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Evening star., 1943-03-03

Guess what the doughboys on the
firing lines are demanding now.
Income tax blanks. And lots of
them
They don't have to fool with the
things, Congress passed a law say
ing those serving outside the coun-
try needn't pay tax or file a re-
turn until they come marching-or
sailing-home again. (Of course,
those stationed inside the United
States must file and pay, though
they have some special military
status allowances.)
But apparently fussing with the
old ides of March headache doesn't
faze the fighting men any more
or maybe 1t reminds them that even
a foxhole has its silver lining.
Anyhow. the Treasury disclosed
today that a bunch of the boys in
all military branches over there are
shouting for the blanks, law or no
law.
Because of the law. thew are sent
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Knox Plea for $8OO,OOO, 900
Bures Navy raining Defects

Navy to give its aviators at least
nine months training in flying.
then navigation training before
sending them to the South Pacific.
Concerning his recent trip to the
Pacific and to Guadalcanal, Mr..
Knox said he had become convinced
by his inspections that:
l. I'VE ought to organize at least
two more divisions of marines for
amphibious operations in the Pa
ciflc"
2. Some of the known dangerous
japanese still living at Oahu-now
nothing but fortress should be
removed
3. Cooperation at Guadalcanal
between the armed forces is abso-
lutely perfect"
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Africa
Continued From First Page

Avola and PozzalIo and the Ital-
ian island Of Lampedusa, 1t said.
adding that anti-aircraft fire shot
down one Of the raiders.
Bone and Tripoli Raided.
tThe Italian communioue.
broadcast from Rome and re-
corded by the Associated Press.
said Axis air forces downed three
Allied planes, started fires in the
Algerian port of Bone and made
effective raids on the Libyan port
of Tripoli.
cNumerous bombs were dropped
by enemy planes on Bizerte and
Tunis,' the bulletin added. There
was considerable damage to build
ings and about 100 dead and 200
injured among the civil popula-
ton"
CA Reuters correspondent with
the British Mediterranean feet
reported a steady flow Of Amer
lean troops, guns and planes was
pouring into North African ports.
Only few days ago, the CORE
spondent said. he watched the
debarkation of a heavily loaded
American convoy)
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Navy Casualties
Continued From First Page

Careful SCI TuLlOy anu recommends -
tions to the House by the Naval
Affairs Committee"
Subcommittee members were shown
by the record to have pressed Mr.
Knox quickly for an explanation of
the casualty estimate. They drew
from him testimony that on Feb
ruary the total casualties in Navy
officers and men was only 1902.
Does that not indicate an over
estimation?" asked Chairman Shep-
pard. The Secretary paraphrased
the words Of John Paul Jones In his
reply.
WELL" said Mr.. Knox, "it is hard
to answer that question because we
have just begun to fight"
Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs,
chief of the Nays Bureau of Per-
sonnel, explained that, to date, less
than 10 per cent Of the total Navy
has been involved in any fight"
The new figures were brought to
light when Mr.. Sheppard, studying
the estimate of the Navys financial
needs, discovered an item to provide
clothes for 2,250, 900 persons and de-
manded to know what warrant
there is" for that number.
"We are building" said Mr.. Knox,
mot two-ocean Navy, but Navy
big enough to dominate all seas over
the world. The estimates are predi-
Gated upon the needs as the ships
come in, and as they come in they
greatly increase the size of the
shore installations to handle such
a fleet"
Admiral Jacobs provided a break
down on the personnel to be sta
toned ashore and at sea- Total
at sea, including aircraft, in train
ing for sea, aviation and advance
base duty, 2,022 1893; the total shore
establishment, that is, operating
force, 477,602"
From Admiral Jacobs later, the
committee obtained report that
the Navy had 3,2O5 ships in COM
mission on January l, 1943, and that
that number would be increased by
the end of this year to approximate
ly 400.
But from Vice Admiral F. J
Horne, vice chief of naval operations
came the statement that you gen.
tlemen should realize that we have
not by any means completed the
! shipbuilding program to bring the
Navy up to what we call two-ocean
navy"
More Ships Urgently Needed.
while we are making every effort
to produce those ships as fast as
possible, and while we are very SUBJ
stantially advancing the dates OF
completion, there are still large
number of ships to be completed
and those ships are urgently
needed"
Admiral Horne conceded that the
construction program is beginning
ito be affected by lack of materials
of various types adding, however
we are going to get them out as
fast as we can and we will produce
considerable number of ships this
year"
He said the new ships would be
needed to meet the requirements OF
the essential war operations, and
they will require a large number OF
men who have got to be trained"
AS Admiral Horne reached that
point, he informed the committee
that I'VE have been up against the
proposition that we have to mar
these ships with comparatively un-
trained men; we have had to put
comparatively new men on num-
ber OF the smaller ships"
He attributed that condition tc
Evening star., 1943-03-03
WPB
Continued From First Page

have wider authority. He will have
direct charge Of increasing produc-
ton of the critical component"
which are holding up a number of
must" war programs.
Appointment Of the three new vice
chairmen gives WPB total Of six
men bearing that general title. The
others are Mr.. Wilson, Col. Robert
johnson, vice chairman for smaller
war plants, and William L. Bait,
who sits in for Mr.. Nelson when he
Is away and is in fact an assistant
chairman. Mr.. Bait has served
temporarily as chairman of the Re-
quirements Committee since the de-
parture of Mr.. Eberstadt.
Despite his youth Mr.. krug long
has been regarded as one of the
most capable men in WPB. He Is
said to know more about the Ma
tions power and gas resources and
requirements than any man in the
Government. Under Mr.. Eberstadt
he is credited with an admirable
job" in helping to handle war mate
rails problems. His talents are rec
ognized by the Army and Navy
where he received considerable sup
port for the new post.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Gen. Woeon, Family III
After Mushroom Meal
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MARYSVILLE, Calf, March s.
Maj Gen. John B. Wogan, COM
manding officer of the 18th Armored
Division, was seriously Ill today
Of food poisoning, Capt. Chandler
Sprague, public relations onicer at
Camp Beale, said.
Capt. Sprague said Gen. Wogan,
his wife and their daughter. Patsy,
is, were stricken Saturday after
they dined on what they presumed
to be mushrooms.
Mrs. Wogan's condition was de-
scribed as fair. The daughter has
recovered.
Army specialists were flown here
from Salt Lake City to attend
Gen. Wogan.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Ply the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated PreSS.
ST. LOUIS, March 3.-Hopeful of
breaking Mississippi River prece-
dent antedating the pilot days of
Mark Twain, the Coast Guard will
set out tomorrow to smash all ice in
the river between st. Louis and st.
Paul.
Never has there been a successful
breaking of Mississippi River ice
prior to the normal spring thaw.
Ordinarily the river gets hardening
OF the artery northward from Du-
buque, Iowa, early in December and
doesn't become navigable until mid
April, but the necessity OF moving
war shipments at the earliest mo-
ment inspired this years attempt to
alter that condition.
Where bafned rivermen and their
1001 schemes have failed, the Coast
Guard expected to succeed because
of new Amsterdam-type plow de-
veloped by one of its own officers
and given its debut on the Illinois
River. This 85-ton gadget enabled
Evening star., 1943-03-03

ing. drainage and gutter work, set.
ting curbstones were slashed to a
total OF $475,966 But several other
street-improvement items were In
creased to $l4l 900, making the net
reduction 1894, ,966. The increases
included work In the Dalecarlia
Parkway section.
The proposed revision was sub
mitted to the Budget Bureau by the
Commissioners. the Presidents mes
sage explained.
The Commissioners said that "the
changes recommended are necessary
to meet contingencies which have
arisen since the transmission OF the
budget for the fiscal year 1914"
Evening star., 1943-03-03

the fact that we have not had the
men in the beginning, nor have we
been able to complete the training
of them before the ships were re-
quird in the fleet for actual opera
tions."
In the course of the hearings Mr..
Knox described as "all hooey" re-
ports that "dinerences" existed be-
tween War Production Chief Dom
aid Nelson and the armed forces
over such matters as priorities and
the control of strategic materials.
With respect to the press trying
to make something out of this mat
ter" he said at one point, Il do not
think that Donald Nelson had two
friends who would try to help him
any more than the Secretary of War
and the Secretary OF the Navy, and
that goes for everybody in the armed
forces
Mr.. Knox. newspaper publisher
In private life, made his own position
clear on questions of naval strategy
He told the committee that selec-
ton by the President of man to
administer the War or the Navy
Departments does not make him a
military man." adding that ut is
better off If he is not
And" he said, because he is Sc
lected, as was selected, to handle
the Navy, does not make him at
once, by some waving Of a wand, an
expert in naval warfare. He is, at
best, an amateur, and wars cannot
be run by amateurs; they have to
be run by professionals"
Mr.. Knox emphasized that, on
questions of naval warfare, he dealt
with lone man, the chief OF naval
operations, and that one man and
myself have always had complete
understanding that so far as ad-
ministration was concerned that was
my job and the naval operations was
his" (Admiral Ernest J. King is
chief of naval operations.
As a new notice OF the Appropria =
tions Committees determination to
scrutinize thoroughly all expendi-
lures this year, Mr.. Sheppard
opened the hearings by telling the
naval executives that "there Is too
much of tendency on the part of
some officials to pay no heed to
COST
I'm war" the subcommittee chair
man said I'VE cannot be hindered by
cost, but I am afraid we do too
many things too lavishly, which un-
necessarily and appreciably add to
the total cost of things which are
vital.
II do not see how any man going
through these justifications could
fail to rreach the conclusion that
extravaganza does obtain, or rather
that there is net that full regard for
holding down costs which should
prevail.
Il think that is true as to your
shore establishments, l think it is
true as to white collar help, and I
think 1t is true as to your naval
personnel II I am right, we
are hurting the war effort, broadly
speaking, and we are detracting
from the kind of peace to which we
all like to look forward"
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Highway Fund Slash
Recommended 10 Cut
DC. Budget 1894, ,966
Commissioner Revision
Plon Would Put TotoI
At $55,009, ,698

Reduction in the District budget
for the coming fiscal year by 1884,
966 was recommended to the House
late yesterday by the President.
That would cut the budget from
SIS .344, ,664. as originally transmitted
to Congress, to SIS, ,OO9, ,698.
The proposed reduction Is entirely
in the street improvement and con-
struction fund. which had previously
been cut more than $4,000, 900 under
current appropriations. This would
make the corrected highway budget
for the 1914 fiscal year $2,446. .489.
Eight items for resurfacinG, paw
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Butter
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sufficient quantities for the armed
forces.
When meat rationing was ordered
last fall by the War Production
Boards Foods Requirements Com
mittee, now no longer in existence,
Mr.. Wickard estimated civilians
would receive weekly allowance of
two and a, half pounds.
Since then. however, supplies OF
meats processed by normal CONNER
cial operators have been less than
had been expected. Two reasons
have been given. First, that esti-
mates of hog and cattle supplies
were perhaps too high, and second,
that a larges portion of the supplies
were diverted into black markets.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Br the Associated Press


Congress was informed by Secre-
tary Of the Navy Knox today that
he had seen three great big beauti-
full B-24s (bombeD. costing $780,
600 apiece" take of from a Pacific
Island base manned by men not
properly trained in navigation
One got there; one fell in the
sea, and one came back" he said in
testimony made public by the House
Subcommittee on Naval Appropri-
ations, which disclosed his plea for
an additional 100000 900 for naval
training stations.
That is just an Illustration. I
do not want you to get the impress
sion that is happening all the
while Mr.. Knox stressed.
He said it was the policy of the
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I y
about 5,000-ton vessel either for
salvage or for rescue.
More Fortresses and Liberators
then flew in. The P-38s covering
the bombing mission shot down two
intercepting Zero fighters and
chased third, it was reported.
1t was emphasized that the final
score cannot be tailed until the
battle is over.
The japanese lost six more planes
out OF a covey of Is fighters that
attempted to attack an airdrome
near Darwin, Australia, shortly after
noon yesterday. The damage was
slight, it was officially announced.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
BY ihe Associated Press.

A1S 'Ae AssOStAtcO EIeSS.
BALTIMORE, March IA little
gadget that automatically prevents
an aerial machine-gunner from
shooting his own plane in battle has
been perfected by the Glenn l..
Martin Co. and Is now in use on
American built planes, the company
announced yesterday.
The device, invented by Martin
engineers, Is about the size of milk
bottle and weighs only a few pounds.
The gunf1re interruptor, nicknamed
the "Gunner's Gadget," automat-
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Mrs. Roosevelt EnroIls
For Spanish Lessons

By the Associated Press.
Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt has
signed at Washington school for
200 hours Of Spanish lessons.
The once Of the Co. ordinator OF
International Affairs said she will
take the lessons from time to time as
her other engagements permit.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Community Ceilings
or Pork and Beef
Promised by Brown
Move Aimed to Curb
Block Market, OPA
Chief Tells Senators

COMMUNICATIVE ceiling prices
soon will be placed on pork and beef
in an effort to combat the serious
black market situation, Price Ad-
ministrator Prentiss Brown today
told Senate Agriculture Subcom-
mittee.
The new ceilings, he said, being
community wide, will leave only a
slight differential between the cor
ner butcher shop and the chain
stores.
Mr.. Brown pointed out that un-
der existing ceilings, meat prices diff
fer in nearly every store In WASH
ington. Black markets have been
operating, he explained, because, un-
der these ceilings, meat retailers are
permitted to charge the highest
prices they received for various meats
last March, which varies the ceiling
price from store to store and makes
it possible for those charging higher
prices to pay premium for black
market pork and beef.
Pork Ceilings First.
'The new. ceiling prices on pork
should be out in q matter Of days"
he added, with those on beef to
follow shortly"
The new ceilings, fixed for each
community, will be accompanied by
an acceleration OF a drive to con-
vince the public that purchase OF
"uninspected black market meat is
dangerous" Mr.. Brown said.
II the projected procedure fails
to make 1t possible for the packer
to operate at a normal margin Of
profit, he asserted. I'm going to ad-
vocate ceilings on live hoks as a
starter"
when the new ceilings are fixed,
he declared, 1T will be much more
difficult for dealer to patronize
black market"
The OPA administrator agreed
with representatives of small meat
packers who preceded him on the
witness stand that packers were en-
titled to q reasonable" margin of
profit. The packing company rep
resentatives had complained they
were taking q loss as a result of ex-
listing OPA price and quota regula-
tions.
Imposed BY Congress.
The OPA and other Federal agen-
cles, Mr.. Brown said, now control
about Dc per cent of commodity
prices, which it is their duty to
hold in line"
He pointed out that this "con-
trolled economy" program was i'm
posed on the country by Congress,
and Chairman Smith remarked.
Yes, Congress has made several
mistakes"
The committee had been told
earlier by representatives of more
than 500 meat packers that
growth of the illicit trafrlc is threat.
ening "the entire public" with the
dangers of diseased meat.
Industry Is Pessimistic.
Individual meat packers told the
committee that the industry was
pessimistic about chances of curb
Ing the black market because 1t is
being conducted on a Nation wide
scale.
The packers attributed the black
market to an unfair price squeeze
and quota system which, they said
failed to give livestock professors an
equitable margin while livestock
prices were spiraling upward.
Evening star., 1943-03-03
Joins Kroqer Bourd

CINCINNATI, March (P).-Stan-
ley M. Rowe, industrial elevator
manufacturer. was elected a director
of the Kroger Grocery g. Baking Co.
today. He succeeds the firms late
president, Albert H. Morrill,.
Evening star., 1943-03-03

Get the Axis on the run. Buy a
War savings stamp and start \
stampede.
Evening star., 1943-03-03

War bonds are the best buy on
the market today.
Evening star., 1943-03-03

GERMANS ACKNOWLEDGE ABANDONING OF RZHEv-Nazi
radio boadcass heard in London today acknowledged that
Rzhev d. almost surrounded months
been The Red Army reported seizure of fortified
German position west of Kursk co. several towns
Kharkov captured go and advances claimed the
Voroslovgrad and Rosov region "a. silent
gardng fighting south Lenngrad but Marshal
forces directed against Saraya Rusa Strong
dealt Krasnograd
(A) and below Voroshlovgrad OBJ. "A. P. Wirephoto
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-13
Four Vegetables
Put Under Subsidy
By Economy Chief
VinsOn Reyerses Policy
Previously announced to
Offset Pay Increases

WASHINGTON, June IL.
(UP)-The administrations
plan to stabilize retail prices
of cost of living commodities
will include subsidy pay
ments to professors to offset wage
increases.
Economic stabilization Director
Fred M Vinson, reversing the pre-
viously announced program, said
the Commodity Credit corporation
would pay subsidies to Gamers of
four processed vegetables to offset
wage increase authorized by the
War Labor Board. Earlier it was
announced that ceiling prices for
processed vegetables would be ad-
justed to compensate for approved
wage rate increases.
FIRST MAJOR ACT
This was Wilson'S first major act
since he took over the office from
James F. Byrnes, who has been
made War Mobilization director by
President Roosevelt.
Vinson's statement on the SUBJ
sides said that the previously an
nounced policy would result in
higher consrmer prices for essen
tial cost of living items-a result
inconsistent with the hold the
line program
The vegetables on which subsi-
dies will be paid to Gamers are
Continued on Page 6, Col. Il
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-13
Ickes Leaves Door
Open to Rescind
Fines on Miners
Fuel Administrator
Reminds Workers That
Contracts Hold Answer

WASHINGTON, June Il.
nUP) - Coal Administrator
Harold l.. Ickes left the door
'pen today for resembling
Tho strike fines which drew
stormy protests from the United
Mine Workers.
While the War Labor Board ap-
peared headed for a new collision
with UNIV President John L. Lew
is, Ickes made a concilitary gesture
in his dispute with the union over
notwithstanding from 81 to So
per man---for last weeks five-day
work stoppage.
In an apparent move to head off
protest strikes. Ickes reminded the
miners that their wage contract
provided machinery for adjusting
grievances. He announced that in-
structions were being issued that
any dispute about assessment, COL
lection or remission of fines would
be handled by agents in charge OF
the individual government-oper
ed mines and union committees.
A spokesman for IckeS said the
statement was issued to qualify
Ickes' original announcement
Continued on Page 6, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-13
Congressman Start
Investigation Of
Gas Regulations
Many Rules ON Use of
Motor Fuel Declared
To Be Necessary

WASHINGTON, June u.
(UP) = Representatives o t
IA western states today
launched an informal con-
gressional committee to work
toward prevention of unnecessary
gasoline restrictions.
Rep. Paul Brown, R., O., elected
permanent chairman by the So rep
resentatives at the organization
meeting, said the committee hoped
to prevent unnecessary extension
of the pleasure driving ban" west
ward from the 12 eastern Seaboard
states where it is now in effect.
MidWeS.oE. anu IarWestern rep
resentatives warned that further
gasoline restrictions in their ter
ritorieS we're unnecessary and would
impede transportation.
Much of the west is totally de-
pendent upon automobiles for tran
Sportation," Brown said The COM
mittee will meet next Tuesday with
a similar senate group to discuss
the situation with Petroleum Coor-
dinator Harold L. Ickes.
States represented at today's
meeting included Oklahoma, Illi-
nois, Ohio, Idaho, Wisconsin, Cali
fornia, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa,
Kansas, Indiana, Arkansas, Missouri
and Michigan.
Several eastern congressman are
urging westward extension of gas
oline restrictions en- the ground that
there should be equality of sacri-
flee.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-13
Baby Boy Burns
To Death Here

A mother grievcd for her baby
boy Saturday while being treated
for burns she suffered in carrying
the child from a burning house on
ranch near the Jasper store.
Scquoia Joe Montezuma, To-
months-old. died in an Ell Centre
hospital Friday night from burns
suffered when the Montezuma
house burned at pm Friday. His
mother, Mrs. James Montezuma,
was badly burned when she rushed
into the blazing house and carried
her baby outside. The child died
five hours later.
An oil stove set fire to cardboard
on the wall of the house and, fan
ned by the high wind blowing at
the time, spread to the rest of the
small building. The child was in
the house alone while his mother
was working at nearby house.
She saw the smoke rising from her
home and, at the risk of her life
snatched the child from the flames
which enveloped him. Deputy Cor
oner A. T. Lyons said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-13
2ND MEDITERRANEAN ISLE SURRENDERS
BEFORE 0vERWHEL MING ALLY AIR BLOWS
Meeting in the
South Pacific

AN ADVANCE so. PACIFIC
BASE, June 12 tUPJ-Maj. Will
liam II. Mckinley, Al. of the u.
s. Army Signal Corps, was
driving his "jeep" along a dusty
road near this base. He saw a
sailor thumbing ride and,
ever generous, the major gave
him a lift.
The two men looked at each
other in dumb struck astOnish-
ment. The sailor was McKin-
ley's son, pharmacists mate, &c,
Robert Mckinley, l8, of San
Die"D, Calf. 1t was their first
meeting in two years-and they
had been living within 500
yards of each other for the past
two months.
The elder Mckinley, formerly
city electrician, also comes
from 7143H Fay Ave-. San
Diego. His son enlisted in the
navy 1S months ago and was
cited for bravery under fire on
Guadalcanal.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-13


AS deails of the plan became
known throughout the district indi-
cations were that it would be ap-
proved with little opposition. Never
the-less civic leaders of Imperial
Valle?, as we'll as district directors,
urged voters to turn out Tuesday
to vote Yes" on the proposition
that will offer them saving of
more than three and half million
dollars in tax money.
PROCEED WITH PLAN
If the proposition wins the ap-
proval of the electorate district di-
:ectors will be permitted to proceed
with refunding program which
will result in the issuing of bonds
at a much lower rate of interest
than is currently being paid on
bonds and warrants.
Interest to be paid on newly
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