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Evening star., 1943-12-16
Roosevelt Forced
Down in Azores,
Nozis Claim
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Dec. 16.-The German
news agency DNB, in a dispatch
purporting to come from Lisbon,
Portugal, said today that President
Roosevelt's plane made a forced
landing in the Azores Islands while
on his way to the Cairo and Teheran
conferences.
There has been no Official con-
firmation that such stop was made
while the President was en- route
to Cairo.
The agency said in Berlin broad
cast that the President had been
forced down on the island of Ter
Ceira by damage to an engine of his
aircraft. Terceira is one of the
Portuguese Azores island group in
the Atlantic.
The broadcast report went on to
say that it was understood that
Roosevelt, on his fight to Cairo and
Teheran, stayed or the British
occupied Azores Islands for some
hours"
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Soviet CounteraHack,
Repu|se Nazi Forces
Driving Toward Kiev
Heavy Artillery Fire
And Air Assaults Stop
Armored Divisions
BY HENRY c. CASSIDY,
Associated Press War Correspondent.

MOSCOW. Dec. 16.-Gen. Niko-
lai Vatutin'S 1st Ukrainain Army
has gone over to the offensive for
the second time this week in the
battle of the Kiev bulge, and in
a series of swift counterattacks
has driven the Germans from
several strong points along the
Teterev River salient, 55 miles
west of the Ukrainian capital.
Marshal Fritz Won Mannstein's S
powerful armored divisions were un-
able to withstand the concentrated
artillery fire from the Russian posi-
tions, field dispatches said.
Red Army guns. aided by Stormo-
vik bombers, knocked out at least
48 German tanks and 81 armored
cars in yesterdays fighting. Rus
sian communique announced. In
one sector the NaZis attacked again
and again with more than 100 tanks
and at least 1000 men. but they
Wllted each time in the face of the
accurate Soviet gunfire.
While the outcome of the tense.
seesaw tank and gun battle still was
undecided. the fact that Gen.
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Draft Board Clerk and Husband
Held by FBI on Evasion Churoe

wife left the employ OF the Selec-
tive Service Board July 81 and
now is clerk for the Red Cross
here.
FBI officials said Mr.. and Mrs.
Ross were arrested at house in the
2900 block of Key boulevard, where
Mrs. Ross has been living. Her hus-
band arrived from Culpeper yester-
day afternoon to visit his wife. and
was at the house when agents
arrived, it was said.
Mrs. Ross, according to Mr.. Hoo
yer, destroyed her husbands orig
lnal registration card bearing his
correct birth date. July %. 1906.
and made up a new one indicating
he was born July %, 1905.
Complaints charging the two with
violation of the Selective Service
Act have been filed with the United
States commissioner at Harrison
burg, and both will be arraigned
at Alexandria today on fugitive
complaints for removal to Roanoke.
Evening star., 1943-12-16
bocock Resiqns
As Ga||inger
Superintendent
Dr.. D. l. Seckineer
Takes Over as
Temporary Head
BY CAMBRIDGE CRIsT.

DR.. Edgar A. Bocock, superin-
tendent of Gallinger Municipal
Hospital, whose removal was de-
manded Monday by the Senate
District Committee, submitted
his resignation today. 1t was ac-
cepted by the Commissioners.
In letter dated yesterday, DR.
Bocock wrote the Commissioners
that lin the belief that a change
in administration might definitely
promote a new situation Of real
benefit to the hospitals successful
future, submit herewith my resig-
nation, to be effective on April 20
1914, and would like to avail myself
Of my accrued leave, amounting to
SO days on December l6, 1943.''
The Commissioners accepted the
resignation without comment and
named Dr. Daniel L. Seckinger. as
sistant District health officer, as
acting superintendent of the hos
pital, to serve until new superin-
tendent is appointed
The future management of Gal
linger Hospital was to be the SUBJ
ject of a conference this afternoon
at the hospital Dr. George c.
Rutland, District health officer
planned to confer with DR. Bocock
and other members of his staff.
Served for 16 Years.
Dr.. Bocock. who completed 16
years of service as head of the hos
pital at the close of business yester-
day, informed the Commissioners:
The hospital has grown enor-
mously in size and service to the
community in spite of the handi-
caps and problems with which it has
been faced. Of late, particularly
have these vicissitudes been de-
moralizing and damaging"
The demand for DR.. Bocock's re-
moval from Gallinger came on Mon
day. when the Senate District Com
mittee considered the report of the
Holman subcommittee which in
vestigated the hospital
The subcommittee report. filed
with the full committee October 13,
had called for the removal of Com
missioner Guy Mason, Health Officer
Rutland, DR.. Joseph L. Gilbert,
head of the psychiatric ward Of the
hospital, and DR.. Charles P. Cake,
chief Of the tuberculosis ward, as
we'll as that of DR.. Bocock
With eight members of the COM
mittee meeting in executive session,
Chairman McCarran announced
that the group had adopted unani-
mously the following motion:
That the findings and con-
clusion Of fact by the subcommittee
and the specific recommendation
that Dr. Edgar A. Bocock be re-
moved be adopted and that the
further recommendations of the
subcommittee remain before the
full committee for further study"
Further Action Planned.
In the subcommittee report filed
by Senators Bushfield Of South
Dakota and Buck of Delaware, both
Republicans, following a series of
hearings into hospital affairs, the
subcommittee recommended that if
DR.. Bocock was not relieved of his
post he should be held strictly ac-
countable for the unsatisfactory
conditions in the wards under the
supervision of DR.. Gilbert and DR..
Cake.
Informed Of the resignation of DR.
Bocock, Chairman McCarran Of the
Senate District Committee said to-
day:
Il have great hopes this will be
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Naval Officer From Capital
Takes Heroic Role in Wreck

Capt. Allen did some heroic work
in that smashed wreckage. Through
State highway patrol radio we
reached Robert Samet at Lumber
ton, who brought acetylene torches
used to cut out the dead"
Wood said he helped to set flares
after the train derailed, and that at
about l:50 am. the northbound
Tamiami East Coast Champion
plowed through the wreckage spilled
over the parallel tracks.
The ACL wrecker arrived about
8 am. and ambulances had been
streaming in and out from Penn
broke and other places" Mr.. Wood
added. You have never seen such
a smashup. Bodies were mangled
rails twisted into hairp1ns and loops
all over the place." the publisher
added.
Then he had to leave the tele-
phone, where he was reached by the
(see EYEWITNESS, Page A-lS)
Evening star., 1943-12-16
u. ). Bombers Pound
Nazi Supply Lines
AT Brenner Pass
Roll Facilities Hit in
Austria, North ItoIy;
No Planes Are Lost
By the Associated Press

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
glers, Dec. l6.-American heavy
bombers, striking with as great
force as on Tuesday. when 300
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
blasted airfields in the Athens
area, hit telling blows at enemy
communications on both sides Of
the Brenner Pass yesterday.
The new assaults were directed at
rail facilities at Innsbruck in Aus
tria and at Bolzano and the Trento
regions in Northern Italy and, al
though the feet of bombers and
escorting fighters approximately
matched the armada which raided
the Aegean area, Allied headquar-
ters said every one of the planes
returned safely.
These attacks, described as highly
concentrated and successful, were
made on the main supply line from
Germany into Italy as the British
9th Army pushed ahead slowly in
an advance along the Adriatic coast
toward Pescara and the 5th Army
captured an important hill in the
Castel San Vincenzo area, miles
south of Alfedena.
(',,<
The 9th Army cut the road be-
tween Ortona and Orsogna in three
places and captured the village of
Berrati, 3 miles from Ortona.
The raid on Innsbruck was made
by Flying Fortresses of the United
States 18th Air Force and was the
first blow delivered on the Austrian
Tyrol. High explosives were laid
across the railway yards and ter
minal.
Innsbruck is the junction point
where the rail line extending south
ward through the Brenner Pass
leaves the main east-west line
which links the industrial areas of
Southern Germany and Austria.
South of the pass Flying Fort
resses bombed the rail yards at
Bolzano and Liberators struck at
the viaduct over the Avisio River
near Trento.
The big bombers were escorted by
Lightnings. They encountered only
slight flax over Innsbruck, which is
SIS miles south of Munich. and small
resistance at the Avisio Viaduct, but
ran into heavier fire at Bolzano.
New Allied Raids in Balkans.
Other Allied planes made new
forays into the Balkans.
American Warhawks strafed the
landing field near cara, on the
Dalmatian coast, destroying seven
aircraft on the ground. and Ameri-
can Mitchells raided an airfleld at
Mostar with bombs.
The 9th Army's gains, made de-
spite bad weather, were assisted by
tanks, which knocked out four
enemy tanks.
Canadian and Indian troops sue
ceeded in crossing the bitterly con-
tested highway from Orsogna to
Ortona in three places and forcing
the Germans into the hills,
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Ohio Forced to Relax Rules
OnLiquor Monopoly, Probe Told
Million Gallons Purchased Outside
Stote by Hotels and Clubs, Witness Says

same period. alloting 100000 gall
Ions Of that to hotels. bars and
other permit holders. he added.
Senator Wherry. Republican. of
Nebraska observed that the outside
purchases had taken liquor away
from somebody else in other States,
Mr.. Lentz said that was true.
Meanwhile, Federal grand jury
here prepared to open an investi-
cation into the financial setup and
practices of the liquor industry. A
similar investigation has been going
on for at least month under the
direction of the antitrust division
Of the Justice Department.
At the committee hearing, Mr..
Lenty pointed the finger at holders
of warehouse liquor receipts. insist
ing that much of the outside SUD-
Evening star., 1943-12-16
BY the Associated Press.


The Federal Bureau Of Investiga-
ton announced today the arrest OF
George S. Ross, g. and his wife,
Mrs. Lofts Florine Ross. %, in Ar
lington, Va, on charges of violating
the Selective Service Act.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross were arraigned
shortly before noon before United
States Commissioner Stanley King
in Alexandria. He transferred the
case to the United States District
Court for the Western District of
Virginia after the couple waived
preliminary hearing.
Director j. Edgar Hoover said Mrs.
Ross, former chief clerk of the
draft board at Washington. Va, ad-
mitted changing records so as to
make her husband appear to be 80
years old and in the group of regis
trants not being drafted.
Mr.. Hoover said Ross is en-
ployed by the Virginia highway de-
partment and lives at Culpeper. His
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Big Raid Hints
Landing Near
In New Britain
MAP on Page A-2J
BY the Associated Press.

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL
LIED HEADQUARTERS, Dec. l6
An American invasion of New
Britain Island, key to Japan's
hold on the entire South Pacific
area, appeared imminent today
following devastating raid by
Allied bombers that dumped 356
tons of explosives on Arawe, one
Of the two good harbors on the
southern coast of the island.
This raid, announced by Gen.
Douglas Macarthur. followed crush
ing attacks Sunday that plastered
New Britain on all sides in a pre-
invasion softening-up pattern. Eff
tectlveness of these raids was pro-
nounced, Gen. Macarthur said the
damage was heavy.
All indications in headquarters
communicates the last two DAYS have
pointed to a quickening tempo in
these air attacks. They have packed
a terrific wallop, co-ordinated in a
pincer's air onslaught on New Brit
ain that made full use of the new
tSee PACIFIC. Page A-18D
Evening star., 1943-12-16
By the Associated Press.

FLORENCE, S. c., Dec. 16.-A
on one of the two crack
Atlantic Coast Line trains smashed
together at Buie, N. c., today told
how an expectant mother with both
legs mangled held up bravely until
aid arrived and how a Navy cap
tain did heroic rescue work.
Il was a passenger on the Tamil
ami West Coast Champion south
bound to Tampa, Fla, which de-
rallied at about Ito a.m.," said Will
liam Wood, publisher of Small
Homes Guide magazine, unhurt in
the wreck
Capt P. w. Allen of the Navy,
Washington, D. c.. and took charge
Of helping the injured and trying
to reach the dead. We got blankets
from the Pullman cars and hot cof-
fee and whisky from the diner, then
made fires on the snow-covered
ground.
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Senate Banking Group
Votes 60-Day Delay
On Subsidy Decision
BorkIey Is Authorized
To Introduce Measure
Extending CCC to Feb. 29
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate Banking Commit
tee recommended today a 60
day postponement of Senate
showdown on the food subsidy
issue to permit attempts at a
compromise.
The action came after the COM
mittee had refused to accept either
the fat subsidy repeal bill favored
by the farm bloc or a compromise
proposal of Senator Taft, Republi.
can. of Ohio.
The committee authorized Ma jor
ity Leader Barkley to introduce ir
the Senate later today a resolution
to continue the life of the Commod.
ity Credit Corp.-and the presen
subsidy program-from December
81 to February 29.
Will Attempt Compromise.
Senator Barkley said that during
the interim he would work at both
ends Of Pennsylvania avenue to try
to work out something satisfactory
to both sides"
The committee voted. 9 to g.
against the Bankhead bill which
would have outlawed subsidies after
January l. The measure was SINH
lar to the fiat January subsidy
ban voted November % by the
House.
The Taft compromise. which
would have partly abolished the
subsidy program, was voted down
II to 5. The committee likewise re-
fused to accept the House subsidy
repeater, but took no record vote on
it.
Earlier. leaders of the big four
farm organizations fatty rejected
proposals for limited use Of Gov
ernment subsidies to stabilize con-
sumer food prices.
Hitting at the compromise sug-
gested by Senator Taft, who would
continue some subsidies under a
$500 900 900 yearly limitation-about
half the present outlay-the farm
spokesman joined in urging the
Banking Committee to send the
Houses subsidy repeal legislation to
the Senate floor for an immediate
vote
Their refusal to accept the Taft
plan came in a conference with
Senator Bankhead, Democrat. of
Alabama. Senate farm bloc leader.
The group met in advance of the
executive session of the Banking
Committee at which the group ap-
proved the 60-dav delay.
O'Neal Hits Proposal.
Edward A. ONeal, president of
the American Farm Bureau FEEDER
alton, said the Taft proposal looked
to him like subsidy for the bene-
fit Of the food professors rather
than the farmers"
Although the Taft plan would
eliminate the present dairy feed
subsidy to milk producers. which the
farm groups oppose, it was assailed
by Secretary Charles w. Holman
OF the National Cooperative Milk
Producers Federation as "a crude
surrender of the principle of fair
prices to the farmer"
Representatives of the National
ISee CTIpCInITc Dooo TO-
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Late Bulletin
80 Victory Tax Voted

The Senate Finance Com
mittee today added $40, ,000,-
600 to the liability of individ-
ual income taxpayers for next
year by adopting a fiat 3 per
cent Victory tax and retain
ing the House provision re-
pealing the 10 per cent credit
for earned incomes. After al
lowing for other changes
previously made, this raised
the total of the House bill
from S2,140, 100000 to $685.
900, 900.
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Ry the Associated Press

ES tHt hSsOCidleQ fTeSS.
A Senate Judiciary Subcom-
mittee was told today that Ohio
hotels, bars and night clubs were
able to buy 100000 gallons of
liquor through out of State job
bers from April through Novem-
Der. while the State couldn't get
enough whisky to supply the de-
mand on State-operated stores.
William F Lentz. a deputy State
auditor, testified that Ohio had
been forced to relax its regulations
maintaining monopoly on liquor
sales in the State on April to
permit the outside purchases.
He said these purchases aggre-
gated a million gallons. The State
was able to buy total of $500 900
gallons from distillers during the
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Red Cross Sends Nurses;
No Data on Victims

Red Cross national headquarters
is sending nurse supervisor to the
wreck scene, the disaster relief sec
ton announced today. adding that
its Atlanta area headquarters was
dispatching several nurses and a
field representative.
We have been flooded with tele.
lCno ND In6,n a
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Scores Injured
In Crash Of Two
.StreamIiners
No Victims Identified
AS Train Strikes
DeroiIed Coaches
By the Associated Press

LUMBERTON, N. c., Dec. 10
Between so and 100 persons were
killed and more than 100 injured
in the wrecks of two crowded
streamliner passenger trains
along an icebound stretch of the
Atlantic Coast Line in South
eastern North Carolina early
today.
Rescuers battled through the WIN
ter's coldest night over snow and
ice-coated highways to bring sur
vivors of the double smashup to
hospitals at Lumberton and Fay
etteville.
One morgue at Red Springs had
received so bodies by noon but no
Identification had been made. Mrs.
w. F. Barham. owner of the estab-
lishment. said other bodies we're ex-
pected. Southeastern Disaster Re-
lief headquarters of the American
Red Cross at Atlanta said so to 100
persons were killed and more than
100 injured.
An eyewitness said three coaches
Of the Florida bound Tamiami West
Coast Champion were derailed about
lilo a m. and about 40 minutes later
the speeding New York-bound
Tamiami East Coast Champion
slashed through the wreckage scat
tered over double track
Coaches Shattered.
ACL general headquarters in Will
mington said nine cars Of the north
bound train were derailed All cars
on both trains were of all-steel con-
struction. the office said.
Coaches were shattered like
match boxes" said the witness. Pub
Usher William Wood of the Small
Homes Guide Magazine, who was
en- route to Tampa, Fla.
A railroad spokesman at Rocky
Mount said about rs or more per-
sons were killed on the northbound
train and at least one killed on the
southbound streamliner.
Preholiday travellers. many Of
them soldiers headed home for
Christmas. crowded the coaches of
both trains.
Nurses Rushed to Scene.
The Red Gross went into action
swiftly, rushing nurses and aid to
the scene
Snow was falling and ternpera- =
lures were near zero The wreckaee
was so twisted acetylene torches had
to be used to remove both injured
and dead from the shattered
coaches. Merchants in nearby towns
stripped their stocks of blankets to
protect the survivors.
One of the trains departed from
New York at ll:45 am. yesterday
and the other left Miami at 8:45
am. yesterday. The wreck occurred
about l:50 an
c. G. Sibley of Wilmington. . vice
president of the line. said he be-
lieved the wreck was caused by a
broken rail.
Victims Given Plasma.
About so injured were admitted
to Highsmith Hospital II of them
civilians Blood plasna was given
some of those most seriously hurt.
The conductor of the northbound
train was quoted as saying that he
had $50 passengers in three coaches.
Dr. Fleming said both were long
trains, estimating each had at least
IS cars
The Rocky Mount office disclosed
the engineer on the northbound
train, No 8, was Frank Belknap and
that William Myers was the engi-
neer on southbound No. 81. Both
are from Rocky Mount.
Buie is a hamlet between Lum-
berton and Red Springs, about 27
miles south of Fayetteville.
Civilian defense and rrst-aid
workers were on hand before dawn
to aid in rescue work. Military per-
sonnel from installations nearby
also were helping in extricating the
dead and injured from the wreckage.
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Bulletin

President Roosevelt Here
President Roosevelt has
returned to the United
States, the White House
announced today.
Evening star., 1943-12-16

See WRECK. Page Alb
Evening star., 1943-12-16

'See WEATHER, Page abb
Evening star., 1943-12-16

(See CHURCHILL, page Alb
Evening star., 1943-12-16

'See SUBSIDIES, Page ABB
Evening star., 1943-12-16

(See BOCOCK, Page Alb
Evening star., 1943-12-16

(See RUSSIAN, Page Alb
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Weather Forecast

Not SO cold, lowest about 1s tonight.
Tomorrow fair with rising temperature.
Temperatures today-Highest, IS, at
1:30 pm; lowest, n, at 7:55 am. Yes.
terday-Highest, rs. at 1901 am: low
est, is, at Gas am.
Evening star., 1943-12-16

:
tSee PACIFIC, Page Alb
Evening star., 1943-12-16
Guide for Readers

An Associoted Press Newspop
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-02-04
Observers To Meet
In Rockville Feb. IL

Gov. O'Conor has. proclaimed
this week Of February 8
"ground observers" week in
tribute to Maryland's $4,000 air.
raid spotters--the eyes and the
ears of the army.
Mrs. Eddie Rickenbacker, wife
of the famous flyer, will inaug-
urate the observance at a meet
ing in Baltimore next Monday.
A meeting will be held in the
High School Gymnasium in
Rockville February II at
O'clock for all observers. The
general public is invited to at
end.
Maj. F. B. Fitzgerald, Of the
Maryland State Guard, and offic-
ers of the First Fighter Com
mand, U.S.A. Air Corps will be
the speakers. A sound film will
be shown to further acquaint
the public with the service.
Miss Mary I. Llewellyn, Of
Potomac is chief observer Of the
observation-disclosures Post, and a
sub-district director for the
county.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-02-04
Civic Groups Under
Pleasure Ban" Edict

The latest ruling on pleasure
driving includes civic groups and
other organizations devoted to the
welfare of the community but not
to the general war effort. Because
of this Interpretation the president
of the Montgomery County Civic
Federation, Joseph B. Matre, has
called off the meeting scheduled for
Monday evening.
The open meeting Of Charter
Board planned for Monday evening
in the High School in Gaithersburg
will be held however, julius p.
Stadler, County OPA director hav-
ing ruled that it comes under one
Of the exceptions.
Mr.. Stadler has expressed mis-
self as being impressed with the
cooperation of county motorists in
the pleasure driving ban as a
whole. According to Mr.. StadIer
only 20 cases have been reported in
the county, and no local hearings
have been set. The attorneys to
hear Montgomery County cases
have not yet been appointed.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1943-02-04
| Might Be WrOng--BUT
BY P. G. STROMBERG

both sides will go long way
toward the end. The German
people are beginning to realize
that in 1943 they are fighting
a defensive war for the first
time. They are being driven
back in Russia. Instead of
Rommel capturing Alexandria
and closing the Suez Canal to
the Allies, he has set retreat
ing pace which will likely stand
for all time. All French
Africa has been brought into
line against the Axis. Bomb
ings have become a daily diet
for various sections of Germany.
Once the aggressors are chased
from Africa the war will be
truly confined to Europe.
In this column have re-
ferred several times to the
position of Turkey. Now Tur-
key is again in the limelight.
What will be the final position
of that very highly respected
military nation? Where will
the United Nations strike at
the slender under
Germany belly Of Europe?"
via If it is through
Turkey :? Turkey the dis
lance to Germany
is greater but it must be re-
mennbered that among the
Bulgarians, Jugo Slavians,
Greeks and Rumanians will be
found many sympathizers.
Prime Minister Churchill's visit
to Turkey gives much hope to
people of the United Nations
At the same time it sends chills
down the spine of Hitler.
The war is the only subject
of consequence to our people
: today Regardless of restric-
tions and taxes the only way
ever to enjoy again the free
dom and ease Of living which is
our heritage is to devote our
selves completely toward the
war effort. There is no Amer
lean who cannot do something
even if that something is no
more than Gliding those who
constantly complain of ration
ing.
"The hotter the war the
sooner the peace" can well be
adopted as an individual slogan.