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Evening star., 1943-01-30
Birthday Ball
Continued From First Page. !

Conrad Thibault led in the singing
of Aud Lang Syne."
Other stars introduced by Mr..
Jolson were Sir Cedric Hardwicke,
Roy Rogers, Lynn Bari, Geraldine
Fitzgerald, Robert Young, Janet
Blair, Loretta Young, Laraine Day,
Anita Louise, Roddy McDowall,
Bonita Granville, Bert Lytell, Den
mis- Morgan and Dean Murphy. 1t.
Lee Tracey, U. S. A., attended the
banquet as guest at Senator Con-
nally's taNe, and was introduced.
More Luminaries Today.
Expected to join this group today
are Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
Lawrence Tibbett, Jack Benny and
Mary Livingstone, and Fred Waring
and his entertainers
With police as escorts, the stars
put in a busy afternoon yesterday
visiting at Walter Reed Hospital
and National Naval Medical Gen.
ter, Bethesda, Md. AT each hos
pital they first appeared on the
auditorium stage, then hurriedly
td44C0 OF VIC vol lOQS MdIQS.
Most touching moment of the
afternoon came when several of the
stars visited sailor who recently
lost both of his legs as the result
OF action against the enemy Most
of the stars admitted they were
hard-pressed to find something to
say in the wards they visited, but
despaired because they could not
stay longer.
James Cagney was SO affected at
the Navy Hospital he later con-
fessed, that he drew a blank"
when he started to introduce Miss
Blair. He walked to the side of
the stage to be reminded of her
right name after only being able, he
said, to remember that her real
name is Lafferty.
Ask Cowboy for Horse.
The stars received considerable
applause and coed humor at both
hospitals. One serviceman asked
Film Cowboy Roy Rogers where
his horse was. Robert Young be-
came absorbed in watching sailor
weave belt under the supervision
OF a Red Cross Gray Lady.
Miss Day joshed the men by tell
Ing them she felt right at home,
having been nurse so long in the
Kildare series. Mr.. McDowall, who
was accompanied by his attractive
blond 15-year-old sister and his
mother, found Mcdowell at the
Naval Hospital, but hastened to
point out the "ell" spelling. All the
stars moved from bed to bed shak-
ing hands with the men and sign
ing autographs.
A nurse explained to Robert
Young that she had come down
from the operating room TO see
him. Two WAACS weren't content
until he signed his name inside
their hats. Loretta Young said she
had visited the hospitals before,
and knows many of the men.
Misses Presidents Mother.
To Dean Murphy, master mimic
OF actors and statesmen, this year. S
ball will be sad one because he
said he will miss the Presidents S
mother, Mrs Sara Roosevelt. He
recalled that his three other ap-
pearances here for birthday balls
were frightened by hearing the
Presidents mother say, Isn't my
son wonderful" She first asked
him to come to the balls, he said.
An estimated 1000 enlisted men
and war workers are expected to
contribute dimes to the Infantile
Paralysis Fund at USO dances
and parties here tonight. Affairs
will be held at USO clubs operated
by the YMCA, the YWCA, the Ma
tional Catholic Community Service
Jewish Welfare Board and the
Salvation Army.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
w. K. Grim, Contractor, Dies

WINCHESTER, Va, Jan. 80 tSpe-
ciaD Funeral services will be held
tomorrow for William Kepter Grim,
Ct, contractor, who died following a
stroke. Burial will be in Mount Heb
ron Cemetery. He was son of the
late Mrs. Rebecca Grim. He is sur
vived by his widow, Mrs. Icie Newlin
Grim.
Evening star., 1943-01-30

Don't fire till you see the whites
of their eyes. But you may buy
War bonds now.
Evening star., 1943-01-30

! Don't fire till you see the whites
of their eyes. But you may buy
War bonds now.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Russia

tCOntlnued FTOm F1rSt Page.I
ing the Red Army in the Middle
Don region.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
MADE ALLIED CHIEF in AFRICA
More Submarines Rove Atlantic
Now Than in June, Knox Says
U-Boot Remains Countys Most Serious
Menace, Navy Secretary Declares

as at present a combination of air
and surface patrols has ended the
difhculties in coastal waters at least
for the time being.
Secretary Knox did not say, and
there was no other information re-
garding the subject, whether sink
ings In the month of January were
approximately equal to, less than or
in excess of those of last June. The
Navy has constantly refused to give
any indication of the extent of losses.
The Navy chief said, as Secretary
of War Stimson previously has
stated. that there are fewer losses
now on the North Atlantic route to
Russia, but he supplied no reason
why this is true-whether it is due
to better defensive tactics or to a
change in German strategy.
The principal U-boat concentra-
tions are in the North Atlantic south
of Iceland, on the route to Britain,
Secretary Knox said, and a Sec
ondary concentration is along the
route to North Africa, although the
subs cannot operate too close to
Gibraltar because of sea-air patrols
from that bastion.
Sinkings are continuing of the
northern coast of South America and
of Brazil, Secretary Knox said, al
though much progress is being made
toward making that region consid-
erably safer.
Evening star., 1943-02-06

could attain under orders for full
speed ahead" cannot be disclosed
but many cruisers and some destroy
ers would be pushed to remain
alongside If her screws were turn
ing over at top speed.
Armament Is Heavy.
Her armament is the big point
of pride among both officers and
men.
Literally guns jut out from every
available foot of space on her broad
and long decks. Nine l6-inch guns
form the main battery capable of
throwing shells far beyond the
horizon. For secondary offense and
anti-aircraft work there are 10 tur-
rets mounting two 5-inch guns
each.
Above, beside. beneath those heavy
guns are literally scores of others
the deadly 4O-mm. Bofors, high
velocity rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns,
and machine guns of all types.
Mechanical devices simplify hr-
Evening star., 1943-02-06
"A Die. in. Collision
Of 7 Army Bombers
Planes Crosh in Woods
During Routine Flight
BY. the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GREENV1LLE, S. c., Feb. g.
Public, relations officials at the
Greenville Army Air Base an
nounced today that IA men were
killed in the crash of two Army
medium bombers on a farm IL
miles south of Newberry, S. c.,
late yesterday.
The victims included the crews of
the two bombers, which were flying
in formation on a routine training
fight from Tampa, Fla. Other
planes in the formation arrived at
their base safely. "
A board of officers was assigned to
investigate the crash which was be-
lieved caused when the two ma
chimes collided in midair. However,
officials here said they had not been
able to confirm the report that a
collision preceded the crash.
H. T. Long, Newberry policeman,
reported the planes crashed in a
pine woods on the farm of Hubert
(See BOMBERS. Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1943-02-06

BY the Associated Press. -
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.--An .lS-year-
old West Nyack IN. W girl pleaded
guilty yesterday to charge of inn
personating an ofncer in the Navy,
E. E.. Conroy, chief New York FBl
agent, said.
He identified her as Agnete Louise
Wilfred. former student at Dana
Hall, Wellesley. Mass. who told Mr..
Conroy she purchased the uniform
OF a naval lieutenant because she
told her parents she was in the Navy
and Il had to get the uniform ia
back up the story ~ -. -.
Mr.. Conroy said the girl explained
she obtained the uniform from a
Brooklyn department store by a
ruse. Bail of $500 which was set by
the United States commissioner
Office was put up by her father,
Thomas Wilfred, an artist.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
BY HAMILTON FARON,

ABOARD A NEW UNITED
STATES BATTLESHIP AT SEA
delayed, tP,--Shorn of her paint
and polish. rusted and rugged, one
Of the mightiest of United States
battleships pushed through surging
seas of the North Atlantic today in
battle practice before joining the
fleet.
She's beauty and she's tough,
agreed officers and men aboard the
massive and heavily armed battle
wagon which shortly will steam into
the war zones.
Slowly and steadily she nosed
through the heavy seas, keeping her
speed down to only a fraction of
what she could accomplish
I'VE have to match our speed to
those fellows said the executive
of1cer, pointing to accompanying
destroyers in the distance.
Just what speed this battleship
Evening star., 1943-02-06
BY the Associated Press.


There now are more German
submarines at sea than there
were even last June, when they
ran up their highest record of
merchant ship sinkings, Secre-
tary of the Navy Knox said to-
day, in declaring that the U-boat
remains this country's most Sc
riOus menace in the Atlantic.
Secretary Knox told press con-
ference there was mo question at
all but that Hitler is counting on
the submarine war In the Atlantic
for his major sea effort of the war"
Hitler is devoting all available
construction facilities to submarines,
Secretary Knox said, and is putting
more and more of the craft into
operation.
To Offset this threat, Secretary
Knox said, I'VE are straining every
effort to produce anti-submarine
craft"
You are all familiar with dis
cussion on priorities, he said. The
Navy is pressing for completion of
anti-submarine craft of all kinds"
/ Secretary Knox said that one of
the things that had to be kept in
mind about operations of the U-boats
last June was that there were still,
at that time, some U-boats operating
off the American East Coast, where
Evening star., 1943-02-06
| British Tribute
To Slain Nozis
| Stirs Parliament
the Associated Press.


LONDON, Feb. 6.-Parliament
prepared today to weigh human re-
sentiment against international law
as the question was raised whether
NaZi airmen killed while raiding
Britain should be buried with mill
tary honors.
A Laborite member served notice
of his intention TO ask Air Min
lister Archibald Sinclair whether he
was aware that the collins Of three
German flyers, brought down Janu-
ary IS, bore wreaths from the RAF
and were draped with swastika flags
for burial while service planes
circled overhead in salute.
The notice said that relatives of
the victims of the German air raids
felt a natural resentment.
A Conservative member, Capt
Harold H. Balfour, previously had
stated that the 1929 Geneva con-
vention stipulated that enemy dead
should be "honorably inferred" and
he said there was every reason to
believe that the Nazis accorded sim
ilar burial honors to British flyers
killed In raids over Germany.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Lute News
Bulletins
piend< for Rn;I Pn+ae

Ralph Budd, Midwest rail-
way executive, arguing for
continuation of last years rail
rate increases, told the Inter-
state Commerce Commission
today that If the industry
winds up in "a dilapidated
condition" after the war "the
specter Of Government inter-
venti0n may materialize."
Earlier Story on Page A-4D
Hovono Ship Blost Kills 3
HAVANA lP).-Gen. Manuel
Benitz, national police chief,
said today that three were
known to be dead after an ex-
plosi0n aboard a United States
cargo vessel at the Havana
docks. He said a preliminary
investigation indicated that
gasoline vapors had caused the
explosion. The name of the
ship was not revealed, nor the
names of those killed.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
ErroI Flynn Acquitted
After DeIiberationfor
Is Hours by Jurors
Courtroom in Uproor
As Verdict Is Given
In Girl Attuck Case
Py the Associated Press

| LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6.-Errol
Flynn was acquitted today of
three counts of statutory assault.
The jury Of nine women and
three men returned the verdict after
about Is hours of dehberation. The
movie star had been accused Of
intimacies with two teen-age girls
Paggy La Rue Satterlee, Is, and
Betty Hansen, II.
Flynn sat tensely, pudang cigar
ettes, during the half hour or so
between the Tins the Jury an
nounced It had reached q verdict
and when itsreturned to the court
room.
The verict was announced at 1l:19
am. An instant later the court per-
mitted reporters to leave the court
room.
Early Ballot 10 to 2.
| Thus ended a 20-day trial, one OF
the most dramatic in Los Angeles
recent history. in which the hand
some Aim star heard himself branded
as the seducer Of young women, and
defended as the victim Of circum-
stance.
The jury, which went out at Ills
am. yesterday, was reported to have
voted 10 to for acquittal on an
early ballot, and courtroom rumol
had 1t that that was the count when
they returned to their chambers al
20 am. today.
As two hours went by without sign
a decision had been reached, some
court attaches predicted a compro-
mise verdict might be returned.
The calm which Flynn had stead
fastly maintained during the long
ordeal deserted him at the last mo-
ment. He was sitting at the counse
table with Robert Ford of defense
counsel when the jury room buzzel
sounded twice, indicating verdic,
had been reached.
Tense Moment ut Verdict.
Flynn became visibly nervous nov
that the decision was at hand. HI
lighted one cigaret after another
rising from his chair and sitting
down again, and talking to Mr.. Ford
1t was tense moment when Mrs
Ruby Ann Anderson, jury foreman
walked over and handed the verdict
to Bailiff Fred Moxom. He gave il
to Superior Judge Leslie E. Still, who
Inspected it carefully, then handed il
to the court clerk to be read.
When the verdict Of acquittal or
the first count was read an uproa,
burst from the packed courtroom
and Judge Still raped sharply fol
order.
The two other verdicts were reac
in a deathly hush, as Flynn, hi.
counsel and spectators hung on thu
clerks every word.
When the acquittal verdict on the
third and final count was read. the
tall Flynn jumped from his chair
tSee' FLYNN, Page A-2J
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Germans Reeopture
Strategic Heiqht

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Feb 6 tR.-A
German counterattack sprung In the
face of weather so bad that aerial
activity over Tunasia virtually was
suspended has forced Allied troops
to relinquish their hold on the stra-
tegic height Of Djebel Mansour. 20
miles southwest of Pont du Fahs,
official disclosed today.
The British captured the height,
known as Hill 648, in an action re-
ported last Wednesday and until
yesterday, had resisted every Axis
effort to dislodge them.
The see-saw struggle for the hill,
six miles southeast Of the British
base of Bou Arada, is part of the
campaign being waged for vital
passes through the mountain range
running parallel with the Axis sup
ply line along the Tunisian coast.
"The Germans infiltrated our
positions on Djebel Mansour and
retook the height after small-scale
action" an Allied spokesman an
nounced.
(The German high command
reported In a broadcast COM
munique that German and Ital-
ian troops captured a dominate
ing height in Tunisia and held
(see AFRICA, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Hull Aide Describes
Italian Shoke-up as
Window Dressino

The Italian cabinet shake-up
was described by State Depart
ment officials today as a win
dow dressing move made by
Mussolini with the approval of
his German masters In an at
tempt to bolster faltering Ital-
ian morale.
A department spokesman
pointed out that italian spirits
were at a low ebb as a result OF
the loss Of Libya and the re-
peated destructive bombings OF
Italian cities.
The spokesman added that
no one was deceived by the re-
moval of Count Ciano from the
cabinet into thinking that this
would affect Italy's foreign re-
lations or tn any way remove
the stigma attached to Ciano
for his initiation and support
Of the policy Of collaboration
with Germany.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Guide for Readers
Flying Fortresses Down rs
Nuzis in Raid on Germany

The latest record by the American
bombers was regarded by observers
as impressive. In the sortie on Will
helmShaven the resistance encoun-
tered consisted OF only about Is
German fighters, and anti-aircraft
fire was weak and erratic.
In Wednesdays raid the fllers met
much heavier barrage. Returning
pilots said that the Germans put
into the air practically all the avail
able aircraft in the vicinity Of the
target area.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Five Named 10 Stiff
Charges Of Subversion
In Federal Agencies
President Establishes
New Unit to Work With
FBI on Complaints

HOUSE DENIES SALARY for
Treasury aide denounced by Dies.
Page Az
President Roosevelt today is
sued an executive order creating
a five-man interdepartmental
committee to coordinate the
handling Of complaints of sub
versive activity" on the part Of
Federal employees.
Those named on the committee
were Herbert E. CASTOR. Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury; Francis
C. Brown, solicitor of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp: Oscar L.
Chapman, Assistant Secretary Of In
terror: = Rudofph NJ Evans, nemBer
Of the Federal Reserve Board, and
John q. Cannon. jr. legal adviser
Of the Civil Service Commission.
Mr.. Roosevelt directed that the
committee shall serve as an ad-
visory and co-ordinating agency in
all matters pertaining to the investi-
cation and disposition Of complaints
Of subversive activity on the part
OF employees Of the executive branch
of the Federal Government" and
shall initiate such measures as are
best suited in its judgment to assure
fair and prompt disposition of COM
plants and to protect the interests
OF the Government OF the United
States"
Will Receive Reports.
The order specified that all Federal
Departments and agencies shall re-
fer complaints of subversive activ-
tiles against their employees to the
FBI for investigation, with the new
committee recommending "appropri-
ate policies to govern the investi-
cation OF such complaints.
The FBI's reports on investiga-
tlons will go to the committee which
then will advise the department
involved concerning the procedure
for determining action" on the
complaint.
The committee also was given
power to review any case In which
the disposition by the department
or agency involved did not appear
to meet sufficiently 1.-The require
ments of internal security"
May Recommend Action.
The committee also was author
lied to recommend to the Presi-
dent any special action considered
necessary "in exceptional cases"
during wartime.
1t was not Immediately clear ex-
actly what effect activity of the new
committee may have on work of the
House Committee on Un-American
Activities headed by Representative
Dies, Democrat, of Texas. 1t ap-
peared to set up machinery for han
ding any specific complaints brought
before the Justice Department as
result Of reports by the Dies COM
mittee. Ike.
The Dies group has published
l 100 names Of Government en-
ployes it accused of connections
With subversive organization. The
Justice Department last year re-
ported that of these cases it had
found only two persons whom their
superiors had seen fit to dismiss,
while reports from other sources
had resulted in retirement of "a.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
-Four Axis Ships
Sunk by British
Close to Tunisiu
b. the Associated Press,


LONDON, Feb. 6.-Three more
Axis supply ships and tanker have
been sunk and another supply ship
left in flames by British submarines
in the central Mediterranean, the
admiralty announced today
Both torpedoes and gunfire were
used in the series OF attacks, four
of which were reported made in an
area very. close inshore of the East
ern Tunisian coast" under the noses
of Axis shore batteries.
The Admiralty communiQue said
a British submarine had also sur
faced close inshore near Cotrone
on the sole" Of the Italian boot
and bombarded a railway bridge,
scoring many hits.
Shore batteries engaged the SUBJ
marine without success" the COM
munique said.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
Red Troops Threaten
EncircIement Of All
Lower Donets Area
Pace Surposses HitIer's
Punzer Divisions in
Summer Advance
Mar on Page A-4)
MAP on Page A-4.)
BY EDDY GILMORE,

Associated Press War CORRESPONDENT.
| MOSCOW, Feb. 6.-Red Arm,
troops. sweeping west and south
over the snow-packed ground o1
the Ukraine and the Donet.
Basin at pace surprising thai
of Hitler's panzer divisions in
their summer advance, were
smashing into German comulu-
nicationS routes and threaten
ing q vxst enciFcleaneaat Of the
entire lower Donets region to-
day, while south OF Rostov Soviet
troops were reported hammerine
hard on the heels of the retreat
ing Germans.
! Behind the armies of Col. Gen
Nikolai F. Vatutin spearing into thu
Ukraine and northward agains
Kursk, encircled German garrison,
were being mercilessly destroyed
Soviet communiques and dispatche!
from the front line said.
The capture of Izyum and Yams
provided the Russians with theil
third and fourth bridgeheads owe
the upper Donets River, the othe'
two being Kamensk and Proletarsk
Vatutin's highly mobile units wer
reported expanding their advantag
by swift dashes that in some place
carried them into the rear of tn
German lines, where they creates
1 -
wiping out garrisons in three town
IN one sector.
Reported in Rostov Suburbs.
Stockholm dispatches to Lon
don newspapers said. the Rus
slams had already pressed into
the suburbs Of Rostov. The Lon
don Telegraph stated a vanguard
was within 5 miles of the city
proper
(The German high command,
in communique broadcast from
Berlin and recorded by the Asso-
ciated Press, said that 'in the
region OF the Don estuary, on the
Donets and in the Oskol sector
the enemy continues his attacks"
German fighter bombers were
said to have sunk a 5,000-ton
Allied ship and set afire another
of 5000 tons in Arctic waters.)
Stain Congratulates Marshals.
Premier Joseph Stain summone
Marshals Gregory Zhukov and M.
Voronov and Col. Gen. CONSTANT
Rokossovcky to Moscow today an
gave them his personal cNngratula
tions for the execution of Ms order
at Stalingrad. where the Germa
9Th Army was liquidated.
Front line dispatches said tn
Germans were employing large mum
bers Of dive bombers and heavy Al
tillery insan unsuccessful attempt t
halt mass crossings by the Red Arm
over the ice of the upper Donet
River.
Soviet troops fought back under
hail Of shells and bombs. the re
ports said, and have added ne
bridgeheads to the four previousl
reported taken.
| A thrust southwark from Krasn
Z Liman had taken one column !
miles to Yama, on the souther
bank Of the Donets, and the colum
r was reported continuing directl
o into the strategic valley in a ma
= tSee RUSSIA. Page A-2b
Evening star., 1943-02-06
SidesSuffei
Moderate Loss
In Pacific Battle
Fighting Is Still in
Preliminary Stage,
Knox Insists
By the Associated Press.


Both japanese and American
air and surface forces have suf-
fered moderate" losses in the
developing new battle for the
Solomon Islands, Secretary Knox
reported today.
The Navy Secretary told press
conference that there was so far
nothing specific to indicate the ex-
act japanese objective in renewing
violent activity throughout the Solo
mons area, and he added that the
size OF the force the enemy might
eventually throw into the fight also
was not known.
The action is still 'in a prelim-
inary STAGE" Secretary Knox said
but the various activities now in
progress would ordinarily precede
an engagement of some size
The Secretary declared that the
losses included nothing significant,
nothing Of a major character" and,
while ne did not elaborate, this ap-
parently meant that no aircraft car
riers or battleships, and possibly no
heavy cruisers, had been sunk so far
as was known here.
Covers Pacific Actions. =.
.ANavy communique was issued at
the Secretary's conference, covering
action In 10th the North and South
Pacific, but throwing no further
light on the sea-air fighting in the
SolomOnS area. The communiuue
said that American troops had con-
tinued their advance along the north
west coast Of Guadalcanal Island
against weak enemy resistance. Some
patrols reached points mile and a
half past Tassafaronga, near the
UmasAni River, on Thursday.
That was an advance of about a
mile beyond the furthest point pre-
viously reported.
In the North Pacific, five enemy
noat-type planes bombed American
positions In the northwest Aleutian
Islands Thursday afternoon, but
caused no damage.
On Thursday night, Liberator
heavy bomheCg. Mitchell medium
bombers and fighter escorts attacked
japanese positions 1t Kiska Island.
Three Of Eve hoat-type zeros which
sought to intercept were shot down
and all United States planes re-
turned.
There were numerous desultory
actions In both the North and South
Pacific. In the Aleutians area Thurs
lSee PACIEIC parc A-0O