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Evening star., 1943-07-09
AAA Urges Oil Power
Be Taken From Ickes
Auto Group Asks Naming
Of Petroleum Czur
BY the Associated Press

by the Associated PreSS.
CLEVELAND, July 9.--The Amer
lean Automobile Association today
urged that Secretary of the Interior
Ickes be relieved of his duties as
petroleum co-ordinator and pro-
posed appointment of an admins
traitor to deal with the industry's
wartime shortages and supply prob
lens
In statement released by John
L. Young, secretary, the AAA de-
clared Mr.. Ickes apparently is more
interested in making his predic-
tions of oil shortages come true
than in eliminating the shortages"
and suggested the cabinet official
devote his full time to restoring
the coal industry to full produc-
titon."
1--WE are fearful" the statement
continued, that If Mr.. Ickes was in
full charge of gasoline the oil prob
lem would be solved similarly to
the methods employed in attempt
ing to solve the coal trouble-taking
the mines away from the owners.
When applied to the use of auto
mobiles basic rations would be ta-
ken and cars would be immobilized.
Recalling previous AAA state
ment in which policy making
body headed by Bernard Baruch
was suggested, the association de-
clared, What this situation de-
mands now is an expediter who,
knowing the difficulties, knows also
how to overcome them"
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Congress Begins
Long Vacation;
Ro|Iback Wins
Senate Drops Fight;
Three Big Supply
Bills Rushed Through
BY ]. A. OLEARY.

A Congress that stood united
behind the war effort, but re-
belled with growing frequency
over domestic plans of the ad-
ministration is on its way home
today for the. first long recess
since the war began.
The decision to pack up and leave
came quickly yesterday after the
Senate voted, "a to 33, to drop its
fight to prevent the President from
using subsidies to rollback food
prices.
With that dispute out of the way,
at least until they return September
Ia, the House and Senate rushed
through three remaining appropria-
ton bills carrying 81 ,300, 900 900 and
we're homeward bound by $50 pm.
McKellar Plan Killed.
One of the last acts was to kill
the Mcclellan plan to require Senate
confirmation of hundreds of higher
bracket employees in a score of war
agencies. Senator McKellar, Demo-
crat, of Tennessee, asked the Senate
to drop the amendment. after the
House had refused by vote of 260
to So to accept even modified sub
stitute, limiting the confirmation
rule to future appointees and raising
the salary limit from 81 500 to SIS, 500.
Although the lawmakers expect to
have nine weeks to talk things over
Evening star., 1943-07-09
President Reveals
Paw Bill Has Not Yet
Reached White House
BIomes Routine Check
For Holding Up
Deficiency Measure
Ry I. A. FOX.

The urgent deficiency bill, car
rying funds to pay the salaries
of thousands of District and
Federal employees, has not yet
reached President RooSevelt'S S
desk, he told his press confer
ence today.
The bill. providing s143,0 100000.
was passed by Congress last Satur-
day and was reported to have
reached the White House the middle
of this week after receiving the Gus
tomary check by interested agencies
But Mr.. Roosevelt said this check
had not vet been completed and he
recalled that there was always lag
while this procedure was being fol-
lowed.
Reports have been current that
the President might veto the bill,
which was used as vehicle by the
House for seeking the custer of Rob-
ert Morss Lovett, Government sec
retary of the Virgin Islands, and
Goodwin B. Watson and william E.
Dodd, jr., employees of the Federal
Communications Commission, who
were accused of Identification with
subversive movements.
The Senate refused to join the
House in the custer movement and
under compromise the men will
be retained in service If they are
nominated by the President and
confirmed by the Senate by Novem-
ber Is.
Another rider on the bill prohibits
Mr. Roosevelt from using the funds
allotted to his Office to finance
agencies for which Congress has
denied appropriations.
Evening star., 1943-07-09
President Doubts Pink Note
Would Convince John |. Lewis

responded. I'm not President"
1t would be awfully difficult, Mr.
Roosevelt said, if he ordered any
one to sign his name to something
and got refusal. He said he knew
of no law that could compel any
signing and that an awful lot of
rot had been printed about the
whole matter.
Reminded that Montgomery Ward
& Co. had signed a labor contract
after he had ordered the firm to
do so, presumably because of fear
of Government sanctions, Mr..
Roosevelt said sanctions existed
there in the form of authority to
take over the firm, which he OBJ
viously did not want to do. But he
said he doubted If there was similar
authority for taking over Mr.. Lewis
United Mine Workers.
To question whether he felt he
needed additional sanctions to IDEAL
with recalcitrant unions" MIR Roose.
velt replied by suggesting that the
press look at the first eight sections
of the new apti-srt law
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Foul Play Is Hinted
In Mysterious Death
Of Sir Harry Cakes
Police Are Summoned
From Miami; Injuries
On Mine Owners Body
Picture on Page A-3.)
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NASSAU, Bahamas, July g.
Meager details which seeped
through censorship today served
only to deepen for the outside
world the mystery surrounding
the death of one of the British
Empires wealthiest baronets, Sir
Harry Oakes.
The only fact known generally
was there were injuries on the body
of the 68-year-old American born
gold mine owner who was found
dead in bed yesterday by friend
who called for an appointment.
Foul play was indicated, however,
by the summoning from Miami OF
two American police experts to aid
the Nassau constabulary in the in
vestigation.
Was Principal Landowner.
A coroner's inquest was called In
secret.
Bahamians mourned, meanwhile,
the loss of a colorful citizen who
mad become the Islands principal
landowner and businessman, He
came here in 1885. attracted by the
colony's low tax rates
He spent large sums in various
developments, buying the principal
hotel, opening Bahamas airline
and a Nassau bus line, improving
the country club and golf course
and demonstrating the feasibility
of vegetable and dairy farming on
an island once considered barren.
His latest enterprise was 1000
acre sheep ranch, and he had post
poned a trip to the United States to
show the project yesterday after
noon to Nassau newspapermen.
Among his friends was the Duke
of Windsor, who Cancelled appoint
ments yesterday to take hand in
the investigation.
Sir Harry's body will be sent to
Bar Harbor, Me. Lady Oakes, the
former Eunice Myrtle Mcintyre Of
Sydney Australia. was at their Bar
Evening star., 1943-07-09
BY the Associated Press.

President Roosevelt gave a clear
indication today that he has no in
tention of asking John l.. Lewis to
sign a new agreement with coal op-
orators, as the mine union chief
has been ordered to do by the War
Labor Board
What good would 1t do. Mr.. Roose-
welt asked at a press conference, If
he sent Mr.. Lewis a note in long
,hand on pink paper asking him to
please conform with the WLB or
der, and Mr.. Lewis did not sign?
Reporters informed the President
that the board apparently felt it
needed l"some governmental reaf-
firmation" of it's order. presumably
from him.
After all, the Chief Executive re-
marked, that was action by quasi
judicial group and speaks for itself.
What happens If Mr.. Lewis does
not conform?" reported inquired.
The President shot back: What
would you do?
Il don't know sf1is questioner
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Pilots Tough Luck Not Bad,
He Finds When Bombs Appear

the bomb bays and the doors were
slightly open.
Jig never knew that the deadly
"eggs" hadn't dropped. He knew the
ship had been hit by antiaircraft
fire over the target, but he thought
the bombs had gone and then he
had come back with his hydraulic
system damaged to make a belly
landing on Pantelleria.
With enough explosives hanging
beneath the ship to blow everything
nearby to little pieces he had belly
landed the Boston.
(There was no mention in this
dispatch of other members of the
crew. The Boston normally has
a three-man crew.
Staff Sergt. Fred c. Elkins, West
Los Angeles, Calf, and Ernest
Mealy, Akron, Ohio, went back to
1t. Buster and told him about 1t.
who said you had tough luck7"
they asked. 4
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Roosevelt Refuses to Let Army
Or Navy Aid Inquiry Into FEC
Both Services Tell Special House Group
They Will Not Cooperate in Investigation

ment Of Mr.. Cox. He recalled that
Mr.. Cox had received $2.500 for
legal services rendered a Georgia
radio station which had case pend
ing before the FEC. MIR. Cox said
the money went to charity.
FEC Chairman James L. Fly also
has assailed the Cox committee in
vestigation. charging that the group
was joining with Wall Street in
terests" ard the armed forces to
wreck the commission.
Mr. Cox made public letters from
Undersecretary of War Patterson
and Acting Secretary of Navy For
restal giving their departments
views. Mr.. Forrestal told the COM
mittee:
Il must decline to permit the ap-
pearance of the naval officers, active
or inactive, before your committee
as such appearance would be in
compatible with the public interest
The President of the United
States authorizes me to inform the
Evening star., 1943-07-09
CoIoqne Is Roided 10th Time;
Allies Batter Sicily Again
American Bombers
Make Shuttle Raids
Over Mediterranean
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, July 9.-Hun-
dreds of Allied planes shuttled
back and forth across the Med
iterranean yesterday for the
sixth consecutive day to rain ex-
plosives on the Sicilian airdromes
and ports which constitute
Italy's first line of defense, it was
announced today.
Heavy and medium pombers,
fighter -bombers and fighters from
Northwest African bases, Malta and
the Middle East joined in the mis-
sions Of destruction.
A United States 9Th Air Force
communique issued in Cairo said
that crew members who bailed out
of two Liberators of a force
which attacked Catania. Sicily.
yesterday were machine-gunned
by enemy fighters"
Triphammer blows were loosed on
familiar targets and the lighter
craft also went on free-lance mis-
(See MEDITERRANEAN, Page A-7D
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Eight RAF Bombers
Lost in Attack on
RhineIond City
BY the Associated Press,


LONDON, July 9.-The RAF,
returning to the assault on Ger
many after a four might lull in
the Allied aerial offensive, made
a heavy attack on the Rhineland
industrial center of Cologne last
night, the Air Ministry an
nounced today.
Eight bombers were lost in the
raid, the announcement said
Mines also were laid in enemy
waters during the night and Brit
ish fighters on intruder patrols
simultaneously attacked enemy air.
fields and railway targets in France
and Northwest Germany. Three
German minesweepers were report
ed damaged in sweeps along the
French coast.
London Has Alarm.
German raiders dropped high ex-
plosives on a town In Southeast
England and southeast coast re-
sort today while others gave Lon
Continued on Page AT, Column 81
Evening star., 1943-07-09

with the home folk and see which
way the wind is blowing on political
and economic issues. they fixed the
adjournment resolution so that
they could reassemble on three
days notice if their leaders deem it
necessary. The call to reconvene
may be issued by joint action of
the Speaker and Vice President. by
the majority leaders of the two
houses or by the minority leaders.
The session which began in JAM
uary was the liveliest in 10 years.
largely because the increased Re-
publican membership, plus the anti
New Deal Democrats, made it pos
sible to muster majority on some
domestic issues.
In the six-month period Congress
appropriated more than $l14,O0O,-
100000, mainly to hasten victory
over the Axis.
Outstanding Home Front Acts.
On the home front, its outstanding
acts were:
Enactment of pay-as-you-go tax
plan.
Passage of a wartime strike con-
troll law, over the Presidents veto.
Abolished the National Youth Ad-
miniStration, the National Resources
Planning Board, decreed liquidation
of the Federal Crop Insurance pro-
gram and sharply reduced the do
mestic branch of the Office of War
Information.
Repealed the Presidents order
limiting salaries to $4,000 after
taxes.
Adjourned without extending the
Bituminous Coal Regulation Act,
which will expire August %.
Left the national debt at a new
total of $4,000 100000.
On foreign policy, however. the
lawmakers voted an extension OF
the administrations Reciprocal
Trade Agreement Act and continued
the lease-lend program.
Speaker Rayburn in the House
and Majority Leader Barkley in the
Senate made departing speeches to
their colleagues, emphasizing how
long Congress has been working in
recent years, and pointing out that
no essential business was being left
undone.
Rayburn Defends Record.
Even though people love to
criticize the Congress of the United
States" said Mr.. Rayburn, Il say to
you that neither the Seventy-seventh
Congress, that was greatly criticized.
nor the Seventy-eighth Congress
(See CONGRESS, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1943-07-09
By the Associated Press.

BY direction Of President
Roosevelt, the War and Navy
Departments refused today to
cooperate in an investigation Of
the Federal Communications
Commission undertaken by a
special House committee headed
by Representative Cox, Demo-
crat, of Georgia.
Both departments notified the
committee they would not permit
the appearance of officers whom
the committee desired to question,
nor produce documents it had re-
quested in an effort to support
charges that the FEC interfered
with intelligence operations of the
armed services
Mr.. Cox's Craftsmanship of the
committee has been attacked by
members OF the FEC on the ground
of prejudice. Clifford j. Durr, a
commission member. filed an appeal
with the House seeking the replace
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Giraud Asks America
To Outfit 100000
French for Invasion
General Seeks PIones,
Tanks, Guns to Equip
Big Expeditionoy Force
By BLAIR BOLLES.

Gen. Henri Honore Giraud
made a fervent plea today for
American armament to equip a
French Army of 100000 men
which he plans to use as an ex-
peditionary force for invasion of
Europe.
Predicting that the German Army
will fight vigorously to the very end,
the visiting commander of the
French forces in North and West
Africa, told a press conference in
the Pentagon Building that he now
has $4,000 men adequately armed,
but he wants more tanks, guns and
planes.
France will be at your side to
liberate the Pacific from Japanese
domination. even as she will remain
with you to build the peace that
will be lasting and just, but also
realistic" the general added as he
disclosed that he was making ar
rangements to use American arma-
ment for outfitting his prospective
expeditionary force.
Know How to Use Arms.
1T is through the army that
Frenchmen will show strikingly
their will to win and their faith in
the success of the Allied cause" Gen.
Giraud said. When given the
guns, planes and tanks, they will
know how to use them"
Declaring his men will 60 forth
to fight with absolute confidence
and irresistible drive as soon as they
have those weapons in hand" the
hero of French resistance to the
Axis added:
Il am certain that they shall have
them.
IF Great Britain wants to give
more, 1 will take it-for I am beg
gar and will take anything that is
good he added, with one of his
rare smiles.
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt
indicated at his press conference
that as long as the French people
are under German domination, the
United States cannot recognize the
French Committee for National
Liberation, of which Gen. Giraud is
co-chairman with Gen. Charles de
Gaulle, nor any other organization
as the governing power of France.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he did not
think the question of recognizing
the Committee for National Liberia
ton had come up. He observed
that currently there is no France
except about S per cent which Is
outside of the Occupied France in
Europe.
Military Problems Discussed.
To a request for comment on re-
ports in the press that the Amer
ican attitude toward Gen. Giraud
and Gen. De Gaulle was "unduly
interfering with French political
affairs" Mr.. Roosevelt said he could
(See GIRAUD, Page AID
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Al Least Five Firemen
Killed in Collapse Of
Building in Chicago
Crews Work to Rescue
One Other Trapped
Underneath Debris
picture on Page A.
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, July AT least
five firemen were dead and one
other remained trapped under
tons of debris from a fire that
swept through a four-story Of
fee and factory building on the
near North Side today. Six
other flremen were in hospitals.
More than eight hours after the
roof and floors of the building COL
lapsed, dropping at least Is firemen
to the basement and first floor, the
three trapped men were still alive
but suffering agonizing pain as res
cuers strove to reach them. They
were pinned under steel girders and
heavy timbers.
Fire Commissioner Michael Cor
rigan identified the known dead as:
Acting Battalion Chief Arthur Bar
cal, 1t. Edward j. Moffett, Capt.
Henry Wurthman and Firemen
Harry Weinel and Thomas Nc
Carthy.
Trapped in the wreckage were
Capt. Matthew McDonough and
Firemen Joseph l.. Strenski and
Richard j. Jablonski.
At noon Fireman Bob Walsh, who
had been listed as dead by the
fire commissioner, was found alive
and rescued. Fireman Jablonski was
released from the wreckage alive
and removed to hospital
An hour later Capt. McDonough
was removed from the debris and
rushed to a hospital. Inhalator
squads worked feverishly to keep
him alive. At about the same time,
the body of 1t. Moffett was recov-
cred.
A new fire broke out in the build
ing, housing the Wilmer s. Snow
light fixture plant. today after a
blaze last night caused an esti-
mated $1,000 damage
After the roof of the building fell
firemen were hampered in rescue
work by the weakened condition of
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Acting Polish Premier
Resigns in Policy Row
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July g. Differences
over future Polish policy were re-
liably reported today to have re-
suited in the resignation of Stanis-
law Mikolajczyk, who has been
Acting Premier of the Polish gov
ernment-in-exile pending selection
of a successor to the late Gen.
Wladadyslaw Sikorski, who was
killed in an airplane accident at
Gibraltar last Sunday.
Mr.. Mikolajczyk was reported to
have submitted his resignation yes
terday after q discussion as to who
would succeed Gen. Sikorski as
commander in chief of the Polish
armed forces.
Evening star., 1943-07-09
By the Associated Press.


ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, July 9.-The fly
ers and the ground crew crowded
around Second 1t. Jig Buster, Jr.,
of Selma, Ala, lifted him gently
and said, Tough luck, Jig. That
really is tough break"
Jig had just landed his Boston
bomber on Pantelleria Island after
a bombing raid on Trapani. He had
to make belly landing because the
bomber's hydraulic system had been
damaged by German fighters.
He made the landing safely and
started to climb out of the cockpit,
when he fell and sprained his knee
badly.
TITS a bum break, Jig" his mates
said as they carried him away.
And then they came back and
looked at his damaged ship. Their
eyes popped and their jaws dropped
A full load of bombs was still Il
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Big Fight Impends
AS u. S. Forces
Close In on Base
BY the Associated Press,

Ss Inc hsSOCidieO HreSS.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, July 9.-Only 8
miles from Munda, American in
vaders are probing japanese de-
fenses of that New Georgia Is
land air base and over both the
Solomons and New Guinea Allied
planes have dealt new blows
with nearly 100 tons of bombs,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head
quarters reported today.
On the other hand, the hard hit
Japanese air force, having lost
nearly 200 planes over the Solomons
within week, has diminished the
weight of its punches.
The pincers which American ma
rines and soldiers began applying
on Munda July by landing both
above and east of it pressed nearest
at Elelo, on the east, where ad-
vanced patrols clashed yesterday
with japanese and defeated them.
Feeling-out Encounter.
1t was a feeling-out encounter
with the big push obviously in abey-
ance while the main forces which
stormed ashore above Munda at Rice
Anchorage and east of it at banana
consolidated positions. The in
trenched Japanese at Munda are be-
lieved to be in considerable strength,
prepared to offer bloody defense.
Above New Georgia on Kolom-
bangara Island, Munda's big supply
depot at Villa was fired and damaged
by 81 tons of high explosives un-
loaded by Dauntless dive bombers
and Avenger torpedo bombers. Cor
sairs protected the raiders.
Farther up the Solomons the
Kahili Airdrome, at the northern tip
of Bougainville Island, from which
the japanese might offer Mundas
defenders aerial support, was raided
by big American Liberators last
night. Their % tons of bombs
started fires. One Liberator failed
to return.
Blast Path Through Jungle.
On Northeastern New Guinea,
where Australian and American
patrols are moving toward the
enemy air base of Salamaua. the
Allied planes continued to blast
path through the jungle with their
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Percy Granger
On WMAL Broadcast

Percy Granger will be heard
in part of Grieg's Piano Con-
certo in A Minor" during the
broadcast portion of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra's
Sunset Symphony" from the
Water Gate from $3.50 to 9
o'clock tonight over The Eve
ming Star Station, WMAL.
Stanley Chapple will conduct
the orchestra, which also will
play Brahms Academic Fes-
tival Overture" and Mozart's
"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
during the broadcast. :
Evening star., 1943-07-09
Workers Go Through
Picket Line at Mine;
Feeling Runs High
Drive TO Pits in Foyette
County; Insurgents Are
Forced to Leop Aside
Ry the Associated Press

BY Inc Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, July 9.-Miners
went through picket lines to go
back to work at one coal mine
today in the troublous Fayette
County fields, but an insurgent
group which has refused to COM
ply with the United Mine Work
ers' order to produce coal kept
a score of mines idle or operating
with reduced crews.
With curses and cat-calls disrupt
ing the dawn quiet. feeling ran high
among the two factions as the I'VE
will work group drove cars to the
pits. some forcing pickets to leap
aside.
Almost simultaneously. Federal
Judge F.. P Schoonmaker ordered a
Federal grand jury in Pittsburgh to
convene July IA. This was on the
petition of United States Attorney
Charles F. Uhl. who attributed the
action to matters of great impor-
tance.' He refused to elaborate, but
the action possibly dealt with the
insurgent coal strikes.
First Open Opposition.
The movement of miners through
picket lines-rare in United Mine
Workers history-occurred at the
big gates of the H. C. Frick Coke
Co, United States Steel subsidiary.
1t was the first open opposition to
the mo contract, no work" cam
paign which sprang up near Browns
vile after all the rest of the Ma
tions miners ended their recent
walkouts.
1t was estimated 1900 miners
failed to work today an increase of
several thousand over yesterday.
The revolving miners in some in
stances were accompanied yesterday
by women and children as they at
tempted to close the pits.
Stone Hurled Through Window.
No violence occurred at Gates
Mine, but stone was thrown
through car window at the Ralph
Mine nearby.
The scene at the Gates was dra-
matte.
Check Weighman Rayner. presi-
dent of the UNIV local at this mine,
which employs nearly 1000 men
two pit committeeman. and Mine
Supt. H. E. Mason posted them
selves near the entrance to shout to
the miners to ignore about 40
pickets.
Go back, 60 back" cried the
pickets, shaking their fists at the
first miners in about 80 cars which
drove past them.
Go in, go in." coaxed the four
men at the entrance.
Cries of "scab" we're heard as
three buses carrying altogether about
100 miners from the Edenborn and
Masontown sections then arrived.
You can't go through this picket
line" declared the pickets, standing
in front of the first bus.
Just keep on standing there and
you'll find out" was the reply. The
(See COAL, Page A-4.)