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Evening star., 1943-03-25
US. S.WarpIanes Attack
Japs' SoIomons Base
Fire Reported Started in
Air Ruid on kuhiIi
p he Associated Press

PI he Associated Press.
Heavy Army bombers and Navy
torpedo planes yesterday attacked
japanese positions at Kahiu. an en-
envy air base in the Northwestern
Solomons. the Navy said today. A
fire was reported started by the
raid.
The text of the commumQue.
South Pacific (all dates east
longitude:
i On March "a
"tA) During the evening Army
Flying Fortresses tBoeing BID and
Navy Ayenger torpedo bombers
(Grumman TBF) attacked positions
ct Kahil A fire was started
"tB) A small enemy ship IN the
Shorthand Island area was bombed
With unobSeryed results
90 All United States planes re-
turned from the above attack mis-
si0ns."
Kahli, which has been attacked
many times before, is miles north
Of the enemy harbor Of BUN on the
southeast coast of BougainWlle Is
land, about 295 nautical miles north
west off Guadalcanal where the
American airfleld is located.
The use Of torpedo bomberS for ar
attack against land oblectives die
not mean that torpedoeS were
dropped by those planes. The planes
are so constructed they may carry
either torpedoes or regular aeria
bombs.
Evening star., 1943-03-25
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
James w. Gerard said in a tele-
gram filed with the Senate War IN
vestigating Committee today that
the basic trouble at the irwin PA
works Of the Carnegie Illinois Steel
Corp. was control Of the United
States Steel Corp. by bankers J. P.
Morgan & Co
Recalling testimony this week by
Carnegie-Ilhnois employees that
fake tests" were made on some steel
plates ordered by the Government,
the former Ambassador to Germany
said:
AS a stoCkholder Of United States
Steel, which controls the Carnegie
Illinois Co. am shocked at dis
closures OF dirty work which en-
dangers lives Of American soldiers.
sailors and crews Of merchant ships
The telegram. read into the
formal record Of a public hearing
by Chairman Truman, continued;
The basic trouble is the control
OF United States Steel by Bankers
Evening star., 1943-03-25
Johnson Will Remain
In Australian Post
Hull Says Wartime Needs
Influenced Envoy to Stoy

Secretary OF State Hull said to-
day that Nelson T. Johnson will
continue indefinitely at his post Of
American Minister to Australia.
Mr.. JohnSons status had been In
doubt since the recent furor over
the nomination Of Edward j. Flynn,
former Democratic National Com
mittee chairman, to succeed him.
The nomination was withdrawn at
Mr.. Flynn's request before the SEN
ate acted on it.
When Mr.. Flynn's name was sent
to the Senate the White House said
Mr.. johnson had asked to be re-
tired. Mr.. Hull said today that
further exchanges of ideas with Mr..
Johnson, particularly in the light
Of the need of the service of every
one in wartime, had resulted in the
decision that he would continue at
his post.
Mr.. Hull also emphasized at a
press conference that the United
States stands for the defeat alike Of
Axis forces in the West and East.
when asked for comment concern
ing British Prime Minister Church.
Ills reference in his radio speech
Sunday to partial rehabilitation
after the defeat of Germany.
Evening star., 1943-03-25
kaiskY Says Reds Expect
Maximum OF Allied Aid
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 25-Soviet Am
bassador Ivan Maisky declared today
that the Russians were expecting all
the United Nations and most par
ticularly Britain and the United
States to do their maximum in the
nearest future in order to bring this
terrible war to an end at the ear
liest possible moment"
Our future is being forged now
in the midst of war, and all our
attention. all our efforts today must
be directed toward the supreme task
Of winning the war he told a
luncheon audience.
He said that Germany had had "a
number Of very nasty knocks, espe-
cialy in the East" but that she was
far from beaten
Evening star., 1943-03-25
Americans Big Guns
Take Axis AnfieId
II Miles Away

BY The Associated Press.
WITH THE AMERICAN
FORCES IN SOUTHERN TU-
N1SIA. March % Delayed -
Two Long Toms America
l55 millimeter long range
rifies-destroyed five enemy
aircraft parked on the Mezzou-
ma airfield and made it unavail-
able for further use by the Axis.
How the big guns, in effect.
captured the field from a firing
point about IL miles west, near
Maknassy, was told by Mai.
Walker Thomas. artillery Off
Ger of Huntsville, Ala.
The two big rifles were
moved into position overnight"
he said. This morning, 10
minutes after a group of planes
landed, our artillery opened fire
and knocked out some planes.
No other German planes
were able to take off the rest Of
the day and the port is now
useless to the Axis. The range
was 10000 yards-about IL
miles"
Evening star., 1943-03-25
Vegesack Sub Yards
Crippled, Says u. 5.
Bomber Commander
Rennes Roid Appraised
As Most Devastating
On Nozi Transportation
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
UNITED STATES 9th BOMBER
COMMAND HEADQUARTERS,
England. March 25.-The United
States Flying Fortress -Liberator
raid on the Vegesack submarine
and shipbuilding yards last
Thursday has crippled that
base for a considerable period" "
Brig. Gen. Newton Longfellow,
chief of the 9Th Bomber Com
mand, said today.
The raid on the U-boat supply
center and railroad yards at Rennes
March 3 was considered by trans
portation evaluation experts as prob
ably the most devastating raid of its
kind in this war" Gen. Longfellow
said.
Gen. Longfellow's disclosures were
made in a message to the personnel
Of his command a day after Mai. Ira
c. Eaker's pronouncement that the
Americans high altitude precision
daylight bombing had passed the ex-
perimental stage with the Vegesack
raid.
prime Minister Churchill today
declared the United Nations
have af1oat substantially larger
fleets than they had at the worst
moment in the U-boat war and
this improvement is continuing"
(Rear Admiral Tuition Percy
Beamish, Conservative, had asked
in Commons If the Prime Min
lister were aware of the recent
German claim that U-boats
sank more than 80 ships out of a
! 200,000-ton Atlantic convoy
(Mr Churchill refused to
clarity enemy knowledge on this
matterD
/ Gen. Longfellow said, you have
struck the Nazi U-boat menace at
bases on the west coast of France,
at construction yards in Germany
you have hit his heavy industries
and his steel and freight car fac
tories which are the basis of the
German transport ton system. You
have attacked his an bases and air
depots
2S Raids Made.
Between November l and March
20" he summarized. "23 high alti-
tude raids have been conducted by
this command with a total of more
than 1000 tons of bombs dropped
on many targets. Statisticians credit
our guns with 329 enemy aircraft
destroyed, 265 probably destroyed
and l68 damaged between November
l and March 20"
Gen. Eaker, who is commander in
chief Of the United States Air Forces
in England. announced yesterday The
total number Of enemy aircraft de-
stroyed since August IT, the begin.
ming Of the 9th Air Forces cam
paign, was 1856.
Gen. LongfelloW described the
March raid on Hamm, when many
direct hits inflicted heavy destruc-
ton in the railroad yards, as s
perfect example Of what Germany
may expect from this command"
II fully appreciate" he told hi
men, your perseverance in the fac,
Of weather which has caused Ions
(See VEGESACK, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1943-03-25
Scotland Is Target
OF Reprisa| Attacks
By Nazi Bombers
Northern England Also
Roided, 5 German
Planes Shot Down
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 25.-Scot-
land, untroubled by heavy Ger
man raids since the spring of
1941 and only once previously
this year the target for a small
scale attack, felt the sting of
German reprisal assaults early
today when enemy bombers flew
through severe anti aircraft fire
on the southeast coast and
dropped incendiary bombs in
land.
The last raid on Scotland was
February 19 when a few planes
caused slight damage.
British fighters and anti aircraft
defenses shot down five of an esti-
mated Is German planes which par
ticipated in the attack on Scotland
and a raid over Northern England
that caused a small number of
casualties.
Dwellings Damaged.
This increased German air force
losses over Britain to 26 this month
and more than so since January /.
Considerable damage was done to
private dwellings in one Northeast
English coastal town, but there were
no casualties because occupants were
in shelters.
(The Berlin radio broadcast a
high command communique an
nouncing that the Germans
raided the junction of Ashford
in Southern England at daybreak
yesterday and made direct bomb
hits on the railway station and
supply stores. 1t said last nights
raids were against "strategically-
important targets" on the Firth
of Forth and on the British
northeast coast)
800 Children Escape.
The heaviest enemy raid yester-
day was on a town in Southeast
England, where at least 12 were
killed. Additional victims were be-
ing dug out of the debris.
More than 300 children got out of
a school just 60 seconds before a
bomb struck, it was reported.
Allied fighter planes machine
gunned railway installations in
Northern France by day yesterday
and the RATS Mosquito bombers hit
(See GERMANS. Page A-31
Evening star., 1943-03-25
Freight Rates in East
Unfair 10 South and
West, IVA Charges
Report to President Says
RoiI Fees Impede
Development Of Areas
Py the Associated Press.

The Nations freight rate
structure as now constituted,
says the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority, does not promote Nation
wide freedom of trade and equal
ity of economic opportunity.
In report transmitted to Con-
gress by President Roosevelt today,
IVA decared rail freight rate handi-
caps act as a slow poison in such
Southern and Western industries as
lack the sheer power to avoid having
the poison administered"
The present gionalization of
freight rates is contrary to sound
public policy" the report said, lin
that it arbitrarily disturbs equality
of economic opportunity, promotes
unbalanced national development,
and interferes with the wise and
efficient use of resources"
Concentration in East.
Before the war the Eastern, or
official territory as 1t is designated
in the freight-rate structure, had
64 per cent of the national income
and rs per cent of the income from
manufacturing.
On this premise, the survey said: :
The real question is whether the
chances for winning the full-em-
ployment, high-prosperity objective
will be better if this concentration
continues or even increases, or if the
ground is prepared so that the South
and West may contribute much
more literally to the production
gains than they have been able to
contribute to what already has been
achieved"
Sumbitted over the signature of
iva Chairman David E. Lilienthal,
the survey declared that more abun-
dant contribution by the South and
West definitely does not require
geographical redistribution of exist
ing factories.
But it does require clearing away
the freight-rate handicap that ham
pers and delays the development of
these regions"
3
West have the material, energy and
labor resources to support much
more industry than they now have.
the report said-some Of it small,
designed to provide for unserved
needs in the general neighborhood
and at the same time to provide pur-
chasing power to make the demand
effective; some of it larger, to serve
both local and national needs.
Rates Impede Development.
For the sake Of every region, the
South and West should have more
industry. But the present regional
ization Of freight rates is consider
able impediment to It's achievement" d"
The existing rates tend to make
official (Eastern) territory "the focal
point to which and from which most
traffic flows" the survey asserted,
adding:
There Is no sound reason why
freight rates should give special pro-
lection to Pittsburgh or Atlanta or
any other part of the country.
The wealth and power of the
United States are founded on the
richness and delivery of its conti-
mental free trade area. Any inter-
ference with free trade, whether by
freight-rate differentials or the
somewhat more familiar kinds of
interstate trade BARRIERS is not in
the public interest"
AS an example Of what it called
the unequal freight rate structure
in different sections of the country,
the report said:
To move domestic electric water
heater-a comparatively high-grade
manufacture-from Chattanooga, in
(See FREIGHT RATES, Page A-30
Evening star., 1943-03-25
1895 U. S. Workers Fired,
654 for DisIoyoItyl During War

factors which brought about re-
moval. He said no instance had
been developed in which employees
sought to aid the enemy.
Commissioner Flemming's figures
covered the period from the fiscal
year 194041 through the first eight
months of the present fiscal year
and were furnished during a gen.
eral discussion of the commission S
investigative procedure.
He told of several specific cases in
which action had been taken, in
Guiding an individual who was iden-
(see DIsMTSsALS, Page A-6J
Evening star., 1943-03-25
Germans Launch Attacks
On YugosIov GuerriIIus
iY he Associated Press

LONDON. March 25--The Cairo
correspondent of the independent
French News Agency reported today
the Germans had launched a series
Of strong attacks against the Yugo-
slav guerrilla forces of Gen. Draia
Mihailovich in Eastern Serbia and
Bosnia.
Bulgarian troops are supporting
the Germans, the dispatch said.
Evening star., 1943-03-25
BY J. A. FOX.

Civil Service Commission investi-
cations have resulted in dismissal
of 26,936 employees since the war
effort was started, but in only 654
of these cases was disloyalty the
sole issue, Commissioner Arthur S.
Flemming today told the House
Civil Service Committee which is
investigating Federal personnel
practices
He added that undoubtedly the
individuals loyalty was questiona-
BILE In some of the other cases, but
that there were more controlling
Evening star., 1943-03-25
jap Raid on AirfieId
In India Reported
b. The Associated Press.

A Berlin broadcast heard today
by the Associated Press in New
York quoted japanese headquar-
ters announcement as saying that
japanese planes raided an Allied
atrfield near Chittagong, in Eastern
India, Tuesday and set fire to four
planes on the ground and destroyed
II others.
A British communique reported
yesterday that enemy aircraft made
brief attack on an airfeld in
Southern Bengal, causing slight
damage and few casualties.
Evening star., 1943-03-25
Nozi Assaults in
Northern Donets
Valley SIocken
BY EDDY GILMORE,


MOSCOW, March 25.-The Red
Army's dogged drive through
slush. ice and mud toward Smol-
enSk has made fresh headWay in
three directions and German at
taCks in an effort to control the
Northern DonetS River valley
are slackening after their set
backs at the hands of The Soviet
defenders, the Russians said to-
day.
The midday communique an
nounced that additional villages
were taken on the Smolensk front
as Soviet troops broke through the
outlying defenses of the city.
The Soviets' sharpest thrust ap-
peared to be north of Dukhovschino,
which is 80 miles northeast of the
big German garrison city. The war
bulletin said that in this sector the
Red Army troops battled hand to
hand with the Germans in an uni
Identified settlement which had been
heavily fortified.
Germans Attack Fiercely.
South of this sector a Russian
column was reported moving toward
the district center of Dorogohuzh.
IS miles below the Moscow WANNA
Smolensk railway and so miles east
Of Smolensk.
Fierce counterattacks, with heavy
concentrations of heavy artillery to
back up their infantry, were being
mounted by the Germans, dispatch
to Red Star, the army newspaper,
said.
In the battle for the upper Donets
River Valley, the Germans have
been beaten back in every effort to
establish bases on the eastern bank
from Belgorod to Chuguev, and,
smarting under blows which have
caused terrific destruction to ma
teriel and manpower. have relaxed
the intensity of their assaults.
Last nights communique and the
midday communique mentioned a
new direction, north of Chuguev,"
where the Nazis tried to cross the
river.
Izvestia, the government news
paper, reported that clouds of
smoke hang over the cold Dnieper
Valley for many miles. with whole
areas misted by the fire from guns
and from entire villages to which
the Germans put the torch during
their westward retreat.
More Bridgeheads Sought.
Fighting was going on for more
bridgeheads in the Dnieper Valley
north of Dorogobuzh, Red Star said,
but in other sectors the Germans
have been driven far west of the
waterway.
The right bank of another river
flowing in a southwesterly direction
has been entirely cleared of the
enemy" the newspaper declared
The Russians were advancing,
too, through the swampy areas of
the Taman Peninsula in the West
ern Caucasus, driving German
remnants ever closer to the Kerch
Strait and drawing a net closer
about Novorossisk on the Black Sea
coast.
The daring long and difficult
marches of the Red Army through
the lower Kuban swamps and
marshes now were paying dividends.
with the capture Of Abinskaya, 20
miles northeast of NovorossiSk on
the railway to Krasnodar.
In one sector of the marsh land
the Russians were reported to have
walloWed IS miles through icy
swamps, cradling their machine
guns. mortars and ammunition in
their arms. They attacked the un-
suspecting Nazis and put them TO
flight, it was reported.
Evening star., 1943-03-25

(See AFRICA, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1943-03-25

(See GERMANS, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1943-03-25

tSee LABOR, Page AID
Evening star., 1943-03-25

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
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-02-18

potem je pa dejal S prisiljeno
mirnim glasom: - Cast, ziv-
ljenje obzalovanja vredne ne
srecnice in zaslepljenega blaz-
neza! -. Bogme, milostiva, ne
razumem vas!
- Ponavljam, gospod, da mi
je znano vse. Carmen mi je vse
povedala. Jutri mora odpotova-
tt V Guyana pojutrisnjem
ali pozneje, a vi Sc upirate te-
mu. vi zahtevate, maj Sc zveze
z vami. Zahtevate, maj zapusti
vse, moza, druzino, maj potepta
javno vse zakone sveta, vse dru-
zabne ozire, da Sc "a vedno uni
ci v grehu. Pa recite, &c nj ta-
ko. ~
Torej vas posilja ona X
meni, milostiva? - je vprasal
Robert YES il sebe, ne da bi od-
govoril ma vprasanje gospe de
Mantlaur.
- Da, - je odgovorila Hele-
ma brez strahu. - Ona me posi-
liza.
Castnik Sc je prijel "a glavo.
- Ona! - je ponovil. - Ona
vas posilja! Je to mogoce?
}. Torej me ne ljubi vec!
- Motite Sc, gospod. ceprav
je njena strast gresna, vas Car
men vendar Sc vedno ljubi !
Ljubi vas il vsega srca, z dina
duse.
- In kljub temu nj prisla!
- Ne, nj prisla ,kajti ceprav
jo ljubezen zeneek yam, Sc ven-
dar tudi zaveda, da ina mater,
XII bi jo njen pogled ubil, da ina
brata, XII jo obozuje, da ina
vdano svakinjo, XII bi jo ia skan-
dal unicil in XII il je prepoveda-
la pobegniti Cd moza " ne
izmerni bolesti je uslisala mo-
je prosnje. Trdno je pa iskle-
Mia, da ne pride nikoli vec k
vam.
Drhtec po vsem telesu je Ro-
bert vstal. Oci so Sc mu srdito
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-02-18

te jih jutri ma obicajni naslov.
All, hvala, hvalal - je de-
jala Helena VISA srecna.
- No torej, je nadalje-
val Robert, no torej, to bi
bilo opravljeno. Nobenega spo-
nina ne bonn incl ma njo. Nj.
koli vec je ne bonn yidel ;.
Povejte j, kako sem jo oboze-
val in kako jo bonn obozeval, do
kler bo utripalo v mojih prsih
srce! :. &c pa I'VE "a mojo
smrt - o, prisegam vam, da
to ne DO necastna smrt, tenn
vec slavna vojakova smrt -,ce
I'VE, da sem mrtev, maj tudi I'VE,
da bo njeno ime in ime najine-
ga sina 2 zadnjim zdihljajem
ma mojih ustnah.
Helena je segla mlademu ritz
mojstru " roko. {
-Dragi Robert, - je deja-
la, " vasih prsih bije res pie
menito srce. Kjerkoli boste in
zgodi Sc. .karkoli, pomnite, da
mislita dye sestri ma vas in da
- il
vsak dan v globoki hvaleznosti
izgovarjata vase ime. Pomnite,
da ina vase dete dve materi. r.,
Mladi castnik je prijel Hele-
no "a roko in il jo spostljivo po-
1jubil. Potem je pa spremil
gospo da Montlaur k njeni ko-
ciji, Xxi jo~je kmalu pripeljala
v Hours.
Izpregovorila nista nobene
besede vec.
Dalje prihodnjic)
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-02-18

Podoben je bill plemicem O.
semnajstega stoletja, tako "a
peljivim, da so Sc zdeli cesto
plod pesniske fantazije; pie
micem, XII so sc borili v Fonte-
noy, ko so bill uljudno pozdra-
viii sovraznika in koketno po-
tresli cipkastimi manseti ;
plemicem, XII so bill vedno pri-
pravljeni potegniti rapirje "a
smehljaj lepe zene in XII so ho-
dill umirat v Kanado ali Indijo
brez drugih izgledov, razen ma
malo slave.
V strogo pravilnih potezah
njegovega obraza 81 lahko 6ital
iskrenost in plemenitost, docim
je kipela v njegovih sveze rde-
cih ustnahs in v ognju njegovih
lepih oci VISA ognjevitost njego-
We vroce in ciste krvi.
Bilo je jasno, da so ga mo-
rale cesto omehcati najneznej-
Sc prosnje ljubezni in da so
njegove ustne potem nenasitno
hrepenele po poljubih. V jezi,
v boju je bill ia moz nedvomno
strasen. Sablja je morala biti
lahka njegovi roki in ponosno
jo je vihtel v boju S sovragom.
Helena je opazila vse to ma
prvi pogled.
In zadrhtela je, kajti V lepem
castniku je videla le strogega
vojScaka bre zvsake rahlocut-
nosti, brez najmanjsega dostop-
mega koticka v njegovem srcu,
kamor bi sc moglo obrniti ME-
no srce.
In vendar, il potez okrog ust,
IL plemenite oblike brade, il
rahlega nadiha melanholije, "a
stirajoce izraz njegovega obra-
"a, je mlada zena uganila, da
castnik ne bo tako nedostopen,
kot Sc il je zdel ma prvi pogled.
In zacela je upati.
Robert d'Alboize nj takoj
odgovoril. Kri mu je udarila v
obraz.
Nekaj casa je zrl molce V tia,
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-02-18

| mladega castnika ma kolena.
Pri tenn pogledu je postalt
| Roberta d. Alboiza sram njego
vega pocetja. Njegov gnev il
naenkrat utihnil pred neizmer
no bolestjo te zene. Spoznal je
da spada ia, XII je tako sklonils
glavo pred MIN, med Maple
menitejsa bitja. Carmen mu j
cesto pravila Q Mi in tudi v jaw.
nosti, tako skepticni in tako ra.
dodarni obsojanjem, Sc j.
govorilo 0 Heleni de Montlaul
s spostovanjem in obcudova.
MEM.
Dvignil jo je in zamrmral '
zadregi: -
JAZZ, milostiva gospa, pro.
sim vas in njo socutja. Tudi JAZZ
prosim usmiljenja. ziveti bre2
ME mi nj mogoce Proved jo
ljubim.
Tudi ona, verjemite mi,
dragi Robert, tudi ona vas ljubi
boil cd svojega zivljenja -.
Obozuje svojega sina, noce ga
zapustiti. Toda srecna in traj-
ma ljubezen je samo tista, XII
smo lahko ma njo ponosni pred
vsem svetom, "a katero Sc lahko
odkrito zahvalimo usodi, da
nam jo je poslala kot posebno
milost; TAXA, XII Sc IL ME rode
otroci, cijih matere so lahko
ponosne med vsemi materami
in XII jih lahko vprico vseh brez
zardevanja objemajo.
- Hocete, da Sc odpovem
Carmen?
- Ne ,dragi Robert, ne odpo-
vedujte Sc tel ljubezni. Usoda
10 je polozila " vase srce in
sveta ie Izpremenite, oci-
site jo samo :. Ukradeni po-
ljubi, sramoteci materinstvo,
vsakodnevne lazi ,podlost vsa-
ko uro ~. to je. zda.j vasa lju-
bezen.. Povzdignite 10 in tudi
sami sse poyzdignete. .Pustite
Carmen odpotovati Ohio
kujte je, kaker objokujemo dra-
gega pokojpika. 49,: zavedajoc
Sc, d. je srecna in hvalezna "a
vase zrtev,. zavedajoe Sc, da ste
Vi tisti, XII, mp mora: biti hva-
LENA -ysaj ga mir, &c ze; ne "a
sreco,, vi Xxi ste izbrisali ME
mega celia sramoto in podlost.
= A &c. nimam moci?
-Jo ,vam, dam JAZZ, kajti vi
ste me ,resili ,tudi meme ste re-
sili ,sramotes in obupa, in ljubila
bonn dragi Robert, ljubila z vso
vdanostjo, XII jo cutimo do svo-