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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-21
5000 Attend Preview
OF Corcoran'5 18th
Biennial Exhibition
Mrs. Roosevelt Awards
Prizes in Absence
Of Trustees Head

About 5000 specially invited guests
including Mrs. Roosevelt and Sec
rotary of the Navy Knox, crowded
into the Corcoran Gallery of Ar
yesterday afternoon for a private
showing of the 264 pictures in the
gallerys 18th biennial exhibition of
contemporary American Oil paint
ings.
The exhibition will be open to the
public from 2 to 6 o'clock this after
noon and daily thereafter until
May 2.
Government officials and civic
leaders joined with artists and
educators to seek out the four pic
lures chosen by the Committee of
Selection for the $4,000 in awards
offered in the exhibition from TIC
w. A. Clark fund.
Due to the absence of the presi-
dent OF the Corcoran Board of
Trustees, George E. Hamilton. Mrs.
Roosevelt presented the medals to
winning artists. After she had Wis
tied the nine galleries on the sec
ond floor with Gallery Director C.
Powell Minnigerode, Mrs. Roose-
welt went to his Office to award the
medals in quick private ceremony.
Accompanying Mrs. Roosevelt on her
tour was the Presidents niece, Miss
Mara di Zoppola.
Soyer and Picken There.
Only the third and fourth prize
winners, Raphael Soyer and George
Picken of New York, were able to
attend the showing to receive prizes.
Henry Mattson Of Woodstock, N. Y,
won the Corcoran gold medal and
$4,000 for his Rocks" Aaron Boh-
rod of New York won the Corcoran
silver medal and $500 for his
Wilmington Evening""
That's very good,' exclaimed Mrs.
Roosevelt when she saw Mr.. Soyer's
picture of the interior of the wait
ing room the new One Hundred and
Twenty-f1fth street station in New
York City. Mr.. Soyer, who won
the Corcoran bronze medal and ST.
600 for the picture, said he had
gotten the Idea Tor 1t as he waited
in the station to commute from
New York to his home up the Hud-
son.
His picture and the ether three
prize winning pictures, as well as
three others shown, were purchased
early last week for the gallery's
permanent collection. This is the
first time in the 36-year history of
the exhibition that all four prize
winners have been purchased by
the gallery, the director said.
Il believe the public will share
the opinion of myself and of many
others in the art world that the
quality and merit of this exhibit
ton are amcng the highest We have
ever had" Mr. Minnigerode declared
Mr.. Picken's Convoy" won the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-21
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G., MARCH q, 1943
Allied bombers Hit
Two japanese Ships
Off New Guinea
Third Vessel Heading
For RobouI With
Escort Attacked

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Sunday, March
21.-Allied bombers, continuing
their incessant attacks on Japa-
nese positions above Australia.
scored hits on two ships off
Northwest New Guinea yester-
day, and attacked a third vessel
which was moving under a small
naval escort toward Rabaul,
New Britain
These successes were announced
in the noon communique, while other
reports indicated there might have
been a second submarine in Lac
Harbor Friday when Allied bombers
destroyed one U-boat there. There
was no report, however, that this
second submarine was struck. The
submarine that was sunk was of
large size. with barges clustered
about it to take its cargo ashore.
10,G00-Ton Vessel Hit.
In Saturdays action, BIS
Mitchell bomber scored a direct hit
on a l0,OOO-ton merchantmen about
Is miles east of Cape Vandenbosch
in Dutch New Guinea, and followed
it up with vicious strafing attack
Australian-manned Hudsons at
tackled nearby Kaimana from low
altitude, starting a fire on the deck
Of a merchantmen of undisclosed
size.
A Liberator on reconnaissance
found small group of vessels NOV
ing of the Gazelle Peninsula toward
Rabaul, picked out 6,000-ton ship
and attacked it, but the results we're
not observed.
Madang, facing Astrolabe Bay on
the north coast Of New Guinea
above Lac, was visited by a heavy
bomber which attacked japanese in
stallations on nearby Beliao Island
Fires Started Among Buildings.
Below there at FinSchafen, New
Guinea. on the Huon Peninsula sc
miles from Lac, fires were started
among buildings by heavy bombers
After dusk Saturday, heavy Allied
Bombers roared over the town OF
Amboina on the island of Amboins
some 600 miles north of Darwin
Australia, dropping 500-pound bomb.
and incendiaries, but clouds pre-
vented observation of results
Amboina was big Dutch naval
base seized by the japanese.
| Southeast of Amboina in the Kai
Islands, Allied planes swept in two
waves over Langgoer which has been
receiving increasing attention from
Gen. Douglas Macarthur air arm
The medium bombers scored direct
hits, then stated the village, of Faar
on their way back to base.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-21
American Bombers Blast
Kisko Twice More

BY the Associated Press.
Army bombers of the Aleutians
command twice bombed the Japa-
neSe garrison on Kiska Thursday,
the Navy reported yesterday.
These raids, the 18th and 18th,
this month, were carried out by
Liberator heavy and Mitchell
medium bombers protected by
Lightning fighter escorts All re-
turned, results were not observed.
The communique also reported
that In the South Pacific force of
Wildcat fighters strsfed Japanese
positions at Munda on New Georgia
Island in the Central Solomons
Saturday (Solomons time) and all
planes returned.
There was no mention of enemy
resistance to the American aerial
assaults in either the North or
South Pacific.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-21

Cedar Grove Church Supper
The men of Salem Church, Cedar
Grove, Md, will sponsor a chicken
and waffle supper from to pm.
Wednesday at the church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-21
DC. Will Accept S28,125
For Child Care Centers

The Commissioners are expected
to make formal acceptance tomor-
row of the Lanham Act grant of
s28,l25 to the District for three
child care centers and nursery
schools
The centers will be located in the
200 block of D street Sc. Applica-
tons for 20 other centers and nurs-
cries are pending at the Federal
Works Agency for approval. The
War Production Board is expected
TO approve this week certain con-
struction materials needed for
renovation at the Eoutheast project
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-21
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PocKETBooK, with valuable papers and
drivers permit. Sat. night. Call d. 1868,
ask for MAJ. Witchel.
PocKETBooK. with between s47 and $50,
reward CT. 37l3.
PURSE, blue. in Jellen's, containing A gas
book and war ration books Nos. and :,
Finder keep money. return contents by mail.
RATION BOOK NO. /, issued to Ruth Avis
Stevens 2616 39th st. NV. Call WO 1864
RATION BOOK No J, issued to Eva Beale
MiddIeburg,. Va; lost in Nov, in District
RATION BOOK, ! and q issued to John
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RING. mans, heavy gold, onyx stone with
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Pentaeon washroom Generous reward.
Call Jackson 2010-R. evenings. u:
SCCTTIE. black. male pet named "Hooty,"
Nesbitt Elmore RE 5000 Ext. 1879. or
return to 40 18th st. New Alexandria
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Ind st, Arlington. va. -
SUGAR RATION BOOKS No. l. issued to
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Messineo. Capitol Heights 500 oI'
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WAR RATION BOOK NO, p. issued TO
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Missouri Ordway 6175.
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TWO T" RATION BOOKS. No. 100000
! F, No 469Oo2 EFF. belonging TO
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paid If returned to Melvin HERMAN. Dia-
S25 REWARD for return OF TORTOISE
! SHELL POCKET COMB. with ornaments OF
| CHICKEN, in DIAMONDS, lost in Febru-
airy Telephone National 3575.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-21
Fewer Attend Picnic

LOS ANGELES (P).-The an
nual Iowa picnic in Lincoln Park
drew only $4,000 this year-against
the usual 10000 Transportation
curtailment and war plant employ
ment did it. However, there was
free coffee, with cream and sugar
and no questions asked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-21

gren, Marjorie Phillips, Ralph v.
Robinson, Dean Stambaugh, Everett
Warner, Kenneth Stubs, Nan Wat
son, Eugen WeisZ, Andrea Pietro
Zerega and Mr.. Lahey.
Helena Hall ana Frances Foote
qualified from Alexandria, Va, and
Luella Buros from Arlington, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-21

PIN. Cameo. encircled with pearls, IN 81
xntimental value. Reward. Du. 1882.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-02
y. S. Still To
Be Best Fed

Washington, Aug. 2-(UP)-The
American people will continue to
be the best fed in the world.
The first official announcement
of the Bureau of Agr. tural Eco
Monies on the 1943 food outlook I'M
derscored that oft-repeated state
ment of food officials by revealing
that total food production in 1913
will be four per cent higher than
in 1912 which was a record year.
The only "if' In the Bae state
ment was that its estimate was
contingent upon average weather
for the rest of the year and con-
tinuation of the present trend in
record livestock production-both
of which are likely.
Livestock production is the key to
the total food outlook, and Bae fig
ures confirmed war food administra
ton predictions Of last week that
the current meat shortage will end
soon with a flood of beef, lamb and
pork going to market. 1t Is meat
production that will increase total
food production above last years
figures.
Food crops, even though acreage
will exceed 1912 by three per cent,
larger than the 1858 average.
The Agricultural Bureau OF Eco
Monies reported that compared with
1912, civilians in 1943 would get
more per capita of pork, eggs, chick
ents, fluid milk, fats and oils, fresh
citrus fruits, canned juices, dried
fruits, potatoes and dry edible
beans. They will get less Def and
veal lamb and mutton, fish, most
dairy products other than fluid
milk, fresh and canned vegetables
sugr, rice, tea and cocoa.
From a nutritional standpoint,
the bureau said, the civilian per ca
pita supply will compare favorably
with the average for 1858 with
high quantities of protein, minerals
and vitamin A; calories in 1943 Will
will be about the sam cas- those
average years.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-02
Ban Drastic
Raid Tests

Boston, Aug. 2 - U.P0 - Com
menting on New York's scheduled
daring" air raid test, New Eng
land civilian defense officials said
today that housekeeping" test
had been tried here but that SUISSE
quent tests were forbidden because
of the great danger to civilians.
Civilian defense officials said that
when the civilian air patrol first
participated In simulated enemy
raids, red, blue and yellow paper
bags filled with flour were dropped
as bombs However, the first fighter
command ruled that any further
flour-bomb tests were out because
of the possibility of injury to CIV
ilians.
Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia
told New Workers yesterday they
might soon expect a most trying
and difficult air raid drill' and said
that civilians on the streets must
take shelter Immediately the warn
ing sounded. He said some enemy
bombers might get through defense
lines and drop their eggs"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-02
Reds Take
More owns
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Staff Correspondent

OIlltCu IACoS otdAA NVAACSPoNSAAs
Moscow, Aug. 2. (UP)-Red
Armies smashed through towns only
10 miles north and south Of Orel
today and the Communist organ
Pravda reported that the German
army has been so decimated that
only Is per cent of its remaining
first-line troops in Russia are ma
tive Germans.
Poles, Czechs, Austrians, and
nationals of other occupied nations
comprise three quarters Of the
troops facing the Russians, Pravda
said.
Paslov, 10 miles northeast Of Orel,
and Nikulino, 10 miles south OF
Orel, were among the more than
100 towns and cillages overrun in
convergin drives from the north,
east and south on Orel, hinge of
the southern and central fronts,
yesterday.
Advances ranged from five to IL
miles all around the hedgehog de-
tense perimeter of Orel the Soviet
high command said.
The Germans were putting up
particularly strong resistance south
of Orel in an attempt to keep the
jaw of the Soviet pincers from clos
ing and encircling them.
Intense fighting also was raging
southwest of Vorochilovgrad in the
Donets basin, where the Germans
were attempting desperately, but so
far futilely, to dislodge the Red
Army from newly won bridgeheads
on the west bank of the Mus river
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-02
Allies Capture
Key Cities In
Northern Tip
BY VERGIL PINKLEY
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Aug. q
(UP)-Amercan forces smashing through Axis de.
lenses in northern Sicily have captured the coastal
port of San Stafano and the town of Mistretta SIX
miles to the SOUTH it was announced today, while
Allied planes have renewed block buster attacks on
Naples and southern Italy
The new American advance toward the Messina
tip of Sicily gave the 9TH Army possession OF the i'm
portant north-south road from San Stefano through
Mstretta and the Caronian Mountains, to Nicosia.
Thus the last Axis link with central Sicily from the
coastal road had been broken.
The British Eighth Army, which had been hammerlng
at the Axis Catana defenses the east coast has beaten
back strong enemy counterattack an Allied commune
que reported.
Allied capture of an additional 10000 Axis prisoners
about half of whom GermanS-alSO an
nounced This brought the number of prisoners taken
by the Allies during the Sclan campaign SO lar TO near
100000.
Steady Allied progress was reported on all sectors
of the line drawn in a semi-circe around Mount Etna
Canadian troops fighting to the south OF the Americans
were said to be pushing forward despite heavy opposition
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-02
F7otsam And Jetsan1 On
The Turning Tides OF War

drifting where the shells hit. 1t
looks like a smudge from grass fires
The bridge you stroll over Is an
occasional target for German guns
There are shell holes around here
and there. The farm houses in the
vicinity are smashed as If by earth
quakes.
That Is the look of the battlefield
peaceful and rural except for the
smashed houses. You get used to the
noise. The banging behind you and
the screaming shells overhead seem
impersonal. The armies are invisible
Dead Horse Corner
But there is plenty of the stink OF
battle. One sharp bend in the road
nearby is called. most appropriate
~, Dead Horse Corner and you know
why when you Whit the breeze
There was sharp fighting here re-
Gently and the evidences remain
Graves are here and there, and
rough crosses, some. with helmets
CONTINUED on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-02
Jops Suffer
Big Losses
BY BRYDON TAVES
United Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific, Aug. 2(UP)-Gen. Douglas
MacArthurs southern Pacific often
sive, setting a new high for Allied
combings in the area, cost the Jap
anese record losses its first month,
a compilation showed today, with %
warships sunk, or damaged adm 436
or more planes destroyed.
The official report came while
ground and air action on the two
main points of the area-at Munda
on New Georgia Island in the CEN
trail Solomons and on the New
Guinea northeast coast-apparently
entered a comparative lull.
Air attacks in the New Georgia
area were hampered by adverse
weather but medium force of
Dauntless and Avenger bomberS with
a fighter escort dropped 81 tons of
bombs on Munda yesterday, explod-
ing an ammunition dump and ST.
lencinb several gun positions.
A communique did not refer to
ground action at Munda, where
American soldiers and marines are
beseiging the enemy garrison, but it
said that on New Guinea Allied
troops had seized considerable booty
and found deeply-laid entrench-
ments on Vickefs machine-gun
ridge in the Bobdubi area near Sa-
lamaua.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-02
Lin Sen Dies
In Chunkinq

Chungking, Aug. 2 - (U.PJ -
Lin Sen, China's 79-year-old pres
ident, died last night confident that
nothing can stand in the way Of
victory" for his nation.
Lin, veteran of the Chinese
revolution and a co-worker with DR..
Sun Yat-Sen, father of the Chinese
Republic, expressed his ambitions
for China and for future family
of nations, in a final testament,
made public today. He has been
succeeded by Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek, who was named actAng
president Of China by the standing
committee of the central executive
group.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-02

Six Dead, Many Injured I'm Harlem Riot
Wars Turning Point
Believed Reached

grad, denying the Nazis the use of
Hamburg's war facilities while en-
gaging huge land forces the size
of which is indicated by estimates
that Ruhr anti-aircraft personnel
approximate 100000 men.
Heavy Toll of Planes
1t also has been pointed out that
the weeks heavy air bombardment
cost the American air force 81 bomb
ers and the Royal Air force, SO.
Those are large figures. There Ger
tainly have been times in the past
when such losses would nearly have
wiped out the current electives
of both air forces. But their COM
manders have made clear they are
not spending the forces faster than
the replacement rate.
From this it sh ould not be auto
matically decided that the Allied re-
placement rate approximates 200 a
week because 1t must be- remembered
that for some weeks the weather
washes out operations.
It should not be forgotten that
the United States air force in this
theater by no means has reached
peak strength What lies ahead can
be suggested by the very high prior
ity given the construction of addi-
tional U. S. airfields in Britain.
Here are some excerpts from the
British press indicating the sort of
opinion now being advanced on the
status of the war:
The Observer - Speaking in
strictly military terms this is the
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-02
WAACs To Be WACs.
Start Troinine Soon

Washington, Aug. 2 (UP) - The
WAACS will begin to become WACS
this week.
The War Department announced
today that swearing in of WAACS,
who will abandon the AZ iary'
in their title to become tn Vom-
ems Army Corps, will begin v Ines
day at the first WAC TN ming
center at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
WAC Director Oveta Culp Hobby
who has already become full WAC
with regular army rank OF Colonel,
will administer the oath to the girls
in uniform at Des Moines. Later In
the week, the oath will be given to
WAACS at Daytona Beach, Fla,
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, and Fort
Devens, Mass. Swearing in OF COM
panies in the field will be marked by
special ceremonies.
Officers will not take the oath
until Sept. l.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-02
BY HARRISON SALISBURY
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
London, Aug. 2-(UP>-The Gem
eral opinion in London today Is that
three events of the past Sc. cn :, =,
marked the turning point of the war
There Is substantial variance of
opinion both in British and Ameri-
can quarters as to how long it will
be before Germany is defeated.
The three events are the italian
crack-up, the record-breaking Allied
Air offensive and detailed, corrob-
orative reports from air combat
crews that the Luftwaffe strength
in western Europe is beginning to
wane.
The biggest question in the situa-
ton is how rapidly the Allies can
cash in on their unique opportunity
for putting Germany under maxi
mum military pressure. Three ma
jor actions are in progress-Allied
operations against Italy, Russian
operations wearing down the Ger
mans on the eastern front and the
western European air offensive.
Many eXpertS-sometimeS accused
of ver-enthusiasm - regard the
present Anglo-American air opera
tons as equaling a major land bat
tie in the strain imposed upon Nazi
resources.
These experts believe the aerial
attacks on Hamburg have been as
destructive, if not more so, as land
assault would have been. They be-
lieve such assaults may well be COM
pared with the seige such as the
Germans imposed against Lenin-