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Evening star., 1943-07-10
Wihkie Denies Report
OF Nomination Hope
BY the Associated Press.

bS tne ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK. July 10.-Edgar
Godoi da Mata Machado, Brazilian
Journalist, said yesterday that in an
interview Wendell Willkie expressed
the certainty" and the hope that
he would be renominated as Repub-
lican presidential candidate in 1914.
Mr.. Willkie denied expressing such
hope when his comment was in
vited.
Mr. Machado had visited Mr..
Wilkes law Office in company with
three other Brazilian journalists,
Elias Chaves Neto, DR.. Andre Car
razzoni and Arlindo Pasqualini. who
are visiting the United States.
Mr.. Willkie declared there must
be some misunderstanding because
the subject of my denomination was
not discussed"
The 1910 Republican presidential
candidate said he and the four
South American newspapermen dis
cussed the Good Neighbor" policy
and the Republican party attitude
toward foreign affairs.
Mr.. Machado, who said he spoke
for his companions, said "our talk
with Mr.. Willkie revolved about
political questions of the United
States and how they affect the
Good Neighbor' policy. Mr.. Willkie
throughout the talk referred to the
Republican party, his place in the
party's leadership, and often spoke
In the name of the party. His COM
ments to us expressed the hope that
he would be renominated as presi-
Dental candidate by the Republican
party in 1914"
Evening star., 1943-07-10
CITY, expected stepping stone to Italy Allied Nations

o Italy lOT Inc Allleu NdblOllS,
vividly painted religious and his
torical pictures painted on the back
and side panels.
Occasional wooden plows, drawn
by oxen.
Boys herding sheep, women card
ing and spinning wool.
Vast estates of absentee landlords,
only few Of them as yet broken up
in the Fascist program to provide
land for the peasants.
Children on holidays dancing the
tarantella, sort Of jive folkdance,
formerly believed to be a panacea
for the tarantula's bite.
Brigands Are Gone.
Poor homes in which sheepskins
often are the only bedding.
Wayside shrines to the Virgin
Mary.
And, of course, the religious pro-
cessions with effigies, lights and
flowers. which have been trans
planted to streets of many little
Sicilies in America.
Picturesque brigands have not in
tested the interior for a long time.
But the Malta was spread over the
more fertile land until 1882, when
great drive rounded up more than
1000 persons and sent them to pris-
on for long terms.
Forerunner of the modern gangs
of the American cities, to which it's
Evening star., 1943-07-10

ly affect the national security or
iniure the national prestige
When Mr.. Carey asked Mr.. Fly
whether he would testify in execu-
tive session, the FEC head paused
moment and said he was unable
to say 'in the light of the commit
tees past handling of secret, con-
fidential records"
Mr. Cox ordered the reply stricken
from the record and admonished Mr..
Fly against making speeches" for
the record. Mr.. Fly's reference ap-
parently was to letters made public
last week by Mr.. Carey and con-
tended by Charles r. Denny, jr.,
FEC counsel, to have been con-
fidential
AS he was leaving the stand, Mr..
Fly told the committee he had in
his possession a confidential docu-
ment from the joint chiefs of staff
which completely refutes the grave
charges" made against the FEC
when the hearings started last Fri
day.
When Mr.. Carey requested that
Mr.. Fly's statements and answers
be stricken from the record insofar
as they constituted speeches" Mr..
Fly told the committee he hoped it
would not adopt policy of gag
ging' witnesses.
Evening star., 1943-07-10

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practices we're transplanted, the
Mafia was accused of bombings,
murders, cattle thefts, illegal tax
levies, among other crimes.
II had its start under foreign
despots, the Bourbons, who op-
pressed the Sicilians a century ago
until they lost faith in legal justice
and took to settling their grievances,
over love or money, by the vigilante
system.
Many Once Liye ed in L. S.
The absentee owners OF large es-
tates gradually took to hiring ruf-
fans to operate them and these
were the backbone of the Mafia, die
tating by strong arm methods their
own compensation, prices of land
and crops, choice OF employees and
eventually the governments of near
by towns.
Along with these operations, some
of the members went into black
mail, murder and kidnapping until
their misdeeds became so common
that the Mafa became a byword
Now the American troops are like
ly to find fewer Mafiosi, as the
gangSters are called, than Sicilians
who worked 20 years in New York or
Chicago and returned to buy lemon
groves with their savings. These
may even greet the soldiers with the
few English words they remember,
as they used to do the tourists.
Evening star., 1943-07-10
Typographical map of Sici
BY RICHARD G.. MASSOCK,
Former Chief of the Associated Press
Bureau in Rome

Former Chief of the Associated Press
Bureau in Rome.
American troops on landing barges
saw great background of noun
tains before their boats scraped bot
tom off the shores of Sicily.
In those mountains live a people
on whom they might count for
eventual support, after the tough
fighting of the initial invasion. for
they used to say in Rome that most
Sicilians were anti-Fascist and
many of them had never really &C
cepted assimilation into Italy. 1t
seemed as though Sicily was the
"unreconstructed south"
In Rome it formerly was said
that there were only two real Fas-
cists in Sicily. the provincial secre-
tary of the Fascist party and the
prefect, or governor. And there
was some doubt about the prefect.
Malta Still Powerful.
Exaggerated though that may be.
there is another rumor current in
Rome-that the far-famed Mafla
had never been completely sup
pressed by Mussolini, but only driven
underground. The criminal net
work that had its own way in the
island for almost a century, how
ever, always had been invisiblei to
strangers, leaving them alone So
the soldiers probably won't meet the
Evening star., 1943-07-10
MeIIett Will Retain
S1O,0OO-a-Year Post
As Roosevelt Aide
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Lowell Mellett, long a publicity
adviser of President Roosevelt, has
resigned as head of the Motion PIC
ture Bureau of the Office of War
Information because Congress gave
it only $4,000 for the entire new
fiscal year.
But the former head of the now
defunct Office of Government Re-
ports may continue TO influence
Government information policy, for
he keeps his $4,000 job as an ad-
mInstratlve assistant to Mr.. Koose-
welt. He said yesterday he would
give full time to handling "miscel-
laneous matters" tor the White
House
Mr.. Melletts OGR was one of the
information agencies consolidated
under Elmer Davis when Owl was
created year ago. Owl officials
have said privately that Owl and
the bureau did not team well, for
Mr. Mellett. not on the Owl payroll,
declined also to take an Office in
Owl headquarters and operated
rather independently in other re-
spects.
Mr.. Davis, asked at a press con-
ference three weeks ago whether he
proposed TO dispense with the
services of Mr.. Mellett." replied
Il don't know" Then he ex-
planned that when Congress got
through with the owl budget there
/ mightn't be much of the. bureau left
, So it turned out. Congress speci-
/ fed that Mr. Melletts bureau should
/ have $4,000 instead of the 81 $50 ,0O(
which the Budget Bureau had ap-
| proved.
On his relations with Mr. Davis
/ the 59-year-old Mr. Mellett would
not comment yesterday. He praised
! highly the wartime activity of the
/ film industry and of theater opera
tors and expressed the hope that the
Government would keep on making
every possible use of this very val
liable medium"
Mr.. Davis announcement of the
resignation acknowledged indebted
ness to Mr.. Mellett for the estab-
lishment of cordial and satisfactory
relations with the industry"
Mr.. Davis said Owl itself would
make no more films, but would use
its $4,000 to coordinate the film
activities of other agencies and work
as a liaison agent between the movie
companies and the Government.
Evening star., 1943-07-10
White House Action
To Ease Corn Situation
Is Believed Likely

The forecast of a smaller corn crop
this year, contained in the Agricul-
ture Departments crop report yes
terday. threatens to make still an
other dent in the civilian meat sup
ply and may force prompt White
House action to ease the corn situa-
ton. some sources believed today.
Food and feed crops generally i'm
proved during June, however, and
raised hopes that total production
this year may approach last years
record crops. The report tradition
ally ON the conservative side, esti-
mated an aggregate crop output
about 10 per cent below last year.
The department estimated corn
crop of 2,706,552 900 bushels this
year, which experts said may be at
least 200,000,00 bushels short of
requirements for the coming feeding
season. The corn estimate comes
at a time when livestock and poul-
try herds are at an all-time high.
Low corn supplies already have
forced closing of some corn proc
tJldAIoo anu VII w Wv
down stocks remaining in many
feed-defcit areas, including the
Eastern Seaboard, which depends on
feed corn from the West.
The present ceiling price on corn
makes it more profitable for farmers
to feed corn to their hogs than to
sell it.
Some authorities see a solution
in the liquidation of some livestock
sale of dairy and poultry herds
and reduction of hog production,
Earlier this year the War Food Ad-
ministration asked farmers to hold
hog production to Is per cent in
crease over last year.
Food Administrator Marvin Jones
said the report bore out earlier fore
casts that I'VE will have enough food
in this country-given at least aver
age weather for the rest of the year
to give civilians adequate and
healthful diets, in addition to meet
ing military and other essential war
time requirements"
He added, however, there is mo
reason for any belief that We are
out of the woods" Supplies of
Evening star., 1943-07-10
War Work Is Halted
By Clash Between
Worker, Foreman
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July l0.-A work stop
page at the American Steel Found
ries' cast armor plant in East Chi
cago, Ind, developed yesterday
company and police officials said,
after an alteration in which COL
ored workman struck white fore
man.
The plant, whose war work Ss
halted, employs SO per cent colored
workers.
Albert Watcher, operating vice
president, said that after the colored
men, almost en- masse, quit work
they virtually took possession of
the plant and wouldn't let any one
enter or leave for several hours"
Mr.. Watcher added, however. that
the situation had eased later and
any one who wanted to had been able
to leave.
Police Chief Walter Conroy of
East Chicago gave this version of
the trouble:
About 3 m. a white foreman got
into an argument with one or two
colored workers about why they
weren't working steadily. Eventually
one of them struck the foreman.
Plant guards took him away.
The police were called. Clemmons
James Allen, "a, of Gary, Ind, COL
ored workman, was arrested ana
charged with assault and battery in
a complaint by the foreman, Robert
Van Camp, of Hammond, Ind
That's all there was until the
Tam day shift" Chief Conroy con-
tinued Then most of the Negro
workers refused to 60 to work. 1t
was pay day ana lot OF them
,milled around. There was no vio-
lence and no trouble. Nobody was
held prisoner in the plant. 1'ne gates
were open all day. We had only one
policeman there this afternoon"
Meantime, representatives of the
management: the CIO United Steel
workers. which has a labor contract;
the police and E. j. OKeefe, labor
relations man OF the Chicago Oro-
nance District, conferred in an effort
to smooth out the trouble and get
the men back to work.
Evening star., 1943-07-10

BOYS who used to eXtort tribute, run
elections and commit murders of
blood vengeance.
Instead the troops are likely to
encounter ordinary folk in modern
cities, poor peasants in mountain
villages and almost as poor sulphur
miners-frugal and good dnatured.
but lively, hot-blooded and deeply
religious.
Palermo, the capital, with a
tenth of Sicilys 100000 inhabi-
tants, for instance, is much like any
other Italian city. 1t has an opera,
open-alr cafes, boulevards Tor prom
enades, the latest fashions in dress,
naval shipyards and textile mills.
Citrus Fruit Plentiful.
The mountain villages are more
picturesque, with steep and tortuous
streets.
You may read of troops fighting
along waterless river beds, for Sicily
is arid over most of its 1924 square
miles a little larger than Vermont
and most OF the streams dry up
most OF the year. The peasants use
them as roads. Some 10000 orange
and lemon trees are watered from
deep wells.
Here are some of the things to be
seen in Sicily, when the fighting is
Horse or donkey drawn carts. with
Evening star., 1943-07-10
Il British Children
Killed in Theater
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. July 10-With the
known dead already at IL, rescue
workers continued today to dig
feverishly in the ruins of a motion
picture theater in southeast coast
town which was demolished by a
German hit-run raider yesterday
while hundreds of children were
witnessing cowboy film.
1t was feared that additional vic
tims-how many remained uncer-
tain-Were buried in the debris, but
authorities had virtually abandoned
hope that any would be brought out
alive. Acoustic equipment employed
by the rescue squads failed to de-
tect any sounds coming from the
Wreckage which might indicate that
there was any life beneath the heaps
of debris.
officials said the roof of The build
ing collapsed when German raider
swept low over the town and scored
two direct hits on the theater. Per-
sons in the street and in nearby
buildings were injured by flying
glass and debris.
The plane dived down on the
town through heavy antiairc, aft
barrage to drop its bombs, cit Gle
and then rake the streets and q
nearby railroad station with ma
chine-gun fire.
Children in the theater were at
tending an after-school perform
snce. A 13-year-old boy who was
sitting in the front row escaped with
minor injuries. He said he ducked
to the floor when he first saw
crack running along the ceiling of
the theater. Debris few through
the air after the second explosion.
but he managed to reach steps lead.
ing to the outside.
Evening star., 1943-07-10
Russia
Continued From First Page)

loss of single plane for the second
successive night.
GA Berlin broadcast said the
Soviet airforce had lost 1000
planes. The German broadcast
also claimed that Nazi troops had
destroyed 1,100 Russian tanksD
The intensity and persistence of
the attacking German columns was
emphasized in the Russian midnight
communique which said that in one
sector of the Orel-KurSk front the
Red Army had beaten 13 separate
and distinct attempts to advance.
The Germans were using their
new Cotton Tiger tanks as the spear
head of each thrust. following them
with infantry and the older Mark
Ills and Tvs.
The Russians have admitted pene-
tration at three different points in
the Belgorod sector and have re-
ported the Germans are bringing up
reserves to bolster the drive north
toward Kursk.
Evening star., 1943-07-10
PetriIIo Denies Strike
By Musicians in Feud
Over Transcriptions
BY the Associated Press.

James C. Petrillo. who says his
union musicians are forever through
/ playing for electrical tranScriptions,
has entered a series Of denials to
any idea that he is on strike or is
tough guy"
The thing is" said the stocky
president Of the American Fedora
/ ton of Musicians, with a sweeping
wave of the hand in the direction of
/ War Labor Board members who are
looking into the case, I'VE are not
| going to play at our own funeral
anymore"
Everybody" he added, says am
tough guy, and I am not a tough
guy"
Mr.. Petrillo and seven transcript
| ton companies who make discs for
radio broadcasts confronted the
WLB with the question of whether
this is labor dispute over which the
board has jurisdiction.
Disc Making Is stopped.
Members of the union stopped
making discs for transcription COM
panies last August l on order OF
Mr.. Petrillo, who said he was seek
ing wider employment for live mu-
sicians. Yesterday he declared the
union has no argument with the
companies about rates, but its mem
bers simply do not care to work for
them at any price. Consequently, he
contended, there Is no labor dispute
The WLB is not considering the
merits of the case, but currently is
trying to determine whether it has
jurisdiction in the matter. The
transcription makers contend it is
garden variety of strike" The
union says it has no relationship
with the companies.
The union president said the
transcription industry, which he
carefully distinguished from stand
ard records, does not employ more
than 100 musicians a year, consid-
cred on basis of eight hours day
and 40 hours week. Those few,
he said, take work away from thou
sands of musicians
Compromise Sought.
Almon Roth, industry member of
the board, wanted to know If the
union would raise any objections if
other musicians made the transcript
tions.
Joseph A. Padway, Mr.. Petrillo's
counsel, replied, 1--WE would raise
, every objection in the world. We
would expell any member of our
union who made them and we would
use every lawful, economic means to
prevent others from making them"
Mr.. Petrillo subsequently added
that there are no professional musi-
clans in the United States who do
not hold a card in the ATM.
A. Walter Socolow, speaking for
the transcription companies, told the
board:
II challenge the American Fedora
ton of Musicians to say they are
abandoning jurisdiction over this
field, now and perpetually, and are
no longer interested in making
records.
"The unions hot and cold position
should be nailed here and now so
we'll know what we are doing. What
is the meaning of all this about
no-strike pledge we read in the
papers? If you remove the restraints
this union has placed on it's men,
bers, no constitutional rights will be
| violated"
Evening star., 1943-07-10
Store Coins q Turtle
But Loses Customer
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-Harry S.
Clayton lost customer and gained
one large turtle-of the land va
riety
Mr.. Clayton, furniture dealer
was showing some rugs to Mrs
Herman Descent and, as he un-
rolled one, out wobbled the turtle
Mr.. Clayton was surprised, and
doubly so when he discovered Mrs
Descent had fed from the store.
Evening star., 1943-07-10

vegetables, he pointed out, will be
augmented considerably by Victory
gardens.
. The department said generally
good yields were expected on the
largest acreage in IL years-347,-
900 900. compared with $40 900, 900 in
1912. Bumper crops of dry beans,
peas, peanuts. flaxseed, rice, pota-
toes and sugar cane were indicated.
Near record crops of hay, dry beans
and barley seem probable and
sorghums for grain may reach pre-
vious high records, If there is rain
enough to permit planting the fall
acreage planned.
MIX production in June, the re-
port said, reached record figure of
l2,600, 100000 pounds, 10 per cent
above the l0-year average for June.
Evening star., 1943-07-10
Roosevelt
Continued From First Page

a lineup of notables including Sec
retary of State Hull, Admiral Will
liam D. Leahy. Presidents chief OF
staff, and Admiral Ernest J. King
commander in chief of the United
States Fleet.
For almost an hour Mr.. Roosevelt
kept his news TO himself-at least
ne made no open announcement of
it. Then at the conclusion of the
meal, shortly before 10 o'clock, the
President prepared to propose a
toast and this gave him the oppor-
tunity to announce the invasion and
discuss the present situation in Eu-
rope.
Il have just had word of the first
attack against the soft under-belly
of Europe" was his terse first re-
mark.
He then asked those present not to
say anything about the news until
midnight. This restriction was neces-
STATED because of arrangements al
ready made for a joint disclosure in
North Africa, Washington ana Lon
don by the military authorities.
The President then amplified by
describing the landing and added:
The operations have begun. We
won't get definite news until later,
but the news will be coming in
from now on"
Mr.. Roosevelt then launched into
a discussion of his hopes for the
campaign stressing the necessity for
the detailed planning that had gone
into the entire campaign in North
Africa.
This is good illustration of the
fact of planning, not the desire for
planning but the fact of planning"
the President said.
"In Complete Harmony"
: with the commencing of the
expedition in North Africa, with
complete cooperation between the
British and ourselves, that was fol-
lowed by complete cooperation with
the French in North Africa. The
result, after landing, was the battle
of Tunisia. That was not all plan
ming. That was cooperation. And
from that time on, we have been
working in complete harmony.
There are great many objec-
tives, of course. The major OBJ
jective is the elimination of Ger
many. That goes without saying.
AS the result of the step which is
in progress at this moment, we hope
it is the beginning of the end Last
autumn the Prime Minister of Eng
land called it, the end of the be-
ginning I think you can almost
say that this action, tonight is the
beginning of the end.
.We haven't won the war yet, but
one of the happy things is that with
the help of Gen. Giraud we have a
unified military situation that goes
a long way"
The President spoke extempora-
neously. Mr.. Early said that the
quotations which he gave were on
the basis of notes and did not repre-
sent the Presidents complete talk.
AS the President concluded his re-
marks with the hope for the freedom
and unity of France, Gen. Giraud
raised his glass and expressed his
thanks for the support being given
his country. He said that he had
deep gratitude for the fact that
through American assistance in re-
arming French soldiers that they
would have their share in the liberia
ton of their homeland. His toast
was to the health of Mr.. Roosevelt
and the glory of the United States,
and he referred to this country as
the great nation through which
peace and freedom will be restored to
the world.
Evening star., 1943-07-10
FEC Files Sought
Dealt Only With
Miller Charges

Documents and files which
Chairman Fly of the FEC de-
clined TO turn over to the Cox
committee yesterday dealt ex-
clusively with the consideration
by the Board of War Communi-
cations of charges against
Neville Miller, president of the
National Association of Broad
casters, a spokesman for the
FEC said today. A picture cap
ton in late editions of The Star
yesterday indicated that the
files were related to the investi-
cation of charges that the FEC
interfered with intelligence
operations of the armed forces.
Evening star., 1943-07-10
Police Raise Ante
For Irked Investor
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. - Policeman Frank
Rydelek rushed to a street corner
to break up what looked like a
fight
But he discovered Edward Pop
lawski kicking and shaking a pea
nut vending machine He became
irked, he told the officer, when he
received only two peanuts each time
he inserted penny in the machine
and he had invested cents.
He was released by West North
avenue police on S25 bail
Evening star., 1943-07-10
Sabotage Bill Signed

President Roosevelt yesterday
signed legislation providing up to a
year in prison and fine of $1,000
for any person found guilty OF
sabotage or other violation of pro-
tective regulations around water
front facilities.
Evening star., 1943-07-10
ldleness Persists

Although the government has
spent nearly s2o,00o00o in public
works in the last year to relieve un-
employment, Uruguay has about as
many idle as before.
Evening star., 1943-07-10
Choristers for 90 Years

Charles Palmer and Ernest Green.
slade have completed so years serv-
ice each as choristers at the parish
church in Cirencester. England.
Evening star., 1943-07-10
Police for Colonies

Thirty Scotland Yard men were
recently sent from London to North
Africa and the British Colonies for
new police duties.