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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Food Production Head
Resigns as Control
.Setup Is Revamped
Purisius Asks Successor
To Gust Money Lenders
With Glass Eyes

The Government had a re-
vamped food control Setup to-
day-and another row in official
circles was out in the open.
AS the Food Production Admin
istration, one of the war food
agencies, was recognized, a con-
troversy within the Agriculture De-
partment over whether the Produc-
ton Administration should be DOM
mated by the Agricultural ADJUST
ment Administration or the Farm
Security Administration was re-
solved by Secretary Wickard in
favor of the AAA.
AS an outgrowth, Herbert w. Par
isius resigned yesterday after five
weeks as head of the production ad-
ministration He called ON his sue
cessor, M. Clifford Townsend, for
mer Indiana Governor and more
recently AAA administrator, to GUST
from his organization those money
lenders who look with two glass
eyes at the working farmer"
All Agencies Combined.
| At the same time, it was an
nounced that the Food Distribution
Administration, which works with
the production administration, had
been shaped up in accordance with
plans formulated by Roy F. Hen
Erickson, distribution head. The
move consolidates all units dealing
with the production of foodstuffs
Tor civilians, armed forces, lease
lend and other exports.
| Mr.. Parisius, formerly regional
director of the FSA at Madison,
Wis, was understood to have pro-
posed reorganization which would
have transferred control of the State
and county agricultural war boards
from the AAA to the FSA. The
role Of the FSA has been to assist
ioW-lncome farm families through
loans, relief grants and technical
guidance.
Secretary Wickard, it was said,
rejected the plan on the grounds
that the present war board setup
had done a good job, and that the
changes would confuse farmers at a
time when they and local units of
the department. needed to devote
their full attention to the produc-
ton problems ahead.
Asks Greater Production.
Mr.. Townsend had been serving as
associate director of the Food Pre-
duction Administration. j. B. Hut
son, on leave of absence as presi-
dent of the Commodity Credit Corp,
and A. G. Brack, governor of the
Farm Credit Administration, were
appointed associate directors under
him.
Mr.. Parisius issued a statement
after the reorganization was an
nounced, saying that IAN all-purpose
agency of credit, procurement and
supervision" should be set up Ito get
not only the announced 1943 food
production goals, but at least 20 per
cent more"
ITO accept 1913 food shortages as
inevitable is to aid the defeatists
and those who would welcome a
negotiated peace" he continued.
Gov. Townsend can pass this
miracle Of 20 per cent increase this
crop year, weather permitting, If he
will exclude from his organization
those money lenders who look with
two glass eyes at the working farmer
needing help to do his full share in
this war;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Rickenbacker Sees Planes
Knitting Americas Together

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-North and
South America will be so closely
knit by aviation after the war that
children in the United States will
study Spanish and Portuguese from
the primer up" predicts Capt. Ed
ward V. Rickenbacker.
Speaking at luncheon yesterday
of the Peruvian American Associa-
ton, Capt. Rickenbacker, who was
rescued recently after drifting "a
days in the South Pacific, said:
Il say that commercial aviation
has potential that even the fondest
imaginings Of today cannot con-
ceive. There will be literally thou
sands of planes flying back and
forth across our frontiers. ""s
1T will be through peacetime avia-
ton that We shall come to know
each other better
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16

colonel. I thought once he was
about to speak, but he didn't.
Col Adamson sat, head bowed, in
a sort of sorrowful daze. Then, in
midafternoon, he suddenly raised
himself over the side of the raft and
slid into the water. Quick as a
flash, Rick had him. We all helped
push him back into the boat Looked
at broadly, it was a brave thing he
tried to do. He thought that if he
were out of the way there would be
more of everything for the others
But it made us all pretty mad at
the time
1t was then that Rick took over,
I'll not forget the things he said.
They would scorch this paper. But
from then on, woe betide the man
who turned gutter or did anything
to lower the morale of the others.
That man Rickenbacker has got a
rough tongue in his head. And he's
not bashful!
Joins in Prayer Service.
We passed the rest of the day in
prickling pain under our coats of
salt, the night in wet dreariness and
the next afternoon in scalding heat.
joined little more wholehearted-
ly in the prayer service. I was con-
WINGED that no human agency was
going to save US I found l could
say more than half the Lords pray
er now without stumbling along be-
hind the others. I will remember
this particular service-and what
followed-forever.
Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name. -
Johnny Bartek's voice rose youth
ful and clear above the colonel's
muttered words and Capt. Cherry's
Texas drawl. ! could hear my own
voice, mumbling on past the places
where the others paused. The pray
er finished, Capt. Cherry addressed
the Lord in his fortnight fashion:
Odd Master, we called on You
for food and You delivered We ask
You now for water. We've done the
best we could. If You don't make
up Your mind to help us pretty
soon, guess that's just about all
therell be to it, 1t looks like the
next move is up to You, Old Master"
I think now that that prayer, de-
spite its informal wording, has just
about everything in it prayer
should have. 1t presents petition
to God and at the same time it
expresses resignation to Gods will.
Finally it implies the belief-the
faith - that the petition will be
granted.
Deluged by Cold Rain.
We said the Lords Prayer again.
Capt. Cherry hoisted his undershirt
sail and the RATS strung out in a
line. l now noticed a darkening
cloud off to our left. AS watched
a blush curtain unrolled from the
cloud to the sea. 1t was rain-and
moving toward us!
Here she isl" Capt. Cherry
shouted. Thanks. Old Master!''
Another minute and we were being
deluged by sheets of cold water that
splashed into our parched mouths
and Sluiced the salt off our burned
and singing bodies.
Almost Immediately We began
thinking of the future. Our only
storage facilitie were our dubious life
jackets. But the valve tubes open
ing into them were very small. We
therefore hit on this plan:
We soaked and wrung out our
shirts until all the salt was washed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Newspapers Drive
For Scrap Is Hailed
As Unprecedented
lndustriolist Urges
Salvage Program Be
StreomIined for Future
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Robert w
Wolcott, president of Lukens Steel
Co. and chairman of the American
Iron and Steel Institutes Scrap
Committee. said today the newspa-
pers' united scrap metal drive was
IAN unprecedented effort with a
result beyond the expectations and
hopes of the most sanguine."
Mr.. Wolcott, in an address before
a scrap metal dealer convention,
urged that salvage organization be
streamlined for future operations.
OF the newspaper campaign, which
brought in around 5000 900 tons or
more of metal for war. Mr.. Wolcott
said:
II wonder how many Of you
realize that the newspaper scrap
metal drive is the only war effort
which the Government asked the
American people under the leader
ship of the newspapers to carry
through without Government par
ticipation or sponsorship.
1T was entirely a peoples effort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16


Bombed by japanese airplanes,
hunted by enemy warships and once
endangered by hatch which was
difficult to close, 1t. Frank Lawson,
jr., of the American Submarine
Service, has reported that his I'M
dersea raider accounted for at least
three Nipponese ships sunk and two
or more damaged on a series of ex-
tenSive operations in the Pacific.
1t. Lawson, who lives in Balti-
more, is home on leave. His story
was told by the Navy Department
yesterday.
He was at Manila Bay in the
Philippines when the war started
and his sub with others took refuge
from the first japanese bombings OF
Cavite and Manila by lying on the
I bottom Of the shallow bay. Then
/ periscopes protruded above the sur
face, however, and 1t Lawson saio
he was able to watch the air attack
on the city and harbor,
Revenge for the destruction
/ wrought by the japanese was not
long in coming. His sub. which was
! commanded by Comdr. Kenneth C
Hurd, Flint, Mich, was quickly sent
to sea and one night shortly after
leaving Manila spotted an enemy
ship
Two torpedoes sent that vessel
down.
Cruise for Two Months.
! After two months of cruising, the
submarine put in at a base for
reconditioning, and soon afterward
the Japs dropped a 500-pound bomb
on the pier only few hundred
yards from the ship. The sub i'm
mediately submerged. but the decks
remained awash and gun crews
manned the machine guns. They
| succeeded in driviag of an enemy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16

enormous land strength, break the
ring in some direction. Global
war is full of surprises and no one
can anticipate all that can happen.
Four Axis Outlets.
The European Axis can apparently
try in any one of four directions:
(a) Against Russia. The fanatica
resistance of the Russians and THEN
superb tactics in, turning the. cities
into fortresses indicate that another
great attack will so further increase
the huge Axis losses as to finally
weaken their whole military struc-
ture. The present advances OF the
Russians give every confidence that
with support on their home front
they cannot be overcome.
(b) Against Britain. Here they
have to cross the water against the
enormously increasing British
American air and naval strength
and American Unsupported land de-
lenses. This seems futile to attempt
Co Against Northwest Africa
Here again they have to cross the
water. 1t seems unlikely that they
can hold the bridgehead in Tunis
and Tripoh that they already pos
sess. Even if they succeeded in hold
ing it and extending their opera
tons to include Spain, Gibraltar and
Morocco there are no supplies in
North Africa in amounts that would
relieve their home front.
I'D Against the southwest. either
through Greece, Crete and Syria
where again they have to cross
water, or through Turkey, OF
through the Caucasus and Persia
In this the southeast movement
alone. in combustion with success
full japanese invasion of India, car
the European Axis secure SUFFICIENT
relief for the home front to assure
long continuation of the war. With
the full British. American occupa-
ton of North Africa and the Medi-
terranean route under possible pro-
lection, it would seem that such q
movement could be stopped.
German Might Declines.
The degeneration On the Euro
pean Axis home fronts has another
bearing on military strategy Their
armies of six to seven million men
behind their control of the whole
European seaboard and with their
interior lines are exceedingly power
full. They greatly exceed any land
force that the United Nations could
bring to bear in 1943. The Euro
pean sea coasts have been enormous
~ fortified. For the British and
Americans to attack their central
position on land, during 1943, will be
a bloody business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Naval Officer Tells How Sub, Hunted by Enemy,
Sank Three Jap Ships, Damaged Two Others

another explosion and heard her
sink. 1t turned out later that the
second explosion might have been
caused by torpedo from one of
our sister subs which was operating
in the same area at that time.
Two months later We we're
headed in a northerly direction,
constantly alert for attacks from
enemy aircraft.
"A little later we picked up a
small enemy convoy and fired on
them. We heard one very loud
explosion, but couldn't surface to
verify our attack. as the convoy
was accompanied by destroyers.
Several days later we contacted
coastal vessel and let her have
one torpedo. She was badly
damaged.
She was so near the shore she
managed to beach herself Next
day we slipped back to finish off
our cripple, but she had disappeared
We couldn't tell whether she finally
went down or repaired herself sufil-
GENTLY to get away to the safety OF
a nearby port"
Big Convoy Sighted.
On its next patrol the submarine
sighted a big convoy guarded by
destroyers. 1t moved in to attack
One of the japanese warships, -
1t. Lawson related, which we had
apparently failed to pick up with
our periscope. spotted US and sped
TO the attack. One of the cargo
ships, probably warned by the de-
stroyer, turned toward us and passed
over us, trying to ram us.
I'VE believe we successfully at
tackled one or two Of the ships in
the convoy as we could hear the
explosions.
After this adventure I got leave
to come home"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Alleged Deserter Held
On Charges Of Theft

The Justice Department announced
last night the arrest here of Edward
Raymond Peters, 10, of Hill Springs,
Alberta, said to be a deSerter from
the Canadian Army, on charges of
theft of Government property and
illegal transportation of firearm.
According to the Justice Depart
ment, Peters deserted the Canadian
Army last October, and since then
had travelled widely In Virginia.
Maryland and other Eastern States.
He is alleged to have stolen a pistol
belonging to an American Army
officer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16

Taylor to serve. President Roosevelt
wrote In large measure the sue
cess Of this campaign will depend
on the performance Of the employees
Of the Federal and District govern
mentS I am sure I may count on
your devotion and zeal to provide
the leadership essential to this sue
cess.
In asking you to assume this re-
sponsibility I am aware it will in
crease the demand upon your time
and abilities. I feel justified, how
ever, in making this additional de-
mand upon YOU because the Red
Gross must meet vital and vast oDh-
cations to our armed forces
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Violent Windsiorms Kill I
In Washington, Oregon

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND. Greg Jan. 10
Violent windstorms have claimed
two lives and caused widespread
property loss in Washington and
Oregon.
James G. Farrow, SIS, was killed
in Central Oregon by huge wind
blown pine tree that crashed
through his bedroom A tree SINH
larry killed a 7-month-old boy son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Ike, in the
Puget Sound area of Washington.
Damage was heavy in forests OF
the two States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Herbert Hoover Writes:
Axis Must Break Allied Rinq
To Halt Home Front COLLAPSE
Enormous Lond Armies Could Be Aimed
Toward Any One of Four Directions

On the other hand, II the Axis
for some time yet be held within
Europe and constantly compelled to
guard this enormous coast line, the
decay on their home fronts from
internal degeneration, from short
ages of supplies by blockade, and
from aggressive attack from the
air will weaken them enormously
and make their defeat less costly in
life.
One conclusion seems certain.
The European Axis military strength
will be less in 1914 than in 1913.
Ours will be greater in 1914 than in
1913. The European Axis home
fronts will degenerate in 1943 and
1914 while the United Nations home
fronts grow in strength.
The whole Axis fabric will be
much easier to crumple with blows
on land later on. And there is the
possibility that Italy, especially, may
crumple up without the blows.
Japs' Three Chances.
The japanese home front is not
under interior pressures as yet
They have aggression still within
them. They might go in three di-
rections:
(a) Against the United States
Their experience at the Coral Sea
Midway and Guadalcanal would
seem to dampen any such notions.
tb) Further action against China
to prevent establishment of larger
air bases there by the Allies. Owing
to enormous spaces they did not
succeed in overwhelming China
when they had only China for an
enemy
tc) Against Russia through Sibe-
ria. This would no doubt aid Ger
many, but in that case the Japanese
will have the danger of terrible des-
truction on their home front from
American air fleets via Alaska and
Siberia. And an invasion of Siberia
could bring no conclusive ending of
her war with the United States and
Britain.
Id Against India in the hope of
joining the Germans, moving to the
southeast. 1t would be some job to
overrun India, but it is not to be dis
counted.
Japan's great weakness is mer-
chant ships with which to keep her
castle of conquests supplied and to
bring products to her home front.
She is today losing ships faster
than she can build them.
Progressive Strategy.
In conclusion, the bearing on mill
tary strategy of the progressive sit
uation on the home fronts both of
the United Nations and the Euro
pean Axis at this moment, and
probably for all 1943, seems to point
to (a aggressive sea and air attri-
ton of the Axis (b) Tightening the
ring around them (c) extension of
adequate bases for offensive action;
Id further building of American
air, naval, land, merchant marine
and food strength; (e) supplies to
our Allies. The result should be
undoubted weakening of the Axis,
guaranteeing decisive blows against
their central citadels later on with
out uncertainties and with the saw
ing of enormous loss of lives
Until the European situation is
on the way to disposal the United
Nations do not have sufficient naval
and air forces to make direct attack
upon the heart of the Japanese
ring With the European Axis dis
posed of or weakened the destiny of
japan is certain,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Two Red Officers Raised
To Colonel GeneroIcies
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. l6.-The Russian
lieutenant generals Leonid Govorov
and Constantin Rokossovsky have
been promoted to the rank of colonel
general by the Soviet Council OF
Peoples Commissars, Moscow an
nounced last night in a broadcast
heard here by the Soviet Monitor.
Gen. Govorov commanded Red
Army troops who recaptured Mo-
zhaisk west of Moscow in December,
l941. and Gen. Rokossovsky is lead
ing the Russian forces now striking
toward Rostov along the Lower Don
River.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16

CUilLlllUOuS 1TOIQ
now on. It will be
disastrous unless
they can break
through the ag-
gres sive ring
with which the
United Nations
have surrounded
them.
The internal
pr e S S u r e S on
t h ir h o m e
I r on is are so
great tn a t if
they are to have
relief they must,
through Ell +
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16

ClVlSlOn lor the
i943 Metropoli-
tan War Fund
campaign of the
Red cross in
March.
Mr.. Taylor was
in Europe for the
Red Cross in
J 9 4 0 " h 2 n
France was in
vaded, He has
served as Gov
eminent chair
man of Commu-
nifty Chest cam
palgnS.
In asking Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Prayers Of Rckenbocker Crew Are Answered
By Downpour on Eighth Day Without Woter

This is the fifth installn1ent
OF the ddy-by-day story Of Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker and the
Seuen companions NTH ,Uhont he
fought thirst, hunger, sharks and
the elements in the equatorial
Southwest Pacific.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Herbert Hoover Writes:
last OF q Series by Mr.. Hoouer J
BY HERBERT HOOVER.

The first deduction from this
survey of the home front situa-
tons is that the degeneration on
European Axis home fronts will be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Wayne Chaffie|d Taylor
Red Cross Drive Leader

Wayne Chatfeld Taylor, Under
eecretary Of Commerce, was desig
mated today by President Roosevelt
as chairman Of the Government
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Barbados Grows Food

Needing essential foods, Barbados
growers are cultivatlng foodstufTs on
land where sugar cane grew last
season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16

You too can 70 on raid. Make
xours on that old pile Of junk metal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Congress in Brief

Ey ne ASSOcIated PreSs.
Senate and House:
In recess until Monday.
Evening star., 1943-01-24

First did between British
royolty. Daughters of King
George ond Queen Elizobeth
have q wortime proetice session
in 0reot Windsor Pork, with
Princess Margaret Rose getting
q first did sling placed on her
arm by her elder sister, Elizo-
beth. the princess royal.
A. P Photo.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1943-01-15
STAVKY.

Pomocn1 zamestnanci v pro-
dukcnfm zavodu u Ford Motor
Co. v Rouge zavodech vysli ma
stavku a nasledkem toho 5000
delnik1 muscle zahaleti, pone-
vadz il mnebyl pfivazen mate
rial. Ale pax museli Sc vratiti
do prace ma rozkaz uniovych
1redn1k1 a vykonny vybor u
ME acknowledged zflzencu
CLIO oznamil, re unie Sc posta-
ra, ably byli disciplinarne po-
trestani. Zastupci zavodu pra-
vi, re Sc podarf zmeskanou pra
ci dohoniti a re Dude vsechno
v normalnich kolej1ch. Y "a
vodu Sc pracuje ma d1lezitych
tankovych plotnach a prace
pokracuje dnem i noel.
Asi 80 strojn1kG odepfelo
pracovat v lod6nicfch General
Engineering & Drydock Co. v
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1943-01-15

Alameda, Cal, kdyz mezi nj
mi a uni doslo ku sporu. Stroj-
n1ci byli p%okutovani pc $25 ka-
zdy, ponevadz pracovali po
boz1m hodu v sobotu a kdyz
pfisli do prace narfdil jim jed
mattel unie, ably podepsali, re S
pOkutou souhlasi a dokud ne
podep1si, tax nemohou zacnout
pracovat. Strojn1ci Sc sebrali
a odesli re zavodu a nynf Dude
muset spor rovnat delnicka
rada.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1943-01-15
Pad do hloubky.

V Milwaukee Bertram Smith,
18lety, Sc pred dvema tydny O.
zenil a nyn1 byl zabit, kdyz
S lesenf do hloubky 60
Pomahal V jednom "a
vodu stavet kom1n, kdyz mu
uklouzla noha a padem do
sc Zabil.