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Evening star., 1943-12-17

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any vision for the
reconstruction of Eu-
rope.
The Anglo Ameri-
can European pol
icy has been official
ly not to have a pol
icy, but to "liberate"
Europe, to govern
ments of their own
choosing" U n d e r
meath this, however.
there seems to have
been an apprehen-
sion Of popular
movements. perhaps
Evening star., 1943-12-17

ground in a power
full delaying action,
the American and
British authori t / e s
are getting a severe
headache out of the
food and transpor-
tation situation.
According to re-
ports from reliable
persons just return
ed from the italian
war zone, the lack
Of food, clothing and
other civilian neces-
sites is almost un-
hi; Ll.
Evening star., 1943-12-17
Imitation Of Mrs. Roosevelt
Objected to.

1hitdtIOu OI WITS. hOOSeVelt
Objected to.
To the Editor Of The Star:
On Sunday last went to downtown
theater and while the bill was good,
there was one number which I thought
was very bad taste-the one criticizing
the first lady of the land, Mrs. Roose-
welt
The criticism was mcalled for and if
the person doing this couldn't find a
better way of initiating Mrs. Roosevelt it
would be best that he keep from imitat-
ing SO great parsonage. I'm surprised
that the theater permitted such an act
There may be a lot of Republicans
and Democrats who do not like our
President and Mrs. Roosevelt but there
still are great many people who love
and revere them and I am one of them.
MRS. M. L. TROEGER.
Evening star., 1943-12-17

A soldier in Italy writes to his
mother: Save me the geographic
articles" He has been learning to
appreciate the world the hard way.
and when he returns home he wants
TO check on what he has learned, the
better to remember it.
Evening star., 1943-12-17
The Great Game of Politics

The capacity for indignation of the
American people has become exceedingly
olfhcult to gauge. Few politicians TODAY
can tell accurately what they will resent
Evening star., 1943-12-17
On the Record

What Gen. SHUTS acknowledged in
his recent speeches was the eclipse of
Europe as result of this war, decline
OF Anglo-American influence in Europe
Evening star., 1943-12-17

Maryland twin brothers are facing
simultaneous draft evasion charges.
Another case of double or nothing.
apparently.
Evening star., 1943-12-17
AraWe Landing FOreSeen Maj. George Fielding Eliot

In recent article invited attention
to the heavy air and naval gunfre at
tacks being made on Gasmata, on the
south coast of New Britain Island, as
Evening star., 1943-12-17

The Allied problem in Italy no longer
is confined to the military Besides
fighting the stubbornly resisting Ger
mans, who are defending every inch OF
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Straight Deal, IS 10 |.
Wins English Derby
Poeet Horse Noses Out
Two Aga Khan Entries
BY the Associated Press.

by the hSSOCldtcu fTcSS
NEWMARKET, England, June
19.-Straight Deal, a l5-to-1
shot owned by Dorothy Paget,
one of Britain's most prominent
horsewomen, won the historic
Derby today by sweeping from
fifth place in the last half mile.
The Aga Khans Umiddad was
second and his Nasrullah was third
Persian Gulf finished fourth and
the favorite, Kingsway, owned by
A. E. Saunders, was fifth.
The race was worth approximate
ly $4,000 to the winner and was
run in a strange setting, stripped of
all its pre-war finery
Unoff1cially, the time was 2 min
utes 3025 seconds, which is nearly
three seconds faster than yester-
days Oaks over the same course.
. The race is | mile and 8S5 yards
for 3-year-old colts and fillies.
1t was the fourth straight year
that the race had been shifted from
EPSON Downs to Newmarket be-
cause of the war.
Straight Deal was the first Derby
winner for Miss Paget who has
spent lavishly on blood stock for
several years without any luck in
the biggest races.
The successful jockey was Tommy
Carey, one of Britain's leading rid
ers. He never had won the Derby
before, however.
The neck-and-neck finish had the
crowd of more than $4,000 scream
ing as Carey got Straight Deal home
by head
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Cruiser Houston
Is Launched at
Newport News
By the Associated Press.

bS t6S AsSOCldte0 PTeSS.
NEWPORT NEWS. Va. June 10
The new cruiser Houston slid down
the ways OF the Newport News Ship
building & Drydock Co. here TODAY
and started on her way to avenge
the sinking of another cruiser by
that name in the Java Sea Battle a
year ago.
Texans. headed by Gov. Coke
Stevenson. crowded on a flag be
decked temporary stand at the prov
of the vessel as Mrs. Claud B.
Hamill of Houston sent a bottle of
champagne crashing against the
hull
Secretary of Commerce Jones.
himself Houston man. joined in
the ceremonies. He recalled that
the previous cruiser Houston had
been launched here also, IA years
ago. and that she once had made a
goodwill tour of Japan.
This ship also will make a good
will tour to Japan. but it will be a
good tour for the world. 1t will
mean that there will be no more
Pearl Harbors. no more such treach-
erous acts" he declared.
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Martial Law Extended
To Southern Italy,;
Peace Move Denied
Reich Retorts Absurd
To Rumor ENJOYS Are
Umberto and Bodoelio
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, June l9.-Reuters
reported from Algiers today ru-
mors were current that Italian
peace ENJOYS, possibly including
Crown Prince Umberto and Mar
shall Pietro Badoglio, were in the
French African capital as Pre-
mier Mussolini presided over a
cabinet meeting in Rome which
the Italian radio said approved
new DEGREES.
The German radio denied the
rumors. Berlin quoted Rome dis
patch saying the peace mission story
was so absurd and senseless that it
denies itself"
Without mentioning the Aleiers
rumors, the German radio quoted a
Rome dispatch as saying Crown
Prince Umberto has been visiting
for several days Reggie Calabria
localities hit by air raids
Official London quarters said they
had no confirmation of the rumors
of peace ENJOYS In Alglers, and
efforts to verify the rumors there
were unavailing. Prince Umberto
commands an army group; Marshal
Badoglio was deposed as chief OF
staff early in the war
The report recalled the statement
of President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill, made in January
al Casablanca, that only 'uncon-
ditional surrender" would be &C
cepted from any weakening Axis
nation.
Martial Law Extended.
Mussolini stepped back into the
limelight last night after a week of
strange silence, declaring nine
threatened Southern Italian prov
inces operation zones" This means
martial law was extended to most of
the Italian boot south of Naples,
capital of Napoli.
The Rome radio. in report re-
corded by the Associated Press. said
the affected provinces were Fogsi,
(See ITALY, Page ABB
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Big American Force
OF Planes Hammers
Sicily and Sardinia
MESSING Among Toreets
Of Fortresses; 80 Axis
Croft Are Shot Down

1
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, June 1s.-The
greatest attacking force OF
American planes to 60 into ac-
ton since the surrender of Pan
telleria raided Sicilian and Sar-
dinian targets yesterday and
shot down 80 enemy planes in
combat.
Flying Fortresses, roaring out from
their North African bases. attacked
the Eastern Sicilian city OF Messina
in one of a series OF assaults on Axis
bases protecting Italy, headquarters
said today.
The daylight attack against Mes
sina followed up a Thursday night
assault on Comiso. on the southeast
ern corner of Sicily. by Raj heavy
bon.bers from the Middle East, an
nounced in Cairo communique.
Other Targets Blasted.
Other targets OF the Northwest
African Air Force were Milo, in
Sicily; Olbia and Golfo Aranci, in
Sardinia, and communications In
Southern Sardinia.
The war bulletin said flyers with
the heavy force of Flying Fortresses
on the Messina raid observed many
hits on the ferry terminal leading to
the italian mainland only few
miles away, on the power station
and on the railway yards.
A force of P-38 bomb-carrying
Lghtnings hit the airfield at Milo
See MEDITERRANEAN, Pg. A-2D
Evening star., 1943-06-19
RFC Aid for Packers
Pending Subsidy Pay
Ordered by Jones
Move Designed TO Avert
Threatened Shutdown
Of Small Operators

Secretary Of Commerce Jones
today ordered the ReconStruc
ton Finance Corp. to underwrite
Immediately any financing which
meat packers may need pending
Federal subsidy payments, in a
move to stop a threatened shut
down OF scores of small slaugh-
terers.
Mr.. Jones Office said that a num-
Der of small packers have been un-
able to finance themselves or to get
financing to carry over until the
RFC makes the first subsidy pay
ment, about the middle of next
month, and accordingly he is order
ing the RFC to underwrite any local
banks or others who make the loans
or If no local financing is available
the RFC will make the loans itself
While there was no direct COM
ment on the fears expressed by some
small packers that the subsidy might
never materialize-especially since
the House voted yesterday to ban
Once of Price Administration par
ticipation-aioes explained that Mr.
Jones financing statement also was
intended as reinsurance that the
RFC intends to carry out the sub
sidy program, at least to the extent
of paying any amounts due packers
up to any time that program might
be terminated by Congress.
Losses Not Expected.
These officials explained that
whatever Congress might do to stop
the program, they regard it as in
conceivable that any one would de-
prive the packers of the subsidy pay
ments for meat slaughtered up to
such time the program. might be
closed down.
Mr.. Jones added that if any cream
Evening star., 1943-06-19
|Voticon Assoi|s Jap Treatment
OF Priests in Occupied Areas

balism are reported Is members of
an American missionary society have
been interned.
Their repatriation to America is
under consideration" the Vatican
radio said, but in the meantime
French missionaries in Hong Kong
must give help to the American
fathers"
German listeners also were told
that a serious lack of parish
priests" exists in the Rome diocese.
The broadcast quoted the semi
official Vatican newspaper Osserva-
tore Romano as saying the lack of
priests was due to conditions, in
cluding the "impoverishment in
moral and ideal values, evaporation
OF the religious spirit in family life
and education, a general decline of
morality, levity and pleasure seek
ing in all spheres of life.
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Costly Jap Raid
On Guada|cana|
Aimed atConvoy
Navy Gives Details
On Air Bottle Which
Cost Enemy "a Planes
BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.

A Navy communique disclosed
this afternoon that the japanese
aerial armada which was routed
over Guadalcanal Wednesday
sought to attack a convoy of
cargo ships, escorted by destroy
ers, which was heading into the
island base with supplies.
Further details on the air battle
revealed that surface ships and
shore batteries also took part in
downing 81 of the l20 attacking
planes. Seventy-seven were shot
down by a force of "A American
fighting planes, piloted by Army,
Navy, Marine and New Zealand fly
ers. OF the, additional II planes. is
were downed by ships in the harbor
and one by shore based anti-air-
craft.
Approximately 80 dive bombers
tried to attack the American con-
voy, but succeeded only in damag-
ing cargo vessel and a landing
craft and inf1icting minor damage
on second cargo vessel the Navy
said. The minor damage to the sec
ond cargo vessel had not previously
been reported.
No Damage on Return Visit.
Today's communique said that
Thursday night, more than "a hours
after the big battle. an unknown
number of enemy planes approached
Guadalcanal and dropped several
bombs harmlessly into the water off
Iulagl Island, but caused no damage
or casualties.
In giving additional details of
Wednesdays battle the Navy con-
1rmed reports in news dispatches
from the South Pacific earlier in the
day that "a japanese planes were
destroyed instead OF the II reported
previously.
TIE Navy said the japanese planes
were met by Army and Navy fighter
planes which were participating in
approximately equal numbers. The
planes were manned by NAVY and
marine pilots, while eight of the
Army planes were flown by New
Lealanoers. All of them were based
On henderson Field on Guadalcan nal.
The fighting planes included Cor
sairs, Wildcats, Lightnings. Air.
cobras and Warhawks.
This victory was described in the
communicate as "a striking example
OF co-ordlnated battle action by the
various units concerned"
In describing the procedure of the
battle. the Navy reported that the
japanese came in over Beaufort Bav
on the west coast of Guadalcanal
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Evening star., 1943-06-19
50 900 MINERS OUT AS COAL CRISIS GROWS
Elmer Davis Sees End of owl
If Senate Sustuins House Cut
Director Says He'll Resign if Upper Chamber
Agrees to Eliminate Domestic Branch

The action of the House yes
terday in abolishing appropria-
tions for the domestic branch OF
the Off1ce of War Information
would wipe out the owl land its
director along with It," Director
Elmer Davis declared today.
Mr.. Davis said that he would re-
sign because there would be moth
ing else for me to do" if the Senate
should sustain the House in refusing
to appropriate funds for Owls ac-
tivities in this country.
The domestic branch. often ac-
cused by Republicans of abetting a
fourth term for President Roosevelt,
will be silenced July ! unless the
Senate grants a reprieve from the
Houses death sentence.
Told by Representative Starnes,
Democrat, of Alabama. that Amer
lea wants no Goebbels or Virginio
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Strike Of Engineers
Forces WT0P 10 Halt
Broadcasts at Noon
Contract Dispute
Leaves Speakers
Waiting in Studio

Radio Station WTOP, Wash
ingtOn outlet for the Columbia
Broadcasting System, went off
the air at noon today as a re-
suit of what studio officials de-
Scribed as differences between
engineers and management over
a contract clause.
1t was believed to be the first tine
a local station had ever halted
broadcasting over work stoppage.
While calls from radio listeners
querying the silence of the station
poured into the studio, Carl J. Burk-
land, station manager, and Earl H.
Gammons. director of the Wash
ington office of CHS. conferred with
representa- of the union, the In
ternational Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers Local 1915. in an at
tempt to settle the dispute.
Stopped Work at Noon.
Studio officials said it's engineer
ing department. comprising 81 men.
stopped work without notice at noon.
The stoppage found Representative
Andersen. Republican. of Minnesota
and Charles Dana Bennett, editor of
the Washington Farm Reporter
waiting nearly an hour in the studio
as they prepared to go on the air in
a program titled the Country Jour-
nal
Senator Wheeler. Democrat. of
Montana was scheduled to appear
on the Peoples Platform program at
Sis pm.
Studio officials said the dispute
arose over a new contract recently
approved by the War Labor Board
and involving salary raises for the
engineers. The disagreement, they
said, centered on whether three
supervising engineers were to be
paid time and half for work over
40 hours.
Deny Executive Status.
Ttation is the only CHS outlet
operating in the critical areas in
which the 48-hour week is in effect
for certain industries, it was ex-
planned
While union representatives were
not Immediately available for COM
ment. it was understood they claimed
the three engineers were not execu-
tives and were entitled to pay for
overtime.
Studio officials said the new con-
tract included an arbitration and no.
strike clause.
Evening star., 1943-06-19
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, June l9.-The Vat-
can radio condemned japanese mis-
treatment of Catholic missionaries
in occupied territories today in a
broadcast to Germany reported by
United States Government monitors.
conditions of life of the mis-
sionaries in China depend more than
elsewhere on whether their region
lies in occupied or unoccupied terri
tory" the broadcast said. More
over, their citizenship with. one or
the other of the power groups makes
great difference. True neutrality
is not always despected to the de-
sired degree"
For instance, the broadcast said,
in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong,
where hundreds of Chinese die
from starvation and cases of canni-
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Questions and Answers
On New Income Tax

How does the new pay-as-
you-go tax affect you?
This will be answered in a
series of articles beginning in
The Sunday Star, prepared by
Representative Daniel A. Reed,
Republican, of New York, a
member of the House Ways
and Means Committee. Watch
for this series, clearly explain
ing the new law in the form of
questions and answers. The
articles will be valuable as ref
erence, and it is suggested that
you clip and save them.
Evening star., 1943-06-19
200 Japanese Are Killed
In China's S 'Mopup' Drive
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, June 19.-Chinese
forces continued their mopping up
operations between Tungting Lake
and the Yangtze River yesterday,
killing 200 more Japanese, the high
command reported today.
Fighting was reported still in
progress in the vicinity of the once
thriving coastal port of Swatow in
Kwantung Province. where the
japanese launched a three-columed
drive on Monday.
The communique said Chinese
forces raided a small town near Can
ton and killed or captured most of
the Japanese garrison.
Evening star., 1943-06-19

Gayda in Washington, the House
last night voted, 2l8 to ia, to erase
from the war agencies appropriation
bill the $500, 900 item for Owls
home front operations. The action
does not touch the agency's foreign
information program for which the
House voted $28,972, ,504.
Challenges Starnes Criticism.
Mr.. Davis replied to Mr.. Starnes'
accusations by saying, There is
quite a difference between me and
Goebbels, as Mr.. Starnes would dis
cover if he read the oISer by which
President Roosevelt created owl,
or followed our activities. For one
thing, DR.. Goebbels doesn't have to
go to the Reichstag for his appro-
priation'
Congress makes the laws and I
don't know If there is anything I
can do about it," Mr.. Davis said
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Mrs. Starting Christens
l0,000-Ton Coroo Ship

By the Associated Press.
SOUTH PORTLAND. Me. June
l9.-The Liberty ship jeremiah
O'Brien. named for the Scarboro-
born sailor who won the first naval
battle of the American Revolution.
was launched today at the New Eng
land Shipbuilding Corp. yard.
Mrs. Ida Lee Startling, wife of Col.
Edward N. Startling, chief of the
White House secret service, spon-
sored the l0,500-ton cargo craft
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Failures Held
Threat 10 War
Time Table
Overconfidence
And CompIoeency
Of Nation Blamed

Blaming "overconfldence and
complacency," Undersecretary of
War Patterson declared today
that industry failed by 5h2 per
cent to meet the production
needs of the Army ground forces
in May. He warned the Nation
that this critical situation
threatens to endanger the war
effort and upset the Allied time
table.
This is the most critical period in
military supply" Mr.. Patterson told
a press conference. Too little and
too late now will cost hundreds of
thousands Of lives tomorrow
He deplored strikes in industry
and diversion of management talent
to civilian on-eSsentials.'
At one point. the Undersecretary
mentioned troubles encountered in
fitting production lines to chang
ing strategic requirements and
struck this invasion OF Europe note:
The principal theater of opera
tions cannot be shifted overnight
from Africa to the mainland CT Eu-
rope without drastic revisions in
armament"
Overseas Troops May Suffer.
Production in May, he said, was
scheduled to increase per cent to
a total volume of ST. ,562 900 900. but
actually declined 3i2 per cent to
sl.494 100000.
Mr.. Patterson said the figures for
the first 10 days in June do not
show any marked departure from
May production"
This, he said, means that troops IN
training must be deprived OF crltl-
cal equipment in order to supply
troops being shipped overseas ana
those already overseas. Ii this STU
alton continues, even our overseas
troops will suffer from shortages OF
critical equipment
Il would attribute the letdown IN
Nav" he said, ito overconfldence
inspired by the Tunisian victory and
the success of European bombings;
to baseless rumors of vast quantities
of Army supplies being stored here
in America, far beyond our abilities
to transport overseas and to the
mistaken belief on the part OF many
that materials in great quantities
will shortly become available for the
reconversion of many war facilities
to the production OF Tess essential
civilian items. And there are other
reasons"
He said the Midwestern foods
undoubtedly had some effect on pro-
duction, but there is concrete evl-
dence that deep-seated intanglbles
had a far-reaching effect
Warns of Strikes Effects.
Mr.. Patte1 son said he had dis
cussed the production situation with
the War Production Board, and that
they were in accord in the general
concern over the situation" He
declared he was not conscious of any
shortage of labor in the direct war
industry. but warned that IF we
have a serious stoppage of coal, the
effect would be disastrous on all
production
Mr.. Patterson warned that unless
war production is speeded up, the
Allies stand to lose some of the
fruits of the Tunisian campaign,
adding that people seemed to
think the var is over now and that
we have passed the hump of our
production"
Declaring that is an entirely
erroneous idea, Mr. Patterson said
The Tunisian victory means a
speedup in our already crowded
timetable of military operations.
The steadily increasing rate of pro-
duction called for by the 1943 Army
Sec ppODTTCTT0N pace AoO
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Late News
Bulletins
Jockey Robertson Hurt

Jockey Robertson Hurt
NEW YORK P,.-Alfred
Robertson, veteran jockey in
the employ Of Mrs. Dodge
Sloane's Brookmeade Stable,
suffered a possible conclusion
and back injuries today when
he was thrown from Walter
NJ. Jeffords' Roman Glory in
the first race at Aqueduct.
RWerIond Destroyed
NEW YORK P.-Riverland,
the 5-year-old gelding that
cost Harold A. Clark of Miami
$4,000 = year ago and then
whipped both Alsab and
Whirlaway within five days
last fall, was destroyed today.
The ace of Clark's Louisiana
stable smashed his hipcap in
last Saturdays Carter Handi-
cap at Aqueduct. Four veter-
inarians, representing the in
surance company with which
he was insured for $40, 900, de-
cided the injury was too seri-
Gus and that the horse would
have to be destroyed.
Beors-Cords Ask to Merqe
CHICAGO R.-The Chi
cago Bears and Chicago Car
dinals applied to the National
Football League today for per-
mission to merge. The petit
tion came while the owners
were at the conference table
discussing a proposed merger
of the Philadelphia Eagles and
the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Colifornions Stor in AAU
NEW YORK P.-Cali-
fornia's invaders started mo-
nopolizing the National AAU
track and field championships
in = hurry today as Roland
Sink, Pasadena high schooler,
grabbed the junior 1900
meter title, and Irv Moore of
the San Francisco Olympic
Club smashed the junior pole
vault record.
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Other League Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE.


At New York
Boston ----- 600 600 0
New York 600 600 O
Batterie-Judd and P,rt.-, Chandler
At Chicago
Cleveland - 400 10
Chicago - OO2 q
Batteries-Poap snd D.sautel. Hum.
phries and Turner.
At Detroit
st. Louis 0Ol q
Detroit -- 2Ol o
BatteIies-sundrs and FerreIl: Bridses
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
At Boston
New York. O03 900 z
Boston -, 200 600
Batterie.-Hubben and Msncu.c; Bar
At Brooklyn
Philadelphia 100 100 0
Brooklyn 49, 3O2 O1O
Batteries--Fuchs and Livingston; Fft,.
simm ons and Owen.
At Pittsburgh
Cincinnati 600 0
Pittsburgh 0lO
6atteries-Walters and Mueller; Kline,
and Lopez.
At St. Louis
Chicago --- 600 2
st. Louis 600 0
Batteries-Lee and MeCuilough; M. Coo.
per and w. Cooper.
Evening star., 1943-06-19
Bose Reported in Jopon

The Toxic radio said today that
Subhas Chandra Bose, Axis-spon-
sored Indian Nationalist leader, had
arrived recently in Japan from his
exile in Germany. The broadcast
was recorded by the Associated
Press.