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bids fair not only to hold her seq
ment OF the ring. but even to strike
telling blows. From her untapped
manpower and her vast hinterlands
she will still be formidable In 1913.
Russia will suffer greatly on the
home front. But with the spirit of
nationalism reawakened, with the
furious hates against an enemy on
her own soil cruelty butchering her
people. she will keep fighting. But
she will need help in food, clothing
and arms.
Stoicism Of Chinese.
I have lived in China in years
gone by. 1t Is only in the last IS
years that she has developed a ma
tional spirit of independence. That
spirit has been fiercely infiamed by
the invasion of her soil and bar
barrie treatment of her people.
The living standards of the great
mass OF Chinese are always at bare
subsistence level. Famine is the
experience of every Chinese village.
At present she cannot be reached
with much-needed supplies of food
or arms. Yet she holds half Of her
hinterland from the Japanese.
When we try to assess China s
spirit we must remember that
Asiatic peoples are less sensitive to
death and more stole in misery than
the western people. The spiritual
strength OF their home front seems
strong, but every possible help must
be given to lessen her sufferings.
British Empire Intact.
For three years the British hav,
made magnificent defensive war
They have lost many battles on thu
military front. Yet, with a nucleu,
of 100000 white population, they
have held their empire Of a half &
billion people intact except fol
Burma, Malaga and the Chimes.
cities.
The battle OF Britain was tn,
greatest home -front battle of his
tory. They won by the creates
display OF organization, magnificen
courage and fortitude on the par
OF civilian population that ha!
ever been witnessed.
The people on the home front In
Britain are the great heroes Of thi
war. Despite air destruction they
have reached the highest point ir
their industrial production.
In military way the British Isle!
are now apparently safe from in,
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Fraternity 10 Hear Hero
OF Attack on So|omons

Col. Leroy P. Hunt, U. s. M c.,
who led the first wave Of attackers
of the American land offensive
against the Japanese in Gaudal-
canal. will be the guest speaker at a
dinner Of the Washington graduate
chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta
Fraternity to be given at the Hotel
Hamilton tonight.
Col. Hunt, famed for his message
to his command on the eve Of the
Solomon Islands attack-"Good luck,
God bless you, and to hell with
the Japs'-is an alumnus of the
University of California chapter.
During the first World War he
served In France with the 5th
Marines. Among his awards are the
Distinguished Service Cross, with
Oak Leaf cluster; the Navy Cross, the
Silver Star, the Purple Heart, the
French Legion of Honor, the French
Croix de Guerre, with two palms;
the French Fourragere, the Yangtze
Service Medal and the Victory
Medal
Reservations for the dinner are
being accepted by Cecil J. Wilkinson,
executive secretary of the fraternity,
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a sudden wave of melancholy that I
could almost feel physically. I
thought the old gal deserved better
than this.
Our raft plunged into a deep
trough and when we came up again
she was gone. I am glad I didn't see
her so.
Eight-Foot Swells.
Those S-foot swells hadn't looked
SO bad from 5000 feet. but down
among them they seemed like noun
tains. When We were down in a
! trough we were virtually alone, our
taut line disappearing into the heart
of the wave.
When we were on crest we could
lock down into the trough and see
our line attached to the other RATS.
The spray that was drenching us
was very annoying, and at that time
annoyance was our only reaction
We wanted the planes to hurry to
our rescue so We wouldn't have to
spend a night in these pesky RATS.
IN give 500 to the first man to
sight the ship or plane that rescues
us" Capt. Rickenbacker yelled
There was a cheer and the boys
really began searching the sky. Most
of us stared into the sun which was
setting like great crimson ball
Red sun at night, sailors delight"
some one quoted. But no planes flew
out of the west.
When the sun disappeared it was
almost as though an electric light
had been snapped off. so quickly did
the equatorial dusk descend. A fair
sized moon showed up and we could
see from one raft to another. FL
nally we gave up hope OF rescue
that night. We played a long shot
and fired off one of the flares,
watched it burn out in the sky,
then settled down to try for sleep.
In Capt. Rickenbacker' raft, Col.
Adamson doubled up crossways in
one end, while Rick and Bartek lay
fore and aft in the other. Rick kept
his arm around Bartek to prevent
him falling out, to save space and to
keep both of them warm In our
raft we started out with me in the
end, leaning against the seat; Capt.
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One Small Voice BY John Kieron
CompIoint Received; in Reply Would State:

that he was talking to Mr.. oS-and-
So "a notable person. yesterday
The point was flourished in old
minstrel shows. Mr.. Bones would
remark:
Mister Tambo, 1t might interest
YOU to know that I was talking to
the President Of the United States
yesterday"
Mr.. Tambo would roll his eyes
in awe and repeat in a solemn
voice:
ITO the President of the United
States! Mister Bones, what did
you say to the President of the
United States?"
II said, Shine, boss? Polish?''
Oaughter)
So the chit-chat with persons of
notable position, influence or talent
is not always of earth-shaking i'm
portance, the news of which must
be rushed to those who were not
there at the time.
well, whatever it was" insisted
the indignant subscriber, ut would
be better to tell it than to babble
along about butterflies and beech
trees and bird calls. You were with
Fred Allen in a restaurant. Mil
lions of people listen to Fred Allen
They would like to know what he
says and does of the air and
Baff1ed Bystander.
That clinched it! This baffled by
stander was being invited to reveal
things about Wendell Willkie and
Fred Allen! That was a CHASTITY in
suit to the intelligence OF these two
amiable and talented gentlemen
and snide slap at their diction, too
In speech and writing for two
years Mr.. Willkie has been telling
the world-or such part Of it as
would nsten-what he thinks on all
matters of importance to him or his
listeners or readers. For more years
than he cares to count Mr.. Allen has
been making a good living by ex-
posing himself to public gaze and by
sending his voice into millions OF
homes land very welcome it is. too
Anybody who doesn't know all
about Wendell Willkie and Fred
Allen-and what they think of mat
tiers of lasting or passing interest
is past all hope Of enlightenment in
that direction.
AS for "offstage" or "off the rec
ord" revelations by notables or sud-
den transformations in character
behind the scenes, this baffled by
stander never was close enough to
hear astonishing revelations iii
there were any and never noticed
any appalling Transformations in
character behind the scenes.
After talking to a large audience
in a great hall on the topic of help
for China, Wendell Willkie doesn't
retreat into small room and say
(perhaps over the walnuts and the
wine): "Of course, I don't give a
whoop about China. I just couldn't
think of anything else to say at the
time"
Nor does Fred Allen, after anus
ing the Nation by his happy sallies
on the air, rush out into the street
to snarl at acquaintance and push
old ladies under the wheels of rush.
ing motor trucks. After all, and or
the whole, this isn't q Nation Of
takers and few persons can make 9
living or maintain positions Of
prominence for any length of time
by putting up false fronts or playing
unnatural parts when in public view
(Released By the Bell Syndicate, rnc.)
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Five Hurt in DeruiIment
Of ACl StreumIiner
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WAYCROSS, Ca, Jan. 1.-THE
second section of the Champion,
crack streamliner running between
Miami and New York, was derailed
late yesterday one-half mile south
OF the Florida Georgia line, Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad officials re-
ported.
Five passengers we're brought here
and given first aid treatment at the
ACL Hospital. Attendants said their
injuries were minor and that ap-
parently none would require admit
lance to the hospital.
Twelve of the IA coaches left the
tracks, railway aides said Cause Of
the derailment could not be de-
termined Immediately.
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ers objected. saying 1t had an oral
understanding with the company
for renegotiation of a closed shop
agreement. The pact had not been
reduced to writing, it was argued
because of surrounding conditions,
including the necessity of waiting on
the War Labor Board for approval
OF a wage agreement.
The board, however, ordered the
election. saying:
Experience indicates that true
stability Of labor relations is not
attained until collective bargaining
agreements have been reduced to
writing and signed. We are of the
opinion that a collective bargaining
agreement that is not reduced to
writing and signed does not consti-
tute bar to holding an election"
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Woman Is Downfall of Nuzi Spy
Who Operated From Jail Cell

several British merchant cruisers.
Then he used invisible ink to
write his messages in an ordinary
school copy book which he tried to
get through to friends in Lourenco
Marques, Portuguese East Africa, for
relay to Berlin.
The book was found in the lug
gage Of q passenger on a train
bound for Lourenco Marques.
A girl from Durham was arrested
In the case and accused Of treach-
cry.
Other documents seized, Mr.. Law
renee said, carried instructions from
Germany to nationals interned here,
telling them not to attempt to es-
cape since ut would endanger ma
tionalist aspirations In Africa by
leading to the arrest Of leaders for
assisting escapes"
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Hecht Co. Puts Cost
Of 0PAC Compliance al
$4,000 a Year
$3.50 q Week Goes 49,
To StoH Employed
To Study Regulations

The Hecht Co. told District Court
today in opening arguments Of its
defense against ONCE of Price ADJ
ministration charges Of violating
price ceiling regulations that COM
pliance with the new law Is costing
the store about $4,000 a year either
directly or indirectly. -.
OF this total. 1888 q week. or APP
proximately s44, 100 a year, the store
said, is spent in salaries for a staff
of % persons employed especially
to attend to the Arms compliance
with price rules.
This information was given short
ly before Charles B. Dulcan, ST., one
Of the vice presidents of Hechts,
and L. G. Etelson, In charge of the
stores price-control office, were
called to the stand as the OPA'S
first witnesses to explain procedure
followed in the price regulation
compliance.
Made Big Effort TO Comply.
Counsel for the defendant firm
declared Hechts had made a re
markable" effort to comply with
what was termed "a difficult situa-
ton" and as fast as anything wrong
was discovered steps were taken to
correct it.
The court also was informed, that
while the store may have uninten-
tionally violated some of the regu-
lations by selling at prices beyond
the ceiling, it probably had sold
items during the period which OPA
charges the violations occurred at
less than the maximum.
Spencer Gordon, making the OPEN
ing arguments for the defendant.
charged that some Of the points
brought out by the Government
were incorrect, while others we're not
understandable and that all of the
firms efforts to have them explained
had been futile.
Regulation Not Understood.
"We have, been unable to find
what they mean" the counsel said,
land II they would tell us what they
mean we will comply with them"
He revealed also that even before
the OPA regulation was made pub
lie Hecht's had assigned one of its
employees to study its meaning, and
that the firm had suggested to the
Government that its store be used as
laboratory by which to govern
other retail firms. This was refused.
he said, but later. in a film prepared
by OPA to demonstrate proper COM
pliance with the law, some of the
pictures cited Hechts as an example.
He said the firms defense would
be based on no issue of the constitu-
tionality or on the validity Of the
regulations concerned.
Counsel for OPA said in it's OPEN
ing statement that the Government
would show beyond doubt that
Hecht's had failed to compile COM
plete lists of cost-of-living commod-
tiles required of 1t in the price reg
ulations and that it failed to post
properly the list in its store, thus
bringing IAN injury to the war effort
that Is irremediable
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Huneorions Aiding Nozis
Lose Their Citizenship
BY the Associated Press

by the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 1.-THE
newspaper Aftontidningen yesterday
said % 900 German nationals living
in Hungary had lost their Hungar-
ian citizenship because they joined
German armed forces.
The newspaper reported that In
answer to Germany's protests the
Hungarian government cited a law
under which Hungarians forfeit cit
izenship by joining any foreign
army.
The Germans were said to have
encouraged their nationals in Hun
gary to join German forces after
Hungary refused to send more Of
her own troops to the Russian front.
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BY the Associated Press.


CAPE TOWN, Union Of South AZ
RIGA, Jan. IA German spy made
his Cape Town Jail cell his head
quarters and was able to start back
to Germany from there valuable in
formation he gathered about the
movement of British merchant YES
sells, it was disclosed today. But a
woman figured in his downfall.
H. G. Lawrence, minister of the
interior. told the story. He did not
identify the prisoner or tell when
it happened.
The man was held in Cape Town
Jail while awaiting removal to a
South African internment camp. In
the jail. too, were some ships per-
sonnel-crimes unspecified.
From them, Mr.. Lawrence said,
the spy obtained the whereabouts
and description ''in great detail" Of
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as OF OLD TO de-
fend the soil of
Russia.
She still holds
fast, after the
loss OF probably
5000, 900 soldiers,
10, 900, 900 of her
population, with
a consider a b | e
part of her in
d u S t es and
food sources. It
is a magnificent
d e + e n Sc by a
people Of unlim-
tied cou n a 6 e.
And now he
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Lectures to Show
Film on Mexico

Natural color Aims depicting mar.
kets and silver workshops OF Mexican
cities, as we'll as the ancient Gus
toms Of mountain village f1estas and
religious ceremonies, will be pre-
sented to members of the National
Geographic Society tomorrow night.
The lecturers. Daniel and julie
Mannix, succeeded in filming the
rare cacomixle, as we'll as bear cubs
and anteaters. In palm-girded
West Coast bay, boatmen are shown
battling the giant ray. The film
also shows the American bald eagle
in quest of 10-pound iguanas, the
drawf dragons" of the Mexican hills.
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BY 1T. JAMES c. WHITAKER,
As Told to Charles Leavelle.

With sharks Sticking about among
our vulnerable rubber RATS, we took
stock of our situation. We were
eight men in three RATS, at least
200 miles probably more - from
land.
In the first of the two three-man
RATS was Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker,
whom we had been carrying on a
War Department mission; Col. Hans
Adamson, his military aide. and
Pvt. John Bartek, our engineer on
the plane. We had been forced
down, out of fuel, after a take-of
accident at Hickam Field, Honolu-
lu, damaged our octant. Its mac
curacies sent us far off our course.
In the second three-place raft
was Capt. William T. Cherry, pilot
and commander of the plane; STAFF
Sergt. James w. Reynolds, our ra-
dio operator, and myself.
The tublike, two-man boat was
shared by 1t. John F. De Angels,
our navigator. and Sergt. Alex
kaczmarzyk, who had been en- route
to rejoin his unit in the Southwest
Pacific after As days in the hos
pital with yellow jaundice.
Just few words now about those
RATS. The large ones, intended for
five men % were about by 7 feet
overall Inside they were about 21z
by 5i2 feet. In them three is a
crowd. The two-man raft, as the
designer calls it, actually is small for
one man. I don't want to say too
much against those craft, however
They stood up well.
Equipment on Rats.
The inflated sides of rubberized
canvas and the bottom were painted
a brilliant yellow to make them con-
splcuous against the sea. Our equip
ment included an air pump for the
RATS, two sheath knives, three Very
pistols with 10 flares-half Of which
were duds-a 45-caliber pistol and
sets of aluminium oars. Johnny De
Angels had some fishhooks and
line.
The only food, however, were four
dozen aenemic oranges. Our emer-
gency rations-chocolate and bis
cuit-had been in an aft compart-
ment whose door damned when our
plane struck the water. We decided
upon a ration of an eighth of an
orange per man per day and turned
the fruit over to Col. Adamson for
safe keeping.
1t had been 4:3O pm. Honolulu
time, october 81, when Bill Cherry
set our big Fortress into a trough
in masterful sea landing OF land
plane Never before, so far as I can
learn, had a four motored bomber
been put down at sea without many
casualties I feel we all owe our lives
to Capt. Cherry.
So perfect was the landing that
the Fortress stayed aAoat more than
six minutes. AS we drifted apart I
watched her calamity riding the
swells in all her war plumage. had
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vasion by land. German tanks will
never see Trafalgar Square. Her
industries are turning out proper
tionately more materials than ours.
Britain's greatest problem Is the
submarine. Her survival on the
home front depends on conveys of
materials and food from the United
States. II her civil population can
be protected from degree of priva-
ton which might undermine its
physical strength, they will fight
endlessly. There can be no question
Of their determined spirit.
Favored Position.
On our home front we are In a
more favored position than our
Allies in one great particular. The
airplane has rendered the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans wider instead
Of narrower. No effective sea at
tack against the Western Hem
isphere is now possible against ade-
quate land-based planes and our
Navy. We need have no fear that
enemy armies will march through
the United States in this war. If
we hold our outlying bases we do
not need to fear the destruction Of
systematic air attacks. While we
are disconnected, we do not need
fear being starved out by sub
marine blockade.
Our task on the home front is
different from that of any other
nation in the war. We must not
only raise large military forces,
equip them and transport them
overseas but we have an enor-
nous further burden. We must
furnish finance, food and NUM-
tions to the other United Nations.
We must do this in the face Of the
Axis submarine blockade and the
japanese conquests, which reduce
our normal supplies of many COM
modities from overseas. And we
must support our civil population
in such fashion that their physical
strength and spirit are not ex-
hausted.
If we are to perform these tasks
so as to get this war over with
out delay, we have no margins for
the waste OF plumbers or misman-
agement on our home front.
Production Our Job.
Our job Is production, produc-
ton and more production. And il
Is production Of planes, ships and
arms. and food right now, II the
United Nations are to aggressive.
ly tighten the rings around the
European and Asiatic Axis, and Il
We are to compel their continuing
internal degeneration by effective
attrition.
We could wish for better con
duct and organization of our civil
ian front.
Our fighting forces have availe,
themselves Of every experience
and every lesson from World War
in building their organization. Blu
these experiences and these lesson
have been largely ignored and evel
repudiated on our civilian front.
All nations in that war, Britain
France, the United States, an
even Germany-had to pioneer tn
way to total civilian organization
In the end, they all arrived at Ger
tain common principles of organi
zation. Our initial and continuing
mistake In this war was ignorin,
this experience and these principles
Only in the past few months ha
their validity been recognized ant
only yet partially adopted.
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Tomorrow Is Final Day
Get Rution Book No.

By the Associated Press
Tomorrow is the last day for OBJ
tanning war ration book No. l.
Calling attention to the deadline,
the Once OF Price Administrator
said war ration book No. 2, which
will be used for the point rationing
Of variety of commodities, would
be issued only to persons who hold
book No. l.
Book No. now Is used for sugar
and coffee.
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Voice; I'd call
it practically a
dead silence for
my money, I've
been b ilk e d.
yer m l n d
about the pri-
vate es OF
bees and but
terhies. w h a t
about the inter-
esting peopl e
y Wv e b e e n
meeting? Why
not tell what
they are like
ohstage and of
he re 20 r d?
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Pilots Who Located
| Rickenbucker Listed:
One Is Virginion
BY TIE Associated Press

BY tie Associated Press.
Navy pilots who located Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker and his
companions floating on a rub
Der raft in the Pacific were
identified by the Navy today as
Its. q. g. G. T. Forrest. Is,
Oakland, Calf. and J. G.. Boyd,
%. Richmond, Va.
Their sighting of the yellow
raft in which Capt. Ricken-
hacker and his companions had
floated for 81 days after being
forced down led directly to the
rescue November IL.
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- ~@~sFt
Barnhart. Charles
Jamison. Raymond L.
Miles, Bruce A.
Walker, William p.
jackson, Horace M.
Frederick, Bernard D
Marshall. Francis b
Simms. Napoleon L.
Anderson, Major
Coleman. David G.
Hunter, Douglass J.
Jordan. Willie F.
Goodall, Earl B.
Prysock, Cornelius
Webb, william G.
Davis. Paul l..
Smith. william L.
Carter. James w.
Marshall, Edwin r.
James. Sidney A.
Barrett, Gov. ;, jr.
Lewis, Frank r.
Campbell, Joseph N.
Coleman, Odell
Carson, William 3.
Cruise. James r.
Adams, William T.
Queen. Melvin McC.
Mitchell, John H.
Edwards. Vincent J.
Green. william NJ.
Blocker, Gus ,
Richards. Ben :.
Hall, Leroy j. r.
Harley. Ralph T.
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When Russia was invaded she
dropped the mental garments of
Communist internationalism and
took up the fighting armor Of ma
tionaltsm. The Russian people rose
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The tall gentleman was visibly
irked. He waved a copy Of news
paper about in threatening man
ner and said sharply:
Il wouldn't call that One Small
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Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senate:
Acts on appointments Of stand
Ing committees.
Interstate Commerce Subcommit-
tee hears Joseph Padway, AFL at
torney. on recorded music ban.
Special Defense Committee in
vestigates farm machinery supply.
House:
Routine session.
Appropriations subcommittee study
departmental needs.
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Coates. MILFORD w,
HYDE, Joseph N.
Frierson. Henry c.
Berry, Norris
Henderson, Joseph w.
Taylor, Grady @.
Blakely, Joseph w.
Greene, John A.
Taylor, Thomas N.
Mackall. Ernest M.
Wallace. Herbert w.
Coleman, John g.
Washington, c. w.
Lancaster, Jerry e.
Smith. B. r.. jr.
Morrison, John A.
Leverett. Jake v.
Stone, Clarence 8.
Brennan. James I.
Simpkins, Alfonso
Hawkins, Wilbert J.
Presley. Norman
Howard, John A.
Marshall. Lewis B.
Bolton. William L., jr.
Howell. Hopton
Simms, James
Stanley. Joseph p.
Lewis Napoleon B.
Burgess. James I.
Redihan, John c.
Glover. Johnnie B.
Brown, Sdwood r.
Collins, Melvin ?.