Bravery, Luck and Fog Help
u. S. Sub Bag 3 Destroyers
How japanese Craft Were Torpedoed
Near Kisku on July a Revealed

close in on the three vessels. De-
stroyers Submarine enemy number
one! To fire torpedoes at destroy
er and miss means only one thing-a
relentless attack on the sub, and
barrage after barrage of depth
charges.
THE sub creeps stealthily in. The
destroyers ride at their anchors,
some of their personnel lolling COM
fortably about the decks.
Torpedo Hits Mark.
"Tenseness throughout the sub
marine is born not of any sense of
fear, but of a desire to hear the
first fish on its way Finally a
jolt-there she goes. A brief but
painful period of silent waiting,
followed by the shock of a great
explosion. The torpedo has found
it's mark.
"Elation must be restrained. All
hands know there are two more to
be taken care of. A swing toward
No. 2-another torpedo-another
explosion. But this time the third
destroyer is the scene of frantic &C
tivity. She fires two torpedoes from
her deck tubes. Too late. The
deadly package is on its way-and
third explosion. Now a series OF
explosions-magazines and boilers
give way and the underwater deto-
nations are music in the ears OF the
submarine crew"
But i. wasn't over yet, for the
sub. These oestroyers never did get
organized ir time to do anything
to prevent their destruction. But
Jap planes were in the air by the
time the third hit scored and the
sub, heading for blue water, was
heavily attacked. Depth charges
fell all around her. Fortunately,
none were close enough to do her
any damage.
The sub skipper had seen clearly
through his periscope, the effect OF
his first two hits. Results were
normal for that kind of attack
Destroyers, hit squarely under such
conditions, just break in two and
sink in matter of seconds.
The sub didn't wait around after
the third attack. She did pause
briefly for a backward glimpse as
she ran for the open sea. AL that
could be seen of the third and last
destroyer was a column of black
smoke and white steam billoWins
heavily skyward. Official reports
list the results of the attack-ir
conventional Navy understatement-
as two desuoyers definitely sunl
and one proL ably sunk.
Copyright, 1912, by Chicago Daily News
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Body Of Third Victim
OF Virginia Blast Found
Ry TIE Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
OAKWOOD, Va, July 22.-More
than IS rescue workers searching
wreckage caused by an explosion
here Monday night have recovered a
third body of seven persons killed
in the tragedy.
Using power shovels, the workers
found the body of 2-year-old June
Estep, whose mother, Mrs. Howard
Estep, and four brothers also per-
ished in the explosion.
The three other Estep children
whose bodies have not yet been re-
covered are those Of Tom, II, Harold
9, and Paul, Z. The body of Mrs
Theodore Crabtree also is sought.
Mrs. William Whited, who at frs
was reported to be missing IN the
blast, has been located.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Maryland Fruit Crop
Expected to Be Good

COLLEGE PARK, Md, July %
R,,-Prospects of fair to good
crop" of most varieties of apples in
Maryland this year was reported
today by the Bureau of Agricul-
tural Economics.
"Aphis damage is general, but
scab and moth damage are very
light. Blight on Jonathan is worse
than normal" the bureau said.
Some varieties are in their off
years, especially Grimes and Stay
man. Bloom was heavy and some
thinning was necessary. Transpar-
ents set a heavier crop than usual,
requiring considerable thinning
Barring no unusual damage between
now and harvest, another good crop
of apples will be produced in Mary
land.
Peach, pear and grape prospects
are good"
Evening star., 1942-07-22

of a preliminary estimate of what
it would cost to build his yard. Un-
officially, he added, he had given
the Maritime Commission an esti-
mate of $59, ,000, 900 "if he had to do
all and sundry things" Later. he
said, he had reduced this to $45,-
0O0, 900.
AS for building numbers of huge
transport planes, possibility which
he raised in New Orleans, after his
shipbuilding contract was Cancelled,
he intended to go through with that
regardless of how his dispute over
the shipbuilding contract resulted.
He had, he said, coined hands
with Mr.. Kaiser on the project.
Asked whether he was to appear
today before House Committee
which is to investigate the cancel
lation of his contract, he said he
disapproved of the investigation.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
InfIution
Continued From First Page)

there was a difference between that
procedure and actual freezing"
Last week Senator Vandenberg
Republican, of Michigan, told the
Senate, during debate on funds for
Leon Henderson's Office of Price
Administration that mo amount of
money is going to prevent imitation
so long as poor Mr.. Henderson has
no control whatever and so long
as price control is not geared to
wages" Numerous House members
have been inserting statements in
the Congressional Record recently
favoring wage control of some kind
Shortly before the President spoke
Congress sent him 81 1858 ,939 900
deficiency appropriation bill which
carries $120,000,000 for the OPA.
While the bill was catch-all to
supply funds for various Federal
agencies, chief interest centered on
the appropriation for Mr.. Hender-
sons OPA.
Senate approval of a conference
report brought the long controversy
over OPA funds to a close temporar-
lily. While the s12O000,OOO is S45,-
900, 900 more than the House origin
ally voted, it still is $75,000,000 less
than the amount Mr.. Henderson had
requested. He said the cut would
hamper OPA operations but that he
could meet the problem.
Included in the measure was an
item of $1,1O0,000,000 for the War
Shipping Administration.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Extreme Heat Hurts
Crop Prospects
In Virginia
Good Corn Yield Likely
If Fields Get Rain;
Tobacco Harvest EorIy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, July ga declin-
ing moisture supply and extremely
hot weather retarded crop prospects
for corn, soybeans, peanuts, hay and
pasture, which had improved over
a period of three or four weeks, the
Virginia Cooperative Crop Report
ing Service said today in its weekly
report.
Impetus was given, however, to
farm activities by week of almost
uninterrupted fair weather.
Precipitation during the week was
light, and average temperatures
were considerably higher during
the last week.
The moisture supply, although
declining, remained quite ample
in the southwestern part of the
State, where crop prospects have
improved, the report said. The de-
cline in crop prospects in other sec
tions is not expected to be perma-
nent unless hot, dry weather con-
tinues.
Corn prospects were reported as
still very good, with the crop at a
stage where ample rainfall is vitality
important. The report pointed out
that unless some sections get rain
soon the crop yield will be reduced
considerably.
Considerable progress was noted
by the end of the week in the har-
vesting and curing of the flue- cured
tobacco crop, which is earlier than
usual Some damage to the crop
was caused by the hot sunshine by
making some of the leaves turn
brown before they were mature.
Fruit growers took advantage of
the fair weather, the service said,
to do a lot of SPRAYING.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
PIywood Training Plane
Successfully Tested
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Successful test flights of the AT-l3,
the large training plane built en-
tirely of plastic bonded plywood by
the Fairchild Co. at HagerstoWn,
Md, were reported yesterday by the
War Department.
Vance Breese test fight engineer,
handled the plane on its first flights
as Armand Thieblot, its designer,
looked on.
The twin-engined plane, designed
for bomber training, is one
of the Army Air Forces largest and
fastest trainers. 1t has places for
training bombardier, pilot, co-pilot,
navigator -radioman, machine gun
ner and cameraman and is equipped
with all instruments needed to per-
nit the crew to simulate long-range
bombing missions.
The only metal used Is in the
engine mounts and cowlings and the
tubular steel frames on which the
bomb racks, bombsights, machine
guns, controls and other heavy
equipment rest. The remainder is
built of plywood, fused with resin
plastics under pressure.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Higgins
Continued From First Page)

struct the proposed planes, and
availability of labor, facilities ana
materials which could not be pro-
cured, he said, except at the ex-
pense of other parts of the war
effort"
Mr.. Higgins, whose shipbuilding
contract was Cancelled by the Gov
ernment because of insufficient
available steel for the job, said
earlier he had shown officials
their estimates were wrong. He ex-
pressed confidence the contract
would be reinstated.
Mr.. Higgins, who proposes to build
ships by unusual methods in a re-
claimed Louisiana swamp, came
here yesterday to persuade the Gov
ernment to change its mind about
canceling his contract. At the close
of day of many conferences he re-
ported progress.
With no help from the Govern
ment at all, he said, he could turn
up enough sted for the job in eight
months. He said combine OF
Southern businessmen had agreed
to develop abandoned iron mines IN
| Tennessee and Alabama.
Want Protection Assured.
They were willing, he said, ito put
up the money and develop the prop
critics, provided they are guaranteed
protection from Big Steel after the
war is over"
The notice of cancellation, given
Saturday, had five days to run
before becoming final and legal, a
period which expires tonight.
Mr.. Higgins said he knew the
reasons why his contract was cam
celed and he bemoaned the effect
on American morale.
First of all, he attributed 1t to
what he called the "old line ship
builders" When word OF his
processes got around, he said, they
grew concerned and he dldn'
! "blame them" Their ways OF estl-
mating shipbuilding costs were g
Chinese puzzle" he added, because
| thew never came out with the same
figure for any two ships.
Regardless of weather, he con-
tinued, his figures always came out
the same.
New Basis of Cost.
In addition, the cost OF bulldlne
his shipyard had been compared
with that of the "old line builders
on a basis of SO much a way. His
method was to have four ways each
of which would be simultaneously
handling II or II ships. assembly
line fashion.
Then, he said, there was matter
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Nv r. 7. McOJJAID,

War Correspondent of The Star and Chi
cago Daily News.
KODIAK, Alaska, July Il (De-
layed None of the rules apply IN
this battle of the Aleutians. Giant
ply patrol planes are used as dive
bombers. Submarines attack their
mortal enemies, the destroyers.
Details of the achievement OF an
American sub which on July 4
bagged three destroyers in the VI
cinitv of Jap-occupied Kiska were
revealed for the first time today
bv the commanding officer of sub
marine operations in the North Pa-
cific.
This informant called it an out
standing example of the ingenuity,
resourcefulness and aggresslveness
which are the hallmarks OF success
full submarine captains in war"
Luck played part, as it does IN
nearly all these Aleutian operations.
But the breaks came, as so often
they do, only after the sub COM
mander had made bold and lr-
revocable decisions which, had they
turned out badly. might have pro-
duced tragic, instead Of heroic,
results.
All Hinges on Weather.
Everything hinged, as is also nor
NAL in this area, on the weather.
Aleutian summer weather, with its
constant succession of fog and rain
souall. broken rarely by brief inter-
walls of clearing, is nearly as bad for
sub operations as it is for air. But
for the sub it has one or two ad-l
vantages. In this case 1t enabled
the submarine to make its way un-
molested right into the middle OF an
area known to be populated by
heavy concentrations OF Jap sur
face strength.
The luck developed when the thick
fog, which would otherwise have
rendered the sub as blind as her
victims, suddenly lifted. We take up
the story in the words of the COM
mander of submarines in the North
Pacific:
"The submarine captain observes
three ships. At first he can neither
discern their type nor their direc-
ton of movement. Gradually he is
able to make them out more clearly
Suddenly it dawns on him that they
are anchored. What an opportu-
nifty!
There's the matter of shallow
water, uncharted shoals and rocks
the chances of which increase as
one approaches the shoreline.
Nevertheless, the sub begins te
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Strike Involving Workers
SMOKING Ended at Arsenal
}, the Associated Press.

p. the Associated Press.
FLINT, Mich, July 22.-The tank
arsenal of General Motors Fisher
Body division, idle for week be-
cause Of strike precipitated by
workmen's smoking and resultant
layoffs, was back in production to-
day.
Settlement of labor management
differences was achieved early today
after mass meetings of CIO and
AFL unionists and conferences with
the War Labor Boards mediator,
Tilford Dudley, who arrived here
only yesterday.
Disposition of the smoking issue
was left to a temporary grievence
procedure in the settlement.
The strike began July Is when so
men were laid off for having left
their Jobs to smoke. Smoking Pc
riods are allowed at other General
Motors plants in accordance with
union contracts The new tank
plant, however, has no recognized
union.
Plant Election Provided.
Complicating the dispute was the
fact that afflliates of the CLOS and
AFLs Automobile Workers Unions
insisted on being parties to any
settlement.
The agreement provides for a
plant election as soon as possible to
determine the bargaining agent
Mediator Dudley said the UAW-AFL
and UAW-CIO would both be on
the ballot, and that the National
Labor Relations Board would be pre-
vailed on to speed the election.
At Akron a walkout yesterday
stopped war production at the Pit
cairn Co.'S valve division in nearby
Barberton.
Wilmer Tate, CIO United Stee
Worker representative, said the
walkout was unauthorized and ap-
parently was spontaneous flare-ul
over a long series of grievances
concerning cuts in pieceWork rates
and indiscriminate firings." Ap
proximately 700 workers were af
fected.
LID. Seymour, company manager
said he would refuse to negotiat
until the men returned to work.
Miners Sign Contract.
Meanwhile. at Chester, Pa,
walkout of the 325 production EN-
ployes of the HARRISON g. Wake
Refractories Co., plant here wa
described today by their spokesman
as a protest against the company
signing a contract with John L
Lewis CIO United Mine Workers
Union which recently absorbed tn
CIO United Construction Workers
The spokesman said the contrac
was "a secret collusive agreement b
which the men were sold down tn
river and without their knowledge.
The Chester workers were mem
bers of one of four UCW locals /
this area which refused to go int
the UNIV and later Joined the CI(
United Bricklayers.
At Terre Haute the UNIV an
nounced last night the signing Q
a labor contract with Indiana Goa
Operators Association ending
dispute began last August. The con
tract, affecting 5000 Indiana miners
provides for pay increase and va
cation rules, which would CIV
miners two weeks each year with
token payment of $40.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
TeIevision Station Here
Held Up Till Wars End

The Federal Communications
Commission today announced that
it had Cancelled the construction
permit issued to the National Broad
casting Co. for proposed television
broadcast station here.
The commission said that its rec
ords on this station, which was
designated as WNBW, had been
closed for the. DURATION The pro-
posed station was to have been
erected at the Wardman Park Hotel.
Shortage In critical war materials
have made it impossible to establish
a television station here, the FEC
explained. ~
Evening star., 1942-07-22
jap Rubber Believed
Being Sent to Reich

Ply the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 22.-Japan al
ready is supplying Germany with a
trickle of raw materials, chiefly rub
ber, from her Pacific conquests prob
ably by running the blockare around
Cape Horn, ministry of Economic
Warfare spokesman said today.
The economic contact between the
Axis partners probably is made by
ships which can travel the l7,000-
mile route without refueling, the
spokesman said
He emphasized 1t was difdcult to
control movements of isolated ships
because of the secrecy with which
they leave Pacific ports and because
they do not use radios en- route.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Soroyon, Classified IA, Seeks
DeferroI to Finish Stage Project

required to write. I have been the
best American propagandist this
country ever had and I can't do
more than I am doing by writing"
Saroyan was reclassified Ia after
he gave 100000 received in Holly
wood for his story, "The Human
Comedy" to his mother, grand
mother, a sister and other relatives
thus taking them out of the ranks
of dependents.
What was I going to do with
the stuff, sit on it?" he remarked.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Boy, 10, Trails Kite
Into Eust River

BY tie Associated Press.
NEW YORK-Ten-year-old Bill
Rafferty, followed his kite-not up,
but into the East River.
Thomas McClarney, 48, a sand
barge worker. followed Bill and with
the help of a police launch, Belle
vue Hospital ambulance, a hook and
ladder company and a police radio
squad managed TO rescue him.
Tive kite was lost.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Ensign Albert Morries
SchooIdoy Sweetheart
e! the Associated Press.

E! the Associated Press.
GLENDALE, Calf, July "a
frankie Albert, one of Stanford's
smartest quarterbacks and now an
ensign in the Navy, married his
schoolday sweetheart last night in
their home town.
She was Martha Jean Barringer,
daughter of John c. Barringer,
president of the Glendale Chamber
of Commerce.
Albert, left-handed passer and
clever broken-fleld runner. cap
tanned Clark Shaughnessy's great
Stanford team in 1910.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Pilot Who Got 4 Out Of q
Jap Planes Is Promoted
B, the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, India. July 22.--
Pilot Frank d. Sharp OF Salem,
Greg, who raided Rangoon shipping
by daylight on June 4 and crash
landed his Flying Fortress on the
Burmese jungle after his gunners
destroyed 4 Of % pursuing japanese
fighters, was promoted from captain
to major yesterday.
Six other Flying Fortress pilots
who have participated since April
| in American Air Force attacks
against the Japanese in Burma were
promoted from first lieutenants to
captains. They are William E. Bow
den of Riverside, Calf; Delmer J.
Rogers of Munger, Mich; Charles
z. Blankenhorn of Great Falls,
Mont; Paul j. Long of Denver,
Colo: John B. Hoist OF Savannah,
Ga, and James E. keenan, Of Van
Nuys, Calf, the husband OF Ann
Nagle, film actress.
Evening star., 1942-07-22
Clio Asks Wage Rise
Of 44c a Day From
3 Other Steel Firms
Back Pay, Other Points
Recently Granted in
WLB Ruling Also Sought
p the Associated Press.

p the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, July 22-The
CIO United Steel Workers set out
today to win for 100000 employees OF
eight other steel companies the A
cents-a-day wage increase which
the War Labor Board awarded to
$4,000 employees of the four Little
Steel companies.
The increase would add approx
mately $l20 year to each mans
pay, or approximately S48,000,000
annually for the 100000 employees of
the United States Steel Corp, the
Nations biggest steel producer;
Jones & Laughlin, Pittsburgh Steel,
Sharon, the Great Lakes and Hanna
Furnace subsidiaries of the National
Steel Corp, Crucible, Wheeling Steel
and Allegheny Ludlum. The present
basic wage in the industry is $3.50
day.
In addition, the CIO wants from
the eight firms approximately $22,-
100000 in back pay, because the
WLB in it's Little Steel decision
made the wage increase retroactive
to February 6. ......
Eventually, Philip Murray. CIO
president has announced, the same
increase will be sought for 225, 900
additional workers in steel produc-
ing and fabricating plants in which
the union is the bargaining agent.
The unions 200-man policy COM
mittee from plants of the eight
companies instructed officers at a
conference yesterday to demand
new contracts from the firms which
would provide the wage boost, a
maintenance of union clause and
a checkoff of dues, all awarded by
the WLB in the little steel case.
Several other concessions were de-
manded, including minimum daily
guarantee of pay and simpliflcation
Of grievance machinery.
Conference Planned.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Murray reported
that two little steel companies,
Bethlehem and Inland, had agreed
to meet union representative next
week to resume contract negotia-
tions-a move which he said he in
terpreted as meaning that the firms
were accepting the WLB's decision.
Clarence Randall, vice president
of Inland, said at Chicago, how
ever, that Inland had not decided
what it will do with reference to
the order of the labor board"
The union has announced &C
ceptance.
Mr.. Murray said he expected later
to arrange meetings with the other
two little steel companies, Youngs-
town Sheet Sy Tube and Republic.
Mr.. Murray said formal notifica-
ton of desire to reopen existing
contracts with the eight steel COM
panies would be dispatched to them
within a few days. Escape" clauses
in the pacts provide that if no agree
ment is reached within 90 days after
notification the contracts are abro-
gated.
Evening star., 1942-07-22

Sc you want Toxic bombed again?
Well, bombs cost money, so help
buy some with War bonds and
stamps.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-26
Typical
ictOriau
chair


the supreme stodgineSs of the
preceding decades.
Victoria ruled England for ga
years, and the extreme morality
and sentimentality of the era
was reflected in America. Prim-
ness and heavy responsibility
typified the period, and ear
marks the furniture design.
The result is furniture style
which tries so clumsily TO be
good that it succeeds only in
being awkward.
The woods used were mahog-
any and, especially in this coun-
try, walnut. Very dark stains
were applied. and in many in
stances the wood appears almost
black, and certainly cherries.
Chairs
Chairs of the period have
either oval or horseshoe shaped
backs and are high. Tufted and
button-backS are common, and
the chalr-SeatS are round or oval
and built up TO a crown in the
center. There is a staid prim-
ness about them that echoes the
period itself.
The wide skirts in vogue at
that time result in very low
arms, or no arms at all, being
used on the chairs and sofas.
The sofas have out-curving
backs, divided into three sec.
tons like three separate chair
backs in one. and the seats are
almost always tight-that is,
without a cushion.
Tables
Tables are either oval or
round, in few instances oblong.
Marble tops are often utilized.
and the bases are a pedestal
comprised of several carved or
turned columns.
Cabinet pieces, such as chests,
dressers and beds are invariably
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-26

roL. dolly core Of your ho'''
Us. vo,slin. for dry ho'r'
dordrv#. otter q permanent
o, 10 tome ON vnrvly lock.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-26
Poor Risks

Around 1900, in England. life
insurance companies regarded
people who didn't eat cheese as
poor risks. because of the belief
that cheese prolonged life.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-26
CoIored Ice

For a spark of originality that
will pep up your party make
colored ice cubes by freezing
carbonated beverages of various
flavors in your cube trays
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-26
Home Decoration
Victorian Reproductions
Suited TO Modern Rooms
BY WILLIAM X. CLARKE

ONE OF the most typically
American Of all furniture styles
derives its name from an Eng
liSh queen, Victoria. Probably
no other period design so ex-
actly typifies the era in which
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-26

achieve delightful room. Keep
the pieces simple and do not be
afraid 10 use bright. warm coll
orS TO enliVcn the scheme.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-26

III was popu-
lar as does
Victorian.
From plays.
books a n d
motion pic
lures we are,
most of us,
familiar with
the Victorian
era. Many Of
us remember
it's closing
days, the So
called Gay
n i n G tie s,
which were
gay only by
nAAfnnpt ,n.tl.