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Editorials and Comment

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Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-07

The Germans infiltrated through
heavy scrub, suddenly burst into
the pen and drive the British from
the heights.
They used the same tactics we
used in driving them from the hill
in the first place" the spokesman
said TT was only a small-scale
action. We are still in the area,
but we have yielded the high
ground"
Bad weather limited air activity
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-07
NAZIS TAKE HAND

The Germans, however, inter-
vened and threatened immediate
military occupation the dispatch
said. Yesterdays shake-up thus
was believed the result of German
interference.
Badoglio. who often has openly
shown his diState for Fascism, re-
signed as chief of the Italian gen.
eral staff in December, 1910, and
has taken no further part in World
War II. He is known as Italy's
ablest soldier and was responsible
for the Italian conquest in Ethiopia.
Besides Ciano and Grandi, the
latter a veteran Fascist, MusSolini
discharged seven other cabinet
members yesterday in shake-up SO
sweeping it startled Europe, appar-
emily even Germany. and touched
off wide range of speculation.
MONARCHISTS HIT
A Swedish Telegraph Bureau dis
patch from Rome interpreted Gran
dis dismissal as a move against
the "monarchist influence" in the
government.
1t was believed here that more
startling moves were to come, but
well-informed quarters warned that
Mussolini was SO thoroughly in the
clutches of Adolf Hitler that any
open move away from him was
hardly possible.
The cabinet changes, most drastic
in their significance in Mussolini's
20 years in office, followed immc-
diatcly upon the dismissal of Mar
shal Ugo Cavallero as chief of the
Italian general staff and the sur
prising dispatch to Ankara as am
bassador of Augusta Rosso, many
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-07
GUERILLA BANDS

The Dutch we're urged by radio
to build up their resistance tactics
now that the Germans were tied
down in Russia, while French un-
derground leaders were asked TO
organize additional guerilla bands
to attack communications. French
patriots also were requested to hlde
foodstuffs.
In the Balkans. Yngoslavia ana
Russia were reported attempting TO
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-07
Italian Shokeup
StortIeS Europe

years ambassador to the United
States where he has many contacts.
At Ankara Rosso would be able to
effect contact with Laurence A.
Steinhardt, American ambassador,
whose friend he was when both
were stationed in Moscow.
SCAPEGOATS
Germany as well as Allied cOun-
tries was slow to comment on Mus
soliniS action. But it was Sug-
geSted that GaleaZzo Ciano, dis
missed as foreign minister, and th1
others who lost their posts were
being made scapegoats for the dis
asterS which had cost italy its en-
tire African empire and made it
the butt of ridicCle in Germany as
we'll as in Allied capitals.
With new men, all veteran Fas-
ciStS like those who went, it was
suggested, Mussolini would try to
rebuild his shattered personal pres
tige.
The appointment of RoSSo as am
DaSSadOr to Turkey interested diplo-
matte quarters almost as much as
the cabinet Shake-up.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-07

The handwriting is on the wall. If we
had more weight we'd get the Japs sooner.
-AdmI. William F. HalSey.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-02-07
SNIALL-SCAL ACTION

might even change hands again to
morrow "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

There are so many girls in Wash
ington and they are so pretty that
most OF the Al paratroopers up for
three-day leave from Fort Bragg,
N. c.. want to stay.
Il like it very much here" said
Pvt. Bill Money. Il didn't want
to come up, but now I want to stay.
Girls in Washington are just as
nice to us 'yardbirds' as they are to
officers"
The Al soldiers, led by four off,
GERS, started out with $1,000 bor-
rowed from bank in their pockets.
That's approximately s25 each.
They played dice on the train and
rolled the bones on Hotel Statlers
new carpets again last night. Los
ers borrow from winners, so it all
evens up. Doubling up in accord
ance with good Washington Gus
toms, the boys slept six and seven
to room last night.
Dine at Capitol.
Today they were luncheon guests
of Mrs. Claude Pepper, wife of the
Senator from Florida, and Miss
Paulette Guffey, daughter of the
Pennsylvania Senator, at the Capt.
toll. They were also scheduled to
meet their home State Senators,
but seemed to have lost out on one
big attraction, meeting Glare Booth
Luce. Pvt. Donald Franklin of
Bridgeport. Conn, who was to have
pulled strings SO the boys could
meet his, new Republican Repre-
sentative, has crushed ~Yib s.wiaich
began to bother him yesterday and
he returned to Fort Bragg.
I'll have to find out who my two
Senators are. haven't been home
in Louisiana for four years." said
Pvt. Money.
The boys solved the transporta-
ton problem very neatly last night.
They had finished a party at the
home OF Mrs. McCook Knox, 1853
N street NV, Georgetown, and had
to reach 2129 S street NV, the resi-
dence of Mrs. William Drummer, for
supper and dancing. Their captain
lined them up and the whole group,
trained to an edge at the fort, ran
in formation on the double to Mrs.
Brunner's.
To Visit White House.
At Mrs. Knox's they met men,
bers Of the Jangos, an organization
of young daughters of Army and
Navy officers, who attended with
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Hecht's Made Three
Sales Above CEILING
Price, Hearing Told
Director of Stores
OPA Compliance Office
Offers Testimony

Louis G. Etelson, director of the
OPA compliance Office of the Hecht
Co., admitted today in the District
Court trial of his company on
charges Of violation of the Price
Control Act that there had been
three violations where sales were
made above the ceiling price.
This testimony, before Justice F.
Dickinson Let's, came in cross-ex-
animation by George M. Austin,
counsel for the ONCE of Price Ad-
minstration. The OPA Is seeking
an injunction to prevent violation
Of the price-posting, price-ceiling
and price-recording provisions.
Earlier, on direct examination by
Charles A. Horsky, Hecht Co. coun-
sci, Mr.. Etelson went through long
list of records in an attempt to
explain some of the listings and to
show alleged mistakes in the OPA
records charging violations.
Testifies About Studio Couch.
In regard to one charge by OPA,
for instance, that studio couch
with a ceiling price of $6450 had
been sold for $3.50, Mr.. Etelson said
one of the records of the store,
confirmation sheet" had listed the
figure at 5000, but this was an
error, and 1t was reduced to $64 so
before any sales were actually made.
There were no sales above $64 50,'
he testified.
In an effort further to prevent
any sales above the ceiling, Mr..
Etelson said the store had adopted
the policy of stamping the ceiling
price in green ink on the guide
cards. He said the practice was
started since the opening of the
OPA investigation. 1t is in effect
in three departments and will be
spread to others, he said.
On cross examination, Mr., Etel-
son admitted that some suits had
been marked up from $3.50 to $25
last April Is to conform to prices
on similar suits for sales before
Easter Mr.. Austin then asked him
II he wowuld be interested to know
that Easter last year was April Is.
Refers TO Records.
Confronted with previous testi-
mony that three of these suits had
been sold for 500 SO in March, prior
to their markup in April, Mr.. Etel-
son referred to his store records
and said evidently they were not
sold In March"
His testimony on the three direct
violations of price ceilings came on
a question by Mr.. Austin, but with
out disclosing details of the sales
Referring to an exhibit previously
admitted to the record in court, Mr..
Austin asked:
Those three sales listed on the
right hand side-you admit to be
violations?"
Yes, sir" replied Mr.. Etelson,
they were sold above the March
price"
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Policeman, Three Others
Hurt in Traffic Accidents

TRAFFIC accidents here and in near
by Maryland yesterday injured four
persons, two seriously. One of the
victims was Washington police
man.
Most seriously injured was Richard
j. ODonnell, 80, of Bradbury Heights,
Md, driver OF an automobile that
was in collision with a streetcar at
Florida avenue and lexington place
NE. He was taken TO Casualty Hos
pital with possible fractured skull
and severe cuts.
Policeman Theodore r. Stewart,
IS, of the 18th precinct, was found
unconscious after his car struck a
light post on Wisconsin avenue near
the District line. He was taken to
Georgetown Hospital suffering from
fractured ribs and head injuries.
Also treated at Georgetown was
Dorothy Harris, 30, of GA Flower
avenue, Takoma Park, victim of a
traffic accident a mile north of
Takoma Park. She received a broken
nose and leg cuts.
1t. Gerald H. Goulet, 80, of Fort
Washington, Md. received head in
Juries early yesterday when the
automobile in which he was riding
struck bridge at Gaithersburg
Montgomery County police reported.
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Burton Put On Another
Senate D. {. Committee

Senator Burton, Republican, of
Ohio, an active member of the SEN
ate District Committee, today was
named by the Appropriations Com
mittee to its Subcommittee on Dis
trict Appropriations.
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming will continue as chairman
OF the subcommittee in charge of
District appropriations with the fol-
lowing other members remaining:
Senators Glass of Virginia, Overton
OF Louisiana, Thomas of Oklahoma
Maloney of Connecticut, Chavez of
New Mexico, Mead of New York,
Nye OF North Dakota, Holman of
Oregon and Quincy Of South Da-
kota.
The three ex-oficio members rep
resenting the Senate District Com
mittee will be Chairman McCarran
and Senators Tydings Of Maryland
and Capper OF Kansas.
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D. T.. Red Cross Seeks
Volunteers 10 Prepare
Surgical Dressings
Need Called Critical;
Local Quote Is Set
At I ,000, 900

With the District Red Cross quota
for surgical dressings at 200, 900, the
need for volunteers is critical, Mrs.
Brown Harbold, chairman of surgical
dressings, announced today.
The volunteers who dropped out
Of the surgical dressing unit last fall
because OF the shortage OF materials
were urged to return to the work at
once because the District is now
far behind its quota.
Assuring volunteers that ample
materials for making the dressing
now are available, Mrs. Harbold
pointed out that almost any one who
can use her hands is eligible for the
work.
Transportation difficulties should
not prevent any one from volunteer
ing, Mrs. Harbold said, since surgical
dressing units are scattered over the
city.
She requested groups of 40 or more
volunteers who want to enroll as
units to call her at Hobart $500 to
make arrangements.
The surgical dressings unit at
Walsh House is open every day ex-
cept Saturday and Sunday from
$50 am. to pm and from 6: 80 . m.
to $50 pm. Schedules in other
units are:
Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church,
10 am. to pm. Mondays; Takoma
Park Presbyterian Church, 10 am.
to 4 pm. Thursdays: $500 Woodley
road NV, 10 am. to 4 pm. Tues
days, Wednesdays and Thursdays;
Dumbarton House, 8 80 am. to pm.
Tuesdays, and Sixteenth Street
Highlands at Sixteenth and Kennedy
streets NV, 10 a. m. to pm. Thurs
days and Fridays.
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Pretty Girls So Plentiful Here
Porotroopers Want to Stay
Al From Fort Bragg Seeing Washington
On 81 900 Borrowed From Bank

their hospitality chairman. Mrs.
Kenneth Royal. They also were
greeted by Mrs Robert P. Patter-
son, wife of the Undersecretary of
War, and Mrs. Eugene Meyer.
This afternoon, according to ten
tative plans, the paratroopers will
visit the White House. At 8 o'clock
tonight their hostess will be Mrs.
Martini Vogel of $500 Woodland
drive NV, chairman of the Home
Hospitality Committee of the War
Hospitality Committee. She has in
vited WAACS, WAVES and Cana
dian young women in the military
services, as well as Washington girls.
On Their Own Tomorrow.
Tomorrow the men will be on
their own.
I'VE are going to see all the
statues and monuments and mu-
seums around here" Morale Sergt
Charles Totty said. Some of the
boys are going to cross the boundary
to Maryland, so they can say they
have been in that State, too. They
are collecting States"
The nearest town to Fort Bragg
which houses considerably more
than 100000 officers and men, i.
Fayetteville, N. c., with $1,000 in
habitants.
we go to-. Fayetteville once q
month";" said Sergt. Totty. 1T has
one main street and a couple of al
leys. And the girls don't even, look
at soldier any more. I don't blame
them in a way" rst
The paratroopers have finished
their training and expect to go into
front-line service soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

farm workers will have to be women
and that they hoped to overcome the
farmers prejudice against this type
of worker.
Chairman Reynolds of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee said that
after an executive session the COM
mittee will get right to work.
I'VE want the Army to supply us
with their estimate of how large an
army we'll need to win this war"
Senator Reynolds said. We later
will get figures from the Navy and
the Maritime Commission.
Would Let Congress Decide.
'In order to complete the picture,
we want to get labor needs from
Mr.. McNutt and farm worker re-
quirements from the Agriculture De-
partment.
IT we find the Nation can't meet
all the requests, we'll have to find
means OF pairing down some of
them"
Some members of the committee
agree with Senator Bankhead.
a member of the Appropriation and
Agriculture Committees, that Con-
gress itself should fix a ceiling on
Army personnel.
Undersecretary OF War Patterson
declared in speech at Baltimore
last night, however, that the size
OF the armed forces necessary to
win the war was "a military prob
lem to be decided by the military
leaders"
People who contend the Army
Is too large" he said, seem to
overlook two important factors"
First, he said, it is 'as essential
to obtain superiority over our
enemies in number of soldiers as it
is in training and number and
quality of weapons"
The second point" he said. lis
that we are training men in 1943 to
fight in 1914. Our training program
must contemplate long war, and
unfortunately there are no sound
reasons to believe that the war will
be finished in 1913"
He estimated the Army's present
strength at ''over five and a half
million, far along on the road to-
ward our vital objective of seven and
a half million men by January /,
| 1914"
About 20 per cent of our forces
now are OyerseaS he added
Although asserting tonight the
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Births Reported

Alderman. Milton and Mabel, Girl.
Blair Edward and Wilma, girl.
brennan, Lawrence. jr., and Elizabeth, sir
Fischer, S. Greenhoot and Carl, sirl.
Gore, Hugh and Myrtle, girl.
Graham, John and Nora, girl.
Kendall Charles and Margaret, girl.
MoEerman, William and Elsa girl.
Nall, Richard and Cleo, giTl.
Nash, Leon and Jean, girl.
Scheurins Francis and Laura, girl.
Sherman. John and Mary, girl.
Warden, Alvin and Sylvia, girl,
Woooside. Arthur and Virginia, girl.
Aston, Leonard and Hazel. girl.
Braxton, Leon and IneZ, girl.
Fendall. James and Mary boy.
Ferguson, James and Viola, boy.
Gardner. Oliver and Evelyn, boy.
Gartrell, Alonzo and Virginia. girl
Hasans, Theodore and Elizabeth, boy.
Hamlin. James and Ruth, boy.
1rby, James and Ethel. girl.
Jackson. George and Ester, girl.
johnson. Herbert and Catherine, Girl
johnson, Lewis and Corinne, girl.
Johnson. Charles and Eliza, boy.
King, Walter and Florence. girl.
Lewis, Grafton and Mary, girl.
Martin. Edward and Ruby. boy.
MONTGOMERY. Raymond and Vera, girl.
McCombs. Moses and Collissie boy
Onley, Malcolm and Rose, girl.
Paige. Amos and Dorothy, sirl.
Pearson. Cornelius and Regina girl.
Sampson. Milton and Theima, girl.
Sharpe, William and Frances. girl.
Stewart Roger and Cora. girl
View, Thomas and Verlna, girl
Virgion. Willie and Wllhelmina. girl.
West. Edward and Dorothy. girl.
Woitz, Thomas and Mary, sirl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Ruf|edge TO Be Honored
By Wisconsin Alumni

Justice Wiley Rutledge OF the
District Court Of Appeals, now a
Supreme Court nominee, will be the
guest OF honor Saturday at a lunch
con of the Wisconsin Alumni Asso-
citation.
The association will celebrate
founders day" with luncheon at
1880 pm. at the Young Women's
Christian Association. Other guests
OF honor will be A. Matt Werner,
general counsel of the alien prop
erty custodian's office, and Assist
ant Dean Willard W. Blaesser of
Wisconsin, chairman of the Faculty
Military Advisory Committee.
Wisconsin Football Coach Harry
Stuhldreher will address the group
and motion pictures of the Wiscon-
sin-Ohio State football game will
be shown. George E. Worthing.
president Of the association, will
preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Johnny Comes Fuming Home
"A Discharged Sergeant at Is
All Went Well Until
Colonel Learned
His Tender Age

By the Associated Press
MILWAUKEE,, Jan. 25.-An ex-
Army sergeant at Is?
Sure, it's So He's Johnny Maras
back at his home here with dis
charge and mad enough about il
to chew nails.
Johnny earned his three stripes
the hard way-after fibbing a bit
about his age, of course--in the
heavy weapons unit of the infantry
And then the colonel found out
about the fibbing.
That was two weeks ago, after
Johnny had been sent to an en-
barkation point and was all set to
take off for a crack at the Axis.
I've found out your real age"
said the colonel. You're only IS"
"Oh, no, sir" said Johnny, I'm
49,"
The colonel chuckled.
Il checked up at the City Hall
at Milwaukee" he said. IT found
you were born June 20, 1927. That
makes you 15."
u.
And then the colonel said, smiling
you know, Johnny, you're the
first 15-year- old sergeant I've seen
in this Army"
But regulations are regulations,
so the colonel handed Johnny q re-
vocation discharge.
Il figure" Johnny said tonight
that when I was home on furlough
at Christmas somebody found out
how good 7 was doing in the Army
and turned ME In. Now, wasn't that
lousy trick?
so now I got to wait a year and
half before can get in there and
pitch. I can't get into the Marines
or the Navy until I'm II and the
Army won't take me back until I'm
10. And the war probably will be
over by then"
How'd he get in to start with?
Well, his pal, marine, was killed
at Pearl Harbor. So Johnny quit
school and hitchhiked to California
He tried the Navy and the Marines
but they wouldn't be fooled about
his age. The Army was.
He had his basic training at Camp
Roberts, Calf. and then was trans
ferred to Fort George E. Meade,
Nd. After that came shipment tc
the embarkation point.
And then the colonel caught him.
So Johnny came marching home
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Grew Sees U. 5. In Peril
As Long as Jap Army Lasts
Ry the Associated Pres..

q
LEWISTON, Me, Jan. 25.-Only
when Japan's military caste and
its machine have been wholly
crushed - and discredited in
the eyes of its own people" will the
danger to America subside, Joseph
C. Grew, former United States Am
bassador to Japan, declared yes
terday.
Only then, he said, shall we In
our own land be free from that
hideous danger and be able once
again to turn to paths of peace"
In an address delivered at Bates
Colleges first wartime, midwinter
commencement, at which he was
awarded an honorary doctorate OF
laws, Mr.. Grew said:
Il say to you, without hesitation
or reserve, that our own country,
our cities, our homes, are in dire
peril from the ver-weening ambi-
ton and the potential power of
that Japanese military machine-a
power that renders Japan potential
ly the strongest nation in the world
potentially stronger than Great
Britain or Germany or Russia or the
United States :"
Reminding that the japanese
themselves have spoken of a possible
hundred year war, Mr.. Grew, envoy
to Toxic from 1882 until Pearl
Harbor, said lone fact is as certain
as the law of gravity.
IF we should allow the Japanese
to dig in permanently in the far
flung areas now occupied, If we
should allow them to consolidate
and to crystahze their in-gotten
gains, if we should allow them time
to fortify those gains to the nth
degree, as they assuredly will at
tempt to do, it would be only a
question of time before they at
tempted the conquest of American
territory nearer home ="
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war news is good" the Undersecre-
tary declared: But we have Just
begun. For us, the battle has only
started"
Senator Reynolds said he would
ask Vice President Wallace to refer
to his committee a resolution by
Senator Bankhead to investigate
manpower needs with a view to
hating inductions into the Army
and concentrating on the production
Of food and weapons.
Meanwhile, Chairman May of the
House Military Affairs Committee
said hearings before that body on
manpower would be resumed to-
morrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Suspicious Surgeons End
15-Yeur-OId1s Army Career

ROANOKE, Va, Jan. Is Cp).-A
tonsillectomy ruined what appeared
to be a promising Army career for
Walter Lewis Garden, ex-serviceman
at the age of Is.
1t was while young Garden, who
attained the rank of acting corporal.
was in the hospital at Camp Miles
Standish for tonsillectomy that
doctors became suspicious about his
age. They investigated and found
that he was not Is, as he said he
was when he joined the Army.
The youngster, now working at
Newport News, enlisted in March,
1912, in South Carolina. At the
time of his enlistment his grand
mother, with whom he had lived
and sister were living In Hopewell
with his father, who since has been
indicted into the Army.