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Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1943-07-29

Oakland Airport, California
Dear Mother and Father Virdin:
I received your letter and was
very glad to hear from you. I hope
that you both are in good health
and enjoying life as you deserve.
l am feeling fine, but I surely
would not mind furlough SO that
l might come back home on a short
visit to see you and my friends
once again. Of course that is q
rather good size job, since it is
about 5000 miles from where I am
stationed back to Smyrna.
1t is quite cold at night out this
way. We have two blankets on oul
beds to take care of the change ir
-.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1943-07-29

Dear Father:
How are you? I hope that you
and the rest of the family are al
right. I am feeling fine. Please
forgive me for not writing to you
sooner. At present I am over in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
Sol et4 1dcot}0
By FRANCES OWENS

N0U wont find many MAYFAIR folk in those
oyercrowded planes and trans and rolling
highways, this summer.
A few have opened summer home, in distant
places. A few more are lourneung back and
forth to VISIT and brothers and husbands at
army camps and naval
,tauon, But il, hard S+ay-a+-Homes
70 On, md - ,oy one who'll OIL Don't Need Pity
pleasure only, this wartime summer.
Bot no one need pity all the stay-at-homes,
Or they certainly don't PITY themselves.
That cheerful philosopher Mrs, Lloyd V Bart
~ says she never realized until now that pine
Continued on Page Nine)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-18
Stsy-at-H omes
Don't Need Pity

BAN Photographer
Joan van Der Zee Qeft) and her sister, Vir-
ginia, reading and listening to the radio in the
lovely garden of their Provencal road home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
BY ALFRED TOOMBS.

The sale of canned, dried and
frozen foods-including, by viz
tue of a last-minute OPA order,
dried beans, peas and dehydrated
Soups-was halted last night for
a one-Week period, preparatory
to inauguration of America s first
great food rationing program.
The sale of dried beans, peas and
certain other dehydrated products
was halted by OPA, acting on or
ders of Food Administrator Wickard,
at pm, The sudden move was
generally interpreted as an effort
to forestall boarding of these items
in anticipation of canned goods ra-
tioning.
These foods had not been in
cluded previously in the list of 200
items which are to be rationed I'M
der the point system, starting March
l. But Secretary Wickard told the
OPA, in ordering the dried foods
rationed, that heavy demands by
the armed services and the Rus
slams had created shortage.
Grocers to Prepare.
For the next week, grocers will be
doing business chiefly in the green
goods and meat departments. For,
with the exception of few things
like jelly, canned milk, olives, fruit
buildings, etc, the sale of foods from
the shelves has been halted.
During the coming week, grocers
Continued on Page 40. Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21

ferment only if he held a key posi-
ton and even then only where il
could be clearly established that the
loss Of his civilian services would
seriously impair the war effort The
deferments would be for no more
than six months.
Men with dependents would be
placed in Glass 3-B if they were
engaged in essential work. The fate
Of all other able bodied men in Gov
eminent would be left to the draft
boards with those who are claSsed
as available for service replaced by
women, older men or the handi-
capped.
Thousands Of other Government
workers would be affected by pro-
poSals to eliminate duplication in
effort between and within agencies.
revise the system of transfers and
appointments for speedicr action,
scrap some jobs instead of replacing
men who were drafted, absorb ad-
ditional functions with existing per-
sonnet and abandon what the COM
tSee FEDERAL DRAFT, Page A-4.D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Navy Trophy Will High|ight
Stars Court Tourney Prizes

1t Comdr. Glenwood H. Kershaw,
in charge Of the selection board,
gave the trophy to Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, president of the
Board Of Education, which officially
sanctions the tournament. Along
with other trophies, it will be pre-
scented at the tournament conclu-
sion by Rear Admiral Ross T. Nc
Intire, surgeon general Of the Navy
and personal physician to the
President
Teams in the tournament are
Eastern, Tech, Gonzaga, St. Adams,
George Washington of Alexandria,
Bethesda Chevy Chase and either
Mount Rainier or Bladensburg, now
playing for the Prince Georges
County, Md, title. Pairings we're
made last night.
"Details on Page 3. Sports sectionD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Elsie Houston, Brazilian Singer,
Found Dead in New York Home
Was Scheduled TO
Appear in Concert
In Capital Today

Elsie Houston, world famous
Brazilian soprano, who was
scheduled to sing this afternoon
at concert at the Hall of the
Americas in the Pan American
Union, was found dead in her
New York apartment yesterday.
Police said an empty vial which
had contained a sleeping potion was
discovered on table beside the
body of the 40-year-old singer.
Her appearance here today was
to have been one of the high lights
of Pan-American Sunday after
noon pop concert, featuring music
and musicians of Brazil Pan
American Union officials announced
last night that the entire program,
as we'll as reception at the Bra
lillian Embassy arranged in Miss
Houstons honor, had been can
celed
Detective William Chaplain of
New York, assigned to investigate
the singers death, said she was
fully clothed with the exception OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Congress and Labor
Go 10 Nelson S Aid;
Truce Reported
WPB Chief Warns of
Danger in Conflicts
In Baltimore Speech
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

Congress and labor rallied yes
terday to the support of Donald
M. Nelson, and he was reported
to have "weathered the storm" of
Army and Navy criticism which
earlier last week threatened his
position as chairman of the War
Production Board.
Whether the truce between Mr..
Nelson and his opposition in the
armed services was temporary could
not be determined definitely. Friends
of Mr.. Nelson were sure he would be
given opportunity to prove that his
newly reorganized WPB will work
Others were of the opinion it would
be a continuing battle which could
only end in the resignation of Mr..
Nelson or of the Undersecretaries of
Navy and War, James V. Forrestal
and Robert P. Patterson.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Nelson warned in
a Baltimore address that conflict in
Government spells potential dam
ger to our country and our freedom. ;"
When he left yesterday morning for
the speaking engagement, the WPB
chairman was described as being in
better spirits than for weeks. He
told the Baltimore audience that
I'VE cannot exist unless we recognize
the fact that freedom entails a re-
sponsibility to keep from doing any
thing, literally anything, that pulls
US apart"
President Philip Murray of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations
was described as backing Mr.. Nelson
in his custer Of Ferdinand Eber-
stadt from the vice Craftsmanship of
WPB and establishment of Vice
Chairman Charles E. Wilson as op-
erative chief Of staff in the Or
ganization. The move frees Mr..
Nelson to concentrate on. policy
Continued on Page A-l9, Col. ID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Raj Bombers Wreck
Big Munitions Depot
AT WiIheImshaven
40 Buildings Disappear
After Terrific Blust;
$50 Acres Devastated
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON. Feb. 20.-The main
munitions depot at the German
naval base Of WilhelmShaven was
blown up in the British bomber
raid on the night of February II,
the Air Ministry News Service
said today.
The disclosure followed a 30-min-
uate saturation raid on Wilhelm
shaven last night by Raj and Royal
Canadian Air Force bombers. 1t
was the second successive night raid.
Following the February II raid,
veteran bomber crews had reported
an explosion far greater than any
they had ever seen before, lighting
up the clouds for miles around.
This depot was composed of so
long sheds in parallel rows contain
ing mine materials, depth charges
and naval munitions.
In one shattering instant at least
40 OF the buildings disappeared,
leaving craters far larger than those
made by the heaviest aerial bombs,
the ministry said
80 Acres Devastated.
The blast devastated $50 acres
and large oil storage tanks TOO yards
from the depot collapsed from the
conclusion, the announcement said.
The news service said photo
graphic reconnaissance showed that
the crews Of the bombers under
stand what they saw" and added
that apart from the bomb damage
the blast must have shaken founda-
lions in great areas of Wilhelms-
haven and broken almost every
pane Of glass that was left in the
town"
Sergt. Howard ThOrnicroft, a
fight engineer and one Of the many
Canadians on the raid, had the idea
when he told intelligence officers
on his return that real big" eX-
plosion which he saw might have
been an ammunition dump"
Night Fight Described.
Strong fighter opposition was en-
countered last night over Wilhelm
shaven and companion raids over
Western Germany, but ground de.
lenses at WilhelmshaVen were re.
ported comparatively feeble. There
was a fun moon.
Eleven bombers were lost and one
enemy fighter was destroyed in the
aerial tangles suggested by the ac-
tSee RAIDS, Page Ala
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
War Department Halls
3-A's voc Applications

BY the Associated Press.
The War Department yesterday
halted. acceptance of applications
from ga selective service regis
trants for induction as volunteer
officer candidates.
Applications now in process will
be completed. the department said,
and the status of volunteer officers
now in service will not be changed.
The department said that under
present quotas the $4,000 men on
the volunteer officer candidate list
represent a l0-month supply.
The program had permitted men
deferred for dependency to volun-
teer for induction and attend officer
training schools with the privilege
of returning to civil life if they failed
to earn commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
By MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

Thousands Of able-bOdied Fed
eral employees in Washington and
throughout the Nation could be
released to the armed forces if
draft defermentS were strictly
limited to essential job holders
and overlapping and unnecessary
activities were eliminated, the
special Presidential Committee
on Federal Draft Deferments re-
ported yesterday.
Procedures to put a rigid draft
policy in effect as we'll as to elm
mate Federal manpower wastage
were embodied in 81 recommended
tons which also cover District Gov
eminent employees.
President Roosevelt is expected to
order the main features of the pro-
posed plan in effect soon.
AS result, each of the estimated
million men in the Federal service
would be granted occupational de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21

The Stars 18th annual Metro
polltan Washington interscholastic
basketball championship tourna-
ment, opening Tuesday night At
Tech gym, took on a genuinely war
like aspect Yesterday through
Naval aviation tie-in.
To the outstanding player, chosen
by a committee Of college coaches,
VIII go the Naval Aviation Cadet
Trophy, presented to the tourna-
ment yesterday by the Naval Ayia-
ton Cadet Selection Board of this
district.
officers from the selection board
will be present every night during
the tournament to give information
on the winged service to high school
seniors and graduates of II years
and under.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Nays College raining Plan
Will Be Launched July !
Students Will Be Allowed to Engage
In Athletics If Ihey Have lime

A new college training program
designed to produce naval Off
GERS on a wholesale basis will be
started about July /, the Navy
announced yesterday. Selection
of candidates will begin April 2.
There will be no objection, the
Navy said, to its uniformed students
participating in athletics or any
other kind of college activity, in
Guiding fraternities, provided such
activities do not interfere with their
prescribed hours or courses of
study"
The Army has issued no final
official decision as yet. but Col Her
man Beukema, in charge of the
Army's program, emphasized at a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
BY GOULD LINCOLN

BY GOULD LINCOLN.
With the opening of the con-
tests for delegates to the next
Democratic National Convention
still a year in the future. anti
New Deal Democrats already are
planning an anti-fourth term
drive. At the same time, New
Dealers intent on the renomina-
ton and reelection of President
Roosevelt are troubled and are
laying plans of their own.
Democrats who are looking for
ward to an organized effort to de-
feat fourth term insist that such
an effort has nothing to do with the
war; that they are as strongly sup
porting an all-out war effort as is
the administration.
Two questions, to which they have
no present answers. make it diff
cult, they admit, to formulate plans.
The first is will the war still be on
and if so, under what conditions
when the national political cam
paign gets under way?
The second: Will Mr.. Roosevelt be
candidate for denomination. or
willing to accept denomination?
Candidacy Expected.
The general supposition is that
the President will become a candi-
date if the military victory has not
been finally and completely won.
A further supposition is that, even
if the war is over and the terms of
peace and world readjustment are
still to be determined, the President
will seek reelection.
Only Mr.. Roosevelt could answer
this second question. And it is
likely he could not answer it to-
day in view of the uncertainty of
the future.
A deciding factor in the situation
will be whether the American peo-
pie, or a majority of them, believe at
the time of the nominations and the
elections that President Roosevelt
is essential to winning the war, or
to winning the peace. The anti
New Deal Democrats say he is not.
The recent trip of James A. Far
ley, New York State Democratic
chairman, an ardent anti-fourth-
termer, through the South on his
way home from Mexico, has set po-
litical tongues wagging and has
worried the New Dealers. He
stopped in Washington for a couple
of days and talked with old friends
and discussed the political situa-
ton "off the record But he has
been silent as the grave about his
political plans, and for publication
(See FOURTH TERM, Page A-20)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Lost Army Plane Safe
With 70 Aboard
Croft Missing Is Days
Found in Canada

b. the Assoc sted Press.
An Army transport plane with %
persons aboard, missing since Feb
ruary 4, has been located in a Ca
madam wilderness area with all pas
sengers and crew members alive and
well. the War Department reported
yesterday.
The department said the pilot
made successful forced landing in
bad weather. The only damage was
10 one Of the planes wing tips.
Since location Of the missing ship
from the air food and equipment,
including ski-landing gear, have
been dropped to the crew. which
plans to drag a runway and fly the
ship out under its own power.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21

recent press conference that soldier
students would have no time to de-
vote to intercollegiate sports as
members of a college team, since
their academic work would be so
heavy and other required activities
would be so extensive.
The Navy statement emphasized
that while military activities would
be subordinated to academic train
ing in the naval college program,
there would be required physical
drills, swimming and setting-up eX-
ercises which would absorb much
time. 1t seemed obvious shat no
exceptions would be made to any
Of these requirements. without a
Continued on Page A-12, Col. S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Knuison Asks Quick OK.
OF Pay-as-You-Go Tax
BY he Associated Pres

Bs he Associated Press
Representative KnutSon. Repub-
llcan, Of Minnesota suggested yes
tcrday that Congress put the tax
payers on pay-as-you-go basis
Immediately and decide later what
TO do about collecting the levIes on
last years income.
Mi Knutson, a member OF a
House Ways and Means Subcom-
mlttee studying the problem. pro-
posed that taxes paid this year. in
Guiding those due March IS. be
made applicable on this years
earnings. The question OF dcfcrI+
ing, abating Or forgetting all or part
Of the 1912 taxes would await con-
Slderatlon of a new tax bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
20 Hostages Reported Shot

ISTANBUL, Feb. 20 (PD.-An in
formed Balkan source said today
Greek patriots had killed the guards
of an ammunition dump near Sa-
lonika and carried away several ma
chine guns and numerous hand gren-
AIDES and cartridges. German au-
thorities were reported to have shot
20 hostages in reprisal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
u. 5. Ships, Hidden
By Fog, Blast laps
On Atiu Island
Enemy Float Planes
Shot Down in Attempt
To Raid AIeutiuns
Ey the Associated Press.

~ me SSsOC4dLeO Press.
American WarShips, apparently
attacking under cover of fog.
shelled Japanese positions on
Attu Island at the tip of the
Aleutian chain Thursday, the
Navy announced yesterday.
The bombardment was directed
against installations at Holtz Bay
and Chichagof Harbor, communi-
que said, but results of the assault
were not observed. There was no
mention Of any Jap resistance.
The same day the enemy sought
to attack American positions in the
Weston Aleutians with two float
planes, probably operating from the
Jap base at nearby Kiska, but the
planes were shot down before caus-
ing any damage or casualties.
Munda Bombed seth Time.
In the South Pacific. meanwhile,
American aircraft made their 69th
raid on the Jap airbaSe at Munda,
on New Georgia Island. and also
bombed Villa on the southern coast
Of Kolombangara Island. All planes
returned from these actions, the
communique said.
Twenty tons of bombs were
dropped on BUN and Faisi in the
North SolOmons in the third straight
raid on that Jap base 300 miles
northwest of Guadalcanal, the Allied
high command announced, mean
while, in Australia. BUN is on
BougainVille Island and Faisi is a
tiny island south of it.
The bombardment of Attu was
the first surface raid Of enemy posi-
tons in the Aleutians since last
August, when cruiser and destroyer
guns of the Pacific fleet heavily
Shelled the installations at Kiska.
Macarthur B0mbers Attack.
The noon COmmunique from Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters
today australian timeD told how
heavy and medium bombers attack
ing at night against heavy anti
aircraft opposition hit Kahili and
Ballale airdromes and Faisi sea-
plane base causing widespread
damage"
Numerous large fires and ex-
plOsions were caused in the dispersal
areas trapping many enemy
grounded aircraft which we're de-
StrOycd. Fuel and ammunition
dumps were hit, starting enormous
fires lighting up our aircraft at 750
feet and emitting a pail Of smoke
over the area rising to 5000 feet.
THE harbor was deserted OF
enemy shipping, apparently as a
result Of our previous attacks There
was no attempt at interception. All
our planes returned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Raj Ruid Indicated

NEW YORK, Feb 20 a.
Observation-Disclosures the main Ger-
man radio station, and the Kalund-
borg tranSmitter in Nazi-occupied
Denmark went of the air tonight.
the &c reported. This usually in
dlcates attacks by the Raj.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Churchill Comfortable,
With Fever Declining
ID a. $500 press.

Py he A2SoclatFd Press.
LONDON, Feb 20-Prime Min
lister Churchill, who Is confined to
his bed . by acute catawh, had a
comfortable day a bulletin issued
from his office at No. 10 Downing
street announced today.
The bulletin said:
THE Prime Minister has had a
comfortable day. There is small
area OF inflammation IN one lung
but the fever is lower and his gen.
sYal condition is not unsatisfactory. !"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Soviets SO Miles From Keystone
OfNazi Defense Line on Dnieper:
Axis Thrusts in Tunisia Repu|sed
Advance in South
Threatens Donets
Bosin and Crimeu

b he Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 2O.-A swift So
Wet wheeling movement south
west Of Kharkov put the Red
Army tonight only SO miles from
DnieperOpetrOvSk, the power site
keystone Of Nazi secondary de-
lenses in Southern Russia, it
was disclosed in a special Moscow
cOmmunique recorded here by
the Soviet Monitor.
1t also threatened to trap retreat
Ing German forces in the Donets
Basin far to the east, and raised the
possibility of an Axis abandonment
Of the Crimea.
Krasnograd, 60 miles southwest of
Kharkov, and Pavlograd, 100 miles
due south, both important rail juno
tons, fell to the Russians, the COM
munique said.
These two key cities apparently
were taken by Red Army columns
striking from Lozovaya, IS miles
south Of Kharkov, one advancing
northwest for so miles to take Kras-
nograd, the other moving 80 miles
southwest to enter Pavlograd, which
is 80 miles due east of Dniepero-
petrovsk on the Dnieper River bend.
Drives Continue in Caucasus.
In the Caucasus. the Russians
drove spearheads deeper into the
narrowing sector around Novoros-
sisk where the German invaders are
pocketed, capturing Ilskaya, % miles
southwest of Krasnodar. and No
vomishaSktovskaya, 20 miles to the
northwest, said the midnight COM
munique as recorded by the Soviet
monitor. Ilskaya is only 40 miles
east of Novorossisk on the Black
Sea coast.
Armies in the Kursk region swept
into more towns, the late war bull
letin added. capturing Krasnaya
Yaruga, only 40 miles east of sunni.
The midnight communicate also
announced the capture of Kegi-
cheva and Sakhnovschina, interme-
date points between Lozovaya and
kraSnograd in the push north
westward along the railway toward
Poltava.
West OF RoStov the Russians
rolled forward, capturing "a num-
Der" of populated places and huge
quantities OF war material, includ-
ing 600 trucks, 48 locomotives, 1884
railway cars. 106 wagons with am
munition, German planes parked
on airdromes, the midnight COM
munique declared.
Counterattacks Smashed.
Southwest of Voroshiloygrad. it
continued, the Russians smashed
back tank-supported counterattacks
and one unit killed 400 Germans.
BY taking Pavlograd the Russians
were only 20 miles from Sinelnlkovo.
q ldIl JliIISlIOIl NllOSC SEIZURE WOulO
cut off thousands Of German troops
fleeing out of the DonetS basin via
Stalino.
zaporozhe. another big German
base on the Dnieper below Dniepero-
petroysk, also is only 40 miles below
Sinelnikovo, MeItopol, near the
Sea of AZov on the railway running
down into the Crimea, also is only
100 miles below Pavlograd and it is
the final escape avenue left to the
Germans in the Donets basin more
than 100 miles to the east.
Other Russian units above Stalino,
100 miles east Of Paylograd, already
are trying to close a 70-mile- wide
escape gap. This new Russian
sweep puts the Germans in even
more peril.
The occupation of Krasnograd, so
miles northwest Of Pavlograd. put
Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's army only 40
Sea DTTCCJh Dooo a 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
No Night Final.
Edition Tomorrow

Due to the Washington's
Birthday holiday. the Night
Final Edition of The Star will
not be published tomorrow.
Subscribers to this edition
will receive the regular Home
Edition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21

shoes, which were found on a bed.
He also said she had been dead
seven or eight hours before her
body was discovered
Near the empty vial on the table
Continued on Page Ala, Col. 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-21
Draft Report Fovors Calling
Thousands of II. s. Workers
Special Committees 81 Recommendations
Would Defer Only Key Men; Overlapping Hit

TEXT OF DIFFERENT RECON-
MENDATIONS as proposed by
Presidents Committee, Page "A