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Evening star., 1943-11-16
Americans Fall Back
North of Venufro:
British Advance
MAP on Page A-lJ
y the hsanrtateA prAs.

6y tue ASSOClSteQ freS1.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Algiers, Nov. 1.-two German
counterattacks have driver
American troops of the 5th Army
from high ground north o1
Venafro, Allied headquarters an
nounced today, while the British
9th Army won new hilltops in the
eastern sector of Italy.
The German onslaughts pushed
the American troops out of area!
previously occupied on Monte Sants
Croce above Venafro, where a 5tt
Army wedge seriously threatens the
enemy's powerful winter line.
Resistance remained strong alon(
the length of the 5th Army from
in Italy, headquarters said.
Soldiers of Gen. Sir Bernard L
Montgomery won new high ground
north Of Atessa-14 miles inlane
from the Adriatic-and 9th Army
patrols made new sorties across the
Sangro River on this east flank
feeling out German strength.
Enemy elements we're met neal
Montazzoh near the middle reache!
of the Sangro.
Land operations generally were
held at a near standstill by muc
and bad weather as the opposins
forces prepared for showdown
battle.
The weather also prevented ex.
tensive air activity in Italy, although
some sweeps were made, with ar
assault on truck convoy neal
Ancona on the Adriatic coast.
Two Allied planes were lost ir
all activities
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Coal Price Increase
Proposed by, 0pA
Too Low, Ickes Says
UNIV Urges Resignation
Of Four Public Members
Of Labor Boord
By the Associated Press.

~ eAie nocoNlAtcU TESSS.
Secretary of Interior Ickes has
protested to Sterilization Direc-
tor Fred M. Vinson that coal
price increases recommended by
the Off1ce of Price Administra-
ton to meet increased produc-
ton costs are not high enough.
Mr.. 1ckes' appeal went to Mr..
Vinson, informed sources said to-
day, after the draft OF the schedule
was prepared jointly by OPA and
representatives of the Solid Fuels
Administration. which Mr.. Ickes
heads.
The controversy arose, it was
learned, when the draft was pre-
sented to Mr.. Ickes yesterday for
his approval.
There was no hint, meanwhile. of
the extent of the increase Mr.. Ickes
is seeking to compensate for pro-
duction cost boosts resulting from
the Government contract with the
miners. providing for increased
earnings. Mr.. Vinson, who must
pass on any increases allowed since
the cost OF living is involved, re-
fused to comment on the contro-
versy.
The OPA program calls for an
increase of so cents a ton in the
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Japanese Radio Reports
Death Of Gen. Tominaua
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1s-The Toxic
radio announced today in a domestic
broadcast that 1t. Gen. Nobumasa
Tominaga, commander of a Japa-
nese Army corps on the southern
'front.'" had died November 8 Of
illness contracted in the field.
The broadcast, reported by the
United States Foreign Broadcast
Intelligence Service, did not say
specifically where Gen. Tominaga
was serving at the time of his death.
1t recalled, however, that he was
graduated from the Army Stan
College in 1919, served from 1924-28
as military attache in Berlin and
taught in several japanese military
schools before going to the Chinese
front.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Barrett Party Violated OPA
Rules, Denoted Detective Saws

Policeman Robert j. Maghan, jr.,
recently denoted from detective
sergeant to private, today filed suit
for. $150,000 damages against the
District government, Commissioner
Young, Maj. Edward J. Kelly, super
intendent of police, and Robert j.
Barrett. chief of detectives.
The suit alleges that Mr.. Maghan
was denoted because of resentment
by the top police officials because he
notified "the proper judicial authori-
ties" of information he gave regard
ing y party at the Elks' Club to
honor Inspector Barrett for his
promotion to detective chief.
At the party. the complaint said,
eight turkeys were served, although
the sale Of turkeys to civilians was
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Two Woman Members of RAF
Die in Auto Crash; -Four Hurt
Truck Driver browns in Accident;
Traffic Toll Here Nine in Nine Doys

cording to police, were Section Ofii-
Ger Dorothy Rodwell, 30, who was
rooming with Miss Daventry; John
William Franklin, q, of 1902 Four
teenth street NV, Official driver
of the joint British staff, operator
of the station wagon; Seaman Rob-
ert Hite, U. S. N, %, of 454l River
road NV, operator of the automo-
mobile, and Robert w. Ricketts,. 90
4116 Garrison street NV, a pas
senger in Hite's car.
Seaman Hite is home on leave
after completing his initial training
in the Navy at Great Lakes Training
Station.
Also dead as the result of an acct
dent yesterday afternoon, was Ca
ruthus E. Lewis. 43, of 20l4 North
Culpeper street. Arlington, who
drowned in the Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal when the dump truck he was
(See ACCIDENTs page A.Il0-
Evening star., 1943-11-16
j. ). liberators Blast
jap Bases in Gilbert
And Marshall Groups
Large Fires Started
At Torowo, Strong
Enemy AirfieId
By the Associated Press,

oS tue hSoOCldtcQ fTeSS.
PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 16.-
Army Liberators started large
fires at Tarawa, strong japanese
air base in the Gilberts, and also
raided Mile Atoll in the South
ern Marshalls during raids No.
vember 13 and IA, which were
announced by the Navy yester-
day.
No japanese plane was encoun.
tered and all the Liberators re.
turned unchanged despite anti-air.
craft opposition.
Maj. Gen. Willis H. Hale, com.
mander of the Army's 7th Air Force
directed the attacks, but it was not
disclosed whether he went along a.
he did last April during attacks or
Nauru and Tarawa.
The raids, made at night, were
believed to have been either retail.
atory or diverting strikes following
up japanese raids on Funafuti ane
Nanumea Thursday and Friday Il
the southeast of the Marshall Gil
bert sector.
The announcement of the raid
in an area more than 1000 mile
southwest of Hawaii was made from
the Office of Admiral Chester w
NimitZ
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Jap Warship a Day Sunk
In SoIomons Offensive

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 16 (Pl.-
Allied bombers, constantly search
ing for japanese warships in gen.
eral-and cruisers in particular
have sunk or damaged better than
one day during the Northern
Solomons offensive.
On october IL record load of $50
tons hit Rabaul, New Britain. 1t
was the opening blow of the current
drive. Three destroyers were among
the ships sunk during the raid.
Beginning with that raid, Allied
flyers in their favorite hunting
ground for enemy warships-Rabaul
and Kavieng, New Ireland-have
sunk or damaged more than 40.
Three cruisers. at least 10 de-
stroyers and a gunboat have been
sunk. At least II cruisers, IS de-
stroyers, a destroyer tender, a SUBJ
marine, submarine tender and a
corvette have been damaged. Two
additional cruisers were listed as
probably hit at Rabaul.
The air blows to the cruisers have
been so heavy that Navy Secretary
Knox said Japan has been seriously
impaired in that category for fu-
ture operations in the Rabaul area.
Adding to Japan's cruiser losses
during the period were one sunk
and two damaged in a naval battle
of Bougainville.
Headquarters reported today that
a 1,000-pound bomb, dropped by a
Catalina flying boat, landed on the
stern of a Japanese cruiser 18 miles
northwest of Rabaul Saturday
night, penetrating the armor and
exploding inside the warship. The
Catalina was part of a night pa
trolling group which later scored a
hit amidships with a 500-pounder
on large enemy merchant ship.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's spokes-
man, in commenting on the blows to
the cruisers, has pointed out that
Japan lacks facilities in the Rabaul-
Kavieng area for the repair OF such
vital ships.
Today's communique reported no
substantial changes, but only patrol
clashes at Empress Augusta Bay on
the west-central coast of Bougain-
ville-the American front line In
the Northern Solomons.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Germans Force
YugosIovs Out
|Of Peninsula
Tito,s Forces Admit
Evacuation From
Peijesoc Section
BY the Associated Press.


| LONDON, Nov. 16.-Evacuatior
of the Peljesac Peninsula ir
Southern Dalmatia under heavy
German pressure and general
retreat before reinforced Nazi
forces in Macedonia was ac-
knowledged today by the Yugo-
slav National Liberation Army OF
Gen. JoSip Broz (Tito).
The Germans apparently were
attacking on several fronts success.
fully, but Gen. Tito reported in q
broadcast communique that his
forces had checked a Nazi drive in
Eastern Bosnia and that Partisan
forces had killed 40 Germans and
captured two enemy positions in
Slovenia. More than 100 Germans
were slain in a single clash in
Bosnia, the communique said.
The bulletin also reported that
bitter fighting between Gen. Tito's
Partisans and German forces al
legedly reinforced by Medic and
Mihailovich Chetniks continued in
Serbia.
German pressure along the
Dalmatian coast was increasing in
intensity, Gen. Tito said, with the
enemy launching offensives on sew
eral sectors, forcing the Partisans
back through sheer weight of num-
bers.
Meanwhile. the Austrian news
paper Donau Zeitung reported
Albania's withdrawal from the war
dispatches from Bern said. Copies
Of the November 6 edition of the
Donau Zeitung said the new
Albanian puppet government, with
the consent of Berlin, had pro-
claimed Albania a acknowledgement
country" and had dethroned King
Victor Emmanuel as Emperor.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Most Italians BattIinq
Nazis Ignore Dead|ine
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
MADRID, Nov. 16.-The deadline
set by German authorities for the
surrender of Italian forces still
fighting the Nazis in the mountains
of Southern France expired today
but reports from France indicated
that only a few hundred had laid
down their arms as demanded.
The Germans had offered amnesty
to Italians who surrendered before
the deadline.
BARCELONA, Nov. 16 P,.-Ger-
man authorities were said to have
ordered 100 retaliatory arrests after
German soldier was shot to death
by "terrorists" in Toulouse Saturday
communique published in Tou-
louise newspaper said today.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Anthracite Standards Set
In Quality Regulations
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Minimum quality standards fol-
Pennsylvania anthracite coal for
domestic use were established yes
terday by the Solid Fuels Admins
tration to prevent substandard and
unusuahle coal from entering trade
channels.
Under the order, producers and
wholesalers are prohibited from
shipping and retail dealers from
delivering any broken, egg, stove
chestnut and pea anthracite con-
tanning more than Is per cent ash
by volume on dry basis.
The order permits No. l buck
wheat anthracite to contain 16 pei
cent ash and No. 2 buckwheat tc
contain II Der cent
Evening star., 1943-11-16
(See RAIDS, Page A-14D

forbidden at that time, and about
eight kegs of beer and about 10 cases
of liquor were served which were
mot obtained in the ordinary course
of business and in accordance with
the prevailing alcoholic control reg
ulations.'
The suit also charged that the
beer and liquor consumed was fur
nished as gratuity by certain un-
derworld characters" and that "the
gift of such beer and whisky" was
in violation of the District code,
which prohibits police officer from
receiving gift without the approval
of the District OF Columbia Com
missioners.
Maj. Kelly and Inspector Barrett
(See MAGHAN, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Official Soviet Poper Praises
HulI's Contribution to Pur|ey
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Nov 16.-The official
Soviet government newspaper lives
tia today paid q front-page editorial
tribute to Secretary of State Hull
for his contributions to the Moscow
meeting. - .---
Mr.. Hull has played "a particular
" big role in the collaboration be-
tween the U. S. S. r. and the
U. S. A." said the editorial marking
the 10th anniversary of the estab-
lishment Of diplomatic relations be-
tween the countries.
The Soviet people highly appre-
ciate the aid offered by our allies,
the United States and Great
Evening star., 1943-11-16

Britain, to the Red Army" said
Izvestia, "in the struggle against
Hitlerite Germany"
The editorial then declared, "The
peoples of the USSR and the United
States are manifesting a growing in.
terest in one another and learning
to understand the character and
habits of the friendly nations. Po-
ltical rapprochement and cultural
connections are helping to eliminate
number of prejudices in regard to
the Soviet Union which formerly
delayed the development of friendly
attitudes between the two nations.
Both In the United States and
(see SOVIET, Page A-14D
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Single Raider Bags
4 Planes and Barge
And Kills IS Jops
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SOUTH PACIFIC HEAD
QUARTERS, Nov. 16 (R.-Lt.
Ralph Tuttle of Coffeyville,
Kans., staged q one-man straf-
ing raid on the Bonis airstrip in
the island of Buka before dawn
Saturday-and scored one of
the most impressive bags yet
reported by a single fighter
pilots single-engine mono
planes, a biplane and a Jap
barge destroyed and is Japa-
nese killed.
The Japanese obviously had
put the Bonis strip into shape
for overnight use, but that was
before the Liberators came In
with so tons of explosives.
BY noon the field again was
imperative.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Atlantic Charter DELAY
Until Boundaries Are
SET Hinted by Hull
Settlement Of Disputes
Over Territory May
Postpone Voting
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

Secretary of State Hull, who
will describe his work at Moscow
in a speech to a joint meeting of
Congress Thursday, said today
that all the territorial disputes
in the world-some 80 or 40
have been put off for decision
until after the war. The talk
will be broadcast, starting at
1890 pm.
Clarifying remarks he made to a
press conference yesterday, Mr.. Hull
indicated that peoples living ir
countries that are beset by terri.
torial disputes will not have an op.
portunity of voting on their futur,
IN accordance with the self-deter.
mination doctrine in the Atlanti,
Charter until the territorial ques
tions have been first decided.
The Secretary's statement toda,
appeared to be great boon for tn,
Soviet Union, which is claiming tn,
Baltic republics and the eastern
area of Poland.
Steps Outlined.
Apparently the order of step.
from Axis occupation to Liberation
are to be these:
/. Allied military control by what.
ever army~reaches any particular
area first. The Russian armies oh.
viously will reach the Baltic repub.
lies and Eastern Poland before any
others.
2. Postwar settlement of boundar,
questions.
3. Self-determination by the peo.
pie in countries after the boundarie.
are adjusted as to the nature of tn,
government they wish-in accord.
ance with the Italian declaration
adopted at Moscow.
Mr.. Hull said that the Italiar
formula was not intended to 60 bach
of the whole territorial controversy
He added that there could be M
permanently liberated areas unit
the territorial problems were dis.
posed of permanently.
Fears Slowing of War.
Mr.. Hull said that to stop now
and take up territorial question.
might slow down the war.
Mr.. Hull reviewed his trip TO,
newspapermen yesterday. He re.
vealed the United States, Grea
Britain and Russia agreed that tn,
peoples of Europe would be free t.
choose their own governments with,
out outside interference on liberia,
ton from the Axis.
The Italian declaration, Mr.. HUI
said, will be the pattern for tn,
rest of Europe, including the Balti,
republics. The Italian declara
ton thus assumes new importanc,
as a corollary of the Atlantic Char
ter, which Mr.. Hull said the thre,
governments had no desire to com
promise.
Establishes Freedom.
The declaration provides for free,
dom of speech, of religious worship
of political belief, of press and O
public meeting" and says:
The foreign secretaries Of thu
United States, United Kingdom ane
Soviet Union have established tina
their three governments are in com.
plete agreement that the Ital.
ian people shall be given every op.
portunity to establish governmental
and other institutions based upor
democratic principles"
The Russian government agreed
at the conference to send a none
tary expert to the United States tt
join exploratory conversations with
American and British representa-.
tives on world currency stabiliza.
ton.
The Russian move was disclosed
by Secretary Hull, who told the pres
conference he himself had raisee
| lCan IIIfI Z nana IA
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Pictures on Pages Ala and BIZ

TNtucS OH TuycS A-l4 ana b-l.
Two members of the British
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
were killed and four other per-
sons were injured when the
Royal Air Force station wagon in
which they were riding and an
auto driven by a United States
sailor collided at Nebraska ave-
nue. and Albemarle streets NV.
at Las am. today.
Section Ofiicer Ruth P. Wat
son, 27, of London, who was
staying at 1887 Ashmead place NV,
died in Emergency Hospital at 5:25
am, and Section Officer Monica
N. Daventry, 81, who was staying
at 3S47 Chesapeake street NV,
died at 3:55 am. at Georgetown
Hospital.
Others injured in the crash. ac-
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Al Least Six Killed,
20 Hurt in Blast al
Yorktown Mine Depot
Naval Arms Warehouse
Explosion Felt in Norfolk
80 Miles Distont
By the Associated Press.


YORKTOWN, Va, Nov. l6.-An
explosion in a warehouse at the
Naval Mine Depot here today
killed at least 6 civilian employees
and injured between 20 and 80,
q of them seriously. The blast
awakened thousands of residents
of Norfolk, Portsmouth and New
port News, some 80 miles distant.
Capt. R. D. Kirkpatrick, COM
manding officer at the depot, said
he believed the damage was ex-
tensive. but that no estimate could
be given Immediately. Several fires
broke out after the blast. but were
quickly extinguished
The explosion occurred at 1925
am. in the explosive plant area. 1t
threw the lighting system out of
commission and all persons not
participating in rescue work were
ordered out.
Dead Listed.
Naval authorities said the follow
ing were dead:
J. F. Remine, leading man la
borer, Yorktown: Robert A. Talia-
ferro, Malachi Taliaferro, Leonard
c. Brown and Charlie Lucas, col
ored, of Lee Hall, Va. and Harold
Washington, colored, Yorktown.
Seriously injured were Boswell
James Sewell, an inspector, suf-
fering a probable fractured skull
and Louis Prince, colored, with
fractured bones. No addresses were
given.
Seven others were hospitalizec
and were treated for lacerations anc
bruises.
Fake Alarm at Air Station.
1t was believed at first that the
explosion had occurred at the Nor
folk Naval Air Station, where 2e
we're killed and about 245 others
hurt September II in an explosion
of depth charges. The 5th Naval
District public relations ONCE at
Norfolk said false fire alarm at
the air station few seconds after
the Yorktown explosion had given
rise to the belief.
Earlier the Navy had said the
deaths totaled eight, but subsequent
investigation indicated only six
known dead and a possibility that
one or two other employees, be-
lieved to have been working at the
depot at the time of the explosion
may have been killed.
| The explosion was preceded by q
reddish yellow flash from an ex.
plosives warehouse which lighted up
wide area and went up at least
200 feet In the air." said Pvt. Thomas
Kammerer, 20, a marine guard from
Jamaica, n. Y. After the flash, he
said, there was "a big blast, the
loudest thing I ever heard"
Only 200 Yards Away.
Pvt. Kammerer, who was standing
some 200 yards from the warehouse
where the explosion occurred, said
it hurled him 10 feet straight up
in the air and blew his gloves OF
his hands. He came down on the
right side of his head, and his ear
drum was injured.
He said his escape from death was
miraculous. He was standing only
2 feet from another high explosives
warehouse whose sides were split by
the conclusion. The roof Of the Sec
ond building was partly ripped OF
(see MINE DEPOT, Page A-l4.)
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Burmo, Attacked by Raj.
|Suffers Heaviest Raid
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
CALCUTTA, Nov. 1e.-RAF me-
dium and heavy bombers today car
ried out the heaviest and most con-
centrated attack on Burma since the
war in the East began, it was an
nounced here tonight.
The target was the railway sta
ton, freight yards and barracks at
Pegu, 46 miles northeast of Ran
COON.
A large number of aircraft
dropped a heavy tonnage of high
explosives, completely shattering the
target.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Bulgorio's Defenses
Protested by Nozis

1STANBUL, Nov. Is (P.-As a
result Of the attack on Sofia Sunday
by American bombers, the Germans
have protested vigorously to the
Bulgarian government concerning
the alleged ineffciency of the city's
anti-aircraft defenses, according to
information reaching here from the
Balkans.
These reports said it was believed
the Germans might follow up their
protest by demanding complete mill
tary control over all strategic points
in Bulgaria.
An Allied communique issued yes
terday said "a German fighter planes
attempted unsuccessfully to break
up the attack, which was aimed at
the Sofia railway yards. The bull
letm emphasized that crippling of
these yards would have the effect of
dislocating traffic over the whole
Balkan rail system.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Cool Mine Operators
Advertise for Workers
Hy the Asxoeiats6 pr...

POTTSVILLE, Pa, Nov. 16.-For
the first time in the history Of the
anthracite coal industry, mine opera
tors are using the newspapers to ad-
vertise for workers.
Following Saturdays virtual shut.
down, all anthracite collieries In this
district, with one exception, are back
in operation.
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Late Bulletin
KiIdoy Draft Plan Adopted

The deadlock over. the fa-
ther draft bill was broken this
afternoon when House and
Senate conferees agreed on a
compromise that follows the
general principle of the Kilday
plan, placing the pre-Pearl
Harbor fathers at the bottom
of the list on a nation wide
basis. The agreement also pro-
hibits issuance Of any new
work or fight orders by the
War Manpower Commission.
(Story on page A-2.) .
Evening star., 1943-11-16
Nozi Lines Denied in 8 Sectors
On Soviet Front, Berlin Reports;
Fifth Army Loses Hill Position
Germans Attempt to
Minimize Mussed
Russian Attacks
BULLETIN.

Foreign Economic Adminis-
traitor Leo T. Crowley an
nounced today that lease-lend
shipments to Russia up to
September 30 amounted to
$3,287, ,047 900, more than half
of which was sent this year.
Military items shipped in
cluded $500 planes, more than
5000 tanks, 125,000 subma-
chine guns, 145,0O0 trucks,
$4,000 jeeps, 100000 field tele-
phones and 100000 miles of
field telephone wire.
Evening star., 1943-11-16

(See COAL, Page A-l4)
Evening star., 1943-11-16

(See HULL, Page A-14D
Evening star., 1943-11-16

(See ACCIDENTS, Page All
Evening star., 1943-11-16

II activities
Evening star., 1943-10-03
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paid.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Standard Accepts Decision
On Mexican Oil Award

from Yesterdays Late Editions.)
Ry the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-Final set
tlement Of claims of American oil
companies against the government
OF Mexico arising from the expro-
prlatlon of petroleum properties in
1888 appeared nearer today with &C
ceptance by Standard Oil Co. New
Jersey of decision awarding it
Sl8,39l ,65l and interest of $3,94O ,843.
Acceptance by Standard of the
amount agreed to by the United
States State Department and the
Mexican government was taken in
oil industry circles here to indicate
other American concerns might take
similar position.
Compensation agreed on by the
State Department for all companies
including Standard, amounted to
1896 ,991 and interest of S5,14l7Oo
Standard in statement yesterday
indicated it had no alternative and
accepted the award without reserva-
ton since it had "exhausted all legal
remedies" prior to State Department
intervention.
Standards announcement came a
few hours after Mexican Ambassa-
dor Francisco Castillo Najera pre-
sented to H. F. Sinclair a check for
Sl,500,000 to complete payment to
the Sinclair Oil Corp. of sS,5OO 900
which the Sinclair company and
Mexico had agreed to in direct nego-
tiations.