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Evening star., 1943-08-26
Gasoline Stock Pile
In East UNCHANGED

Although the total petroleum sup
ply in the East increased from 345
percent of normal to 1868 percent
during the current week, the gaso-
line stock pile remained unchanged
Petroleum Administrator Ickes re-
ported today.
Mr.. Ickes said the gasoline situa-
ton is still plagued by local short
ages and warned that rations to
Eastern motorists should not be in
creased until drivers in the Middle
West and Southwest as we'll as those
on the Atlantic Seaboard reduced
their consumption.
AT no time have we failed to
provide the quantity of gasoline Ger
tilted to the rationing agency (OPA)
as available" Mr.. Ickes said, but
balanced condition can be obtain
ed only with outgo restricted to in
come and with a minimum allow
ance for working inventory"
The Petroleum Administrator
pointed out that motorists In the
East, Middle West, and Southwest
we're still using more gasoline than
was being allocated to those areas
| by PAW.
Evening star., 1943-08-26
$4,000 Gem Robbery
Is Reported Solved
Two Men Seized in Texos:
$50, 900 Worth Recovered
BY the Associated Press.

Director j. Edgar Hoover of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation said
today the arrest of two men in Tex
| as had resulted in the solution of
the theft OF $4,000 worth of jewelry
from woman identified as the di-
vorced wife of Persian prince.
The jewels were stolen from a
transcontinental airplane which was
grounded at Amarillo, Tex: No
vember %, 1912. Mr. Hoover said
$50OO0 Of the jewels had been re-
covered at Amarillo.
Complaints charging the two men
with theft from interstate shipment
have been filed with the United
States commissioner at Amarillo.
The FBI chief said one OF the men,
Kenneth McClune, pleaded guilty
and the other, Lewis Caudill.
pleaded innocent. The jewels were
en- route from Hollywood to New
York at the time of the theft.
The theft victim was identified by
a Justice Department spokesman as
Princess Farid of Morristown, N. j.,
divorced wife of Prince Farid Khan.
who is a relative of the Shah OF
Persia.
McClune was arrested by Anna
rillo police officers. Mr.. Hoover said,
and Caudill by FBI agents at Cam
yon, Tex. Mcclure was employed
at the Amarillo airport and Caudill
was a. mechanic and parachute
rigger.
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Capitol Park Hotel
To Be Service Center
U. S. TO Buy Property
Near Union Station

The Government will buy the
Capitol Park Hotel on Union Station
Plaza and operate it as center for
men and women in the services,
Baird Snyder, acting Federal Works
Administrator. said today.
Both officers and enlisted person.
mel will benefit from the sleeping
and eating accommodations of the
hotel, which will take the place of
the proposed structure for enlisted
men near the station. saving ma
terials and labor. When renovations
are completed, sleeping quarters will
be more than doubled.
Negotiations are being conducted
by Mr.. Snyder and w. E. Reynolds
commissioner of public buildings
Owners OF the hotel and the Fed
eral Works Agency are celebrating
over the price, which will be sub
mltted to District Court for ap-
proval. Recreation Services. Inc.
will operate the center for the Wal
Hospitality Committee of the Dis
trict OF Columbia.
This Is distinctly not a socia
center" Mr.. Snyder said today. III
will provide essential conveniences
10 enlisted personnel and officers
There will be provided at mini
mum cost sleeping facilities, restau.
rant, canteen, lounge, showers, tub.
for laundering and, if possible
washing machines and ironers."
An adjacent parking lot will con
tinue to operate as Government
project.
Evening star., 1943-08-26
America S Politicians
Convinced Roosevelt
Will Seek Reelection
A. P.'s Canvass Shows
Willkie, Dewey and
Bricker High in Favor
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-As the
Nations political diagnosticians
view the scene today, the 1914
campaign probably will present
President Roosevelt against any
one of three Republican poten-
tials in a race that will see home
front issues slightly favored
above war and postwar problems.
The Associated Press, in a ma
tional survey, asked State chairmen
of both Democratic and Republican
parties to give their ideas on the
issues which they thought would
dominate the 1914 campaign, to
name the probable candidates, and
to assay the possible influence of
letters from soldiers. Chairmen or
party leaders from As States were
heard from, 80 on the Democratic
side, AZ on the Republican.
Some chalrmen brushed off the
queries with comment that it is
too early to talk about the cam
palgn.
The dominant point developed is
the expectation on both sides that
Franklin D. Roosevelt will run for
a fourth term. Democratic leaders
in 80 States. Republicans in "a
States expect the President to head
his party's ticket again. No other
possibility received serious mention
although few Democrats condi-
toned their opinion on the war con-
tinuing through the campaign.
No such unanimity is evident on
the Republican side, although in the
minds of State chairmen, the nomi-
nation lies among three men, Wen
dell Willkie, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
of New York and Gov. John w
Bricker of Ohio.
Few Republican State chairmen
plump boldly for party leader
Half of the responses said it is too
soon to predict who will be named
fSee CAMPAIGN PAGE A-141
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Mats Defeat Browns,
81, in Opener; Lead,
II, in Nightcap
Spence Gets 10th Homer:
Eorly, Kompouris, Hayes,
McQuinn Hit Circuits

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 26. The
Washington Nationals were lead
ing the st. Louis Browns in the
second game of a double header
today at Sportsman's Park. The
Griffmen won the first game
9-7.
FIRST INNING.
WASHINGTON-Case singled to
center. Vernon singled to right,
sending Case to third. Powell
doubled to right scoring Case and
Vernon stopping at third. Spence
was hit by pitched ball. filling the
bases. Priddy hit into a double play
Hollingsworth to Ferrell to Nc
Quinn. Powell taking third and
Spence taking second. Robertson
fouled to McQuinn. One run.
ST. LOU1S-Clary fouled to Giu-
liani. Zarilla struck out. McQuinn
hit his tenth home run OF the season
onto the right field pavilion roof.
Laabs struck out. One run.
SECOND INNING.
WASHINGTON-Giulian was out
on grounder. McQuinn to Hol-
lingsworth, who covered first. Kam-
pouris hit home run onto the
right-field pavilion roof Candini
struck out. Case flied to Zarilla
One run.
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Heat Again Reaches 20;
Rains Forecast Toniqht

Showers promised late this after
noon by the Weather Bureau fore
caster failed to materialize but were
still expected tonight.
The official afternoon fore
cast predicted light showers this
evening and slightly cooler Friday
morning"
The showers, however, were not
expected to cool the parched city
nor to end the long drought that
has endured since early June. The
forecaster said the amount of rain
expected wouldn't make much diff
ference"
The temperature reached a peak
OF 80 degrees at $50 pm. today. and
receded to SO at O'Clock. The hu-
midity at its worst was 80 percent
early this morning, but compare
lively low temperatures and a slight
breeze camouflaged its oppressive
ness. 1t dropped to Al in the after
noon but the average person, feeling
the rise in tempera ture more keenlv
blamed his discomfort on the hu-
midity.
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Mountbatten
Flies Here for
Strategy Talks
New Allied Chief
In Asiu to Confer
With Admiral Kinq
By the Associated Press.


Vice Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten, newly appointed
Allied supreme commander in
Southeast Asia, arrived here at
2:46 pm. today and went i'm
mediately to a conference with
Admiral Ernest J. King, COM
mander in chief of the feet and
chief of naval operations.
Lord Mountbatten was met at the
National Airport by small group of
officers. The British group was
headed by Capt Humphrey D. Tolle-
meche of the Royal Navy, chief of
the Washington office of British
Combined Operations, the Com
mando unit headed by Lord Mount
batten, and by Maj r. A. F. Will
Hams, acting military attache at the
British Embassy.
Heading the American group was
Brig. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer, chief
OF the policy and strategy group,
operations division, War Department
General Staff.
Reported to Roosevelt.
Asked whether he expected to see
President Roosevelt during his visit
to Washington, Lord Mountbatten
replied:
I reported to him at the Citadel
Tin Quebec. I am reporting to the
Navy this afternoon and to the War
Department tomorrow"
An attempt to ask about plans for
the campaign he will lead against
Japan brought the smiling reply:
Sorry, can't discuss plans-you
didn't expect me to, anyhow, did
you?"
AS Lord Mountbatten's plane, a
DC-3 of the Army Air Transport
Command which brought him from
New York to Washington, rolled to
a stop at hangar, the admiral ap-
peared in the door. In immaculate
dress whites, he stood at the top of
the plane ladder, posing and smiling
Tor camersmen, but carrying on at
the same time low-voiced CONVEX
satlon with Capt. Tollemeche. who
STOOD waiting several feet away from
the plane
Later, after Lord Mountbatten had
been introduced to all the British
and American officers in the recen-
ton group, he posed again for
cameramen and mentioned his new
command and his qualification that
american and Chinese groups, as
well as British forces, would share
the Forthcoming operations against
the japanese in Burma.
I feel very honored to have been
appointed to the Southeast Asia
command Lord Mountbatten SAID
AS you know. 1t is an Allied
command and I am particularly
proud that there will be United
States forces and British forces
fighting side by side with our
Chinese allies until we have finally
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Government Emp|oye
Indicted as Nazi Soy
By Jury in New York
Colombian Questioned
Here Two Weeks Aoo
By FBI Agents
BY the Associated Press,

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-Rober-
to Lanas Vallecilla, 35, foreign
language translator for the Of
flee of the Co-ordinator of Inter-
American Affairs in Washington
was charged in Federal indict-
ment today with conspiracy to
commit espionage for the Ger
man Reich.
LanaS, a native of Colombia, said
at his arraignment before Judge
John C. Knox that he wanted to
plead guilty to the charge, but the
lurist refused to accept the plea.
Bruce Barton, advertising execu-
tive and former member of Con-
gress, headed the grand jury which
handed up the indictment. The in
dictment said the alleged conspir-
acy took place before the United
States entered the war, making 20
years Imprisonment the maximum
penalty on conviction, Federal Of
flcialS said.
Lanas has been employed by the
Government since February. 1912.
The indictment charged that all the
alleged acts of espionage took place
between September / 1910, and De-
cember 7, 194l, while Lanas was
living in a New York hotel. and
that the defendant entered into a
conspiracy with German agents at
Lisbon, Portugal, where he was a
student.
United States Attorney John B.
McNally informed the court Lanas
was questioned in Washington by
agents of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation two weeks ago, and at
that time signed a statement indi-
eating he had been paid more than
SO 900 by German agents.
Judge Knox expressed surprise a
Government agency would hire
Lanas without exhaustive inveStiga-
ton of his background, and asked:
DO they take any one who comes
along down there?"
Assistant United States ATTORNEY
John SOnnett told the court most of
the information it was charged
Lanas forwarded to German agents
was obtained from public sources.
Mr.. Sonnett said one communication
to Portugal contained information
on American airplane production
and was written in secret ink.
Evening star., 1943-08-26
u S. FLYERS WRECK Il A|RF|ELDS IN ITALY
Army Backs Generals Refusal
To Obey Court Writ in Hawaii
Officials Point Out
Need of Retuinino
Martial Law in Area
BY the Associated Press

bs lne ASSOCIATED treSE
Describing Hawaii's contro-
versy over the privilege OF a
writ of habeas corpus as "a tenn
pest in a teapot" Army officials
today said actions of 1t. Gen.
Robert c. Richardson, jr., COM
manding general of the Army's
Hawaiian Department, in refus-
ing to obey Federal judges writ
was in conformity with instruc-
tions issued him by the War De-
partment.
While not speaking formally
these officials gave three reasons
which they said supported Gen.
Richardson's actions:
l. That state of martial law,
declared after the Pearl Harbor
bombing, remained IN effect in Ha-
waii.
2. That under martial law the
privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus remained suspended.
3. That the Judge Advocate Cen
erals office of the War Department
believed Gen. Richardson was not
subject to the jurisdiction of a Fed
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Widow Asserts Ookes Changed
Will After Daughter Married
Lady Eunice Tells of Strained
Relations With De Moriqny
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NASSAU, Bahamas, Aug. 26.-
Her voice broken by sobs, Lady
Eunice Oakes testified today that
her slain husband, the multi
millionaire Sir Harry Oakes,
changed his will last February
because OF anger against Alfred
de Marigny, the son-in-law who
is accused of numbering him.
While both De Marigny and his
wife, Lady Oakes' eldest daughter
Nancy, sat near her in the magis-
trate's courtroom, the witness said
she discovered that Nancy had be-
Evening star., 1943-08-26
| Nationals Lose Cliff
By Attack of Mumps;
Johnson in Hospital

Third Baseman Harlond Cliff
today was lost to the Mats for
at least a week when he suf-
fered an attack Of mumps He
will be confined to his home
here until he RECEIVERS.
Manager Ossie Bluege of the
Mats announced Alex Kam-
pouris and Sherrard Robertson
will alternate at third base In
Cliffs absence.
Outfielder Bob johnson has
been transferred from the Mats
hotel here to the Jewish Hos
pital. Suffering with a severe
cold and throat infection, john
son today had 4 temperature
Of l03.
Evening star., 1943-08-26

come pregnant while she was re-
covering from a near-fatal illness in
Mexico. At the same time, Lady
Oakes continued, Nancy was suffer-
ing from severe mouth disease
which caused a serious infection.
The pregnancy had to be ter
minated because of the danger" she
added She just couldn't go
through with it."
Lady Oakes said she told Sir
Harry about the pregnancy.
Relations among Harry. Alfred
and myself were extremely strained,
uncomfortable and unpleasant" she
related, because I had given Alfred
tSee CAKES, Page A-14.)
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Red Army Continues
Advances, Checking
Nazi CounterbIows
Furthest Mark OF
Last Winter Passed
As Zenkov FuIIs
BULLETIN.

LONDON Up. - Russian
troops striking west of Khar-
kov into the Ukraine advanced
from two to three and one
half miles today and captured
several localities, Moscow an
nounced tonight. Southwest
Of Voroshilovgrad in the Do
nets Basin "our troops con-
Quoted engagements to i'm
prove their positions" said the
bulletin recorded by the So
Wet monitor. .
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 26.-Forging
steadily ahead on an ever-wid-
ening front, Red Army troops
today were beyond the high
water mark of their winter coun-
teroffensive after capturing
zenkov, IS miles northwest of
Kharkov.
A Soviet communioue, announc-
ing the fall of Zenkov and 60 nearby
villages, said savage German coun-
terattacks had failed to halt a Rus
sian surge toward the Dnieper River
bend as Red Army units streamed
through fallen Kharkov, pointing
toward Poltava and Lozovaya, rs
miles to the southwest and south,
respectively.
Russian forces on the Lower
Donets, meanwhile, were reported
to be widening a breach in the Ger
man lines southwest of Voroshilov-
grad and penetrating ever deeper
into the Donets Basin.
The German high command de-
clared 253 more Russian tanks had
been destroyed as the Red Army
suffered renewed big losses" The
Nazi communique, broadcast from
Berlin and recorded by the Asso-
ciated Press, said strong Russian
tank and artillery forces attacked
on a broad front west Of Moscow,
but were thrown back in hand-to-
hand f1ghting
Stressing reports on a theater
which official Russian communi-
cations have ignored, the German
bulletin again said that strong
Soviet attacks continued on the
Mus River front west of Rostov.
Capture of Lozovaya, strongly
fortified Nazi anchor, would sever
one of the Germans main railway
supply lines in the important Donets
area
The Germans were throwing
everything they had into the battle
for the strategic Dnieper bend, the
(See RUSSIAN PAGE A-5O
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Markets at q Glance

NEW YORK, Aug. .26 (P).-
Stocks steady; small gains pre-
vail. Bonds narrow, Child Co is
sues break wide open. Cotton
firmer: commission house and
trade buying.
CHICAGO. - Wheat advanced
3s-s4; tight feed situation. Rye
advanced 3. Ia: short-covering
in September. Hogs 10 cents
higher on all weights and sows;
top, sl505. Cattle. best steers
and yearlings strong to shade
higher; top, $3.50.
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Berlin Attacked
Third Straight
Night by Raj
Situation in Capital
After Monday Raid
Called Catastrophe

Sy the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 26.-British
Mosquito squadrons kept Berlin
under attack for the third con-
secutive night last night and
returning pilots said embers still
elowed in the wreckage caused
by Monday nights heavy RAF
assault, which a neutral source
reported reached catastrophe
proportions.
The Stockholm newspaper Snev-
ska Morgonbladet said in a dispatch
from Malmo, on the southern tip of
Sweden, that travellers from Ger
many reported that the west and
south sections of Berlin were the
worst hit, although most of the capi-
tai suffered some damage. The
situation was described as "catas-
trophic."
A Stockholm dispatch also said the
Templehof airdrome was smashed
badly and that the first bombs
dropped caused short circuit in the
airport's electric switchboard, turn
ing on all the lights at the field to
give the raiders an illuminated tar
get.
"a BIC broadcast recorded in
New York by CHS quoted the
London Times correspondent in
Stockholm as saying that 100000
evacuees from Berlin alone had
arrived in Poland in addition to
hundreds of thousands of others
from Hamburg. Most of the
Berlin schools were evacuated to
the Lodz and Pozen districts"
the correspondent said)
One Raider Missing.
An Air Ministry communioue said
one of last nights raiders was miss
ing. simultaneously with the new
stab at Berlin, other aircraft laid
mines In enemy waters, it was an
nounced.
A dispatch from the Berlin cor
respondent of Stockholm's Tidnin-
gen said every able bodied person
was modified for fire fighting and
rescue work.
Large-Sca Flight Unconfirmed.
Although German underground
station called Atlantic" had broad
cast report that $4,000 persons had
been made homeless In the Raj
raid, a reliable source said there was
no confirmation that any large scale
evacuation of the capital was under
way.
Similar reports were published
under Bern datelines in the Stock
holm newspapers NYA Dagligt Ale
handa and Aftontidningen which
said $4,000 might have been killed.
$4,000 wounded and 100000 made
homeless In Berlin. The stories
said however, the figures were per
haps exaggerated"
They said no part of the Reich
capital had escaped bombing, that
80 persons were killed when trapped
outside an air-raid shelter at Char
lottenburg and that foreign work
men trying to escape from Berlin
had clashed with police.
Gas Works and Yards Hit.
The Goteborg Handels Tidningen
In an undated story said fires COW
cred Berlin five minutes after the
(See RAIDS, Page A-14)
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Churchi||'s Broadcast,
Scheduled Sunday, DELAYED
Bv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 26.-Prime Min
lister Churchill'S scheduled Sunday
broadcast has been postponed and
tentatively reset for Tuesday.
The British Broadcasting Corp.
announced the postponement today.
Mr.. Churchill had been scheduled to
broadcast at l pm. Sunday. The
exact time of the postponed address
will be announced later, BIC said.
Evening star., 1943-08-26
.26 Axis Planes
Shot Down in
Surprise Raid
Many Others Blasted
On Ground; Heavy
Opposition Met

By the Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 26.--
Squadrons Of Lightning fighters
hedgehopped all the way across
Italy and shot up ground de-
lenses at Foggia yesterday, pre-
pairing the way for the all
American wrecking of the air
drome and 10 satellite fields by
three waves of Flying Fortresses
and Liberators.
The Lightnings were specially
equipped for the long distance run
to Foggia, southeast of Naples and
on the Adriatic side of the penin-
sula. Twenty-six enemy planes were
shot down in combat and in Al
lied sweeps over Southern Italy and
scores of others were knocked to
pieces on the ground. Fifteen Al
lied planes were missing,
The sweeping operation was de-
scribed officially as "one OF the most
successful surprise air attacks of
the war"
Paving the way for the assaults.
which were delivered from bases
In both Northwest Africa and the
Middle East, the Lightnings attacked
at tree-top level, knocking out
large proportion of the enen1y's
potential fighter strength At Fosgia
and at the nearby airdromes.
Railway Areas Marked.
Liberators from the Middle East
then roared In to smash at railway
areas and Fortresses from the
Northwest African Air Command
followed up to blast the enemy air.
fields with heavy bombs.
The Liberators alone were credited
officiany with shooting down seven
German Messerschmitt fighters. All
the Middle East raiders returned
safely to base, Cairo communioue
said.
Heavy fighter opposition was en-
countered by the attackers for the
AA oe tiAI1C III ItlIcc QdyS.
Going the whole distance at an
altitude of less than 100 feet, the
Lightning pilots said Italians alonV
| the route waved and cheered as
they passed.
The tree-top-level fight threw the
whole Foggia area into confusion.
outwitting Axis ground defenses and
snarling the enemy's detection ap-
paratus.
laramie Yards Attacked.
RAF and Canadian Wellinptons
followed the Foggia raids by smash
ing at the freight yards at Taranto
before dawn today. Rear runners
saw bursts and fires across the
targets at this important naval base
and railway control point despite
smoke screen which started drift
ing across the objectives.
Other RAF Halifaxes and Iibera-
| tors from the Middle East Tuesday
night attacked the railway yards at
Crotonne, on the Gulf of Taranto,
starting many fires and damaging a
chemical plant.
The Foggia raid marked the first
time in this theater that fighters
in such strength had flown so far
and at such low level.
The Lightnings arriving over
Foggia Airdrome found 1t we'll
stocked with parked aircraft, and
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Winont's Son Safe

LONDON, Aug 26 (PD-The 18th
United States Army Air Force
Bomber Command announced today
that 1t. John G. Winant, jr.. son of
the United States Ambassador to
Britain, had landed safely in North
Africa after turning back from a
Britain-bound shuttle bombing for
nation August "a.
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Grandi Reported in Lisbon
On Diplomatic Mission
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland. Aug. 26.-An
Italian frontier report to the Zurich
newspaper Die Tat said today that
a diplomatic mission headed by
Count Dino Grandi, former Italian
ambassador to Britain, had arrived
In Lisbon and that its aim was
believed to be armistice negotiations
with the Allies.
Evening star., 1943-08-26
Spence, EorIy Get Homers
As Nots Win First Game
By BURTON HAWKINS
Star Staff CORRESPONDENT

Star Staff Correspondent
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 26.-Stan Spence
and Jake Early smashed home runs
for the Nationals as they defeated
st. Louis, 81, here today in the first
game of double-header as Early
Wynn staggered to his 18th victory
of the season.
Wynn, clipped for home runs by
George McQuinn and Frankie Hayes,
owned a 95 lead entering the ninth
inning. but yielded two runs on
doubles. Dutch Leonard replaced
him on the mound and retired the
side.
FIRST INNING.
WASHINGTON-Case popped to
Gutteridge Gutteridge threw out
Vernon. Spence flied to Zarilla.
ST. LOUIS-Gutteridg singled to
center. Zarilla beat out nunt to-
(See BASEBALL, page A-141