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Evening star., 1943-03-24

low altitude and crashed wing
first on runway not far from the
hangers.
the wreck Immediately was en-
veloped in flames, making it impos-
sible for rescue crews to get near
the scene, according to officials at
Boiling Field.
The dense black column of smoke
from the blazing wreck could be
seen miles away. Fed by splattered
oil. the plane burned quickly.
The names of the other occupants
will not be released by the Navy until
the next of kin have been notified
Hundreds Of Army and Navy GER
sonnel at Boiling Feild and the air
station saw the crash, out were un-
able to help the trapped crew. as
the flames quickly destroyed the
plane. 1t was believed the occu-
pants died instantly.
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New Tax Measures
On Radio Forum
Toniqht

Pay-aS-yOu-go-tax leglsla-
ton will be discussed tonight,
on the National Radio Forxs
by Representative Carlson, Re-
publican, of Kansas and Rep
resentative Disney, Democrat,
of Oklahoma. members of the
House Us and Means Com
mittee, in which new tax legis-
lation must originate.
Mr.. Disney will speak in be-
half of the committees bill
and Mr.. Carlson for his own
measure. which is basically
the Ruml plan to put tax
payers on a current basis.
The National Radio Forum
is a Blue Network program
arranged by The Star and
broadcast locally from Station
WMAL at 1925.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Federal Jury Indicts
Is Flour Mills on
Charges
Publication of Schedules
For Use in Making
Up Lists Alleged
BY The Associated Press.

CHICAGO. March 24.-Sixteen
flour milling corporations, eleven
OF their executives and their ma
tional trade association were in
dicted by the Federal grand Jury
here today on charges of con-
spiracy to fix prices Of packaged
family -four sold throughout the
United States.
The Indictment set forth that ap-
proximately 100000 barrels Of
family -four are sold annually in
the United States and 81 per cent
Of this amount Is milled by mem
bers of the Millers National Fedora
ton, the defendant trade associa-
ton.
Packaged family -four is that sold
ordinarily for use In homes, as dis
tinct from bulk bakery -four. The
indictment charged that in spite OF
variables among the defendants in
their cost of producing packaged
flour, the defendants met from time
to time and agreed upon a uniform
schedule OF price differentials to be
applied to the various sizes of pack
ages In which family -four is sold
The Government charged that the
miilers federation published and
circulated printed schedules of the
uniform price differentials and that
(See FLOUR. Page A-3D
Evening star., 1943-03-24
500 More Farm Workers
Being Moved This Week
BY the Associated Press.


UPPER DARBY, Pa, March "a
Approximately 500 more farm work.
ers from West Virginia and Ken
lucky are being moved this week
to Eastern States under the Farm
Security Administration program
for relieving farm labor shortages,
J. H. Wood, regional FSA director
announced today.
The first group of this week 5
migration was scheduled to leave
Clarksburg, w. Va, today for New
Jersey, Maryland and Delaware.
Between 80 and 80 women and chill
dren will entrain at the same city
Friday for Western New York State
to join husbands and fathers al
ready transferred.
Thirty-five men and about 100
women and children will be moved
tomorrow from Winchester, Ky to
Pennsylvania State College, State
College. Pa, and on Saturday be-
tween $50 and 200 persons from
Winchester. Ashland and Lexington
Will start for Eastern PENNSYLVANIA
and New Jersey.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Waste in District Restaurants
Shocking, House Member Finds

lily" said that over the week end he
had made it his business to circu-
late around Washington and look
into some of the restaurants"
In a report in the Congressional
Record, he said:
Il believe the waste in District of
Columbia restaurants over week
end would feed a thousand fan lies
IN some OF the occupied countries
and make them fall on their knees
and praise the Lord.
This, before God and man, is
wasteful and sinful. and l am not
going to quit talking about it until
the Government sees to 1t that in
every restaurant there is a sign on
the wall as glaring as hell fire. The
patriotic thing to do is to lick your
platter clean"
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By the Associated Press.
A farmer member of Congress
who appointed himself a one-man
committee to investigate the eating
situation in the Nations Capital re-
ported today that he had found
shocking waste" in Washington
restaurants.
Chicken dinners only half eat
en--halves of good, juicy steaks left
on the plates whole bowls OF peas
from which only one spoonful had
been tsken-good desserts nibbled at
and left was amazed at the ter
rife waste said Representative
Gross, Democrat, OF Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Gross. who proudly lists him
self in the Congressional Directory
as member Of a typical farm fam
Evening star., 1943-03-24
MAP on Page Az

map on rage Az
BY the Associated Press
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
has lashed back with a series of
violent counterattacks and vir-
tually wiped out the British 9th
Army's breach in the Mareth
Line, it was announced officially
today, but has failed to dislodge
the British from the Mareth viii
lage area at, the upper end Of the
Little Maginot" fortifications.
Dispatches said the situation was
very confused" q
North of the Mareth Line, Amer
lean forces under 1t. Gen. George
S. Patton, jr., dealt decided re-
verse to the enemy. East of Ell
Guetar, dispatches said, the Ameri-
cans, from their positions in the
hills on either side of a narrow
pass, had poured artillery fire into
a force of some 100 German tanks,
destroying from 10 to 30 of them.
In London Prime Minister
Churchill told the House of Com
mons that Gen. Sir Bernard l..
Montgomery's 9th Army had lost
most of its bridgehead through the
Mareth Line as result of the
counterattacks of Rommel, and that
the Axis defense lines in that sector
were largely restored.
Mareth village is about 20 miles
from Ga5es behind the Mareth Line.
Early brOadcasts from the Algiers
radio today reported that advanced
elements of Gen. Montgomery's
forces were within 13 miles of Gabes,
but these reports were not supported
by any other source and were in
contradiction to the statement OF
Mr.. Churchill. who said he spoke
from information later than that
published in morning newspapers.
Nazis Admit Penetration.
German military spokesmen were
quoted in Berlin broadcasts as ad-
mitting that Gen. Montgomery's
army had temporarily penetrated
into the Mareth Line at one place.
but said the break had been "ironed
out"
The spokesman said, however,
that only the overture" of the
great British offensive is behind u.s."
1t was claimed that a British tanks
had been destroyed and prisoners
captured.
While the frontal assault of Gen.
Montgomery had run into terrific
struggle which was not mininlized
(See AFRICA page A-60
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Russians Hold Lines
Along Donets, Push
Toward SmoIensk
All German Efforts
To Effect Crossing
Are Beaten Back
MAP on Page A-6.)
By EDDY GILMORE.

ASSOCIATED fEeSS war correspondent.
MOSCOW, March 24.-The Red
Army chung tenaciously today to
its positions on the Northern
Donets River, beating back every
effort OF the Germans to estab-
lish themselves on the eastern
bank, and on the central front
Soviet troops plunged on toward
Smolensk, capturing more set
Elements in their advance.
The Germans crossed the Donets
River in force east of Belgorod last
night. but the midnight communique
reported they were driven back from
town they had seized on the east
ern side of the river.
There have been no indications
that such a mass crossing has been
repeated during the last few hours,
although there have been more at
tempts.
The Soviet noon communique said
the Red Army on the western front
which had been described as the
central front before the concerted
drive for Smolensk developed-con-
tinued its offensive, capturing sew
eral villages and wiping out a
force of German rapid-fire rif1emen
surrounded in a forest north of
Dukhovschino.
Reds Take Other Settlements.
The Russians also were reported
to have taken several other settle
ments in other sectors of their push
toward Smolensk and to have seized
a, tactically important line.
Heavy losses were inflicted again
on the Germans in the Belgorod
area when the Soviet troops smashed
German truck column and de-
stroyed trucks, tanks and fuel
wagons.
The 5O-mile stretch of the twist
ing. turning Donets River between
Chuguev and Belgorod is seeing
some of the most bitterly fought,
co-ordinated infantry and tank at
tacks of the Russian German war
The German Air Force continued
its activity over this front, repeat
edly raiding the Russian positions
but getting a taste of fire, too.
There have been several crossings
Of the Northern Donets by the Ger
mans, and always they have been
in force but never have the Rus
slams permitted them to remain on
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Bradley Views Jeff Heath
As Man Who 'Resiqned'
BY Re Associated Press.

BY Re Associated Press.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, March "a
The Cleveland Indians president,
Alva Bradley, said today at the mo-
ment he viewed holdout Outfielder
jeff Heath as player who has re-
signed from baseball
L don't look on Heath as a hold
out Bradley declared. L look on
him as player who has resigned
from baseball" The Tribe official
said Heath had taken the position
he wouldn't play unless his terms
were met, and we're not meeting
them"
Heath has spurned two contracts.
He is the Indians only holdout.
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By he Associated Press.

BY he Associated Press.
AT US. 9th AIR FORCE HEAD
QUARTERS, SOMEWHERE IN
ENGLAND. March "a. - United
States heavy bombers knocked
down So German fighters posi-
lively in last weeks raid on Vege-
sack, near Bremen, plus 20 prob
ably shot down and % damaged,
it was disclosed today by Maj
Gen. Ira Eaker.
The total of positive victims topped
the previous record OF 48 In 100
plane raid last October 10 on Lille,
France.
The total of 95 planes DESTROYED,
probably destroyed and damaged in
the Vegesack raid was 10 less than
that of the Lille raid when the
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Green and Murray
Pledge Efforts 10
End Labor Disputes
CIO Attempts to Raid
Kaiser Yords in Oregon
Denied at Hearing
BY ]. A. OLEARY.

William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor.
and Philip Murray, head of the
Congress Of Industrial Organiza-
tions, promised before an open
meeting in the Senate War In
vestigating Committee this after
noon to resume their efforts to
end jurisdictional disputes be-
tween the two unions for the
duration Of the war.
This development came at the
close of four hours of spirited testi-
mony, revolving principally around
the Henry Kaiser shipyard in Ore
gon. and whether the CIO should
contest its bargaining agreement
with the AFL.
Mr.. Murray testified there has
been no organization activity by the
CIO at the Kaiser yards in Oregon,
and that no solicitation of members
has been sought. The CIO. he con-
tended, did seek a determination as
to the validity of the AFL agree
ment at the yard
Ball Questions Green.
Earlier in the hearing Senator
Ball, Republican, of Minnesota
asked Mr.. Green if the AFL con-
tract was not made at time when
there were about so employees at the
yard. which has later expanded to
10000 workers
Mr. Green insisted the contract
bargaining agreements are nego-
tiated -.
Mr.. Murray had already testified
that the CIO and the AFL had
taken steps last July to create these
committees on jurisdictional dis
putes. At. that time. he said, he
proposed that, when the committees
could not agree, an arbiter be Sc
lected. . Mr.. Murray said, however,
he also proposed at that time that
neither organization could perfect
an agreement that transgressed the
legal rights of individual workers" !"
No-Strike Pledge Mentioned.
Mr., Green apparently had refer
ence TO this condition when he
pointed out to Mr. Murray that.
while workers have the legal right
to strike, both labor organizations
have agreed to forego that right
during the war.
Senator Burton. Republican, Of
Ohio obtained from both leaders
statements that everything possible
should be done to prevent a run
away spiral of imitation They both
contended, however, that commod-
ity prices have not been stabilized
adequately.
Senator Ball warned at one point
that if imitation controls break
Evening star., 1943-03-24
WoIker'Signs Contract;
Joins Cards Saturday

By the Associated Press.
LEEDS, Ala, March 24.-Harry
Walker, st. Louis Cardinals out
fielder, said today he had signed
l943 contract with the club and
would leave for the Cairo ull)
training camp Saturday.
Walker, who owns hardware
store here, had previously said he
expected to retire from baseball this
season and operate the store, He
also has been working as night
policeman.
The baseball player had asked to
be placed on the voluntarily retired
list after failure to agree on 1943
contract.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Southern Operators
Reject UNIV Plan
For Continued ParIey
Action Comes After
Acceptance Of Proposal
By Northern Owners
BULLETIN.

NEW YORK tP).-Southern
Appalachian coal operators
rejected a United Mine Work.
ers proposal today that nego-
tiations for a new wage con-
tract be extended for 80 days
after April on a retroactive
basis.
Bs the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 24-Threat
of an immediate Stoppage in soft
coal production was STAYED off
today until at least May in part,
if not all, of the rich Appalachian
coal. fields.
Two days after President Roose-
welt told operators and miners Of
the Appalachian area that there
must be no interruption of work
when the present contract expires
March 81, the Northern operators
acceded to the unions demand for
a 30-day time limit on continuance
OF negotiations on retroactive
basis.
John l.. Lewis, United Mine Work
ers' president, said last week that
the miners would not go into the
mines April without contract.
The UNIV, representing $50 1000
bituminous coal miners. has pre-
sented a similar proposal to Cper-
ators of mines in the Southern Gis-
trict of the area. The Southern
conference adjourned until pm
without taking any action on the
matter of continued negotiations and
production after the expiration of
the contract.
Area Follows Mountain Range.
The Appalachian area produces
It's per cent of the United States
bituminous coal tonnage. The area
follows the Appalachian Mountain
range from North Central PennSyl-
vania to Northeast Tennessee. in
Guiding coal fields in Pennsylvania
tSee COAL, Page AS
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Miss Proctor Resiqns

LEXINGTON. KY, March "a (Pl.
Miss Daysie Proctor, manager OF
the l,297-acre Elmendorf Farm for
more than II years, has resigned
effective April l., because of i'll
health, it was announced today.
P A. B. Widener, president of Elm
endorf Farm. Inc, said G. w. Tom
linson, manager of the Circle NJ
Farm and a California native. would
succeed Miss Proctor.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Missionary, Zom-Zom
Survivor, Dies in Africa

bS lHe Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo, March "a
The Rev. Ralph D. Hult, 54, Swedish
Lutheran minister and missionary,
died Monday in Tanganyika, East
Africa. his wife was notified today.
Mr. Hult went from here to Africa
last June-his second effort to
reach that mission field. He started
the first time on the Egyptian
freighter Zam-Zam, which was
sunk in the South Atlantic by a
German destroyer in April, 1941.
For several weeks he was a German
prisoner.
Survivors include his wife and 10
children, and his mother. Mrs. Jo-
hanna Hult of Wahoo, Nebr., where
he was born.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
OPA Charges 8 Points a Pound
For Popular Meats and Butter
Under New Rotioninq Program
2 D. c. Men Among 4 Killed
In Crash at Boiling Field
Two-Eneine Navy Pone FoIIs on Runway,
Bursts Into Flame Soon After Tukeoff

A two-engined Navy transport
plane crashed on Boiling Field
this afternoon, killing its four
occupants.
Two of the four men killed in the
crash were identified by the Navy
late today as Maj Albert H. Bohne.
81. of the Marine Corps. who lives
at 1911 w street Sc and Ralph l..
Watkins, d. U. S. NJ. aviation ma
chinist mate, first class. whose home
is at 1905 Eighteenth street Sc. All
four of the victims were attached to
the Naval Air Station.
The plane was reported to have
started on a routine flight.
1t had just taken of from the
Naval Air Station next 70 Boiling
Field in Anacostia when apparently
its engines faltered Attempting to
land on the Army field it stalled at
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Cadet System Mapped
For Soldiers in CoIIeqe
b. the Associated Press.

Soldiers in college under the
Armys specialized training program
will be organized under a cadet
system with cadet officers chosen
from the ranks, the War Depart
ment announced today
The officer assignments will pe
rotated to give as many men as
possible opportunities 10 develop
leadership abilities. No additional
pay or allowances will be given the
cadet officers.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Mattress Industry Scale

NEW YORK, March "a GA 40
cent-an- hour minimum wage for
employees in the mattress and allied
products industry was recommended
today by an industry committee, the
Wage and Hour Division announced.
The wage increase affects 1,400 OF
10000 employees in the industry,
principally those employed in south
ern factories.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Housewives Below Quote
In Saving Kitchen Fats
Bv ne Associated Press,

d 1T NHNUCIbItu IFtSS.
The Nations housewives contrib
uted 1896 023 pounds of waste kitch-
en- fats in January. an increase of
nearly 100000 pounds over Deem
Der. but far short Of the monthly
quota of l6s67 900 pounds. the War
Production Board reported today.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Indian Woman, l03, Dies

DUEUTH, MINI. March "a tPi.--
Mrs. Susan Baker, l03, Finland,
Mimi, one Of the States Oldest
Chippewa Indian women. died here
Yesterday at the home Of her daugh-
ter. Mrs, Alex Soulier Until year
ago she raised her own garden and
padded a caone on lakes in North
ern Minnesota
Evening star., 1943-03-24
81 Nozi Fighters Shot Down
In Vegesock Raid, Eoker Says
28 Also FeIIed in Wi|heImshoven Attack,
Raising American Claims to 356

score in addition to 48 destroyed was
38 probably destroyed and 10 dam
aged.
Gen. Eaker disclosed that German
fighter victims in Mondays raid on
Wilhelmshaven were % positively
shot down, 9 probably shot down and
9 damaged.
That made for the total of 81
American operations in Europe to
date record of 356 victims against
80 bomhers lost. it was stated.
The Vegesack raid, Gen. Eaker
said, marked an end of the expert
mental" period in high altitude day
light precision bombing
1t now has been definitely estab-
lished as practical without uneco-
nomical losses.
A new phase in the 9th United
tSee EAKER page A-41
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Markets at q Glance

NEW YORK. March "a lP,.--
Stocks higher, industrials pace
rise. Bonds steady: rails in de-
mand. Cotton firm trade and
commission house buying.
CHICAGO.-Wheat closed l2-
,. higher; commission house
buying. Corn unchanged at CELL
ings. Hogs, to Is cents lower;
top, sl575; big direct shipments
to packers. Cattle active at
steady prices; top on fed steers,
$3.50.
Evening star., 1943-03-24

LONDON, March "a P,.-Pope
Plus XII was reported in an i'm
proved condition today in Rome
dispatch broadcast by the German
radio ana recorded by the Associated
Press
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Chinese Gain Near. Marking

CHUN KING up. In
fresh operation some $50 miles
northwest of Marking, Chinese
forces made substantial gains
in attacks Sunday on japanese
positions in the vicinity of
Suhsien, trunk line railway
town in North Anhwei Prov
ince, the Chinese high COM
mand said today.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Patton Forces
Continue Drive;
Bag 80 Tanks
Axis Counterottocks
Against British
Confuse Situation
BULLETIN.

WITH u. S. FORCES IN TU-
NISIA. March % CDelayed)
tP.-American 155-milf1meter
guns supporting an armored
column in a thrust east OF
Maknassy began shelling Mez-
zouna airdrome at nightfall
tonight, destroying at least
five Axis planes on the ground
and compelling the others to
take flight to the east. Mez-
zouna is about IL miles east of
Maknassy.
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Late News
Bulletins
Vichy Envoy Joins Giroud

Vichy Envoy JOINS Groud
LONDON (Pt.-A German
radio broadcast, quoting "au-
thoritative circles in Vichy,"
said today that Vaux ST. Cyr,
Vichy French Ambassador to
Sweden, had severed his con-
nections with Vichy to become
supporter of Gen. Henri Gil
raud, French leader in North
Africa. .......
Evening star., 1943-03-24

fSee MEAT, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Weather Report

From the United States Weather Bursau Report.
Warmer with temperature remaining above
freezing tonight, Temperatures today-Highest,
SO, at $50 pm: lowest 80 at 1880 am. Full
report on page Ala
OF allotment for the heating season.
Evening star., 1943-03-24

(See MURRAY. Page A-2)
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(See AFRICA Page A-6D
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tSee EAKER, Page A-41
Evening star., 1943-03-24
Pope Plus Improving

(see RED CROSS, Page AID
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-06-19
THE FACTS IN
OUR NEWS
By HORACE A. WHITE

In the mind 81 the Negro. well
planned Negro Ghettoes' are only
a little less undesirable than Ne
gro ghe.toeS with no plan. Race
segregation has nothing 20 do with
how fine the segregation is. r.
you are segregated IN an oxcart
and such IS protested. egation
is no; removed. II the oxcar: is re-
placed by a s'rc1m,lned coach and
Negroes are pu: IN the back OF
that strelmlined coach. Mr.. Henry
Johnson ana his Negro mentors che
has ,hew) need not think that Ne
groes are .n;c eS,ed in streamlined
segre gaton. We are interested in
dong away with segregation. I,
has - 80
There IS no place in post war
thinking for your kind % pro.
pcsalS. Palha,lyes for segregation
NIL not satisfy Negro soldiers after
ne var. Negro soldiers are ex-
pec,,ng American business 20 mean
justice when Il says justice Mean
% for al II Negroes wan: - I've
together that wa, DC their bls.-
ness. But il IS no; The democratic
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-06-19

csc Foreign Office issued an order
10 the captains OF all ocean-g going
japanese passenger ships directing
them 10 afford American Negro
tourists preference in every way
connected with their travel on Jap
anese ships. The ministry of in
formation requested detailed de-
Scrip;ions on the social. economic.
ana cultural background Of each
Negro applicant for passage.
Contac; with Negro passengers on
japanese steamers was eagerly
sought, and several were invited
- address luncheon-meetings upon
;Heir arrival in Japan. Transcripts
OF scraps Of conversation, Of speech
eS and comments were fled with
the ministry Of information for
diagnosis. always n an attempt 20
gain an inSiEh: into the weakness
~ the American attitude as regis
tered in The Negro mind. thus TO
formulate an approach which later
could be used - advantage for ar
American upheaya, in time OF war
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-06-19
Jap Propaganda Is Disclosed
In Article By Negro Writer

around the Sauit Sain;e Marie locks
and through the wooded area OF
Northern Michigan. His lavish gifts
Of cash with winch he was album
dainty supplied won for him IN
Vulnerable naive. Negro. feminine
companions whom re used 20 COW
er his movements and activities,
such as the swapping Of pictures
WIKI them in the foreground
This sh-ewdes: % all japanese
spies contributed more 20 the re-
organization Of the almos;-defunct
Garvey aggregation than any other
single man. or group # radicals.
n the United States Having been
in c,ose touch with me lesser.
d s:r.c; leaders. he knew whom 10
contact dSec,ly.
The American Negro has always
been the focal race n Japan's bid
for alliances With darker races
Of the world. manly because 81
his vital role in the building OF
western CIVILIZATION.
During the early eos the Japan