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Evening star., 1943-02-13
Simple Shoe Styles
To Be in Vogue for
1943 and Duration
WPB Puts Ceiling on
Women's Heels; Only 4
CoIors to Be Used
Py the Associated Press.

PN the Associated Press.
Shoes, now rationed, will be
simpler for both men and women
next year. and for the duration.
Women won't be able to replace
their high-heeled shoes or evening
slippers, and men can't buy any
more patent leather footwear.
The War Production Board YES
terday placed ceiling of 2Ss inches
on the height Of heels on women's
shoes, using size Abb as a standard:
in other words. larger sizes would
have slightly higher heels. WPB
also banned the manufacture of
footwear with leather :, overed plat
form Soles.
WPB's conservation order. de-
signed to save leather for military
use and to distribute the civilian
supply, also prohibited mapufacture
OF metal-spiked golf footwear for
either men or women.
Restricted to Four Colors.
Shoes henceforth will be restricted
, to four colors-black, white. army
rusSet and town brown This is in
tended to reduce the number OF
styles and thereby increase the
amount of footwear available in any
! standard size or style.
1t won't be until next fall that
the customers will notice WPB's or
der, because spring lines of shoes
already are in the manufacturing
process or are on their way to deal
ers. Most provisions Of the regula-
ton are effective Immediately, but
shoe factories which must change
their production processes have un-
til April 30 to comply.
Leather frills, fancy overlaps, orna-
mental tongues. bows and leather
laces on shoes were banned.
1943 Production Cut.
The production of civilian foot
ware for l943 will be approximately
Is per- cent less than the 194l out
put of AL 100000 pairs. WPB esti-
| mated The recent oe-rationing
order provided for three pairs yearly
for civilians.
Heavier leather was reserved for
work shoes, cowboys working boots
and high-topped, lined police shoes.
Except for those purposes, manufac-
turers may not use any cattle hide
upper leather gauging Al ounces or
over. This does not apply to calf
skins or kip skins
Two-color shoes fell under the
WPB ban some months ago How
ever. the new action permits pro-
duction of infants soft soled foot
wear in two colors If the shoes are
made only of fabric and white
leather.
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Russians Race to the Dnieper
Threatens New Nazi Disaster
Eliot Points Out That Soviet Seeks to DESTROY
Fighting Force Rather Than Capture Territory

ing movements which the Russians
have so far used with such strik
ing success
Light German Resistance.
But the very swiftness of the Rus
sian advance tells us that the Ger
mans are not fighting hard to hold
their key positions, and that at least
on some parts of the front a German
withdrawal is in progress 1t now
seems likely that this withdrawal is
intended to take the Germans back
behind the Dnieper. Had they in
tended to stand on their old winter
line, they would have made tough
er fight for Kursk and Belgorod.
The experience of Stalingrad has
taught the Germans that they can
not afford to maintain the enor-
mously lengthy lines of land COM
munication which the maintenance
Of large forces in South Russia en-
tails. A drastic shortening of those
lines, back within the area which
can be served by German standard -
gauge railways, is therefore indi-
Gated.
The question which remains un-
solved is the extent to which the
Russians can succeed in hustling
and hurrying the German with
drawal and how much they can bite
off, here and there, in great pieces.
Such a piece they have bitten off
and are grimly digesting now in the
Caucasus.
~ The constant Russian pressure on
flank and rear of the retiring Ger
mans is one factor. The racing
Russian army trying to get ahead of
them at the Dnieper is another. The
other Russian army hammering at
the gates of kharkov in order to
protect their comrades from German
counterattack through that city is
third.
These three Russian armies. or
rather groups Of armies, are oper-
ating together in one beautifully
designed .strategicsl effort. Even
the German military commentators
are beginning to admit truth now
so apparent to all the world: The
Russian high command knows how
to make war.
tCopyrlght, l943, by New YORK
Tribune, 1neb
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Patman Offers New Plan
To Pay Off Public Debt
Pv i,,e AssocIatrd Prs

Py jHe Associated Press.
Representative Patman. Demo
crat, Of Texas, proposed today that
the Government create the money it
needs for the war through issuance
Of non-interest on-negotiable Sc
curitieS 10 the Federal Reserve
Banks
He offered his plan to the House
Ways and Means Committee and
said il would pay of the national
debt in 40 years through savings in
interest. even if it should reach
100000 100000 before this war is
over"
Il am opposed Representative
Patman said TO the United States
Government, which possesses the
sovereign and exclusive privilege Of
creating money. paying private
bankers for the use Of its OVID
money
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Umstead Offered Post
As Dies Probe Counsel

Former Representative Umstead,
Democrat. OF North Carolina today
was offered The position of counsel
for the special subcommittee of the
House Appropriations Committee
appointed to sift the charges Of
Chairman Dies of the Un- American
Investigating Committee that there
are "crackpot bureaucrats' with
communist sympathies in Govern
ment service.
Mr.. Umstead served nearly four
terms in the House and resigned to
resume active law practice in Dur
ham, N c. Before entering Con-
gress he was prosecuting attorney
of the 10th North Carolina judicial
district.
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Funk Reported Predicting
Confiscaiion Of Capital

BY he Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM. Feb. l3.-Walther
Funk, German Minister OF Eco
nomics, was reported by the Swedish
press TO-DAY to have predicted con-
fiScation of German capital.
There will be new DEGREES by
which the State will be enabled
broadly to conhscate all capita
which cannot be changed into rea
value as result of war conditions,
Funk was quoted as telling a Stock
holm conference.
Funk also was said to have pre-
dicted taxes on all foodstuffs.
Funk'S decree forbidding specula =
tion on the German bourse, closing
the Berlin stock exchange on Sat
urdays and limiting trading to one
hour on other days became effective
today.
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Man Trained in Madrid Battle
Drove Nozis From StoIingrod
Gen. Rodimtsev Learned Street Fighting
As Copton With Spanish Republicans

largest tank in cramped city quar-
ters. The Soviet anti-tank rife is
adequate to deal with medium
tanks. particularly when it can fire
from the tanks or rear. 1t is Stall
ingrad's equivalent of don't shoot
till you see the whites of their eyes"
Tanks of Little Use.
The Soviet command relied very
little on tanks for the defense of
Stalingrad, partly because the great
offensives to the north were being
prepared, partly because they early
discovered that the craters left by
Nazi bombs made their adequate
use difficult.
The Germans themselves were
compelled largely to abandon tanks
OF any size within the city as a, re-
suit of the activity Of Nazi aviation.
Artillery played a much larger
role than armor. Guns up to TO-
mm,-so- called divisional artillery
followed the storm groups directly
into action often firing over open
sights. When hand -tto-hand COM
bats occurred after dark, the artil-
lerists used daylight for the system
attic destruction of Nazi strong
points of defense. ..-4
Heavy caliber Soviet guns and
mortars were left on the eastern
bank of the Volga for the entire
siege where they could hammer
the Nazis' rear relatively unham-
pered by .Nazi interference. The
river which caused so much heart
break and difficulty in other respects
was in this regard a great advan-
tage.
Telephone Lines Reliable.
Keeping in touch with the storm
groups operating in various sections
OF the city was another difficult
problem. Wide use was apparently
made of the open radio for staff
orders to anything smaller than a
division. 1t was also found that
telephone lines nearest to the front
were most reliable.
The opposing troops were so
closely locked together that Nazi
bombs and shells could not be
greatly used on the front lines for
fear of wiping out their own forces,
For the moment this type of fight
. ing seems to play a smaller role
/ The Soviet offensive is moving toe
rapidly, but when the Nazis decide
to make a last-ditch stand, simila,
70 that in Stalingrad. OF to under.
take new offensives, which the So
Wet command confidently expect!
they will do. it again will come t.
the fore.
When it does there will be thi
I important difference The Rec
Army now contains whole armie
trained in the worlds most aXactin!
postgraduate clinical course o
street f1ghting-Stalingrad. Th,
Nazi units best schooled in thi
I technique either have been wipec
out or imprisoned as a result o
| their experience.
| (Copyrisht' 1943 Chicago Daily News Inc
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Doirymen Ask Boost
In Frederick County
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
WINCHESTER Va Feb l3.-A
petition of Frederick County dairy
men for a 2-cent-per quart increase
IN the price of milk was in the
hands OF the Office Of Price Admin
istration TO-DAY The change would
make the retail charge Is cents.
Dairymen have claimed they were
losing money on present rates. Sew
ersl producers had quit business in
recent months,
Organization of the Frederick
County Dairymen'S Association has
been completed with the election of
Charles E. Staples as president.
A. B. Solenberger. vice president
H. B. Stine, secretary, and George
H. Eagle, jr, treasurer. The officers
will serve on a board Of directors
with M S. Snspp, M. w. Jones, jr.,
and Dennis Cole.
Evening star., 1943-02-13
U. 5. Sets Up Unit
In Mexico 10 Study
Import Needs There
Similar Groups Slated
To Be Placed in All
American Republics
ry the Associated Press.

ey the Associated Press.
A new system of determining i'm
port requirements Of the other
American republics in the countries
concerned is now being effected in
Mexico.
The system. involving a decen-
trali2ation OF authority. is wartime
measure set up by the Board of
Economic Warfare. the State De-
partment and the country concerned
to determine more efficiently the
needs of the countries desiring i'm
ports from the United States.
Under the plan. REV representa-
tives are now in Mexico working
with Mexican authorities and State
Department officials of the United
States Embassy in Mexico City
studying the import requirements of
Mexico that the United States can
supply.
According to the BEW desired i'm
ports can be more accurately deter
mined under the new plan. both
from the standpoint of the would be
importing country and the capacity
of the United States to meet the
need. Requirements are deter
mined after first hand study in the
locale of where they are to be used.
Formerly such requests were pre-
sented in Washington from the
country desiring imports and deci-
sions were more slowly arrived at
and less expertly than under the
new plan.
Mexico is the second country
where the plan has become ef-
fective. the first to receive such eco
nomic warfare representatives being
Brazil. where they went to work al
most month ago in cooperation
with Brazilian authorities
The plan is to be made effective
IN all countries having economic re-
lationS with the United States as
quickly as possible, BEW officials
said today. Its primary aim is to
assist the economic life of these
countries. determine their vital
wartime needs and see to it that the
United States flllS the requirements
as quickly as possible and to the
greatest degree that its resources
permit.
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Rickenbocker's Speech
Not Official, Says Army
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT, Feb. 13-R j. Thomas.
president Of the United Automobile
Workers CCIOl. said today he had
received a letter from Undersecre-
tary Cf War Robert P Patterson
stating that Capt Eddie Ricken-
backer spoke as an individual and
not as an Army officer" in his speech
in Detroit last month.
LABOR groups had criticized certain
statements by Capt Rickenbacker as
rejudiccG against unions. Mr.
Thomas said he had asked MI Pat
terson whether the World War ace
spoke with authority of the War
Department"
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Crockett Memorial Rites
Observed in Cairo

By tie Associated Press.
CAIRO. Feb 13-A memorial
service for Harry Crockett, Asso-
ciated Press war correspondent,
whose death in action with the
British Mediterranean feet was an
nounced last week, was conducted in
the American Mission here today by
1t. Col. Jack P. Morrison Of Louis
vile, Ky, an American Army chap
lain.
The service was attended by a
large group of fellow correspond
ents. American Minister Alexander
Kirk and by representatives of the
British and American forces and
/ the Minister Of States Office. Mr.
Crockett was buried at sea
Evening star., 1943-02-13
james FIinq Rites Today

WINCHESTER, Va. Feb. 13 (Spe-
cisD Methodist rites will be held
today for James l.. Fling, 90, re-
tired fruit grower and farmer, who
died Wednesday. Surviving are his
widow. one son, Harry S. Fling,
Anderson, w. Va. and two daugh-
ters, Mrs, George Craig, this city,
and Mrs. Roy M Good, Berryville,
and two sisters, Mrs. Florida
FeaganS, this city, and Mrs. Ella
Tyrrell, Washington. -
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Fire Call Is Sounded
100 Miles Away
By The AssocIated Press.

BY NE AsSocIaied PTeSs
PEORIA, Ill.-A fire department
Peoria apartment. He telephoned
the Peoria Fire Department. Fire
men hurried to the building. climbed
a ladder, forced open window and
turned off the iron.
ladder company broke into Dowell
klmmels apartment to prevent a
fire, not to eXtinguish one.
Mr.. Kimmel was visiting in Man
teno, 100 miles away, when he sud-
denly recalled he had forgotten to
turn of the electric iron in his
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Closing Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. Feb n r Buyins by =
broker 7jth mill connections save rye
prices q runGD OF a.myst cent in The
hnal minutes Of ,Fadu@ today. featuring
an otherwise ouI session wheat saeECd
was shown IN oats.
The uDturu. IN rye was supported oy a
tcsrcity OF cherln2s Some srsdcrs SO ID
srain hs@ improved At the STAR Of
,raanE lo4ay open interest III rye toi&led
pared with @S,564.Ooo bushels OF wheat
Whoa closed unclaimed 70 "a lower
May t9's-l 40. july 90 corn was
49, higher Nav 9Sbs Oats advanced
is-3F rye a~lnod as-7s ana there was no
trading IN soybcans
Evening star., 1943-02-13

ChicaE6 Cash Market
No wheat Corn. No . yellow, agl4-
J Qoi. No 3. aGie-l o0I4. No. 4. 81 "a
e., No 10. . .l,9i oIismpo!s sradne; 72..i
PIE grade, 81 No ! white. COL. No > 81
No. .. 5994. sample grade j;-jii. Bar
ley, mailing. Ss-l .O5 nominal. feed. r.
S4. nominal Field sc-d per hundred
weight, nominal timothy SIS 90: sl5Ike
u .oo-2b 90. fancy red top, 26-i5, red
sleyer, 20o0-25 90. sweet clover, i50-
Evening star., 1943-02-13

larceny; A. B. Burgess. Sunflower
County, life term for armed rob-
berry; Wilton Smith. Pontotoc
County, 25 years for robbery, and
Hubert Baker, Coahoma, four years
for bank robbery.
Evening star., 1943-02-13
Convicts

Continued From First Page
Evening star., 1943-02-13

Continued From First pagsD
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Jack & Heintz Employees
Send President $45,901
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, JAN 9.-Employes
of Jack g. Heintz, Inc, unorthodox
war plant where the usual is the
unusual, today sent President
Roosevelt an infantile paralysis
fund check for $45901-or $500
more than all Cuyahoga County
officially contributed in last years
drive
The company's president, William
S. Jack, said the check resulted
from a two-day campaign among
the employees, who are called "asso-
ciates," and that every worker gave
to the fund for the Warm Springs
Foundation.
The company has attracted Ma
tion-wide notice by giving "asso-
ciates" such things as free monthly
parties, sandwiches and coffee
while they work to music, dental
care, shoes, rubdowns and in some
cases vacation trips to Florida
There are no time clocks. Gifts
have included watches and in
surance policies and the 1912 Christ
mas bonus to the $500 employees
totaled $1.55O,000.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Rutledge May Be Appointed
ToSupreme Court Monday

Rutledge had been chosen, they
would not deny them.
II the President names the Ken
tucky-born jurist and former dean
Of the law schools at Washington
University at st. Louis and Iowa
State University, it. would be the
first appointment to the Supreme
Court from the Federal bench
among the vacancies filed by Mr..
Roosevelt.
Judge Rutledge is 48 years of age
and native of Cloverport, KY. He
studied at Maryville College in Ten
nessee, the University of Wisconsin
and the Indiana and Colorado Uni
versity Law Schools He has taught
at high schools in Bloomington and
Connersville, Ind; Albuquerque, N
Mex, and Boulder, Colo, and was
on the law school faculties at the
University Of Colorado, Washington
University of St. Louis and State
University of Iowa.
Judge Rutledge was appointed to
the appeals court in 1899. He has
served on the National Conference
of Commissioners on Uniform Laws
as a member both from Missouri
and from Iowa.
The present Supreme Court
vacancy resulted from James F.
Byrnes' resignation to become eco
nomic stabilization director.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
MurineGIud
in
Wrong End
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Jan. 9.-"Take us
back to the Solomon Islands,
we're freezing to death"
This was bantering comment from
a trainload of war wounded which
arrived today from San Francisco
On the train were 487 sailors and
marines wounded in the Southwest
Pacific.
The two who didn't like the chill
of the Northwest were Marine Pvts
Frank Sawchuck of Toledo and
Stanley Elliott of Oelwein, Iowa.
Pvt. Sawchuck, 10, was wounded
in the leg on Guadalcanal Island
November 4.
Pvt. Elliott, 18, likewise was
wounded on Guadalcanal, shot
through the hip on November 9.
Il dived into a hole but the end
of me stuck out" he explained. TITS
a good thing it wasn't the other
end
Few of those arriving appeared
to be badly hurt.
Explaining an empty sleeve, Ma
rine Corpl. Maurice Prom, 20, North
Grosvenordale, Conn, said he got
in front of" Japanese artillery
shell on Guadalcanal.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Earlier Story on Page AID


BY the Associated Press
Russia officially challenged
Germany today to tell the truth
about the disaster rapidly en-
veloping Adolf Hitler's invasion
armies, even as Soviet troops re-
captured more than 20 addi-
tional towns in their triumphant
sweep through the lower Don
River Valley and the Caucasus.
Despite the Soviet jibe, Hitler s
field headquarters still resorted to
generalities and gave the German
people no intimation that the Nazi
legions were suffering their worst
eetbacks of the war.
The Nazi communique pictured
German troops as repulsing Soviet
attacks in the major sectors-be-
tween the Caucasus and the Don,
near Stalingrad; and sin the Don
district t"-and inflicting extremely
heavy losses" in counterattacks.
The German high command fur
ther insisted that the stronghold of
Velikie Luki, 80 miles from the Lat
Wan frontier, which the Russians
claimed last week, was still being
"stubbornly defended against fierce
enemy attacks
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Russia Dores Nozis to Reveal
Truth About German Defeats
Soviet Charges Foe Hos Lied Again
To Hide Reverses From People

Soviet dispatches said Russian
armies were now closing in around
the great German base at Rostov,
key to the whole Nazi salient in the
Caucasus. The nearest column was
less than IS miles away.
Recalling Nazi reverses in the
1912 winter campaign, the Russian
high command declared:
Now the Red Army once more
is inf1icting powerful blows against
the German Fascist troops. driving
them back to the west. The same
as last year, the Hitlerites are NUT
tering again about shortening Of
the front line
Actually, the change is taking
place on the initiative of the Red
Army against the will of the Hit
lerite command and despite their
plans. 1t means that the
Germans really and truly are find
ing themselves in a tight corner"
The Soviet communique said Ger
many's leaders had concealed the
truth of the retreat from their peo-
pie and when it became no longer
possible to remain silent the Hit
lerite rulers decided to break their
silence. but in such a manner that
no one should understand any
thing.
They have again lied"
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Dr.. Carver's Assistant
To Take Over His Work
gy the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TUSKEGEE, Ala. Jan. 9.-Austin
w. Curtis, jr., for eight years assist
ant to the late George Washington
Carver, will succeed the noted COL
ored scientist at Tuskegee Institute.
President F. D. Patterson, who
made the announcement, said Mr..
Curtis, a graduate of Cornell Uni
versity In 1882, will become director
of the George Washington Carver
Foundation.
Plans for continuing the research
of the distinguished educator are
being made by Mr.. Curtis, whom DR..
Carver always referred to affection
ately as my baby. I"
Institute ofncials said Mr.. Curtis,
who formerly taught at the Agricul-
tuysl and Technical College, Green's
boro, N. c., was the only as
sistant Or. CarySr ever had-or ever
wanted.
Evening star., 1943-01-09
Axis Troops Routed
In Libya Desert by
Gen. LeC|erc' 'sArmv
Fighting French Toke
EI Gutrun and Bruch
In Drive Northwurd
Earlier Story on Page A-1.)

>GdAACA otVIy OH dSC h-A.)
LONDON, Jan. 9.-The Fight
ing French, announcing the
capture of two Axis outposts in
the desert of Southern Libya,
declared today that "the defeat
Of the enemy in the Fezzan is
becoming a rout."
Brig. Gen.. Jacques lie Clerc's
forces moving northward from equa-
torial Africa toward the Mediter-
ranean coast announced in success
sive communiques that they had
taken, first Ell Gatrun, in the Ma
Zurch region, and then Brach, $50
miles southeast of Tripoli. Brach
Is 180 miles north of Ell Gatrun.
They indicated that other Axis
strongholds also were on the verge
of capture. A late communique
from Gen LIE Clerc's headquarters,
in the Fezzan area of Southern
Libya, said:
The defeat of the enemy in the
Southern Fezzan is becoming
rout. Our advanced elements have
occupied Brach. Other enemy out
posts are encircled by our troops.
Operations continue"
The capture of Brach marked the
closest approach of the Fighting
French based at Lake Chad to a
junction with the British 9th Army
driving westward toward Tripoli
along the Mediterranean coast.
presumably, Gen. LIE Clerc's
forces have several strong ad-
vance columns, tanning toward
different objectives in the desert.
A caravan trail leads almost di-
rectly from Brach toward TripoliD
Evening star., 1943-01-09

If he says he has an appointment an
hour later with a doctor or dentist,
and that spending an hour in a
movie does not entail any greater
consumption of gas than if he pro-
ceeded direct from his home or
office to the doctor, he puts the
police on the spot. 1 personally
would not report it as violation
Nearby Suspects Reported.
Nearby Virginia and Maryland
motorists were included in the list
of numbers and names turned over
to OPA Offices.
questioning drivers observed break
ing traffic rules or whose automo-
bileS were parked last night near
night clubs, drive-in stands and
other amusement places.
Two autoists discovered with fe-
male companions in automobiles
which were standing in Capital
parks were said by park police to
have violated the OPA's pleasure
driving restrictions.
Most of the approximately so per-
sons whose names and license num-
bers were listed by the IS OPA in
spectors checking violations here
had parked their automobiles last
night near night clubs, a spokesman
for the District OPA office said.
All District residents reported as
suspected violators will be sent let
ters notifying them to appear before
the local Rationing Board for a
hearing early next week, the OPA
office said. Names of Maryland and
Virginia motorists probably will be
referred to rationing boards where
they live, it was declared.
Names Withheld,
The OPA and District and park
police all refused to make public the
names of the suspects. OPA Admin
istrator Leary said he did not believe
the names should be printed at this
stage"
No gas ration books were i'm.
pounded on the spot here for VIOLA
ton of the ban.
Punishment for violations of the
pleasure driving rules will rest
O.