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Evening star., 1943-12-14
Eden Predicts Quicker Victory
As Result of Teherun Meeting
Secretary Tells Commons Britain Must
Assume Full Share in Far Eastern War

Premier Stain and Mr.. Churchill
Mr. Eden declared.
Every plan is now agreed upon
The timing is now agreed upon, and
in due course the decisions of
Teheran will be unrolled on the field
of battle"
THE military mission agreed in
Cairo" at the British American
Chinese meeting ION future military
operations against Japan"
Mr.. Eden termed Japan as much
a menacetto Britain as to the United
States and China, and said Britain
still was "a principal in the Fat
Eastern war" because ito destroy
Germany and then make compro-
mise peace with Japan would only
SOW the seeds of a third world war
Other highlights of the Foreign
Secretary's report:
Turkey: The conference with
President Ismet Inonu gave good
hopes" for sound basis for future
cooperation between ourselves
Soviet Russia, America and Tur-
(See EDEN, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Man Held in $1,000 Bond
In NyIon Stockinq Sale

Charged with selling nylon hose
at price above the OPA ceiling,
Jack Feif.er. 36, of the 1900 block
of Eighteenth street NV, was held
in $1,000 bond in Municipal Court
today
Judge Almond Scott set January
3 for jury trial
According to Pearl D. Pythian Of
the Women's Bureau, Feiffer sold
her pair Of stockings for $3.50.
The ceiling price on that grade Of
hose is $185.
Assistant United States Attorney
Jack Diamond asked for the heavy
bail because, he said, police had
found 40 pairs of nylon stockings in
Feiffer's home.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Wreck Blocks B. & O.
At Baltimore; One Hurt

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. l4.-A derailed
freight blocked the main Washing
ton York lines of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad at Camden Station
in Baltimore today and prevented
clearance of Westbound trains as
we'll.
The railroad said the first engine
Of double header freight. made up
of ST cars, was derailed as it left
the tunnel mouth in Camden Sta
ton, turned crosswise and blocked
both main lines, derailing the sec
ond locomotive and one car.
fireman, D. F. Adams of 2607
Franklin street NE, Washington.
was slightly hurt.
B. & o. trains were rerouted over
the Pennsylvania tracks.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Congress heard from War Food
Administrator Marvin Jones to-
day that while there will be a
need for more food than we can
produce" next year, there is no
serious shortage in sight if pro-
duction goals are met.
Those goals, Mr.. Jones testified
during hearings on a farm labor
supply bill reported to the House
by the Appropriations Committee,
call for an all-out effort in 1914 to
boost by per cent the record pro-
duction of 1943, which was 80 per
cent more than in the 1885, 1889 base
period.
Mr.. Jones appeared in support of
new funds to finance the importa-
ton of foreign workers and the
recruitment of domestic help to as
sist in planting and harvesting a
bumper crop.
Since April, 1910, he said, some
100000 workers have left the
farms, many of them young men
who went into the armed forces or
into war plants.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Chinese Writer Gave Reuters
Scoop on Pur|ey, London Saws

When he landed in Cairo Mr.. Chao
heard from every side that the con-
ference was in progress and saw
visible evidences of it. He was not
accredited to the Cairo conference
and was under no obligations as to
information he picked up as a
traveller.
The next stop of the plane was
Lisbon, where the Chinese party
remained from November 20 to De-
cember 2. When he arrived there,
Mr.. Chao called on Douglas Brown,
Reuters Lisbon correspondent, and
told him what he had seen and
heard of the Cairo meeting. Mr..
Brown filed the story to London.
(The Reuters dispatch, which
(See CAIRO, Page A.l6.)
Evening star., 1943-12-14
.Tie-up Of Oil Price
Boost and Subsidies
Sought in Senate
Increase Of IS Cents
A BorreI Approved
In House, III to 81
BY the Associated Press.


The administrations anti
imitation dikes sprang another
leak today as legislation to force
an increase in crude oil prices
moved from House to Senate.
Senator Thomas. Democrat, OF
Oklahoma announced he would seek
to add the measure to antifood sub
sidy legislation, also passed by the
House and awaiting Senate action
unless the Office of Price Admins
tration acts Immediately to boost
petroleum prices by at least IS cents
a barrel, in line with the House
mandate.
Both measures have been de.
nounced by administration leaders
as inflationary.
The oil bill sailed through the
House late yesterday, I'll to 80. II
would direct the OPA to order ar
immediate 35-cent price rise, to bt
followed by ceiling adjustments ir
various fields as high as IA cents 9
barrel The average price on 9
Nation wide basis now is about $1.1s
barrel.
Control Shift Rejected.
Representative Disney, Democrat
of Oklahoma, its sponsor, argued
higher petroleum prices are neces-
sary to encourage oil exploration
and production. The House struck
out a provision which would have
shifted oil price control from the
OPA to Secretary of Interior Ickes
who advocates higher ceilings. With
out the increase, which OPA ano
the director of economic stabiliza
ton have rejected, proponents ar
gued there would be a serious oil
shortage.
: Opponents held that it would tear
fooa crrncrDYrc
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Senators Vote
To Keep | Pct.
Security Tax
Committee. Also
Approves Labor
Financial Reports
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Senate Finance Commit
tee voted today to freeze social
security taxes through 1914 at
the present rate of l per cent
each on employers and employees.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican,
Of Michigan, who twice before has
succeeded in blocking an automatic
doubling Of the rate, led today's
movement. Present reserves, he de-
clared, are far larger than are re-
quired by law
In other important actions the
committee:
l. Ratified, by vote of II to 10,
the House decision to require labor
unions and other nonprofit organi-
cations to file informationalSfina
cial returns.
2. Approved an increase in the ex-
cess profits tax rate on corporations,
from 80 to 95 per cent.
8. Retained the present 80 per cent
overall ceiling with respect to cor
porate normal, surtax and excess
profits taxes.
The committee also was scheduled
to take up today House-approved
recommendation to tie the so-called
victory tax" into the regular income
tax and thus put 100000 more tax-
payers on the internal revenue coll
| lector's books.
The House bill would wipe out
the victory tax as such and in its
stead would lower regular income
tax exemptions enough to reach
persons paying the victory tax but
not the regular income levy.
The House plan drew sharp fire
from the Treasury Department,
which denounced it as mountain
of confusion to get a mole hill OF
revenue"
Chairman George said the Finance
Committee hoped to complete its
work on the revenue bill today, a
day ahead Of schedule, and get it
onto the Senate floor before the
week end. This would make it
possible to pass the measure before
the coming holiday recess.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Civilian Butter Supply
To Be Unchanged in IA
Ey The Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-THE Ameri-
can civilian share of butter probably
will continue to be about a pound a
person each month in 1914, Tom G..
Stitts. chief of the War Food Ad-
ministration's dairy and poultry
branch, told members of the Amer
ican Butter Institute today.
Mr.. Stitts outlined the probable
butter production and ALLEGATION for
next year, saying: The official
ALLEGATIONS for the calendar year
1914 aren't completed yet, but can
give you few preliminary estimates.
Well probably send the Russians
about the same quantity of butter
as will be shipped this year We are
not supplying the British with but
ter, but Australia and New Zealand
are providing our armed forces with
about 100000 pounds a year on a
reverse lease-lend basis
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Kirk Sees Mass Supply
Of PenicilIin in 6 Months
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. l4.-Penicillin
now is in mas production and will
be available in adequate supplies
for military and civilian needs with
in the next six months" says Mai.
Gen. Norman T. Kirk, Army surgeon
general.
He told the American Pharma-
ceutical Manufacturers Association
yesterday that "penicillin is rapidly
and surely coming out of the class
OF rare drugs, with production
growing by leaps and bounds"
Gen. Kirk hailed the Infection
killing drug as one of the three
heroes" Of this war. He said the
other two. were blood plasma and
the sulfa drugs.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Blast Kills Worker
On Carrier 5hangri-La
Another Badly Hurt in
Accident at Norfolk
BY the Associated Press

by tne Assoclat Press.
NORFOLK. Va. Dec. 14.-An ex-
plosion aboard the uncompleted
plane carrier Shangri-La today at
the Norfolk Navy Yard cost the life
OF one man and resulted in critical
injuries to a second.
Lewis Perry White, 22-year-old
shipyard worker, died of suf1ocation
and second-degree burns in a COM
partment in the ships false bottom
No home address was available.
Jesse Haralson, 27 was removed
to the Marine Hospital with second
and third degree burns on his body
from the waist to his head.
Navy yard public relations officers
reported the accident occurred while
the two were welding. Alone at the
time, they are believed to have been
burned when sparks from their
Welding torches ignited an accumu-
lation of gases.
There was no damage to the shin
according to the official announce
ment,
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Cherkasy Taken
ByDriiviing Reds,
Stain Reveals
Bottle Tide Turns
Against Nozis
In Kiev Bulge
Ey the Associated Press.

LONDON, Dec. 14.-Cherkasy
last remaining German strong
hold on the middle Dnieper Riv-
er between Kremenchug and
Kiev. fell today to the charging
Red Army.
Marshal Joseph Stain an
nounced the victory in an order of
the day broadcast by the Moscow
radio.
The new Soviet triumph of arms
came as Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's lst
Ukrainian Army turned the die
against Field Marshall Fritz Won
Mannstein in the bloody battle of
the Kiev bulge.
Costly Battle for Port.
Cherkasy is strategic river port
on the main railway linking Minsk
and Gomel with Odessa on the Black
Sea. Its capture paves the way for
the junction of Russian forces oper-
ating out of the Kremenchug bridge
head with those on the southern
edge of the Kiev salient.
The reluctance of the Germans to
evacuate Cherkasy was emphasized
by the desperate and extremely cost
ly battle they fought to cling to this
Dnieper port of $4,000 population,
the outskirts of which were reached
and by-passed on November 19 by
the Red Army.
After several weeks of bitter
fighting in the Cherkasy area, which
was successfully sustained against
many times superior tank and in
fantry formations, the German
command last night withdrew Ger
man garrison forces from Cherkasy
to shortened and more favorable
positions" German broadcast said,
Evacuated in Order.
Evacuation of this town, which
for long time has been utterly
devastated, was carried out in COM
plete order and without any losses
in men and material" the broadcast
continued.
"It was only after several hours
that Red Army units in medium
strength penetrated into the ruins
of Cherkasy, which had been sown
with mines. They suffered additional
considerable losses during their en-
try into these ruins"
Evening star., 1943-12-14
By the Associated Press

py tne ASSOCIATED freSS.
LONDON, Dec. 14.-An authentic
account of the Reuters dispatch
from Lisbon which reported con-
clusion of the Cairo conference a
day before the news was released
officially and which has been the
subject of controversy ever since
became available here today.
The information appears to have
originated with Thomas Chao
Chungking manager for Reuters, the
British news agency. Mr.. Chao was
EN- route to London for several
months leave in Britain. He was
travelling as passenger on a plane
carrying a Chinese goodwill mis-
sion to England, but he had no con-
nectton with the mission.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Western Germany Hi
By British Mosquitoes;
All Planes Return
Earlier Daylight Assault
Made by U. S. Bombers;
IS Nozi Fighters Downed
By the Associated Press.

| oS inc ASnoSldleQ freSS.
LONDON, Dec. 14.-The RAF's
fleet Mosquito bombers stabbed
at Western Germany last night
for the fourth successive night,
the Air Ministry announced to-
day, skipping through the Nazi
defenseS to return to their bases
without loss.
The raid followed up a daylight
assault on unspecified objectives in
Western Germany yesterday by
formations of United States Lib
orators and Flying FortresseS, dur
ing which American airmen shot
down IS Nazi fighters to bring to
187 the total number of German
planes downed by the 9Th Air Force
this month.
According to Official figures, the
heavy bombers have downed 257
enemy planes in their last Is mis-
slons since October 20.
Bombers Down IA Nazis.
Fourteen of the German fighters
doWned yesterday were bagged by the
bomber gunners. The other was de-
stroyed by the strong fighter escort
of Thunderbolts and Lightnings,
which made their longest round trip
of the war in this theater.
Marauder medium bombers also
went out yesterday for their first
mission in eight days, blasting a
Nazi fighter base at Schipol near
Amsterdam.
American losses in the days op-
erations were five heavy bombers.
two medium bombers and two
fighters.
Cautioning against possible over
optimism at the comparatively low
bomber losses yesterday, Maj. Gen.
frederick L. Anderson, commanding
the 9Th Force Bomber Command,
said the attacks were planned to
take advantage of weather condi-
tlons greatly favoring the bombers
ana hampering the enemy fighters.
Germans Avoid Fighters.
One of the reasons why the For
tress and Liberator gunners have
been able to claim the lions share
OF the Nazi fighters shot down in re-
cent raids was seen, meanwhile, in
evidence OF repeated efforts by the
Germans to avoid the American
fighters in order to get at the
bombers.
Gunners aboard the bombers have
destroyed almost twice as many en-
emy planes as the escorting fighters
since October IA, when go Fortresses
were lost on the Schweinfurt raid
and the bombers began flying with
heavier protection
Compared with the 257 destroyed
by the bombers in the last IS mis-
sions, beginning with the October 20
raid on Duren, the fighters have ac-
counted for III German planes. In
addition, IS kills have been recorded
on unescorted missions or on those
for which no separate credit was
given in the communiques.
"Circle of Steel"
Although 9th Air Force operations
officers are reluctant to discuss any,
thing concerning combat tactics, it
is obvious that the bomber gunners
have an enlarging target as the Nazi
planes close in for an attack while
the fighters generally have an eva
sive, diminishing target in flight.
Moreover, the bombers' new arma-
ment-two-gun chin" turrets in the
Flying Fortresses and two power
turrets in the Liberators-permits
the bombers to spread deadly circle
of steel about themselves. a veritable
wall of bullets interlacing 200 to 300
wards out.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
'Deonnu Durbin Granted
Divorce in 10 Minutes

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 14.-Deanna
Durbin, singing screen star, was
granted a divorce today from 1t.
q. g. Vaughn Paul in proceedings
which took less than 10 minutes.
Scarcely raising her voice above
a whisper, she testified today that
constant criticism of her film and
radio work by her husband had kept
her in state of nervous distraction.
1t. Paul was not in court. A
property settlement was reached
some time ago. She is 81, 1t. Paul
%. They had been married 2h
wears,
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Red Army Improves
Position South of MoIin

MOSCOW, Dec. IA tPl.-Gen
Nikolai Vatutin's 1st Ukrainian
Army continued to make steady
progress west of kiev yesterday
crushing repeated German counter
attacks and improving its positions
south of Malin, Moscow war bull
letin announced today.
While Vatutin thus hammered out
small gains for the third straight
day in the battle of the Kiev bulge,
another Russian Army under Gen
Ivan S. Konev struck out from
Kremenchug, 200 miles to the south
east, in a drive apparently aimed
at relieving Soviet forces holding
the Cherkasy bridgehead. Konev' S
troops smashed westward through
several strongly fortified towns, in
cluding Grushevka, Is miles south
of Cherkasy.
Is Miles From Bridgehead.
Front dispatches indicated that
these units were within Is miles
of the nearest Cherkasy bridgehead
forces.
Other Red Army forces continued
to advance toward the important
German-held base of Kirovograd
beating off fierce tank assaults
capturing several towns and killing
600 German officers and men, tht
Russian communique said
Powerful Russian guerrilla forces
operating behind the German line;
In the Kiev bulge have captured two
railway stations near Zhitomir, a
miles southwest of the Malin sector
the bulletin declared. The guer
rillas also destroyed four German
military trains loaded with troop.
and supplies. presumably reserves
for Marshal Fritz Won Mannstein!
army, and killed more than 40(
Nazi troops. The guerrillas are still
holding the stations. the bulletir
added.
Reds Holding Initiative.
Field dispatches said the Russians
we're holding the initiative at vir.
tually every point along the 200
mile-long Kiev-Kremenchug front
and German counterblows in the
Kiev bulge apparently we're weak.
ening.
Won Mannstein repeatedly hae
hurled as many as 1000 tanks intt
the battle for the Kiev bulge and ir
less than four weeks he had driver
more than 30 miles from Koroster
to within SIS miles of Kiev itself
Vatutin's lines held, however, anc
Saturday he launched his counter
offensive
Front dispatches to the news
paper Pravda indicated that Sovie
Stormovik bombers, in the air again
after weeks of bad weather, wer
playing a decisive part in turning
the tide in favor of Vatutin's army
Evening star., 1943-12-14
II War Workers Killed
As Bus Crashes, Burns
- Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
BATH, N. Y, Dec. 14-Eleven war
workers J >und for the Ingersoll-
Rand plant at nearby Painted Post
were killed today when a bus burned
after a collision with a trailer truck.
At least eight persons were in
1ured, one critically. Coroner James
j. Sanford said he understood the
bus contained 20 passengers.
Mr.. Sanford, who said at least
four of the dead could not be read
lily identified" because of burns, re-
ported the accident occurred about
$50 am, mile east of Camp
bell, which Is is miles southeast
Of Bath.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Army and Navy Urged
To Adopt Same Rule
On Political Offices
Pepper Suggests Executive
Order by White House
To Clarity Issue
By the Associated Press.

Demands that the Army and
Navy adopt uniform regulations
on the availability of their per-
sonnet for public office were
voiced in Congress today. and
Senator Pepper, Democrat, of
Florida suggested that President
Roosevelt clarity the issue with
an executive order.
Senator Pepper said he believed
one rule ought to be made to apply
to officers and enlisted men in both
the Army and Navy, adding that
as Commander in Chief the Presi-
dent is the logical person to estab-
llsh the procedure.
Inc issue arose over varying in
terpretations by Secretary of War
Stlmson and Secretary of the NAVY
Knox in response to a query from
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of
Michigan as to whether an officer
could accept a draft" nomination
Tor high public Office, could con-
tlnue In the armed forces during the
campaign and could resign to ac-
cept Office if elected.
Truman Calls for Single Rule.
Mr.. Knox replied that the answer
to all three questions was yes, but
Mr.. Stimson said merely that NO
War Department regulation would
be construed to prevent an Army
ofi1cer from accepting a nomination
for the presidency or vice presi-
dency.
That prompted Senator Truman,
Democrat, of Missouri, to declare
that one rule ought to be applied to
enlisted men and officers, to high
and low Offices.
Il think any man in the armed
forces ought to be allowed to run
for anything from constable to
President" Senator Truman told a
reporter. Il don't think there
O.
Evening star., 1943-12-14
Washington Se|f-Ru|e
Called Act Of Justice
AT Senate Hearing
6. n. Brown Emphasizes
Efforts Of Big Three
For Other Peoples
BY DON S. WARREN.

| Witnesses for additional civic
and other organizations ap-
peared before the McCarran
home rule" subcommittee of the
Senate today to plead the cause
of an elected city council-city
manager form of government for
the people of the District.
AS the parade Of new spokesmen
came before Chairman McCarran
and other members of the Senate
District Committee considering the
measure, support for local suffrage
continued to grow, with some wit
nesses advocating national repre-
sentation as well.
George H. Brown, speaking for
the Columbia Heights Citizens AS
sociation. declared it would be
merely an act Of justice" to give
Washington residents "a form of
local self-government.'
Loyalty Proved in War.
washington residents have been
loyal in every way and they are
proving their loyalty in this war
now" he said. There is no reason
why they should be denied the bal
lot. What greater tribute could you
give to our soldiers and sailors when
they come back home than to give
them the right to vote? Here in the
District now, we do not have de-
mocracy."
Saying President Roosevelt. Mar
shall Stain and Prime Minister
Churchill are planning means of
assuring democratic rights for other
people, he asked why the same can
not be done here.
Declaring he was strongly in favor
OF national representation for the
District residents, as we'll as for an
elected local government, Mr.. Brown
said. IF We had local self-govern-
ment which was efficiently admin
istered, it would be one OF the best
arguments for the granting of ma
tional representation.
His reference to the loyalty of
District residents drew a declara-
tion from Chairman McCarran
there is no occasion to raise any
question as to the loyalty of District
residents"
Urges More Power for People.
| Mr.. Brown said he was opposed
to the suggestion of enlarging the
powers of the District Commission
ers. asserting that In his opinion
they have enough powers now and
that to give them more would not
serve the need He added what
we want is more power given to the
people"
| Mr.. Brown suggested number of
changes in the McCarran measure
including a proposal for eliminating
all sections which would give Sen
ate and House District Committees
Legislative supervision over the acts
of the elected Commissioners, lead
ing to possible congressional veto
steps,
Mrs. Louis Gutenberg, who is ac-
tive in the League of Women Voters
and the National Council of Jewish
Women, though speaking as an in
dividual, gave general support to
the home rule plan. Though Con-
gress would keep its hold on the
Districts purse strings, she said
t1o n'sn would make possible re-
organization of the District gov
ernmen. which would stimulate
greater interest among the people
in their city and its institutions.
She listed numerous women's Or
ganlzations which are supporting
voting rights for District residents,
(See HOME RULE. Page A-16l
Evening star., 1943-12-14
YUGOSLAVS TO CHOOSE own
form of postwar regime, Eden
says. Page A-3
Ey the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 14.-Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden, report
ing to Commons on the Teheran-
Cairo conferences, declared to-
day "the war will be shortened
by decisions reached with Pre-
mier Stain, and again pledged
Britain to battle to the final de-
struction of Japan.
He told the cheering House that
Prime Minister Churchill has "still
more work to do in the sphere where
he Is now" Nj. Churchill had
stayed on in Cairo, meeting last week
with leaders of smaller powers.
Quicker defeat of the Axis was
insured by the CLOSE cooperation
of our military plans" at the Tehe-
ran meeting of President Roosevelt