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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Martin Marauders
Revealed Operating
From British Bases
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
UNITED STATES 9th AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS, England. Aug.
l0.-Eighth Air Force headquarters
| disclosed today that American me-
dium bombers raiding Europe from
England since May have been B-26
Martin Marauders. -
The Marauders made their first
two raids In May at zero" altitude
just Swimming the tree tops. They
did not lose any planes on the first
raid, but lost 10 on the second.
They resumed operations on July.
Is, flying at medium altitude from
10000 to $4,000 feet and escorted by
Spitfires and PAT Thunderbolts.
Since then they have made 10 raids
on IL targets and lost planes.
Crews Of the Marauders gave fivs
United States Senators recently Wis,
iting here enthusiastic reports on
their planes which have q reputation
of being difficult to handle, although
extremely fast.
Presence Previously Masked.
The Marauders have been In op--
Grafton in other theaters for soma
time, particularly Africa. but their
presence here has been masked until
now under the term medium bomb
ers."
The Raj has been raiding Europe
for many months with q similar
ship, the Bias Mitchell. The two.
planes whizzing by fast at relatively
low altitude have fooled even Amer
leans as to type.
Presumably the 9th Air Force now
Is certain the Germans know the
identity of the plane. A number Of,
Marauder crewmen have been re-,
ported prisoners, so presumably
some made emergency landings
fairly intact, since parachuting
from tree-top level Is impossible.
The Marauders carry bomb load,
Of 2,460 pounds compared with the.
Flying Fortresses' 5000 pounds, and
have speed of $50 miles an hour,
according to the manufacturer
announcements.
Vulnerable to FLAX.
Low-level operation with violent
zigzagging, which makes even veter- =,
ans airsick, are virtual proof against
radar location, but makes them vul-
nerable to fax Higher operation
makes them tougher fiak targets
and escorts keep OF the enemy
fighters.
/ The two low-level operations we're
under the bomber command which
operates the Fortresses and the
Liberators.
The new phase operation at me-
: dunn altitude Is under the Air Sup
port Command, whose basic Job Is
: tactical bombing to support ground
forces, but is presently helping the
bomber command with strategic
bombing" --
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Roosevelt
CONTINUED From First Page }

many, however, is understood to be
one of the matters on the Roosevelt
Churchill agenda. The Allies re-
member that they were caught
completely unprepared for the de-
parture of Mussolini from the Ital-
ian government II days ago.
The President calmly announced
the Churchill news by saying at the
opening of his press conference that
he had nothing to tell reporters ex-
cept that he had a telegraphed
message from Mr.. Mackenzie King,
saying that the British Prime Min
lister had just arrived in Canada
with members of his staff.
Asked about continuing reports
that the United Nations should open
a second front in Europe, and
whether 1t was not a third front
that remains to be opened, the
President smiled and told mis- ques-
toner that he talked like a column
mist. He added that the reporter
never had been columnist and
let it go at that.
Wife, Daughter Make Trip.
Mr.. Churchill's arrival in Quebec
conceded with United Nations vic
tories in the Mediterranean, Russia
and the South Pacific.
Mr.. Churchill was accompanied
by Mrs. Churchill and his daughter
Subaltern Mary Churchill of the
Auxiliary Territorial Service.
Wing Commander G. P. Gibson
who led the air squadron which
successfully attacked the Moehne
and Elder Dams, also Travelled with
Mr.. Churchill's party.
The members of the Prime Min
ister's personal staff included Lord
Moran, president of the Royal Col
lege of Physicians; Gen. Sir Hast
ings Ismay, Mr.. Churchill's personal
military adviser; Mr.. j. M Martin
principal private secretary; T. L
Rowan, private secretary, and
Comdr. c. r. Thompson, Royal
Navy, personal assistant.
President Sees Advisers.
Mr.. Roosevelt was asked whether
there was any particular meaning
AL S2lS SoilAtAC civ IlC lLdu loddJ Will
his special advisers on postwar
planning-Secretary of State Hull
DR.. Isaiah Bowman, Chairman Nor
man Davis of the Red Cross anG
Leo Pasvolsky of the State Depart
ment. The President said they were
just continuing previous discussion
Mr. Roosevelt also conferred toda,
with Admirals William D. Leahy
chief of staff to the President, anc
Ernest j. King, chief of Naval op
erations, and Gems. George c. Mar.
shall, Army Chief of Staff, ant
Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army
Air Forces.
DR.. Bowman. vice president of tn,
National Academy of Sciences, wa
chief American territorial specials
at the Paris Peace Conference IL
1919, while DR.. Pasvolsky is a spe
cialist IN postwar planning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Weather

partment's Offices in downtown pri-
vate Office buildings were closed
District Building employees were
sent home at $3.50 pm. instead of
4:45 pm.
Farm officials in nearby counties
were also focusing their attention
on drought conditions, actual and
potential.
The outlook in Maryland is only
for So per cent corn crop, Joseph
Blandford, chairman of the Mary
land Agriculture Department War
Board, said. Virginia, too, was feel
ing the effects of the heat wave
Cattle and pigs at the Districts
penal workhouse at Occoquan, Va,
losing weight because produce grown
there has been greatly damaged, are
being fed prepared food bought in
Richmond over the week end.
Frank Moore, 38, colored, of 447
Browns court SW. was treated at
Freedmen's Hospital for heat pros
tration. Hospital authorities said
Mr.. Moore was employed as laun-
dry fireman and was brought there
in an automobile, treated and re-
turned to work.
Ice Shortage Serious.
DR.. Seckinger said he was con-
yinced there is tremendous vast
age of ice by housewives who do not
place ice in iceboXes promptly.
An ice distributor told DR.. Seek
niger he had passed up $500 dwell
ings because he didn't have ice
enough to 60 around.
Westinghouse early today greet
ed the first rain to fall here this
month. Localized showers occurred
between I and T::30 am. BY 9 a m.
the sun emerged from cloudy skies.
The last appreciate rain here fell
on July 20. when the precipitation
was in excess of half inch.
Montgomery County Agricultural
Agent o. w. Anderson said this
mornings rain was just about
enough to lay the dust in the fields"
Declaring that the drought has
damaged approximately 20 per cent
of county crops, Mr.. Anderson as
serted that good, soaking rain"
would still help.
Agriculture Department experts,
meantime, explained that corn in
the East which has been stunted by
the drought could be partially saved
by rainfall, providing polarization
of the ears has not started. Once
the tassels appear, however. nothing
can save the corn, they say.
Its not too late to help farm
crops, provided the rain is a good,
heavy one" he said. The rain this
morning consisted of local showers
that didn't do any good"
Mr.. Blandford, declaring the corn
crop seems permanently reduced
beyond any power of redemption, u
said the prospect is "for only SO
per cent" crop.
At 7 am. today the mercury stood
at Is degrees, or six degrees higher
than at the corresponding hour yes
terday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
MussoIini Is Quoted
As Saying Italy Could
Have Avoided War
BY the Associated Press.

BERN, Switzerland, Aug. TO-
Benito Mussolini, in his last inter-
view with a correspondent of the
Corriere del Ticino of Lugano on
June six weeks before his down.
fall-admitted Italy could have re-
manned out of the war.
Describing his visit to II Duce in
the spacious hall of the Palazzo
Venezia, the correspondent said he
found him lean but bearing his go
years we'll despite stomach ulcers
from which he has been suffering"
He said Mussolini appeared sad.
Times are hard" Mussolini told
the correspondent, who reported
that he spoke of the difficulty of
feeding the italian people; the
hardships under the bombs whose
number and weight are a prodigal-
ity that is entirely American" The
war, Mussolini said, would be long
many nations until now out of it
Sweden, Spain and Turkey-would
probably be forced to enter.
The German soldiers, Mussolini
was quoted as saying, dominated the
Russian: the Briton Is hard fight
er, while the American, "the latest
arrival in the field, might in year
or so become an excellent soldier"
Asked if Italy could have kept out
Of the conflict, Mussolini replied
promptly, >"Certainly," the CORE
spondent said, and then added:
"She could have, as a small state
remained outside of the struggle
AS neutral she probably would
have had great financial and COM
mercial advantages. But italy
judged the honor of a great nation
did not coincide with only material
profits. She had already proclaimed
her vital rights and placed before
the conscience of the world her
problems of expansion, raw ma
terials, work and production. To
have confined herself to a neutrality
based on monetary gain would have
been a definite remuneration of a
century-old goal. That was. the
reason we launched ourselves ar
IDENTIFY into the battle"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Middle Atlantic Truckers
Granted Rate Increase
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Interstate Commerce Com
sion today authorized an increase
of per cent in truck rates in Mid
die Atlantic States and between
Middle Atlantic States and New
England.
Several hundred truckers repre-
sented by the Middle Atlantic
States Motor Carrier Conference
Inc, originally asked an increase
of 10 per cent effective last April
but the ICC rejected that at the
request of various Government
agencies, including the Office oil
Price Administration.
The 4 per cent increase will apply
on shipments within the Middle At
lantic region which includes New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia
and the District, and to shipments
between that region and the sis
New England States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Peruvian Consul General ,
Stricken on Plane, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 10.-Stricken
on an airplane fight from Washing
ton, Carlos Albert Mackenzie, 10,
consul general of Peru at Baltimore,
died at a hospital here yesterday.
Senior Mackenzie was a veteran
consular representative of his coun-
try, having served in London for
more than 20 years. He was former
Peruvian senator.
He was an honorary member of
the Royal Geographical Society in
London and an officer in the Peru
Wan Order Of the Sun. He also
wrote number of books on Spanish
American history.
In addition to his widow, Mrs.
Sarah Mackenzie, he leaves a son,
Carlos, jr., secretary to the Peruvian
Embassy in Washington, and two
daughters.
Funeral services and burial will
take place in Miami.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Italian Troops Patrol
North as Big Strike
For Peace Is Urged
BIZ the Associated Press.


BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 10
Agitation to bring about a ma
ton wide general strike in Italy
and force the Badoglio govern
ment to make peace with the Al
lies continued today as troops
patrolled strike ridden industrial
areas in the north.
Use of troops was reported by the
Swiss Telegraphic Agency in dis
patches from the Swiss border town
of Chiasso, which said the strikes
intensified in volume following heavy
Raj raids on Genoa, Turin and
Milan Saturday night.
Military intervention succeeded in
hating the walkout in Genoa, the
dispatches said, and work was re-
sumed on regular schedule" after
drastic measures were put into effect.
German troops stationed in the area
helped extinguish fires which fol-
lowed the raid, the Gazetta del
Popolo was quoted as saying.
fuOl1C heSentneHL hd1Seu.
The renewed air raids, however,
spurred strike activities as well as
underground political opposition to
the government, whose failure to
respond to peace demands has raised
public resentment to new heights,
reports stated.
A Rome dispatch to the Tribune
de Geneve, however, said Italy has
mo choice" but to stay in the war,
and that if Italy succeeds with Ger
man aid in holding Allied Troops
for a time, events could take place
which would offer unspecified pos
sibilities for Italy to get out of the
present situation"
(The Berlin correspondent of
the Madrid paper Informaciones
said an announcement would be
forthcoming that Italy will con-
tinue in the war with still more
active military help from Ger
many than ever before.'D
9 Life and Death Struggle for Nazis.
Meanwhile, the SOLDERING effect of
Axis reverses on the German pop
ulation was reflected in an editorial
in the Frankurter Zeitung, copies of
which have reached here. The
editorial, spread over the front page,
said Germany now is engaged in a
struggle of life and death" in the
east against "merciless opponent"
and declared this situation has
created a heavy crisis" which al
ways comes in great war and re-
quires every German to do his
duty"
In addition to problems raised by
Allied bombings and the widening
Russian offensive, the Frankfurter
Zeitung editorial said, Germany also
has to cope with the concern over
an Allied invasion and the diminish
ing of Italy as a military factor.
Drastic Encouragement of Axis mil
itary strength in France and the
Balkans has also become necessary,
1t was intimated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
3 RS Hit by War;
Pencils, Clues,
IPens Are Scorcer
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
War shortages have hit the halls
of learning.
Mixing -four and water paste may
be part of the days lesson as
tapioca and cornstarch bases and
CLUES become less available.
Desk pencil sharpeners are almost
out of production and pocket sharp
eners are peacetime relics.
There'll still be rulers, but minus
the metal edges, and pencil, paint
and crayon boxes will be of card
board.
The War Production Board says
there'll be an adequate supply of
paper-if it isn't wasted-but very
few metal ring notebooks and no
Upper closings.
Production of pen points for sepa-
rate holders will be increased IS
per cent, but that's for export, not
home work.
The Axis is watching you; keep
'em signing while you keep buying
War savings stamps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Entire YugosIav Cabinet
Resigns in New Crisis
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 10.-Prime Min
lister Mimilos Trifunovic has hand
ed the blanket resignation of the
entire Yugoslav cabinet to King
Peter, II, it was announced tonight.
Demands of Croat members of the
cabinet that an agreement be
reached about the future constitu-
tional structure of Yugoslavia pre-
cipitated the government crisis, 1t
was said.
The cabinet had several stormy
sessions in the last few days, marked
by serious differences of opinion,
and the resignation of Trifunovic
came as no surprise in London.
Trifunovic, former Minister of
Education, formed the new cabinet
last June u at the request OF King
Peter. f
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Infant Suffocotes
In Crib After Father
Leaves for Army

While his father was on his
way to enter the Army at Camp
Lee today, 2-month-old Victor
H. Client, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Victor. H. Client, 1923 Watson
street NV, suffocated in his
crib.
DR.. Norman Panzer of Emer-
gency Hospital pronounced him
dead and attributed the acct
dent to the baby's lying on his
face in corner of the crib.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Correction

The statement that certain baby
photographs can be pasted on v
mail to fathers overseas, which APP
peared in Emily Posts article,
About War Babies" in last sun
days magazine issue of This Week.
is incorrect. War Department reg
ulations require that the picture
must be printed directly on the
v mail and must occupy no more
than one third Of the message space.
In order to have the picture print
ed on the v mail form preparation
OF zinc cut is necessary. The cut
is then imprinted on the form by
proof press or printing press.
All v mail letters in which pasted
photographs are inclosed will be re-
turned to the sender by the post
office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Yeor-OId Baby Coasts
To Death in Toy WAGON

BY the Associated Press.
GOLDEN, Colo, Aug. 10.-A toy
wagon, a gift for her first birthday,
coasted tiny Glenda Moore to her
death in an irrigation ditch two
miles east of here on her first ride.
The horror-stricken mother, Mrs.
Howard G.. Moore, saw the wagon
with Glenda rolling toward the
ditch, but could not overtake 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Grand Jury to Get
Illegal Uniform
|Coses in Future

Indictments will be sought in flu
ture cases involving the illegal
wearing of uniforms of the coun-
try's armed forces, it was revealed
today. Assistant United States At
torney Sylvan Schwartz said the
cases will be presented to the grand
jury Heretofore the cases have
been tried in Municipal Court, where
misdemeanor cases are heard.
Mr.. Schwartz pointed out, how
ever, the charge Is still a INSIDE
meanor, punishable by six months
in Jail or a $3.50 fine, or both.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
F. w. Kendall, 79, Dies.
Buffalo Newspopermon

BY the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 10.-Fred
erick w. Kendall, chief editorial
writer for the Buffalo Courier
Express and a newspaperman for
So years, died today He was 10.
Mr. Kendall's first newspaper job
was in the mailing room Of the ole
Buffalo Morning Express, where he
worked three years before becom-
ing a general reporter for the Ex-
press. In 1884 he travelled the East
with President Cleveland during the
latter's campaign tour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
Gen. johnson RESIGN!
From Army 10 Press
For Civilian Goods
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Brig. Gen. Robert Wood john
son, chairman of the Smaller
War Plants Corp, today an
nounced his resignation from
the Army, saying that it had be-
come necessary for SWPC to take
a strong position" in behalf of
production of essential civilian
goods.
Mr.. Johnson told a press confer
ence he would become a champion
of civilian economy to large de-
gree" and that he felt small plants
not yet converted to war production
were the most suitable for essential
civilian production.
Mr.. johnson, who also is a vice
chairman of the War Production
Board, made public a letter from
WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson
to Secretary of War Stimson in
which Mr.. Nelson said he shared
Mr.. Johnson's belief that his posi-
ton would be LESS embarrassing to
himself and the Army If he re-
turned to a civilian status.
The SWPC chairman asserted
there had been no specific disagree
ments with Army authorities, but
interpreted Mr.. Nelson's letter as
meaning it would be embarrassing
From here out" to retain his mill
tary connection and at the same
time champion civilian production.
Borrowed to Head SWPC.
At the time Mr.. johnson, then
colonel In Army Ordnance, was Dor
rowed from the War Department tc
head SWPC, it was agreed that he
should retain his military status sc
long as this proved beneficial In
carrying out his duties.
The change in status presumably
was decided on to avoid conflict!
arising from general officer plug
ging for civilian production at s
time when the Army is calling fol
greater emphasis on military pro-
duction.
In a formal statement issued at
press conference Mr.. johnson de-
scrlbed essential civilian require
ments as essential war products II
the sense that the United State
cannot maintain its war econom,
without the production Of man.
such items"
Might Reduce Absenteeism.
For example" the Statement
said, "a war worker whose electric
refrigerator Is out of order may los
a half day at the plant waiting a
home for ice to be delivered so tina
food will not be spoiled A simple
civilian item, hitherto unobtainable
might fix the electric refrigerator
Thus, the worker returns to full pro
duction and a growing cause of alb
senteeism Is eliminated. There ar
countless examples after year ant
a half Of war"
SWPC now is completing plar
for decentralization of its activitie
which will leave Washington head
quarters only a service station TO
regional boards of governors, thu
chairman said. There will be i
such regional Offices, each with l:
to 16 members representing a cross
section of large and small business.
Mr.. Johnson reported the number
of requests for aid from small bust
ness had decreased sharply. g.. ...
Mr.. Johnson left the presidency Of
Johnson e. johnson, surgical supply
house, last year to take a Reserve
commission. He was head. Of the
New York ordnance district at thu
time of his appointment to the
SWPC. He formerly lived al
Princeton, N. J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-10
President Buys Stamps
Of Special Series
the Associated Press,

TtSS.
President Roosevelt today pur-
chased for his collection a sheet of
the new scent stamp of the over
run countries series. The purchase
was made at a White House cere-
mony attended by Hughes lie GAL
lais, Minister from Luxembourg, the
nation honored by the stamp.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-07
Plane Drops 1st Visitors
To Beaver Island In Weeks

Ice-bound Beaver Island in Lake
Michigan received its first visitor
in several weeks when a Civil Air
Patrol plane from Charlevoix
Squadron 63S landed there last
week.
Wing headquarters authorized
the flight on the appeal that the
presence of Frank O'Donnell. a
dairy farmer, was necessary 70 the
health Of inhabitants.
O'DOnnell had been on the main
land for treatment OF a sick child
who also returned 10 the island.
It Earl Piier. CAP pilot who
was seriously injured, in = crash
while on army ferrying duties has
recovered so that he can receive
visitors. He is al the Selfridge
Field base hospital,
Michigan's only ell-wo m a n
squadron. commanded by 1t Alice
Hammond. now has an enrolment
Of Il and y planes.
William p. Mayo, pioneer air
man and member of the state
board Of seronsutics, praised the
activities Of CAP In visit 70 wing
headquarters In the Book Building
last week.
Instruction IN target pistol and
automatic revolver use has been
started by Squadron 632-1. Com
nnander John p. Knowles reports
recent enlistment Of 20 new mem
bers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-07
Strange Request
Of Convict on Air

How "the greatest criminal of
all times" went 10 Mr.. Pinkerton,
head Of the famous Pinkerton
Detective Agency, hat in hand,
with the strangest request any
sleuth ever received, will be told
in The American Weekly with next
Sundays issue of The Detroit
Times.
David c. Thornhill, writing of
the dramatic adventures of some
of those never give up'>detectives
on the trail of dangerous, colorful
criminals, past and present, will
relate how Adam Worth, Midget
Colossus Of Crime fell in love
with a famous painting and the
aftermath Of this odd romance. "
Thornhill's article. the second
m en- I in The American
Weekly's exciting series, Man
hunting With the Pinkertons," will
be the basis of a Front Page
Drama to be heard over Ia radio
stations in Michigan and Ontario
next Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. the day of the
broadcast differing on various sta
lions as indicated below:
MICHIGAN
WFDF'. Flint, Oils p. m. Friday;
.WOOD-WASH. Grand Rapids
$50 p. m. Friday; WIBM, Jack
son. 9 p. m. Friday; WIN
Lansing. 9 p. m. Friday; WKBZ
MuSkegon, 7:15 D. m. Friday;
VICAR. Pontiac, 2:45 p. m. Thurs.
day: WSAM. Saginaw. us p. m
Friday; WTCM. Traverse City
I7:30 p. m. Wednesday; Wills
Port Huron, 11:30 a. m. Friday
ONTARIO
CFCO. Chatham. $50 p. m
Thursday: CKOC, Hamilton, 1;1s
lp. m. Saturday; CKCR. Kitchener
g p. m. Thursday; CKCO, Ottawa
sis p. m. Friday: Cues, STRAIT
ford, 7:45 p. m. Friday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-07

CAP officers were notified last
week not 10 purchase uniforms at
quartermasters' depots hereafter,
The action was taken TO protect
authorized army exchange stores
and does not affect costs.