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Evening star., 1943-04-29

Disappointing results in the
honor system" method Of curbing
pleasure driving has dissuaded the
Office of Price Administration from
attempting this type of enforcement
for its other price and rationing
regulations, it was learned today.
Price Administrator Prentiss M.
Brown, in announcing in March that
Eastern motorists were placed on
their honor not to drive more than
was necessary, said he hoped similar
enforcement methods could be ap-
piled to other OPA programs. The
Public Roads Administration, how
ever, submitted figures to show the
public failed to comply with Mr..
Browns plea before A book rations
were cut so per cent. Oil industry
officials also maintain there has been
too much driving as usual" since
OPA lifted police methods of en-
forcing the driving ban.
Thomas I. Emerson, senior asso-
ciate general counsel in charge of
OPA's compliance program, declared
the intention of the agency to rely
on something more than honor" in
order to hold the line" on prices
and rationing. Mr.. Emerson said
this change did not mean that
every one has to be put in JAIL" how
ever.
OPA will rely more and more on
price panels to be attached to local
Evening star., 1943-04-29
BY the~Associated Press.

BY the Ass0clated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April %
Bob" Doudoroff's proudest claim
is that he once sank Admiral
Kichisaburo Nomura.
The next time I get him, I'll sink
him for good" he says
His next proudest claim is that,
although his real name is Boris P
Doudoroff and he once was an ad-
miral in the Imperial Russian Navy,
every workman in the war plant
where he now is timekeeper calls
him just Bob"
Mr.. Doudorof recalls he was a
second lieutenant and aide de camp
to the commander of mine defense
at Port Arthur during the Russo
japanese war just after the turn of
the century. While serving there he
was commander of a launch which
laid the mines that blew up the
japanese coast defense battleship
Sai-Yen. He was decorated for the
deed.
Nomura, Ambassador to Washing
ton during the 1941 peace" talks,
was aboard the ship then as a lieu
tenant. Mr.. Doudoron didn't know
about 1t, however, until 40 wears later
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Largest Mine in Ohio
And -Four Others Close

CLEVELAND, April % (P).-Five
Eastern Ohio mines-including the
States largest-were closed today by
a work stoppage of United Mine
Workers unionists, the owners re-
ported.
The extension into Ohio of work
stoppages halts daily production of
about $4,000 tons of bituminous coal
and affects 1000 or more employees,
the companies added.
Declaring that shifts failed to
report last midnight or this morning,
company spokesmen said these East
ern Ohio mines were closed:
The North American Coal Corp. S
Powhatan shaft, miles south of
Bellaire, Ohio, and described as the
States largest.
The M. A. Hanna Co.'S Willow
Grove and Dun Glen mines.
The Rail & River Corps No.
mine and the Webb mine, owned by
George M. Jones of Dayton.
The North Americans chairman,
Henry Schmidt, who also is presi-
dent of the Powhatan Mining Co.,
said work was at standstill "be-
cause the men refused to enter the
shafts at midnight" The Powhatan
shaft produces 5000 tons of coal
daily.
A spokesman for the Hanna Co.
said the stoppage at the Willow
Grove and Dun Glen shafts meant
loss of about 10,500 tons of soft coal
daily
William P. Cayton, president Of
the Rail & River Corps No. mine
at Stewards, said only so men "out
of total force of 1854 on the first
shift" reported today, and that as a
result work was impossible.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Nazis Force SchooIboys
To Mine Coal, owl Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Office of War Information re-
ported today that Germany seeks to
restore its declining coal production
by using large numbers of school
boys, war prisoners and workers
from conquered countries" in its
mines.
One underground report from
Germany said that as far back as
1941 boys just graduated from school
were sent into the mines without
vacation and fines were assessed
against the fathers of those refusing
Germany, the report added, is
drawing heavily on conquered
coal-producing countries to meet he,
deficit, operating their mines under
slave conditions and denying fuel tc
the country's own industries"
Coal-mining nations now under
the swastika include Polish Silesia
France, Czecho-Slovakia, Belgium
Yugoslavia, Rumania and the Rus
sian Donets region.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
War Worker Proudly Claims
HeOnce Sank Admiral Nomuro

when he read about it in an Amer
lean magazine
A native of Vladikavas, Mr.. Dou-
doroff attended both military college
and naval academy in Russia. He
became lieutenant commander ir
1912 and later was a lecturer in the
naval academy. He said his junior
officers there included Igor Sikorsky
and Alexander de Seversky. After
the 1917 revolution, he was named
assistant to the minister of the navy
and later accepted a commission as
admiral and was sent to Toxic as
naval attache to the Embassy
While there he learned to know
Nomura.
He would promise everything, -
Mr.. Doudoroff says. when YOU left
him, he would promptly forget all
about it"
Graphically, Mr.. Doudoroff said he
fell into disfavor at home while in
Toxic and never returned.
After the 1923 earthquake in
Toxic, Mr.. Doudoroff and his family
came to San Francisco. He worked
for a time correcting Arctic Ocean
charts for the 18th Naval District,
then went into business for himself
He has been timekeeper at an iron
works since January.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
u. ..liberators Blast
Naples and Messind in
Simultaneous Raids
Five Axis Fighters Shot
Down Trying to Intercept
DoyIieht Attackers
By the Associated Press.


CAIRO, April 29.-TWo Liberia
tor formations of the 9Th United
States Air Force struck simul-
taneously in daylight yesterday
at Naples and the Sicilian port
of Messina and shot down five
enemy fighters which rose to in
tercept them, it was announced
today.
A United States communique said
the Naples attack resulted in nu-
merous direct hits on the Vittorio
Emanuele Mole and vicinity. One
Messerschmitt 109 was destroyed.
Numerous direct hits were re-
ported scored with heavy -caliber
bombs on the ferry slips, terminal
building, railroad sidings and on a
port power station at Messina.
Large explosions with fires and
heavy black smoke resulted" the
communique said. The bomber
formation was attacked by large
force of enemy fighters, of which at
least four were shot down"
One of the American planes failed
to return.
(The Berlin radio reported
from Rome that Al persons were
killed and SO were wounded in
Naples, three were killed and II
wounded in Messina and five per-
sons were injured in other oper-
ations directed against Lampe-
dusar4and -Syracuse.,~-.....- ...,..,.4
The Italian high command
claimed that seven invading
bombers we're shot down by Ital-
ian fighters, four over Naples, two
over Messina and one elsewhere
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Africa
Continued From First Page J

progress and gained some important
ground" in its push through the
hrushy hills of North Tunisia toward
Mateur and Bizerte. The 18th
French Corps in the south, operat-
ing at the hinge between the Brit
ish 1st and 9th Armies, was credited
with additional local gains.
First Attack Repulsed.
The first of the Nazi counter.
attacks against the British penetra-
tion was. launched by infantrymen
supported by 80 tanks at 4:40 pm
on the Djebel Bou Auokaz. The
British defenders hurled it back in
one Of the bloodiest battles of the
North African campaign.
A considerable number of the
German riflemen were killed and
several Of the tanks were Knocked
out. $
The Germans, however, reformed
and put on Q second attack which
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Factory Worker Is Held
In Hammer Attacks

BY The Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April ga slight,
25-year-old factory worker, Eugene
Schmittling, was booked yesterday
on three charges of attempted mur-
der and two charges of attempted
assault after IL young girls and
women identified him as the man
who terrorized them with knife
and hammer.
Schmittling sobbed and protested
innocence as victims singled him out
from groups of prisoners. He was
arrested Tuesday, the day after the
three-hour foray of terror on the
Northwest Side. His wife, Sylvia,
20. was with him when he was seized
in his room.
Police said their records showed
Schmittling was arrested on a
criminal attack charge in East St.
Louis on June 20, 1910, and was
acquitted Of similar charge here
November II, 1s42.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Total of 1880 Miners
Quit Work in Kentucky

HARLAN, KY, April 20 IP.-
More than 10000 Harlan County
soft coal miners were idle today as
work stoppage in the Harlan coal
fields spread to Is mines.
Only is mines, employing a total
OF about $500 men, were working
this morning.
Miners at the United States Coal
& Coke mine at Lynch refused to
enter the pits this morning, as did
miners at Black Star, Harlan
Wallins and Yocum Creek. Lynch
employs $500 and the other three
a total of $50.
Miners who quit work today
brought the total in Harlan to
10,250 and the total in Kentucky
to 1920 as 5000 miners in the Con-
solidated Coal Co. mines at Jenkins
and McRoberts in the Big Sandy
Field failed to report for work last
night.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Polish Envoy to Moscow
Prepares to Leave Russia

MOSCOW, April 20 (P.-Tadeusz
Romer, Ambassador of the London
Polish government-in-ex to Mos
cow, arranged to leave here today
with his staff for Kuibyshev, and
then planned to quit the Soviet
Union.
The belief prevailed in certain
quarters here, however, that the
Soviets' "suspending" of relations
means that hope has not been aban-
doned completely for repairing the
breach between the two govern
ments.
This does not mean that an agree
ment would be reached with the
present Polish leaders, especially
after attacks by Wanda Vasilevskaya,
president of the Union of Polish
Patriots and by editorials in
Pravda, the Communist Party organ,
in which the present Polish govern
ment was accused of having far
reaching connections with Berlin.
The Russian press carried more
denunclatlons today, one writer in
Pravda declaring the Polish leader
ship was blind and deaf to the suf-
fering of its people"
The Pravda writer, a commentator
named Volsky, spoke of an anti
Soviet campaign and propaganda of
aggression in the East, and plans of
capture of Ukrainian White Russia
and Lithuanian territories" which
he said, was radically strange and
hostile to the interests of the Polish
Masses
The people of those areas, he said
regard the Soviet Union as natural
friend, ally and powerful neighbor
whose heroic struggle against Hit
lerite Germany is clearing the way
for the liberation of Poland"
Another writer, Alexander Dow
henko, continued the attack on the
Polish government in Red Star, the
Red Army newspaper, charging that
it plotted the adventurous plans OF
joining Ukrainian White Russia and
Lithuanian territories to Poland
Free democratic Poland will live
Democratic Poland. resurrected and
frightened from fire, flames ano
suffering-and besides it Ukrainian
White Russia and Lithuania-will
live"
Evening star., 1943-04-29
6-Hour 2O-Minute Flight Sets
Newfound|und-Brituin Record

dom landfall-to-landfall mark was
set recently by Capt w. S. May OF
Mount Royal, who flew practically
the entire course-2,20O statute
mlles-in dense cloud at about
10000 feet. He found he could not
get over it even at $4,000 feet.
Plotting a Liberator with maxi
mum all-up load of about $4,000
pounds and aided by a tailwind
sometimes approaching 100 knots,
Capt. May landed on an airfeld in
Britain in only hours and 40
minutes from take-off to landing.
The previous best take-of to land
ing Atlantic flight of hours and l
minute was accomplished IA months
ago by a pilot officer of the Royal
Australian Air Force in a Hudson
twin -engine bomber.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Mrs. Smith Admits Receiving S., 300 Paw
Nv ROBERT C. HARPER.


Mrs. Eula Smith, 2101 r street
NV, who refused to answer ques-
tions asked yesterday by a House
Military Affairs Subcommittee in
vestigating war contracts, said today
she never had obtained war con-
tracts for any one. and that time
would clear the mystery as far as
she is concerned.
Interviewed in the home owned by
the estate of the late DR.. William
Holland Wilmer, noted eye specialist,
Mrs. Smith shed light on her con-
nection with the probe being con-
Quoted by Congress.
Admits Receiving $1,000.
She admitted she had received
$1,000 from Albert Bennett Fey for
doing research work" Asked If she
would elaborate this statement, Mrs.
Smith replied:
II try to keep informed on many
subjects"
She said: "Time will take care of
the whole thing, as far as I am con-
cerned. - If I have been put in a
bad light, time will clear that up,
too."
Discussing Mr.. Fey, Mrs. Smith
said:
Il think the committee of Con-
gress will find that Mr.. Fey rep
resented private business, and
whatever transactions he had oc-
CURED long before knew him. He
asked me If knew where engineers
could be located to help him in his
work. am not sure, because I don't
know enough about the mans
business"
Was Guest at Her Home.
She said Mr.. Fey was a guest
at her home, and 1t was possible
that Army and Navy officers also
were present.
Il don't remember whether he
was guest when officers were
present" she remarked, adding, "it
is almost impossible nowadays to
have friends to dinner who are not
in uniform"
She said she has resided here for
a year, that she is "a happily mar
ried person, having a 9-year-old
daughter" and that her husband,
Gus Smith, is employed by the In
ternal Revenue Bureau in Jack
sonville. Fla.
Mrs. Smith asserted that Mr.. and
Mrs. John Monroe and their daugh-
ter have been guests in her home.
The Monroes live in Boston, Mass,
she said.
Il love people," she told a re-
porter. Il don't know where would
entertain friends unless it was in
my home.
There are so many important
things going on in the world today
that whatever happens to an in
dividual is inconsequential," she as
serted.
Mrs Smith said she was born in
Alabama, attended Brenau College
at Gainesville, Ga, and was married
to Mr.. Smith in 1926.
During the interview she went to
the telephone four times to answer
calls.
1T is strange" she remarked,
people call up and when I answer
the phone they hang up without
saying a word"
She declined comment on her re-
fusal to answer questions pro-
pounded by the House Military
Affairs Subcommittee, saying she
had acted on advice of counsel.
Talking in a soft, modulated voice,
Mrs. Smith closed the interview by
saying: - - --'',s-'. : s~s,.
Il, am Just about to cry, because
am tirndS
Evening star., 1943-04-29
War Contracts
Continued From First Page J

Wednesday would be extraordinary
in character. The meeting actually
will be a gathering of the inyesti-
eating committee which the two wit
nesses snubbed yesterday, he point
ed out, but he has asked all q mem
bers of the full committee to attend.
so that they can act without further
delay If necessary.
Refuse to Testify.
After being called by subpoena
both witnesses yesterday refused
to testify on the ground they might
incriminate themselves. About all
Mrs. Smith would tell was her name.
Efforts to elicit information about
social affairs at 2l01 R street were
futile.
The other reluctant witness
wouldn't even tell his name or ex-
plain why his private automobile
bore congressional tags, but Mr..
Burton said the man was John
Monroe"
Eventually, the mystery of the
congressional tags was cleared up by
Representative Morrison, Democrat,
of Louisiana, who told, reporters
they were his. He explained he
had used the car recently and had
the tags put on but failed to remove
them.
The dinner party at the r street
house Was. disclosed by the only
talkative witness who appeared be-
fore the subcommittee yesterday
Albert Bennett Fey of East Orange,
N. j., former contract agent for
the Narragansett Machine Co. of
Pawtucket, R. 1. He said he attended
the dinner and met a number of
Army and Navy officers whose names
he did not recall, as we'll as a Mr..
Monroe, who he believed had some
thing to do with politics"
Identifies Checks.
Mr.. Fey also identified photostatic
copies of seven checks drawn by him
on Washington bank for total of
$4,000 which he said he had issued
to Mrs. Smith over a period of
several months last year in payment
Tor various research work" He
said Mrs. Smith also put him in
touch" with engineers and other
people he desired to reach.
Mr.. Fey told the subcommittee
that in his association with the
Pawtucket company for about a year
he crossed about $21 900, which in
cluded expenses he said were heavy
He added he is suing the company
Tor further money he claims IS due
him.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
BY the Associated Press.


MONTREAL, April 29.-The Raj
Transport Command broke wartime
secrecy today to disclose q series of
new records for North Atlantic fly
ing, including landfall- to-landfall
flight from Newfoundland to the
United Kingdom in 6 hours and 20
minutes.
Previously few individual records
had been announced by the trans
port command, formerly known as
the Raj Ferry Command, but this
was the first disclosure of record
times for the whole North Atlantic
service, including the best perform
ances for flights between various
points along the route.
The Newfoundland United King
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Alabama Coal Digging
Is Virtually Halted
With $4,000 Idle
Industries and Railways
Face Full Crisis in Two
Or Three Weeks
BY the Associated Press.


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April 90
Industry looked fearfully at its
dwindling coal supply today as con-
tinued idleness of approximately
$4,000 of the States $4,000 miners
brought coal production here to a
virtual standstill.
The Alabama Mining Institute
estimated mines employing approx
mately 400 were working today,
some with less than normal crews.
Included in the mines shutdown
were all those producing coal for
the coke ovens which supply the
districts industrial fuel, and q
usually we'll informed industrial
source declared last night the supply
of coal at the coke ovens would not
last through May IS.
This same source estimated that
the fuel shortage would be reflected
in steel ingot production mot later
than May 10 if the production of
coal is not resumed on a normal
basis by that date"
AA w 4 "SC NlASHSs
Railroads, another source said, had
somewhat higher stocks than heavy
industry, but indicated they, too,
would face critical situation with
in three weeks or less"
The few mines in the State still
in operation supply coal to several
railroads including those operating
north and east of Birmingham.
James H. Terry, international rep
resentative of the United Mine
Workers of America, said he hoped
several mines now shut down will
be back in operation soon" and
added that he was making eyery
effort to get the men back into the
mines.
IA Additional Mines Close.
Although the UNIV Cancelled its
temporary agreement with the Ala
bama operators effective at midnight
tomorrow, its letter of notification
to locals had asked that they work
the remainder of the week, Mr..
Terry said. He asserted the men
had walked out because they were
not satisfied with the progress to-
ward new contract"
Fourteen additional mines, includ-
ing the Hamilton mine of Tennessee
Coal, Iron & Railroad Co., one of
the States largest producers, shut
down yesterday. 1t was the last of
the coking coal producers to operate.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
1000 Miners Are Idle
In Two Virginia Counties

BRISTOL, Va, April % LP.-
Major operations in the coal fields
of Southwest Virginia are still un-
disturbed, but more than 1000
miners are remaining away from
the mines in Wise and Buchanan
Counties.
A Buchanan County mine official
said that about $500 men were out
In four mines of the county. The
Harmon Coal Corp, largest opera
ton in the county, is still working,
he said, but there is mot a very
heavy shift on"
At the Peerless Coal Co. mines at
Glamorgan in Wise County 400
miners went to the drift mouth yes
terday morning but did not enter,
A few miners were reported out
at the Imboden and Roda mines in
Wise County, but in general opera
tlons proceeded on a normal basis.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
End Of Transit Strike
Cleveland Today
Seen nbyUnion Head
Workers Will Be Asked
To Return immediately;
Thousands Thumb Rides
By the Associated Press,


CLEVELAND, April ga quicks
end of Cleveland's mass transporta-4
tidn walkout was forecast today by
Thomas P. Meaney, president of the
striking AFL Streetcar and Motor
Coach Operators Union. ii
Mr.. Meaney's forecast came after
the strike, effective last midnight,
tied up streetcars and buses and
forced thousands of war workers to-
hitch-hike to their jobs. 8,
Mr.. Meaney called strikers meet
ing for pm. and announced he,
would recommend immediate return.
to work with promise of resumption
of wage negotiations tomorrow after
noon.
Officials of the City Transit Sys-
tenn said a favorable vote would en-
able resumption of service by about
4:30 pm, in time for most of the
evening rush hour traffic. The an
nouncements came after Mr.. Meaney
and other union and CTS officials =
met with Mayor Frank j. Lausche's
War Production Committee. >,
Autos Jam Streets.
Not street car or city bus could
be seen on Public Square during the
morning rush hour as the City Tran
sit Systems sriders-averaging 1,3l5,-e
600 daily-pulled idle automobiles
from garages and created traffic
jams reminiscent OF -rationing.
days.
Mayor Lausche urged automobile
drivers to travel the main streets
and pick up pedestrians, and motor
lists reported so many people we're
cooperating that, on well-traveled
thoroughfares, they had difficulty
| filling their car seats.
In walking out the unionists de-,
fed an order by their international
officials and also ignored a tele-
graphed plea by Undersecretary Of.
War Robert P. Patterson to refer
their wage dispute to Government
agencies.
Mayor Lausche said the telegram
from Mr.. Patterson asked him ito
transmit to the members of the
union the urgent request of the War
Department that they refrain from
striking"
Michael Garvey, an international
vice president of the union, said
he received telegram from Edward
McMorroW, first international vice
president. lnstructing him to CON
Vey to our membership that the
deadllne must be lifted at once. and
negotiations carried on as the laws
OF our association provide"
Unions Demands Cited.
Mr.. Meany said the union was
holdlng to its original demand for
wage scale of $105 an hour for
streetcar motormen and conductors
and $l.l5 an hour for bus drivers
VINO operate alone. Present hourly
rates are 9012 cents for streetcar
men and 97l2 cents for bus OPERA
tors.
Mr.. Meany asserted the Union
would accept, as substitute, a 40
hour week at the present scale. with
time and half for all overtime.
Most men now work about 54 hours
weekly at regular rates, he said.
walter McCarter, City Transit
System general manager, has offered
~ cents an hour increase for
each class of employees. He said the
unions attitude was completely un-
reasonable" and a strike at this time
was IAN outrage"
Alter an all-night session with
Mayor Lausche and city and union
ofhclals, L. M. Gill, Regional War
Labor Board chairman, ordered en-
ployes today to return to their Jobs
immediately
Evening star., 1943-04-29
|WPB Continues Ban
On Whisky Production
BY the Associated Press.

BY the AsSoclated Press.
The War Production Board, deny
ing there is lack Of storage facil-
tiles for industrial alcohol, said to-
day reports that whisky production
might be resumed were without
basis.
The agency said tankage facilities
now are available for storage Of ap-
proximately 5000, 900 gallons OF In
dustrial alcohol, in addition to the
present stick pile exceeding 100000 :
coo gallons.
Evening star., 1943-04-29
Catholic Veteruns to RoIIy

Representative Sullivan of Me-
vada will address the patriotic rally
of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Cath
olic War Veterans of the District
at 8 O'Clock tonight at the st. An
thongs Catholic Church parish hall,
1880 Lawrence street NE. Five
posts of the Catholic War Veterans
will mass their colors.