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Evening star., 1943-12-28

to continue to operate under their
present managements.
So far as the average train rider
is concerned, Government operation
of the railroads under presidential
order won't mean thing, an Army
official said here.
Tickets will be purchased in the
regular way and punched and taken
up by the regular conductors.
Unless the traveller happens to
notice copy of the presidential
order, which probably will be posted
in most stations, he won't know
there has been any change except
through reading the newspapers,
the official said.
And, he added, the usual scramble
for seats and the usual delays in
schedules probably will continue.
Evening star., 1943-12-28
Germans Report
Loss Of 0rtona,
Anchor
Forces Withdrawn
North of Ruined
Adriutic Port
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Dec. 2o.-The Ger
mans have evacuated the ruins
of Ortona," Adriatic port which
has been the scene of bloody
street fighting for more than a
week, the German communique
said today.
The communique was broadcast
by the NaZi DNB news agency.
Northern anchor of the German
winter front in Italy, Ortona was
set afire December IA by the Ger
mans, leading to speculation that
an enemy withdrawal was imminent.
The German Transocean News
Agency today said Nazi forces, op-
posed by greatly superior enemy
forces" had withdrawn to we'll
prepared positions Immediately
north of the city"
Evening star., 1943-12-28
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
An American destroyer was
sunk and a small coastal trans
port ship damaged by japanese
bombs in the landings Sunday at
Cape Gloucester on the western
tip of New Britain Island.
Secretary of the Navy Knox re-
ported at a news conference today
that both vessels went down, but
the Navy later announced that the
transport was only damaged.
The ships were not identified nor
was there any information as to the
number of casualties.
Mr. Knox said japanese claims.
broadcast by the Toxic radio. of
the sinking of two heavy cruisers
and two transports were "as fam
tastic as usual
From advanced Allied headquar-
ters IN New Guinea today came
reports that the marines, now using
Evening star., 1943-12-28
FEPC Turns Problem
Of Enforcing Orders
Over 10 President
Action Follows Decision
Of House Committee
To Initiate Inquiry
By the Associated Press.

Enforcement of Preside n t
RooSevelt's order against any
racial discrimination in war in
dustrieS was up to the Chief
Executive himself today.
The problem was turned over to
him by the Fair Employment Prac-
tlces Committee late yesterday after
a congressional committee moved to
investigate the agency's activities.
The FEPC, set up by the Presi-
dent under the Second War Powers
Act, certified IA Southeastern rail-
roads and seven railway labor unions
AS violators of presidential order
No. 9346 which forbids racial or re-
ligious discrimination against work
ers or job applicants by any firm
doing any work for the Govern
ment
Operators of the railroads in
volved were in effect removed from
the picture, however, by the Presi-
dents seizure of the entire railway
system in the current wage dispute
While the railroads are being op-
Grated by the Secretary of War any
decision by the President on en-
forcement of the nondiscriminaticn
order could be carried out lmme-
diatelv without concurrence Of the
railway managements.
Carriers, Unions United.
The FEPC's authority was openly
challenged December l3 when the
Southeastern railroads served notice
on FEPC that they intended to dis
regard its directive designed to carry
out the Presidents o-discr,mina-
ton edict.
Three of the seven railway unions
also have formally denied the FEPC
has powers to enforce the Presi-
cent S order.
Submission of the issue to the
President for further action has un-
usual political implications. South
ern members of Congress who op-
posed the administration soldier
vote and poll tax measures have
been outspokenly critical or FEPC,
while Northern colored organiza-
tlons, which carry considerable
voting power in several industrial
cities, have been urging FEPC to
take even stronger action to carry
out the Presidents order.
Organized labors right to draw
contracts with employers also is at
issue. The seven unions cited to the
President are accused by FEPC Of
writing clauses into operating con-
tracts with the railroads which dis
criminate against the job rights of
colored workers.
Ross Sees Challenge.
Malcolm Ross, FEPC chairman,
declared the railroads refusal to
obey the agency's directive consti-
tuted an open challenge to presi-
dental authority"
He declined to comment on an
investigation headed by Representa-
tive Smith, Democrat, of Virginia
Mr.. Smith said the inquiry was de-
cided on after his committee re-
ceived complaints from West Coast
shipyard workers and Southern
railways management that FEPC
had exceeded its authority.
The Smith committee took the
records in the case against the rail-
roads and the action involving the
boilermakers' union and five West
Coast shipyards, which were also
recently ordered by FEPC to end
allegedly discriminatory practices
affecting cOlOred emploves
Evening star., 1943-12-28
Allied Ship Reported
SkeIIed in Dodecunese

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec 28.-The German
news agency DNB said today that
an Allied Warship attempting to en-
ter Pegadi Harbor on Scarpanto
(Karpathos), Dodecanese island be-
tween Crete and Rhodes, on the
night of December 26. presumably to
land saboteurs, was spotted and
heavily shelled,
Evening star., 1943-12-28
Late Bulletin
York Among Ships
Sinkinq Schornhorst

LONDON R.-The British
battleship Duke of York and
a force of cruisers and de-
stroyers participated in the
naval battle which resulted in
the sinking of the German
battleship Scharnhorst, the
Admiralty announced to-
night.
Evening star., 1943-12-28
Nozi Flame Throwers
Turned on Canadians

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Al
gierS. Dec. % CP,.-The Germans
were reported today to have turned
fame throWers on Canadian 9th
Army troops, who were battling
their way at bayonet point through
the streets of Ortona, in a grinly
desperate defense of the Nazi COM
munications to Rome from the East.
Both Canadian and Indian troops
of the 9th Army took numerous
prisoners in the bitter fighting for
the port, city of 5000 situated IL
miles below Pescara.
Tighten Hold on Range.
Meanwhile, American troops Of
the 5th Army, with the capture OF
two more heights, tightened their
hold on the important Samucro
mountain range overlooking the
Germans strongly held San Vittore
backdoor to Casino and Rome.
On both the 5th and 9th Army
fronts intensive Allied patrol &C
tlvity was reported. American
patrol activity was reported. Amer
lcan patrols, completing the con-
solidation of their Samucro positions
mile and half east of San Wit
tore, were sent down the south
west slopes to find the village
strongly held by the Germans.
Southwest of Castel San Vincenzo
in the center of the Italian front,
force Ioca1 ho ttlac ,r-aro ,.op;,c For -
ridge called Catenella Degli Mai
nardi, while other Allied forces cap
tured a high point in the Monte
/ Marrone range.
Attack Important Height.
French Moroccan troops were at
tacking an important height TO
which the enemy is clinging tena-
ciously." an Allied communique said,
but did not identify the location Of
the hill.
Fighter activity over the 5th Army
front increased with slightly better
weather and fighter bomber blast
ed CiNtavecchia, northwest of Rome,
hitting shipping the railway yard
ana harbOr installations.
Medium bombers ranged far north
to attack viaducts at Rocco, and
Zoagli, south of Genoa, while other
bombers crossed the Adriatic to
bomb shipping near cara in Yugo-
slavia.
Rail targets were destroyed on the
Ancona-Pescara line and a factory
and railway yard bombed at Anagni.
The raids were accomplished with
out loss.
Evening star., 1943-12-28
1O1 Officers Assigned
To Southern Systems

ATLANTA, Dec. % lP,.-Assign-
ment of 10l Army officers to various
railroad headquarters in the seven
Southeastern States to assume con-
troll under President Roosevelt S
order seizing railroads was an
nounced today by Maj. Gen. William
Dryden, commanding officer of the
4th Service Command.
The officers were selected for
specialized knowledge of transpor-
tation affairs. Gen. Dryden issued
the assignments on instructions
from the War Department.
Evening star., 1943-12-28
Staff Studies Operation
OF Midwestern Lines

CHICAGO, Dec. % IP).-Army
supervision of railroads in the 9Th
Service Command was discussed to-
dav at staff meeting of the COM
mand after 78 Army officers had
been assigned to the Offices of 81
railroads in Illinois. Wisconsin and
Michigan under terms of President
Roosevelt's executive order.
The Army men will be on duty
only as observers. said Brig. Gen.
John F. Davis, commanding general
of the 9Th Service Command in the
absence of Maj. Gen. H. S. Aurand.
Evening star., 1943-12-28

LONDON. Dec. % lP,.-Admiral
Sir Frederic Fisher, 81, brother of
the late Admiral Lord Fisher, First
Sea Lord during the early months
of the World War, died December
%, it was announced today. Sir
Frederic was born in Ceylon and
served 40 years in the Royal Navy,
retiring in 1914.
Evening star., 1943-12-28
Stimson to Speak Tonioht

Secretary of War Stimson will
speak at 7 o'clock tonight in coast
forecast radio program to be carried
by the four major networks. Mr..
Stimson will discuss Army seizure
of the Nations railroads.
Evening star., 1943-12-28

See RAILROADS, Page A-4J
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Sir Frederic Fisher Dies

(See RUSSIA, Page AID
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tSee PACIFIC, Page A-10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
". & 0. D. Passenger
Service Hearing SET
Virginia Commission
Will Weigh Appeals

The Washington g. Old Dominion
Railroad has been ordered to appear
at hearing July rs before rep
resentative of the State Corporation
Commission in Leesburg concerning
the possible need for additional pas
senger service between Rosslyn and
Leesburg and between Leesburg and
Purcellville. according to an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch from Rich
mond.
The hearing will be conducted by
H. E. Ketner, special agent for the
commission, and the result will be
reviewed by the commission at a
meeting August II in Richmond
Complaints have been made to the
commission that the railroads pas
senger service between Rosslyn and
Leesburg is inadequate and that
there is no service at all between
Leesburg and Purcellville, the Asso-
ciated Press reported.
officials of the railroad said, how
ever, that they have not yet been
notified of the hearing nor have they
received any complaints recently
concerning inadequate passenger
service.
Authority to operate an additional
round, trip on Saturdays between
Leesburg and Rosslyn was granted
the railroad about three weeks ago
in order to meet the heavy passenger
loads on that day.
Prior to that the line withdrew a
petition asking permission to discon-
tinue existing passenger service be-
tween the two Virginia communities
after June 81, explaining that in
creased revenues warranted continu-
alton Of the service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
License Sought 10 Operate
Airport Near Lynchburg
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va. July 14.-Ap-
plication for license to own and
operate an airfield to be known as
Undertake Airport near Lynchburg
was filed here yesterday with the
State Corporation Commission by
the Lynchburg Air Transport and
Sales Corp.
The concern is seeking authority
to establish an airport in Bedford
County about 8 miles southwest Of
Lynchburg. but nc details Of the
project were revealed in the formal
application.
A hearing on the application was
set by the commission for August 3
in Richmond.
The Lynchburg Air Transport and
Sales Corp. was organized under
Virginia law in 1898 with a capital
stock of $4,000. OF this amount,
records of the Corporation Commits
sion reveal $1,000 was actually paid
in at the time the firm was in
corporated.
Woodrow w. Edmondson of Ar
cadia, Fla, was listed as president
of the company. with S. w. Camden,
jr.. also of Arcadia. as secretary
treasurer. A. D. White of Lynch
burg is vice president and Janice
Meeks of Lynchburg was listed in
the charter as assistant secretary
treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Gas Sale Suspended
At Arlington Station
OPA Bors Handling
For l5-Doy Period
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Opctldi DIeRdttL W lac SNd4-
RICHMOND, Va, July 14-Daniel
L. Bell, hearing commissioner for
the Atlanta OPA region, yesterday
entered an order against the Lenox
Service Station, 1925 Wilson boule-
ward, Arlington, prohibiting the sta
ton from handling gasoline for
six-month period. He directed,
however, that the order itself be
suspended except for 15-day period
beginning August /.
This means that from noon.
August l, until noon. August 16, the
station cannot handle gasoline. For
5I2 months after that the station
will be on probation, Commissioner
Bell said.
Action against the firm was taken
after a hearing in which the Rich
mond District OPA charged that on
May q the station was found to
have on hand total of Its gall
Ions and ration coupons for 1882
gallons, whereas the stations orig
inal inventory of coupons issued by
the rationing board was 1000 gall
Ions. Besides charging this short
age, the OPA said the station had
accepted two "A" coupons before
they were valid and had accepted
a quantity of other coupons which
had not been Endorsed properly.
Clyde F.. Lenox, who with his
father, owns the station, testified
that about year aga quantity Of
ration coupons, estimated to total
about $500 gallons, was stolen from
the station. He said no official re-
port had been made to police or to
the rationing board. Mr.. Lenox said
also that due to the rush Of business
when gas is available mistakes may
have been made in taking in
coupons.
Commissioner Bell said II Mr..
LenoX's explanation was accepted
as valid reason for the gas short
age at this station it would leave the
door wide open for violations, since
anybody could claim coupons had
been stolen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Alexandria Council
Delays Decision on
Rezoning Request
Members Will Inspect
Troet Of Proposed
Apartment Project

After a three-hour public hearing
on the request of Graham g. Ogden
to rezone a tract of land on the
north side of Duke street to permit
construction of an apartment devel-
opment, the Alexandria City Council
last night postponed action until
next Tuesday to allow an inspection
of the tract by members of the
Council, the city engineer and the
city attorney.
The request first was presented
two weeks ago to rezone the tract
containing Is acres bounded on the
east by w. l., Angels subdivision of
West End. on the west by the Ducan
and Chauncey property, and on the
north by Woodleigh. the property of
Mrs. Virginia Bullock Willis. and also
by the property of Judge Robinson
Moncure.
The Council chamber was filled to
overflowing by protesting property
owners who oppose the proposed
s5,00o000 project as detrimental to
the value of their property
Reginald Dyson and John Barton
Phillips, attorneys for Graham g.
Ogden, and Judge James R. Duncan
led the fight for the rezoning.
Spokesman for the opposition in
cluded representatives of the West
End Citizens Association, T. Brooke
Howard, local attorney who owns
property near the disputed tract, and
Charles Henry Smith, candidate for
the Democratic nomination for State
Senator, who spoke as a private in
dividual
The proponents of the rezoning
based their arguments on the hous-
ing shortage and on the basis that
high-claSs apartments would not
injure the neighborhood. Directing
property owners declared they had
purchased their homes with the I'M
Outstanding that the section would
remain A residential, and contended
further development of the area
would only aggravate the over
crowding of schools, shortage of
doctors, and the present unsatis-
factory garbage disposal system.
Because of the length of the argu-
ments, Council voted to act on the
remainder of the docket in a special
meeting tonight.
The ordinance to regulate taxicabs
also will be considered tonight, as
we'll as the question of permitting
shopping centers to be placed in
Cameron Valley and Chinquapin
Village for the convenience of Fort
Belvoir and Naval Torpedo Station
employees who live In those develop
ments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Sewer Link Contract
Is Authorized by
Falls Church Council
Business Tex Propose:
TobIed as Unnecessary;
Fire Ordinance Planned

The Falls Church Town Council,
proceeding with plans for construc-
ton of a new sewer line to connect
portion of the town system to the
Holmes Run watershed trunk line
sewer. now nearing completion, has
authorized Mayor NJ H. Haertel and
Town Attorney John A. K. Donovan
to enter into a contract with the
engineering firm of Massie & john
son. Fairfax, to supervise the con-
struction of the project.
The new line will replace a line
now being used by the town, ex-
tending to the corporation limits to
connect with the trunk sewer. The
old line is inadequate to service that
section of the town because Of addi-
tional dwellings being served. A Is
inch pipeline will be used.
A proposal at the last council
meeting for the adoption of an ordi
nance requiring tax assessment
on business establishments was
tabled. A report from Councilman
Walter Follin said the proposed tax
was unnecessary now.
AS result Of complaints that &C
cumulatio of trash in the town in
some sections was creating a fire
hazard the council named Council
man Fred c. Hess and Mr.. Donovan
to prepare a fire ordinance.
Mr. Donovan also was instructed
to make study of the present traf-
flc ordinance. and revise it, if nee
essary, to bring about enforcement
of the ban on parking on both sides
of streets in the business section.
Plans for an apartment project
on the Grundy tract, submitted by
William Orr, were approved tenta-
lively nv the council
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Police
Will Get Two-Way
Radio System
$2,N0-o-Yeor Saving
For County in Phone
Tolls Is Expected
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, July IA
modern two-way communication
system for the Montgomery County
Police Department was assured yes
terday, when the County Commits
sioners authorized a committee con-
sisting of Commissioners Lacy Shaw
and william H. Prescott and Capt.
Theodore F. Vollten Of the County
Detective Bureau. to purchase and
install a radio system similar to one
recently tested.
The board directed H. Leslie Car
lin, chief OF the County Police De-
partment, to place the maintenance
and operation of the system under
command of Capt. Guy L. Jones of
the county police force. Capt. Jones
was authorized to take any course
of instruction deemed advisable and
to obtain the license required.
Capt. Vollten said the proposed
system would save the county APP
proximately $4,000 annually in
telephone tolls. The cost OF installA-
ton was placed by Commissioner
Shaw at around $4,000.
To serve until the Montgomery
County Community Chest can find
an experienced person familiar with
social work to serve as secretary.
the board appointed Mrs. Madeline
Bennethun of Laytonsville as clerk
stenographer in the Office OF the
chest in the old courthouse in Rock
willie and specified that she be paid
$3.50 a month.
At the request Of Fred W. Truemm-
Ter, controller of the Montgomery
County Council of Civilian Defense,
the board authorized the employ
ment OF Arthur r. Cochel of Silver
Spring as part time craftsman to
expedite completion of civilian de-
tense drafting. He will succeed
Ralph E. Smith.
1t. Frank Lane Of the county De-
tective Bureau was granted leave of
absence for IA weeks to take the
National Police Academy course
given by the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation.
Mrs. Dorothy KurtZ. executive
secretary, submitted financial
statement of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Welfare Board for the year which
ended June 30. She delivered to
the board a check for s5,9869l,
representing unused funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Fairfax Dairy Groups Herds
Average 771.1 Lbs. of Milk

by B. F. Salisbury, which made an
average of 37Aj pounds of butterfat
and 1862 pounds of milk. Second
place went to the herd of c. T. Rice,
with an average of 1870 pounds of
butterfat and 808.5 pounds of milk.
The Ravensworth Farm herd took
third honors with 1916 pounds of
butterfat and 1882 pounds of milk.
Individual COW owners in associa-
ton No. / for butterfat production
went to a grade Guernsey owned by
Mason Smith, who produced 1879
pounds Of butterfat. A grade Hol-
stein owned by Mr.. Simpson topped
in milk production with 2,448
pounds.
A registered Holstein owned by
Ravensworth Farm topped associa-
ton No. 2 with a production Of 500
pounds Of butterfat and 2,055
pounds Of milk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14

Herds in Fairfax County Dairy
Herd Improvement Association No.
l made an average production of
IT'LL pounds of milk and 1927
pounds OF butterfat during June,
according to- the report of H. r.
Hawkins, official tester.
The herd Of Linn Simpson took
first honors with an average of 1898
pounds of butterfat and 1,034.l
pounds of milk, and the herd owned
by Marvin Perkins ranked second
with 1927 pounds of butterfat and
1888 pounds Of milk. Third place
went to the herd of Kenilworth
Farm, with an average of 1896
pounds of butterfat.
Average of association No. for
the month were 673.l pounds of
milk and asa pounds Of butterfat,
the high ranking herd being owned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Montgomery School Board
Studies Construction Bids
Special piIpatch to The Star

Special riipatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, July 14.-The
Montgomery County Board of Edu-
cation yesterday authorized a COM
mittee consisting of F.. K. Metzzer,
Julius B. Stadler and Arthur B.
Joseph. all members Of the board,
bids to be received tomorrow for con-
struction of additions to the South
Four Corners. Bradley Boulevard
and Westbrook Schools. The COM
mittee also will act on bids for con-
struction of an addition to the North
Four Corners School.
The board formally accepted the
offer of the Federal Government to
provide $4,000 under the Lanham
Act for the North Four Corners
project, bids for which will be opened
next Monday
Mrs. Albert E. Harriss was ap-
pointed trustee of the Glen Echo
Cabin John School in place of Mrs.
G. B. Randolph, resigned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Draft Faces MaryIanders
Is 10 25in War Plants
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July Al &C a
draft boards throughout Maryland
were instructed today Ito make
concerted drive to get single and
childless married men between 10
and Is out of war plants and into
uniform"
Col. Henry C. Stanwood, State d.
rector of selective service said that
unless such men were used at their
highest skill in particularly essen
tial job, present draft regulations
called for their being moved to re-
placement schedules.
The Maryland selective service
headquarters, Col. Stanwood said in
an interview, would make any loop
holes ina the ruling "darned small"
and he added that I'VE will try
to get the vast majority of 18-to-
25-year-olds out of war plants with
in the next six months"
He explained. at the same time,
that the recent directive granting
deferments to 18-and-19-year old
youths who were in the last half of
a school year so that they might
complete the year did not apply to
students now on summer vacations.
The ruling does apply to youths
taking summer courses, however, he
said.