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Evening star., 1943-09-03
Libruries Close Lubor Duy

The main Public Library al
Eighth and X streets NV. and all
its branches will close Labor Day,
Miss Clara w. Herbert. librarian.
announced today.
Evening star., 1943-09-03

Home Holidays Extended
Belfast, Northern Ireland, will
extend Its neutrality-suspicious." fetes
for the duration.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Company Stores Keep Miners
In Debt, Mrs. Roosevelt Saws

company had tried to deny any re-
lation between the history of the
company stores in the last 10 years
and the present mining difficulties
Mrs. Roosevelt was absolutely GER
tain. however, that there must be"
some relation between what has
happened over a period of years"
and the miners current grievances.
She explained that buying in a
company store where his credit was
good tended to keep the employe
from ever going anywhere else
Sometimes. she said, it is very "dufi1-
cult" for him to 60 anywhere else
even if he is fully paid up at the
company store.
Mrs. Roosevelt raised her eye
brows when reporters tried to draw
her into discussion Of the fourth
term. She said American women
would do much better to study post
war problems as cited by the Ma
tional Planning Resources Board
than indulge in partisan" thinking.
The Presidents wife also suggested
that one person in each separate
Government ONCE all over WASH
ington be responsible for informing
other employees in the room about
medical and other care available to
Government employees.
She has heard of an incident re-
Gently, she said, where girls in par
ticIllar ofFiceS had eff erad ,,r,,ao.e
sarily because she old not know
about the Governments medical
care.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Bv MARION WADE DOYLE.

Stores maintained by mining
companies are bad" and tend
to keep employees constantly in
debt, Mrs. Roosevelt declared
today.
THE employees never get caught
up. Mrs. Roosevelt said when re-
porters attending her press confer
ence asked her for comment on the
stores. She said company living
quarters are also bad"
The press conference was moved
into the new White House Office
wing today because Prime Minister
Churchill and the rest of the Brit
ish delegation comforting here had
taken over the usual second floor
meeting place.
Mrs. Roosevelt said one of the
mining companies had tried to
change her opinion of company
stores by contending she is not fam
iliar with "the modern store" Mrs.
Roosevelt stood her ground. how
ever, maintaining that such store
might be all right when the pay
envelopes are swollen by overtime
compensation, but were not good
in average situations"
When a reporter said some COM
pany stores were suspected of cut
ting prices drastically just before
Once of Price Administration on
cials arrived to investigate, Mrs.
Roosevelt smiled and said: THAT
would be perfectly possible
She said that another mining
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Destroyer Among Six Jap Ships
Sunk by u. S. Subs in Pacific
Torpedo Bombers Attack Four Cargo Craft
OFF BUN, Leaving One in Flames

operations against the enemy in the
waters of these areas.
"(a) One destroyer sunk.
"(b, One large cargo ship sunk.
"'c) One medium sized cargo ship
sunk.
"'d) One medium sized transport
sunk
"'e, One small passenger freighter
sunk.
"tfl One small escort vessel sunk.
"lg' One large tanker damaged.
"3, These actions have not been
announced in any previous Navy De-
partment conlmunique'
This damage inflicted by Ameri-
can submarines brought to 232 the
number of japanese ships sunk,
probably sunk or damaged by under
sea action in the Pacific since the
war began. The total announced by
the Navy includes 1862 enemy ships
sent to the bottom, 26 probably sunk
and 46 damaged.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Beef, Veal, Lamb, Mutton
Price CEILINGS in Effect

New dollars-a cents ceiling
prices on beef, veal. lamb and NUT
ton went into effect today. They
will be valid until June l when
meats, along with butter and cof-
fee, are due for a 10 per cent price
reduction.
The new prices on nearly all meats
except pork products were an
nounced in last Wednesdays Star.
Specific ceilings on pork have been
in effect since April l.
The prices OF beef, veal, lamb and
mutton have been set for two differ
ent classiflcations of stores-inde-
pendent stores with less than $780,
600 business in 1912 and all other
stores Late last week, however,
the OPA issued another order re-
quiring the largest chain stores, in
cluding several which operate in
the District, to keep their prices
generally about 10 per cent below
those in effect for other chains and
large independents. Later, it was
said, new classification will be set
up for this group of stores.
1t has been pointed out that in
some of the large chain stores in
this area, meat prices would actual
ly have gone up an average of 20
per cent from prices previously in
effect if these stores had been per-
mitted to raise their prices to the
new ceilings.
The decrease in prices on June l
will be made possible. the OPA has
said, through the use of subsidies.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Ban on Fathers Draft
Would Pro|ong War,
Gen. White Declares
Senators Told KiIdoy Bill
Also Would Keep Troops
In Front Lines Longer
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

A War Department spokesman
told the Senate Military Al
fairs Committee today that pas
sage of the Kilday bill would
slow down the flow of men to
the armed forces to such a point
that the war would be pro-
longed, men in combat zones
would have to be kept there
longer and the training period
for their replacements might
have to be reduced.
Terming the Kilday measure.
which would postpone the call for
fathers until the supply of men with
fewer claims to dependency has
been exhausted, IAN administrative
impossibility, Brig. Gen. Miller
White, War Department assistant
chief of staff, said that if the boards
attempted to comply with it, we
would not get the men We require in
the numbers We require them when
we require them
OcH. hcTSHcS speaks.
At the same time. Maj Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey. who also spoke in
opposition to the House e-approved
bill told the committee selective
service planned to maintain its ban
on calling fathers to the last possible
moment and said that I'm going
to risk being short on calls a month
to be sure We are eXpending all the
available fathers" He said he
hoped to give 80 days notice before
the ban on the fathers draft is
lifted.
After hearing Army, Navy and Sc
lective service opponents of the bill,
the Senate committee went into ex-
ecutive session Chairman Reynolds
said he thought it would be un-
necessary to hold futher hearings.
Gen. White said he didn't see how
local boards could comply with the
measure. He said there was never
time when boards did not have
some single men who could not be
called Immediately for induction.
The boards, he said. would have to
slow down their calls for men or
they would violate the law.
In answer to questions from Sen
ator Austin. Republican. of Yer
mont, Gen. White said that if calls
were slowed down it would mean a
slowing down of the prosecution of
the war and inevitably mean
higher mortality of men at the
'front.'
If there is material curtsilment
in reaching our strength" Gen.
White declared. "all our plans must
be revised. 1t would prolong every
thing"
The men in theaters of combat.
he asserted, would probably be there
longer if their expected support did
not arrive in time. The effect of
slowing down the calls. he said,
would not show up Immediately. If
local boards could not furnish suffi-
cient men in July. August and Sep
tember of this year, the difficulties,
he said, would arise in May, June
and July of next year.
Gen. Hershey told the committee
that the principal differences be-
tween the present practices of selec-
tive service and those called for in
the bill are that the bill forbids the
present induction of fathers in nom
deferrable occupations and provides
that when the father draft begins
(See KILDAY BILL, Page A-l4.)
Evening star., 1943-05-17
One Unit Was
AnnihiIoted,
Toxic Claims
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated press.
NEW YORK, May 1.-THE
Toxic radio quoted a japanese
Army spokesman today as say
ing that attacking American
forces were landing a steady
stream of reinforcements on
Attu Island under cover of a
naval and air bombardment.
japanese troops. however, are
holding on to their positions and
have made a NUMBER of damaging
counterattackS against tremendous
numerical odds, the spokesman de-
clared.
The acknowledgement that Amer
ican troops still are pouring ashore
at Attu was subordinated at the end
OF the broadcast, which sought to
emphasize successes which the Jap
anese were said to have gained in
the early phases Of the fighting.
The broadcast was recorded by
the Associated Press.
Three -Pronged Attack.
The japanese spokesman, Maj.
Gen. Nakao Yahagi, chief of the
Army press section, was quoted in
the Toxic broadcast as saying the
Americans had launched a three
pronged attack against the strategic
island at the western end of the
AleutianS.
The main attacking force, he said
effected landing on the southern
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Col. James Roosevelt
To Enter Hospital
BY the Associated Press,

SAN DIEGO. Calf, May IT,
James Roosevelt. eldest son of the
President and lieutenant colonel in
the Marine Corps. will enter the
San Diego Naval Hospital this week
for malaria treatment, reliable
source said today.
The source described Col. Roose-
velt's illness as a light case. The
fever was contracted while Col.
Roosevelt was in service with his
command in the South Pacific, he
added
The Presidents son, IS, has been
on active duty since November,
1910, and has spent much of that
time in the Pacific war zone.
Last August II he helped lead q
commando-like raid on Maxim Is
land at the northern end of the
Gilbert group. which resulted in
practical destruction of an enemy
seaplane base there and the death
Of at least 20 japanese. Later he
was reported active In the Solo,
mons area.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Officials Here Still Silent
On Fighting at Attu
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Official silence continued today to
cloak the ground fighting between
American and japanese forces on
Attu Island in the Aleutians.
Authorities here expressed the
view that the struggle on the
rocky little island west of Japanese
held Kiska still was in progress, and
they assumed that American COM
manders there were too busy to send
detailed reports.
Meanwhile, Army officers predicted
that the American forces would be
able to sweep the japanese from
Attu as soon as the weather cleared
sufficiently for combined sea air
ground operations. They named
Kiska as the likely next objective of
the Americans in the Aleutians.
The attack on Attu began last
Tuesday, and since the Navys orig
inal announcement Friday that
landings had been made there has
been no further word except an
assurance hv Secretary Knox that
the battle was progressing salts
factorily,'
The enemy has had several months
In which to dig in on the island
end it may require some time to dis
lodge them from their rocky crevices
and other shelters. Foggy weather
apparently has settled in to hamper
supporting operations by sea and
air.
American air forces. meanwhile.
continued their assaults on enemy
positions in the South Pacific. A
japanese cargo vessel was blown out
of the water off BUN, on Bougain-
vile Island in the Northern Solo
mons, by torpedo hits last Thurs
Gay. Earlier that day Flying
Fortresses bombed enemy positions
at kahili and on Ballale Island,
starting huge fires. Successful at
tacks also were launched against
other targets on BUN, Kahili and
Ballale.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Elliott Roosevelt Unhurt
In Crash Of Landing Plane
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, May 17.-Col. Ell
lott Roosevelt, son of the President,
narrowly escaped serious injury yes
terday when his plane collided with
another on an airfleld near Algiers.
Col. Roosevelt and the pilot had
landed in a strong crosswind which
carried the plane off its course,
crashing it aground into large
transport which had just arrived.
Col. Roosevelt said he and the pilot
we're shaken up badly, but that
neither was injured enough to re-
Quire disqualification.
There's not much left of the
plane" he said
The transport was the one in which
George Tucker, Associated Press cor
respondent, and George Palmer Of
Me United Press were injured.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Two Dams Blasted by Bombers
Among Largest in Germany

Essen. The structure was rated by
1888 German statistical yearbook
as the fourth largest dam in the
Reich.
The Eder Dam. also known as the
Waldeck, was Germany's second
largest among 30 dams which the
German yearbook listed. 1t lies 40
miles southeast of the Mohne Dam.
It was one-fourth mile long.
Backed up behind this dam was
a reservoir of Az square miles 164
feet deep The reservoir was used
to maintain navigation levels in the
Weser River and to feed the Ems
and the Weser Canals. Motor boats
operated on its surface.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
American submarines raiding
in the Pacific have sunk six
enemy ships, including one de-
stroyer, and damaged another
japanese vessel, the Navy re-
ported today.
A communique reporting the de-
struction told also of a torpedo
bomber attack on four japanese
cargo ships off BUN in the Northern
Solomons. One of the cargo ships
was set afire.
The text of the communiuue:
South Pacific call dates are east
latitude).
Il. On May IS. during the night.
Avenger (Grumman TBF) torpedo
bombers attacked four japanese
cargo vessels in the BUN area. One
enemy ship was set on fire.
Pacific and Far East:
2. United States submarines have
reported the following results of
Evening star., 1943-05-17
All Projected Rubber
Plants 10 Be Ready
By 1914, Jeffers Says
Non Essential Drivers
Told They Won't Get
New Tires for Long Time
BY the Associated Press.

Every plant in the synthetic
rubber program will be COM
pleted by the end of this year,
Rubber Director William NJ.
Jeffers reported today, but "the
non essential driver cannot ex-
pect new tires for long time"
Mr.. Jeffers. in his third progress
report. said essential drivers would
get 100000 new tires this year
100000 synthetics and 10000 pre-
Pearl Harbor tires-and 10000 900
new tires in 1914.
Mr. Jef1ers' report followed a
warning by Petroleum Administra-
tor Ickes and Price Administrator
Brown that drastic steps" will be
taken unless East Coast motorists
cut down on their use of gasoline.
Mr.. Ickes declared military oper-
ations require oceans of OIL and
he said the East Coast is using con-
siderably more gasoline than the
356 600 barrels day allotted for civ
ilian use.
I'VE just cannot continue to oper-
ate on any such basis" Mr.. Ickes
said.
No Extra Gas Available.
Mr.. Brown. who did not define the
drastic steps that might be taken,
stressed, meanwhile, that there Is
no extra gasoline for vacation travel,
for war workers or anyone else.
Mr. Jeffers' implica ton that mile
age rationing might be prolonged
through 1914 was seen in his asser-
tion that 100000 900 tires is the
probable minimum replacement pro-
gram that the country can get by
with in 1914, even by keeping pres
ent conservation measures"
by 1914 the country will have
gone two years with less than one
quarter of the normal replacement
of tires and with no new cars" he
said. This accumulated deficit in
dicates that new tires must be pro-
vided to keep the country moving"
Present estimates" he added,
AAiNASuSS a 6ACoeSA OuAStAOll VI
synthetic rubber in 1943 and a
greater amount of natural crude
rubber arriving from foreign coun-
tries than was indicated in my pre-
vious report of progress"
$4,000 Ton Stockpile.
Because of this and some pairing
of demands, the Nations rubber
stockpile at the end of this year
the danger period of the whole rub
Der program-will be about 10000
tons higher than was estimated in
mid-February, Mr.. Jeffers said. 1t
will contain 1900 tons.
Looking forward to 1914, all of the
synthetic plants will be in produc-
ton, providing over 10000 long
tons. 1t is also expected that
in 1914 at least $4,000 tons of new
crude imports will be available to
this country"
The 100000 tons is the equivalent
OF a heavy years consumption of
rubber in peacetime..
Commenting on numerous requests
for supplemental rations for vaca-
ton travel, particularly for war
(see RUBBER. Page Aid :.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Rep. Morrison Denies
He Got Commission
On Sale Of Boilers
louisionion Testifies
Monroe Had Nothing to
Do With Business Deal

Representative Morrison,
Democrat, of Louisiana today
demanded and got special con-
sideration as a member of Con-
gress to testify before the House
Military Affairs Committee that
he was the unnamed member of
the Louisiana delegation in Con-
gress charged with being in
volved in a steam boiler deal.
and that his Juicy commission"
was a chicken dinner.
Mr.. Morrison insisted on pacing
up and down the floor. even when
asked by Chairman May to sit down,
and objected to having a time re-
| Strlctlon placed on his testimony
when you allowed Mr.. Monroe four
hours, and he's not a Congressman.
John J. Monroe. manufacturers
agent and host to Washington celeb
rites at 2l0l R street NV. proved
the stormy petrol of an earlier hear
ing by the committee inquiring into
| war contracts.
Demanded to Be Heard.
When todays hearing opened
! Drew Pearson. newspaper columnlst
and radio commentator who is al
legged to have made the commission
| charges in = a Nation wide radio
broadcast, was called first by Chair
man May.
At that point. Representative Nor
rlson arose and demanded that he
be allowed to testify first.
Chairman May banged his gavel
for order
Il have right to make this re-
! quest shouted Mr. Morrison. II
am a member of Congress. And
after all, you don't have an ordinary
witness here. You have a Congress-
man.
Mr.. May again banged his gavel
amid points of order" demands by
several committee members.
Finally, Representative Harness,
Republican. of Indiana. demanded
that quorum be present before the
hearing proceeded. There were only
II of the 27 committee members
present at the time.
The committee clerk was ordered
to summon more members. Ten
minutes later when % members-a
quorum is 14-Were in their seats,
the hearing was resumed, and Rep
resentative Morrison was allowed to
take the stand as the first witness.
Chicken Dinner Was PAY Off,
Mr.. Morrison first presented to
committee members prepared
statement denying that Mr. Mon
roe had anything to do with the
boiler deal.
And the pay off''--the so-called
Juicy commission" Mr.. Morrison
declared, was chicken dinner,
served at the home of E. A. Jumon-
vile, dealer in secondhand ma
chinery in Louisiana, who handled
the boiler deal
Mr.. Morrison testified that the
boilers involved were purchased by
Mr.. Jumonville for $500 in De-
cember. 1912, which was before Mr..
Morrison came to Congress on jan
! Larry 6, 1943
He said he merely helped Mr.
Jumonville, when the Aluminium
Corp. asked to buy the boilers, and
there was dispute over the price
to be paid for them.
Things have come to pretty
tSee MORRISON, Page A-14l
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Briton Reported Slated
For European Command
BY the Associated Press,

LONDON. May 1.-THE Daily
Mail in a dispatch from New York,
said today there was reason to be-
lieve that President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill had agreed
on Briton as supreme commander
for European operations.
The name of Gen. Sir Harold
Alexander is considered here to be
the leading strategist on the Allied
side and seems to be the logical
one" the correspondent added. IS
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Deschner Challenges
Authority Of FEPC
In Transit Hearing
Monpower Chief Says
His Office Should Decide
Race Bios Controversy

RAINY B. Deschner, area direc-
tor of the War Manpower Com
mission, today challenged the
right Of the Presidents Fair
Employment Practice Commit
tee to hold public hearings to-
morrow on the FEPC order to
the Capital Transit Co. to cease
it's alleged discrimination against
Negroes as bus and streetcar
operators.
The FEPC, Mr.. Deschner said in
an interview. is Federal fact-fnd-
ing and recommending agency has
fulfilled its function in the case and
should cancel the hearing and turn
the whole matter over to the local
Office of the War Manpower Com
mission for final decision and dis
position.
Pointing to his Labor Manage
ment Committee composed of local
citizens, both white and colored, as
an advisory body to which he looks
for advice in settlement of man
power problems here, Mr.. Deschner
said:
Il am governed by that commit
tees decisions so long as they do not
go contrary to the general policy
laid down by the War Manpower
Commission.
Lack of Suffrage Cited.
This procedure, he said, is based
on the fundamental principle oi
American democracy where the
power goes back to the people them
selves. 1t should operate particular
ly in such an issue as this here, Mr.
Deschner declared, since residents
of this city have no vote and no of
fetal voice in Congress. The local
Labor Management Committee re-
presents the people here he en-
phaSiZed.
Meantime the Fair Employment
Practice Committee met at its Of
fees here to consider the Capital
Transit case and prepare for the
hearing at 10 am. tomorrow at the
auditorium of the Smithsonian In
stitution at Constitution avenue and
Tenth street NV.
This committee, according to its
executive secretary, Lawrence w
Cramer. plans to proceed under au-
thority of the presidential executive
order which, he said, empowers it
to hold jurisdiction of the case.
Both the local area Office of the
War Manpower Commission and the
FEPC are constituent bodies of the
VINO. and are under supervision OF
Paul v. McNutt, chairman of the
Evening star., 1943-05-17
BY the Associated Press.

Both the Mohne and the Eder
Dams, blasted by British bombers.
were sources of hydro-electric power
which served the German war ef-
fort through the industries of the
oft-bombed Ruhr Valley.
Lying in the Russian uplands east
of the Rhine, they also served to
regulate the water levels in the
navigable rivers they fed. The
Mohne is a tributary of the Ruhr;
the Elder flows into the Weser.
The Mohne Dam backed up lake
4 square miles in area and 125 feet
deep in the hills 48 miles east o1
Evening star., 1943-05-17

ordination and asserted there was
dangerous Lack of qualified per-
sonnel in Washington to deal with
such problems
Urging greater decentralization of
authority in war agencies. the re-
port said local and regional repre-
sentatives, anxious to do good
job, were hampered by conflicting
and overlapping directives" from
Washington.
In far too many instances the
'See CRITICAL AREAS, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1943-05-17
Navy Denies Japanese
Claim u. S. Is Usinq
Poison Gas on Attu

BY the Associated Press.
The Navy today denied en-
phatically claims on enemy
radio broadcasts that poison
gas had been used by American
troops on Attu Island.
Enemy claims that the
United States forces in the
Aleutians have used gas are
absolutely untrue" a Navy
spokesman said.
The Toxic and Berlin radios,
quoting a japanese officer, had
broadcast reports that Amer
ican troops began use of gas in
the drive to force the enemy
out of their Attu Island base.
Evening star., 1943-05-17
II Ships Sunk OFF Africa
By Allied Air Forces

BY the Associated Press. r
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North t.
Africa. May 17.-Seventy lone vessels
were sunk, 103 probably sunk and
100 damaged by Northwest African
Air Force units from November 8, :,
1912, to May Is, 1t was announced
today. =
Evening star., 1943-05-17

coast on the morning of May II, and
succeeded in moving inland and at
tacking japanese positions only to be
driven back to the beach that night
Pitched Battle in Progress.
A pitched battle is now in progress,
Yahagi said, between Japanese
troops and another American force
which landed simultaneously on the
northern coast
The third American force, which
attempted to land on the east coast,
was "completely annihilated" on the
beach, Yahagi was quoted as saying