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Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-13

I am a bureaucrat. A bureaucrat is
someone occupying position that is
wanted by somebody else, who, when he
gets in, will automatically become
bureaucrat - Interior Secretary Harold
/. Ickes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-13

We took 800 prisoners without losing
a man or firing single shot. Our great
est risk was being crushed to death by
people trying to beg cigarettes.-Can-
adian officer in Sicily.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-13

The 9Th Army today made contact with
the End y. S. Corps from Gafsa The ad-
vance continues, and air forces from the
east and west are now enjoying common
targets.-Allied communique.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-13
TOMORROW'S MENU
(Eat the Basic 7 Every Day.

(Eaf the Basic 7 Every Day.
BREAKFAST: Tomato and fresh
lime juice. French toast, honey,
fried bologna sausage, coffee, milk.
LUNCH Oatmeal savory with
dried beef, enriched toast, sliced
tomatoes, gingerbread, tea. milk.
DINNER, Poached haddock fill
lets, parsley potatoes, spinach, en-
riched bread. butter or fortified
margarine, lettuce and green pep
per salad, sliced peaches, tea, milk.
Potatoes are one of the Basic
Seven Foods.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-13
Oatmeal SavOry

Reheat leftover oatmeal. Com
bine with approximately half as
much cream sauce, and add squares
of leftover cooked bacon. sliced
cooked sausage or shredded dried
beef. Serve on toast.
Oatmeal Fruit Pudding
One and one-quarter cups left
over oatmeal, IA cups enriched
stale bread, 21s cups milk, 1-3 cup
sugar, 2 beaten eggs, 1-3 cup rsisins
salt, spice.
Combine the oatmeal and stale
bread. Add the milk, sugar, eggs,
Evening star., 1943-05-01
Czechs Thank D. {. Group
For Maintaining Canteens

Members of the st. Andrews So
ciety of Washington at their next
meeting will receive the thanks of
Czecho-Slovakian forces in London
for mobile canteen maintenance
money contributed by the society
before Pearl Harbor.
About $1,000 for maintenance of
mobile canteens was sent to the
Czechoslovakian Red Cross in Lon.
don year and half ago, accord
ing to William H. Young, secretary
of the society. The chairman of
that Red Cross branch, Gen. J. Sle-
Yak. communicated with the WASH
ington group to thank them for
their effort.
-Four canteens were sent by the
st. Andrews Society of Baltimore
explained Mr.. Young. The Wash
ington members contributed money
to operate them. Two are with
Czech troops on maneuvers, one with
the headquarters staff and one with
film unit of the exiled govern
ment.
Evening star., 1943-05-01

the store from the apartment, broke
a glass in the dining room.
The safe was located in this hall
way and the thieves broke three
heavy locks to reach it. They then
walked on heavily carpeted floors
to the upstairs bedrooms. In the
room where Mr.. and Mrs. Schulman
were sleeping they ransacked bureau
drawers and stole the keys 10 the
family car from Mr.. Schulman's
coat.
The thieves then went into a
nearby room where q daughters was
sleeping and stole $4 from her
purse.
Police said the thieves must have
been well prepared to carry the
heavy safe from the apartment to
the garage several feet away. The
thieves apparently pushed the car
until 1t was well away from the
house. then started 1t and drove OF.
Evening star., 1943-05-01
Thieves Steal Automobile Kevs,
Take Car to Cart Away Safe

While occupants were asleep,
thieves early today broke into an
apartment in the rear Of 1901 Ben
ming road NE. stole a 300-pound
safe containing $4,000 in War
bonds, $1,000 in Postal Savings and
$3.50 in cash, then carted the entire
loot away In the family's automobile.
Police Immediately broadcast &
lookout to Maryland and Virginia
police for the thieves, believed to be
a well-organized gang.
The theft was reported by Jake
Schulman, owner Of a Liquor
store at the Benning road address.
Detective Sergt. Irving Lubore
said the thieves first attempted to
enter the apartment by breaking a
glass in the kitchen window, but,
finding themselves unable to get
into the hallway which separates
Evening star., 1943-05-01

were forced to make a slight with
draWal, but elsewhere all our posi-
tions were firmly held. All these
counterattacks resulted in heavy
losses to the enemy, both in men
and tanks"
(The italian communique an
nounced today that the British
9th Army on the southern sector
had opened up heavy artillery fire
which it said was particularly
intense and prolonged" The 9th
Army usually has signaled the
beginning of an infantry offensive
with laundering barrages.
CIhe communique said there
were lively local actions in the
Tunisia fighting.
twenty-five Allied planes
were shot down yesterday, said
the communique as broadcast
from Rome and recorded by the
Associated Press. The war bulle-
tin claimed that eight Allied
planes were downed in a battle
over a convoy, nine American
four-epgined aircraft were ac-
counted for in a raid over Mes
sina, Sicily; three more Allied
raiders were destroyed at Syra-
cuse in Sicily, and two more in
Tunisia.
(Six persons were killed at
Messina and limited damage
caused, the communique said,
and the outskirts of Syracuse
machine-gunned)
Fighting at Bloody Pitch.
While territorial changes remained
small, fighting was at the bloodiest
pitch OF the Tunisian campaign to
date as Allied troops sought to drive
the enemy into the sea or to ulti-
mate disaster.
(The threat of an Allied naval
blow at the perilous line of Axis
retreat to the European continent
via Italy and nearby islands ap-
peared as the Berlin radio re-
ported an enormous concentra-
ton of Allied naval strength NOV
Ing through the Gibraltar bottle
neck toward the east.
(The Axis dispatch, dated La
Linea, Spain. at the edge of the
Rock" was not confirmed by Al
lied sources. It mentioned big
convoy and the British capital
ships Kidney, Malaga and Re-
nown, the aircraft carriers Fu-
rious, Illustrous and Argus and
many escorting vessels as on the
move.
cSpanish observers are con-
vinced that major action in the
Mediterranean Is imminent" the
Axis broadcast said.
Evening star., 1943-05-01
Wheeler Sees Pacific
As Greatest Military
Menace 10 America
Senator Urges More Help
Of Every Kind Be Sent
To Macarthur Forces
By the Associated Press,

~ tAAS AoSOSldtCo FEcSS.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of
Montana said in a letter to a con-
stituent it is his belief that the
greatest military menace to America
is in the Pacific and urged that
more help Of all kinds" be sent to
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces.
Writing to Mrs. Opal I. Bartholf,
Missoula, Mont, Senator Wheeler
said he is disturbed that our ally,
Russia, which has put up such a
gallant fight against Germany. is
dealing so freely with our enemy,
Japan"
Reports have been current in the
Capital that Russia is selling high
test gasoline to Japan and in turn is
receiving rubber supplies.
i was one of those who opposed
selling scrap iron, gasoline, material
Tor making poison gases and other
materials, to Japan after she at
tackled China" Senator Wheeler
added. While want to see Hitler
and Hitlerism destroyed in the
shortest possible time, I believe that
our greatest menace is in the Pa
cif1c. We went to war because OF
the dastardly attack by Japan on
the Hawaiian Islands.
The japanese are becoming more
and more strongly entrenched in
China, in Burma, in the Philippines,
and throughout the South Pacific.
Unless more aggressive action is
taken now against the Japs I am
fearful that it will take a long time
and the lives of many thousands of
American boys before we can dis
lodge them from the countries which
they have taken"
Evening star., 1943-05-01
Planned Public Work,
10 Fit Postwar Needs
Urged by Fleming
Should Be 'Inteeroted'
To Avoid Scramble
FWA Chief Declares
BY the Associated Press.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 1-Maj
Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Federal
Works Agency administrator, said
today America needs a broad post
war public works program "inte-
grated into the needs of the various
States and communities.
1T should be flexible enough to
permit its administration in such
way as to fill up the gap between
private employment and unemploy-
ment," said Gen. Fleming in an ad-
dress prepared for an Ohio confer
ence on planning peacetime public
works construction.
1T should be reservoir of pro-
]ects so arranged that we can turn
the spigot and start construction
work quickly in those communities
where need is greatest, while keep
Ing 1t turned off in those areas where
private business can provide all the
employment necessary.
Fears Pressure" Moves.
Lacking such an overall pro-
gram, I very much fear that what
we shall have will be scramble for
pet projects here and there, built
without reference to overall ma
tlonal and regional needs, and
pressed forward at a time when,
instead of assisting the whole econ
omy, they will cramp sound recov-
cry by competing with private en-
terprlSe for men and materials.
"A postwar construction pro-
gram that is left to the mercy of
private or community pressure
groups could do as much harm as
good"
Gen. Fleming declared today's
wartime activities on the economic
front recall "the lush '2Os."
Our present situation" he said,
lis roughly analogous to what it
was, say, around 1928-only more
so. Instead of trying to find jobs
for people, the pressing problem is
to find people for jobs. Involuntary
destitution has disappeared.
Sees Sudden End of War.
In 1928 the Nation planned for
the future, he said, by buying auto
mobiles land bigger and juicier
beeksteaks.
I'VE had been told" he added,
"by many eminent gentlemen who
were assumed to know that pros
perity would 60 on forever, that
poverty had been ended for all time.
But this time we know that the
present situation cannot go on for
ever. 1t has been generated by war.
and We know that even the worst of
wars must end. We know, moreover,
that wars have most disconcert-
ing way of ending suddenly-they
just don't taper off gradually in
order to give us enough time in
which to decide what to do next
so, While there may have been
some excuse for our failure to pre-
pare for adversely back in the mid
'20s, there will be no excuse if we
are caught mapping this time
Evening star., 1943-05-01
Allied Ship Toll Cut
In April, Knox Says
But He Warns Against
Optimistic Deductions
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Secretary OF the Navy Knox said
yesterday that in April Allied ship
losses were much lower than in
March.
Noting that April was over, the
Secretary told a press conference
that apparently the months record
for submarine sinkings would be
better than that for March, but
cautioned that submarine warfare
moves "by fits and starts" and that
no optimistic deductions should be
drawn from the current situation.
Sinkings in March were higher
than those in January or February.
Mr.. Knox was asked why there
had been so few torpedoing of mer-
chant ships in the Pacific and none
reported recently. The explanation,
he said, is that the Japanese use
their submarines for combat pur-
poses whereas American submarines
are used for attacks on supply ships.
Evening star., 1943-05-01
Gen. ChennauIf 10 Gel
Mitchell Memorial
Air Trophy Today
Flying Tigers Organizer
Will Be Honored at
Pentoeon Ceremonies

Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault,
organizer of the now disbanded
Flying Tigers squadron of Ameri-
can volunteer fighters in China and
currently commander of the 18th
Army Air Force, was named today to
receive the Gen. William E. Mitchell
Memorial Award for 1912. The award
was to be presented today in cere-
monies at the Pentagon Building.
Gen. Chennault, whose Tigers"
wrote one of the most brilliant and
fascinating chapters in aviation and
military history, is in Washington
with 1t. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell
for conferences with President
Roosevelt and other military leaders.
Annual Award.
Presented annually, the Mitchell
Trophy, a plaque, is bestowed on
the United States citizen making the
outstanding individual contribution
to aviation during the year.
First awarded three years ago,
the trophy has been won by Jacque-
line Cochran, now director of wom-
ems flying training of the Army
Air Forces; Mayor Fiorello La
Guardia of New York, and Gen.
Henry H. Arnold, commander of
the Army Air Forces.
Retired from flying duty in 1886
because of deafness, Gen. Chennault
went to China in 1887 to help train
Chinese flyers and organize the
American Volunteer Group from
among former United States service
men. The success of this group was
phenomenal, the unit having bagged
more than 400 japanese planes be-
fore its dissolution last year. Gen.
Chennault is considered master at
fighting Japanese flyers and his
losses in combat with them virtually
were negligible.
Won Wide Acclaim.
Gen. Chennault's feats won him
wide acclaim. Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek raised him to the rank Of
general in 1941 and he was twice
decorated by the British govern
ment. After the United States
entered the war Gen. Chennault was
recalled to active duty, commits
stoned brigadier general and
placed in charge of the 14th Air
Force in China.
Today's presentation was to be
made by Frank Tichenor, donor of
the plaque and publisher of Aero
Digest and other aviation maga-
zines.
Evening star., 1943-05-01
ST. Marys Forest Fire
Forces Evacuation
0f2,00O Workers
200 Fort Meade Soldiers
Help After Wind Shifts
Course of BIuze
By Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
IEONARDTOWN Md h6au 1

By Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, May l.
Famed by a strong north wind, a
forest fire that already had de-
stroyed an estimated 5000 acres of
timber, retraced its march over
partly-burned woodland today to
force the evacuation of nearly 1000
employees of the Cedar Point Naval
Air Station from their trailer camps
in the Great Mills section south of
here.
State District Forester R. H.
Hershberger said 200 troops from
Fort George G.. Meade last night
helped nearly 800 sailors, residents
and firemen, to build backfres along
the st. Andrews road to stop the
northeast sweep of flames toward
the Hollywood section.
Early today, however, a sudden
shift in wind direction sent the
blazes roaring back southwark over
partly burned woodland to new tim
berland in the Great Mills and jar
boesville sections.
No Estimate of Damage.
The State forester said no ac-
curate estimate of the damage to St.
Marys virgin timber could be made
at present He said, however, that
several tracts, each valued at 10000
or more, had been burned.
He said another $500 acres might
burn before firemen would be able
to bring the flames under control
State Trooper Murray Jackson
said the nearly 1000 Cedar Point
base employees and their families
were removed from their trailer
camps near Great Mills as pre-
cautionary move. He said rs Red
Cross workers assisted in the evacu-
alton.
Firemen said there was no threat
to the Cedar Point base.
The forester said the troops had
been ordered to remain until the
conf1agration is extinguished.
Highway Closed.
State polise reported that route S
between Leonardtown and Great
Mills was closed during the night
to all traffic except firefghting
equipment. This was done, it was
said, to prevent thousands of spec
tators from .hindering firemen.
FIemen reported that timberland
owned by more than IA lumber COM
panies, including a tract owned by
the Washington Paper Co., were
damaged by the flames.
The fire also was being fought by
fire companies from Leonardtown,
Mechanicsville and Calvert County,
and by sailors from Cedar Point and
Coast GuardSmen from the torpedo
station at Piney Point.
Evening star., 1943-05-01
Poles Allow Demand
For Inquiry to LAPSE

LONDON, May l P).-The Polish
government in exile said in an
official statement yesterday that its
request for an investigation by the
International Red Cross into Ger
man charges that Russia had killed
10000 Polish officers near Smolensk
now was regarded "as having
lapsed."
The announcement was welcomed
Immediately in some diplomatic cir
cles here as an indication that the
question of an inquiry was not to be
pursued. and would aid efforts to
mend broken Soviet-Polish diplo-
matte relations. But these sources
said it should have been issued as
part Of Wednesdays statement
which appealed for the release" of
Poles still in Russia.
Despite yesterdays announcement
Soviet circles took the view that the
question of an inquiry had become
a secondary matter. The British
Press Association quoted one Russian
source as saying:
1T Is now a comparatively minor
point. The Poles will have to go q
long way further before there is
any hope OF healing the breach. The
Polish statement tonight was the
least the government could have
done and it only was issued in re-
sponse to world opinion"
In Washington, Elmer Davis,
director Of war information,
said in radio address last night
that the situation has been
permitted to get into this tangle
is no credit to either Polish or
Russian craftsmanship"
(Gen. Sikorsky, head of the
Polish government in exile" Mr..
Davis said, sis an able and rea-
sonable man, but he is under
constant pressure from a faction
of extremists-the sort of men,
void Of any sense of political
Evening star., 1943-05-01
Mexico to Send U. S.
Non-Furm Luborers
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, May THE
Foreign Ministry last night an
nounced that an agreement for
sending Mexican non-farm laborers
to the United States has been
reached by representatives of the
two governments. The workers will
60 under terms similar to those gov
erning farm workers, who have been
migrating to United States fields
since last year.
The ministry said Mexico plans to
send $4,000 farm workers under the
existing agreement. About $4,000 al
ready have left. The non-farm work
ers are expected to be used on rail-
road and industrial jobs to alleW-
ate the manpower shortage.
Evening star., 1943-05-01
Handling of Polish Affairs
In Moscow Left Unsettled

MOSCOW, May l (R.-The ques-
ton of who will handle the affairs
of the Polish governmental n-exile
here remained unanswered today,
but it was learned that the United
States would not represent the Lon
don-based Polish administration.
Tadeusz Romer, who had been
Ambassador to Moscow from the
government-in-exile, and his staff
have left for Teheran by way of
Kuibyshev.
Meantime, 1t was. said here, a
number Of Poles who remain in the
Soviet Union may answer the call
Of the Union Of Polish Patriots"
and go to the front with the Red
Army.
Evening star., 1943-05-01
Magistrate Urges 'KP'
For Gambling Danes
nv the Aseor;atad prssx

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May L. Aroused
over the appearance in her court of
seven women who police said they
found playing stud poker, Magistrate
Anna M. Kross declared here yester-
day that Congress ought to pass a
law making these danes do some
thing in the war effort, even if its
only K. p"
Magistrate Kross said she was
getting "sick and disguised" at
finding women before her because
of their gambling.
Evening star., 1943-05-01
Sharpest Air Battles
Center Over Nazis'
Kuban Bridgehead
Russians Cut OFF
German Thrust
Across Donets
BY the Associated Press.

BY tbe Associated Press.
MOSCOW, May 1.-Major air
battles continued up and down
the long Russian front today
with the sharpest fights above
the marrow Kuban bridgehead
the Germans hold in the West
ern Caucasus, while on the
Donets River front a company
of Nazi automatic rif1emen who
forced the river were extermi-
mated or forced to swim back to
safety through the icy waters.
The Donets action was south of
Izyum, in the sector 10 miles south
east of Kharkov. The noon COM
munique said the greater part of
the Germans who crossed were
wiped out and "only few managed
to swim back to the right bank" A
company nominally numbers $50
men.
The latest communique and dis
patches told of no renewed land ac-
tivity in the Kuban, but there was
no reason to believe the Red Army
still was not driving against the foe
deployed between Novorossisk and
the Taman Peninsula leading to the
Crimea.
Russian Planes Aid Troops.
Russian Stormovik planes were
credited with destroying dozens of
enemy guns while assisting land
troops" Continued raids were made
on railroad stations and other COM
munications, day and night.
The lncessant pounding of Ger
man communication lines was in
terpreted as meaning that the Rus
slams were we'll aware that the en-
emy was trying to wheel up reserves
and every kind of war waterfall for
an offensive
Pravda reported from the Kuban
on difficulties encountered by Red
infantry and artillery. The dispatch
said advance posts are in mud flats
and scouts go out day and night in
fishing canoes, armed with auto
matte rifles, mortars, machine guns
and light field pieces. The units
are called mosquito groups" and
they crawl through the braskish
slime from their boats to fall on
sleepy German and Rumanian gar
riSons.
Sharp artillery fire was reported
from other sectors. Snipers of a
guards unit on the Smolensk from,
opposite Moscow were credited with
picking off 1000 Germans in a
month.
On the northwestern front south
of Leningrad, Russian scouts were
said to have crossed a river (pos-
sibly the Volkhov) and penetrated
German defenses.
Breaking silence on the military
situation in the Kuban Valley, the
Russian midnight communique an
nounced early today that the REQ
Army had captured several key en-
emy positions" possibly heraldine
the beginning of a new Russian Of
fensive in the Western Caucasus.
The midnight bulletin, recorded ir
London by the Soviet radio monitor
pointed up German assertions that
10000 Russians have launched 8
new drive against Novorossisk ano
the German-held area northward
in the Taman peninsula, although
the German statements said the at
tacks were unsuccessful.
The German high command, in q
communique recorded by the AS
sociated Press from the Berlin radio
said German and Rumanian troops
had achieved great defensive
success in the Kuban bridgehead."
It declared the Russians had at
tackled with strong artillery, tank
and air forces, but had been thrown
back with heavy losses.