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Evening star., 1943-04-29
THE EVENING STAR, D.
Two Jap Cargo Ships
Damaged in Attacks
By Dutch Airmen
One Of 1000 Ton Vessels
Hit on Stern North
Of Aroe Islands
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, April 29.-Two Japa-
nese cargo ships, caught in the Ara
fura Sea yesterday by a formation
of Dutch-manned Billy Mitchells,
were bombed and machine gunned
until they were motionless, with the
deck of one a mass of flames.
Spotted 80 miles north of Dobo,
Aroe Islands, a 2,000-ton ship was
struck On the stern by a pound
bomb and another fell close enough
to inf1ict damage. Two bombs also
fell near the second ship of 1900
tons. Then the bombers roared down
to machine gun the stricken ships.
In that same general area single
Liberator on Tuesday attacked two
4,000-ton enemy ships, hitting one
squarely on the bow.
Elsewhere today's communique re-
ported aerial action against targets
on New Guinea, New Ireland and
New Britain. Over Wide Bay on the
southeast end of New Britain, Fly
ing Fortress on reconnaissance
fought off seven japanese fighter
planes and got home undamaged
The japanese sent over a single
plane under cover of darkness
against the Allied New Guinea out
post of Morobe. Four bombs were
dropped in four runs over the harbor
area during tWo-hour period
without damage or casualties" the
communique said,
Evening star., 1943-04-29

as issued by the District War Fl.
nance Committee, follows: Seven.
eighths of per cent certificates o1
Indebtedness, $l1 ,373, 900: 2 per cent
Treasury bonds of 1950-1952, $6,-
173000; az per cent Treasury bonds
of l964-l969, $11 100000; Series c
tax saving notes, $2,382, 900; Series
E bonds, $6,540, ,787.50; Series F
bonds, $491 ,230.50, and Series G
bonds. $1.877,600
Richard A. Mahar, War Bond
Committee chairman of the Wash
ington Council of the knights of
Columbus, announced yesterday
that the council had exceeded it's
quota of S77,500 by nearly so per
cent. with bond orders totaling
s114,000 Mr.. Ndahar said the or
ganization has hopes of doubling
its quota by the close of the drive
on Saturday.
The Washington Lions Club has
sold S125,375 worth of bonds, &C
cording to William C. Hanson, the
clubs War Bond Committee chair
man. He said his Is committee
members are still canvassing men,
bers of the organization.
Virginia Quota Exceeded.
Meanwhile, the State of Virginia
went over the top in its campaign
to raise $75,000,0O0 in War bonds
purchases, when State Treasurer
w. Tayloe Murphy placed orders
yesterday for $10,520,0O0 of Govern
ment bonds and short term securi-
ties. The new purchase by the State
treasurer represents, to a large ex-
tent, funds appropriated by the Gen.
eral Assembly at it's 1912 session for
capital outlays, including highway
construction funds.
Maryland Sales Reported.
The Maryland War Finance Com
mittee reported that bond sales in
the State through Monday totaled
$142,535 ,631.
The United Cafeteria and Restau-
rant Workers Local All, affiliated
with the United Federal Workers of
America. CIO, announced today that
a $500 War bond has been purchased
for the unions treasury.
The Amity Club, which held an
installation and bond rally Tuesday,
announced that, although its quota
of 100000 had been reached, it
would continue the drive, setting the
new goal at $50O,O0O.
New officers installed were Maurice
Solomon, president; Fred Kogod,
first vice president; Hyman Berman
second vice president; Stanley Kor-
man, recording secretary; Joseph
Zupnick, treasurer, and Louis Brown,
sergeant at arms.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
'0|d-Time Boot|egger
Is Selling Food Now,
Andersen Declares
Subcommittee Chairman
Schedules Hearing in
New York Tomorrow

Chairman Andersen of a Republi-
can House subcommittee on food,
today reported receiving informa-
ton that indicates a revival of ac-
tivities of the oldtime bootlegger on
Nationwide scale to include whisky,
poultry, beef, potatoes and other
scarce food products
He said his committee, which has
scheduled hearing in New York for
tomorrow morning, intended to "as-
certain if there is any connection
between the black markets in poul-
try and whisky" The group was
formed to study dairy and poultry
problems.
Legitimate dealers in poultry"
he said in a statement. claim that
Office of Price Administration de-
crees have forced 95 per cent of all
poultry into the black market and
that they are being driven out of
business"
He reported that the situation in
Washington, where the committee
plans public hearings later, SIS des-
perate," adding that there is no
poultry available in the Capital
through regular channels.
1T is noted with considerable
chagrin and ire declared Mr.. An
dresen, that DR.. j. K. Galbraith,
deputy administrator and chief
policymaker of OPA, intends to
crack down on the black market in
whisky instead of using his office in
the interest of securing essential
food for the consuming public.
"Galbraith may find that the
black market operators in whisky
also control the black market in
poultry, beef and potatoes"
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Rescue
Continued From First Page.

the rules of the service, left last in
the life RATS when the decks already
were awash. There was considerable
delay in cutting these away since
the mechanism had been jammed by
the force of the explosion.
Comdr. Gilmore found himself in
the icy, oil-covered water with a
raft tossing yards ahead and swan
to 1T. At this point. he says, he
undoubtedly owes his life to the little
red light attached to the life belt
which is supplied by the merchant
marine. This light, bobbing up and
down on the waves, informed those
on the raft that some one was trying
to reach them. He could see other
red lights all around, he said.
Lack of these red lights, Comdr.
Gilmore said, probably has cost the
lives of scores in the North Atlantic
this winter. Even at dusk or in dim
moonlight, he explained, it is i'm
possible for men in a lifeboat, or
even on the deck of a rescuing ship,
to distinguish a human form in the
waves and many have had the ex-
perience of seeing boats pulling
away from them when rescue seemed
near.
Once on the raft the four Wash
ington officers were up to their
waists in oily water. They did not
notice the cold very much. Before
the torpedoing there had been a
heavy wind but this had died down
although the sea still was running
high. The oil on the water from
the tanker helped quiet the waves.
Other ships in the convoy had
scattered except for those designated
for rescue work which were not in
the immediate neighborhood. 1t was
then that the merchant ship captain
took his big chance His ship was
virtually defenseless. He was in the
center of the area where several
ships of the convoy had been sunk
within a few minutes. There was
every probability that some of the
submarines still were looking for
stragglers. His ship was conspicuous
in great circle of light. But he
knew, although he could not see
them, that there were men in the
water.
So he stayed, slowly cruising about
in the light until he spotted the raft
on which were the Washington Off
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Bermuda Refuge Farley
'Mockery,' Rabbi Declares
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, April 29.-The
British American conference in Ber-
muda seeking a solution to the
European refugee problem was crit
icized last night by the president
of the Synagogue Council of Amer
lea as mot only failure but a
mockery."
Rabbi Israel Goldstein, New York
City, in an address before stop
Hitler" rally sponsored by the
American Jewish Congress, declared
victims are not being rescued be-
cause the democracies do not want
them.
THE job of the Bermuda con-
ference apparently was not to res
cue victims of Nazi terror, but to
rescue our State Department and
the British foreign Office from pos
sible embarrassment.
1T is a sad commentary upon the
disparity between our professed war
aims, which speak in terms of hu-
manitarianism, and our actions,
which the motivated by timidity
and by catering to the forces of
reaction in our midst
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Liberty Ship Carver
To Be Launched Sunday
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Liberty ship George Wash
ington Carver, named for the late
colored scientist, will be launched
Sunday at the Richmond (Calif.)
No. l yard of the Kaiser Shipbuild-
ing Co., the Maritime Commission
announced last night.
The Booker T. Washington, first
Liberty ship named for a Negro, is
in active service under a colored
master, Capt. Hugh Mulzak, and
another, the Frederick Douglass, is
under construction at Baltimore.
The United Negro Labor Com
mittee, in charge of the launching
Of the George Washington Carver,
has chosen Lena Horne, singer, as
the sponsor. A colored employe of
the yard, Beatrice Turner, will be
maid of honor.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Press Chief Of NAVY
Expects Postwar Row
Over Fleets Size
Capt. Lovette Warns
Aides to Prepare for
Fight Against Cuts
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated PRESS.
Development of a controversy or
the postwar size of the Unitec
States Navy was forecast yesterday
by Capt. Leland P. Lovette, director
of, Navy public relations. who ad'
vised his staff of information of.
ficers to prepare themselves accord
ingly.
Capt. Lovett spoke at the conclud.
ing session of a three-day confer.
ence of naval district public rela.
tions officers. A total of 40 Navy
Coast Guard and Marine Corps of.
ficers participated in the meeting
held for the express purpose of dis
cussing general policy and of iron.
ing out local problems to provide
greater uniformity and speed in re-
leasing Navy news to the public.
In a speech summarizing mair
conference developments, Capt. Low
cite specified the future size of the
Navy as one of the problems with
which his public relations men
should be confronted.
Move for Cut Expected.
He predicted that sin a year or
so" there would be a movement tc
curtail the size of the Navy with the
argument revolving around whether
We are going to keep a Navy of any
size The Navy's information Of
ficers, Capt. Lovette said, should be-
gin now to prepare themselves for
this future issue by reading every
thing you can get your hands on
about the functions and purposes of
seapower.
One of the current problems raised
during the conference was that OF
expediting the movement of news
and pictures from distant areas OF
the Pacific. Comdr. Waldo Drake
public relations officer at Honolulu
said that top priority now was being
given the dispatch of pictorial and
news matter and that here should
be minimum Of delay resulting from
transportation difficulties.
Airplane transportation, it was
learned, is also being made available
again to neWsmen in the South Pa
clflc. Recently the command in
that area had denied the use of
planes to reporters and photograph
ers with the contention that military
personnel and cargo required all
space. This meant the newsmen had
to spend days or weeks travelling by
ship instead of plane and admit
tedly slowed down cove,age of the
war. This order, it was said, has
now been superseded.
Seven Points Discussed.
In his speech Capt. Lovett empha-
sized these main points:
l. In all they say and do the pub
lie relations officers must support
the war policy" of the Government.
There's been a great deal of special
plugging on strategy" he said.
Some people say we should hit
hardest in the Atlantic, some say in
the Pacific. don't care what your
personal opinion is, you must sup
port the unfolding policy of the Gov
ernment."
Harking back to the early DAYS of
the war with Japan he said he had
heard quite few people" say that
II the decision regarding the defense
OF Singapore had been made on a
Evening star., 1943-04-29
1,OOO-Pound Bombs Carried
By P-4O Fighters in Burma

Col. Barr told how the japanese
repaired the damage after direct
hits on bridges with 500-pound
bombs.
THAT burned me up," he said,
"and I decided to experiment with
bigger bombs"
He broached his plan to the pilots,
but they were dubious because Moth
ing larger than 500-pounders had
been carried before. Col. Barr him.
self made the first raid with 1000
FOUNDER and then called for volun-
teers. From the many responding,
he selected Capt Edward Nollmeyer,
Everett, Wash: 1t. Hazen Holvey,
Powell, Nebr.; 1t. william Bertram,
Chicago; 1t. Robert McClung, Gin
cinnati, and 1t. John Keith of Cas-
ton, Ind.
Evening star., 1943-04-29

GERS. Here again their presence was
made known by their red lights.
There was no way to steer the
raft. 1t was shivering one instant
at the crest of a mountain of water
and was at the bottom of a deep
trough the next instant.
The actual rescue came about c
am. The men now are on duty in
England, none the worse for the
experience which nearly cost them
their lives and in which five of the
Navy armed guards, none from the
District or vicinity SO far as is
known, periShed.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Army Bans Louis-Conn
Title Fight This Summer

By the Associated Press.
Secretary of War Stimson said
today there will be no heavyweight
championship fight this summer be-
tween Sergt. Joe Louis and Corpl.
Billy Conn.
Asked at his press conference
about reports that the War Depart
ment was making arrangements for
such fight with purchase of War
bonds as the price of admission,
the Secretary replied:
Il think can assure you that the
War Department will not sponsor or
approve Louis-Conn fight this
summer"
Evening star., 1943-04-29
All Chinese in Areas
Where u. Flyers Hid
Bufchered by laps
Gen. Chiong Discloses
Slaughter in Report
Read by Moreenthou
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April o.
Every man, woman and child in
the coastal areas of China where
American flyers found haven
after bombing Toxic a year ago
has been butchered by revenge
mad japanese troops, official
China has notified the United
States Government.
This horror of blood letting, re-
ported to American authorities by
GeneraliSsimo Chang Kai-shek and
announced by Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau, was Lidice
reproduced on larger scale.
Secretary Morgenthau read Gen
eralissimo Chiang's cablegram at a
meeting of war loan workers in San
Francisco last night. He recalled
the japanese announcement of
their execution of some of the cap
tured American fyers-"those gal
liant fighting men, who were by all
military law and precedent prison.
ers of war"
Chiangs Cable Read.
Now" Mr.. Morgenthau said,
with deep sense of shock and
anger, I must bring you further
news. I have here a cablegram
which reached me this morning 1t
comes from Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek. Let me read it to you:
latter they had been caught
unawares by the falling of American
bombs on Toxic, japanese troops
attacked the coastal areas of China
where many of the American flyers
had landed. These japanese troops
slaughtered every man, woman and
child in those areas'-let me repeat
these japanese troops slaughtered
every man, woman and child in
those areas reproducing on a
wholesale scale the horrors which
the world had seen at Lidice, but
about which people have been un-
informed in these instances.
The dastardly execution of these
American flyers, who were taken as
prisoners of war, has made it clear
to all Americans that we face an
enemy who knows no codes of law or
decency. The only language which
such an enemy understands is that
of the weapons of war, and in the
bond campaign which you are push
ing for the war effort our people
wish you all success"
That is the end of the cable
gram"
Enemy's Nature Made Clear.
Lidice, to which the generalissimo
referred, was the Czechoslovakian
town where the Germans last June,
in reprisal for the assassination of
Reinhardt Heydrick, executed the
entire adult male population, herded
the women to concentration camps,
sent the children to appropriate
education institutions" and de-
stroyed the town.
I'VE have work ahead of u.s." Sec
retary Morgenthau said. 80 Ger
tainly we now have clearer idea of
the nature of the enemy with whom
we are dealing. II the Japanese will
take special pains to march into a
Chinese village, whose only crime is
that of offering sanctuary to hand
full of American flyers, and wipe out
that village to the last harmless child
we no longer need to ask what the
japanese would do on marching into
a city like San Francisco"
They fired on your California
coast once with deck gun from
submarine. If they come back again,
God forbid, they are not going to
come with submarines and deck
guns. Let's not fool ourselves That's
what we're up against"
Evening star., 1943-04-29
BY the Associated Press,


A UNITED STATES FIGHTER
BASE, NORTHEASTERN INDIA,
April % OelayeO American pi-
lots, flying P-40 fighter planes, have
been plastering Japanese targets in
Burma with 1,000-pound bombs-5O0
pounds heavier than any bombs ever
carried before in P-40s.
Col. John E. Barr, "a, of San An
tonic, Tex, the group executive off,
Ger, conceived the idea and proved
it workable.
In the last month a team of six
P-40 pilots, trained and led by him,
has destroyed four steel railroad
bridges, severely damaged the run
ways of two important airdromes
and leveled a large section of an
enemy occupied city.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Irwin S. Cobb to Help
War Bond Sale Here

Irwin S. Cobb, humorist and
writer, was to assist today in the
sales of bonds at the War Bond
Show sponsored by the Treasury
Department and the Saturday Eve
ming Post at the Hecht Co. store.
Mr.. Cobb will autograph the
Treasury's commemorative cover
for each bond buyer.
Also on today's program is Helen
Virginia Meyer, designer of histo-
rical costumes. She was to present
three fashion shows, the last at
7p.m.
Norman Rockwell's original draw
ings of the Four Freedoms continue
on display. The show will close
May 8.
Evening star., 1943-04-29

military rather than a political
basis, that once great base might
have been abandoned and the army
which was spent in trying to de-
fend it might have been fighting
today in a successful defense of
Burma.
2. The District officers could help
tremendously by keeping headquar-
ters here informed of public opin-
ion about the Navy in their respec-
tive areas. Write me any time" !"
Capt. Lovette said.
3. There is strong effort" by
enemy propagandists to split the
United States and Great Britain and
anything you can do to help the
British cause-which is the Allied
cause, too-should be done"
Leg Art on WAVES Avoided.
4. About Is per cent of the new
men coming into the Navy this year
will be Negroes and Capt. Lovette
emphasized that they must be given
full credit for the work they do.
when they do a job," he said, put
the facts out"
5. Avoid "leg art" and the like in
publicizing the WAVES. We've
had marvellous and very dignifed
publicity about the WAVES so far"
he said. 1--WE want to keep it that
way"
6. Be loyal to superiors. The cap
tain said that the Navy was built
up on the principle of loyalty in
peacetime and that was the element
which made it hard-fghting Or
ganization. At the same time he
told his hearers to pay particular
attention to making out fitness re-
ports on their Junior officers.
Undoubtedly we will have a pub
lie relations setup after this war;"
he explained. Fitness reports are
the basis on which its personnel will
be selected and promotions made.
Be fair and square in them regard
less OF your personal feeling about
a man"
7. Casualties will increase greatly
as the war progresses, Capt. Lovette
advised his officers to be alert for
reports, letters and the like concern
ing the supreme sacrifice of men
killed in action. Such information,
he said, inspires war workers in this
country to greater effort in pro-
ducing the munitions essential to
victory.
Prior to Capt. Lovettes talk the
officers had heard Secretary of the
Navy Knox, Elmer Davis, director
of war information; Nat Howard of
the Office of Censorship, and sew
eral other officials who sketched the
relationship of their agencies to
those of the Navy's information
men.
The purpose, officers in charge of
the program said, was to link the
work of district public relations Off
GERS closely with Washington poll
cies and to provide a smoother
functioning of news issuance pro-
cedures throughout the country.
Ndllouo COll1c1etS IdlSeu QueSIlOlS
regarding the release of stories on
local plane crashes, on survivors of
destroyed ships and on similar
news. The general rule was laid
down that all such information
should be given out as quickly as
possible within the limits of mill
tary security and the requirement
that next of kin be notified before
casualties are identified.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
2 Red Generals Promoted

MOSCOW, April % (P).-Lt. Gen.
Rodion Y. Malinovsky, the stocky
Ukrainian who led the Russian
troops who captured Rostov, and
Col. Gen. Konstantin Rokossovsky,
one of the heroes of the defense of
Stalingrad and Moscow, were made
full generals of the Red Army today.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
| S78.75 for War Bond
Will Buy 725 Pairs
|Of Army Socks

By the Associated Press.
The $18.75 with which you
buy a $25 War bond will pay
for:
125 pairs of Army socks. Or
lit sulfa drug allotments for
soldiers kits. Or
1877 weather balloons.
When you buy a S25 War
savings bond for $18.75, $18 goes
Immediately into guns, planes
and equipment, the Treasury
says.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Non-EssentiuI Persons
Evacuated From Brest
By tie Associated Press

BY tEE ASSOCIATED Press.
LONDON, April 29.-All mon
Indispensable persons have now
been evacuated from Brest, leaving
only $4,000 residents in the Oft
bombed city, which had a population
of 10000 in 1910, the German-con-
trolled Paris radio reported today.
The city is the site of an impor-
tant German submarine base and
has been a repeated target of Allied
airmen.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
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