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Evening star., 1942-06-19
Last SevostopoI Lines
Pierced, Nozis Claim

BERLIN, CFrom German Broad
casts, June 10 (P).-Reporting de
cisive success" for the Axis assault
on Sevastopol. the high command
declared today that German infan-
try attacking from the north had
pierced "the last defense lines OF
the enemy and reached Sewernaja
Blight. opposite the town Of Sevas-
topol."
The entire northern part Of the
fortress with the exception Of one
coastal fort in the southwestern
sector has thus fallen into German
hands after IL days Of heavy fight
ing" the high commands COM
munique said.
TN the southern sector Of the
fortiflcation front Rumanian troops
succeeded in driving the enemy out
Of important positions after violent
combats."
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Maternity Ward in Trailer
Planned at Workers Comp

county health ofiicer, = nurse mid
wife and a nurse will be appointed
and assigned to the camp.
A mother-to-be would be trans
ferred from her trailer home to the
trailer delivery room just before her
baby was born, and within 48 hours
after the birth, mother and child
would be back home.
The medical stan would assist the
county's hard-pressed doctors by
setting up a prenatal clinic. Both
DR.. Riley and DR.. Warthen hope
these clinics will curtail the num-
Der Of operative births. Only nor
NAL deliveries would be handled In
the trailer.
DR.. Warthen said he had been
assured by the camp manager q
trailer would be provided. The fam
lilies In the camp would share the
cost of Quitting 1t as the birthplace
Of their trailer babies.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
War Widens Field
For Foreign Missions,
Church Leader SAYS
Conereeutionolists Told
Of Need for New
Approach to Enterprise
Fy tie Associated Press.

Fy ire Assoclateo Prese.
DURHAM, N. H., June 19.-The
Rev. DR.. Russell Henry Stafford,
president of the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions, said today that war condi-
tions gave the missions "unprece-
dented opportunities for multiplied
usefulness"
He told the General Council of
Congregational Christian Churches,
that ito carry on and take ad-
vantage of these openings" the
missions needed money, heightened
interest and young men and women
for life enlistment in the cause.
Most of all, however, I believe
that we need a new approach to
the foreign mission enterprise on
the part of the people of our
churches, new attitude towards it,
new understanding of it," he said.
Reverse Of Aggression.
"In it there is no bigotry or ag-
gression, nor any sort of imper-
ialism. 1t Is the reverse of all that.
1t means steadily building the walls
of the New Jerusalem"
DR.. Stafford said there doubtless
had been times and places in which
missionaries were unwelcome, but
that nowadays our problem is not
that missionaries are not wanted,
but that in nearly every field more
missionaries are wanted than we
can possibly send out on the budget
at our command"
Other speakers on the second
day program of the eight-day con-
ference were the Rev. Howard A.
Kester of Black Mountain. N. c.,
and the Rev. Glenn j. Witherspoon,
Army chaplain on duty in Wash
ington. rr s.r
Moral Muscle Declared Needed.
The Rev. Mr.. Kester said: = q -.
:, 1T is not so much the churct1'e
head or heart that is weak, but its
muscle. The church needs
to develop its moral muscles by
identifying itself. as did its Lord,
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Japs Reported Using
New Type Planes in
Southwest Pacific
Nipponese Are Soid to Be
Loosins Explosives
With Less Accuracy
Hy the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, June 19.-Japanese
flyers were reported by an air
force spokesman today to be
using two new type planes in the
Southwest Pacific "a lightened
Zero fighter and a cannon bear
ing medium bomber-and loos-
ing their explosives even less
accurately than they did over the
Philippines.
The spokesman said standard
United States models such as the
B-26 medium bomber and the P-39
and P-4o fighters had countered the
new craft.
Jap Bombing Not Clever.
"The Japanese are not very clever
about bombing" he told q press
conference. IF they had a good
bombsight and could use 1t they
would be better of. They are using
an electrical. automatic optical
bombsight similar to one I saw in
Germany In 1898. 1t is not par
ticularly accurate.
An example Of poor Japanese
bombing procedure Is their use of
balloons for wind drift, which is
downright silly. 1t is kindergarten
stun.
AT Port Moresby advanced Allied
base in New Guinea they are using
white smoke to get the wind drift.
The Japanese are bombing less ac-
curately than in the Philippines,
where they were erratic."
High Altitude Planes.
The air force spokesman said the
new Japanese fighter was a fast,
high altitude performer with a
horsepower well above the s7o of its
predecessors. 1t carriees the 90
millimeter cannon, one .50-caliber
and four .30-csliber machine guns.
The plane is 50 lightly constructed,
however. that the cockpit invari-
ably crumples In a crack-up, the
spokesman declared. He said this
was a hazard which pilots Of the
more sturdily built Allied fighters
did not face, citing 80 battle crashes
he had seen in which the flyers
were uninjured.
Performing best at $4,000 feet, the
new Japanese bomber was reported
to fly 270 mfles an hour. The
spokesman said 1t was larger than
Japans older medium bomber.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Summer Music Course
Offered in Bethesda

As part of the summer activities
at the Bethesda Chevy Chase Rec
reAtion Center. Miss Lucille E. john
son, music supervisor in the public
schools In the area, is offering a
summer music program from / to
3 pm. each Tuesday consisting of
instruction in singing, interpreta-
tive rhythm, folk dancing, creative
music and instrumental work.
Miss Selma Baernstein, University
Of Wisconsin student. and Scott
Brewer, jr., student at Hamilton
College, New York, have been ap-
pointed assistant recreational lead
ers at the center.
Evening star., 1942-06-19

center has many obvious merits,
such as giving the supreme COM
mand and each chief of emergency
service a running picture of the
overall situation, which enables him
to exercise direct control. 1t also
permits control center personnel to
be kept at a minimum and simpli-
fes the problem of force adjust
ment"
For a number of other reasons,
however, they added, it appears de-
sirable-"indeed necessary for the
safety of Washington"-to estab-
hsh as promptly as possible more
than one control center. Among
reasons they gave were:
That one direct hit by high
explosive bomb or the act of sa-
boteurs would disrupt but a frac-
tion Of a decentralized system,
whereas such acts would paralyze
all defense activities under a single
control system;
That a seven-way breakdown plan
permits the most efficient use of
telephone facilities and spreads the
call load" among telephone CEN
trail ofiices and interoffice trunk
lines, as a protection against bot
ttle-necks," and
That the decentralized system
should contribute to the efficiency
of internal operations since the
work load Is distributed among
seven local centers rather than be-
ing concentrated in one.
Speed Estimated.
Under the decentralization plan,
the population of subcontrol areas
would range from between 100000
and 10000. The technicians max
ing the report said experience in
dicates that when wardens have
been properly trained to make con-
else reports, trained control center
telephonist can record at least one
report minute; thus 10 telephon-
lists can record from so to rs in
cident reports in any flve-minute
busy period. AS further argument
for decentralization. they said that
beyond this problem is how fast
executive officers can sort out and
appraise incident reports and handle
the most important first, without
getting caught behind a log jam.
Following a similar setIp of con-
troll officers and staff at the new
Main Control Center in the Munich
pal Center Building. each of the
subcontrol centers will have staff
including a deputy controller, an
assistant deputy controller. a dep
uty communications officer, deputy
chiefs of the various emergency
services, including police, fire,
medical, utilities, public works and
wardens; deputy transportation
chief; a "priorities" oficer, to sort
incidents in the order Of their i'm
portance; = plotting ofncer, to spot
J incidents On ! lafSe mAp; pane1
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Al Cattle Tie Up Traffic
After Crash Upsets Truck

loped into a ravine, with passersby
and police Joining in the roundup.
Mrs. Bragg's car was struck by a
truck driven by Oscar Hill, 10, of
Phoebus. Va, according to police.
Her car was spun around and sand
wiched between the truck which
struck her machine and an east
bound cattle loaded truck driven
by Charles Dodson, 81, Culpeper,
Va. police said. In the crash the
auto overturned the big cattle truck.
Hill and Dodson escaped injury.
The overturned truck was righted by
a crane being used on street filling
job nearby.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Communications

the District. Also, it was announced,
Maj. Gen. Lorenzo D. Gasser, haison
officer between the Federal OCD and
the War Department, while not
signing the report, was so pleased
with it he ordered copies prepared
to be sent to the States as a guide
to development of adequate COM
munications control systems there.
The new plan calls for the recruit
ing of a total communications con-
troll staff Of about 566 workers, in
cluding no less than "a for the va
rious shifts of duty at each OF the
seven subcontrol centers at police
stations and some communications
workers at other police stations.
Also it calls for intensive and spe-
cific training of all workers involved
in the program for expeditions serv-
ice at all key points. This total
figure is far above what Washington
now has.
Blackout Fund May Finance.
While the expert group proposed
that much of this cost be charged to
the Police Department. the District
budget for the new fiscal year now
is about through Congress and Com
missioner Young said he felt 1t must,
for the time being at least, be
charged to the Districts blackout
funds. He recalled that the Commits
sioners already are seeking approval
of another million-dollar blackout
appropriation.
OF the total outlined costs, $14, 500
would be for communications facil-
tiles, mostly phone message charges;
SIS 1000 for construction, furnishings
and the like; $4,000 for supplies, and
more than $4,000 for hiring extra
help, including As male switchboard
attendants. To this was attached a
note that "other" possible payroll
expenses cannot be estimated until
key positions are filled.
In this connection it was noted
that of the estimated 566 employees
the bulk should be" volunteers
numbering more than 200. To this
was added recommendation that
the volunteer Office of the District
OCD should be ''geared up" to pro-
vide an adequate list Of volunteers.
The report of the four experts
frankly stated that civilian defense
activities could be, controlled, from
a single control center. For exam
Pile, they said, enough incoming
telephone lines could be installed
and manned by sufficient personnel
so that any given volume of incl
dent reports could be recorded rap
idly at one location. They said by
providing SUFFICIENT facilities and
manpower incidents could be re-
viewed and service units dispatched
from q central control.
They added: "A single control
Evening star., 1942-06-19
p, TIE Associated Press.

ES tie Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, June ia mater
nifty ward in . trailer may be the
snswer to the double problem Of q
high birth rate in a war workers
trailer camp and crowded hospital
conditions.
DR.. w. H. r. Warthen, Baltimore
County health ofncer, estimates
that Of the 300 or more women in
the trailer camp outside the Glenn
L. Martin aircraft plant, IS are pro-
spectiye mothers.
Because obstetrical facilities In
Baltimore hospitals we're booked to
the limit until January, seven
months ahead, he and the State
health onicer, DR.. Robert H. Riley,
hit on the trailer delivery room
idea.
II funds can be found from Gov
ernment allotments. an assistant
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Man Suffers FutoI Fall
From Apartment Window

Mckinley Jeter, Is. colored, 8
street NE, died last night when he
fell while attempting to enter his
locked apartment through a third
story window.
Police sad he was crossing from
the adjoining building when a
wooden box attached to the kitchen
window of his apartment apparently
collapsed. He fell more than IS
feet and was pronounced dead on
the scene following the arrival of a
Casualty Hospital ambulance.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Tres
Continued From First Page)

new war workers to be added In
the future"
He said 100 per cent Of all new
natural and synthetic rubber would
be devoted exclusively to military
requirements, and declared that
experience has shown that volun-
tary methods (of rubber conserva-
tom are inadequate to do the full
job"
i believe" he stated at one point,
that 1t is necessary to put teeth
in the program If we are to achieve
our victory goals" and he added
later that "' we must allocate
the existing supply of equipment
and rubber to uses essential to the
prosecution Of the war"
Evening star., 1942-06-19

A woman was seriously injured
and bystanders helped round up Al
cattle today after a collision in
volving two trucks and passen-
ger automobile at Fourth street and
New York avenue NE.
Mrs. Frances Bragg, 81. of De-
catur street, Colmar Manor, Md,
was taken to Casualty Hospital with
injuries to both legs. Her condi-
ton was undetermined, hospital Of
flcials said.
A truck containing "a calves and
seven cows was knocked on its side
The cattle wandered over New York
avenue, tying up traffic. and then
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Madeline Webb Given
Life for Staying; Two
Men Sentenced 10 Die
Former Model Calm in
Courtroom; Doesn't
See Shonbrun
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 19.-Madeline
Webb, 28-year -old Saltwater (Okla>.
model, was sentenced today to life
Imprisonment for her part in the
murder Of Mrs Susan Flora Reich,
wealthy Polish refugee. .
She displayed no emotion as the
Judge imposed the sentence for the
Hotel Sutton murder last March 4.
Her poise was in striking contrast
to her emotional outbursts during
her recent trial. She walked from
the courtroom almost haughtily.
Her lover, Eli Shonebrun, and
John D. Cullen, convicted with her.
weer sentenced by General Sessions
Judge Jonah J. Goldstein to die in
the electric chair during the week
Of July II.
Within an hour the two men were
on their way to Sing Sing.
Mercy Recommended.
Miss Webb had been convicted Of
first-degree murder with q recon-
mendation of mercy, but no such
recommendation was made for Gull
len and Shonbrun, making imposi-
ton of the death penalty manda-
torv.
The Judge allowed minutes to
elapse between the sentencing OF
Miss Webb and the entrance OF
Shonbrun and Cullen. Shonbrun
and Miss Webb did not see each
other.
Cullen, 45-year old petty thief, re-
manned silent as Judge Goldstein
sentenced him.
Speaks to Prosecutor.
Shonbrun, "a, with a brief show
of his former bravado, turned to
the courtroom as he was being led
away, looked at Assistant District
Attorney Jacob A. Grumet, whom he
frequently cursed during the trial.
and said In loud voice:
"Good-by, Mr.. Grumet."
Shonbrun had confessed to par
ticipation in the stranguIation-
killing of Mrs. Reich. wife of q New
Jersey wax processing manufacturer.
but had testified that Miss Webb
had no part in the crime. The State
had charged that she had lured
Mrs Reich to the hotel room where
a five-karat diamond ring was taken
from her finger after she was slain.
Shonbrun accused Murray Hirschl.
his uncle. of participating in the
Staying. Hirschl. indicted for the
crime, testified for the State and
will be tried later.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Marker to Be Unveiled

A historical marker designating
lock No. l of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal will be unveiled by the His
toric Research Committee of the
Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton at pm. tomorrow. The marker
is located Immediately west of the
confluence of the canal and Rock
Creek, north of K street.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
BattIeships Littorio
And Conte di Cavour
Hit, Army Reveals
First Report Is Received
From HoIverson on Work
Of Mediterranean Planes
By the Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
The two Italian battleships dam
aged by American heavy bombers in
the Mediterranean on Monday were
identified by the War Department
yesterday as the new 35,000-ton Lit
torio and the 25,000-ton Conte di
Cavour.
In it's first official report on the
exploits of the big 'Liberator"
planes operating from North Africa,
the department said in a commu-
nique that "a number of direct hits"
were scored on the warships.
Cairo dispatches said one was hit
20 times and the other Is.
From Alexandria came a report
that a British submarine patroling
the Mediterranean during the at
tack reported seeing two italian
battleship get a total of l3 direct
hits within a few seconds.
Text of Communique.
The department issued this COM
munique:
Il. Mediterranean theater:
THE War Department has re-
ceived a preliminary report from
Col. Harry A. Halverson relative to
operations of the United States
Army heavy bombers in the recent
attack on the Italian feet in the
Mediterranean Sea.
I'm close cooperation with the
British feet and the Royal Air
Force, a formation of United States
Army B-24 heavy bombers from
Col. Halverson's command attacked
capital ships of the italian fleet in
the Mediterranean. The attack be-
gan about am. on June Is, when
the Italian fleet. consisting of the
battleships Littorio and Cavour, ac-
companied by several cruisers and a
screen of destroyers was encoun-
tered. The fleet was apparently en-
route to attack large and impor-
tant British convoy. Our bombers
Evening star., 1942-06-19

with the poor and oppressed. the
downtrodden and outcast, those en-
slaved by the lords Of power and
those Disseminated against by the
tyrants Of racial pride and .arro-
gance."
Asserting there was no force now
operating comparable to the mill
tary chaplaincy tearing down the
walls Of intolerance between faiths" ("
Chaplain Witherspoon told of Prot
esta 1t, Catholic and Jewish chap
lains serving side by side.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Russia
Continued From First Page.)

said the Germans were throwing in
creasing numbers Of troops and
equipment against Sevastopol, but
its position remained unchanged.
Russians estimated earlier that
Gen. Erich Won Mannstein had mar
shaled 125,000 soldiers for the on
slaught. Gen. Zhuravlev said Soviet
flyers and ground gunners had cut
heavily into the German air fleet
there. reducing the scale of the
aerial attacks seven-fold.
At the same time the writer de-
clared that Field Marshal Gen.
Fedor Won Books offensive before
Kharkov, launched June 10 under
cover Of 1.000-plane bombardment,
was confined to q l5-mile sector.
limiting at strengthened Red Army
defenses and waning Nazi reserve
power, Gen. Zhuravlev said skillful
maneuvering of reserves and power
full counterblows had prevented any
breach of the Soviet lines.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Rubber, Saved for Fuel
By the Associated Presi

b3 lHt ASSUClhVeu rIeses
LOS ANGELES.-Thereu be no
more rubber to burn, in Southern
California
Two citrus growers, Rodney L.
Cranmer OF Redlands and Frank P.
Chiglia of Van Nuys, surprised scrap
collectors by turning in 1850 and
12,800 pounds, respectively.
Their gifts represented their
whole stock of old tires used for
winter orchard fires to ward on
frost.
Evening star., 1942-06-19

clerk, log and file clerk and teleph-
onist.
Would Keep Lines Open.
Such subcontrol officials would
have direct telephone connections
with the main control center, and
such lines would be operated on
secret numbers and during any
practice or real alarm such lines
would be kept constantly open.
When the new plan is in opera
ton, the normal running response"
OF the Fire Department apparatus
will cease when there is an enemy
attack. The battalion chief at a
subcontrol center, on receiving re-
ports via telephone that fire or
rescue squad services are needed at
any location within his control area,
will communicate this information
to the operator at Fire Alarm Head
quarters at Mcmillan Park, with
his own evaluation Of the need, and
ask that apparatus be dispatched.
officials at Fire Alarm Headquarters
will dispatch appropriate ap-
paratus. Meanwhile, reports will 70
up through the line to the fire chief,
the Commissioners and to the de-
Tense co-ordinator, and a constant
check will be kept on where various
fire apparatus is in or out of service
at any given moment.
Would Cut Trivial Calls.
In this connection, there was
notation that it is very essential
that wardens and others be edu-
Gated not to transmit alarms for
what. under AFRAID conditions. are
trivial" fires. The experts said an
incendiary bomb is a trivial fire
until conditions in the building in
which it falls become so involved as
to be beyond control Of the warden's
facilities and as to endanger other
buildings. =
Members Of the AFRAID warden
service will be given the confidential
telephone number of the subcontrol
center of their own areas. One par
GlCuldI WdIOCIl pOSb VC1CpllOAAC WILL
be designated in each four square
blocks, and will be under the charge
of deputy wardens. The system Is
planned to reduce greatly the num-
Der of general telephone calls and
to prevent any warden from having
to walk or run more than one block,
on the average. to call in his Incl
dents. However, police and fire call
boxes" will be available to wardens
and others for standby" service.
The new plan calls for the ap-
pointment of communications con-
troller, a highly trained technician.
to expedite control service. 1t was
indicated the Commissioners have
been considering appointment Of
some one other than Mr.. Friede, who
Is superintendent Of the District IRE
alarms system, as we'll as communi.
cations control chief for civilian
defense here. So
Evening star., 1942-06-19

Your word may be as good as your
bond-but Uncle Sam would rather
have the bond.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
Claim Fugitive
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stage attacks in support of the
Japanese.
according to reports, Guzman
has told Negroes that rifles would
be furnished them by the Japanese
and that they should buy all the
firearms they could and come
armed to the meetings of his or
genization.
Though this organization and
various confidence games Guzman,
using nineteen aliases, has taken
large amounts of money from Ne
groeS.
Mr.. Hoover announced t h t
GuZman has had a long criminal
career and has been convicted sew
eral times on larceny and burglary
charges. He is presently wanted
by the United States Post Office
authorities for violation of the
Postal regulations and by various
State authorities for law viola
lions arising from his confidence
activities.
Guzman was born in Zamban-
60. Philippine Islands, on July 6,
1900. He enlisted in the United
States Navy in July, 1918, serving
in the Navy until November n,
1920. at which time he was dis
honorably discharged. He later
served in the Coast Guard but de-
serted and was dishonorably dis
charged.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-08-08
Race Issue Is
Hit By Arna||

EATONTON, Cas- N Sat
torney General Ellis Arnall. can
didate for Governor, Tuesday plac-
ed responsibility for any race
trouble that may develop in Geor-
gia squarely on the doorstep OF
Governor Eugene Talmadge and de-
nounced the race issue as "just a
lot of bunk and baloney" before g.
big crowd at the Putnam County
Courthouse here.
III we have any race trouble in
Georgia, and we may have. then 1t
should be placed at the door OF
those who have stirred up this
issue for selfish, political purposes
and are agitating race trouble all
over the state Arnall said.
The attorney general said Tall
madge Is doing Everything pos
sible to avoid discussing any of the
real issues of this campaign"