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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
High School Forms Battalion
Of Service Letter Buddies'
Ely the Associated Press.

Ely the Associated Press.
CUBA, Ill.,, Jan. Prom Iceland
to the Solomons. servicemen from
Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River
country must be the envy of their
barracks each day at mail call.
They probably get more letters
than any one else.
A 12-foot, red. white and blue
sign over the door of the Cuba High
School tells the story. 1t reads:
Home Of the service letter bud
dies"
In mobilizing high school pupils
to write to men in camps and on
the battle fronts, Cuba Superin-
tendent of Schools Earl H. Dugan,
who also is commander of the Amer
lean Legion post, found a practical
answer to servicemen's pleas for
more news from home and an I'M
usual method Of teaching English
grammar.
Cuba has some $50 men in the
armed forces, and for the last three
months each man has been averag-
ing more than one letter a week
from his service letter buddies'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Heads Of Committees
Named for Shrine Circus

Appointment of committee heads
for the annual Shrine circus to be
held February to IA at the Uline
Arena for the benefit of the Alma
Temple charities fund, was an
nounced yesterday by Howard P.
Foley. potentate of the temple and
general chairman for the circus.
The Executive Committee of which
Mr.. Foley is chairman are Floyd D.
Akers. as first vice president; Earl
Whittier Shinn, second vice presi-
dent; Ralph NJ Wolfe, third vice
president; James A. Councillor, treas
urer; Frederick w. Wilkin. secre-
tary; Needham c, Turnage, Ray
mond M Florance, Stanley D. Willis,
Edmund O. Carl and William M
Mann.
Leonard p Stewart was named
chairman of the advisory board; Mr.
Florance head of the Circus Book
Committee, and Martin Ristic, box
office tickets chairman.
Other committee and group heads
include:
Omar w. Clark, head of the audi
forum operations group; Mr. Shinn,
chairman OF the Publicity Commit
tee: Donald C. Enrst, program
chairman; Mr.. Turnage, children S
! chairman and head of the Trans
portation Committee, and George E
Harris, chairman of Reception Com
mittee.
Arrangements are being made to
accommodate more than 10000 I'M
derprivileged children during mat
inee performances. it was said. A
meeting of the Shrine committees
and uniformed groups is to be held
tomorrow at the temple.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
BY MURLIN SPENCER,
Associated Press war Correspondent

WITH AMERICAN TROOPS ON
NEW GUINEA, Dec. 81 Delayed -
Six American soldiers volunteered
for a bridge-repair mission on a
shell-pocked spot near the Buna
government station One lost his
life under the blasting fire OF Jap
machine guns. The survivors failed
to fulfill their assignment, but their
heroism will be long remembered
They volunteered December %
after severe artillery barrage. in
pounding the Japs' station area, also
knocked out 20-foot section of
the bridge leading from an Ameri-
can-held island in Entrance Greek
to Jap terrain. The bridge had to
be repaired If infantrymen were to
assault the enemy positions.
Survivors of the bridge repair
squad-Pvts. E. r. Hangartner of
Osseo, Wis; Edward G. Squires of
Akron, Ohio; Arthur Melanson of
Lynn, Mass, and Corps. Bert Nc
Donough Of Redding, Mass, and
Charles Gray Of Petersham, Mass
didn't seem to consider the job ex-
traordinary. But their commanding
officers had only the highest praise
for them.
Officers knew the job was danger
GUS, particularly since speed was e5-
sential, and because it had to be
done in daylight.
The six included volunteers from
the engineers and infantry Pvt.
Hangartner, Corpl Gray and a third
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Flaming Army Plane
Crashes on Ohio Homes

BY the Associated Press
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. "A fam
ing Army plane crashed into a
mouse in southeastern Columbus
tonight, killing at least one person
and setting two residences afire.
Residents of the area said they
heard a mid-air explosion and saw
the ship fall trailing flames. A
second explosion was heard as it
crashed. Maj. F. C. Cartaglia Of
nearby Lockbourne Army Air Base
said it was an Army plane, of
either the two or four engine type
Firemen removed one body from
the house into which the ship
smashed
Ofncers at Patterson Field near
Dayton said the plane was piloted
by First 1t. James F. Hansen Of
the Army Ferrying Group at Nash
vile, Tenn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
738 Enemy Warp|anes
Destroyed by Raj in
1912, British Report
Own Losses Are Placed at
SOB Croft; Wider Ronge
Of Fighting Is Cited
BY the Associated Press.

Ds wv hoootidted
LONDON, Sunday. Jan. 3.-Royal
Air Force lighters and anti-aircraft
fire destroyed 1873 enemy planes
over the British Isles and the con-
tinent in 1912, it was announced
today.
The Air Ministrys news service
said that as in the preceding two
years the fighter command had
maintained the balance of losses in
its favor although most OF its &C
tons were over enemy held terri
tory. 1t lost 500 planes, but the
pilots of 40 Of the machines were
saved and many others bailed out
and are believed to be prisoners.
German losses. equivalent to 81
squadrons. included 443 planes shot
down on the enemy's side of the
channel, the report said. Over Eng
land, lib enemy planes were shot
down during daylight hours and
1T during night raids.
Number Totals 1858.
The latest figures brought to TO-
573 the number of enemy aircraft
Britain has destroyed in Europe and
the Middle East since the war
started.
Scores for the Far Eastern oper-
ations and by American forces were
not included in the report.
Discussing operations in Europe
the Air Ministry said the enemys
air casualties we're slightly less in
1912 than in 194l despite the in
creased weight of the Allied often
sive, because the Germans showed
marked reluctance to engage our
formations unless holding tactical
or numerical superiority" and be-
cause many of the raids lately had
concentrated on ground targets.
Deeper Penetrations.
The Luftwaffes shyness of battle
=" =" the report said, helped our
daylight bombers to penetrate
deeper into enemy territory in 1912
than ever before. Flying Fortresses
and other heavily armored bombers
frequently operated beyond the
range of our fighters. - :"
Fighter command planes flew on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Capture Of StoIingrod RoiIheod
Called Major Disaster to Nozis
II Axis Divisions EncircIed by Reds
Depended on VitoI Center for Supplies {.

loading and unloading of cars.
though In normal conditions 1t is
more usual for unloading personnel
to be sent back with the trucks to
the railhead by each unit which is
sending for supplies.
Airfields Required.
The movement of trains to and
from railroads is under the control
OF a regulating officer whose head
quarters are not at the railhead but
at regulating station some distance
IN the rear, usually a junction Of
two or more lines where the flow of
traffic may be adequately controlled.
While Kotelnikovski was the rail-
head for the Stalingrad army, its
regulating station was probably at
Salsk where the Rostov-S talingrad
and Novorossiisk- Stalingrad railways
join.
From the railhead forward to the
troops, supplies move by truck or,
exceptionally, by air. Movement by
air, OF course, requires airf1elds Of
proper capacity and suitable repair
and shelter facilities at each end of
the line, together with a suitable
road net to move supplies from train
to airfleld at one end and from air.
field to troops at the other.
Movement by truck is regulated
by the Army supply officer and
where large number of troops are
being served from a single railheaG,
it requires very thorough and we'll
organized traffic control. This is
especially true when the roads are
not numerous and are in poor con-
dition. 1t may sometimes be neces-
sary to have a system of one-Way
roads, or a plan by which certain
roads are used by inbound traffic
during certain hours of the day and
by cupboard traffic at other hours.
The one thing that is absolutely
essential is that the flow of supplies
and ammunition keeps going for
ward steadily from the railhead to
the troops and that trucks should
be promptly unloaded at distribute
ing points in order to 60 back for
more supplies. The fewer the avail
able number of trucks, the greater
the necessity for wel-organized
traffic control and an efficient main
tenance system in order to get the
very best use out of each vehicle.
Carefully Camouflaged.
Uusually the Army supply and
ammunition columns will have the
for moving all classes
of supplies from railhead to the
divisional distributing points, and
each division will be responsible for
sending its own field trains to the
distributing points to pick up its
supplies. Since distributing points
are much further forward than rail-
heads, and therefore much more
subject to enemy air attacks, they
must be carefully camouhaged and
well protected arc the pick up by
trains will usually take
place at night.
From the foregoing very brief
sketch, it will be seen that the sup
ply OF an army requires a complex
and delicate organization and that
the loss Of the railhead on which
the whole system of supply depends,
requiring hasty improvisation of
other methods, can be classed as
less than a major disaster.
tCopyrisht. 1913, by New York Tribune,
Inc)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

back in the high school. The serv-
icemen are enthusiastic, replying
with such sentiments as "a letter
from home means more than dollar
bills" and Mr.. Dugan, you keep the
kids writing and We promise to keep
them rolling
One soldier described how won
derful' it was to get a letter from
home. adding 1T is certainly a ter
rible feeling to receive no letters at
mail call, l know, for it has often
happened to me-
Collecting the names and adj
dresses of the men in service was
the first job and the hardest Mime
ographed letters to their families,
publicity in the local newspaper,
placards in the post Office and post
ers in the store windows did the
trick.
Mondays and Tuesdays are letter.
writing days at the school and the
output Of the $50 students in the
project is impressive One soldier
reported receiving six letters from
the "buddies" in a single day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
U. 5. Ready 10 Meet
New Nazi Poison Gas,
Gen. Porter Declares
Research Scientists
Witness Demonstration
At Edeewood Arsenal
Hy the Associated Press.

~ tDe hoSOSlAtcu FIcSb.
lockwood ARSENAL, Md,
Jan. 2.-The American Army. fore
warned that Germany may have
new type of gas. is fully prepared,
Maj. Gen. William N. Porter. chief
of chemical warfare, said today.
He expressed doubt, however, that
any radically new gas would appear,
although he expected Germany to
resort to gas warfare whenever the
Nazi high command thought it ad-
vantageous.
Witness Demonstration.
Gen. Porter and other officers as
well as scientists of the National
Defense Research Committee, in
GLIDING DR.. James B. Conant, presi-
dent of Harvard, and DR.. Roger
Adams, professor of chemistry at
the University of Illinois and in
ventor OF the gas Adamsite, came
to Edgewood for a demonstration
of the newest developments in chem
ical warfare, offensive and defensive.
The close coordination between
the Chemical Warfare Service and
private industry in research and
manufacture was stressed by Brig.
Gen. Paul X. English, production
director, who asserted the success
and fle:iibility of the existing pro-
gram would be disturbed seriously
if control were transferred to
civilian or dual agency.
The principal poison gases still are
those used or developed during the
last war, said Gen. Porter, such as
mustard, phosgene, lewisite and
chlorpicrin. Despite rumors of new
gases developed by our enemies, the
principal advances have been in
manufacturing processes and meth
DDS Of use. The protective devices
against gas have been improved i'm
measurabiy, he added.
Mustard Proof "Capes."
American soldiers going into COM
bat now carry not only gas masks
but two mustard proof "capes," or
treated-fabric bags with clear plastic
tops with which the soldier covers
himself completely at the first sign
OF mustard attack, remaining
covered while he puts on his mask.
The masks themselves have been
greatly improved so that they are
lighter in weight and more efficient.
Most OF the manufacturing is of
masks for the usual war gases, but
Brig. Gen. William G. Kabrich,
technical director here, noted that
the center was careful to prepare
for even the most remote possibil-
tiles. AS an example, he cited car
bon monoxide, completely insult
able for war gas. Monoxide diff
flculties appeared In other battle
operations, however, and the center
was prepared with a special attach
rent for the usual mask to filter the
monoxide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
You Feel a LOT Safer
With Blood PIasma
Near, Marine Says
D. c. Naval Physician
Adds Pruise Of Fluid
For Saving Wounded

Through one Of its combat cor.
respondents, the Marine Corps yes
terday told a dramatic story Of
the value of blood plasma on the
fighting front in treatment OF
emergency cases and included the
statement of a Washington naval
physician in its praise.
The correspondent. Sergt. Rich
ard H. Venn of San Francisco,
Calf, saw plasma injected under
extreme emergency conditions on
the Solomons Islands, and the
amazing saving of life it brought.
Use of the plasma enabled doctors
to move patients back to more
adequate hospital facilities for fur
ther treatment.
Among the naval medical officers
who paid high praise to the use OF
plasma collected in blood banks
throughout the Nation was 1t.
Simon w. Eyer, (MCD U. S. N. who
formerly lived at 1850 Connecticut
avenue NV.
Injected Under Fire.
"A man who was brought to me"
he said, had been hit in the chest.
He was suffering from shock and
loss of blood. Although we were
under fire. the plasma is so easy
to use that it was possible to give
-; which xoUaG his
life"
Another doctor reported on a
case brought to him "as near dead
as any one I have ever seen" He
responded Immediately to the
plasma treatment and the medical
unit at the front was able to
evacuate him alive for advanced
treatment.
The morale raising effect of pres
ence of the plasma in the doctors
kits-an effect that might we'll
create pride among all those who
have donated blood and send others
to the collecting center-is expressed
by an anonymous marine who said.
You sure feel lot safer and a
lot more like fighting when you
know that stuff is around to help
out in case you get wounded
Jabs Needle Into Marine.
Here is the way the correspondent
describes the arrival of badly
wounded marine on a stretcher to
the first-aid station:
"A doctor produces two small
TASKS. One is filled with distilled
water: the other with substance
that looks like fine sawdust. Quickly
the water is drawn by vacuum into
the second flask. forming a straw
colored liquid. The doctor agitates
the flask to dissolve all the sawdust-
like substance. Then deft hands
lab a needle into the marines limp
veins, and slowly the liquid drains
through a rubber tube -
Perhaps the process has taken
minutes, perhaps Is Visibly the
color drains back into the mans
face; perceptibly his pulse quickens
and his body regains its heat. The
regeneration is complete
The work of the field doctor is
done. One more live marine will go
back to the base hospital where he
will receive all the refinements of
hospital care. With emergency
treatments, the doctors have STAYED
of death. Once again plasma has
done its work"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Winchester Couples Son
Wins Air Forces Medal
snecial DISPATCH to The Star.

Snecial DISPATCH to The Star.
WINCHESTER. Va. Jan. O.
Sergt. James Geanious, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Pete Geanious, this city,
has been awarded a United States
Army Air Forces medal for his part
in the sinking Of an enemy subma-
rlne somewhere of the Atlantic
coast, according to word received
by his parents.
The information came from Coils.
]. B. Bevans and Robert C. Jones,
who disclosed also that Sergt. Gean-
ious had returned to active duty,
after three months hospital treat
ment for deafness following a bomb
detonation. The soldier was bonn
bardier' of his plane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

10000 sorties in providing protection
for conveys, the report said, adding.
The effectiveness of this cover was
proved by the fact that a big in
crease in the number of enemy at
tempts to raid coastwise shipping in
the early part Of the year showed no
corresponding increase in shipping
losses"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

- cco OAoAA VII
the Stalingrad-
Rostov railway
but no branch
lines join the
main line either
at kotelnikovSki
or in fact at any
p ace between
Salsk and Stall
ingrad.
The reason it
was so described
u n d o u b t e dly
arises from the
fact that until
its capture it
served as rail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
100000 Airport Blaze
DESTROYS y Planes

BY the Associated Press
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Jan. H.
Twenty nine planes were destroyed
today at the Cedar Rapids airport
in a fire which caused damage esti-
mated by Business Manager Leo
DANCE at $4,000.
Fire Chief E. P. Kohout said a
spark from a welder's torch appar-
entlv touched of the blaze in a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
BY MAI. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

During the Russian operations
which resulted in the fall of Kotel-
nikovski. that city was frequently
described as a rail center" or i'm
portant railway point" 1t Is not
actually a rail center at all; 1t Is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Helmets for Defense Aides

Thirty-nine defense messengers
will receive their helmets at the
January meeting of the Third Pre-
cinct Defense Committee In the
Glen Echo Fire House Friday. H. T.
McCuen. deputy district warden, and
George E. Brown, precinct warden,
will have charge of the meeting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Producers to Discuss
Food for Armed Forces
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Jan. 2-Plans
for producing more dairy products
and other foods for our armed forces
will be discussed at the annual
meeting at Frederick Thursday of
the stockholders of the Frederick
Production Credit Association. it was
announced today by the president,
Thomas c. Darby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03
Head Of Chinese Mission
To Return to U. S.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHUNGKING, Jan. "A spokes-
man for the national military
council said tonight that 1t. Gen.
Hsiung Shih-fei head of a Chi
nese military mission in Washing
ton which has been called home,
would return to the United States
after making report to the Chi
nese government
The general saw President Roose-
welt Thursday, after announcement
that he was leaving Washington
had stirred speculation over pos
sible Chinese dissatisfaction with
the amount OF Allied aid she was
receiving. He said then that his
return depended on future neces-
sity.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

machine shop adjoining the hangar
which was burned out and the ma
chine shop destroyed.
Most Of the damage was done
within IS minutes after the fire
started, Chief Kohout said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-03

The dollar is a war weapon with
the advantages of a boomerang.
Put into War Bonds, it will return
to YOU later with interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
British Press Sounds Demand
For Another Bombing of Rome

Italy's will to resist. The fall of the
Fascist government enabled Ital-
ians to face the facts as they are,
and the facts are not so bad that
nothing can be done to retrieve the
situation.
THE fact that a great part of
Sicily is in the, hands of the enemy
is no reason for throwing up the
sponge. The last battle in this war
is long way away yet"
Sections of the London press,
meanwhile. joined in urging that
the next British American move.
both politically and militarily-be
closely co-ordinated with the Rus
sian drive on the eastern front and
warned that Axis propagandists are
trying desperately to drive wedge
between the three powers.
The London News Chronicle as
serted that the Allies had failed to
establish unity of outlook" and
said there lis needed that full and
frank exchange of views between
Premier Stain. President Roosevelt
and our own Prime Minister about
which Germany is so nervous"
The Daily Herald said there must
be set up without delay new ma
chinery, political council of the
United Nations, to settle in advance
as far as possible such issues as
have been raised by the North
| African and Italian campaigns"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Western Union Votes
For Postal Merger
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. l0.-Western
Union stockholders today voted ap-
prevail of merger terms calling for
the acquisition of all Postal Tele-
graph properties and operations.
Of the outstanding 1,050,000 West
ern Union shares, 785 ,02l were voted
for and 1858 against the CONSOLE
dalton.
William Burke, international rep
resentative of the American Com
munications Association (CIO), OPP
posed the merger on the grounds
that Western Union stockholders
were not fully advised Of the finan-
cial obligations to be assumed. He
said the venture might be I'M
profitable and added the merger was
against the best interests of the
Nation and the war effort.
S. A. Cohen, counsel for the asso-
citation, opposed the merger with
the assertion that it might turn a
solvent concern into an insolvent
one. Mr.. Burke said he represented
number of Western Union en-
ploye stockholders.
Stockholders of Postal Telegraph,
meanwhile, were to meet at 2 pm.
to vote on the same measure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
BY the Associated Press,

LONDON, Aug. 10.-A demand
that Rome be bombed again was
sounded in the British press to-
day as the Sicilian campaign
moved rapidly toward a climax
with Premier Pietro Badoglio's
government showing no sign of
needing Allied surrender de-
mands.
Urging repetition of the July 1s
bombing of Rome, the London Daily
Express declares that I'VE should re-
mind million italians in their cap
ital that their need to force a de-
cision from Badoglio is still more
pressing than ours"
This expression OF opinion coin
cided with Rome broadcast indi-
eating that, for the moment at least
Badoglio had no intention of cutting
his ties with Hitler.
ITO expect that italy should de-
sert Germany at this crucial mo-
ment OF the war and trade her ma.
tional honor as an escape from
fighting is an insult" said the broad
cast. which was recorded by the
Ministry of Information.
'Mussolinis downfall was a DO
litical and not military event,
the broadcast added. From the
military point of view it enhanced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Pack Of Seven Dried Fruits
Ordered Held for u. S.

BY the Associated Press. -
The War Food Administration to-
day ordered the entire 1943744 pack
of seven dried fruits to be set aside
for Government purchase.
Fruits affected are raisins, prunes,
apples apricots, peaches, pears and
currants.
The Government took over large
proportion of last years supplies
under similar order, designed to
assure ample supplies for lease lend
and military programs.
The food agency said civilian sup
plies would be provided during the
next IL months as was done in the
last year, through the release OF
quantities from Government stocks
into regular trade channels.