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Evening star., 1943-05-09
BoItimore Moyor-EIeet
Won by 20,275 Votes
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. May 8.-Theodore
r. McKeldin's of1lcial margin Of VIC
tory Tuesday In winning the ofdce
of Mayor of Baltimore was 20,275
votes, the board Of supervisors Of
elections announced today.
The announcement, which fol-
lowed the ofncial canvass Of precinct
returns from the municipal election.
showed no important changes from
the unomcial count. It gave Mr..
McKeldin, a Republican, 77,576
votes against Mayor Howard w.
Jackson's total of 57,301.
Evening star., 1943-05-09
Women Take Over
As Gardeners at
Pentoqon Building

Latest novelty at the Penta-
gon Building is the appearance
of women gardeners.
Five colored women in over
alls and e-brimmed sun hats
spading flower and shrubbery
beds in the court O fthe build
ing yesterday attracted atten-
tion Of employees summing them
selves during the noon hour.
Other women have been
working in the grounds during
the last week-an answer to an
acute labor problem.
Evening star., 1943-05-09

District Victory Garden Committee,
said last night that the committee
had been unable to assign land to
many applicants In Northwest and
In the sections near the Capitol
except at great distances from their
homes. Many of the applicants
said they had no cars. Others said
the trips to the Anacostia flats of
the Blue Plains Home would take
too much gasoline and too much
time.
This completes The Stars report
Evening star., 1943-05-09
Cuts Up Peck Of Potatoes
Couldn't Find Seed

KANSAS C1TY-A young house
wife asked Grocer Jack Brisboise for
peck Of seed potatoes.
An hour later she returned with a
platter of them--all neatly sliced.
You've made a mistake" she
complained.
I've cut all Of these potatoes open
and there's not seed in any OF
them"
Evening star., 1943-05-09
Man Shoots His Wife,
Wounds Policeman
In Gun Battle
: Weapon Is Reported
Obtained From Bureau
Of Officer orr DUTY

A 35-year colored man shot
his wife three times yesterday
afternoon and then critically wound
ed Rookie Motorcycle Policeman
Charles Riley Johnston in a gun
battle as the officer attempted to
arrest him, according to police. The
shootings occurred at GIT Twenty
first street NE.
Pvt. johnson, "a, of 1178 Morse
street NE, was taken to Casualty
Hospital with gunshot wound in
the head. He was near death last
night, despite a TRANSMISSION for
which 10 fellow policemen of his
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
NEW0RDER5
RE(LASS|FY
REGI5TRANT5
Dads Of Babies Born Be-
fore Last September
IS Are Safe

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Thou-
sands of men who became dads
between the summer of 194l and
last September Is have been given
draft deferment status as fathers,
the first time the new regulation
has been announced by Selective
Service officials.
Local boards have been told to
classify as fathers all those whose
children were born before last Sep
TENDER Is.
Fathers are now the only men
deferred solely because OF family
relationship, and cannot be draft
ed until further orders are sent.
The new regulations eliminated
the nine -month-old 3-B classified
ton which put all men having de-
pendents and holding any job es-
sential to the war behind ga men
of like family relationship in order
of call
The new rule ordered reclassifi-
cation to la all men outside OF
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NAzISL0SE
TANkFIChT4
IN TUNISIA
Americans Come through
Faid Pdss-Axis Air
Losses Huge

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
ORTIZ AFRICA, April II. The
,ritish Eighth Army entered Sousse
{ $3.50 o'clock this morning in its
apid push northward along the
runisian coast, and at the same
time, British First Army units
out the armored remnants
# the German African Corps on
ne plain northwest of Kairauan,
bland from Sousse, after occupy
lg this town yesterday.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommei's
len were recling under heavy blows
9TH on the ground and in the
ir, and offered only light opposi-
ION in the Kairouan plain en-
agement The tank battle took
lace as the German armored units
tempted to escape northward.
Is Tanks Destroyed
The first dispatch from the Kair-
uan battlefield said 10 OF a for
nation Of 40 enemy tanks were de-
troyed by the British armored
orce. and 20 NaM -anti-tank guns
md 30 motor vehicles also were
mashed up.
The 40-tank formation was de-
cribed In the dispatch as the rear
uard OF two German armored di-
isions.
The fall of Sousse leaves the
sxis only two important ports IN
Il of Africa-Tunis and Bizerte.
The Allies are continuing ter
ific air offensive in support OF
he ground troops. A Saturday re-
ort said that American Lightning
ighters had knocked down 30
lanes in SO hours.
Today, U. S. and British airmen
truck hard again, leaving scores
enemy vehicles scattered wreck
.ge or in flames, shooting down
otal of Al more enemy planes yes
erday, against a loss of IA OF their
wn ships.
81 D0wned Sunday
The American Lightning fight
ors, P-38's, are taking terrible
oil of Axis planes. A group OF
Lightnings yesterday caught an
other enemy fighter escort for an
Axis transport formation crossing
he Sicilian Strait and destroyed
81 planes.
This would bring the three-day
score OF Axis planes destroyed
round the $50 mark.
Meanwhile, the Second U. S.
Army Corps under Lieut.. Gen.
George S. Patton, Jr., "Old Blood
md Cuts" took Faid Pass on the
Dad between Sfax and Kasserine
without opposition. adding another
venue through the central Ttrni-
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Killers Great War
Machine Base Seems
To Be Inactive Now

LONDON, April 10. = The giant
Krupp armament works, one OF the
mainstays of Hitlers war machine
has almost been completely idle as
the results of the RATS shattering
10000 tons of bombs in raids on
Essen, the British Air Ministry an
nounceS.
The latest eviden,e of the DAM
age done to the. works has been OBJ
tanned from reconnaissance photo
graphs two days after the big at
tack on April 3 and April 4.
These photographs fail to show
any smoke rising from the hun
dreds of chimneys.
The photographs are the cieares'
ever taken and the 300 acre plant
works appear to be almost entire
ly inactive"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
SPEND Less,
Save MORE,
ISWARNING
Speculation Stirred Re.
gard Possibility OF
New Legislation

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt, in warning, said
the Nation must be prepared to
spend less and save more to hold
the line" against initiation.
The warning stirred speculation
as to whether the Administration
is planning to recommend to Con-
gress a compulsory lending or COM
pulsory savings tax proposal.
Such levies have been advanced
by Treasury officials as part of the
expanded tax program to siphon Off
sixteen billion dollars estimated in
excess of the public purchasing
power.
Proponents say either tax would
partially meet the Presidents de-
mand for firm initiation control by
freezing the current spending power
or create a purchasing power for
the postwar period.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12

CRITI(IzE5
DEBT RIDER
Bill Becomes Law Without
Presidents Sigma
ture Today

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has permitted the
debt legislation bill and salaries r.
der to become a law without his
signature TO avoid embarrassment
to our war financing program"
In statement condemning Con-
eress for its ill considered action
in permitting salaries to stand or
last years basis, the President
called anew for a special war SUI
pertax. holding every individuals
net income to $4,000 annually.
He said the war financing pro-
gram already has carried the ma
tional debt near the old l25 bill
lion limitation.
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Radio Stations Must
Go Silent when Raid
Alarms Given 0ui

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, April
y. Radio stations will be ordered
off the air hereafter whenever a
public air raid warning is ordered
by the Fourth Fighter Command
General John Dewitt wrote James
Sheppard, Regional Director of the
Office Of Civilian Defense.
Sheppard complained that during
a recent southern California air
raid warning, the public refused
TO believe anything serious was
impending as the radio stations
continued to broadcast and with
out mentioning there was an air
raid warning.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
DANIEL ROPER
PASSES AWAY
IN HIS HOME
RooseyeIt's First Secretary
of Commerce Dies
in Washington

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Dan-
iel c. Roper, President Roosevelts
first Secretary of Commerce and
former Minister to Canada, died
last night at his home here. He
had been ill for the past two and
one half months of leukemia.
When Roper of South Carolina
became Secretary OF Commerce in
the cabinet OF President Franklin
D. Roosevelt ON March 4, 1888, he
brought to the inner circle of the
new DEAL a wealth of practical
political experience.
For two score years Roper had
been climbing the political ladder,
but through appointive rather than
elective offices. State legislator, con-
gressional committee clerk, first as
sistant Postmaster General, Inter-
nal Revenue Commissioner, prac-
ticing lawyer in Washington and
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
jApSl0USY
IN DROPPING
THEIR BOMBS
Two Army Sergeants from
Alaska Give Opinion
Of Enemy Attacks

EPHRATA, Wash. April H.
When Jap planes roar over Alaska
Army bases, the boys just roll over
to go back to sleep, Sergeants Clyde
Weaver and Bernard Hovelman re-
ported here.
I'VE are raided by Japs but they
are lousy when it comes to dropping
bombs and we just roll over to go
back to sleep. They never hit any
thing to amount to much" the
two sergeants said here enroute
home on furloughs after two years
in Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
Resulting Disabled
Soldiers; Bill Passes;
Benefits Men, Women
First az Two Articlesl
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON. April 12.--Just
why one Of the best legislative stor-
les Of recent weeks has been more
or less ignored is something of a
mystery.
It's the so-called Rehabilitation
bill" With little more than MUIR
muir, it passed the Senate and then
the House without the necessity
of a record vote. But with the pos
sible exception of the raise-in-pay
bill. this probably is more import
ant to our armed forces than any
measure voted since the first draft
bill.
Here are some of The reasons
why:
ID Under this bill every per-
son honorably discharged from the
armed forces before the end OF this
war for reasons of health. aggra-
waited by training ordeals, or dis
abilities incurred in training or
combat, will have access to the
Veterans Administrations rehab-
ilitation training program.
% This means that for up to
four years, these persons viii be
paid from $50 to 500 a month
according to dependency obliga-
tions) and given other benefits
while they are studying to take
their new places in vocations to
which they are suited.
80 That even when this bill
was being prepared, which was
eefore casualties were being re-
turned from North Africa, India,
and other recent hot spots, there
were more than 300 such persons
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
SHOES NOT
RATI0NED
IN ALASKA

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Clear-
ing up reported misrepresentation
the OPA repeated an announce
ment that shoes are not to be ra-
toned in Alaska, Puerto Rico and
other territories or possessions.
Sellers or shippers in the CONT
mental United States can get GER
tificates from ration boards replac-
ing shoes sent TO these unrationed
areas
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12

WASHINGTON, April 12.-Alas-
ka's Delegate Anthony j. Dimond
says he is preparing bill for in
PRODUCTION to Congress authorizing
Alaskans to elect their own Cover
nor.
II have every reason to believe
the President will favor this mea-
sure because he has already an
nounced he his in favor of such
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
FOOD CAR II

Friends who know Chester Davis,
the new farm car, say he is the
best qualified man for the job
which probably is about the tough
est in the country.
But they also wonder whether
Davis is going to have the brass
knuckles to put farms on COM
plete war footing.
Chester, as he is called in Wash
ington where almost everyone
knows and likes him, is an unusual
mixture. When he was on the Ma
tional Defense Advisory Commit
tee in the old prewar days with
Big Bill Knudsen, he tangled with
Knudsen about the concentration
of war contracts in the hands of a
few big corporations. He wanted
them spread out among many
firms, as the British did. And his
tory has proved he was right.
Chester Davis also bucked the
chemical trust when it moved
heaven and earth to block the pro-
duction of ammonia under the
iva And even in those early days
before Pearl Harbor he demanded
more farm production, with the
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
Dimond Prepares Bill
Giving AIaskans Right
To EIeef Own Governor

action in Puerto Rico and l be-
lieve the Alaskans are just as well
qualified for such privilege the
Delegate told reporters.
The recent Alaska Legislature
passed House Joint Memorial by
Representative James V. Davis
urging Congress to grant Alaskans
the power to elect their own Gov
ernor.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
EIGHT AXIS
5HIp5SUNk
BY BRITISH
Seven Others Damaged by
Subs in Engagement
in Mediterranean

LONDON, April II. = Fifteen
more Axis vessels have either been
destroyed or badly damaged in the
Mediterranean by British submar-
ines the Admiralty announced.
The subs sank eight Axis ships
and it is known that seven other
ships were damaged.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
FREEZING ORDER
ON WAGES GWEN
COLD RECEPTION
AFL President Green Re.
serves DeCision-Cdrey
Is Not Taking

NEW YORK, April 12-William
Green. President of the American
Federation of Labor, said he is re-
serving a decision on Roosevelt
hold the line freezing order on sal
aries and wages.
James B. Carey, CLIO Secretary
Treasurer, declined to make any
comment on the order during a
conference with newsmen.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
MUNDAACAlN
BOMBED,
kI5kA RAIDED

WASHINGTON, April II. - Two
bombing raids, causing heavy ex-
plosions and starting fires at the
Jap base of Munda in the Solomons
is reported in a Navy communique
this afternoon.
The communique also told of
raids on Kahili and bombs espec-
tally smashed on the airfield there.
Raids were also made on Kiska
in the Aleutians last Saturday, but
the results were not observed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
REPUBLICANS
LOSE OUT IN
TAX MATTER

WASHINGTON. April 12.-T h e
House Ways and Means Committee
voted down 16 to 8 the effort of
nine Republican members to reopen
consideration of the pay-as-you-go
legislation.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
Payment Of $1,000
To Be Made Been
For Loss in Blaze

WASHINGTON, April l2,-Pres-
ident Roosevelt has signed the bill
authorizing payment of $4,000 tc
Superintendent Been of Mount Nc
Kinley Park in settlement of claims
for loss of personal effects when 9
fire destroyed his park residence
in 1899.
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. Dimout begins tonight I
. at sunset at 1903 o'clock. I
. Dimout ends tomorrow I
. at sunrise at 5:53 am. I
o Diniout begins Tuesday at I
. sos pm. Z
q = Z
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12

The Bismarck Sea and archipel-
ago were named in 1884 for the
German Iron Chancellor"
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ASK ROOSEVELT
TO BE CANDIDATE
FOR FOURTH terry

DENVER, Colo, April r. The
Colorado State Federation of La
Dor has passed and sent to Presi-
dent Roosevelt, resolution asking
him TO run for a fourth term.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
LADIES FIRST

At the White House, Mrs. Roose-
welt was chatting with Madame
Chang Kai-shek Said the first
lady of the United States:
Il was offered $500 to write a
magazine article giving my impress
sions of you"
Smiling, the first lady of China
replied:
Il was offered $4,000 to write
magazine article giving my impress
sions of you
Both were ladies' They had both
declined to write about each other.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-04-12
The W ashingt ion
Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

tMa1Or HODeIt .. hlicl vi aSei'c ouey'
Observation-Disclosures possible
outbreaks in the coal mining states,
the War Department has made Sc
cret preparations to use troops if
necessary.
But Ed McGrady, crack labor
adviser to the Under Secretary of
War, feels that the best way to
keep order in the mining districts
is to talk to the miners in their
own language Formerly Assistant
Secretary of Labor, he suggested
to the War Department that in
stead of using troops, he be COM
missioned as one-man army to
keep order
Accordingly, Ed McGrady ha S
left for the coal areas, to keep his
finger on the pulse of the coal min
ers-and to keep that pulse down.
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Evening star., 1943-01-31

IN OPEN BOAT 80 DAYS
Ensign Phillip G. Nolan, 33,
New York, was safely back
home last week, where he de-
scribed a 39-day voyage in an
open boat with eight others
following the torpedoing of
their merchant ship late in
November. He was in charge
of the gun crew aboard the
vessel. In the lifeboat they
sailed over 1000 miles, reach
ing the northern coast Of
South America with every one
in reasonably good condi-
ton. "A. P. Photo from Navy.
Evening star., 1943-01-31
Certificates Issued
For New Automobiles

Whitney Leary, District Office of
Price Administration director, an
nounced yesterday the issuance of
the following certificates for new
passenger automobiles for the week
ending last night:
Milton Davis, 1913 Fourth street
Sc, taxicab; Bell Cab Association,
1877 L street NV, taxicab; Nor
man B. Blackwood, 1735 Fourteenth
street NV, taXicab; Joseph A.
Powell, 2809 Elvans road Sc, taxi
cab; Composition Roofers L. u,
405 Ninth street NV, labor; Charles
E. Moore. 310l Sherman avenue
NV, minister; Yellow Cab Co., four
taxicabs; Iron Workers Local Union,
405 Ninth street NV, labor; Medi-
cal Mission Sisters, Brookland, D.
c., visiting nurses; Government
Purchasing Commission (Soviet)
1855 Sixteenth street NV, four
vehicles, and Bertram A. Totten,
1872 Park road NV, defense.
Evening star., 1943-01-31

The best way to root for victory
is to dig deep into that pocketbook
or purse and buy War savings
stamps.
Evening star., 1943-01-31
Price Boost Allowed
On Bituminous Coal
From Pennsylvania
OPA Grant Will Cost
'Ordinory Purchasers
Up to 20 Cents q Ton
Py the Associated Press.

The Office of Price Administration
has authorized increases in prices of
bituminous coal mined in Western
Pennsylvania which will cost ordin-
ary purchasers up to 20 cents a ton
and industrial users between 20 and
IS cents per ton.
OPA said it had granted the mine
operators an average increase of
about % cents per ten, which was
expected to result in substantially
similar increases in. retail prices.
Reflects Cost Increase.
The increase, OPA said, reflects
higher production costs involving
the extension of the 35-hour week
Gin bituminous mines) to six days
and other operational cost increases.
The agency said the price increase
had been recommended by Secretary
Ickes, solid fuels co-ordinator, who
asked the miners to adpot longer
work week A similar price increase,
after extension OF the work week,
was given recently on anthracite.
Yesterday announcement applied
only to bituminous coal district
No. 2, which is Western Pennsyl-
vania. but OPA said similar in
creases will be granted other dis
tricts which adopt the six-day week.
Rises on Varying Scale.
OPA said that domestic sizes Of
coal (No. / to No. 81 will increase
in retail prices on varying scale,
ranging from nothing to 20 cents
per ton, while the price on steam
sizes for railroads and industrial
consumers will rise by from 20 to 35
cents per ton.
These figures were indefinite be-
cause the price permitted today ap-
piled only to the cost of the coal at
the mine, and will be passed on in
varying degrees as the coal is sold
from mine to dealers and then to
the public.
OF the average q cents-per-ton
price increase at the mine, OPA said
about Is cents represents the in
creased cost of operating the mines
six days a week, with payments of
overtime for the sixth day. and
eight cents represents other in
creases in costs which the mines
have had since last April.
Evening star., 1943-01-31
Cabbie Stabbed 10 Death
In Southeast Street

Arthur H. Wisenburger, q, OF
44oo Townsend avenue, Boulevard
Heights, Md, a Yellow Cab Co.
driver, was stabbed to death late
last night in the 300 block of New
Jersey avenue Sc.
Police said there had been a fight
in Wisenburger cab, as evidenced
by blood clots in the cab. Wisen-
burger dragged himself across the
street and fell on his back on the
pavement.
Police, without clues as to the
cabs passengers, indicated robbery
as the motive for the killing. They
said they found Wisenburger's
empty billfold in the cab.
Wisenburger was pronounced
dead at 1915 am. by DR.. j. A
Bailey, Casualty Hospital physician
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald, city
coroner, arrived at 1890 am. anc
said death was due to a hemorrhage
caused by several knife wounds ir
the chest.