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Evening star., 1943-05-18
S3,58S, 554 Net Shown
By Montgomery Ward
In Three Months
Result Compares With
5,180,65l in Same
Period Lost Year
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 18.-Montgomery
Ward & Co., mail order and retail
merchandise firm, reported net profit
transferred to surplus of s3,588,554
in the three months ended April 30
compared with net profit transferred
to surplus of s5,1oo,651 in the three
months ended April 30, 1912.
Net profit transferred to surplus
this year equaled s. cents a common
share, against SO cents last year.
In the 1912 period the company
set aside s2,40o,oOo as provision for
possible future inventory decline.
Before this deduction, net profits
were s7,560,651. No such provision
was made this wear.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
OPA
Continued From First Page.)

y Continued From First Page)
tailers and wholesalers have been
forced to sell at loss which was not
Contemplated by the fpamers" of
the Emergency Price Control Act
Under which OPA operates.
. Favoritism Charged.
= Mr. Patman asserted favoritism
had been shown a relatively few
larger distributors to the detriment
OF the rank and file of retailers and
wholesalers, and that the big
buyers are debating the prices they
pay at the expense of 1,750,0OO out
Of 1,770000 merchants in the United
States" He added that such practices
could re- only in monopoly.
Il The I | saic the committee
Gso wou.G eek "a sound program
for the solution of the postwar prob
kms of small business We are Civ
Ing consideration to postwar plan
ning and in this category include
distribution as part of small business
rroblems."
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Knox Explains Delay in Giving
Details of Attu Operations

Secretary of the Navy Knox cx.
planned at his press conference to-
day some of the reasons for the
delay in giving details of the opera
tions which we're started early last
week on Attu Island.
The enemy did not get the least
information of the landing until the
troops actually appeared on the
beach. Mr.. Knox said. He insisted
secrecy must be continued on future
operations there until they are
complete.
One reason secrecy was important,
he said, was that the approaches to
Evening star., 1943-05-18

Eastern Shore and in the Baltimore
area.
Many Tractors Idle.
Joseph H. Blanford. chairman of
the Maryland Agriculture Depart
ment War Board, estimated that IS
per cent of companies making bulk
deliveries to farmers in the State
are out of gas Another sourse
estimated that at least 300 tractors
remained idle in Maryland. Pickup
trucks and other mechanical equip
ment were believed tied up also.
Talbot and Caroline Counties on
the Eastern Shore were reported
dry of fuel, while supplies in Worces-
ter, Wicomico, Somerset and Dor
chester were described as very
low"
One distributor on the Eastern
Shore was said to have 5000 orders
for gas from farmers, but with only
1000 gallons available-enough to
service only 40 farms for less than
q week
c. E. Peed, manager of the South
srn States Fairfax County Cooper
Evening star., 1943-05-18
FIintkote Debentures
Placed on Market

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 18.-Lehman
Bros. today offered a new issue of
s3,00o,000 of 15-year 3 per cent
debentures Of the Flintkote Co.,
building material makers, at lO2.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Weather Report

FURNISHED by Bureau
District of CoumbiaA brief evening
lnued tonight and Wednesday
portion
continued tonight and Wednesday morning
VgnaScated thundershoWers
tonight continued warm tonight Wednesday morning
Evening star., 1943-05-18
London Market Quiet

LONDON. May 1a (P,.-A lively
demand for European bonds stood
out in quiet securities market to-
dav.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
New Orleans Prices.

New Orleans Prices
NEW ORLEANS, May is fPl-Con-
tracts were scarce in cotton futures here
tooay 20 ano moderate mill demand served
We verv autaaGe aaGt prices. Closing prices we're
iph
Evening star., 1943-05-18
River Report

Potomac and Shenandoah cloudy at
Harpers Ferry. Potomac slightly muddy
at Great Falls.
Precipitation
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Bonds

N. Y. Bond quotations fur.
nished by the Associated
Press.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Curb Stocks

N. Y. Curb quotations fur
nished by the Associated
precS
Evening star., 1943-05-18

Monthly precipitation in inches In thu
Capltal lcurrent month to datel:
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Gasoline
Many Tractors Idle.
Continued From First Page

Eastern Shore and in the Baltimore
area
Evening star., 1943-05-18

- spot cotton closed steady. 80 cents
PAS "a So higher Sales. .064; low middiins,
i6Iu. mlodllnp, 201O: good noiddjins
u Is. Receipts, 6a3, stock, %! n!l9a:IhS' i9aa
b Bid. n Nominal ''o'''
Evening star., 1943-05-18

Report for Last "a Hours.
Evening star., 1943-01-08
By ALFRED TOOMBS.

The War Production Board, in
a series of orders issued today,
curtailed the production and
use Of paper for a wide variety
Of items-ranging from books to
ice cream cups.
The effect of the orders will be to
remove from the market hundreds
of articles with which Americans
are familiar and to put many other
items on the hard-to-get list.
Confetti, paper doilies, albums,
poker chips and the like were put
on the banned list, as were the paper
cups which are used to package the
familiar scent serving of ice cream
Cardboard Boxes Cut.
Waxed paper, stationery, en-
velopes, paper dishes and paper
napkins were put on the list Of cur
tailed products. Sharp cuts were
made in the production of cardboard
boxes to be used by stores.
Book publishers were told that
they would be allowed 10 per cent
Evening star., 1943-01-08
Jap Transports Get
Continued Batterinu
Off New Guinea
Two Troopships Sunk by
Allied Planes; Army Of
$4,000 Near AnnihiIotion
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Jan. 8.-Allied
planes battered furiously at the
remnants of 10-ship japanese
convoy off the New Guinea coast
today in the violent climax to a
24-hour running battle in
which they were reported off,
cially to have sunk two big
transports, one heavily loaded
with troops, damaged third and
shot down 18 fighters.
(The Navy reported in WASH
ington today that the Army Air
Forces had again bombed Japa-
nese bases at Kiska, in the Aleu-
tian Islands, and Munda, in the
Solomons, but that no results
were reported)
The attacks on the convoy, ap-
parently engaged in an attempt to
land reinforcements in northeastern
New Guinea, were disclosed in an
Allied communique which also an
nounced virtual completion of the
Papuan campaign and the annihila-
ton OF a Japanese army which once
totaled approximately $4,000 men.
To these successes the bulletin
added the announcement that LOT
enemy warships and merchant ves-
sells had been destroyed or severely
damaged by Gen. MacArthur's air.
men since July 23-two days after
the Japanese first landed at Buna.
The toll which the japanese have
paid in their desperate efforts to re-
tain foothold in New Guinea was
emphasized by the disclosure that
one of the two enemy transports
just reported sunk had gone down
with her entire load of troops in a
night bombing attack. How many
men were aboard the ship could
only be conjectured from the state
ment that she was a vessel of $4,000
tons and heavily loaded"
Second Ship Set Afire.
The second transport, the COM
munique said, was disabled by a
direct hit, set af1re and later sunk.
The third vessel, reported damaged.
was heavily hit by a 5OO-pound
bomb.
Advices from New Guinea said the
convoy had been spotted by a re-
connoitering Liberator bomber on
the morning of January about 80
miles off New Britain, where the
japanese recently have been report
ed concentrating a great mass of
shipping.
The Liberator moved in to attack
after fighting off eight intercepting
Zeros, probably shooting down one.
Details of the running battle which
then ensued, with more and more
Allied planes joining in the assault,
were lacking, but an Allied spOkes-
man said that Liberators. Console
dated Catalinas, Flying Fortresses,
North American Billy Mitchells
Martin Marauders and Lockheed
Lightnings all had participated.
In addition to the 18 Japanese
fighters definitely reported shot
down, five were listed as probably
destroyed and four as damaged.
(See pANTFIC POGO A-c1
Evening star., 1943-01-08
U.S.-French Camel Corps Takes
Point in 7unision Desert
Force Moves to Within 200 Miles Of TripoIi
Americans Bomb Palermo, in Sicily

reported to have resisted adop-
ton of trucks and armored cars
on the ground that they are too
easily spotted in the daytime, but
now use them to complement
their animals.)
Bad Weather in North.
This action was the only re.
ported land operation on the front
as bad weather closed in again or
the Northern sector.
4talian headquarters listed 46
persons killed and 272 injured in
daylight raid yesterday on Pa
lermo, Sicily, which United States
headquarters at Cairo announced
as having been made by four
motored American bombers. No
plane was lost, a communique
said. Damage was reported in the
central part of town, but cloud
conditions prevented observation
of results except for one great
yellow explosion in the target
area the bulletin said.
British military quarters in
London said Cairo reports tell
(See AFRICA. Page A-6)
Evening star., 1943-01-08
President Reiterutes HOPE
For Allied Victory in 1914

a belated insert be placed in his
message to Congress. He said that
in transcribing the ninth and final
draft, a small omission had been
made by his Secretarial staff in his
discussion of production figures.
He had planned to include in them
these two sentences:
I'm 1912 we built 5000 900 tons of
merchant ships. In this we exceeded
the goal set.'
Mr.. Roosevelt told reporters he did
not want any one in shipyards or
maritime work to think there had
been q deliberate omission which
which would fail to give them their
due credit.
Evening star., 1943-01-08
Doctors Disagree on Kenny
Paralysis treatments
By the Associated Press.


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Jan. g.
Four orthopedic surgeons failed to
agree yesterday on the methods of
treatments for infantile paralysis
advanced by the Australian nurse,
Sister Elizabeth Kenny.
The surgeons were DR.. H. r. Nc
Carroll of the st. Louis Shrine Grip
pied Children's Hospital DR.. F.
Walter Carruthers of the University
of Arkansas medical school faculty,
DR.. Willard E. Knapp, director OF
physiotherapy at the University of
Minnesota and DR.. Albert J. Key,
orthopedic surgeon at Barnes Hospi-
tai in st. Louis.
At the invitation of DR.. Carruthers,
Drs. McCarroll, Knapp and Key
came here for a study of cases
treated during an outbreak of the
disease in Arkansas last summer.
Drs. McCarroll and Key declared
the patients examined here would
have made equal recovery without
use of the Kenny treatment. Drs.
Carruthers and Knapp dissented.
All agreed that most of the cases
in last summers outbreak were not
true infantile paralysis.
Evening star., 1943-01-08
| Nehring Removal
| Is Confirmed by
lNuzi NewsreeI
Special Radio to The Star and Chicago
Daily News

Special Radio TO The Star and Chicago
Daily News.
BERN, Jan. 8.-Amusing con-
f1rmation of Gen. Walther Nehr-
ing's removal from the supreme
command of Axis forces in Tunisia
comes from Germany. The Berlin
correspondent Of the Basler Mach
richten., presumably awed by the
fearsome specter of the Nazi censor,
concludes a long roundup of the
Russian offensive with the follow
ing irrelevant sentence:
"As can be seen from the German
newsreel, showing in the cinemas
this week, Axis troops in Tunisia
are now commanded by Gen. Won
Arnim." (Col. Gen. Juergen Won
Arnim, described as lone of Hitler's
favorite panzer commanders.
This is not the first time the
German public has been informed
Of a change in the high command
by such indirect means. The re-
placement of Col. Gen. Franz
Halder, chief Of the German general
staff operating from Hitler's East
ern headquarters, by Gen. Kurt
Zeitzler (former chief of staff of
Field Marshal Won Kleists 1st
Panzer Army was first disclosed by
q photograph of the new chief Of
staff standing beside the Fuehrer.
tCoryright 1943 Chicago Daily News, Inc.)
Evening star., 1943-01-08
D. T.. Police Start
Enforcing Ban on
Pleasure Driving
Lost Copies Of OPA
Regulations Found at
Detective Bureau
(Picture on Page BIZ

District police began enforce
ment of the ban on pleasure driv-
ing today, after copies of the
Office of Price Administration
regulations and forms on which
to report violations were dis
tributed to all policemen.
Also at work interrogating motor
lists were $50 OPA investigators in
their region, which includes the Dis
trict, Maryland, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and Delaware. All mem
bers of local OPA stats also will be
instructed to help watch for viola
tors, Sylvan Joseph, regional OPA
director, said.
Copies of the OPA order and re-
port forms were distributed to police
precinct stations shortly before noon
by motorcycle policemen, after en-
forcement of the ban had been de-
layed by ''loss" of the 1000 copies of
the regulation.
Found in Detective Bureau.
Police said early today that they
had not begun checking violations
because the regulations, expected
last night from OPA, had not ar
rived. Bundles containing the reg
ulations finally were located about
10 am. in the Detective Bureau
where they had been left by a mes
senger from the local OPA office.
The messenger, OPA said, had at
tempted to deliver the forms to Mai
Edward j. Kelly, police superintend-
ent, and not finding him, had depos-
Continued on Page A-4, Column A.
Evening star., 1943-01-08
NYA Has More Stations
Than Youths in Some
States, Byrd Says
Director Defends Agency
Soying Unemployment
Will Return After War
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

The National Youth Adminis-
tration has more training sta
tions than it has trainees in
many States, Chairman Byrd of
the Joint Committee on Nom
Essential Federal Expenditures,
charged today at the resump-
ton of hearings on possible
economies for 1943.
Defending the continued exist
ence OF his agency Aubrey Williams,
NYA director, argued that for the
country as whole he had in Octo-
Der $4,000 trainees for $4,000 active
work stations.
Senator Byrd Contended, however,
that according to Budget Bureau
data. there are $4,000 NYA training
stations, of which $4,000 are not in
use.
Mr.. Williams attributed this to
the action of the last Congress in
cutting his appropriation from
$l60,000,O 900 to $5O,0O0,00O and re-
stricting the program to defense
training. He complained also that
NYA cannot pay its trainees as
much as other agencies.
Representative Doughton, Demo-
crat, of North Carolina asked if it
would not require a vast increase
in the appropriation to raise the
trainee paw rates and operate all the
facilities. Mr.. Williams said it
would take some increase, but dis
agreed with the term vast"
Puts Figures Into Record.
Senator Byrd read the following
figures into the record:
Vermont, 208 training stations for
205 trainees; Delaware, "a stations
and 16 trainees; New Jersey, 839
stations and 639 trainees; Maryland,
487 stations to 405 trainees; Wis
consin, 2,786 stations and 1926
trainees; Iowa, 1,085 stations and
300 trainees; Nebraska, 324 to 253;
Kansas, sos to $50; Wyoming, 100 to
64; California, 628 to 523; Oregon,
1852 to Sc, and Washington State, 2l1
to 1853.
Mr.. Williams said he was making
considerable headway in dismantling
stations not in use until an order
came through requiring all surplus
(See ECONOMY, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1943-01-08
13 Missing as Fire Traps
Mine Shift Underground
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Jan. g.
A sudden mine fire caught the night
shift of the Pursglove Coal Mining
Co. underground early today and
first official reports said it was "rea-
sonably certain" that three or four
men had died.
The fire, in mine motor at the
No. Is mine-a short distance from
No. 2 mine where 20 men died in a
blast last July-caught 78 men
underground, but officials said all
but l3 were accounted for.
S. R. Pursglove, company COM
pensation attorney, said he felt GER
tain one or two men were dead.
George Stewart, another company
official, reported to State Mines
Chief Jesse H. Redyard that possibly
four had lost their lives.
Mr.. Pursglove said IL of the 78
men in the mine at the time re-
manned inside to help combat the
flames. while all others with the
exception of the missing 13 had
reported outside.
Rescuers were reported to have
reached a section where nine of the
missing men had been at work. Their
Jackets and dinner buckets were
gone.
Evening star., 1943-01-08
COP Senators
Meet in Accord;
Rivals Fight
MeNoy Is Reelected
As BorkIey Wins
After Party Revolt

Senate Republicans unani-
mously reelected Charles L.
McNary of Oregon as minority
leader today and approved as
signments giving them increased
representation on standing COM
mittees.
In session so controversial
in its aspects that Senator McNary
commented that harmony was so
thick it ran down my cheeks" the
minority conference reelected Sem
ator White of Maine as it's secretary.
The COP harmony was directly in
contrast to the Democratic con-
ference last night, at which Ma
jority Leader Barkley beat off an
insurgent effort to curb his power
by vote of "a to 90
The threatened rift in Democratic
ranks came on motion by Senator
Mcclellan, Democrat, of Tennessee
to take away Senator Barkleys
authority to fill vacancies on the
important Democratic Steering
Committee, which shapes the leg
islative program. and require elec-
ton of new committeeman.
Threat to Quit Reported.
In the course of the four-hour
debate behind closed doors. Senate
Barkley is understood to have
threatened to resign if his COL
leagues adopted the new restric-
ton. While the roll call averted
this open split, it reflected two
decided schools of thought on the
Democratic side. Some observers
viewed it as another symptom of
the tendency of the Seventy eighth
Congress to be more independent
and to regain power.
The Democrats adopted unani-
mouSly, however a resolution by
Senator George of Georgia express
ing the sense of the meeting that
the Steering Committee should
meet at convenient intervals to dis
cuSs the legislative program. Sena-
tor Barley said he readily agreed
| to this step, and pointed out he had
called two meetings of the commit
tee near the close of the old Con-
greSs.
The contest which came to head
at yesterdays party conference be-
gan to develop in the closing weeks
of the old session, when adminis-
tration forces sought to pass an
anti-poll tax bill over Southern op-
position. In the course of that fight
Senator Barkley on one occasion
ordered the sergeant at arms to ar
rest a group of absentees, including
Senator Mcclellan, to force the pres
ence of a quorum.
Two Nominated for Sergeant.
At that time there were rumblings
on the Democratic side that the
Steering Committee should exercise
a stronger voice in shaping the
| legislative program.
The Democrats postponed for two
weeks the selection of a sergeant
at arms, after two nominations had
been put forward. Senator Connally
Of Texas renominated the incum-
Evening star., 1943-01-08
WPB Restricts Use
Of Certain Oils, Fats
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Use of certain fats and oils in the
manufacture of several inedible
products has been forbidden by the
War Production Board.
The fats and oils are butter, lard,
rendered pork fat, oleo oil, oleo
stearin, oleo stock, edible tallow,
edible olive. peanut, sunfower,
sesame, raisin seed, tomato seed,
cotton seed, corn, soybean, seal oil
and whale OIL excluding sperm.
Products in which they may not
be used include such items as soap,
paints, varnishes, linoleum and
printing inks.
The chemicals division of WPB
said yesterday that in nearly all
cases substitutes are available.
The order supplements the WPB's
action January l permitting man.
facturers of margarine to increase
the amounts of fats and oils they
could use.
Evening star., 1943-01-08
GUIDE FOR READERS
WPB Orders Sharp Reduction
In Paper Article Manufacture

less paper from now on and COM
mercial printers were likewise told
they would have to get along with
80 per cent Of their previous paper.
The orders brought the entire
paper producing and distributing
industry under WPB curtailment
orders. Newspapers and magazines
previously had been ordered to cut
their consumption Of paper approx
imately 10 per cent.
1t was indicated that the reduc-
ticns announced so far were of a
preliminary nature, and that as
the war goes on, heavier slashes
will be made in paper use.
The five orders issued today by the
WPB provided:
1. That the paper and pulp manu-
facturers shall cut down on the
manufacture Of certain grades of
paper and increase production of
others needed In the war effort. They
were ordered to concentrate on using
waste to make cheap grades Of
paper.
2. That book publishers may have
CONTINUED on Page AS, Column -
Evening star., 1943-01-08
More Authority Granted
To WPB Field Offices
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Further decentralizing it's oper-
ations, the War Production Board
today granted increased authority
to its field Offices fot approval Of
emergency ratings.
The IL regional directors were au-
thorized to approve, countersign and
issue individual preference ratings
for emergency repair up to and in
cluding AL.
In addition, the 110 district offices
may grant ratings for emergency
repair, up to and including AA-2.
The authority is limited to cases
where the material for which an
applicant seeks priority assistance
does not exceed $500 in value.
Evening star., 1943-01-08
German Refugee Willing
ToWed Former for Home
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Jan 8.-Marion
Sander, 18-year-old German refu-
gee, answered the matrimonial re-
quest of Lookout Mountain farmer
because she wants home.
When the dark, shy young girl
read news story about Lloyd Back,
26-year-old Tennessee mountain
farmer who wanted wife, she
wrote to him, in care of the Asso-
ciated Press in Chattanooga.
Americans who are secure In
their homes don't know how terrible
it is to lose everything" Marion
said here.
II sent the letter because I'm
looking for home"
Miss Sander last heard from her
father in China, but she doesn't
know where he Is now.
Evening star., 1943-01-08
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 8.-At-
tacking against heavy odds, a
French and American camel
corps have captured Tanout NAL
Ter, IA miles from Tiaret in the
Southern Tunisian desert near
the Tripolitanian border, only
200 miles southwest of Tripoli, a
French military spokesman de-
clared today.
This was the closest Allied pene-
tration so far reported to Tripoli in
a sweep to the south of the main
Axis defense line through North
eastern Tunisia.
Two hundred and fifty Italians
were reported killed in the attack.
Hondon sources said the camel
corps which took Tanut Mailer
was partially motorized force of
savage, swift-moving fighters who
operated almost exclusively by
night and sought concealment by
day.
(French officers and men were
Evening star., 1943-01-08
French Pretender Reaches
AIqiers; London WatchfuI
Rv the Associated pre.s

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 8.-The 35-year-
old Count of Paris, pretender to the
throne of France, has arrived in
Algiers, North Africa, to "complicate
the political situation" further, the
Daily Express said today.
Certain Leftists here" said the
newspapers correspondent in Africa,
argue that he returned to Algiers
for proposed coup d'etat which
involved Admiral Darlan's assassina-
ton"
Henri, son of the Duke of Guise,
became chief of the House of France
on the death of his father in 1910.
Before the war the count had been
exiled from French soil and lived
in Spanish Morocco.