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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
British Papers See Marshall
As Likely Allied Commander
Official Statement
Believed Near on
Strategy for l943
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 25.-Specula-
ton that Gen. George C. Mar
shall, Chief of Staff of the
United States Army, might be
appointed commander in chief of
Allied forces in the European
war theater was published in
British newspapers today as the
press continued to place great
emphasis on Allied strategy for
1913.
Unofficial British commentators,
maintaining intense interest in Al
lied win the war" plans which
were believed to be already made
or in the final draft, predicted an
official announcement was immi-
nent..
Walter FAIR, Washington cores
pOndent Of the Daily Mail, reported
that it was the view of some keen
observers in Washington that Gen
Marshall was to be named general
issimo of the Allied armies in the
European theater.
Mr. Farr, who gave the first. tip
to Britons of Prime Minister Chur-
chill's visit to Washington in. De-
cember, l94l, also speculated that
Vice Admiral Sir Percy Noble, head
of the British Admiralty delegation
in Washington, might be appointed
supreme commander of the anti-U-
boat campaign.
Only last week, Admiral Noble en-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
House Approves S31,500
For Civil Service Probe

The House today voted the Civil
Service Committee fund of SOL
500 to carry on the investigation Of
Federal personnel practices, author
lied last week. Action came with
out opposition.
Sponsored by Chairman Ramspeck,
the resolution directs the committee
to ascertain the number of employees
in each agency: whether such num-
Der is necessary, and whether their
skills are being used to the best
advantage.
The committee is empowered to go
into the method of recruiting civil
ian employees and their economical
use.
With the money now available to
proceed, Mr.. Ramspeck is expected
to make an early announcement Of
the appointment of an investigator
to direct the gathering Of the IN
formation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
LETTERS Won't Change
Top Priority Demand
For Synthetic Rubber
Reuffirms Stund After
Mudieun Tells Senators
Of Agencies Conflict

Rubber Director william M.
Jeffers said today he would have
to be overruled by "a higher au-
thority" before he would aban-
don his insiStence on top priori-
ties for materials needed to
complete projected synthetic
rubber plants.
Mr.. letters listened in silence as
M. j. Madigan, special assistant to
Undersecretary of War Patterson,
described to a Senate Agriculture
subcommittee the conflict within
Government agencies for critical
materials.
After the hearing recessed until
tomorrow, when WPB Chairman
Nelson will appear, Mr.. Jeffers told
reporters his position with respect
to the imperative need for plants to
produce butadiene for manufacture
of rubber was unchanged.
1t would take higher authority"
to change it, he said, but did not
elaborate.
Mr.. Patterson has been working to
get Mr.. letters to lower his sights
to permit an increase in the flow of
materials for 100-octane aviation
gasoline plants as we'll as chemical
warfare plants, including some of
the latter to produce an expanded
flow of poison gas in event of an
emergency, Mr.. Madigan said.
He disclosed the decision to pre-
pare for poison gas expansion when
Chairman Gillette asked if the War
Department had considered the
possibility of the Axis nations
using poison gas"
Difficulty in getting priorities for
the butadiene plants using petro-
leum had delayed progress on their
construction, the witness asserted
Mr.. Madigan said the plants had
to compete for valves, heat eX-
changers, control instruments and
other materials with the high oc-
tame gas program, the escort vessel
program and other construction
He said all proposed plants would
be completed this year.
Mr.. Madigan related that a syn
Lhetic rubber project at Gary, Ind,
on which 100000 was spent, was
Cancelled some months ago because
of what he said appeared to in
volve AN excessive cost of critical
materials"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Crew of Six MISSING
On Navy Plane Named
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Navy announced last night
the names of six crew members
aboard a missing Navy cargo trans
port land plane overdue at San
Pedro, Calf, since last Thursday on
flight from Winslow, Ariz.
A continuing joint Army Navy
search has failed to locate the craft,
the Navy Department said, adding
that reports indicate the following
crew members were aboard the plane
and next of kin have been notified
accordingly"
1t. Max Soren Knudsen. Kansas
City, pilot; 1t Albert Plotkin, Kan
sas City, and 1t. q. g. Philip Henry
Pitts, jr. Birmingham. Ala, CO.
pilots; Chief Radioman Cullen Au-
gene Snyder, Central City, Pa; Avi-
alton Machinist's Mate, Sd Glass,
MILFORD Dee Booth, Gainesville. Md,
flight mechanic; Seaman, I'd Glass,
Don j. Steele, Carmichaels, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Unlicensed Operators
OF Boarding Houses
Face Prosecution
So Per Cent of o,067
Registered Rooming
Units Lack Permits
BY DON S. WARREN.

Receiving reports indicating
that perhaps thousands of
boarding and rooming houses
here have been operating with
out licenses. the Commissioners
today ordered prosecution of all
operators who failed to comply
with regulations a week after
official notice.
Such instructions were issued al
noon after Robert F. CogSwell, Dis
arict rent administrator, placed in
the hands of city inspection officials
data as to accommoda tions for all OF
Washington's boarding and roomine
houses registered with his Office since
last March.
This showed there are 9,067 board
ing and rooming houses registered
but check with the superintendent
of licenses, Edward E. Bailey, con-
currently showed only 1915 such
places covered by licenses issued or
applied for so far this license year,
beginning last November l.
IS Per Cent Lack Licenses.
These calculations would indicate
that of the 9,067 known boarding
and rooming houses only 43.5 per
cent have licenses or have applied
for them, or that 565 per cent have
been operating without licenses, but
included in the Cogswell listing are
some private dwellings having rooms
rented to four or less roomers, which
are not now required to take out
licenses. One official guessed that
perhaps such houses constituted 10
per cent of the total
Mr.. Bailey said that during the
preceding license year, ended last
November l, his Office had received
6,088 applications.
The Commissioners said: THE
Commissioners have instructed the
police of each precinct to check
rooming houses with more than
four paying guests to ascertain
whether they have proper licenses
and are complying with regulations.
Face Prosecution.
WlIti Z 1t ID lOullu GlIey nave IlOJ
obtained licenses the police are in
structed to require the operators to
obtain license and to comply with
regulations. If they fail to do so
within seven days from such mott
flcation police are instructed to
present the matter to Police Court
for prosecution
Business licenses cost SIS a year
and occupancy certificates So.
The Cogswell report showed there
are BIT of the registered boarding
and rooming houses, of three or
more stories in height, which were
equipped with fire escapes, accord
ing to data filed with the rent con-
troll office. Fire escapes are re-
quired on buildings of three or more
stories if sleeping accommodations
are provided for more than nine
persons above the first floor.
On the question of occupancy Ger
tiflcates. Building Inspector Robert
H. Davis said today his Office had
cleared about 1900 in the past year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
5000 Reported Arrested
To Safeguard MarseiIIe
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. 25 (P.-The Vichy
radio reported today that French
police had arrested 5000 persons in
Marseille on order of the Germans
Ito safeguard order in the city" aft
er the German occupation author
tiles had decreed evacuation of the
old port of Marseille on military
and security grounds
The broadcast was heard here by
the Associated Press.
Clearing of the Marseille
water front appears to be the
objective of the German order
and it apparently Will entail no
wholesale withdrawal Of the
civilian pOpulationJ
The radio said bars and cafes
were closed
Later a DNB dispatch broadcast
by the Berlin radio said that all
the old part of Marseille will be
completely demolished except for
special places of archaeological or
historical importance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Macarthur Points 0uI
Possibility Of Victory
By Bold Air Strokes
Might Conquer japanese
Without Slow Advance
From Island to Island
BY the Associated Press.

bS the ASSOCIATED Press,
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Jan. 25.-The pros
pect Of an Allied victory in the Pa
cific achieved by swift massive
strokes" of co-ordinated air and
land forces, rather than a slow
island-to-island advance, was held
out to the United Nations today by
Gen. Douglas Macarthur on the
basis of new methods tested in the
Papuan campaign.
These methods, Gen. Macarthur
declared in written statement,
demonstrated the possibilities in
herent in continuous. calculated
application of air power" and opened
the way to new and broadened
strategic and tactical conceptions. :"
The Papuan campaign, Gen. Mac
Arthur asserted proved effectively
not only the offensive and defensive
power of the air arm when used in
proper coordination with land
forces, but also its tremendous value
in transporting troops over long
distances in defiance of the obstacles
of terrain.
For months on end" he said, "air
transport with constant fighter
coverage moved complete infantry
regiments and artillery battalions
across the almost impenetrable
mountains of Papua and the reaches
of the sea, transported field hospitals
and other base installations to the
front, supplied the troops and evac-
uated casualties"
The range of operations opened
up by this coordination of air and
land forces will permit the appli-
cation of offensive power in swift,
massive strokes rather than the dila-
tory and costly island-to- island
advance that some have assumed to
be necessary in theater where the
enemy's far-flung strongholds are
dispersed throughout a vast ex-
panse of archipelagoes," he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Exchange Ship Brings
1888 TO Philadelphia
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25.-The
Serpa Pinto, Portuguese ship
which sailed from Lisbon under an
agreement approved by Washington
ana Berlin, brought 1873 passengers,
including 100 war refugees, to the
port of Philadelphia yesterday.
Included in the passenger list
were 43 Americans, So children and
IS men and women without a coun-
try. Identity of the Americans was
not revealed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Army Lists Six Dead
In Crash of Bomber
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Jan. 25.-The
Columbia Army air base made public
yesterday the names of six persons
who were killed Saturday when an
Army medium bomber crashed and
burst into flames near Great Falls.
The men were listed as:
Second 1t. Virgil L. Blevins, %,
Granite City, Ill. Second 1t. Ralph
L. Knepper, "a, Skidmore. Mo; Sec
ond 1t. Ralph F. Bladell. IS, Monroe,
Mich; Staff Sergt. Jay G. Aims, jr.,
Charleston, w. Va; Staff Sergt
Franklin McCue, 90, New York, and
Staff Sergt. Percy ]. McFaddin, 25
League City, Tex.
The plane crashed in a wooded
area while on a routine training
fight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Private Enterprise
Seen by Wallace as
Dominant After War
Says Competition Must
Continue as Main
U. S. Driving Force
BY the Associated Press.

Bs the associated Press.
Private enterprise will play the
dominant role in the economy of
postwar America, Vice President
Wallace says, but Government
must accept the major RESPONSE
bilities for filling whatever
gaps business leaves"
1--WE can have full employment
in this country without destroying
private initiative, private capital or
private enterprise Mr.. Wallace
told an interviewer yesterday, and
added:
"Horatio Alger is not dead in
America and never will be-"
MI. Wallace, a leading advocate
of postwar planning, said that
the spirit of competition will and
must continue to be one of our
main driving forces"
Sees Benefits for All.
"The more private enterprise sue
ceedS in maintaining full employ
ment the less Government spending
will be required" the Vice Presi-
dent, who also is chairman of the
Board of Economic Warfare, de-
clared
Mr. Wallace envisfoned the future
America as a Nation where all can
/ become members of the middle
class-where all can share in the
benefits which that class has en-
joyed in the past"
Among those benefits he listed a
comfortable home for the worker
an automobile. decent" clothes.
books and recreation.
Pointing to tremendous war pro-
duction coming from the Nation s
! industrial plants. Mr.. Wallace said
! that every American could enjoy a
comfortable income in the postwar
! period IF we can work out the ways
to keep production going on an
equally high level after the fighting
ends"
Will Encourage Price Cuts.
Businessmen, he said, will be en-
couraged to reduce prices with the
fall Of costs, to boost employment
and Ito use profits only as an inCen-
tive to increase production of lower
costs"
To the extent that there are areas
Of unemployment left despite these
efforts by business, Government
must and will step in to see that al
people have opportunities for work
and to establish such minimum
standards Of living that no member
Of the community suffers ever
though business temporarily and il
part fails to provide opportunities a
good work for all people, he added
Men must work for what they
have. BY and large, their materia
reward will continue to be based or
how skilled they become"
Mr. Wallace expressed the hope
: that easy money-making' was 6
thing Of the past, particularly THE
!, old-faShloned manipulation of Sc.
curity markets and of speculative
commodity markets" He cited as
another past economic evil the "un.
restricted use Of business monopoly
powers which strange trade, xii
competition and cut down produc-
ton or jobs
Mr.. Wallace said he believed huge
incomes would be far less common
in the future.
He contended that social security
and other measures providing for
protection against disease, accident
involuntary unemployment and old
/ age, as we'll as provision of oppor-
tunity for health, education and
work ARE not inconsistent with the
! principle that hard work must be
rewarded to encourage workers TO
do their best"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

phasized the gravity of the U-boat
problem at Washington press con-
ference and said it would take
all our strength, resources and in
genuity' to beat the submarine.
Plans to give the Allies the edge
over the U-boat menace and moves
to help solves the problems between
the Fighting French followers of
Gen. Charles de Gaulle and Gen.
Henri Honore Giraud, high COM
missioner of French North Africa,
were believed to be prominent in any
pattern for victory under considera-
ton by the United States, Britain,
Russia and China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Bomber Crashes and Burns;
Toll Put al 9 10 II
BY the Associated Press

DJ tHe HSsOCldIeu TTesSs
ORDWAY, Colo, Jan. 25.--A four
motored Army bomber crashed and
burned 18 miles north of here last
night and all persons aboard were
killed, Undersheriff J. j. OConnell
reported.
Mr.. O'Connell said ranchers in
the area placed the toll lat between
nine and II dead" He said ambu-
lances from the La Junta Army Air
Base reached the crash scene this
morning.
1t was learned the bomber was
from Rapid City. S. OAK, but was
temporarily based at the Pueblo
Army Air Base about so miles west
of Ordway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Rescuers Try 10 Reach
Damaged Plane in Peru
By the Associated Press.

LIMA, Peru, Jan. 25.-Rescuers
today sought to reach a damaged
Pan American-Grace Always trans
port which came down near the
coast about $50 miles south of Lima
while en- route from Santiago, Chile,
to Lima with II passengers and a
crew of four.
The airliner, missing since Friday,
was located yesterday BY a search
plane which reported the transport
was apparently badly damaged"
but left in doubt the fate of the is
aboard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Realize Positions.

Dispatches from the front indi-
Gated the Germans fully realized
the difficulty of their positions and
were abandoning their last positions
in the Caucasus.
The Russian forces moving north
westward from Armavir on the
Rostov-Baku railway line mean
while drove northWard and the
midnight Russian cOmmuniQue re-
ported the capture of several places
approximately 20 miles north of the
city.
1t was not certain whether the
Russian forces at Peschanokopskoye
would drive on Rostov Immediately
or push southwest to cut the Ros-
-Tikhoretsk railway. thus isolat-
ing the German forces around
Kropotkin, Maikop and Krasnodar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
u. S. Troops Landed
In India, Nuzis Soy
RS the Associated Press.

ES the Associated Press
LONDON, Jan. 25.-The German
radio in a broadcast heard here by
the Associated Press said today that
new contingents of United States
troops have landed at Karachi
India) and several points on the
Pension Gulf"
The report Is without Allied con-
firmation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages Tx and 2-X of this edition of
The Star, supplementing the news Of
the regular home delivered edition.
Smyrna times., 1943-11-11
KENT MAN FOUND DEAD
William Virdin, Former Recorder
of Deeds for Kent County

William Virdin, Sc years old, for
mer recorder of deeds for Kent
County, was found dead in bed at
his home at Wyoming Saturday
morning. Death was attributed to
a heart condition. For many years
he was a member of the Kent
County Democratic Committee and
at one time served as deputy clerk
of the peace. He had been asso-
ciated with the State Corporation
department and formerly was a
NYA official. Mr.. Virdin was born
at Hazlettville, the son of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. James Virdin. He
was a member of st. Paups Chapel,
Camden, and the I. o. o. F. He is
survived by his wife, the former
Madeline Sackett; a son, Sgt. Ray
Virdin, in England; a sister, Mrs.
George Cook of Kenton, and two
brothers, Harry Virdin of Smyrna
and Ralph Virdin, Wyoming. Burial
services will be held today (Thurs-
day. at 1890 a. m. in the Odd Eel
lows Cemetery at Camden.
Smyrna times., 1943-11-11
AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Regular Services To Be Held Sum
day Morning and Evening

1.-THE Sanctity of the Home" is
next weeks Sunday School lesson
topic. Morning worship will be at
IL and the evening worship will be
at 7:30. Christian Endeavor will
meet at $50 in the Sunday School
room. Albert Mace will be the
leader. Choir rehearsal will be held
Friday evening at 500. The choir
will hold a food sale Saturday, No
vember 13, in the Denney Office.
The proceeds will be used to buy
choir music. We are asking that
everyone make a special effort to
attend both morning and evening
services between now and Christ
mas. A graph chart in the vesti-
bule bulletin board will chart at
tendance and we want to keep the
line going up to its peak on Christ
mas Sunday. Sunday evening, No
vember 21, there will be presented
a Thanksgiving worship service,
Lord of ALP which includes a
pageant entitled, "The Thanksgiv-
ing Table Is Set"
Smyrna times., 1943-11-11
FREAK STORM
FLOODS ROADS
Heaviest Rain Storm Since
Spring Floods Roads
Near Town
DETOUR AT LAKE COMO

Smyrna was lashed by heavy
wind and rain in freak electrical
storm Monday night that flooded
highways and railroad underpasses,
greatly retarding traffic, although
damage was slight. Binding rain
and flooding roads down-state, par
ticularly in the Smyrna area, STALL
ed traffic and caused some hair
raising experiences for one party of
American Legion officials driving
north from Seaford. Leaving Sea-
ford at 10:45 o'clock following a
meeting of the Nanticoke Post,
State Legion Commander w. Floyd
Jackson and party were unable to
reach wilmington until a. m. 9th
ers in the party were VIM. E. Mat
thews of Smyrna, the Rev. James
M. Grant, state chaplain; Past
Commander Everett E. Borton,
State Adjutant Inkerman Bailey,
all of Wilmington.
Tells of Trip
According to Mr.. Matthews, the
storm seemed of cloudburst proper
tions. Just below Smyrna there
was a two-mile stretch where wat
.er completely covered the highway.
The party found the water so deep
on the highway at the Lake Como
bridge section south of Smyy-rnS
that detour was necessary. About
1:30 a. m. in the vicinity of Mid
dletown, Mr.. Jackson said his car
almost collided with a truck which
had blown cross-wise in the road
and had stalled. The Legionnaires
got out in the storm, he said, and
helped right the truck and get it
to the side of the highway. High
way engineers in Dover said flood
ing of the roads was caused by the
choking of drains by fallen leaves.
Smyrna times., 1943-11-11
Church of the Nazarene

Church of the Nazarene, Rev. ].
w. Parkins, pastor, makes the fol-
lowing announcements: Prayer
meeting Thursday, 7:30 p. M; Mis-
sionary melting Friday, 7:30 p. M,
at tn home of Mrs. Bessinger. Sum-
day services: Sunday School, 9:45
a. M; morning worship, 10:45 am;
praise meeting and evangelistic
service, 1880 p. m.
Smyrna times., 1943-11-11
POSTMASTER GIVES NOTICES
Smyrna Citizens Who Own Foreign
Property Must Register

Citizens of Smyrna who own any
property in foreign countries were
notified by Postmaster Mary S. Bell
today that they must file reports
of their foreign holdings with the
Treasury Department before De-
cember 1. The notice was given
by means of a poster placed on dis
play in the post offices. Postmaster
Bell points out that it is necessary
for the government to have as
complete information as possible
on the American stake. abroad to
assist the military authorities and
the civilian governments on the
fighting fronts and to bring about
sound solutions of the postwar
problems. Report forms, known as
TFR-500, may be obtained through
commercial banks, or from the
nearest Federal Reserve Bank, the
postmaster states. Penalties are
provided for those who wilfully fail
to file reports.
Smyrna times., 1943-11-11
FOR
CENTURY CLUB
Executive Committee of the
Twentieth Century Club
Plan Years Program
ARMISTICE PROGRAM

The program for the years 1943-
Al of the Twentieth Century Club,
which is subject to change, was set
up at recent meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee. The program
follows: November IL, Mrs. How
ard R. Jones, chairman National
Defense, will present an Armistice
Day program; November 26, Inter-
national Relations, Mrs. G. Harvey
Wright; December 10, Legislation,
Miss Anna B. Beckett; December
"a, Business and Tea; January ID,
Motion Pictures, Mrs. Grant Garis;
January %, American Citizenship,
Mrs. Harry P. Jones; February IL
and 25 to be announced, chairman
American Homes, Mrs. Clifford
Jones; chairman Fine Arts, Mrs.
Andrew D. Cole; March 10, Educa-
ton, Mrs. l.. M. Price; March "a,
Conservation, Mrs. Thomas Rus
sell; April IA, PUBIC Safety, MRS.
Helen Attix; April %, open day.
officers Named
officers include Mrs. George Car
ter, president; Mrs. Joseph Ennis,
first vice-president; Mrs. G. R. Mil
Ter, Jr., second vice-president; re-
cording secretary, Mrs. Glenn Mar
tin; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Kennard Price; treasurer, Mrs.
Lucy Conwell; Director, Mrs. Grant
Garis; Program, Mrs. Robert Den
ney; Hostess, Mrs. Alfred Thigh
man; Music, Mrs. Howard Dea-
kyne.