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Evening star., 1943-03-14
Vice President Fefed Before Departure
DIPLOMATS Are H0n0ring
Mr.: Wallace at Parties

corps, the Peruvian Ambassador.
Senor Don Manuel de Freyre y
Santander, also planned a party
for him.
The Vice President will visit
Costa Rica. but the retiring MINI
lister. DR.. Don Luis Fernandez,
and Sonora de Fernandez expect
to leave Washington the latter
part of the week when Vice
President Wallace is going and
therefore they will be unable to
entertain him. The Minister and
Sonora de Fernandez have been
planning to leave for several
weeks and have postponed their
departure as many times. Their
daughter, Senorita Leda Fernan-
dez, left some time ago to visit
in Mexico City, where they will
Join her and continue their
journey southwark.
President Roosevelt's official
family has been staying rather
close to the Capital with the ex-
ception of one or two who have
made short business trips out Of
town.
The Secretary Of State and
Mrs. Cordell Hull are expected
back in their pleasant apartment
in Wardman Park Hotel this
week after a short stay in the
South. The Secretary has taken
little time out from his arduous
duties for relaxation and the
trip South has benefited both
the cabinet officer and his
charming wife.
The Attorney General, Mr..
Francis Biddle, was joined yes
terday by Mrs. Biddle, who spent
several days in New York. Last
week end they entertained the
latter's sister, Miss Cornelia
(See VICE PRESIDENT, Pg. D-3
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the Red Cross. Headed by Mr..
Earl Nash, with Mrs. William S.
Masten as vice chairman, this
committee is one of the most
important of the organization.
The public relations volunteers
have a full-time and vital job.
They must be we'll versed in all
phases of Red Cross activities at
home and abroad. Their primary
air is to create unity and good
will through accurate and tact
full Interpretation Of the endeav-
ors and policies of the organiza-
ton. They are liaison between
the Red Cross and the public.
AS co-ordinator of public rela-
tions. Mrs. Masten has a three
fold task. She must see that the
three groups, radio, newspaper
and public speaking, work to-
gether harmoniouSly. She is eX-
cellent at this.
Mrs. A. B. johnson has a stu
pendous job Of supplying organi-
cations and churches through
out the Metropolitan Area with
material and speakers. Since the
war fund drive was launched
March /, her speakers have ad-
dressed a total of 113 groups,
representing an audience of 36,045
persons
Mrs. Carlton Todd, graduate
in dramatics from Goucher Col
lege, ably assisted by other vol
unteers, has written and directed
nearly all the scripts heard on
Red Cross programs.
Mrs. Addison G. Foster is serv-
ing her second term as chairman
of the Newspaper Committee and
her assignment is to constantly
(COntinlled on Page D-4 Column |
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Capital Hostesses Rally
To Red Cross Campaign
BY Margaret Hart,
Society Editor.

enthusiastically adding to their
already crowded war work pro-
grams, members of society have
their shoulders to the wheel to
assure success to the Red Gross
war fund campaign.
When the goal was set for
three times as much money as
was subscribed last year, leading
hostesses Immediately joined the
great army of volunteers from all
walks of life who are leaving no
stone unturned to put the drive
over the top. 1t is no surprise
that these socially prominent
women are doing good job in
their war efforts. For, even
when days were so one could feel
free to devote much time to So
cial affairs, there never was
worthy cause that did not receive
a helping hand from these wom-
en- who set the social pace of the
town.
In spite of the pressure on all
Red Cross workers during the
campaign, their regular duties are
not being neglected. They just
have added a few more working
hours to their days-fnding hap
py relaxation in the thought
that they are doing their share
for the boys who are fighting to
make the world safe for democ-
racy. The staggering quota of
more than 100000 surgical
dressings needed by the Army
and Navy is just one of the many
incentives for the volunteers to
double their efforts.
A beehive of activities at all
times and even more so during
the campaign is the Office of the
Public Relations Committee of
Evening star., 1943-03-14
Sonora de Puga
Goes to Chile

Sonora de Puga. wife OF Air
Commodore Alfredo Puga, chief
of the Chilean Air Mission, left
yesterday to return to her native
land where her husband will
join her in another month. Com
modore and Sonora de Puga have
a very wide circle of friends in
Washington where they lived
some time ago when he was Air
Attache of the Chilean Embassy.
Sonora de Puga was enter
tanned many times before she
left for South America and
among the most recent OF the
parties was the dinner which the
Military Attache of the Embassy
and Sonora ce Lopez-Larrain
gave Wednesday evening and at
which Commodore Puga shared
honors with her.
The Counselor Of the Swiss Le-
CATION, M. Walter A. de Bourg.
was joined Yesterday by his
daughter. Mile. Caroline de
Bourg. who has been In New
York for a week.
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will include Mrs. Leland Harri-
son, wife of the United States
Minister to Switzerland; Gen.
Emile Bethouart, head Of Gen.
Giraud's Military Mission; Vice
Admiral and Nine. Fenard, Col.
LeBel, chief of staff of the Mill
tary Mission; the Chief Curator
of the National Gallery of Art
and Mrs. John Walker, the for
mer United States Ambassador to
the Argentine and Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss, Mrs. Benjamin
Rogers, and Miss Margaret Mac
Veagh, daughter of the late Mr..
Lincoln MacVeagh, former United
States Minister to Greece.
The Political Adviser to the
State Department and Mrs.
James Clement Dunn will en-
terrain guests at dinner this eve
ming, and with them later will
attend the musicale and buffet
supper at the Chilean Embassy.
Among those who have accepted
the invitation to subscribe to
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During the Red Cross War
Fund campaign Mrs. Wesley
TreDolld and Mrs. Herbert H.
Eddy, OF the canteen seruice,
assist ,Uith the bor lunches
for the report meetings.
MRS. DWIGHT BOND.
As Dice chairman OF the
newspaper committee OF the
Red Cross Mrs. Bond noD
spends many hours at the War
Fund offices. M-4
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DISCUSSING DRIVE.

BUSY CANTEEN WORKERS.
Mrs. F. Burial Hoffman and
Mrs. Ralph H. Mdtthiessen
pack many lunches to be
served campaign ,Dorkers at
tending the meetings held in
the interest OF the drtpe.
Evening star., 1943-03-25

beset with all the normal financial
problems Of running home. who
now finds himself approaching a
point that can completely break
down the home economy if some
relief is not forthcoming-and
promptly.
"A half million or a million tax
paying families seem small minor
ity compared with the total num-
Der of people now subject to taxa
ton. but 1t must be remembered
that the millions of new taxpayers
are in the lowest income groups
whose taxes are comparatively
small and their aggregate total
taxes paid is small percentage wise
to the total taxes collected.
1T is the middle and upper in
come groups who pay the bulk of
the taxes, the groups who have been
in the income tax bracket for years
and now fall into the tax-borrow-
ing class. They are the stable YEAR
In and year-out tax producers or
whom the Government must depend
rather than the new emergency
wartime taxpayers whose contribu-
ton Is relatively small"
Released Throush the North American
Newspaper Alliance.
Evening star., 1943-03-25
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An American submarine surprised,
torpedoed and sank a japanese sub
marine in the far Pacific so quickly
that the japanese never knew what
hit them the Navy disclosed yester-
day in telling the story of an under
sea boat commanded by 1t. Comdr.
William Edward Ferrall of Pitts
burgh.
Comdr. Ferralls craft in year at
sea destroyed 10 enemy vessels
totaling more than $4,000 tons, in
Guiding the enemy sub. Navy COM
muniques previously had announced
nine OF the ships-seven cargo YES
sells and two troop transports.
The cargo ships were described as
engaged in carrying urgently needed
supplies to japanese armies in the
South Pacific, and the two trans
ports were carrying reinforcements.
The enemy personnel losses which
resulted from the sinking of the
transports may have been heavy. but
the Navy account made no estimate
of them.
Called Prize Sinking.
OF all the opera tions of Comdr.
Ferrall's craft, the destruction of the
Japanese sub was the prize sinking,
the Navy said.
I'VE came upon the Jap subma-
rine when we were submerged and
on patrol" Cofndr Eerro1j ,,-,c
quoted AS saying. They were on
the surface near their base and
they never saw us. We fired one
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Germans
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railway targets in Northwest Ger
many at dusk. it was announced,
with the loss of one plane.
The German Paris radio
reported today that about so per-
sons were wounded in the RAF's
daylight raid on Nantes March %
and that about so houses were de-
stroyed in an assault that night on
st. Nazaire, big Nazi submarine base
on the French West coast.
The broadcast was recorded by the
Associated Press.
Rail Shops Damaged.
The British had reported the
target of the Nantes raid was the
st. Joseph locomotive works. one
of the biggest locomotive factories
In France.
The Air Ministry news service
said that photographs revealed the
Mosquitoes had done heavy damage
to French railway workshops at
Tours in their raids during February
The service declared that nearly
10000 square feet of the main shop
was damaged by a direct hit, that
the greater part of two sections in
six-bay workshop was wiped out,
and that $4,000 square feet of roof in
side bay shop was damaged by fire.
direct hit was said to have de-
molished quarter of a roundhouse,
the report said Other buildings
were damaged by fire and explosion.
Evening star., 1943-03-25
Family Borrowings
To Pay Income Tax
Put at S100,o00,000
Morris Plan Bonk Aide
Says Looms Still Being
Made in Large Volume

NEW YORK. March 25.-At least
100000 families in the country bor-
rowed minimum of 100000 900 to
meet March income tax payments,
according to the estimates of sgd
J. Hughes. vice president of the
Morris Plan Industrial Bank of
New York. OF these, Mr.. Hughes
said, about $4,000 borrowing sl0,-
900 900 are in New York.
Mr.. Hughes, who also is a direc-
tor of the Consumer Banking In
stitute, non-profit research organ
ization in Washington. said his esti-
mates were made and projected ma
tionally on the Unprecedented rush
of borrowing from all lending agen-
cies in the first two weeks in March.
He said, incidentally, that loans
still are being made in large volume,
although the first tax period is past.
On the experience of this month
he predicted that in the light of
the three remaining tax payments
and the proposed withholding tax.
tax borrowers might rise to 5000 900
plan or similar pay-as-you-go
program would eliminate such loans
and while this would mean a loss of
business to the banks, he said that
In the interest of whole national
economy he favored such a plan.
Banks, he felt, should seek to avoid
a financial pile-up rather than
seek temporary profits through sea-
sonal lending.
Conservative Figure.
Mr.. Hughes said that he felt his
Sl0O,OO0,0O0 figure was conservative
because 1t was predicated on the re-
ports OF personal loan department
OF banks, industrial banks like the
Morris Plan. personal loan CON-
panies and credit unions and did not
include thousands of banks which
did not maintain personal loan de-
partments as such, yet handled a
large volume of small personal loans
IN their regular business, nor did il
include short-term loans by banks
nor borrowings from insurance COM
panles. Nor does it show borrowings
for other purposes made necessary
because current funds went to tax
| payments.
1t seems as simple as A-B-C and
as plain as the nose on your face
that the Ruml plan would largely
correct an already pressing problem
for millions of taxpayers and GER
| tainly head off the hopeless predica
ment that millions more face in the
months and years ahead with still
larger tax accumulations likely long
before relief will come in the form OF
lower taxes he said.
When loans are made for taxes
Mr.. Hughes pointed out, it affects
not only the borrower. but his fam
lily. He said, If the family head is
under financial pressure, the whole
family is under a corresponding
pressure with drastically reduced
family budgets meaning the sacri-
flee of many things necessary to the
basic health and comfort of the
| home itself.
Few Single Men. --
| He said that figures showed few
single men are among tax borrowers
most of them being in military
service if they are under 38. He
continued, 1T is the family head
Evening star., 1943-03-25

At the outbreak of war in the
Pacific, Comdr Ferrall's sub was
being overhauled at the Cavite Naval
Base in the Philippine Islands, The
work was scheduled to be completed
on the following Saturday, but on
Wednesday the Japs bombed the
Naval Base and the sub was dam
aged.
Repairs Interrupted.
I'VE then took her to Manila" "
Comdr Ferrall said. ito patch her
up in such manner as to make her
seaworthy. But continued japanese
air raids interfered with the repairs
and we were forced to go to Java to
complete the job"
The submarine, finally back in
service, was placed on patrol duty
in an effort to check the japanese
push to the south. This work was
interrupted when Comdr. Ferrall
was ordered to Corregidor to assist
in evacuating some of the naval
personnel at that besieged island
fortress.
Sometime after Corregidor fell the
sub aided in removing personnel
from Java.
1t was then overhauled in an
Australian port. and Comdr. Fer
rail- was assigned to work on Japa
nese shipping lanes to Indo- China
and the South Pacific. Despite the
fact that few of his officers and
men had been in the United States
for 18 months or more Comdr. Fer
rail- said they were in good spirits
IN undertaking their trying task.
Evening star., 1943-03-25
Africa
Continued From First Page J

that the enemy mas been working
for months to strengthen the Mar
eth Line. II took us nine days to
get through at Ell Alamein and I
don't think we need to weep over
this retreat"
One of the main factors which
should hearten the Allies, he said,
was the fact that simultaneous con-
verging attacks by American forces
and the British 9Th Army had forced
Marshal Rommel to split his armor
into four units.
Four German Units.
These units are: !. On the Max
nassy road. 2. On the Ell Guetar
road. 3. Southwest of Ell HANNA
west of the Mareth Line. 4. In the
Mareth Line positions.
Edward Kennedy, Associated Press
correspondent at the front, gave this
summary after the first phase of the
six-day-old 9th Army offensive:
1T seemed clear that the offensive
was not going as we'll as was ex-
pected and that Allied troops both
IN the southern and central sectors
had been taking tremendous pun
ishment but they were said to be
holding up to it very WELL
10 Axis Tanks Knocked Out.
Flghter-bombers, Flying Can
openers" and Hurricanes, knocked
out 10 Axis tanks in forays over the
Mareth Line positions at the other
end of the front, dispa tches from
Cairo said
In Northern Tunisia, 1t. Gen. K.
A. N Anderson's British lst Army
was said to be striking back at Axis
forces under Col. Gen. Jurgen Won
Arnim, and an Algiers broadcast said
lst Army troops had made slight
advance
Low-fying planes attacked Rom
mels formations south of Ell Ham
ma hitting tanks, armOred cars, gun
carriers and trucks Presumably
these had been marShaled to chal-
lenge the Allied threat to Ell HANNA
from the south,
Planes of the Northwest Africa
air force got bursts among German
armor opposing American troops in
the Gafsa sector, especially in the
pass which leads eastward from Ell
Guetar.
Aerial support helped American
ground forces to beat back repeated
Nazi attacks, dispatches from the
front said
Allied planes also struck again at
Evening star., 1943-03-25
StroboIgi Urges More Planes
For Fiqht on U-Boots

LONDON, March 25 (P,.-Lord
Strabolgi urged in the House of
Lords yesterday that the Navy be
given more airplanes. including
heavy, long range Lancasters, Stir
lingS, Liberators and Flying Fort
resses, to help combat U-boats.
The laborite peer. former Brit
ish navy officer, asked more protec-
tlon for conveys and warned that
Our war effort might be thWarted
and our great cause imperiled by
200 submarines manned by 10000
Nazis, many of them seaSick land
lubberS."
Lord Strabolgi told the Lords that
The Germany Navy now is using
the radiolocation system given by
Britain to France and given or sold
by the traitors of Vichv to the Ger
mans after the capitulation
The House of Lords was told by
Lord Bruntisfeld, parliamentary
secretary for the Admiralty, that a
solution in which we have COM
plete confidence has been reached
in discussions at Washington on the
question Of Allied command in the
Atlantic battle against submarines.
Evening star., 1943-03-25
u. S. Sub Torpedoes 10 Jap Ships, Including Sub
Sunk So Quickly She Never Knew What Hit Her

torpedo and she filled up and sank
rapidly, stern first We didn't see
any survivors and they never knew
what hit them
That successful attack raised to
exactly 200 the number of Jap
anese ships reported by the Navy
as sunk or damaged by American
undersea raiders. The total in
cludes 139 sunk. % probably sunk
and 38 damaged.
The year at sea for Comdr. Fer
rail- and his crew was filled with
dangerous experiences and long and
trying hours OF patrol duty but
was not without its amusing Incl
dents.
Emergency Operation.
On one occasion a japanese troop
transport was torpedoed and the
explosion blew one of the transport s
whale boats into the water. right
side up and oars in place. When a
second torpedo sank the ship, the
japanese merely jumped overheard
and climbed into the whale boat and
began rowing.
Another incident was the pre-
viously announced emergency ap-
pendicitis operation performed on
Dean Rector, 19-year- old seaman of
'Chautauqua, Kans., by WHEELER B.
Lipes. pharmacists mate of New
castle, near Roanoke, Va.
Comdr. Ferrall has just been de-
tailed to duty in the Navy Depart
ment here later serving In sub
marines for nearly five years.
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Freight Rates
Continued From First Page J

Southern territory to Peoria. Ill. in
official territory, costs the user OF the
service on the average 82.5 cents
more than to move an identica
heater from Pittsburgh, in Official
territory, to Peoria. although the
distances are virtually the same"
Prejudicial to South.
1T is often asserted the report
continued that the present system
of rates is not prejudicial and may
indeed be preferential to Southern
territory as whole
This assertion. the report con-
tended, is based on the fact that
industrial production in the South
is principally raw and semiraw ma
terlals and that these commodities
have special" rates considerably
lower than the general class-rate
bases against which the criticism is
leveled.
Such a point of view .'' passes
over the South's aspirations to de-
velop small struggling and not-yet-
born industry into larger industries
with greater Importance in the re-
gional economy"
Adjustment Not Simple.
The survey emphasized that the
present RECONCILIATION of freight
rates has developed over a long pc
riod, is strongly imbedded in COM
mercial-industrial institutions and
hence "the mechanics of compre-
hensive equitable adjustment will
not be simple "a
The immediate issue is lack of
equal competitive opportunity. The
transcendent issue, however, is free
ing surplus, or idle, or uneconomi-
cally employed manpower, materials
and energy, located not in the South
and West alone, but throughout the
Federal Union"
The report was prepared and the
underlying research largely planned
and co-ordinated by Henry B.
Kline, with the collaboration of Or
mond C. Cory, though it is de-
scribed as the product of many
minds.
Evening star., 1943-03-25

enemy landing grounds, getting
bursts among 40 to 60 planes on a
field between Sfax and Gabes.
Capt. John K. Hall of Denver. who
participated in the raid, said it was
the best his formation had vet ex-
perienced. The escorting P-4O War
hawks shot down four enemy fighters
In 25-minute dogf1ght.
Hits were scored on grounded air.
craft at a field south of Sousse.
The Italian high command re-
ported in a communique broadcast
from Rome and recorded by the AS
soclated Press told of intense aerial
activity.
American four-engined bombers
dropped numerous bombs in the
Bizerte area" the Italian bulletin
said. Considerable damage was
caused and casualties are being
ascertained."
Messina and Satanic, Sicilian
ports. also were raided and some
civilian buildings were damaged and
ii persons were killed, 1t was re-
ported. Messina anti-aircraft gum
ners were said to have shot down
two bombers.
Evening star., 1943-03-25
South May Decide
National Elections,
Gov. Arna|| Says
Urges Unity in Politics
As Well os in Fight
Over Freight Rates
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla, March Is
Ellis ,Arnall. the new Governor OF
Georgia, told the Southern Cover
nor's Conference here today the
South's lis presidential electoral
votes may become the deciding
factor in national politics.
Il think the time has come for us
to stand together politically as well
as standing shoulder to shoulder to
wage court fight about freight
rates" he said
Soon we will be choosing our
national leadership Although the
two-thirdS rule (in presidential
nomina tons at the Democratic Ma
tional Convention has been abro-
gated, those who love the national
administration and those who hate
1t are so confused among them
selves that the influence of the
South might be the deciding factor
In national politics.
Although insisting he was mot
mad with anyone. national, State
or local Gov. Arnall declared I'VE
can insist that our States be taken
into the union on an equal fellow
ship. l am a federalist at heart.
but each section must be treated
fairly, and We have not received our
deserved recognition.
so far as l am concerned. and
so far as Georgia is concerned, We
are going with those who offer us
the most. We are going to be cold
blooded and hard-hearted about it."
The Governors, met to plan con-
tinuation of long time fight for
lower freight rates on Southern
manufactured materials TO Northern
markets. Some reductions have been
obtained but Gov. Cooper of Ten
1essee, conference chairman, said
more should come
The Governors hoped to obtain
industrial freight rate revisions be-
fore the war ends, so that war ma
terials factories established in the
South can be converted to civilian
production.
Evening star., 1943-03-25
Two Army Planes Collide
In Maryland; Pilot Killed
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ROCK HALL, Md, March 25.--
One pilot was killed and another
parachuted to safety late yesterday
when two Army combat planes
colllded near Rock Hall, Md. while
engaged in four r-plane maneuver
Sheriff Henry Gsell of Kent County
reported.
The pilot who escaped by para
chute was Flight Oficer James
Bowen. He fell into the shadows OF
the Chester River, as his plane
crashed on Eastern Neck Island. at
the mouth of the river, and caught
fire, Mr., Gsell said. Mr.. Bowen was
helped ashore by oystermen.
The pilot OF the second plane
whose name has not been released
by the Army, was not not able to
bail out and his ship crashed in the
Plney Neck section of Kent County
about four miles from where Bowen s
ship landed
The planes were based at Logan
Field, Baltimore,
Evening star., 1943-03-25
Vegesock
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waits and countless missions scrub
bed out in general, bombing
has been good and is improving rap
idly In recent raids almost with
out exception. it has been excellent
our forces are being increased
rapidly.
In the near future we hope to
have sufficient forces to make COM
parable raids during daylight hours
to those now being made by the
RAF during hours of darkness >.
You have learned many impor-
tant lessons. You have developed a
new aerial technique and have made
adaptations in your equipment that
has increased its effectiveness.
Il take pride in the accomplish
mentS of the 9th Bomber Command
during those trying months now
passed and l am looking forward
with all of you to the near future
when we will be instrumental in
delivering an increasingly stronger
effort against our enemies"