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targets will be in United Nations
control.
For the Allies. Sicily is said to
lie on the road to Italy, and many
observers here who occupy high
positions where they can hear
the secrets of the future hold
that Italy is but stop on the
way to the Balkans. The view of
these men is that north OF Rome
Italy would be a liability for the
Allies. Control of Italy to the
Tiber would be enough to put
American, British and associated
armies on location for 4 leap
across the Adriatic.
The value to the United Ma
tions Of holding Italy and the
Balkans for the mere sake of
possession is probably slight. But
they possess great geographical
value for the encirclement Of
Germany. Gen. Giraud COM
mented here that the Nazis will
fight to the bitter end. The end
will be hastened by drawing tight
the moose around Germany from
outside.
Targets in Small Area.
During the past two years the
bombing of industrial targets has
been turned by the RAF-which
during the past year has had the
great advantage of close Ameri-
can assistance - into pretty
scientific instrument OF aggres-
sive warfare. An authoritative
estimate is that Germany has
lost the use of IS per cent Of the
industry of each of more than
30 cities.
Unfortunately for the Allies,
most of those cities are clustered
in one area. Most of them are
within 400 miles of Great Britain.
They are the cities of the Ruhr
Valley They are Cologne and
Dusseldorf. They are Wilhelm
shaven, Emden and Hamburg.
They are the industrial and
shipping centers of the western
occupied countries, like Amster-
dam and st. Nazaire. They are
important centers, but Germany
is large country with many
cities and industrial areas west
Of the circle whose center is Lon
don and whose radius is 400
miles.
Bombing Germany from Eng
land beyond the edge Of the 400
mile circle is an uncertain un-
dertaking. The fighter strength
and the max concentrated by the
Nazis along the approaches to
Germany from England are so
great and menacing that the
military or naval command has had
any such illusion, but it is none the
less an impression too widely held
If complacency is here it may be
traced to no small extent to those
who took their cue from Prime
Minister Churchills speech on the
Sair experiment" which he and pre-
President Roosevelt sane
toned.
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HE opinions OF the oriters this page
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented
Stars effort to 0ive all sides OF questions interest
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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McLemore-
Left His Puunch
And Chins Abroad
By HENRY McLEMORE,

NEW YORK. - Somewhere In
England are my second Or third
chins and that part of my stomach
which used to precede the rest of
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BeIeion Mine Output Cut

Although more men are employed
than before the war. coal mines in
Belgium are producing only 54 per
cent of the normal output.
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| Plain Talk
|Cun Create
Realism
BY DAVID LAWRENCE

Warnings against overconfidence
and undue optimism apparently
wer purposely issued by Secretary
Knix in his press conference Jointly
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Russians Realistic.
No such unrealistic pictures have
been allowed to befog the vision Of
the Russians, who from the very
beginning have clammored for a
second front and by a second
t-ont" they do not mean amphibian
operations in the Mediterranean.
They want to see hundred or
more divisions of Allied troops in
action somewhere on the continent
Of Europe leading directly to Berlin.
Some Of the blame. incidentally,
must rest on those extremists in
the ranks Of airpower enthusiasts
who have, unwittingly caused many
people to think that the air bomber
can do it all. Nobody in the high
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and we said many prayers while
waiting for rescue"
Frank Davidson, ships butcher
from Sydney, said he saw a great
mass of men struggling futilely to
force their way up from a lower
deck through the debris blocked
matches. He could hear them
screaming for help as he jumped
from the ship
Before leaving the Centaur Mr..
Davidson helped one nurse don her
life jacket. He never saw her again.
Mr.. Davidson swan through the
oll-covered water to one of the RATS.
From there he watched the Centaur
go down.
I'VE thought we heard airplane
motors in the darkness, but the
pilot (of the ship who was on the
same raft) said it was Diesel en-
gines. Then We saw couple of
lights close by and knew it must
be the submarine.
During daylight Friday we saw
seven airplanes, one big ship at a
distance, and we sent up rockets,
but they went unnoticed.
Fought Sharks with Oars.
The next afternoon we heard an
airplane and sent up rockets. 1t
flew over us and within 10 minutes
an Allied ship picked us all up"
All the survivors we're crowded on
four RATS and wall of the ships
wheelhouse, which had been blown
out by the explosion. A half dozen
of them stood on this wall through
out the 36 hours they awaited res
cue. The make-shift raft was more
than two feet under water most of
the time and about to sink entirely
when they were rescued.
Some of the RATS had plenty of
food and water. Others had vir-
tually none, but the ocean sWells
prevented transfer of supplies.
Sharks cruised about the RATS all
the time and the men repeatedly
drove them away with their oars.
One 12-foot shark snapped hungrily
at an empty, brightly colored tin
tossed into the ocean and its sharp
teeth sheared off the bottom of the
can
Announcement of the sinking did
not say where the survivors were
taken.
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Henry
Continued From First Pag

graves by the soldiers. many of
whom have scarcely slept for days,
was extremely touching.
The Roman walled city of Tunis,
to which once mighty Carthage
now is a suburban village, is in the
midst of week of celebration such
as the countryside probably has not
known since the victories of Ham
nibal.
Thousands of British soldiers. with
sprinkling of Americans, pack its
, dusty streets singing, dancing and
laughing. All the wine the Ger
mans left in Tunis once well-f1lled
cases was disappearing rapidly to-
day, but there was little actual
drunkenness.
The soldiers, released from the
strain of the long campaign, we're
just having an all-around good time.
Parties of British soldiers had COM
mandeered Arab hayracks. loaded
them with empty wine casks and
drove through the city singing and
waving empty bottles.
Both the French and Arab citizens
were taking it all in very good
humor and seemed anxious to do
everything possible to help the jolli-
f1cation. They themselves had torn
angrily from the shop windows the
lately posted anti-JeW notices. The
Tunisian Arab police, soldierly- look
ing fellows with golden crescents
on their cap fronts, were in jovial
and cooperative mind, but were
having a busy time keeping the
streets open and giving directions.
British Troops Get Beer.
Hundreds of the British soldiers
had plucked white lilies from the
citys gardens and wore them on
their helmets. All the windows on
the main streets are gayly decked
with French flags. There was a big
run on the city's dozen or so banks
as motley crowds, usually led by
black-veiled Arab women, jammed
before the doors to get their Bank
of France money changed into
lunlSlan currency.
Today the first train since the
occupation arrived in Tunis from
the west. 1t brought food and coal
for the city and beer for the British
troops. All the way from the Alge-
rian frontier the railway was lined
with cheering people as the train,
driven by a British engineer, deco
rated with flags of the United Ma
tions and with v sign embracing
the Lorraine Cross, made it's jour-
ney.
A great chorus of cheering went
up as the train pulled into the Tunis
station A waiting room had been
especially prepared for the occasion.
On the floor were deep Arab carpets
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO. May 1s Up, ~ s. D. Ao.-
Salable hogs. $4,000: total, :. 900; market
active. generally steady with Mondays
average: top, go; good and choice lsO-
$50 pounds. ii 1880: largely l445-55:
strictly good and choice I5O-lsO pounds
LIP i 40: bulk good 360-550 pound
Salable cattle. 5000: salable calves. 500:
fed steers and yearlings moderately active.
steady; good grades predominating; strictly
cho1ce oferinss absent bulk l4.5O-l65O;
eEriy TOP. ! o 50; several loads held around
90: heIfers steady; mostly - 15-l6OO;
strictly choice heifers held above 1915:
| 33-l2 80. but strictly good cows up to
- 90: cutters, 1850 down: bulls weak
pTactlcal top heavy sausage offerings, 1880,
aithough 1875 paid; vealers active at
-, 3O.lo 80; latter price paid freely;
stockers firm: choice 60O-pound Southwest
yyearllngs. l6 90; 900-pound fieshy feeders,
Salable sheep, 1000; total 4 900; late
to choice S5-lO0-pound wooled lambs
1550-l IL; top, 1925 on closely sorted,
Ss6Flctl choice; good to choice so
lambs with No; and ? skins, IA. .65-
; I5:l5; top l5.25: small lots. choice so
pound pound. nstivs adv sprna lambs. ZOO sheep
a0O-25; today's trade, fat lambs active.
fully steady: good to choice fed Western
Wooled lambs. 15.S5-16l5: top, 1925;
Just good load woolskins, 1925: good to
choice fed Western clipped lambs, with
NO and skins, IA 5O-15.10: short deck
1900; sheep fully steady; mere choice
shorn, native ewes. 800; part deck ewes
With lambs by their side. to yard traders,
$50 straight.
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and the room was furnished with
the richly decorated gilt furniture
used by the Bey of Tunis and his
family when they wait for trains.
There was a touching ceremony
here yesterday. Some weeks ago the
Sd Regiment of the French Foreign
Legion lost its colors in battle.
Shortly after two garage men saw
couple of Germans on spree in
Tunis. They parked their car and
when the garage men peered inside
they saw the flag. They took it
from the car and hid it in a garden
when it remained until the city fell,
When Gen. Giraud came to Tunis
three days ago the colors were hand
ed over to him. On the spot he pre-
sented each of the garage men with
the Croix de Guerre and then for
mally restored the colors to the
regiment.
A Scottish colonel and a Hindu
private received the capitulation of
Col. Gen. Jurgen von Arnim.
The dramatic details of the sur
render were revealed today in the
first issue of the Tunis Telegram,
army newspaper set up in the few
days since British troops have been
in the vicinity.
1t was near the Arab hamlet of
Hamman Lif. British and French
forces were closing in on all sides
OF German position. Suddenly a
German staff car appeared ana
drove rapidly toward the British
lines.
The colonel was the first to speak
to its occupant, a German staff
officer
Il come from Gen. Won Arnim's
headquarters said the German.
He wishes to surrender"
Suspected Trick.
Taken by surprise, the colonel sus-
pected an enemy trick. Before en-
terlng the car he called the nearest
soldier-Sargharna Iimbu, a Ghurka
rlf1eman armed with long dagger
and tommy gun. The two climbed
1AA"o VAN Se1i anu WClC dllFcH GOWdTC
the enemy lines.
Won Arnim was there with his
stat1 and they wanted to surrender"
the account continued. Quickly a
British infantry battalion closed on
the headquarters and began to Or
ganlze the cleanup. Won Arnim
packed small attache case in his
palatlal caravan, half home. half
Office. He handed over his pistol to
one OF the British generals who came
to meet him. The pistol subse-
quently was handed to the colonel
as a trophy for his regiment.
Won Arnim left his headquarters
amid chorus of 'heils' from his
staff.
1T was the colonel's big day. The
other high spot for him was the
news of the award of a DSO for
bravery in the battle of Wadi Akarit
north OF Gabes, last month"
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costs on raw materials, labor, trans
portation and similar factors"
Cherry BurrelI Corp. earned $780,
29o or % cents share for six
months ended April 30, compared
with 1926 .220 or IS cents a share for
the same period year ago.
National Department Stores Corn.
earned S1,664 1888 or $3.50 a share
in its fiscal year ended January 81
compared with sl,389O or s2.70 a
share in the preceding year. Earn
lngs for the latest year were after a
provision of 100000 for contin
gencieS.
American & Foreign Power Co.
in 1912 earned s6,834.364 or s78e
a share cn the combined 81 and
ST perferred stocks, in arrears, COM
pared with s5,854,625 or s6.76 a
preferred share in l941.
United Air Lines reported April
air express pound miles were 4o%
ABOVE a year ago, while air mail
pound miles flown in the month
were up $50.
Standard Oil Co. of California
earned s6,4l0,246 or 40 cents a share
IN the first quarter, compared with
S5,456,952 or ~ cents a share
year ago.
Hamilton Watch Co. earned s237.-
9l4 or 49 cents share in the March
quarter, compared with $53,396 or
l cent a share year ago.
Kansas City Southern Railway Co.
reported for the first quarter net in
come of sl,176,797 or Sl.89 a share
compared with $813,O32 or s1.18
share in the same 1912 period.
Reading Co. announced net in
come of S3,322,l54 or 80 cents a
share in the first quarter, against
Sl,987, ,l26 or 80 cents a share year
ago.
Pennsylvania Railroad reported
net income of Sc 6,899,643 or 50 cents
a share for the first 1943 quarter.
compared with revised net loss of
$457,3ll for the same 1912 period
March net income was S29O8,492.
against sl,132,3 in March, 1912.
Cumberland. Md, Awarded $780,
0C0 airport bonds, due June l.,
l954-65 to Alexander Brown & Sons
The bid was 102.539 for las.
The March Wheat Grind in
creased to 47927.2OO bushels from
44,286,042 for February and 38,194.-
3l2 in March, 1912, the Department
OF Commerce reported. Flour pro-
ductlon in March totaled 1O569 400
barrels, against 9,779.97O for Feb
ruary and 8,378,46O in March, l942,
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S97,535,743 Saved
On War Contracts of
Bendix Aviation
Sharp Cut in Prices
Made Voluntarily in
Seven-Month Period
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May he. r.
Breech, president of Bendix Avia-
ton Corp, reported the company
voluntarily slashed S97 7,535.743 from
prices on Government contracts for
the period October l, 1912, to May
l Of this year.
These reductions. Breech said in
his report for the six months ended
March 81, were in addition to vol
untary price cuts of about $l23.-
100000 made during the fiscal year
ended last September 30.
Breech said Bendix Aviations net
income for the six months ended
March 81 was $3.50, ,449, equal to
$3.87 common share, against So
122,679 or SO "a on common in the
comparable six months ended March
81. 1912.
The companys president estimat-
ed untitled orders for precision in
struments, radio communications
equipme and other devices
amounted to $l,074 100000 at the
end of the period.
Net sales and operating income
Tor the SIX months were $417,812579,
an increase of las per cent from the
total OF the corresponding period a
year earlier.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Business Briefs

Bank Loans for commerce, indus
try and agriculture in 1Ol leading
cities declined S42,0O0,OOO more dur
ing the week ended May IL and on
that date stood at $5,565 900 900, or
81, ,lO4 900 900 below a year ago, ac-
cording to the Federal Reserve
Board. Holdings of Government
bonds increased $973, ,00O, 900, Teasury
bill holdings were up 1896 900, ,OOO
demand deposits expanded s523,-
100000, and Government deposits
increased s846,000,000 during the
week.
Business Failures in the week
ended May 13 totaled II, compared
with 64 the previous week and 215
In the same 1912 week, Dun &
Bradstreet reported.
Silver Consumption reached a new
high of 193,933,000 ounces in the
United States during le42. a gain
OF more than 1870 over 1941 and
more than 300%s above 1910, the
American Bureau of Metal Statis-
tics reported. The Bureau estimated
that 500 of industrial consumption
was for direct and indirect military
purposes
Consolidated Edison Co. lost an
estimated $6,9O0OOO in 1912 revenues
as a result of dimouts, practice
blackouts and other wartime regu-
lations, President Ralph H. Tapscott
told stockholders. He estimated
these factors might cost as much as
$l0,000,000 this year. The company
lost about $500 commercial and
small industrial consumers as a re-
suit OF the war, he said, but about
1,500 new establishments of the
same general character opened for
business.
Union Bag e. Paper Co. reported
loss of $l88,O74 in the March
quarter, compared with an adjusted
net profit of S6l9,2O4 in the same
1892 period. President Alexander
Calder said the loss reflects the
circumstances of Government
curtailment and ALLEGATION, shortage
OF manpower, and OPA price limita-
tlons on our finished products with
virtually no control of advancing
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Raids
Continued From First Page.)

Indicated that the daring raid by
picked Lancaster crews assigned to
attack and breach the German dams
Sunday night had attained the goal
p doing as much damage as could
pc done by thousands of tons of
bombs dropped on many nights
running on the usual objectives.
!, Huge Wall of Water.
! A mammoth wall of water swept
hown into the highly industrialized
Ruhl Valley, site of some of Adolf
Hltler's most-needed war plants,
Prom the blasted wall of the Moline
Dam.
1 Farther to the east. the Eder Dam
backing up 202 100000 tons of water
and characterized by the Air Minis
try as the largest dam in all Ger
many, spilled terrific quantities of
water through at least two uncon-
srollable breaches into the Weser
Valley, drowning out Nazi war
plants and disrupting water borne
traffic.
/, Long-range four -englned Lancas-
ters dipped into a hail of anti-air-
craft fire to an altitude of only 100
feet TO drop a barrage of heavy
mines against and over the dam
walls. Picked crews trained for
weeks for the novel attack.
The Sorpe Reservoir, which with
the Moline Dam controls about 70
per cent of the Ruhr Basin water
fall, also was attacked, but results
were not reported
A later reconnaissance revealed
that the Moline Dam was preached
over length of 100 yards, the All
Ministry said, and that the power
station below had been swept away
The sweeping floods tore up rail.
ways, carried away bridges and de.
stroyed or damaged hydroelectrit
power stations. the ministry added
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ative, which supplies bulk gasoline
to 725 farmers in the four Northern
Virginia counties, said his tanks are
completely dry today.
Behind in Planting.
Mr.. Peed said A Smith Bowman,
owner of Sunset Hills, 4,OO0-acre
Fairfax County farm, reported he
would be out of gas by noon today.
Mr.. Bowman said he will require 500
gallons of gas during the next two
weeks, and already is 10 days behind
in crop planting
Chilcott's Orchard near Fairfax,
which will need As gallons each day
for the next two weeks in order to
carry on spraying operations, will be
out OF gasoline by nightfall, Mr.
Peed said.
Mr.. Peed said farmers in Northern
Virginia lost three planting days last
week due to rain This week and
next, he said, is the peak of the
planting season, when farmers mus
have gas or suffer drastic crop reduc-
tions.
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Armed Forces 10 Get
IS Million Books
Under New Plan
| Council Maps Program
For Manufacture Of
.Pocket-Size Editions

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May ia plan
eaAing for dependable armed serv-
ic&s editions" of best-selling fiction
and non-fction will make it possible
~ the Council on Books in War;
t4sAe to distribute 35,000,000 free vol
lAes to Americans in the armed
Services during the next year, coun-
al officials announced today.
: The new distribution plan. de-
veloped by committee representing
authors. booksellers, librarians and
publishers in cooperation with the
A4ny, Navy, and Marine Corps, will
Hlmipate late in June when $4,000
Apies each of Is selected titles will
w ready for shipment, the council
aid.
Il Editions of $4,000 Copies.
sahe special paper-bound pocket
side editions will be manufactured
M various printing plants through
1at the country on presses not
Mrmally employed in the printing
4 books, on paper supplied from
$ned services requirements, so that
Ge cost will be the lowest in the
mtory of the industry, the council
&td.
while the minimum edition of any
TIE will be $4,000 cories, the aver
aSe probably will total 100000, Of
fWals said, of which 80 per cent
will be distributed to the Army and
20 per cent will be divided among
she other services. Distribution will
n exclusively in overseas areas,
Mlitary hospitals and training CEN
tefs here where no camp libraries
NE available.
sssA monthly list of titles will be
Issued containing fiction and nom
Mtion. and occasionally including
kdassics, mysteries and Westerns.
First List of Titles.
1.-The first list includes Franz Wer-
IFS Song of Bernadette," William
HAroyans The Human Comedy"
mpt. Ted Lawson's forthcoming
Thirty Seconds Over Toxic" Mark
Twain's Tom Sawyer" and Hervey
Aliens The Forest and the Fort"
& The plan was worked out by
kpnmittee comprised of Malcolm
johnson of Doubleday. Doran & Co.,
aohn Farrar of Farrar & Rinehart
Ind William Sloane OF Henry Holt
u Co.
Z The council said that no educa-
tional or technical books would be
Included in the armed services edi-
lions, nor would the new plan in
any way supersede the councils
Victory Book Campaign, which in
she past four months has collected
Ind distributed almost 100000 VOL
Hines among servicemen.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Hospital Ship
Continued From First Page J

rife explosion. They ran to the
door and looked into the passage
way. The ship already was afire.
Donning hfejackets over their pa
1amas, they leaped from the ship
together. The other woman struck
floating wreckage and was killed.
The sea was covered with oil
which fortunately did not catch
fre, Sister Savage said. Il am a
good swimmer and got to the raft.
One OF the men gave me his over
coat, which I shared with a le-year-
old cabin boy.
Prayed While Waiting Rescue.
The first thing I did when I
heard and felt the explosion and
knew we were torpedoed was to pray
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Daily Oil Production
Higher During Week
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla. May 19.-Daily
crude Oil production in the United
States increased 1l2,7l5 barrels to
4Ol3,985 for the week ended May Is,
the Oil and Gas Journal said today.
California production was up g.
$50 to 778,500; Eastern Fields. 1880
TO $1,000; Illinois, $500 to 236,10O;
Michigan, TOO to 6l.l0O: Texas. ILL.,
$50 to l 500 $50; East Texas, 2O.5OO to
339, 300. Kansas. 1880 to 3O5 $50,
and Louisiana, 1900 tc 348,O5O.
Oklahoma production declined Is
$50 to 32l 300 and the Rocky Noun
tain States. 1OO85 to ll8335
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK, May Is lP,-Late foreign
sHcnanse rates follow Great Britain in
collars. others in cents). 'e'4i III
oanada = Ofticial Canadian Control
Board rates for United States dollars buV-
ing 10 per cent premium selling II ner
Crnt premium equivalent to discounts on
a SSanhaolan ~ dollars in New York of buying
9.5I per cent. selling 900 per cent
- CANADIAN dollar in New York open mar
ket; zig per cent discount or 90 n6i.
United States cents. vi '''oo1<
Europe-Great Britain. of5cia, ,p.rl.
era Foreign Exchange COMMITTEE rafes,
ouylne 4;o2; selling O4 'eS''
on Latln America Argentina oso,o,
- ~ free, .55O: Brazil, oficiaI pneial. q aaa
lree. 5.20n: Mexico, 20 66n o''"h'
id dhiaIes IN spot cables unless othervis.
lholcated n Nominal ''ei '" lo'
Evening star., 1943-05-18
New York Cotton

:; NEW YORK. May 1s LP-Cotton raI-
hee t,ea oooaS' overcoming an early period Of
Eesltahcy lhe reversal of form reflected
senate PER aericulture approval of the Thomas
M oa,I 10 nnx minimum sales price OF 23Ia
ton. cot-
me news created moderate commission
Rhousa demand and increased trade price
possessions and LIQUIDATION pared the
cents bale higher; July, 10 93; october
IL 69. and December ~. 50
tutures closed 55 to rs cents a bsls
Evening star., 1943-05-18

the harbors which were used in the
landing operations are extremely
difficult. They have a maximum
depth of IA feet. and any action
which might delay ships coming in
with landing force would be ex-
tremely dangerous.
Also strong winds and strong and
uncertain ocean currents make land
ings uncertain. After the landing,
when resistance became very great,
it also became difficult to get sup
plies ashore. and the nature of the
terrain made it hard to maneuver
the troops, the Secretary said.