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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
Kay kyser Draft Appeal
Is Sent 10 President
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Selective Service Director Lewis B.
Hershey has put before President
Roosevelt an appeal from a local
board decision giving Kay Kyser,
the orchestra leader, a la draft
classification.
In making this known today, Sc
lective service said the appeal seeks
to have Mr.. Kyser given occupational
deferment as a. necessary man in
essential work because of his activi-
ties in morale building. Further de-
tails were declined.
Appeals to the President are first
considered by board, which then
makes recommendations to Mr..
Roosevelt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
Army Drafts 500 Pigeons
For Signal Corps Work

Many of the finest racing pigeons
in the District and their mates were
in the Signal Corps today at Fort
Meade, Md, ready to be transported
to distant theaters Of war to breed
messengers who can get through
where semaphore, telegraph, tele-
phone and even wireless are impos-
sible.
About 500 pigeons were given to
the Army yesterday by breeders OF
the District and the vicinity in re-
spouse to the Army's call. The birds
were turned over at the office OF the
National Capital Concourse Associa-
ton, APT K street NV. w. P.
Thompson, president Of the associa-
ton said, And those pigeons were
no scrubs. I think each breeder
gave some of the finest pigeons they
owned. I was very proud Of the as
ISOLATION and, think, the Army was
very pleased"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
Fairfax County Issues
Book Appeal for Soldiers

Mrs. Fred w. Robinson of Hern-
don, chairman of the Victory book
drive in Fairfax County, appealed
today for contributions of books
from home libraries to provide read
ing for men in the armed forces.
Donations may be left at any of the
local libraries in the county or Red
Cross headquarters at Falls Church
Mrs. David L. Wing, chairman of
the local Red Cross chapter, an
nounces that Mrs. Edward F.. How
rey has been named chairman of
Volunteer Special Services and Mrs.
John Ferguson, captain of the Mo-
tor Corps. The Staff Assistance
Corps is being reorganized under
the direction of Mrs. Charles O.
Gibson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
War Workers Stranded
By Severe Weather
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MASSENA, N. Y, March 8.-Four
hundred weary war plant workers
snatched a few hours sleep last
night in the Massena Town Hall,
stranded by severe weather condi-
tons.
Several hundred other employees
of the Aluminium Corp. of Americas
Massena plant found temporary
shelter in homes in the village,
some sleeping In the factory itself
Still other Alec workers, living
outside the village, failed to reach
the plant, their places being filled
by employees who worked two
straight shifts of eight hours each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
By the Associated Press.


SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA,
March 7 DelayeO Capt. w. S.
Royalty of Peoria, Ill, navigator in
a Mitchell bomber which scored a
direct hit on a transport in the Bis
marck Sea battle that cost the
japanese % ships, said today one
explosion seemed to spread smoke
and flame lover half the ocean,
He saw five ships burning. All
were subsequently sunk.
Capt. Royalty wrote of his expert
ences for the Associated Press, call
ing the article "A birds-eye view of
victory"
During the approach on the con-
voy and during the attack I was
riding in the nose behind the bonn
barber, and after we left crawled
back through the tunnel and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
Unions Press Pay Demand

CHICAGO, March 8 (P.-Repre-
sentatives OF the five operating
brotherhoods sent formal request
to the National Railway Labor Panel
today for an emergency board hear
ling of their demands for a 80 per
cent wage increase. They suggested
sessions begin in Chicago about
April /. Attempts to mediate the
demands were abandoned by the
National Mediation Board Febru-
airy %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08
A. P. Tuffic Man Dies

SAN U1EGO, Calf, March 8 Dr.
Hugh p Wilkinson, SO, veteran AS
ISOLATED Press telegraph and tele-
type operator and for many years
traffic chief in the San Diego
| bureau, died yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-08

A LITTLE Want Ad" In The Star
brings a LOT Of results. MA. 5000.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
| Stock Leaders Extend
Gains Fractions
To 81 or More
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
,ociated Press Financial Writer.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Bullish
forces continued in control Of the
stock market today and, at the best,
leading rails, utilities and industrials
extended the recovery push by frac-
tions to or more points.
Activity, fairly brisk at the start,
tapered later and top quotations
were reduced In the majority of
cases near the close. Transfers were
around 10000 shares.
The better showing of trends
again was attributed partly to
technical factors having to do with
the November setback. Commit
ments were reinstated here and
there on the thought the rebound
from an 8-months' average low
could do a bit farther before meet
ing resistance.
The Near East Allied conferences
which most in Wall Street had
known about all along, served to
silence quick-peace takers to some
extent and offerings of armament
issues dried up appreciably. Year
end tax adjustments restrained
purchasers more because of the feel
ing there was lot Of this sort OF
selling yet to be absorbed. Pleas
ing dividends bolstered individual
issues.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
PIostics Held Best
For. Printing Plates
Nv the Annotated prs.s

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Use Of plas-
tics instead Of metal for printing
electrotyping and sterotyping after
the war was predicted to the Amer
lean Society Of Mechanical Engi-
neers today.
William r. McLain, Huntsville
Ala, said the plastic plates excel
metal in ability to carry an intact
ink film to the paper. The plastic
materials can be salvaged for refuse
and plates can be patched. In tests
Impressions from one plastic plate
have averaged zoe, 900 to $4,000 and
In one case ran more than 1000, 900
Evening star., 1943-12-02
N. Y. Curb Market


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Aro Equip n .25s !
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ltdendS are not In
Evening star., 1943-12-02
WASHINGTON Produce

From the War Food Administratio
Prices paid net fob. Washington.
Federal-etate graded eggs received from
8; grade A. large, So; y, 8. grade A, me
s.1as rras. A iarrs; sd,,, Szrb6 6sysTase; S.h;
son; o. 8. grade B. large, 4S-49; average.
4SA. Receipts, Government graded eggs
LIVE PoULTRY-Market frm. Receipts
liberal; Prices paid net fob. Washington
tpefmitted transportation charges included
srs. 2sK-30; fowl 26h-2s: roosteTs, -iS.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. Dec. 2 R.-Grains we're
by mill buying OF wheat which sent May
and July contracts to new seasonal peaks,
but liquidation developed toward the
erased
December contracts in wheat and rye.
in which trading concludes next Wednes-
day. bore the brunt of the selling. News
included announcement by the Commodity
Credit Corp. of the purchase of 100000
bushels OF Canadian wheat for delivery
ture statement that the feed grain situa-
tion will remain tight in practically all
Wheat closed "a lower to !. higher,
December, S1.65la; oats were u lower to
y higher. December, .7s: rye was 1s-1A
was .. lower to i higher, December, h,
Evening star., 1943-12-02
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. Dec. 2 R.-Cotton ad.
half the advance by midafternoon today
Outcome Of the Cairo conference moder.
ated the recent early peace psychology and
brought a replacement demand from com.
mission houses and trade price fixing.
A scarcity OF offerings aided the upturr
but after the March delivery reached
more in evidence
Late afternoon values were 80 to sc
cents bale higher. December, 1925;
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Apprcximate Sales Today.

Apbf0ximate Sales Today
1900 am 199 $40 1900 Noon $50 oeo
100 pm A54 300 2:00pm $50 $50
g., tuntt % Of trading. 10 shares; sales printed
N Iuil In bankruptcy or roceivership or
being reoreanized under Bankruptcy Act
Or securities assumed BY such companies
Rates or dividends In the foregoing table
quarterly or emiannuai declaration IN.
:css otherwise noted special or extra divi
oends are not included xd Ex dividend
or sock e Paid last wear fPaysb,e In
sotck. Declared or paid SO far this year
p rayanle IN Canadian funds Z Accumu.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
New York Bank Stocks

Every time you Lick = War savings
stamp you help lick the Axis.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
For. Bonds

= "1ef' = U " t1e1f ND ooI ~IA 70
Krueger Br .45g 6lz' Rio del 6 II $50 52h
Rates Of dividends in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on the last
quarterly or semi-annual declaration Un-
less otherwise noted, special or extra div
idends are not included. Also extra or
extras: Cash or stock. e Paid last year
Payable in stock. g Declared or paid so
far this year. b Payable in Canadian funds.
Accumulated dividends paid or declared
this year. wv With warrants. Nv Without
EarrantS
Evening star., 1943-12-02

No wheat. Corn, new sample yellow
S0-S1. Oats, No. 9 white. sOh-s2h; sam
pie Grade white. .7324; No. special red,
Barley. maltin.. !. .25-1 40, nominal hard,
| .20-1 "a, nominal feed, 1.12-1 1S NOM
inal. Field seed, per 100 pounds, timothy,
5.75-6.Q0. nominal; red top. 1901 s. 90.
nominal: red clover, 81 so, nominal sweet
clover, 1890. nominal
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Washington Exchange

SALES.
Washington Gas S. pfd.-1o at LOG, 10 at
106, 5 at 106.
Lanston Monotyps- at 3s.
Washington Gas SIS pfd,-l5 ?. 100. s
at 106
National SAVINGS & Trust Col at 2O5.
Evening star., 1943-12-02

Place q stamp in that vacant
space In your War savings stamu
book; 1t will help put the Axis on
the spot.
Evening star., 1943-12-02
New York Produce

NEW YORK. Dec. 2 R,.-Eggs, 1875:
arm. Prices UNCHANGED.
Butter. 1887: firm; Prices unchanged
Cheese. 1895: nominal. no quotations.
Evening star., 1943-12-02

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Evening star., 1943-12-02
BONDS
PUBLIC UTILITY.
STOCKS

Ter r g. w Cp lst 4l4s 194S 103h
Evening star., 1943-12-02
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Dec. 2 [P,.-Diyidends de.
clared.
Evening star., 1943-05-24

going to sit back and wait for any
forced savings plan in order to
finance this most expensive war in
all history He added, however:
The bulk of the money which we
must get in 1e43 from individuals
must come from those people earn
ing less than $4,000 net. The aver
age worker-the shipyard worker,
the machinist. the woman war
worker, the white collar employee
these will have seven -eighths of the
current income after taxes.
AS our drives continue more and
more Of our money will have to
come from these people, until every
person receiving income above the
barest subsistence level will have to
pitch in"
The Secretary set the Treasury's S
financial needs at 100000, 900 900
this year of which S25, 1000, 900 900
has already been obtained by bor-
rowing and 100000 100000 is antici-
pated from tax revenues.
That leaves s45,0OO,000, that
Will have to be raised, some of it
through new taxes. the rest of it
through the sale of War Bonds"
he said.
Il am confident the American peo-
pie will continue to oversubscribe
our war loans and make the VOL
untary way work. That will be one
OF the best ways we have of showing
the Axis how wrong they were when
they said that the American people
could not stand up in crisis, that
our Democratic ways would cola pse
when the going got tough
Evening star., 1943-05-24
Funeral for Mrs. Taft
To Be Held Tomorrow

Funeral services for Mrs. William
Howard Taft, 81, widow Of the former
President and Chief Justice, will be
held at pm. tomorrow at st. Johns
Episcopal Church. She will be
buried in Arlington National Gene
terry beside her husband.
Mrs. Taft. who made her home at
22l5 Wyoming avenue NV, died
Saturday. Surviving Mrs. Taft are
two sons. Senator Robert H. Taft,
Republican. of Ohio and Charles P
Taft. director of Community War
Services of the Federal Security
Agency; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Taft
Manning, professor of history at
Bryn Mawr College, two sisters, Mrs
H. F.. Lippit of Providence. r. l., and
Miss Maria Heron Of Cincinnati,
and a brother, John w. Heron, also
of Cincinnati.
Evening star., 1943-05-24

/ some lighter explosives on the air
field and installations of the harbor
area, starting a large fire.
Three Separate Formations.
The Lightning raid on Sardinia
was carried out by three separate
formations which spread havoc
with bombs and cannon fire.
A 200-foot coaster was hit by one
bomb and three smaller boats were
sunk at Carloforte harbor, at the
southwest corner of the island.
Other bombs landed in the dock
| area.
Two islands bounding Carloforte
harbor were attacked After sprink-
ling their bombs in the harbor
area. Lightnings shot up a factory
building on Piana Island and bar
racks, gun emplacement and radio
office Of San Pietro Island, on
which the town of Carloforte is
situated
A number of bombs landed among
buildings in the center of the target
area when the Lightnings raided an
important zinc works at Iglesias. on
Sardinia 18 miles northeast of Car
loforte.
Yesterdays headquarters COM
munique, describing action as far
back as Friday night against Italian
and Sicilian airfields, ferry ter
mlnals, power stations and other
military targets, announced II more
Axis planes were destroyed Saturday
on the ground and in the air.
Borizzo Airfield Bombed.
Saturdays big raid was the Amer
ican Flying Fortress attack on the
Borlzzo airfleld, in Northwestern
Sicily, where six enemy fighters out
OF at least so which attempted in
Perception were shot down. Planes,
barracks and a munitions store were
hit on the ground.
A six-motored Merseburg 1928
transport was included in the bag.
1t was caught by lone Raj patrol
plane north of Sicily.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in q
reply to a message from Marshal
A. M. Vassilevsky, Russian Army
chief OF staff, congratulating him on
the success of the Tunisian battle,
said the Axis lost 1900 planes in
the campaign.
We hope the quarter Of million
prisoners that surrendered In the
final phase of the Tunisian fighting.
and the 1900 Axis planes destroyed
here during this campaign have
definitely weakened Hitler's band of
brigands," Eisenhower wrote.
Saturdays Borizzo raid followed
Friday night sweeps by Allied flyers
against airdromes at Celia, Ponte
Olivio. Borizzo, Castelvetrano. Sci
acca and Milo in Sicily; the Messina
ferry terminal in Eastern Sicily,
areas in Southern Italy. enemy
shipping in the Aegean Sea. a radio
station in Eastern Sicily. and
factories and railways in Sicily.
Many large fires were started, it
was announced
Evening star., 1943-05-24
Floods
Continued From First Page J

Continued From First Page)
Ing $4,000 additional acres to the
flooded land in that area.
Several houses were swept away by
onrushing waters when the Grand
Tower drainage district levee on the
Illinois side broke in two places.
Already more than 100000 persons
are homeless and more than a mil
lion and third acres flooded in
the affected six-State area where
the Coast Guard. Army, State
Militia. Red Cross and representa-
tives of other relief and health
agencies were on 24-hour duty.
Illinois River Rising.
The Illinois River started rising
again at Beardstown yesterday,
reaching 288 feet at pm, where
It stood for several hours Saturday
night before dropping fractionally
when series of levees in Cass
County broke. Red Cross officials
estimated that 3,700 Beardstown
citizens had been moved. most of
them to Jacksonville, Virginia and
Springfield.
Officials believed the danger ap-
parently was past at Vincennes, Ind
which was in the path of back
waters which seeped through a
broken levee on the Wabash River
y miles south Of the city The back
waters had covered $1,000 acres of
rich Knox County farm lands, many
Of them already planted with corn
The lower Wabash began receeding
last night but workers still rein
forced some earth and sand levees
Rivers in Oklahoma generally
were slowly falling The Arkansas
River at Muskogee Wes receding at
the rate of one-ffth inch an hour
Fed and housed at Camp Gruber
since the water drove them out,
1000 residents Of Fort Gibson re-
turned to their homes late yester-
day.
City Manager Roger Tucker at
Muskogee announced the city, with
out water service since Friday, would
be permitted to draw from its system
during a tWo-hour experimental
period today, the results determining
when normal service would be re-
sumed
Evening star., 1943-05-24
Many Variety Stores
Reported Violating
0PA Regulations
House Group Is Told
Storekeepers Cannot Keep
Track of Endless Orders

Between As and IS per cent of the
Nations 10000 variety stores are
violating one or more of OPA's
orders or amendments. the House
Small Business Committee was told
today.
The estimate came from Paul H.
Nystrom, president of the Limited
Price Variety Stores Association,
which represents approximately $500
small stores.
Most of the violations, the witness
told the committee, are wholly in
nocent' because storekeepers are
unable 10 keep abreast of OPA reg
ulations.
The OPA has issued 50 manv
orders to date it is physically and
humanity impossible for the small
storekeeper to keep track of them"
Mr.. Nystrom declared.
He said that during the last year
OPA issued 674 orders affecting va
rlety store operators, but of these
tne OPA consulted with trade Off
Gals in only eight cases.
variety stores are the largest out
let for circular knit hose, vet no one
IN the trade was consulted" he de-
clared
Asserting that small retailers were
taking the rap in price controls, "
MI. Nystrom told the committee
there was growing belief that the
OPA is working on a program to
change our form of business" He
added that the OPA. in striving to
keep prices down, was narrowing
price margins dangerously.
The witness recommended that the
OPA make an effort to get more
men Tor its staff who know the re-
tail trade" He urged the committee
to get the OPA to "slow up" the
Issuance Of new orders as a "brea tn
ing SPELL leading to a codifcation
OF all existing regulations.
Mr.. Nystrom also said that the
OPA did not allow sufficient time
between the issuance of an order
and its effective date.
Evening star., 1943-05-24
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monts with precision which left
waste and Wreckage in their wake.
High lights of the Islands day.
% P-40 Warhaws attacked coastal
gun emplacements.
~ B-25 Mitchells dumped their
loads Of explosives on the docks
with an accuracy officially described
as excellent. Bombs hit a medium
sized supply ship and four small
craft, one Of which exploded. Ware
houses on the south side of the
harbor were set afire.
go B-26 .Marauders and bonn
carrying Warhaws struck at the air
field, destroying buildings, pitting
the dispersal area and scoring hits
on both sides of the bivouac area,
(4-The RATS two-engined
Wellingtons took up the work in
the star-studded night, dropping
two-ton demolition bombs and