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Evening star., 1943-04-06
D. {. Army Flyer Reported
Killed in Pacific Action

Mrs. Joseph Stein. 1881 Thirty
ninth street NV, has received word
that ner son, First 1t. Francis M.
Skinner, 81, Army Air Forces, was
killed iE action in the Southwest
Pacific area March q.
A native of Washington, 1t.
Skinner attended Central High
School and graduated from the
Greenbrier Military School in West
Virginia. He also attended Hofstra
College, Long Island, N. Y, and
New York University.
Commissioned as a bombardier at
Barksdale Field, La, in November,
l94l, ne was assigned to overseas
duty and was promoted to first lieu
tenant in December of last year.
1t. Skinner in civilian life held a
CAA pilots and advanced flying
licenses,
Evening star., 1943-04-06
British Air Mission Chief
Halls New u. 5. Bombers

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 6.-Two Ameri-
can plants are going into produc-
ton of bombers which will carry
twice the bomb load of the best cur
rent types and will travel farther
and faster, Sir Roy Fedden. chair
man of the recent British air mis-
sion to the United States, said yes
terday.
Mr.. Fedden told a press confer
ence the new bombers would be
turned out by Boeing and by Con-
solidated and he said I'VE are put
ting in a strong recommendation
that the RAF will use one of these
types"
In addition. Mr.. Fedden said the
Americans were working on i'm
proved versions of the Mustang,
Curtiss P-40 and Airacobra and a
new Douglas fighter which he said
was better than the Nazi Focke-
Wulf 100 up to $4,000 feet.
I'VE brought back a lot of ideas
which will enable us to cut down on
some phases of ours" he said. I'VE
learned great deal about aircraft
production. The Americans are do
ing big things
Evening star., 1943-04-06

Great oaks from little acorns grow.
War bonds are the most promising
acOrns on the market.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Party Crosher'
Parks Her Car
| In Living Room
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 6.-Although he
says he ordinarily is a great guy for
company, Cotton Ankebrant drew the
line on how people should crash his
parties.
Describing in Safety Court yester-
day how Mrs Agnes RobackoWski 33,
an uninvited guest. joined a quiet
family gathering in his home. Mr..
Ankebrant, an elderly war plant
worker. said:
Your honor. We thought the Japs
had come. She parked her automo-
bile right in our parlor"
Mrs. Robackowski's attorney inter-
jected:
Your honor, this woman doesn't
know thing about driving car.
Her husband left her alone in the
machine for few minutes and she
accidentally stepped on the starter,
accidentally threw it into reverse
and accidentally backed into the
house"
Judge Joseph Hermes continued
a charge of reckless driving against
Mrs. Robackowski until April Is.
Said Mr.. Ankebrant:: shes going
TO pay me garage rent because I'm
going to keep her car in my living
room until this thing is settled"
Evening star., 1943-04-06

German-controlled radio stations on
the damage and casualties caused by
these raids was regarded by observ-
ers here as an attempt of Nazi
propagandists to stir up bitter feel
ing against the Allies in France,
Holland and Belgium.
In contrast, these observers noted
the tight control which the Germans
have maintained over reports of
the results of raids on Germany
itself.
Last night was the first night
since Friday that the Raj has not
attacked targets in Germany or oc-
cupied territory in force. The cur
rent offensive was started that night
with terrific Raj bombardment
of the German submarine bases at
Lorient and st. Nazaire and was
followed on successive nights by at
tackS on Essen and kiel.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Miners Place Wage
Case Before Public in.
Newspaper Ads
Contend Bosic Poy Rote
Now Is Less Thon 1t
Was 23 Years Ago
By the Associated Press,

B, the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 6.-The United
Mine Workers, in an advertisement
appearing in newspapers here today
explaining their position in the
bituminous wage controversy, con.
tend that the coal miners basic
wage rate now "is so cents less per
day than it was % years ago."
The advertisement, which the
UNIV announced had been placed
in SO newspapers throughout the
Nation, also asserts that a S2-a-day
wage increase for miners would cost
the average citizen little or nothing
because the selling price of btu
minous coal fob. the mine, includ-
ing the $2-per day wage increase,
totals less than e-hundredth
of cent per sales dollar OF all man.
ufactured products on a weighted
average basis"
Northern and Southern Appa-
lachian operators in their contract
negotiations with the UNIV have
contended that a wage increase for
the 0,O00 miners involved can only
be met by a price boost.
DR.. John r. Steelman, United
States Cancellation Service head,
expressed the hope yesterday that
the soft coal wage dispute could
be settled through direct negotia-
tions and that it would not be neces-
sary to certify the matter to the
National War Labor Board, as rec.
commended by former Senator Ed
ward R. Burke, president of the
Southern Coal Producers Associa-
ton.
On emerging from the Southern
Appalachian wage conference last
night, DR.. Steelman said he saw "a
spirit OF compromise" between the
UNIV representatives and the op-
orators. Referring to Mr.. Burkes
proposal, he said:
Mr.. Burke's suggestion was that
the conference was stalemated and
and that the entire matter ought to
be referred to the WLB as early as
possible.
After he made the suggestion,
we got into other discussions, and
for the time being no conclusions
were reached on the general situ-
alton"
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Worst Jersey Fire
Sweeps 10000 Acres

6y INC associated PreSS.
TUCKERTON, N. j., April 6. -
New Jerseys worst 1943 forest fire
burned to within 3 miles of this
Ocean County borough last night
and today until backflres halted its
further approach.
State police here said that fires
still were burning over 10000
acre area but that the community
had been considered out of danger
since $3.50 am.
The fire, which started yesterday
at OsWego Lake. IA miles west of
Tuckerton, moved swiftly in front
OF heavy winds through dry pines
and scrub oaks. The cause was un-
determined
About 600 men including State
police, volunteer firemen, soldiers
and crews of the State Forest Fire
Service battled the blaze which de-
stroyed 10000 acres of woodland.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Liquor Rotioning Bill
Is Passed in Ohio
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 6.-The
State Legislature passed bill last
night authorizing liquor rationing
in Ohio.
The State Senate voted. q to /,
for a measure empowering the di-
rector of the States liquor monopoly
to set up rationing machinery. 1t
provides a maximum penalty of a
$50 fine and 80 days Imprisonment
for violators. The House passed
the measure last month. ITO to Is.
State Senator Frank S. Day,
Cuyahoga County Democrat, who
helped write the measure. said it
was designed to bring about a more
equitable distribution of whisky. a
ehortage of which exists in the
State.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Coast Guard Rescues
81 on Beached Ship
Russiuns Are Removed in
Difficult Undertaking
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, April 6-Forty-
five Russian seamen and nine
women crew members of their mer-
chant ship were rescued from the
sea in 24-hour operation described
by the Coast Guard as one of the
most difficult ever attempted.
The ship was one of two small
Russian vessels which the Navy De-
partment reported yesterday to
have run aground of the North Pa
cific Coast of the United States.
The rescue was made last Friday
One woman of the ships crew was
lost in an attempted lifeboat
launching. Another was injured
severely.
A Coast Guard party had to blaze
trail through two miles of wooded
country to reach precipice from
which thin line fashioned of
shoestrings and torn cloth was
tossed to the vessel far below on
the rocks.
A heavier line was returned. It
was too long pull to the top of
the rock. from which the Coast
Guardsmen looked down upon the
battered vessel like observers view
ing the sidewalk from tall building.
The survivors were pulled half
way up to a cave. While the waves
thundered against the rocks and
stranded ship below, the pull to the
top was completed. Then the party
had to be lowered to the beach on
the opposite side of the cliff for
long tramp through swampy terrain
to highway.
The ship was expected to be
total loss.
No details were known here of
the other Russian freighter the
Navy reported aground.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
1O7 D. {. Inductees Leave
For Active Duty Tomorrow

A total of LOT District men will
report tomorrow for active duty in
the armed forces. The men were
inducted March 81.
Included in the group are SO for
the Army, II for the Navy and
3 for the Marine Corps. The list
follows:
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Corn Cobs Power
South African Auto

Corncobs may replace gasoline
as motor fuel as a result Of tests
being made by c. P. Newberry of
Ariston, South Africa.
Mr.. Newberry, who has driven
10000 miles on cobs. claims to get
the same speed from his car with
this form of gas, created by burning
the cobs in a special container on
the auto, as from gasoline. The
cost is but a fraction OF gasoline, he
reported.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Corgoes to Maintain
Luxury Life Criticized

In an "austerity" call to South
Africa. F. c. Sturrock, Minister Of
Railways, speaking in Pretoria, de-
clared that sailors efforts should
be devoted to beating the enemy,
not to carrying cargo required by
the high standard Of living. which,
with a little sacrifice, could be done
without
Work for sailors, he added. should
not be confined to collecting funds
for their benefit, but to seeing that
none risked his life unnecessarily
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Allied Planes Blast
Buka Island Sector
For Three Hours
10 japanese Bases in
South Pacific Undergo
Heaviest Attacks
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, April 6.-Allied me-
dium bombers pounded for three
hours yesterday at the airf1eld
and surrounding area on Buka
Island at the northern tip of the
Solomons in the heaviest OF a Sc
ries OF raids on 10 japanese bases
in the Southwest Pacific.
A communique from Gen. Douglas
MacArthurs headquarters also re-
ported that Allied airmen had
scored near misses with 500-pound
bombs on a 4,000-to ton japanese cargo
ship at Sekar Bay in Dutch New
Guinea, but said the damage could
not be assessed.
The Buka attack, described as "an
extended night harassing raid"
brought shower of augmentation
and demolition bombs down on the
heads Of the japanese at China
town and Kakil, near Buka, and
struck dispersal bays and runways
at the airfeld, leaving apparently
burning aircraft, the announce
ment said.
All Allied planes returned from
the Buka foray, where extensive
anti-aircraft fire and searchlights
were encountered. and the COM
munique mentioned no losses from
the other wide-sweeping sorties.
Meanwhile, Japanese warships
and merchant vessels clung Stub
bornly to the neighborhood of Ka-
vieng, New Ireland, despite three
day Allied bomber pounding which
was reported yesterday to have de
stroyed or dispersed" one concen-
tration.
Allied airmen sank or severely
damaged seven enemy warcraft and
five cargo ships in the Kavieng
raids, but reconnaissance yesterday
disclosed both warships and mer-
chantmen were in the area again.
A light cruiser, probably one of those
hit Sunday was reported aground.
The air field at Salamaua, one of
the principal japanese bases on the
northeast coast of New Guinea, was
bombed again yesterday. Other Al
lied planes started fires at Timika
Bay, in Dutch New Guinea; bombed
and strafed small surface craft of
Yungen Point, near Wide Bay, New
Britain; bombed the village at Ubili
and the jetty at Ulamona and twice
raided the airdrome at Cape Glou-
cester all on New Britain. They
also struck Madang. Finschhafen
and Saidor, in New Guinea.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
SpeIImun in Scotland

LONDON, April (P,.-Arch-
bishop Francis J. Spellman OF New
York today visited the Most Rev.
Joseph Macdonald Archbishop of
Edinburgh, and planned to go from
Scotland to North Africa and then
to Palestine for the Easter holidays.
Evening star., 1943-04-06
Dublin Rector Uroes
Grants for Murriooe

Marriage grants to break the ira
dition of late marriages are used by
the Rev. w. c. Proctor, a rector of
Dublin, Fire. He envisages a regular
parish collection, controlled by the
priest or clergyman, from which
grants to deserving couples might
be made.
Evening star., 1943-02-05
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The situation in the South Pa
ciflc, where the biggest naval bat
tie Of the war may be in the max
ing. overshadows all other opera
tions of the moment, in the eyes
Of Washington military quarters.
News from the Pacific area
continues to be scanty. 1t is
definitely known, however, that
claims of the japanese that sew
eral battleships have been sunk
or damaged are the product of
the imagination of the Japanese
propaganda bureaus. So far as
it can be ascertained here, the
Japs have not even caught a
glimpse of our heavy units.
But this does not mean that
a major clash may not be in the
making between our forces and
those which the japanese have
been gathering in the vicinity for
the last two months. 1t all de-
pends on the Japs, who have
taken the initiative this time.
BY piecing together the slight
bits of information available, the
picture appears as follows:
The japanese have decided
that the war of attrition which
has been going on for several
months must come to an end.
For that purpose they have been
taking large reinforcementS of
ships and planes to their princi-
pal bases on Truk and Rabaul.
Seek Major Engagement.
Unlike their tactics in the bat
tie of November IL to Is, the
japanese do not appear to have
any intention of sending a large
force to escort their transports
to reinforce the hard-pressed
garrison on Guadalcanal. Their
plan is believed to be to engage
the whole American fleet under
the command OF Admiral William
Halsey provided they have the
numerical and the strategic adj
vantage.
The japanese high command
does not know how many ships
of all types Admiral Halsey has
at his disposal. Hence, the
skirmishes which have occurred
since last Friday. In them the
Japs want to discover the actual
strength of the Americans while
Admiral Halsey wants to avoid
their discovering the disposition
of his fleet.
No large forces except destroy
ers, torpedo boats and airplanes
had participated in these sharp
encounters UP to Tuesday night.
Lines Must Be Kept Open.
The safety of our ground forces
on Guadalcanal depends on the
Navy keeping open the lines of
communication with our bases.
If Admiral Halsey withdrew be-
fore superior enemy, the troops
now in possession OF portion of
Guadalcanal might suffer the
fate OF those on Bataan and Cor
regidor.
With the japanese feet con-
Evening star., 1943-02-05
The Great Game of Politics
Stroinine Under War Load, Industry Faces
HeckIinq Under SEC Revision Of Proxy Rules

and in obtaining the services of
good men on the boards were con-
siderable. Under the new ones they
would be enormously enhanced.
In addition, the greatly en-
HANGED amount of material required
to be included in proxy statements
will further burden the already
overburdened personnel and greatly
add to the expense. Another effect
would be to further impede future
financing by listed corpora tions.
Also, the point is made that the
| commission has now unjustifiably
| assumed jurisdiction over the an
nual reports Of listed corporations
and entered a field not contem-
plated by the law.
Industry Aroused.
1t Is not an exaggeration to say
that industry generally Is aroused
over the injustice of this latest
bureaucratic heckling and affronted
by the f1imsy and unsubstantiated
reasons advanced for it.
Flat denial is made that there
exists any demand among small
stockholders for action of this kind
or that, as the SEC publicity as
serted last summer, "the proxy de-
vice has been sadly prostituted and
we see more and more today in
stances of management feathering
it's nest at the expense OF its stock
holders as we'll as that Of the Gov
ernment."
This. it is claimed, would be inde-
fensible demagoguery in a period of
peace; it is worse than that IN a
time of war when industry is strain
ing under war-production schedules
and needs every ounce of its energy
to meet what Is required of it. AS
for the reasons behind the new
move one group attributes 1t to a
desire on the part of the SEC to
get publicity.
May Be Publicity Device.
For a long time 1t was much in
the public eye, but since the war
began 1t has been relegated to rela-
tive obscurity. The new rules, some
think, are primarily intended by
the SEC to reassert its Importance.
Others believe that their real in
spiration comes from certain of the
more advanced of the administra-
ton radicals who have their minds
and hearts primarily set on extend
ing the New Deal social gains,"
war or no war. It seems reasonable
to believe that this Congress will
take the view that this is no time
to push new social reforms" on
businessmen even If they are good.
If there Is a hearing on the bills
already introduced, there will be no
trouble in demonstrating that this
particular reform is not good. The
evidence is overwhelming.
Evening star., 1943-02-05
BY FRANK r. KENT.

Not long ago there was an out
burst of oratory in Congress against
the tendency of governmental bu-
reaucracy to compel American in
dustry to spend SO large part of
its time answering unnecessary
missionaries and making out
needless reports. 1t was soundly
contended that these agencies have
gone to absurd extremes in heck
ling and harassing business in this
way and that the war effort was be-
ing slowed down as a result.
No more convincing evidence of
this could be found than the recent
sweeping revision of the proxy rules
promulgated by the Securities Ex-
change Commission. 1t is not too
much to say that industry generally
is revolted and resentful at what has
been done and it is certain that the
issue will be decided by Congress.
The proposal to revise the proxy
rules was first made last August and
aroused a great volume of protest
and criticism from every branch OF
business and from all parts of the
country. A bill was introduced re-
scinding the power Of the SEC to
make such rules-at least during
the war. There was a number of
congressional attacks and the pro-
posal apparently was abandoned.
Breathing Spell Short1ived.
The impression was gained then
that industry was thus to have a
breathing spell from further hamp-
ering regulations and allowed to de-
vote its full energies to the war
effort. However, on December 10,
two days after the Seventy-seventh
Congress had adjourned, and the
pending bill had died, the SEC
promulgated set of rules even
more Objectionable from a practical
point of view than the first pro-
posals.
There is not space here to 20 into
the details of what the new rules
require, but it is clear that they
could easily reduce any business to
chaos.
For one thing they put the corpo-
ration at the mercy of any crack
pot stockholder with as much as a
single share Of stock. Such a man
has his nuisance value enhanced by
the new rules to a point where he
can practically blackmail a COM
pany in the grand manner.
In addition, another effect of the
new proxy rules will be to make it
exceedingly difficult for a corpora
ton to have quorum represented
at stockholders meetings. And it
will also become more difficult to
get first-class men to serve as di-
rectors. Even under the old rules
the difficulties in getting a quorum
Evening star., 1943-02-05
On the Record
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON.

The war accelerates not in
arithmetic but in geometric pro-
gression. Each victory draws
into its wake numerous other
military and political factors.
Stalingrad changes the world
wide picture, not only the situa-
ton on the eastern front.
1t Immediately influences, for
instance, the behavior of the still
neutral powers. There is Turkey,
which now must come to terms
with Britain and with Russia.
We have been advised not to
speculate on the outcome of the
conference in Adana between
Prime Minister Winston Church.
i'll and President Ismet Inonu.
But the Germans speculate to the
extent of sending Gen. Fritz
Won Mannstein and other high
ranking officers to Sofia. For
Bulgaria might be the next
theater of war. And King Boris
has made an urgent trip to his
Turkish frontier.
The Germans have sent five
new divisions to Yugoslavia to
fight the Chetniks and the Parti-
sans
Appeal From Finland.
And not only the neutral pow-
ers become problematical So do
the small Axis belligerents. In
cautious but revealing words, the
Finnish president, Risto Ryti, has
appealed to the United Nations
to understand the tragedy Of
Finland and to rescue his country
from the consequences of defeat.
But there is no Finnish defeat
as yet. There is only the logical
repercussion Of the German de-
deaf at Stalingrad.
And not only the smaller bel
Hgerents. Even the main west
ern enemy, NaN Germany, Is
asking Britain and America to
rescue Germany from defeat. The
NaN propaganda has reacted to
the Stalingrad disaster to the
German armies, not by minimiz-
ing the defeat but by playing it
up to its fullest.
DR.. Goebbels is attempting to
turn the defeat into a political
weapon. He is threatening the
western powers with a German
defeat. In an article published
this week in his own organ.
Das Reich, he ignores the Anglo
American demand for uncondi-
tional surrender and draws a dark
picture OF Germany defeated in
the field by the Russian Com
munists. He presents this not as
German question but as a Euro
pean and world question. He at
tempts to frighten the British
with the prognostication that
Russian Communism will not stop
At the German borders or even
at the Channel ports.
The Nazis therefore are at
tempting to win by politics what
they know they can no longer
win by military action. 0oebbels
believes that British and Amer
1can traditional thinking may
lead them to see the whole sit