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Evening star., 1943-11-07
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INSPIRATION. General Ulio, author of
the striking editorial on this page, is one
of many who derive deep satisfaction
these war days from the philosophy of
Abraham Lincoln. His article and the
unusual picture on our cover - the Wash
ington Monument, from the side portico
of the Lincoln Memorial - remind US of
a story of friend of ours who just got
back from long stay in Washington.
He reports that Lincoln has become
symbol of democracy and strength to him
and to lot of his friends Whenever he
thought his faith and courage needed
boost, he took trip out to the Lincoln
Memorial.
On his last morning in Washington,
he decided to 60 down and say good-by to
Lincoln He finally found one of the ever
scarcer cabs, hesitantly asked the driver
if he'd make the long trip to the Memorial.
The cabbe drawled: Shore III make the
trip. l haven't been down to see him yet
today myself"
MATHEMATICS. Ever since the Nazi
occupation of their country, Belgians have
been chalking 1913" on the walls of their
towns to signify faith in Forthcoming
Allied victory. Recently they found a
new way to use the same symbolic date
in showing defiance for the Germans.
They write next years date, 1914, with
this notation:
81 r r 49,"
LOVE NEST. Signal Corps experts say
that love helps make good homing
pigeon. The flying messengers are true to
Evening star., 1943-11-07

Recovering" Returned to duty" But
some must carry sad news: Wounded"
Missing" Killed in action"
The responses that come back are SIM
pie, human letters, most of them, but read
ing them l have been proud to be an
American soldier, proud to be part of an
army which has been raised at such
cost IN sacrifice and heartache. And have
been proud to spring from people who
without benefit of any Oriental fatalism,
or any theological fanaticism, or even
any false heroics, can give their loved
ones to their country, solemnly under
standing, even in grief, why it must be so
HE loss of our son brought great
load of sorrow to us, writes one father,
but we derive comfort in the conscious
ness that he died in the discharge of his
duty, and gave his life, as sacrifice, on
the Altar of Freedom
Over and over, that thought is ex-
pressed. Here again: 1--WE know that our
boy died knowing and believing that he
made the supreme sacrifice for the greatest
cause in this terribly upset world" Again:
I'VE are trying to comfort ourselves with
the thought that Edward gave up his life
for the sake of freedom for the world.
We know that he died a hero's DEATH"
And again - this one, by the way, from
a family with a Polish name: 1--WE are
sure that Theodore enacted the best of
American fighting traditions in the per-
formance of his duties as son of Amer
ica."
Sometimes it is between the lines that
you read the deep and loving understand
ing This, for instance, from the widow of
a chaplain, acknowledging some pictures
which had been forwarded to her: They
are very precious to me - the places
where my husband spent some of the last
days of his life know they were very full,
Evening star., 1943-11-07

beautiful days" This from a mother:
Il have received the Purple Heart medal
and the citation, and you can readily under
stand how much they mean to us all. l
would like to know if it is possible to OBJ
tain whatever other ribbons he was entitled
to wear" And this from the brother
of boy who lost his life in the South
Pacific: Eve are 50 grateful to you for ar
ranging way in which parcels addressed
to him may be given to his comrades"
Responses to the messages bearing good
news are, of course, less poignant reading
Il know | am one of the happiest of
wives. " 1--WE cannot express in words the
load lifted from our minds" But even in
these letters, you can read the resolute
spirit of America See it in this one: ITO
know that our son is recovering, we are
indeed grateful and happy. We pray for
this war to end soon, and pray for Gods
guidance tn all future operations in order
that ii may be so" No thought there of
bringing him back before the job is done
WHEN we report on the condition of
wounded men who are recovering in hos
pitals overseas, we enclose blanks on which
brief messages may be sent to the men,
by radio. Read this masterpiece of con-
densation: Relax recover reload retire
return. Dad"
Most of them, please God, will return.
Some will not return.
In November, 1864, Abraham Lincoln
wrote to mother: Il pray that our Heav-
emily Father may assuage the anguish of
your bereavement and leave you only the
cherished memory of the loved and lost,
and the solemn pride that must be yours
to have laid 50 costly sacrifice upon the
altar of freedom"
The solemn pride that must be
yours -.
He knew our kind of people.
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their mates, are always anxious to get
back home to them One trick used in
the Army: just as the pigeon is taken away
from home to 60 to work, her bosses let
her watch them put another bird in her
mates cage. She gets jealous, carries her
message home in a hurry. Love-sick
birds have been known to fly home Sc
per cent quicker than average speed for
the course
FAITHFUL. A friend of ours was on the
Hornet when she was fatally attacked in
the South Pacific The picture he remem-
bers most vividly: as men were clambering
down the sides of the stricken carrier into
the water and lifeboats, along came
sailor on his rubber raft - engrossed in
the Readers Digest
Evening star., 1943-11-07
HARRIS 4 RwING

p KNOW the stuff of which our Army is
made. l have been a soldier all my
d adult life. I have served in almost
every rank with American soldiers, lived
with them, fought with them. All my
memories are bound up with them -
men who are full of life and love and
laughter; men who face death because
they have 50 much to live for, and to
fight for.
AND now l know, better than l ever
knew before, the spirit that is behind our
soldiers - the love, and the pride, and
the resolute courage know it from let
ters that come from fathers and mothers,
brothers and sisters, sweethearts and
friends, acknowledging the messages which
it is my duty to send to 1.-The next of kin"
Many of the messages carry good news:
Evening star., 1943-11-07
Our KIND Or PEOPLE ~

Because 50 many letters come to him from
The next of kin" this writer knows the stuff
Americans are made Of. Ii will make you proud
by Major General James a. Ulio
Adjvtont General U.S. Army
Evening star., 1943-04-19
Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press.

Senate:
Routine business. r
Assistant Secretary of State Dean
Acheson explains plans for tnterna-
tional food conference to Foreign
Relations and Agriculture Com
mittees.
House:
Continues debate on Agriculture
Department supply bill.
Paste a War savings stamp In your
album-it will help paste the enemy.
Evening star., 1943-04-19

lowering weather front. The gas
supply allowed only the slightest
error and the nSvigators and pilots
as we'll as the entire crews had to be
''on the BALI in order to hit the
proper spot on the other side of the
Atlantic. Some did not find it and
ended their flights riding on a rub
ber dinghy in the middle of the
salty drink" But most of the lads
came through safely.
On nights like this it is amusing
to talk about the times we picked
up ice on wings and controls, ran
short of fuel, were caught in storms
or "sweated out" engine failures. We
chuckle when some one recalls that
a fellow flying the ocean in peace
time would be hailed as a national
hero, while our crossings 1--WE
couldn't wait for favorable weather.
usually wound up with a caustic
greeting from some irate major or
colonel. Peeved because we were
late.
One Lived With Natives.
One bombardier lieutenant, Don
Wilder of Savannah, Ca, plopped
down in the jungle on the African
mainland, lived with the natives
for two weeks and then hitch-hiked
1000 miles to report for duty at
Cairo.
Don is sitting here beside me. His
plane missed its destination, wind
Ing up in a crash landing on a
Jungle e-fringed Liberian beach. No
one was injured and soon a rescue
plane picked up all of the crew ex-
cept Don and an enlisted man, who
stayed with the plane in hopes of
ssalVaglng it. Eventually they had
to give up the attempt, but in the
two weeks they were there they were
really treated like kings.
The natives swarmed around the
plane and one came forward q am
now quoting DOM, to say: NASSAU,
is 20 my friend?" And Don, whose
Southern accent is something re-
markable, replied: Brother, I sho'
is 20 friend" 1t. Wilder was intro
duced to the village chieftain-
Jugba Sagwe was his name-and
learned to his utter amazement that
the old gentleman Che must have
been over 90), was a liberated slave
from Charleston, sc. Jugba spoke
kin dof pidgin English, similar to
that OF the "Gullahs" of the
Charleston area, language Don
can speak beautifully"
( Meet Missionary.
: The chief assigned 1t. Wilder a
servant who was Immediately
dubbed my man Sam" Then
Jugba arranged for the construction
OF palm leaf house for Wilder
and the enlisted man. It was built
in two days by 20 natives whom Don
paid ninepence day. The only
white man they met was Wiscon-
sin missionary referred to by the
Evening star., 1943-04-19
Dutch. Airmen Flying
us. Bombers Blast
Airdrome al Koepanq
Reconnaissance Plone
Attacks l0,000-Ton
Jap Merchantmen
By the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, April ia large
formation of Mitchell bombers.
piloted by Dutch flyers, attacked
Penfoel Airdrome at Koepang,
Dutch Timor, shortly after dark
last night.
1t was the major attack in a day
OF light air activity. but the noon
communique gave it only one SEN
tence:
Striking shortly after dark, our
medium units bombed Penfoei Air
drome, starting fires"
A Liberator bomber, on reconnais-
sance over New Ireland, bombed a
10,000-ton Japanese merchantmen
IN the harbor at Kavieng, but re-
suits were not observed. The Liber-
ator routed two Japanese fighters
which attempted to intercept.
On the way home the heavy, four
engined bomber shot down a twin
engined Japanese fighter over Vitiaz
Strait, scene of the last stages of
the convoy battle early In March in
which the japanese lost 10 warships
and IL transports.
Evening star., 1943-04-19

er has been placed. The frying pan
is the bottom of a gasoline tin and
the turning fork is paddle-like
piece of fiat aluminium airplane skin
metal with an engine wrench handle.
Boys in Jovial Mood.
The boys are in jovial mood, but
eventually the subject will turn to
what each will do when he arrives
home in the good old United States,
if I am a good guesser. In this
atmosphere I take out my old bat
tered portable that I have lugged
some 100000 miles.
To begin our story, let us say that
most of the lads flew overseas in
BITE Fortress bombers shortly
after the declaration Of war. We
went in all directions. One element
of our group which took the Pacific
route Il was not in this) reached
Pearl Harbor during the japanese
attack and was forced to land on a
golf course.
Our adjutant, Capt. Ralph Haus-
wirth of Oskaloosa, Iowa, reached
Australia by boat in December, 1941.
A large part of our squadron flew
overseas with the first contingent
of American warplanes to leave the
United States under a plan desig-
mated as Ferry Project X" This
was historical movement of heavy
bombers across the seas in wartime.
First Bombings From India.
Most of us gathered here now
took the southern route from South
America to Africa. We were headed
for Java, but it fell before we could
get there and our first bombing mis-
sions were performed from India.
Back in those days land it seems
like long time ago to us) a flight
of $4,000 miles was regarded as an
unusual feat, especially since the
route was only then being pioneered
and lay through hostile zones in
many cases.
1t wasn't snap either, to "fy the
pond" in the face of a constantly
Evening star., 1943-04-19
Squadron Member
1t. Kyle Returns to
Home in ArIinoton

1t. Paul j. Kyle, 2S-year -old
Army flyer, listed in a War De-
pal..nent announcement as a
member Of the American Bonn
bardment Squadron whose ac-
tivities are described in the ac-
companying article, has re-
turned to his home in Arling-
ton. Va.
He was decorated in North
Africa last January for "merito-
rious achievement" against the
enemy.
1t. Kyle is the son of the late
Maj. Paul M. Kyle, Army Med
ical Corps. His mother lives at
731 North Danville street in
Arlington.
Before joining the Army 1t.
Kyle was employed in the Treas
ury Department and the ONCE
of Emergency Management. He
attended George Washington
University.
Evening star., 1943-04-19
Impressive Passover
Ceremonies Start
Tonight al Willard
Armed Forces Receive
Particular Attention
Throughout D. c. Areu

The Passover celebration of WASH
ington Jewry will be opened at;7:30
o'clock tonight in the ballroom in
the Willard Hotel where more than
1000 civic leaders, men and women
of the armed forces and religious
notables will hold the traditional
ceremonial feast Of the Seder.
Hundreds OF servicemen will be
brought by bus, train and private
conveyance to the ceremony which
is being staged under auspices Of
the Jewish Welfare Board and the
Jewish War Veterans.
USO workers at the Jewish Com
munity Center have been designated
by the War and Navy Departments
to direct the observance Of the
Passover Seder feast and religious
rites in camps and stations in the
District area, according to an an
nouncement made today.
The Feast of the Passover marks
the highlight in Jewish religious
ritual. According to the Hebrew
calendar the ceremony begins at
sundown on the 14th day of the
month Nissan.
Other Services Listed.
In addition to the Willard Hotel
festival, services will be held at
Walter Reed Hospital, St. Eliza
beths Hospital and Beth Sholort
Synagogue, Eighth and Shepherd
streets NV. Many private homes
have arranged for the feast celebra-
ton and hundreds of servicemen
have been invited to them.
The Willard Hotel ceremony, how
ever, will hold the spotlight, for
there Chaplain Arye Lev Of the
Army Chief of Chaplain's Once will
off1ciate at services which will honor
the Jews of the world. Impressive
music will be sung by the audience
under the direction of Mordecai
Bauman. Honor guests will include
Deputy Chief of Chaplains George
F. Rixey and Mrs. Rixey, according
to the announcement.
At Walter Reed Hospital Chaplain
A. Winokur will lead the Passover
| Seder service for so patients. The
feast has been prepared for the
patients by Mrs. Mollie Horowitz.
Troops Abroad Remembered.
At st. Elizabeths Hospital 100
men will attend the banquet pre-
pared under the supervision of Mrs.
I. Cymes, Mrs. J. Keren and mem
bers of the Hebrew Sisters Aid Cir
Gle. Rabbi A. Glickman will ofi-
ciste. The fete is being arranged
by Henry Hotter.
Beth Sholom Synagogue will cele-
brate the feast and services under
TIE direction of Mrs. Henry Hirsch,
chairman of all USO committees at
the Sixteenth and @ streets club.
Tonight more than so war workers
will join in the celebration at the
synagogue.
Jews who are members of the
armed forces serving on the battle
fronts of the world have not been
forgotten. according to an an
nouncement by the Jewish Welfare
Board. The board has sent, with
the aid of the War Department,
more than 5000 pounds of matzoth.
the unleavened bread OF the Pass
over feast, and $4,000 haggadahs or
Passover ritual books to American
| theaters of war.
The Passover festival will con-
tinue from sundown tonight for
eight days. Formerly the rites were
! held for seven days.
Evening star., 1943-04-19
Chinese Survives 13O DAYS
Alone on Ruftin South Atlantic

Mr.. Noel Baker called the amazing
feat of endurance "the most incred-
ible experience in history"
The survivor was picked up by
coastal forces close to the South
American coast recently, indicating
his ship was sunk in late November
OF early December.
An American, Basil D. Izzi of
South Barre, Mass, and two Neither
landers lived through SO days on an
8-by- -10-foot raft in the South At
lantic late in 1912.
The Chinese became adept at
catching birds and fish and trapping
rain water on his precarious perch
after his emergency rations ran out
at the end of 50 days, Mr.. Noel
Baker said.
Evening star., 1943-04-19
Former Seaboard Airline
Chairman Dies in Florida
BY the Associated Press.

BY tbe Associated Press.
SEBRING, Fla. April 1s.-Robert
L. Mutt of Virginia Beach. Va. for
mer chairman of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Seaboard Airline Rail-
way, died last night at his winter
home here of a cerebral hemor-
rhage.
Until his retirement about Is
years ago he had been with the
Seaboard for almost 40 years, work.
ing up from a position as clerk in
the general managers Office in Ra-
leigh, N. c. He served as treasurer
and vice president for many years
before becoming chairman Of the
board. r-f-
He is survived by his widow and
a son. Robert L. Mutt, jr, of Nor
folk, Va.
Funeral services will be held at
the Sebring Presbyterian Church
tomorrow morning. Burial will be
at Richmond Wednesday.
Mexico City has appointed COM
mission to revise the names of its
streets,
Evening star., 1943-04-19
Nazis Try 10 Bolster
Hold on kuban Area
With Large Air Units
Repeated Counterottoeks
Against Soviet Drive
RepuIsed, Reds Soy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, April 19.-The Ger
mans are sstiffening their ground
forces in the Kuban- region of
the Caucasus with large air
units in an effort to hold their
positions against a Red Army
drive to push them into the
Black Sea, a dispatch to Pravda
said today after the Russians had
thrown back repeated German
counterattacks.
twenty-five enemy planes were
shot down and eight more crippled
Yesterday alone III air battles - in
this sector as crack Soviet pilots
thWarted enemy attempts to raid
the Red Army positions, Pravda
said.
Combined Attack Launched.
Enemy ground troops, concentrat-
ing their forces, launched a COM
bined attack on Soviet positions.
Two German infantry regiments,
supported by tank and air units,
hammered without success at Soviet
front lines, it was reported. Pravda
said the Germans often advanced
walking upright with fire from
Soviet heavy mortars and rifles
pouring into their ranks.
The midday communique said the
Germans launched fresh forces in
an attack, last night and succeeded
in breaking into the Soviet trenches,
but were repulsed after a fierce
engagement in which they suffered
heavy losses.
Rumanian troops also were en-
ployed in the Kuban fighting and
numerous hand-to-hand fights de-
veloped, but they ended invariably
in favor OF the Red Army, Pravda
said. On several sectors, it was
said, the Russian followed up frus-
trated German counterattacks and
succeeded in gaining improved
positions.
Reds Win Better Positions.
The midday communique said
there were no important changes
on the front. South of Izyum. on
the Donets River front about 10
miles southeast of Kharkov, the
Russians attacked during the night
and captured better positions on a
new line, the communique said.
Dispatches from the Leningrad
front said Soviet bombers and
Stormovik fighters attacked a large
enemy fighter base on the Leningrad
front and destroyed 19 enemy planes.
The fighter escort, it was said, ac-
counted for six German fighters,
while the bombers broke through to
the airdrome and dropped their
bombs.
The enemy base was reported to
have been completely wrecked. in
creasing the probability of mount
ing Soviet air activity in this region.
Evening star., 1943-04-19
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 19.-The story of
a Chinese who survived 100 days
alone on a life raft after his ship
was torpedoed-47 days longer than
men have ever been known before to
endure the rigors of a lifeboat or
raft-was disclosed yesterday by
P. j. Noel Baker, parliamentary sec
retary of the War Transport
Ministry.
The name of the Chinese was not
revealed in the brief mention of his
exploit which Mr.. Noel Baker made
in speech at Greenock, but British
sources said his ship was. sunk in.
the South Atlantic and he was now
IN South America, presumably in a
hospital
Evening star., 1943-04-19
OAR congress Asks
US. independence
In Postwar Union
Resolutions Set Forth
'Bosic Principles for
Peace Agreement
BY the Associated Press,

CINCINNATI, April 19.-The SD
Continental Congress of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution
went on record today as being "un-
alterably opposed" to any political
union of the United States with
other nations which would deprive
the Government of free and inde-
pendent action"
One of a series of resolutions
adopted likewise set forth these
basic principles" urged for incor-
poration in the postwar peace agree
ment:
/. Complete sovereignty for the
United States in determining the
strength of its military establish
ments on land. sea and air until
such time as international limitation
of armaments shall have become an
undisputed fact;
2. The right of this Nation to de-
termine Its own immigration policy;
3. The continuance of the present
poucy OF The united states IN re-
lation to Its territorial possessions;
and
T. No abridgement of constitu-
tional guarantees to the citizens Of
the United States.
Another resolution commended
efforts of Senate committee head
ed by Senator Connally, Democrat,
of Texas, to create an informed pub
lie opinion capable of sustaining
the enactment of a just and wise
foreign policy for the United States. u
Declaring the principal objective
of the American people to be the
winning of the war in the briefest
possible time, still another resolu-
ton condemned strikes, absentee
ism and selfish domination of boss
racketeers, and incompetence and
greed in political and industrial
groups"
Evening star., 1943-04-19
Pilot Tells How American Bomber Squadron
Fought Its Way Round World in Is Months

Here is the story OF an Amer
ican bombing squadron, ,DKiclt, in
rs months, fought all three men,
bers OF the Aris, from the Philip
pines to Tunisid. Capt RoWan
T. Thomas OF Boyle, Miss, a pilot
in the squadron, ,Drote the story
as letter home from Algeria
just before he and other MEM
bers OF the squadron returned to
the United States for their first
ledDes since Pearl Hdrbor, His
letter ,Diu be published in Jour
daily installments)
BY CAPT. ROWAN T. THOMAS.
SOMEWHERE IN ALGERIA (De-
layeO Dear folks:
The boys here have been asking
me six months to write this letter, as
1 am the only person in the squad
ron who has typewriter. Up to the
present I have given them nothing
but vague promises, but now they
insist that I begin Immediately on
that long delayed epistle telling you
Wnere We are ana what we have been
doing df we can please the censor)
Here goes!
1t Is sleeti2g on our pyramidal
tent with a pitter patter and I sup
pose it is, as usual. showing on the
nearby mountain peaks that sur
round the base. A bunch of the fel-
lows are gathered around our i'm
provised stove to shoot the bull''
for few hours before retiring to
their pup tents to bed down for the
chilly night.
Some of the fellows, not choosing
to sweat out" the chow line in the
inclement weather, prepare to cook
some food obtained in a nearby
French village. Their stove is an
old half-iron barrel in which a heat
Evening star., 1943-04-19
greater than crossing the South
Atlantic from Brazil to Africa,

p fTon1orroD Capt. RoWan's high
adventure story OF the round-
the-World American bombino
squadron continues, With more
on India and the air evacuation
OF refugees from Burma. From
India the squadron moveS on to
the Middle East, Where theu
helped to cripple Romn1el in the
great air battles associated 1Dith
Ell Alanein.)
Evening star., 1943-04-19
Jungle indians Buy Luxuries

AS a result of a rubber boom,
many Indian rubber gatherers in the
jungles of Ecuador have installed
monographs, music boxes and sew
ing machines in their huts.