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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-09

These ore a few Of The p'odvsts coming Of rho
JohnsmenvIs p'eduetio" line. Insulations for ships,
steel mills, synthetic rubber plants and other pital
industries; packnes, qaskets brake Innings for ,rnr
machines; building products for tar construction;
Celtic products for canouaee paints; asbestos fiber;
bombs and Shells
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
I'D Rather Be Riqht'
Soviet Victory Proves Nothing Yet Invented
Which Can Overcome Bravery and Hard Work

Among the modern" ideas from
taken in Russia is that the soldier
of today never really makes physical
contact with the enemy, that he
rides in splendid, remote Wagnerian
glory in a vehicle of steel, blitzing,
surprising, surrounding, encircling.
1t would be folly to deny the value
of armor and motorization, the
Russians have used both vastly and
would have been lost long ago with
out them. But the Russians have
also walked their feet off; the Ger
man 9th Army at Stalingrad was
encircled with the help of one Rus
sian Army that is reported to have
walked 200 kilometers.
Press accounts of Russian troops
walking to the front, at night, &C
companied by horse drawn artillery,
differ only in details from Tolstov's
descriptions of the walking Russian
troops of 1872, with their horse
drawn baggage trains. The Rus
slams have used all the Wagnerian
conceptions of war, plus sweat.
Oldest Methods.
AS for contact with the enemy. the
Russians have liked it as close as
possible, often hand-to-hand; so
close that it is reported from Stain
grad that German and Russian SOL
diers would sometimes find them
selves jumping into the same Shell
hole to dodge blast.
1t is remarkable fact that the
most decisive battles in this most
modern war have rehabilitated
hand-to-hand infantry fighting and
the long walk through the snow.
Russia has helped to make the
world real again. She has found
the key to the magic formulas for
sure victory, and she has unlocked
them. That goes for all chromium
plated and chi-chi approaches to
victory, including the airpower
theory of victory by unlimited de-
struction; no city was ever more
thoroughly destroyed than Stain
grad. Russia has restored the kind
OF world in which sweat defeats the
formula; the Wagnerian generals are
IN prison camps, the lightning has
a frozen nose.
Now the world can live again. and
fight again. Nothing has been in
vented yet which can overcome
bravery and hard work. The Soviet
Union has defeated the feature
writer's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20

Swimming, ballroom and tap dance
classes, dance, Jewish Community
Center, CUSO). Sixteenth and G
streets NV, $50 O'Clock tonight.
Drop-in hour, dancing, refresh
ments, gymnasium, Calvary Meth
odist Church. 1859 Columbia road
NV, 7:30 o'clock tonight.
Refreshments, dances. orches-
tras, YWCA CUSO). Seventeenth
and K streets NV, 7::3O o'clock to-
night.
Hour of Music" Washington
Chapel, Sixteenth street at Column
bia road NV, s o'clock tonight.
TWomens Battalion dance, De-
partmental Auditorium, Constitution
avenue between Twelfth and Four
tenth street NV, o'clock tonight.
+Non-sectarian religious service.
social and fellowship hour, refresh
ments, hostesses, broadcast John S.
Bennett Memorial Service Club
Central Union Mission, 613 C
street NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
Dancing, refreshments, entertain
ment, All Souls Memorial Episcopal
Church, Cathedral avenue and
Woodley place, off of Connecticut
avenue NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
Dance, refreshments, entertain
ment, st. Margaret's Church (Epis-
copaD, Connecticut avenue above
Florida avenue NV, o'clock to-
night.
Foreign films, All Souls Church
Unitarian, Fifteenth and Harvard
streets NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
Dancing, games, refreshments.
parish house of st. Johns EPISCOPAL
church. Sixteenth street between H
and I streets NV, $50 o'clock to-
night.
Dance. Noes UsO), 1914 N
street NV, $50 o'clock tonight
Games, dance, orchestra, re-
freshments, YMCA USOD Bows
Building, 1876 G street NV, $50
o'clock tonight.
FOR COLORED SERVICEMEN.
Games, billiards, dancing, YMCA
'USO), 1916 Twelfth street NV, 8
o'clock tonight.
Dance, orchestra, refreshments,
hostesses, YWCA, Phyllis Wheatley
CUSO), 90l Rhode Island avenue
NV, o'clock tonight.
Dancing, games, refreshments,
Llchtman Leisure Lodge, 1439 U
street NV, 8 O'Clock tonight.
War workers welcome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
Farm Fur|ough Bill
Expected 10 Speed
Drafting Of Fathers
Release Of Million for
Crop Work to Bring New
Army Call Experts Soy
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG,

While the House Military At
fairs Committee has gone on rec
ord against the general drafting
of family men, the Bankhead bill
to furlough farmers now in the
armed forces would have the eff
feet Of speeding up the Undue
ton of married men with chill
dren, informed sources said to-
day.
Agriculture statisticians. mean
while, estimated that approximately
million men had left farms for
Army life from the beginning Of the
war to January l, l943. One Of the
two Bankhead bills intended to re-
lieve the farm manpower shortage
would fUrlough these farmer soldiers
until January l. 1914.
With the definite statement from
President Roosevelt yesterday that
there was no possibility of reducing
the size Of the armed forces from
the 100000 men contemplated by
the end Of this year, informed
sources said definitely that if the
million soldier-farme were released
from the armed forces their places
would have to be taken by married
men with children, men over 80 and
men now barred from the service by
physical defects.
Fathers Face Early Call.
At the same time, it was said
that the Kilday bill would not halt
the induction of family men In
definitely, since most local boards
are already deep in their pools of
married men without children and
will have TO tap the pool of fathers
before long to meet the demands
Of the armed forces.
The bill, however, might change
! the date of induction of married
men with children from one to three
months, depending on the processes
| local boards are now following in
meeting their calls, it was said
A number of States including the
! District, are now adjusting their
quotas monthly to put heavier calls
on boards with larger supply OF
the few remaining single men, or
married men without children.
In States, which are sending out
calls to local boards without much
effort at readjusting quotas, the
Kilday bill, which makes it law to
put draft quotas on State wide
basis, might have the effect of post
poning the induction of married
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20

men with children for a few months
it was said.
The House Military Affairs Com
mittee, in a formal report yesterday
on the reasons why it approved the
Kilday bill to give family men draft
oeferment priorities, declared 81
would be injurious to the welfare OF
our country to have local draft
boards feel that men with families
can be freely indicted into the
armed services"
The report asserted that many
local boards throughout the country
due to confusion and difference OF
opinion in the construction of the
rules and regulations adopted by the
(Selective Servicel bureau have been
inducing large numbers of men into
the armed forces with little regard
for the number Of dependents, par
ticularly in relation to men who are
the heads of families"
Seek to Keep Families Intact.
The committee reiterated it's ad-
herence to the fundamental prin-
ciples' that there is certainly a
genuine social reason for preserving
established families" 1t said that
established families should not be
indiscriminately uprooted and torn
from their moorings solely because
OF the fact that their financial needs
have been taken care Of" by previ-
ously-enacted legislation providing
for Government allowances to de-
pendents.
The report emphasized that the
kllday bill does not, in any way
bar the induction of heads of fam.
lies, but does provide that basec
on the degree Of dependency, single
men without dependents, and single
men with collateral dependents, al
well as married men without chill.
dren, shall be indicted into the
service under proper rules and regu-
lations prior to the induction o.
heads of families with one or more
dependents.
Written by Chairman May anc
Representative Kilday, Democrat. O.
Texas-Sponsor of the measure
the report commended the War De.
partment and other leaders of GU,
military effort" and disclaimed an,
intention to interfere with thei,
| work.
Eases Home-FrOnt Situation.
The committee held that enact.
|. ment of the legislation would b.
highly beneficial to the armed
forces and aid much in the prose.
cution of the war, and at the same
Hne maintain and preserve the in.
stltution'of the American home, a.
well as alleviate to some extent thu
urgent and much needed demand fol
additional productive manpower or
our home front"
Experts on manpoWer problems
however, presented picture O.
forces operating on all sides to re.
strict the number of men who coule
be drafted while at the same time
releasing a million men from tn,
| Army, who would have to be re-
| placed, and maintaining the con
templated service strength.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.

Let us note that the Russians
have won their remarkable successes
in street fighting (Stalingrad, Ros-
TOW, Kharkov) without using those
modern weapons, tank and airplane.
The big street fights have been won
by sweat, and on foot.
This is blow to the conception
that mans fate is being determined
exclusively by machines that cost a
lot to build and make a great deal
of noise.
1t is now the official Russian
theory, expressed by several COM
manders in press interviews, that
the tank is useless in fighting with
in a city, 1t has been decisively
defeated, time after time, by ade-
quately armed men on foot.
One Russian commander tells,
with something like smoker. how
the Germans, blindly relying on
tanks, tried to use as many as 400
at one time in crowded narrow
streets, only to be damned, stalled
and beaten back by unmounted
unarmored men. And in Stalingrad.
the Russians baffled enemy aviation
by the expedient of deliberately
pitching their lines so close to the
enemy as to make bombing too
risky.
We might, by straining a little,
say that the Germans have lost in
the big cities partly because of their
old-fashioned, conservative reliance
on tanks and airplanes.
Ideas Are Weapons.
Thus does the brilliant strategic
conception Of last year become the
brass-hatism of today. The Ger
mans are being whipped by superior
conceptions, just as they whipped
the French by means of them.
Among the new ideas, big and little,
recently uncorked by the Russians
are that city can lose it's useful
ness as residence center and as
a production center without losing
its usefulness as a fortress.
1t has been said that ideas are
weapons, and at Stalingrad an idea
OF which use was made was to
direct artillery fire from a radio
station snuggled up against the
enemy lines, and therefore difficult
for the enemy to shell, while keep
ing Russian artillery on the far side
OF the Volga River, and therefore
out OF reach of German tanks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
New York Symphony
Threatens Strike in
Row Over Firings
Members Vote Not to
Renew Contracts Unless
Cases Are Reviewed
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Feb. 20-The Griev-
ance Committee of the New York
Philharmonic-S Symphony Orchestra
has announced that the orchestra
members have voted not to renew
their contracts unless an arbitration
board is set up to review the cases
of IA men who have lost their jobs
This announcement was made yes
terday through the committee head
Calmen Fleislg, one of those dis
charged. Jack Rosenberg, president
of Local 802 of the American Fed
Grafton of Musicians (AFL) to which
the instrumentalists belong, said
"the musicians of the Philharmonic
have protested and we are going to
review the facts"
Contract Renewals in April.
Contracts do not come up for re-
neWal until late next month or in
April, it was said.
Meanwhile, Mishel Piastro, con-
cert master and assistant conductor
who was among those not re-en-
gagged, denounced the management
of the orchestra as well as Dr. Ar
tur Rodzinski. who takes charge as
conductor and musical director next
season. DR.. Rodzinski is complet-
ing the current season as conductor
of the Cleveland orchestra.
Mr.. Piastro charged that he was
being used as a scapegoat and added
that DR.. RodZinski had made the
dlsmissals for reasons of intrigue
and politics and not for the good of
the orchestra"
Arbitration Board Urged.
He pointed out that the Boston and
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestras
now have committees elected by the
members of these orchestras to re-
view diSmissals and asked that a
similar committee be established
within the Philharmonic.
Marshall Field, president and
chairman of the society's Board of
Directors announced that release of
the IA members to become effective
at the end Of the season was affected
in keeping with specific recon-
mendations" of DR. Rodzinski. Three
other members of the orchestra
have resigned.
DR.. Rodzinski who at first de-
clined comment, made this brief
statement today:
i am discharging my preparatory
duties as musical director of the New
York Philharmonic to the best of my
ability and in conformity with my
musical conscience and artistic in
tegrity."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
Emory Methodist

Layman's day will be observed
tomorrow at II am.
At 8 pm. group Of young people
from the Washington west sub dis
trict will present Eternal Life" by
Fred Eastman. The service will be
preceded by fellowship and buffet
supper at $50 pm. A devotional
meeting for all church school work.
ers and those assisting in the evan
gelistic campaign will be held on
Thursday at 8 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
Amos and Andy Quit
Radio Temporarily
As Contract Expires
BIuckfoce Team to Resum.
Broodcosting Later
With New Sponsor
BY the Associated Press,

--|~~NNN%sNN'
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2O.-For the
first time in Is years of broadcast
ing the blackface comedy that made
them famous, Amos and Andy were
out of job and off the air today
but only until they complete nego-
tiations for a new sponsor later in
the year.
Their contract with Campbell
Soup Co., for which they have con-
tlnued their five-nights-a-we week air
appearance since it became radios
first great national program, ex-
pired with their broadcast last night,
Announcement regarding the date
they expect to return to the air,
still as the comedy team of Amos
and Andy, but representing another,
as yet unidentified sponsor, will be
made later.
Back in 1925 Freeman F.. Gosden,
43, and Charles J. Correll, SO, broad
cast thelr flrSt program as Sam and
Henry from Chicago. Since then,
they have appeared in approximate
ly 1000 programs.
They began their broadcasts as
Amos and Andy in 1929 and have
had only one other subsequent spon-
sor, tooth paste company.
In that time their programs have
had only one interruption-an
eight-Week vacation in 1884.
Their last reported salary was
$500 weekly. That was in 1898.
All sketches used by the come
dams were written by Mr.. Correu,
one-time Peoria, Ill, bricklayer.
Mr.. Gosden used to be an egg
bearer for Thurston, the magician,
and also was tobacco and automo-
bile salesman before he turned to
comedy.
At one time their audience was es-
timated at 100000 weekly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20

CONCERTS.
Soldiers Home Band, Stanley Hall
o:30 o'clock this afternoon.
1880" concert, National Svm-
phony Orchestra, Constitution Hall
$3.50 o'clock tonight.
DANCES.
Syrian Washington Club, Ward.
man Park Hotel, $50 o'clock to-
night
Gable Club, Wardman Park Hotel
o'clock tonight.
Polish Club of WASHINGTON p
N. A., Group 84s, Stansbury Audi
forum, 1892 Georgia avenue NV.
9 o'clock tonight.
Tacomis Club, preceded by dinner
Mayflower Hotel, o'clock tonight.
Cherry Tree dance, Hebrew Con-
gregational Temple, Eighth and ]
streets NV, $3.50 o'clock tonight
Service men and women welcome.
DINNERS.
Officers and Board of Governors
Washington Chapter, American In
stitute of Banking, Willard Hotel, :
o'clock tonight.
George Washington University
Medical Society, Mayf1ower Hotel, I
o'clock tonight.
Sigma Pi Fraternity, Willard Ho-
tel, 8 o'clock tonight.
RECREATION.
Home Away From Home" Ii
brary, games. music, dancing, radio
Victrola, Walsh Club for War Work
ers, 1923 Twenty-second street NV.
pm. to midnight today.
SMOKER.
st. Francis Xavier Holy Name
Society, at school hall, Twenty
seventh and Pennsylvania avenue
Sc, o'clock tonight.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco The
alter, Madison place and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. Tonight, 7:30-
$50 o'clock, Pete Macias' orchestra
8:30-9:30 o'clock, Scottish hour
9:3o-lo o'clock, Marian Chace
dancers.
Officers Club of the United Ma
tions, Burlington Hotel, 1920 Yer
mont avenue NV, 10 am. until
1890 pm. today.
Offlcers' dance, refreshments, host
esses, Mount Pleasant Congregation
al Church, 14l0 Columbia road NV.
8 o'clock tonight.
Masonic Service Center, Thir-
teenth street and New York avenue
NV, dancing, $50 o'clock tonight
Dancing, Arlington Recreation
Center. Tenth and North Irving
streets (Va), 8 o'clock tonight.
Anniversary week, Servicemen'
Club No. l, 306 Ninth street NV
Tonight, round and square dancing
8-l2 o'clock; special entertainment
7;30 o'clock.
Games, refreshments. hosteSses
Salvation Army USO Club, COG E
street NV, 8 am. until midnight
today.
Dancing class, refreshments. host
esses, NCCS, Mems Club CUSO), 9la
Tenth street NV, beginning at :
O'Clock this afternoon.
Dinner, indoor recreation, or.
gan music, Reformation Lutheran
Church, 2l2 East Capitol street, 53(
o'clock this afternoon.
'Supper-social, Thomas Circle
Club, 1926 Massachusetts avenue
NV, $50 o'clock tonight.
'Dinner dancing, Fellowship
House Of Covenant-First Presbyteri.
an Church, 1868 Massachusetts, ave.
nue. NV, $50 o'clock tonight.
Dinner, fellowship recreation
Christian Business Girls Associa.
ton. Almas Temple, K street neal
Thirteenth street NV, $50 O'Clock
tonight
Dinner, entertainment, dancing
Foundry Methodist Church, Six
tenth and P streets NV, 6:3(
o'clock tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
Housing Association
Again Elects Wyckoff

j. Bernard Wyckofr has been elect
ed to a fourth term as president OF
the Washington Housing Associa-
ton.
Other officers are Mrs. C. Carroll
Glover. jr,, vice president; James
A. Cobb, second vice president. DR.
Laurence F. Schmeckebier, treas
urer, and Mrs. Helen Duey Hoffman
executive director. Board members
reelected for three-year term are
Mrs. Anne Archbold. the Rev. Rob-
ert w. Brooks. James A. Cobb, Sef-
ton Darr, Waldron Faulkner and
Miss Edith lockwood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
Christ Lutheran

The Rev. J. Frederick Wenchel
will preach tomorrow morning on
How to Make the Family AN As
set" There will be a special meet
Ing OF the congregation at the con-
ciusion of the services.
In the evening service the Rev.
Edgar RakoW of the Bethlehem con-
gregatlon will deliver the message
The Walther League will entertain
enlisted men with a supper at G
pm. At 7 pm. the Rev. Edgar
Rakow will deliver the first of a
series of talks under the sponsor
ship of the Potomac Zone on the
hooks OF the Bible. His subject will
re the Gospel of ST. Matthew. Fol-
lowing the evening service there will
be social games.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

ny SoN y AN Inc bhOVN,
The usual applause and cheers
greeted the appeal of Nine.
Chang Kai-shek of China to
Congress not to regard Hitler as
the exclusive enemy No. /, but to
realize the tremendous menace
which will face this country if
Japan is permitted to strengthen
her position in the Pacific.
But it is not likely that the
wise words of the generalissimo'
wife will have more than an aca-
demic effect.
The machinery of the United
Nations is now geared toward the
goal of defeating Hitler and
penetrating Europe regardless of
cost. Only sideshows, spectacular
in their performance, but incon-
sequential so far as their effect
is concerned, will be staged as
regards the japanese,
Neither the British nor the
Russians intend to turn their at
tention to Toxic until the Ger
mans are destroyed. Our Amer
lean forces and their Allies will
have to concentrate their princi-
pal effort in the coming months
or years-to crushing the Euro
pean end of the Axis. Only rela-
lively small forces will be avail
able for the Pacific front.
Shipping Chief Trouble.
The global mobilization of the
United States could yield a suf-
flcient number of trained troops
to hit hard at the Japanese. But
the perennial trouble of the
United Nations is the lack of ade-
quate shipping; even if the ship
building industry encountered no
further bottlenecks and produced
more than its present goal the
operations in Europe will require
such a hugh quantity of bottoms
that only little can be spared for
the Pacific area.
The relentless submarine war;
fare of the Nazis in the Atlantic
is bound to cost us dearly. par
ticularly if the Nazi threat of
putting no fewer than 200 sub
marines ION station" between the
United States and the European
and North African coasts mate
rallies.
1t is true that as the Nazi sub
marine menace increases our
means of defense also increases.
The number of escort vessels will
be greatly increased in the
months to come, but it is hardly
probable that they will be de-
Gvered this year in such num-
bers as to reduce substantially
the damage the Nazi U-boats will
lnf1lct on our shipping.
Under these circumstances it is
improbable that there will be
enough merchantmen available
to start a major campaign
against the japanese.
Burma Road Big Problem.
The opening of the Burma road
also is more Of a problem than
is generally imagined. Gen
Archibald Wavell has a substan-
tial fighting force at his disposal.
But the British lack the naval
strength in the Bay of Bengal
to contemplate landing opera
ton in Burma. They also lack
the necessary transports to take
force of $4,000 men across the
bay. Land operations to open up
at least the northern section of
the Burma road and thus enable
the Chinese armies to receive the
desperately needed war material
apparently"are very difficult.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-20
Revival Crusade

The revival crusade which is. being
conducted at the Washington Gospel
Tabernacle by the Rev. Harry w.
Lucas of Kentucky, will close Sun
day night Three services are
planned for Sunday. He has as his
subject at II m. The Secret of
The Victorious Life" A mass meet
ing will be conducted at pm The
subject will be Unusual Signs of
Unusual Times"
The tabernacle broadcast will be
conducted by the pastor, the Rev,
r. L. McGougan, over Station
WWDC at 2;35 pm. The Rev. Mr..
Lucas will preach at 7:45 pm. on
THE Bridal City of Heavenly
Jerusalem"