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Captured Islands Giue
u. S. Many Strong Bases

sonnet yearning to avenge Pearl
Harbor. Nimitz, however, does
not expect that, although ready
to meet any Nipponese naval sor
tie that might come. He shares
the widely held belief that actual
ly the missing main elements of
japanese sea power are deployed
on inner guard duty.
If this belief is proved correct
by events-and several days with
out any indication of a major
Japanese counter move in the CEN
trail Pacific point that way - it
means that Japanese have left the
task Of delaying the American ad-
vance to air power and subma-
rines. Nimitz has pointed out that
it is for air and submarine TO.
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executive weapon in an effort to
keep the plan going.
Farm organization spokesman
who fought at House hearings for
higher market prices will begin
Smelling the subsidy program on
the Senate side when the banking
committee starts taking testimony
on the bill Tuesday.
Administration forces plan to
bring in Mayor La Guardia of New
York and other big city admins
traitors to talk subsidies in an at
tempt to neutralize rural opposl-
ton.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said he
would demand a full report from
Government food agencies to snow
exactly what subsidies are costing
fror+;rued on Pare Two; Col. 81
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BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

Menacing new American subma-
rine threats to japanese shipping
in the far Pacific are obvious in
the Gilbert islands successes.
Based on such good harbors as
Maxim affords, undersea craft
which Admiral Chester w. Nimitz
places first among sea attrition
weapons will be a thousand miles
and more nearer to their targets.
They constitute a deadly threat
to vital supply lines that Tokyo
cannot ignore.
That has seemed one prime tao
teal purpose of the American air.
sea-land attack in the central Pa
cific. Hope that it will force ia
pans main fleet into action is
high in the hearts of naval per-
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"a FIGHTERS DOWNED

WASHINGTON. --ov. 25 Up
A carrier division protee ting the
American landings on the Gilbert
islands shot down "a Japan cse
fighters, nine bombers and three
giant seaplanes, the Navy announc-
ed today.
U. S. Losses in these operations
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FOOTBALL FINALS

BY The Associated Press
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JapS In MarshalISlandS
Have 2ROadS TOFOllOW
Bv JOHN M. HIGHTOWER

WASHINGTON, Nov. rs -QP)- Americas lightning
conquest of the Gilbert islands leaves the Japanese the
nearby Marshals but two choices: retreat or die
This is the conclusion expressed by strategic author
ties here following announcement by Admiral Chester W
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lime PENETRATED
Allies Firmly Established
On North Side OF
Vital Stream
ATTACKS BEATEN OFF
Veteran Troops OF British
Forge Ahead With The
Aid Of Tanks

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
rFRS. Algiers, Nov. 25.-(P)
The British Eighth Army
has smashed across the San
aro River on a five-mile front
e D. II the Adriatic seacoast
and firmly established itself
m the north side of that last
inoportant water barrier be-
fore Rome in the face of
bloody counter-attacks by
German troops who were or
dered to hold the stream at
all costs. Allied headquarters
announced today.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont
gon1ery's veteran fighters
penetrated the enemy's brist-
ling winter line" to a depth
Of 1000 yards in overcoming
what a military spokesman
described as -four enemies
ram, mud, a very swollen
river and a very determined
anemy.'
Spectacular Battle
The spectacular battle ragged for
several days, communique said.
The German radio announced Tues
day that Montgomery's forces had
launched a full-scale assault and
We're across the Sangro.
The bridgehead, established in
the lowland area near the Sangro's
mouth, includes the sites of de-
Stfoyed railroad trestle and two
highway bridges, which Allied en-
sneers were rushing to restore SO
reInfocements and supplies could
pour across to Montgomery's as
Sault troops.
Although the progress thus far
made represents a stable bite
out OF the enemy's defense-in-
cepth, much better fighting con-
lTtnts the British, Canadian and
indian regiments of the Eighth
Army before they crack the Ger
nan lire. Not only do hundreds of
"el.concealed artillery pieces
overlook Montgomery's present ex-
posed position, but the Nazis were
expected to rush strong reserves to
nat point and to fight desperately
luz every yard of ground.
Cossing Conceded
German broadcasts conceded that
me Eighth had established a
ohdgehead and was fighting for
ward with the aid OF tanks that
aSa been brought across the swol-
4eh river. Montgomery's feat in
the Sangro and gaining
AoAa' armor-enforced foothold
against a strongly-entrenched en-
envy appeared to have been one
u the most remarkable feats of
The Italian campaign.
official sources reported that the
crack German 65th Infantry divi-
SION was thrown against the ad-
Allies repeatedly from the
nlsh ground overlooking the river,
ouI was bloodily repu1sed. Pris-
pAeFS rom this division said they
Nao strlctest orders to throw the
crackers back into the torrent.
Al TWO to five miles from the
eangro, hills rise abruptly to be-
!|een 800 and 1,4OO feet and are
ideally adapted for machine-gun,
n , and artillery emplace-
tuen'S commanding the entire val
ley and the river.
North Of Rome
BY a quirk of geography, this
ll'ual onslaught against the en-
tC0ntinued M De- ~,
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Yanks Ready
For New Push
Against Japs
IS # Down "a
s. = Acater Planes
Gilberts
= - JAPANESE SLAIN
ounterattacks On Bou-
granville Are Reported
Repulsed By U. S.

PEARL HARBOR, Nov.
25.-(P)-Decisive defeat OF
the Japanese in two far-flung
theaters of the embattled
Pacific - at sea under the
nose of Rabaul New Gui-
nea, and in the Gilbert is
lands of mid-ocean-brought
new cause for thanksgiving
today even as American for
ces prepared for new major
offensives.
Almost at the hour that
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz
was announcing Wednesday
the completion of the con-
quest of the Gilberts, an
American destroyer force was
ramming torpedoes and white
hot shells into a Japanese
destroyer force in the north
ern Solomons sea.
4 Destroyers Sunk
1t was the second engagement
in those waters that. gave the Nip
onese cause to respect American
guns and gunners. 1t resulted in
the sinking of four of the six enemy
destroyers and the damaging of
fifth. Not an enemy shell found
its mark on the somewhat small
er American flotilla.
Three weeks earlier another
enemy destroyer and cruiser force
had been routed with heavy losses
in a long night battle in that area.
There was4some damage to Ameri-
can ships at that time but not a
vessel was lost.
AS his iberator bombers. Team
ing with navy CARR r--based
planes, pounded enemy defenses
in the mid-Pacific, Maj. Gen.
Willis H. Hale predicted new and
imminent operations. They would
involve the most difficult flying
in the world, the commander of
the Seventh Army airforce told AP
War Correspondent William L.
Worden.
The general said his bembers
would harass the enemy's rear
areas as American forces advanc-
ed into the Marshall islands and
along other enemy-held islands of
the central Pacific.
Evening star., 1943-02-07
BY James T. Carter,
Associated Pres6 atA1 Writar.

What happened when the steam roller
with the big umbrella met the bear with
the peculiar wings is one OF the most
amazing stories of the war.
It's the story OF how Hitler's army,
which had steam -rollered through most
Of Europe with the Luftwaffe as an UNI
brella, finally met its match in the great
Russian bear.
Now the Germans knew that the bear
had wings. but they never suspected the
wings could do tricks. and so it was that
the Soviet air fleet helped the Red Army
turn back the foe.
Like most everything else in the land
Of the steppes, Russian aviation develop
ments have been kept under the wraps
Of official secrecy, with wartime perform
ance data seldom being disclosed.
But from various sources here. plus
few accounts which have come out Of the
Soviet Union. at least glimpse of what
makes up Russia air arm is possible.
1t is known now. for instance. that
contrary to general belief, Russian planes
are more or less conventional in design.
1t also is known that the way they've
achieved their success was anything but
conventional
While most of the warning nations still
were clinging to the belief that fighter
was fighter and bomber a bomber,
and that they weren't interchangeable.
the Russians were doing bit Of expert
mentinS.
Evening star., 1943-02-07
A Mother Pays a Visit
To Her Son in the Navv

somebody huns that theme song Of land
ing parties, Deep In the Heart Of Texas
and you drop everything and throw
your arms around him. be you the
colonels lady or Judy O'Grady.
"All around me hear the refrain,
Inside dope, my dear, can't tell you
until this is all over take q deep
breath and ask the question about sub
detectors which has been uppermost in
my thoughts. Bob answers, Say, mother,
is Mary Ann still In love with that boy
wonder in the Coast Guard?' 'Shhh,' I
parry. Inside dope. I'll tell you when it's
all over A grin, and a touche. mother
as up and down the beach we walk,
one young ensign and I. So we talk
about the dogwood in the spring in the
Ozarks, the tree-house at the old home
place and the pony and the little 40
gun and Halloween pranks and April
fools and a way Of life that was only
yesterday.
Again I am pressing my face close to
the glass door looking out upon an empty
sea. I do not know where the ships that
were there, came from, do not know
where they are going. I do not know
when I shall see my son again.
II do know that In few short months
he has grown from an immature COL
legiate to the full measure of q man.
I've never wanted a safe tight little life
for him; but I've never thought the
philosophy Of living dangerously a very
satisfactory swap.
I'm glad he is not In the Navy Just
for the adventure OF it. I'm glad for the
splendid spirit Of his fellow and superior
officers. I'm glad he feels that life only
has value when 1t has something valuable
as it's object. I'm glad that he lives In
clean place, that he has plenty Of red
meat and green vegetables, even though
they are mostly broccoli
THE only inside dope I've learned
about a battleship, concerns mothers
more than the enemy-the United States
Post Office aboard ship is covered with
cookie dust on days when the mail is
distributed. If you must send cookies
land you must) pack them in tins.
"As I climb upon the bus to return
home, notice. sticking out OF my suit
case, several strands of long white hair
OF the goat skin rug my son had given
me for the game ROOM Picked It I'D
in the bazaars Of Afghanistan, he had
laughingly explained. I laughed, too,
Any animal that felt compelled to grow
coat so thick and white must have
endured some awful long. hard winters!
Why I'll bet that goat came from -
Just IN time I checked myself, because
there are two DONTS every mother
must learn.
Don't think, and don't worry."
Evening star., 1943-02-07
Russia's Fighting Wings

They threw the rule book out OF the
window and converted fighters into dive
bombers, training planes into low-alti-
tude bombers, observation planes into
flying ambulances, concentrating always
on the theory that the air force was a
coordinate branch of the army, for de-
fenSe against air attack and for destruc-
ton of enemy armor and personnel.
Finding one of her fighter biplanes too
slow to stack up against the Messer-
schmitts, Russia simply changed it into
dive bomber. And the results were
excellent. AS fighters, the gull-wing
biplanes would have been sent tumbling
from the skies; as dive bombers, they
chalked up a good record.
Another sample OF Russian aero
nautical ingenuity was to use little
training biplane. whose cruising speed is
30 miles an hour, as low-altitude bonn
ber. At first thought, 1t would seem that
Messerschmtts or Focke- -Wulfs, which
are nearly five times as fast, could have
picked of the slow trainer at will But
the trainers very slowness has made II
difficult target for the enemy fighters,
which have to fly much faster than 80
m phi in order to stay aloft
Not all Russian planes are slow, how
ever. She has couple Of extremely fast
fighters that combine speed with the
ability to carry bombs and thus can wage
war against both air and ground forces.
Planes like these are keeping the Na1s
out Of Soviet skies.
Evening star., 1943-02-07
Condemn " ar.

Both condemn War. The only point
on which they agree is that both are
pacifists.
Both make theirevolces heard over the
singing of a Salvation Army group. The
hymn singers compete in turn against
the shouting Of one Of the ugliest, dirtlest
women imaginable who has been saved
by some new sort Of religion and wants
others to share her happy lot.
Just beyond her, also standing on a
step ladder, Is a tall, thin colored man
In a purple robe with a white turban
surmounted by an American Indian
feather bonnet who waves four flags, two
in each hand, and Is yociferously adyo-
eating something or other-lt IS di[Icult
to say what because his voice doesn't
carry well over the crowd he has gath
cred
Such is the picture OF HYDE Park Just
beyond the marble arch late on a chill
January afternoon. BlitzeS may come
and 90 empires rise and fall, every other
aspect Of British life strained and al
tered, but this one London scene goes
Evening star., 1943-02-07

doctrine that the system of society makes
little difference, that the value of any
system was only the individual worth
OF the men within it.
But all systems except anarchy lead
to totantarianism, he said and the
only choice could make between Russia
and Germany today would be which
was willing to pay me the most. There
is no difference between them and there
Is no difference between them and the
thing into which England and the United
States are drifting"
He stood on a step ladder. He was
q reasonable fellow. glib of tongue,
versed in PHILOSOPHERS, a bad customer
for hecklers. Also. one surmises, a pow
erful fellow in a rough-and- tumble fight.
Three feet away another man stands
on a step ladder, barehesded with high
brow and pale. ascetic face. He is not
50 quick with the comeback. He argues
for that which the other man damnS
The anarchist likes apitalism-eXcept,
he says. it inevitably leads to its own
doom by degenerating into its antithesls
totalitarianism. The socialist says cap
italiSm is TO blame for nine-tenths OF the
Ills OF the world.
Evening star., 1943-02-07
By Dorothy G. La Force.

ny 0OlOCIly ". Id UlCc.
"Cant get ieaue. Can you catch
the merit bus to -?
"Your Son, BOB"
Eyes, it's my son all right I think
as I fold the Enthusiastically succinct
message. All a-hutter manage to catch
trip and begin to take stock, realize
I fall far short Of the beautifully groomed
and serenely poised woman of the life
begins-at-40 advertisements I had ex-
pected to emulate whenever my call
should come. I'm sure I look old
enough to be Christopher Columbus
grandmother, murmer to my mirror.
But I've very springish bonnet and
the ocean breeze does nice things to my
hair-and nothing really matters ex-
cept that after these many months I'm
going to see Bob
THE hotel of my destination is beauti-
full in all Of its appointments. Once
famous resort, 1t has recently been taken
over lock. stock and chef, by the United
States Navy for the exclusive use of
servicemen and their families for the
duration In the long sun-room romp
their children, all speaking the same
language, but with as many infections
and colloquiaIsms as there are States
in our Union. In this room, as in our
camps and on our ships the melting
pot Is again brewing not witches. but
a good old American brew.
"As enter, am handed a NOTICE
TO GUESTS. It reads, 1T is of utmost
Importance that movements Of ships in
or out OF this location be not discussed
at any time by men, women or children
This is in reality command. signed by
the commandant OF this naval district
Sitting my excitement, go mutely
to the long glass doors and stand with
many other women whose faces are
pressed close to the panes, looking upon
the empty sea which meets an equally
blue and empty sky, I'm not sure just
where Now a shadowy line is being
drawn between them. The line is break
solemn majesty mighty armada fills
the ocean.in front of us, without a sound.
THE battleships look identical, but, as,
I soon learn, II some one you love is on
one Of them how quickly you detect the
slightest variation in the contours. tilt
to the antenna-an extra curly-cue In
the camouhage-nobody utters a word,
while we stand and watch our very
destinies sail in and drop anchor.
"A little girl, her eyes big with wonder,
tugs at her mothers skirt and says
Mummy, look what you're doing! Un-
knitting the sock!' Time seems to be
standing still as the miniature boats
leave the sides Of the big ships and bring
their cargoes to our beach. Suddenly
Evening star., 1943-02-07

tertainment on their Sabbath afternoon
walks. They liked to heckle the speak
ers. 1t was place most visitors to Lon
don visited at least once.
Today the listeners, men and women,
are in uniform-British, American,
French, Polish. Dutch, Czech, Austria
Ian, Canadian, Norwegiah, Belgian And
heckling seems to have been abandoned
for the duration.
Those who would apply their own pc
culiar nostrums to the Ills of the world
shout at the winter wind, for any re-
sponse they succeed in evoking. For the
auditors now, it seems, have common
fixed idea of their own as to the first
step in remedying the Ills Of the world
and the nostrums are something to con-
slider later.
Evening star., 1943-02-07
BY John Clagett Proctor

One OF the most interesting sections of
Washington from a historical stand
point Is the old first ward, which ac-
coTolng to the city directory of 1922,
included within Its bounds at that time
the White House, the State Department
Building, the Treasury, the War De-
partment. the Navy Department, st.
Johns Episcopal Church, the First Bap-
tist Church, then at Nineteenth and
streets; the Friends Meeting House,
then at 1911 I street. and the West
Market, in the triangle bounded by
Twentieth and Twenty-frst streets,
Pennsylvania avenue and I street.
And, of course, there were other i'm
portant buildings in this section at that
time, including the Octagon House, at
the northeast corner Of Eighteenth street
and New York avenue; the Blair house,
at 1861 Pennsylvania avenue; the De-
catur house, the Six Buildings. the Seven
Buildings, the Lenthall houses, 6l2-6l4
Nineteenth street; the home OF John
Mason. jr; the Monroe house, at 20l7
I street, and a number of others.
The Old West Market
The West Market Building. referred
to-where was also the Town Hall-was
begun In 1902 and was opened for busi-
ness the following year. It's lower floors
were used to house the stalls for the
market, while the upper floor was used
as public hall and for while as
meeting place for Hiram Lodge, No. 10,
F. A. A. M, and other bodies. And here
was also housed the Union Fire Com
pany, organized in 1904
This fire company was formed mainly
for the purpose Of the protection OF the
War and Navy Buildings and, because of
this, 1t was given the use of the engine
that belonged to the Government and
which was said to have been kept In
building near the Treasury ONCE" prior
to going to the Twentieth street site.
The engine house at the latter loca-
ton was a frame building which stood
on the Twentieth street side OF the mar
ket, and when the company was reor-
ranized in 1914 1t occupied the same
wooden structure.
OF It's first officers We find such we'll
known names as James Hoban, presi-
dent: Andrew Way, jr. vice president;
Washington Boyd, treasurer; James
Kearney, secretary Clotworthy Ste
phenson, Peter Lenox, Lewis Marin and
Henry Langtry were the engineers; John
Hewitt. Thomas Thorpe, Thomas Car
penter. Henry Hereford, John P Van
Ness and Joseph Calvert, flremen: James
Huddleston, John Aiken. Orlando Cook,
Hugh Boyd, George Moore, Thomas
Given, John Dobbin and c. NJ Nautz,
laddermen; David Shoemaker, Richard
Forrest, John MCGOWAN, George Way,
Lewis Clephane and Thomas Heitz, SEN
tinels, and the company's Board Of Cen
eral Superintendent consisted of John
Payne, Edward Fretby, S. L. Mccormick,
Ezra Warden, Alexander Cochran, Rob-
ert Tally. William Thornton, James
Thornton and John Hewitt.
After the old Union company was re-
organized in 1914 it seems again to have
become dormant and remained so until
shortly before it moved into its new
house at the southeast corner of H and
Nineteenth streets, about 1887. This
building, erected by Congress, is today
next to the oldest of the early engine
houses standing in the District. which
were used by volunteer companies, the
Evening star., 1943-02-07

1st: w. H. Degges, Lemuel Williams. I'd;
James Westcott and Charles Worthen.
Keeper OF the Apparatus-Ferdinando
Turton.
Honorary Members-French S. Evans,
Charles Calvert, c. w. Goldsborough,
James Thompson, N. Towson. Richard
Smith, John Gadsby, B. o. Tayloe Alex
ander Hunter, George Bomford. Alexan-
der Macomb, Francis Markoe, jr.: Will
liam Turnbull, James Eakin T. P. An
drews, Robert Johnson George Bender
and NJ. st. Clair Clarke.
The Caldwell House.
Just to the north Of the triangular
park, at 2017 I street, stands an old man
sion. the rear part Of which was erected
shortly after the ground was purchased
in 1902 by Timothy Caldwell, from James
Evening star., 1943-02-07

use today. which naturally includes our
automobile tires which We use, or cannot
use, today. At least 1t Is nice to know
that this man once resided in this city.
After many experiments in attempting
to discover \ method OF treating india
rubber 80 that 1t would stand extremes
Of heat and cold. no finally began work.
been an smploys Of rubber factory in
Roxbury, Mass, and made experiments
with sulphur mixed with rubber. Good
year bought Hayward's right to use this
imperfect process.
Shortly after this. in 1889, by dropping
on hot stove some india rubber mixed
with sulphur, he discovered, accidentally,