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Evening star., 1943-05-22
Seventh Plane Knocked Down
BY Boy Ace From Virginia
1t. William }. Sloan of Richmond Is Both
Cold Killer and Sentimental Kid

back to rejoin the bombers. who
confirmed that the 88 crashed
Il was sure glad to get home"
Looks Like Schoolboy.
Dixie" Sloan. who still looks like
a schoolboy and talks broad Virgin
ian started knocking German fight
ers out OF the air almost as soon as
he got here and now talks about it
as part or a routine. Prior to the air
drome attack, he was credited with
four sure and two probable victories
in lone air combat.
His P-38 plane is named "Snooks," :"
after the bride he left behind in
Richmond to come overseas. And in
the cockpit hangs a l0-cent mon
key, to whose magic he attributes
much of his good luck because. he
says, "Snooks gave it to me before
left and told me to wear it for her
sake
| His previous victories have been
on bomber escort missions. The first
was on January 7. when, as laconi-
cally described by Sloan, Il knocked
down an ME-l09 with a little burst
of cannon and machine gun FIRE"
The next victory was on January
30. Il saw an ME on the tail of a
P-68 and gave him a medium burst
into the belly he says. Flames
came out of his belly and he rocked
over and spun to the ground
| Sentimental Killer.
Three DAYS later on ship raidine
mission over the Mediterranean. u
closed in on D-217.' he recalls
receiving fire from first the top gun
ner and then the belly gunner.
! sllenced the top gunner and swept
the canopy and top with bullets
The enemy craft caught on fire anc
| fell in the water.
"A few minutes later I returnec
/ to the dog fight and got on the tai
OF an ME-l09. After I put a few
shots into him, he reversed direc.
/ ton. offering a breast target My
fire raked his fuselage. which burs
into flames. His plane rolled ovel
on its back and spun into the water.
That is Dixie" Sloan. cold -bloodec
killer in the clouds and a sentimen.
/ tai, candy -munching kid in his tent
Evening star., 1943-05-22
Potatoes
Continued From First Page

lation of price ceilings by whole
salers.
Five other warrants were about
to be served on grocers here the dis
tricI attorneys Office said.
The six men were arrested last
night. shortly after the Commis-
sioners ordered the suspension of
Pvt. Joseph c. Reynolds of No. 1e
Engine Company as a result of an
investigation into the reported sale
Of potatoes from a truck parked in
front of the fire house.
Pvt Reynolds suspension came
following an investigation by Fire
Department officials Of reports that
a truck was selling potatoes above
ceiling price on Thursday night.
Suspension recommendation was
made by Fire Chief Stephen T. Por-
ter.
OPA Pledges Swift Action.
Arrest of the grocers followed
United States Attorney Edward M.
Currans pledge that his Office will
act swiftly in connection with all
black market cases presented him
by OPA authorities.
Warrants were drawn after John
L. Laskey. chief OPA attorney for
the local office, and Assistant United
States Attorneys Ray L. Jenkins and
John B. Diamond had heard COM
plants from persons reporting the
purchase of potatoes at the stores.
An OPA spokesman said the ar
rests last night presaged very
definite drive to combat black mar
ket operations of potatoes here.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Laskey has asked
the Commissioners to submit a re-
port on the Fire Departments in
vestigation, in order to find If OPA
should take any action against the
fireman
The Food Distribution Admins
tration reported potato supplies here
Evening star., 1943-05-22

sun very low Increased ship
ments next week, however. may i'm
prove the situation. it was said.
Evening star., 1943-05-22

BROKE UP CONCRETE DRIVE TO MAKE VICTORY GARDEN
Mrs Rves Webb, 1881 Park road NV husband an
OPA official had their sedge ham
mer to allow for Victory garden
made her garden Of the in the District
Their automobile, denied the garage.
Star
Evening star., 1943-05-22
New Food Product

"Banacongo.' vitamin- rich fooc
product, has been created in Bel
| gian Congo.
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Female Help Wanted

BEAUTY steady. to manage
shop; t25 guarantee and Commission.
must be sll-sround operator Savoy Beauty
salon, 1924 Essex. Lsnox pisi.
Evening star., 1943-09-27
FIato Pleads Guilty
To Jewe|ry Larceny
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-Paul E.
Flato, 43, jewelry designer who num-
bered screen stars and social world
luminaries among his clientele,
pleaded guilty today to one count
of a 1o-count indictment charging
him with grand larceny.
Flato was charged with pawning
jewelry, consigned to him by gem
dealers.
General Sessions Judge John A.
Mullen fixed November 10 for SEN
fencing, after I. T. Flato, the de-
signer's attorney, said that all the
jewelry involved, except one piece,
had been returned to the original
owners.
Assistant District Attorney Alfred
j. Scotti said the jewelry involved
was valued at $780, 900, and the only
piece missing now is valued at $780,
600. The jewelry was recovered
from pawn brokers who were paid
so per cent of the money advanced,
Mr.. Scotti said, adding that Flato
had agreed to repay the other so
per cent over five-year period.
Flato remained free in $500 bail.
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Legislators Criticize
Milk Subsidy P|an;
Policy Battle Seen
Aiken Asserts Proposal
Aims at Destruction of
Farmers independence

The Government plan to ex-
tend financial assistance to milk
producers in the form of a sub
sidy designed to check sagging
production drew criticism today
from members of Congress and
from Edward ONeal, president of
the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton.
Their reaction presaged an early
battle in Congress over the whole
policy of subsidies, inspired by ad-
ministration plans to spend more
than sl,000,O0O,OO0 in the next year
to keep food prices down.
Senator Aiken, Republican, of Ver-
mont asserted the milk subsidy, un-
der which the Government would
pay Is to so cents per 100 pounds to
producers to Offset increased feed
costs, was IAN attempt to break
the political independence of the
farmer"
Sees .Rationing Next.
This is an attempt to break the
political independence of the farmer,
by making every farmer who pro-
duces milk dependent upon a Gov
ernment subsidy check to stay in
business and feed his family" he
said.
ut means that milk will have to
be rationed because the subsidy plan
cannot keep production up. That
will make the city dweller have to
lSse SUBSIDIES. PAGE A-6l
Evening star., 1943-09-27
70 Flee Rooming House Fire;
Two Hurt in Drugstore Blaze

Two two-alarm fires, one of
which sent 20 scantily-clad ROOM
ers scurrying for safety from a
house at 2022 G street NV. at 8
am. today, and another in
which two flremen were injured
last night at the Peoples Drug
Store, Fourteenth street and Co.
lumbia road NV, caused heavy
damages before they were
brought under control.
The fire at the four-story room
ing house on G street started from
undetermined causes in the first
floor living room, and most of the
roomers, including servicemen and
Government workers, were forced
to climb down a rear second-story
fire escape and stand shivering in
the cool night air.
Eugene Smith. 10, a Marine who
lives at the house, was burned
Evening star., 1943-09-27
By MARION WADE DOYLE,

Mrs. Roosevelt came back from
her 25,000-mile trip to Australia
and New Zealand with a tre-
mendous admiration for those
kids" in the South Pacific.
Il take my hat off to the spirit
OF those kids" she said today at
her first press conference since her
return to the White House.
They look SO young when they're
working, but when you see them
fiat on their backs in a hospital. !"
she said, you say to yourself, Lord,
this is an old man"
Noticeably thinner, Mrs. Roosevelt
walked into the green room today
to meet the first group of men re-
porters ever admitted to her confer
ences since she started them 10
years ago.
Although men reporters question
her freely outside the White House
Evening star., 1943-09-27
District Lacks $24,7OO,OOO
As Bond Drive Reaches 74.3%
Purchases Here Through Saturday Reach
SIS, 900, 900; IT, S. Total Near Goal

Washington's effort to raise its
Third War Loan $94, 900 900 quota
neared the three-quarter mark
today as the campaign entered
it's final week. Sales here through
Saturday amounted to $69, ,900,-
600, or TAB per cent of the cam
paign goal.
AS thousands of volunteers strove
to raise the needed $24, ,100,0 900 the
national total today-"Victory Fleet
day"-stood at $13, 800, 900 900. With
only ST, ,700, ,000, 900 needed, the Treas
ury Department was expecting the
SIS ,000, 900 900 issue to be oversub-
scribed.
Sales to individuals here totaled
$18, 100000 or 37.4 per cent of the
$4,000, 900 goal in that category and
the drive was gathering momentum,
District War Finance Committee
spokesmen said. The total of Series
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Mrs. Roosevelt Admits Men
To Interview on Pacific TriD

Mrs. Roosevelt has maintained that
her conferences were for women.
She permitted men for this time
only, she stipulated, because my
trip was not purely of interest to
women and I have things to say
TO everybody"
The things the Presidents wife
had to say were mainly in praise
OF the uncomplaining courage and
ingenuity of American soldiers in
the theaters of war she had visited.
THE first thing the boys wanted
to know" she said was whether
there would be jobs for them when
they got home"
She always replied, she said. that
If civilians at home did their work
as we'll as the soldiers are perform
ing their tasks there would be Jobs
and security for the returning
soldiers.
Asked to comment on Gen. Mac
(see MRS. ROOSEVELT, Page A-e.)
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Yankees in Armed Forces
10 Share in Series Cash
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-The New
York Yankees voted today to split
up their part of the World Series
receipts into 80 full shares after
cutting off a slice or more than
$4,000 to distribute as cash bonuses
TO former Yankees now in the armed
forces and to playing members
of the organization.
At a clubhouse meeting before to-
DAY S game with Cleveland, the
players set aside $4,000 for cash
awards to persons other than play
ers. s3,5oo for the players in service
and an extra collection of $500 to be
given to three gatemen around the
clubhouse. In all Al persons will
share in the series spoils.
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Nazis Gave Up Victory
Hopes Months Ago,
McNarney Declares
German Concentration
On Building Fighter Planes
Is Indication, He Says
BY the Associated Press.


The German high command
abandoned hope of victory sew
eral months ago, and since then
has concentrated on an attempt
to stave off defeat and emerge
with what at best could be only
a stalemate, 1t. Gen. Joseph T.
McNarney, deputy chief of staff,
asserted today.
Addressing conference of indus
trial and labor leaders and news
paper editors and publishers called
by the War Department, Gen. Nc
Narney said the shift in German
hopes was disclosed when Germany
reduced drastieally its production of
bombers to concentrate on fighters.
This step, taken months ago."
Gen. McNarney said, was the first
visible evidence that Germany had
abandoned the offensive and was
seeking through defensive action
what at best could only be stale
mate"
Result of Air Offensive.
The air offensive against Germany
forced this result, Gen. McNarney
said, but he warned the group not
to let the success of the Allied
bomber offensive make them over
confident. 1t has been a powerful
factor in softening the enemy, he
said, but Allied losses in the ground
fighting, particularly of equipment.
have been heavy although "our
operations thus far have had rela-
lively easy going"
The war to date was divided by
Gen. McNarney into two phases, an
initial "plug-in-the- Line" effort that
forced worldwide deployment of
forces already stretched thin, fol-
lowed by a period in which the AL
lies took the offensive. We have
eliminated the enemy's outer de-
fenses and are holding the initiative,
Evening star., 1943-09-27

f small denomination sales was
$7,600, 900 or 25.3 per cent of quota.
The campaign received fresh
impetus over the week end when
membership in the Liberator Club
grew steadily. Businessmen, head
ed by Granville Guide, president of
the Washington Board OF Trade,
are seeking $50 men to buy 81 1000
Series-E bonds each, to pay for a
Liberator bomber.
All liquor stores here are to be
closed at O'Clock tonight to per-
NIT operators to attend bond
rally at $3.50 pm at the United
States Chamber of Commerce. A
high light will be the auctioning
Of a pair of japanese shoes found
on Attu Island.
The Metropolitan Police Band
will play and Sergt. Robert Waldrop,
U. S. A.. will serve as master of cere-
Icac yTyAD DONTDC 49, a
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Last Big Town
In Caucasus
Also Abandoned
Temryuk's Foil Brings
Soviets 20 Miles From
Tumun Peninsula TIP
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Sept. 27.-The Red
Army is fighting in an eastern
bank suburb of Dnepropetrovsk.
on the Dneiper River $50 miles
southeast of Kiev, and also has
captured Temryuk in the Cau-
casus, Moscow announced to-
night.
A Soviet communique recorded BY
the Soviet Monitor located the Dne-
propetrovsk fighting on the left. or
eastern bank, Of the Dneiper. The
big industrial city itself is lust
across the river on the western
bank.
The Soviet communique re-
corded by the Soviet monitor said
the fighting had swept into the
suburbs of Dnepropetrovsk, but 1t To-
Gated the battle as still on the east
ern or left bank of the broad Dnie.
per In that sector.
The Russians were reported fight
ing for bridgeheads across the
DnIeper at many points between
Dnepropetrovsk and Kiev, Ukraine
capital. Hundreds of towns and
villages were captured along the
river and its approaches, tonight's
bulletin said.
Nazis Admit Loss.
A Berlin broadcast already had
acknowledged the fall Of Temryuk.
saying 1t was abandoned Sunday
morning after military installations
were destroyed. The Russians now
are only 20 miles from the tip Of
the Taman peninsula opposite the
Crimea.
Terekhovka, only % miles SOUTH
east OF Gomel, rail junction in lower
White Russia, was captured by the
Red Army attacking westward above
Kiev, the communique said.
More than $50 villages were seized
in that drive and $50 fell to Red
Army columns which gained I'D TO
nine miles in the advance on
Mogilev, 110 miles north of Gomel,
it was said.
Nearly 300 localities were declared
seized on the Vitebsk front, where
another nine-mile gain was scored.
The glittering domes of Kiey.
ancient holy city of Russia, lay un-
der Soviet siege guns on the east
ern bank of the Dnieper with the
Polish frontier 100 miles beyond,
while at least a half-dozen other
key towns along the winding river
appeared ripe to fall into the
hands of the hard-driving Red
Army as Nazi resistance continued
to crumble.
An earlier Russian communioue
told of advances which brought So
Wet forces abreast of the Dnieper In
the vicinity Of Dnepropetrovsk,
industrial center at the EASTERN
most bend of the river; in the
Kremenchug sector 100 miles
northwest; to the south of
Pereyaslavl, 100 miles southeast of
Kiev, and in the Kiev area itself.
Admit Soviet Penetration.
These Russian claims were sub
stantiated by the Berlin radio in
broadcast recorded yesterday by
the Associated Press, which ad-
mitted that the Russians had PEN
(See RUSSIA, Page A-22.)
Evening star., 1943-09-27

slightly on one hand when he rushed
back in to make sure all the ROOM
ers had left.
Manager Discovers Fire.
Mrs. Mary E. Miller, manager of
the house, said she discovered the
fire when she heard flames crackl-
ing against the door of her second
story bedroom. Mrs. Miller rang
fire alarm in the house and one of
the roomers ran out in the street
and broke fire alarm box.
Flames. which destroyed all of
the furnishings in the first floor
living and dining room, were so
fierce only few persons were able
to leave the building by the front
door and no one was able to reach
the telephone. The fire did little
damage to the second story, but
with all windows gone on the first
floor, Mrs. Miller feared her roomers
(See FIRES, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Taft 10 Seek Vote
On Plan 10 EXEMPT
Fathers Over 80
Debate on Wheeler Bill
Expected to Stort in
Senute Tomorrow
BY the Associated Press.

With the Wheeler no-father
draft bill apparently headed
toward a committee pigeonhole,
Senator Taft, Republican, of
Ohio announced today he would
demand a showdown vote in the
Senate this week on substitute
proposal directing Selective Serv-
ice to take only family heads
under 80 years old.
Senator Taft told reporters that
no matter what happens to the
Wheeler bill-which would delay
the induction of pre-Pearl Harbor
fathers until after January 1-he
will seek to force action on his
measure. The substitute would per-
init the drafting of fathers to begin
on schedule Friday, but would limit
selections to younger married men.
There are about 100000 mar
ried men under 80 years old with
children and all of the 446, 900 faith
ers the Army and Navy say they
need to fill their quotas this year
could be obtained from that class"
Senator Taft declared.
Extra Burden Admitted.
His opinion was that if the
younger fathers were taken, it might
never be necessary to call family
men over 80 who, he contends, are
much more likely to have respon-
Evening star., 1943-09-27
REDS PUSH INTO DNEPROPETROVSK SUBURBS
Army-Novy Officers Sojourn
Here Limited Under Bill Rider
Three Requirements Set Up for Federal
Workers to Be Deferred From Draft

Restrictions would be placed on
the assignment of Army and
Navy officers to duty in Wash
ington and vicinity under an
amendment Senators Bailey of
North Carolina andsClark of Mis-
souri,, Democrats, will offer to
the Wheeler bill to prevent
drafting of prewar fathers.
The Bailey CLARK amendment,
text of which was made public this
afternoon, seeks also to keep men
between 18 and 38 from remaining
in civilian Government jobs unless
they meet one of three require
ments, namely:
/. Unless they were married be-
fore December s, 1941, and have
one or more children under 18.
2. Or are deferred from military
service on physical grounds.
Evening star., 1943-09-27
0PA Official RESIGNS
Amid Reports Of Clash
On Restaurant Prices
Head Of Cufe Brunch
Sought ForcefuI Action
To Drive Down Charges
By JAMES Y. NEWTON.

Samuel G. Weinberg, chief of
the Office of Price Administra-
tion's restaurant branch, re-
signed today amid reports that
he took the action in protest
against the absence of a forceful
effort on the part of top officials
to roll back high restaurant
prices.
The program to bring restaurant
prices in line has been stymied for
weeks, IL was said, authofitatively,
by provision of the Taft antigrade
labelling amendment, and refusal of
the Budget Bureau to approve ex-
penditure of funds for survey of
prices.
OPA's efforts to control restau-
rant prices so far have been con-
fined to a freeze" of prices at the
last April 4-10 level, a time when
prices already had skyrocketed. Mr.
Weinberg, it was said, regarded the
freeze as a halfway measure. He
had tried for weeks without success
to launch a program to roll back
prices, it was reported.
Mr.. Weinberg proposed survey
of restaurant prices in two South
ern cities to obtain accurate data
on cost and prices preparatory to
the rollback. One of the places was
the center Of war activity and the
other was nondefense community.
The Budget Bureau declined to ap-
prove the idea until OPA had out
lined its rollback program. This,
price experts said, was impossible
prior to the determination of ac-
curate price data.
The Taft amendment, prohibiting
grade labelling, also is considered a
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Berlin Radio Reports
MussoIini Back in
Italy 10 Rally Nation
Axis Warns Other
Satellites Not to
Pull Out of War
BY the Associated Press,

LONDON, Sept. 27.-The Ber-
lin radio announced today the
return of Benito Mussolini to
Italy and quoted him as seeking
to breathe new life into the shat
tered tripartite pact with de-
fant words on the third ami
versary of the signature of that
treaty which led Italy to dis
aster.
The fallen italian dictator was
said to have declared, II deem it a
good sign that my return to Italy
comedies with the anniversary of
the pact that binds together indis-
solubly Fascist Italy, National So
cialist Germany and the empire of
the japanese Emperor"
The statement with its implica-
ton that Mussolini had returned to
Italy came simultaneously with
words from Japanese Foreign Min
lister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Ger
man Foreign Minister Joachim Won
Ribentrop, who drummed away on
the familiar cold charge that the
United States, Great Britain and
Russia want to conquer Europe to
enslave its population
Warning to Other Satellites.
Won Ribbentrop, who was the only
one of the three to speak on the
radio personally, shouted: "Bol-
shevists and Anglo Americans shall
never conquer Europe nor will they
ever deprive Japan of their possess
sions in the East"
The other statements were read
over the radio in German.
Another Axis reaction to the
tripaMite anniversary was a warn
ing to satellite powers not to follow
the Italian lead in capitulating.
In the warning addressed to those
who believe that "one war partner
can simply step out of the war car
If it no longer likes the drive" the
newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter.
Nazi party organ, said:
ANY nation which today believes
1t is able to steer its small national
or private ship safe and sound
through the waves of world tempest
will have to pay for it severely one
day"
cThe royal family of Savoy,
as far as the imperial govern
ment of Japan is concerned, will
(See AXIS pace 400
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Thomas J. Gormon Dies;
LONG Foe of SmuqqIers

Thomas j. German, IS, deputy
commissioner of customs, died to-
day at Miami, Fla, the Treasury
announced this afternoon. He had
been in hospital there for two
months.
Mr.. German was known as a foe
of the smuggler in this war and in
the last, and also in the prohibition
period. He was engaged in enforce
ment of the Trading with the
Enemy Act in both wars and was
head Of the Treasury's patrol divi-
sion policing the three-mile limit or
''rum-runners' row" in 1890 He
lived at 28O0 Ontario road NV.
Evening star., 1943-09-27

3. Or their services are certified
by the head of an agency as in
dispensable.
The clause relating to commits
stoned officers would prevent them
from being assigned in Washington
or Arlington County for more than
30 days in any year, unless they
were prewar fathers, or physically
disqualified for combat duty, or the
Secretary of War or Navy certifies
their service here as indispensable.
Reports would have to be sub
mitted to Congress within 80 days
on all cases of persons rated in
dispensable.
The amendment would not repeal
the Lodge Act of April, under which
all deferments in Government
agencies are scrutinized by central
reviewing committees
Evening star., 1943-09-27
| 10 Ships Fleeing
Corsica Sunk
| By British Subs
sy the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 27.-British SUBJ
marines have sunk 10 ships and
damaged five others in attacks on
Nazi forces attempting to evacuate
troops and material from Bastia,
Corsica, by sea, the Admiralty an
nounced today.
A large supply ship and two small
er ones were sunk with torpedoes,
and four small supply ships, a ferry
and two landing craft were sunk
with gunfire, the announcement
said.
Six other vessels, including two
large ta1kers, were damaged and
one OF the tankers was beached, it
continued.
Evening star., 1943-09-27
Father Of 'BuekY' Harris
Dies in New Jersey
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DOVER, N. j., Sept. 27.-Police
Judge Thomas Harris, father of
Stanley r. "Bucky" Harris, until re-
Gently manager of the Philadelphia
Phillies, died today in his home here.
The elder Harris, who held the
judgeship since 1887, had been a
baseball pitcher in his youth and
played near Scranton, Pa, with the
late Christy Mathewson.
Judge Harris had been an in
spector of police for the Delaware
E Lackawanna and Western Railroad
5 in the Hoboken and Buffalo, N. Y
Offices, patrolman in Port Jervis
N. Y, and a detective for the Erie
Railroad.