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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
IA War Production
To Increase 49,;
Some Cutbacks Due
U. S. to Spend IS Billion
Compared With Outlay
Of go Billion in 1913
BY the Associated Press.

oE me ASSOCIATED Press.
America is armed and ready
for the supreme battle test of
1914. Behind is history's great
est sustained production achieve
ment.
After outproducing all the Axis
countries combined by the margin
of three to two during 1913, the
United States has, for the year
ahead, production schedule Is per
cent greater than the l943 output.
Seventy-five billion dollars worth
of ornaments are on the unan-
nounced blueprints for 1914, as
against 100000, 100000 worth in the
closing year.
Aircraft alone accounts for the
bulk of the upturn. On the ground
and on the seas, the arms program
is at its peak or near it.
Many War Production Board and
manpoWer officials. along with lead
ers in management and labor, ex-
pect drastic cutbacks in production
even while American troops advance
into the bloodiest fighting of the
war.
New Phase Begins.
Thus the turn of the year brings
production into new phase-some
think the next-to-last phase, the
prolonged pull before victory and
disqualification.
The cutbacks may erase s8,O0O.-
100000 to s10,000,000,000 from the
1914 schedules, it is forecast, and
may leave 100000 workers temper
arily idle.
However, if the invasion of Europe
runs into tough going. WPB's top
men say, the schedules may 60 up
instead of down.
In few high lights, this is the
record to date:
I A warplane is delivered every five
minutes, night and day. A heavy
bomber comes off the line every 40
minutes. Mass production is under
way on the new B-29 superbomber
it will roar into action early in the
New Year.
The Navy has more than 300 war
ships-half of them, including 4C
aircraft carriers, were built this
year. This doesn't include the thou
sands of auxiliary vessels, nor the
program for 10000 invasion craft
which are now one-third built.
The Merchant Marine has been
lSee PRQQIICTIQN PAGE Al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Presidents Cold Worse,
Ordered 10 Stay in Bed

The cold with which President
Roosevelt has been suffering for the
last two days developed into the
grippe today, and when the Chief
Executive showed a slight fever he
was ordered to bed by his personal
physician, Rear Admiral Ross T.
McIntire.
The President probably will be
required to stay in bed tomorrow
Presidential Secretary William D.
Hassett said, adding that MI. Roose-
welt had about one-half a degree
of tempera ture."
The regular Friday afternoon
cabinet session was Cancelled
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Late Bulletin
Scout Falls OF Bluff

John Lore Malone, 13-year-
old Boy Scout, son of MIR. and
Mrs. John L. Malone, 5225
Macarthur boulevard NV,
fell 30 feet to a roadway while
climbing a bluff on the Vir-
ginia side of the Potomac
River below Chain Bridge to-
day. Three other Boy Scouts
with him helped to have him
removed to Georgetown Hos
pital, where a diagnosis dis
closed q fractured wrist and
lacerated right k~.e.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31

striking contrast to last years more
somber observance Of the occasion.
Most larger hotels reported all
reservations for tables exhausted
Yesterday. One or two had a few
left but expected to sell out COM
pletely today. Virtually all night
clubs were ready to hang out stand
ing-room- only signs. but reserva-
tons were still availabl today.
An OPA ruling will keep night
clubs from raising prices over last
years level.
New Year eve weather will be fair
and cool, with the thermometer
reaching low of about Is degrees
tonight, the Weather Bureau pre-
dicted, Tomorrow is expected to be
partly cloudy, but slightly warmer
! (See NEW YEAR, Page A-3D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31

department store
found it a n d
turned it over to
t n e manage
ment.
Emmanuel r.
Bolts, 1886 Forty
sixth street NE,
the porter, who
has b e en- an
employe of the
S t ore for 20
years, found the
p o c k e t b ok
under a counter
! a S t night. It
was claimed at
pol ice head
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Chinese Take 10 Towns
In Hunon-Hupeh Area
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Dec. 31-Chinese
forces have recaptured more than
10 villages around Owchihkow, in
the Hunan-Hupeh border region
thereby restoring the situation in
that sector to what it was before
the Japanese began their rice bowl
campaign on November 2, the Chi
nese high command announced to-
day.
Enemy remnants around Owchih-
koW were wiped out, the communi-
que said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Marines S|aughtering
ashland laps on
Cape Gloucester Base
Gen. Kruger Announces
Gift Of Big Airdrome
To Commander in Chief
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec
I31.-Strewing the jungle with
hundreds of dead japanese
United States marines captured
Savagely defended Cape Glouces-
ter and its airdrome four days
and a few hours after a sea
borne force from New Guinea
invaded that Northwest New
Britain strong point. Today the
surviving Japs faced entrap-
ment.
On the last day OF 1913, 1t. Gen
Walter Kruger, commander of the
United States 9Th Army, proudly
announced, L have the honor tc
present the Gloucester Airdrome tc
the commander in chief as a New
Year present"
Gen. Douglas Macarthur heard
Gen, Krueger's report at the latter's
advanced headquarters, together
with word that 700 japanese were
killed on Cape Gloucester Wednes-
day and Thursday alone. American
losses, said Gen. Kruger, were ''un-
believably light
Macarthur Looks Over Results.
Gen Macarthur thereafter made
an aerial reconnaissance fight over
F1nSchhafen, the Ramu and Mark
ham Valleys and along the Huor
coast near Bluecher Point, all in
New Guinea, where Australian SOL
diers are driving northward
The irresistible manner in which
the marines burned their way
through pillbox defenses with flame
throwers, brilliantly supported by
artillery and bombing planes, tc
complete the occupation yesterday Of
the bases two airstrlps, won praise
from Gen. Macarthur.
He was particularly pleased with
the speed and efficiency of the oper-
ation.''
The marines. who are attached tc
Gen. Kreuger's Army, landed un-
opposed Sunday at Bergen Bay. on
the east side of the cape. They
crossed beaches cleared of japanese
by naval and air bombardment and
cracked entrenched jungle positions
to get to the airdrome. Now they
are hopping up survivors who, at
any time, may come under fire of
another Marine force, landed SUM-
day southwest of the cape.
Extraordinary scouting and ar
tillery activities indicate that a
arge-scale attack of the Americans
is impending" on Bougainviue Is
land, Toxic broadcast said.
Enemy Escape Route.
The enemy's only hope of escape
lies IN taking to circuitous jungle
trails around the base of 6,6OO-fo
Mount Talawe.
Two days of concentrated aerial
pounding helped crack the inland
defense system on which the Nip
ponese had been compelled to rely
after Allied planes, during the De-
cember days prior to the Sunday
landing, had expelled them from the
beaches with more than 5000 tons
of bombs.
A regiment of japanese at Bergen
Bay tried vainly by sheer numbers
to break through the deadly fire of
a marine force, facing east, and get
across the path of the other marine
force driving toward the airdrome.
Capture of Cape Gloucester cuts
the New Guinea-New Britain sea
supply line along New Britain's
(Caa pACIEIC pnna A q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
No Evening Star
Tomorrow

To conserve newsprint pa
per, The Star will not be pub
lished tomorrow. New Year
Day, unless the receipt of ex-
traordinary news requires 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Woman ShopperRecovers Purse
With ST 900 Lost Month Aoo

A lost pocketbook containing
$1,000 in cash and $1,000 in postal
savings was returned to woman
shopper today after a colored porter
employed at Woodward & Lothrop's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Hopes Of Allies High
On Eve Of New Year.;
Nazis Deep in Gloom
United Nations Leaders
Confident Of Victory
As They Shape Plans
BULLETIN.

LONDON DPr.-AdOlf Hitler
grimly told the German peo-
pie in a New Year message
today that lin this war there
will be no victors and losers,
but merely survivors and an
initiated"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31

quarters today by Mrs. Rosa Rhoade
1910 Livingston street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31

lSee RAILROADS, PAGE A-l2D
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(See PACIFIC, Page A-3.)
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ee PRODUCTION, Page Al.
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(See EXTORTION. Page A-12J
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(See RUSSIA, Page A-3D
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
CHURCHILL:
Hitler First: laps Next'

War to the death on Japan, but
defeat of Hitler first was the recipe
for complete United Nations victory
prescribed by Prime Minister Wins
ton Churchill in his historic speech
before congress.
Answering congressional critics
who predicted that Britain would
leave the burden of defeating Japan
to America, Mr.. Churchill pledged
the empire to war side by side with
the United States "while there is still
breath in our bodies and while blood
flows through our veins" He prom
ised, further, that British air power
will join with American to bomb Jap
cities and war industries, adding:
"In ashes they must surely lie be-
fore peace comes to the world"
He defended present United Ma
tions strategy founded on the judg-
ment of President Roosevelt, him
self and their military advisers that
"while defeat of japan would not
mean the defeat of Germany, the de-
feat of Germany would infallibly
mean the ruin of Japan"
Greater aid for both China and
Russia were promised by Churchill.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
AFL TO LEWIS:
Come Back Home

Unpredictable John L. Lewis
knocked at the door of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor carrying in
his hand an application for the re-
admission of his United Mine Work
ers. Just eight years before he had
torn the parent union asunder in the
greatest labor schism in history.
That the door would be opened
wide to the errant Mine Workers
was evident from AFL President
William Green's announcement that
the federation's executive council
was considering Lewis application
in an "orderly and sympathetic
way" Green said he personally
welcomed the miners and reminded
the public that for seven or eight
years he had said the latch string
was out and he wanted the miners
''to come back home"
What effect Lewis move would
have on the present peace negotia-
tions between the AFL and the CIO
which Lewis founded and later quit,
was not Immediately evident.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

CRABS: For the first time in his
tory the giant king crab of the Ber-
ing sea will be canned commercially
by Americans, Secretary of the In
terror Harold L. Ickes announced.
GASOLINE: No extra gasoline
will be available for vacation trips
this year, according to an OPA rul-
ing. Holders of B and c cards must
not use them for holiday trips, the
ruling stated.
PEACE: DR.. Eduard Benes,
Czechoslovakian president, ex-
pressed the belief that the European
war will be over within year, in
an address here. He said the peace
conference should not be held until
a provisional peace is made and the
war with Japan is ended.
JAPS: Japanese air strength in
New Britain has been practically
doubled in the last five months, ac-
cording to Col. Frederic H. Smith,
commander of the Buna air task
force. Colonel Smith, home on fur
Tough, reported that the enemy now
has roughly two to one superiority.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
ALEUTIANS:
Tokyo Gets Nearer

The japanese government had
prepared the civilian population of
Nippon for the fall of Attu through
the medium of a report indicating
that the last defenders of the Aleu-
tan Islands outpost were making a
death stand against attacking Amer
lean troops.
While the Japs were singing their
Attu swan song, reports from Wash
ington had disclosed the strategic
moves that had succeeded in bot
ting the enemy up. Two American
columns, landed on opposite sides
of the island, had joined and trapped
the Japs on a narrow front on the
northwestern end of Attu.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
GAS CRISIS:
Middle West Nest?

AS the gasoline supply crisis
mounted along the Atlantic sea-
board, Price Administrator Prentiss
M. Brown decreed a complete ban
on pleasure driving in IL eastern
states, part of another and in the
District of Columbia.
The states affected by the ruling
were Maine, New Hampshire, Ver-
mont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New York, New Jer-
sey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Mary
land and Virginia. In addition eight
eastern counties in West Virginia
were affected.
Previously the OPA had sought to
curb nonessential driving through a
voluntary 'honor system"
That additional restrictions loomed
ahead was indicated by Petroleum
Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who
said that the East would have to
cut its gasoline consumption still
further and that new restrictions
may be put into effect in the Middle
West so that some gasoline may be
diverted from there to the seaboard
area
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
CLOTHES:
Nav AUOid RatiOning

Rationing of clothing and other
textiles may be avoided as result
of plans worked out between Off
cials of the War Production board
and retail clothing dealers, it was
announced in Washington.
Under the new plan the WPB will
make possible increased production
of more essential types of clothing
and textiles. At the same time re-
tailers have promised to revise GER
tain practices and develop new
methods designed to relieve pres
sure on the industry.
"We believe we can avoid clothes
rationing and other textiles this win
ter and perhaps indefinitely, if we
get adequate support from the pub
ic," said an official statement.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
FLOODS:
Peril Farm, Output

Ruined crops, inundated cities,
damaged homes and casualties from
drownings resulted from the disas-
trous flood that started in Midwest
ern farm states and spilled south
from rivers and streams flowing into
the Mississippi river.
AS emergency crews and troops
had toiled to check the rise of flood
waters and hold down damage from
breaks in Mississippi river levees
protecting rich farm lands and war
plants, weather bureau officials at
tributed the flood to unprecedented
May rains.
In Illinois alone the continuous
rains had destroyed 100000 acres of
corn, wheat and oats. Other states
reporting serious crop destruction
were: Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas,
Kansas and Oklahoma. The flood
losses represented critical threat
to the nations epochal wartime food
production crusade. The damage
resulted not only from crops already
in, but from serious delays in plant
ing corn and other vital cereal
crops.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
HIC HLIGHTS in the weeks neUs

CASUALTIES: Axis losses in Tu-
nisia totaled 1900 according to es-
Inmates of the Allied high command.
The losses included 267, 900 prison.
ers, 10000 killed and q, 900 wounded.
BOMBERS: Production schedules
at Henry Ford's Willow Run bomber
plant in Detroit are being exceeded,
Edward L. Cushman, local director
of the War Manpower commission,
reported.
YOUTH: More than l, Az, 1861 boys
and girls in England and Wales be-
tween the ages of 16 and Is have
registered under the government
youth plan, designed to encourage
young people to best fit themselves
to assist in the war program, Brit
ish. government spokesman an
nounced.
FURLOUGHS: A 14-day furlough
for army selectees from the time
they are inducted until they report
to any army camp has become eff
fective, the war department an
nounced. All newly drafted men will
automatically be given the leave.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

passed in 1889 to
protect American
seed buyers from
being misled. These
pictures show how
seed technologists
at Research Center
test seeds bought
under Lend Lease
for our Allies.
Left, top: "Rolled
to,oeI' termination
m ethod Of testing
seeds. Seed technolo-
gist counts the num-
Der of garden bean
seeds that sprouted
normally in a sample
under test. ABNORMAL
sprouting is cause for
rejection. Left, Io,oer:
Checking results of
termination test on
several samples of GEL
cry seeds kept in a
daylight cabinet un-
der the same tempera-
ture conditions.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
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When soil in which house plants
are potted becomes more like clay
than loan it may be lightened by
adding sand to it. Plants grow
best in this kind of soil.
The constant use and washing of
silver gives it the ''butler" finish
you find on heirloom silver.
To separate lettuce remove the
core, then let water from faucet
flow into the head until pressure
of water forces leaves apart. If
still firm let head stand in cold
water to cover.
Use a toothbrush for polishing
silverware. 1t is especially good
for the fork tines and engraved
handles.
After you have removed old
wallpaper, wash the walls with
warm water to remove the old
paste. Rinse slightly and let the
walls dry perfectly before putting
on the new paper. This extra
work pays.
To tightly fasten cOrkS in bottles,
boil the corks for five minutes to
soften them and then, while hot
press them into the bottles. When
cool the seal will be perfect.
Rinse in cold water or wipe off
with a damp cloth all your meats,
vegetables and fruits, as soon as
possible after they are delivered.
Canned goods and bottles of milk
should be wiped off before they are
stored in the refrigerator or cup
board.
Unsightly scratches on dark
colored furniture may be covered
by wrapping a swab of cotton on
a toothpick and dipping in iodine.
Apply to the scratches and when
dry rub with furniture polish.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
EUROPE:
Air Blasts Continue

In the wake of ebbing flood waters
that had swept disastrously through
Germany's industrial Ruhr valleys
from the Eder and Moehne dams,
shattered by RAF bombs, American
Flying Fortresses inflicted further
punishment on the Nazis in attacks
on submarine and shipbuilding
yards at Kiel and Flensburg, 40
miles away.
Air Force communiques said the
unescorted bombers had left both
targets in flames and shot down
many enemy fighter planes that had
tried to ward them off.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
FOOD CONFERENCE:
Postwar Goals Outlined

Continuance of food rationing aft
er the war, the creation of global
agricultural commission and the as
surance that the people of the world
will be better fed in the postwar
period were among goals agreed
upon by delegates representing the
"big four" of the United Nations-the
United States, Great Britain, China
and Soviet Russia-attending the
food conference at Hot Springs, Va.
In addition the delegates were
said to be in agreement on declara-
tions advocating continued agricul-
tural expansion throughout the Pc
riod of postwar relief, on a state
ment favoring the reduction of world
tariffs and on educational measures
to promote better nutritional goals.
Although no binding agreements
linked the delegates, Paul H. Ap-
pleby, undersecretary of agriculture
and acting chairman of the Ameri-
can delegation, said that represe2-
tatives of A governments attending
the conference had come forward
with offers of cooperation.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

What is the most welcome gift
you can send to a man in the
service? Well, surveys among
service men themselves show that
one of the favorite packages from
home are cigarettes. And first
choice among men in all the serv-
ices is Camel, based on the actual
sales records in Post Exchanges
and Canteens. Though there are
now Post Office restrictions on
packages to overseas Army men,
you can still send Camels to sol
diers in the U. S., and to Sailors,
Marines, and Coast Guardsmen
wherever they are.-Adv.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
Quality Of Seed for Allies
Assured by Government Tests

The United States Department of Agriculture using pre-
help Allies the food they
fighting No of forage and vegetable being
bought the for shipment accepted until
tests of samples have shown of
the right variety and will gernae normally These tests
the federal seed testing laboratory the Besve
Center Besv Md and its branches country were
the Federal Seed Act
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
JapS Warn Reds

AS American air power thus
moved closer to Tokyo, the Japs
showed their unrest. Apparently the
success of Allied bombings of Ger
many had stirred the japanese gov
ernment to the dangers ahead
should the United Nations be per-
mitted by Russia to use Siberian
bases.
The result was a Tokyo broadcast
reported by the British warning Rus
sia that eff in the future she ever
put her Siberian bases at the dis
posal of the United States, the Japa-
nese army will resort to blitzkrieg
and will deal upon her the heaviest
blows Russia has ever known"
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
RUSSIANS:
Reds Press Hard

Even as former Ambassador JOS
eph E. Davies was engaged in con-
ferences with Russ Premier Joseph
Stain in furtherance of his second
and historic mission to Moscow, Red
armies were reported by the Ger
mans to have launched major at
tacks on four points along a 1,100-
mile section of the Eastern front
from the Volkhov sector to the Ku-
ban valley in the Caucasus.
In the Caucasus campaign Red
army troops shattered two Nazi at
tacks, according to Soviet report,
and blasted IA boatloads of Nazis at
tempting to retreat over the Kuban
river.
In the vicinity of Novorossisk, last
remaining Axis bridgehead in the
Caucasus, Russian forces continued
their pressure, breaking up Nazi
tank assaults and Tightening their of.
fensive ring around the key city.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
Breed Cows to Calve

Greatest returns and total milk
production are obtained when cows
are bred to calve every IL months,
experts say. This plan permits
10 or 11-month lactation period and
a four to eight-weeks dry period
Getting cows settled with little re.
breeding is important, since delay
results in loss in total milk pro-
duction and returns. Nothing is bet.
ter than good pasture to keep the
herd sire in good breeding condi.
ton.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
FARM IMPLEMENTS:
Bigger Output Ahead

Production of farm machinery in
1914 at an estimated rate of 80 per
cent of the average annual output
in the 1940-41 period, and unlimited
production of repair parts was ap-
proved by the War Production
board.
Release of the official order await
ed completion of a farm-to-farm
check being made by the War Food
administration to determine specific
machinery items needed by 100000
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

spring FOSleS.
HOW colorful, young and be
= = coming is this princess dress
with brilliant, northumberland
posies blooming at neck and hem
line.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 177o-B IS de-
signed for sizes 10, u, Il, 16. Is and 20.
Corresponding bust measurements % 80,
80, "a, Sc and 38. Size u 1907 requires.
with short or q sleeves, 4Is yards IS OF
39-inch material. yards ric-rac to trirn:
u hank blue and Il hank red wool foT
embroidery.
Due to an unusually large demand and
current war conditions. slightly more time
is required in filling orders for few Of
the most popular pattern numbers.
Send your order to:
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03
Railroad ThriveS

Gross revenues of the Canadian
National railways during 1912
reached S375, 1000, 1000, averaging over
a million dollars per day, an all
time high. Net revenue, after pay
ment of all operating expenses, was
$86, ,655, 1863, an increase of $40, ,047,-
528 over the previous year. The
cash surplus, after payment of
taxes, interest paid to the public and
government, was $25, ,063, 1858, a new
record and an increase of $21, ,046,-
942 over 1941.
The Ely miner., 1943-06-03

farmers, Paul Henry, head Of
the WAS production equipment
branch, revealed.
Concentration of the farm equip
ment industry previously ordered in
a WPB directive, is to be eliminat-
ed. Donald Nelson, WPB chairman,
announced that Concentration is a
dead duck" Thus large farm equip
ment manufacturers whose sales are
over $10,000,000 are permitted to
come back into production.