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Evening star., 1943-04-05
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stroyed two Messerschmitts which
attempted to intervene.
Twelve British bombers failed to
return from last nights attack on
Kiel.
IL Bombers Missing.
The British Air Ministry an
nouncemenJ that the raid was car
.ried out "ln great strength indi-
Gated the attack was AS heavy. if not
heavier, than the raid the previous
night on the Krupp works at Essen.
which cost 81 bombers. 1t was the
list raid on Kiel, but only the first
since october 13, 1912, when several
hundred planes gave the port the
most severe lacing it had ever ex-
perlenced.
Besides its shipbuilding yards for
the construction of warships and
U-boats, Kiel has many factories
specializing in marine engineering
and repair.
Heavy Toll Reported.
The German communique today
as broadcast by the Berlin radio
said several hundred were dead and
injured in the Paris area, as a
result OF the American raid. This
broadcast, ignoring damage to the
Renauit works. said the United
States bombs hit residential quar-
ters, municipal plants and sports
fields.
The Berlin radio broadcast Paris
dispatch reporting a death toll of
252 in the Paris area by noon
today, after ST died overnight in
hospitals. This dispatch said TOO
were hurt, including lis seriously
injured.
The communique claimed destruc-
ton of 19 invading planes over Paris
and over the Norwegian coast and
10 more over Western Germany
The Allies gave no confirmation of
raids over Norway.
The Berlin radio also broadcast a
dispatch from Paris referring to the
Renault bombing as a terror raid"
This dispatch, as heard by the Asso-
ciated Press, quoted an eyewitness
account as saying an underground
railway station, packed with hum
dreds who had fed there when the
aid-raid alert was sounded, received
a direct hit
Walls Collapse.
THE walls collapsed" said this
broadcast. The panic which fol-
lowed is indescribable
The number of dead here was mot
listed in the dispatch, which said IL
were killed in another railway sta
ton and 10 elsewhere.
Large fires were set in the Kiel
attack, but full observation of the
results was impossible because of
clouds, the ministry added
The Berlin radio said the RAF'
attack was directed against the
North German coastal district and
declared five of the raiders were
shot down. AS usual. the Germans
attempted to minimize the results
of the raid. asserting that damage
was confined entirely to non mill
tary targets.
1913 FortresSes Take Part.
A total of 1873 Flying Fortresses
took part in the daylight raid on
the Renault works-one Of the great
est armadas Of four -eingined Amer
ican bombers ever launched from
bases in Britain. Perfect weather
guided them to their target, stu
ated on an island In the Seine, and
| they unloaded hundreds of tons OF
explosives on the sprawling fac
tories with such accuracy that re-
turning crews said:
I'VE don't see how anything car
be left there now"
Four Of the big bombers failed tc
return, but they were credited ON.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
John J. Dieh|, II, Dies;
Invented Bank Book Binder

BY the Associated Press.
WEST MEDFORD, Mass. April
5.-John j. Diehl, IT. New England
sales agent for the banking system
division of the Rand McNally Co.,
died yesterday at his home.
He was the inventor of the back
binder. used in banks throughout
the country, and was one of the
early sponsors of the Christmas
Club savings plan.
Mr.. Diehl, a native of Leaven-
worth, Kans., is survived by his
widow, daughter, Mrs. Marie D.
Peterson of Chamberlain, Me, and
two sons, Winfield J. Diehl of Med
ford and j. Seymour Diehl of Mel
rose.
Burial will be in Ocean View
Cemetery, Chamberlain. Me.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Mrs. Marie L. Bowman,
Book Firm Head, Dies
BY the Associated Press,

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 5.-Mrs. Marie
Lewis Bowman, 79, widow of Charles
L. Bowman and president of Charles
L. Bowman & Co., mail order book
publishers, since her husband S
death in 1918, died at her home
yesterday.
A native of Baltimore, Mrs. Bow
man met her husband there when
he was at the head of the local
branch of the Union Liberty Asso-
citation, oldest mail order book house
in the country, in which Mr.. Bow
man bought a controlling interest
when the firm moved to New York.
She leaves two sons, Lewis Bow
man of Bronxville, N. Y, and Her.
bert Bowman, general manager and
treasurer of the company and three
daughters, Mrs. Thomas E. Murrell,
Ithaca. N. Y; Mrs. Thomas w. VAR
non, Charlotte, N. c., and Miss Mil
dred L. Bowman, Baltimore. A
brother, Harry Lewis, Baltimore,
also survives.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Fouquier Deputy Sheriff
Fatally Injured by Auto

WARRENTON, Va, April S (Spe-
ciaD.-W. w. Pearson, Fauquier
County deputy sheriff. died at Ply
sicians Hospital here early today
as a result of injuries received
when he was struck by an auto
mobile on Lee highway near Water
loo Bridge.
According to police. Mr.. Pearson
was struck while walking for help
to pull his car from a ditch where
it had become stalled.
Evening star., 1943-04-05

cially with shooting down at least
Is of the swarms of German fight
ers which attacked them on the
homeward journey. Over the French
coast the Fortresses were joined by
Allied fighters which plunged into
the attacking enemy planes and
shot down eight more Seven Allied
fighters were lost in the melee. Five
more German planes were reported
shot down by Allied fighters and
| RAF flghter-bombers which made
sweeps over North France and Hol-
land, bringing the total bag of enemy
planes yesterday to 38.
In addition, Raj coastal command
planes torpedoed three Axis supply
ships off the Norwegian coast. send
ing two to the bottom and severely
damaging third,
Biggest Air Battles of Year.
1t was virtually an allied Ma
tions day" in the air, with squad
ronS of British, Canadian, Norwegian
and Polish fighter pilots participant
ing in the opera tions, which pro-
duced the biggest aerial battles of
the year.
In the raid on the Renault works,
last attacked by the RAF the night
OF March 3, 1912, the American ar
mada swept inland along the Seine
and circled directly over Paris-the
first time the Flying Fortresses ever
had been over the city.
Carefully avoiding any reference
to the Renault factory, which has
been grinding out equipment for
Adolf Hitler's war machine, the
Paris broadcast declared a large
number of casualties had been
caused "at a crowded racecourse'
Broadcast of a Paris dispatch
said Longchamps track, crowded
with Sunday fans, received about Is
direct bomb hits which killed more
than so persons and seriously in
jured many Others.
Nine hundred tons of bombs were
dropped on Essen in the Saturday
night raid.
During the peak Of the Raj at
tack on the Krupp works at Essen
2,000-pound bombs were bursting on
the target at the rate of one every
ten seconds, it was disclosed yes
terday.
Twenty-one Of the big bombers
failed to return from the raid, which
even the cautiously worded Official
communique described as heavy ano
concentrated"
The Berlin radio said last night
that more than 100 persons were
killed in the attack and numerous
Civilian quarters destroyed"
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Rites for Luis Sunz
Will Be Held Tomorrow

Luis B. SAM, 81. of 1919 r street
NV. who died Saturday of a heart
attack in New York hotel, will be
buried tomorrow in Mount Olivet
Cemetery here. following mass at st.
Matthews Cathedral at 10 am.
Mr.. SAM with his brother, R. B.
SAM, operated the SAM Spanish
School in the 100 block of Connec-
ticut avenue NV. He was born and
educated in Madrid. Spain, and
came to America in 1887, coming to
Washington shortly afterward
Besides his brother. he leaves his
widow, Mrs. Regina SAM.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Suicide Ruling Issued
In Guards Death

A certificate of suicide has been
issued by Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald in the fatal shooting Satur-
Gay of Kenneth L. Vickers. As, guard
at the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing.
Mr. Vickers was found shot in the
right temple at his home, 1876 Thirty
third street NE.
Members Of his family said he had
been IN i'll health, police reported.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Andrew Bernusconi Dies:
Carved Six D. G. Statues

Andrew Bernasconi, 70, stone-
carver, who carved the six statues
which are over the center pavilion
OF the Union Station here, died re-
Gently at his home in Columbia, S.
G., according to word received here
today. Funeral services were held
IN Columbia, where burial also took
place
Survivors include two daughters,
Mrs. Ernest Rivardo. this city, and
Mrs. Eugene Palladini, Columbia.
and son, John Bernasconi, Column
bla; two sisters and four grand
children.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Ride Sharing Campaign
Begun in Wood Acres

Deprived of public transporta-
ton by the recent removal of the
bus operated by the real estate
developer of the area, citizens of
Wood Acres and vicinity have
started an active campaign to form
share the-ride groups.
Motorists interested in sharing
their cars or who desire regular
transportation to and from Wash
ington are asked to get in touch
with F. A. Lesser, 1901 Cobalt road.
Friendship Station, or Wisconsin
1925. Mr.. Lesser has been named
leader of the movement.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Soldiers Go Sightseeing
Here on Bicycle Tour

Thirty-fve soldiers and two
WAACS from Fort Meade are suffer-
Ing from charley horses this morn
lng-induced by bicycling all dav.
A trip to the Capital was sponsored
oy the USO Club of Laurel, Md,
and the first stop in Washington
was for breakfast at the centra,
YMCA.
Furnished with bicycles the group
made a tour of Arlington Cemetery,
Lincoln Memorial, Washington Mon
ument, Jefferson Memorial and the
nam Federal buildings. Afternoon
tea at the Soviety Embassy and a
hnal call at the Jewish Community
Center, Sixteenth and Q streets
NV, completed the itinerary here,
Evening star., 1943-04-05
300 K. Of c. Participate
In Communion Mass

st. Matthews Cathedral was the
scene yesterday of a colorful cere-
mony when more than 800 Knights
OF Columbus heard the Rev. John
5. Spence, assistant pastor, cele-
brate a communion mass in honor
OF their deceased members and
members now serving in the armed
forces.
Following the mass the members
gathered at breakfast at the May
flower Hotel, where Representative
Hart of New Jersey spoke. Roy M.
Perry presided.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Sergt. Schmid, Slayer
Of 200 Jops, Morries

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 5.-Sur-
prlsing even their closest friends.
Marine Sergt. Albert Schmid, who
Killed 200 japanese in a savage ac-
ton on Guadalcanal last August.
was married Saturday to his neigh
borhood sweetheart, 21-year-old
Ruth Hartley.
Confirming the wedding. Serpt.
Schmid, who suffered the loss OF
one eye and impaired vision in the
other during the engagement. said
I'm the happiest man in the world"
He recently was decorated with tho
Navy Cross.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Baltimore Flyer Killed

SARASOTA, Fla, April 5 (P).-Lt.
Carl w. Seibel, 25, was killed Satur-
day when his pursuit plane crashed
near Venice, about 20 miles south of
here, the Sarasota Army Air Base
announced. He was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. w. Seibel of Balti-
more, Md.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Guest Found Hanging
From Hotel Door

R. J. Stehn, 46, of Chicago was
found dead in his room at down.
town hotel yesterday by employees
making routine room check, police
reported. Deputy Coroner Richard
Rosenberg returned = verdict of
suicide.
Police said the body was found
hanging by sheet from the top
Of the bathroom door.
Mr.. Stehn was said to have come
here about a week ago to take q
Job IN the Pentagon Building.
Evening star., 1943-04-05

r o b ert v.
Hengerer, Is, 5
foot 8 inches,
100 po.un d S ,
b | on d hair,
wearing gray
p a n ts, brown
shoes, W h / t e
shirt, oW n
leather Jacket.
Missing fro m
Silver Spring,
M d., S i n C e
Thursday.
Marguerite A.
Crupper, Is. S
Evening star., 1943-04-05
1n @rn1nrtat,t

HANLlN, MAREA. In sad but lovinp
remembrance Of my dear mother. MAREA
HANLIN, who passed away eight years
ago today, April 5. 1885
A precious one from me has zone.
A voice loved is still;
place is vacant in my homo
which no one can ever all.
HER DAUGHTER. MARGARET.
Evening star., 1943-04-05

Richard Bennett, 15 5 foot 7
inches, 119 pounds, brown hair,
wearing brown jacket and khaki
pants, black riding boots. Missing
from 1913 Olive street NE. since
Tuesday.
Mildred Israel Byron, Is, medium
height, stout. dark eyes. black hair.
Missing from II M street NV.
Evening star., 1943-04-05
Missinq Persons

Those hduing information
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
NTH the Public Relations Squad
OF the Police Department, Ma
tiOnal 1000.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-29

THEY realize now, moreover.
Il that when this one is won
some great change must occur
in the United States because
the debt will have 10 be written
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-29
Equal TO Any in U. S.

Senior Drives own experience is typical.
Graduating from Mexico University's engi-
neering school, he won a scholarship for study
in the United States.
Declining to attend American schools he
worked instead with American builders on the
field, going from job to job from one end OF
the country to the other.
To his constant exchange of views and
methods, experiences and skills can be
credited the fact that Mexican irrigation and
power installations are technically equal to
any in America.
Since two-thirds of Mexicos 20 million
people depend on the land for a living, and
since the development of power waits UPON
the development of irrigation, it becomes
palpable that the present program is the
most important of all public works now under
way.
The first phase of the agrarian question.
acquisition of land by the people, has been
finished.
Now the task is to impound and control
water so that the land can be worked, so that
seed will terminate and the wheel will turn.
The sprouting blade and the whirling
dynamo, in the mind of modern Mexico, have
merged into single symbol OF life and
strength and freedom.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-29

Water for irrigation, for life, for power.
Water was the magic solvent for every
trouble
In the American Southwest however
there was at least one great river that could
be, and was harnessed-the Colorado.
Mexico has no waterway comparable TO
the Colorado. Instead she has a number of
smaller streams, none of the weight, position
or extent to make possible a structure COM
parable to Boulder Dam.
So the essential question Of hydro-electric
installations, vital for production of industrial
power, is being attacked and conquered in
detail Mexico has become acutely conscious
of dams, of irrigation, of hydro-electric
power
Mexico now knows that where there is
no power, industry perishes-Qr rather is
The chief instrument for the solution Of
the twin irrigation-power problem is the
national commission Of irrigation, body of
technical experts that is literally clearing the
ground for the future factories of Mexico.
Adolfo Drive Alba, head of this commits
sion, a slender, aquiline enthusiastically
abrupt engineer has reduced the question
to very clear, classcally simply equation.
Must Combine Needs
'MexicO, needs water for agriculture.
Mexico needs waterfalls for industrial
power The answer in both cases Is dams.
Irrigation works are our first task.
Later, as conditions permit us to import
the necessary equipment for hydrO-electric
plants, we will combine irrigation with
power development more and more
Contrary to general impressions, Mexico's
greatest natural wealth is not agriculture.
Even at the highest development of arabic
land, little more than Is million acres could
be ultimately used for crops. Today, some
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-29
All Mexico Unites on National Industrial Program

idea of the precarious condition of agriculture
in the country, according to Senior Drive, can
be gagged by the fact that the average annual
value of farm products per person, is $500.
There are regions in the country, mostly
in the southern tropical districts and along
the Pacific coast, where rainfall can be
depended on for irrigation. But here a
formidable difficulty arises-one that is harder
and takes longer to resolve than the COM
paratively simple trick Of building dams;
making the region habitable, Kidding it of
tropical diseases and pests.
These natural obstacles are trying enough.
But they have been aggravated by the stresses
and demands of war. Here again, the compre-
hensive outlook and splendid spirit of Mexican
leaders and people are asserting themselves
10, greater efforts NJ, ~ s&Saking, In
IN tarD in opnj,jtty
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-29

not include improvements carried out by local
authorities, from states to villages.
1t is only in irrigated districts that crops
can be controlled in Mexico.
1t is only through the expansion OF
irrigation projects that Mexican agriculture
can be truly and intensely co-ordinated with
that of the United States and the United
Nations.
Nevertheless, there is already we'll
defined and managed system of crop control
in irrigated districts, a system little known
even in Mexico and of the greatest promise
in the food program of the United Nations 2
Mexican farmers who formerly grew only
cotton and wheat are now transferring largo
sections of their lands to the cultivation OF
the castor beam This supplies essential oil
fGf r. Ne61:s ~ ~ Va &c.. ~
Allied war effort. Other stable districts have
been turned over to production Of sesame.
also for oil, and, of course to guayule for
natural rubber.
A fortunate circumstance In the liaison
between American and Mexican experts in
irrigation and power projects, is the cordial
personal relations that have existed for almost
a generation.
AS Drive puts it:
Our department Is spiritually
branch of the u. S. Reclamation Bureau.
i might say that all Of US, at one time or
another, have studied and worked In the
United States. American engineers return
the compliment. As far as our profession
Is concerned, continental solidarity Is an
old story"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-29
Wallace Regime Called
Fascist Like Europe's
BY WEsTBROOK PEGLER

off one way or another and not
handed on TO new generations
and 10 million fighters will have
10 be absorbed back into do->
nestle life and twice that many
civilians relocated, fed and em-
ployed.
They wanted no such change
i'm the United States for, de-
Tending the old order which had
made the nation great enough
TO defeat armed and ruthless
fascism, they were called Fas-
cists themselves. as though in-
itiative, ingenuity and ability
and freedom of the individual
from government controls con.
Stituted fascism.
Meanwhile, however they
have seen Mr.. Wallace and his
regime imposing more and more
of fascism or communism. for
they are interchangeable in all
important points like two auto
mobiles off the same line, diff
fering only in the radiator caps
and hubs. Mr.. Wallace and his
school rather lean TO commu-
nism without frankly advocate
ing il.
THE elements of fascism
Il which they have introduced
in the guise of reforms have
been taken from the book OF
Lenin rather than from "Mein
Kampf." Yet the effect is the
same and a nation which grew
up and grew great far away
from Europe in spirit as well
as in miles has been tinkered
and defaced with European de-
vices developed for the control
and the support in docile pow
erty of masses of people in
lands where there was not
enough TO go around and OPP
portunity meant only chance
10 live a little above the pow
erty level. with the state stand
ing over TO give aims and de-
mand obedience.
The corrupt heart Of fascism'
is graft. cynicisn. state espion-
age over the people and gang
politics supported, in case OF
need. by gang violence in the
streets.
II Mr.. Wallace will look TO
the record of his own regime
he will find that these elements
of fascism have been the
strength of his party. His MODS
in Michigan were no gentler
than Mussolini's early Black
Shirts, but he has never been
heard to diSown them or dis
avow their instruction nor was
it in the character of this pious
idealist to repudiate the politi-
cal support OF some OF the foul
est scoundrels in American his
tory when their gangs turned
out the vote in Chicago, Jersey
City, Boston and Albany TO
elect him vice president of the
United States.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-29
Quick Questions.

How obServant are you? A
standard cigaret is how long:
(a) 81 in; (b) ia in; (c)
pa in; I'D 4 in.
What goes into the compost
ton of pig iron besides lime
stone and coke?
Walnut is the wood most pre-
ferred for rifle, submachine
and other gun stocks because
of which ca its color makes
II unnecessary 10 camouflage
IL; (b1 its weight; (c) it is the
toughest of all wood; cd il
absorbs recoil better than
other woods
There are six cities In the
world with a population Of
over 100000 the names of
which begin with 3. They are
Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Bir-
mingham, Bombay, Budapest
and what else?
Where does the word God first
appear in the Constitution?
What number is made a mea-
sure by prehxing one letter?
ANSWERS on Opposite PageI
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-29
Mexico Sacrifices

Mexico must produce more. Mexico
must send, and Is sending, workers to the
United States. And at the same time,
Mexico Is oonscripting her men, doing
without many things and trying to ask for
nothing.
1T Is instructive, and without question
useful to future action, to consider how
different things would be today IL we had
known before what we know nOw-if
American Mexican relations In the field of
economy and industry had been oriented
toward cooperation and mutual assistance.
Our two countries should never again be
caught thus unprepared," said Senior Drive.
Since all economic questions in Mexico
infallibly gravitate to the topic of agriculture,
1t is interesting and significant to note that
the irrigation budget alone, administered by
Senior Drive amounts to 10 per cent Of the
total national budget. This, moreover. does