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Evening star., 1943-03-23
Slash in Feature Pictures
Silences the Letter Writers
It's Long Time Now Between Protests;
Mickey's Press Agent Rhapsodizes
About His Clients Hurdline Skill
BY JAY CARMODY.

Regular who used to work such u dudgeons when
otherwise occupied have accepted situation
a
Harvest" yankee
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-12

then they keep you full Of dope you don't mind had
swell time on the hospital shpboy they really treat you like
king Swell food and swell nurses. they cant DO enough
for you.
Il get depresed-not thinking about my tap
dancing. Ilfwork that out way
Last week end they let 60 home from the Brooklyn
Navy Hospital and tried playing little football Not really
Just kicking the ball around can balance on the
artificial leg and kick with the good Not bad ether
But you don't hear any Of this It's all over
md forgotten He'll its than year ago since last saw
Bill back there in the jungle. Its old stuff now.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-12

Leg Gomez It's Old Stuff
This Lad Would Resume
His Top-Doncing Career
Times Photo

CCT GOT THIS about 10 clock one pitch black night the
l. Matankau River.
you you want to know about III You're not sick
hearing Of guys losing legs at Guadacanal7
'Iti old stuff, you know-at least year Old.
Sure, understand You want to forget about such
things want forget In fact want to take tap
dancing again That's right tap dancing Lots OF guys with
artificial legs tap danos-when the other leg Is all right.
Il used to be pretty good do say It, Not professional
Of course because just shading 10 when joined the
Marines freh Of school But out around Ksypo j.
they used to put Harry waythat mson at entertainments
and now and then I'd pick up few bucks.
In those days had timber ankes-limber buggy whips
That's what in tap dancing And that's what worries
nowthe bullet wound in my good leg that snarsd up the
calf muscles and left this ankle stiff.
The store leg okay See walk pretty good with
II now-after only two weeks Makes little when the
weighted foot humpa down but hardly buckles since
practiced twist the body at the right time III only
that stiffness in the ankle might 60 with this
tap dancing-buld up into something that I'm through
with the war.
IF not so what' There's lots OF Jobs Ny father kept
with his Job power company after being all crippled up
an accident Funny thing taking everything the Japs can
throw you and ending up about the condition your
old who got his in peacstims
Harry doesn't figure 10 be tough break After what
figure m lucky have leg and be alive. You
should have other guys I'd be like them other
guys too 1t wasn't for Bill cspsrsn There's pal that
Bill oaphtran from Chelsea Mass A real man
Bill and Harry buddieS long before they built that
foxhole the Matsnikau.
That some foxhoe Not foxhoe exactly because it
mostly above ground of ssndbags and logs and
stuff that Bill and Harry collected during the two weeks when
everybody expected the Jps attack force any day They
built windows and gun Sits and everything that empace
ment but air conditioning and seemed safe any spot
that bank OF the rver-un the mortar shell found them
That the night of Oct %, last year.
The first thing Bill and Harry hear is this thing like
4
trucks until the machine guns open the bank and by the
flashes they the houetes Of tank-s whole herd Of EN-
and then gunfre lights everything up like Broadway in the
old days .NVA.\ \-N...N
From the river 80 feet away the high pitched
bber sbber Of the Jap and Bill and Harry fire Spngeds
At the shadows bobng around at the waters edge and then
the shadows merge into moving into the river.
Say prayer, Harry" Bill says, Here they comet
Harry who Is good Catholic gets only far Hail
MARY" when the mortar shell expode two feet TO the right
Of him where his legs stick out beyond the mpacement and
he struck suddenly numb from the waist down though he
doesn't lose consciousness
Tn hit Bill" he cries Bill n hit too with shell irag
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-12

men but doesn't know 1t yet The tanks halfway
river farther down and the machine guns rang
the river bank.
He hears Bill call to him. can you crawl' We gotta get
out Of here!"
III try -" But Harry cant move.
Get on my back" says Bill III carry you across" He
the small stream few yards behind them Harry
manages to get Bills broad back and the big feowfor
Bill weighs about $50 poundsplahes down the slippery bank
and through the muddy where his sink mud to
the elbows and up the other side
Harry can't hold any longer. He slips off in the under
brush gaping, Go Billet lie hereno sense both Of
US getting it.. -"
Don't be jerk" Bill says. It'll be both Of
US
Bill calls back to main emplacement about 80 feet away
where BAR and few rifles firing close his
head, Hey, you guys-let up btl"
The men want TO know why and Bill tells them HarryS
hurt. q"
They hold their fire for minute while Bill picks Harry
up by the pits and dragS him through thick marhy under
growth back 10 the emplacement.
Before they reach it, bullet smashea into Harrys right
leg above the ankle tearing calf muscles and SCATTERING
the small bone to spners Harry scarcely feels the impact
because Of the pain surging through his left leg
How you feeling Harry" the ask him Take II
easy we'll get you back in a hurry
Il cigare is all Harry say but Of course it's
suicide TO light up just then Two Of the start carrying
him back Strecher and Bill stays at the BAR empace
ment shorthanded
Don't worry, Harry They cant kill mugg like you
Bill calls still unaware Of the shrapne in his own legs Ut
bothered him.)
Farther along they load Harry on the back Of jeep
Harry knows the driver, but still cgaret. J" won't be
long Harry" says the driver
At the field hospital he gets morphne-and cigaret An
ambulance delivers him to the main hospital where he spends
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-12

the night an air raid shelter Flown out next morning TO
secret base hospital the bitter blow falls that afternoon The
head surgeon, DR.. Legge is leaning Harrys bed.
How do you feel, son7'
"0kay."
i've got bad news for you
''Shoot doc
There's gangrene in that left leg It's spreading up
through your system It's either you the leg
What are you waitin for Doc7 says Harry Cut the
mn thirg off ttcr"
He dont think ampu ton is bad-not when you re
10 years old and rugged only the first two weeks And
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Flyer Missing 81 Days
Escapes Bomber Crash
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Missing for 81 days after FLYING
Fortress was forced down. Sergt.
Joseph E. Hartman has returned to
his base, sole survivor of the bomb
er's crew of II men. the War De-
partment reported yesterday.
Sergt. Hartman told of a Japa-
nese Zero plunging out of control
into the big bomber and breaking
the Fortress in two over Solomon
Islands area.
Il was in the tail he reported.
~the ship burst into flames and
was able to bail out. On the way
down I tore my clothes loose so
that I could swim to shore when
! hit the water. I swan about $50
yards and rested on the beach.
Suddenly two natives appeared and
I asked them if they could speak
English and, much to my surprise,
they could. I asked them if there
were any japanese around and they
told me there were some a few miles
away"
Sergt. Hartman. whose home is
IN Birmingham, Ala, lived with the
natives, hiding from japanese for
b5 days before an opportunity arose
to make his way back to his base.
He shot down two japanese fight
ers before the Fortress crashed, the
department said. He has been
awarded the Silver Star for "poise,
judgment, resourcefulness, tact and
department.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
S310,400 Power Rate
Reduction Ordered
By Commission
Hearing Called to Fix
Apportionment Among
Glasses of Users

A $310.4 reduction in rates of
the Potomac Electric Power Co.
was ordered yesterday by the
Public Utilities Commission.
How this amount is to be ap-
portioned among the several classes
of power users will be determined
at a public hearing scheduled for
a week from tomorrow.
After this issue is out of the
way, the PUG will issue an order
for investigation and later hear
ing on proposals to make basic
changes in the sliding scale plan
for regulating rates or abandon it.
Among major issues in the cur
rent case were efforts by counsel
for intervening Federal agencies
and Gregory Hankin, PUG minority
member, to interject changes of
principle into the recent hearings
which were confined to the sliding
scale plan. All such efforts were
resisted by the PUG majority.
Under an exhibit presented by
V. A. McElfresh, chief accountant
of the PUG. rates should have been
reduced by $3l5,OO0. This figure
was based on the assumption that
(coo pEpC0 poo, 1nI
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Outsiders Reported Buying 2, 500 Cars Month
Here for Resale in War Centers at Big Profits

dealers who have refused to engage
in the export trade" have become
alarmed over the future of the used
car business in this area. Prices,
they say, have jumped upward dur
ing the past five or six weeks from
500 to 5000 car for late models and
have thrown strictly local transac-
tions completely out of balance.
Thousands of persons here, dis
couraged by gasoline restrictions,
have been induced to sell their cars
to out-of-town buyers. or to dealers
connected with such buyers, because
of the attractive prices offered. In
addition, many men facing the
draft, 1t was said. are taking advan-
taSe Of the inflated market to get
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Non-DeferrobIe List Extended
To Men in 38-to-45 Bracket
Hershey Directive Threatens Induction
Unless Older Registrars Find Essential Work

Wednesday his program to supply
workers in the dairy industry.
The President said physical dis
ability might be waived in the case
of 4-Fs who refused to return to
dairy farming, but men in the 80
to-45 age group were merely to be
urged" to return to agriculture.
The War Manpower Commission
suggested that age might be waived
and the men be called to the Army
If they failed to comply.
Following soon after the order
calling for the abolition of the All
classification for the older men and
their reclassification into the classes
they would occupy if they were not
oyer age, the extension of the nom
deferrable list brings a number of
men with dependency claims nearer
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Evening star., 1943-04-04
WPB Spurs Program
For Incentive Paw 10
Speed Production
Plon to Be Tried in Some
Aircraft Plants if Woqe
Formula Can Be By-Possed

By the Associated Press.
A proposed incentive pay pro-
gram, to be tried cut in a few
aircraft plants and If successful
extended to all munitions pro-
ductions, is being pushed by the
War Production Board.
WPB officials were represented
yesterday as believing the incentive
system could bring about at least
10 per cent increase in production
from existing plants besides re-
lieving the demand for manpower.
The scheme. presented by Chair
man Donald NJ Nelson at Fridays
first meeting of WPB's Manage
ment-Labor Council. must hurtle
possible objections, on anti-inf1a-
tionary grounds, from the War
Labor Board.
Not vet worked out in detail, the
theory is to let present wage scales
stand, but to pay percentage bonuses
to all the workers in each plant unit
based on actual increases in the out
put Of the unit.
Faces Little Steel" Formula.
Official sources said the program
is being taken up with the WLB to
determine whether that agency will
oppose it as breach of its Little
Steel wage stabiljzation formula.
WLB members have shown interest
in such proposals in the past, how
ever, since they ordinarily mean
more goods a dollar invested in labor
in other words, lower unit cost of
production, which can be construed
as nti-infationary rather than the
reverse.
The present plan is to give the
incentive plan a test in a handful
Of aircraft fabrica ting plants which
are rated as production trouble
spots" If successful, it would be
extended to the entire aircraft in
StdSCAS dllo w OH W oil
The subject repeatedly was at the
top of the agenda in the Manage
ment-Labor Council session, at
tended by Presidents Philip Murray
of the CIO, William Green of the
AFL. Frederick c. Crawford of the
National Association of Manufac-
turers and Eric Johnston of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce.
Wilson Chief Sponsor.
C. E. Wilson. WPB executive vice
chairman, was pictured as the prin-
cipal sponsor. Mr.. Wilson, who came
to WPB from the presidency of Gen.
eral Electric Co., has had experience
with incentive pay in that corpora
ton, though the plan is not oper-
ating in GE now.
One form of the plan was adopted
in some GE operations after the
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Evening star., 1943-04-04
Hiding of Holy Shroud
Reported by Rome Paper
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, April "a
Swiss Telegraphic Agency dispatch
from II Giornale d'Italia in Rome
reported today holy shroud which,
according to legend. was supposed to
have been wrapped around the body
of Christ, had been removed from
Turin Cathedral chapel to a secret
place of safety known only to King
Vittorio Emanuele, Prince Umberto
and the Archbishop of Turin.
The shroud is the property of the
Dukes of Savoy. The dispatch said
its authenticity, which was the SUBJ
ject of a controversy for six CEN
turies. was proved scientifically just
a dozen years ago.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Gen. Clark Pays Visit
To Spanish Morocco
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEL1LLA. Spanish Morocco
April Sit. Gen. Mark w. Clark
and his aides paid courtesy visit
yesterday to the Spanish High Com
missioner, 1t. Gen. Luis Orgaz
Yoldi.
The Spanish general, with Gen.
Juan Vague Delgado Serrano, met
the Americans at the frontier and
accompanied them to Melilla. where
they conferred briefly on frontier
problems. Then the Spaniards
escorted the Americans back to the
French zone.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Senate Unit 10 Probe
District Housewives
Food Bill Tomorrow
Nye Plans Commodity
Price Analysis to Show
Farmer Is Not to Blame
By J. A. O'LEARY.

The monthly food budget Of
the average Washington house
wife will form the basis of a
Senate investigation which gets
under way tomorrow morning to
determine the spread in COM
modify prices between the farmer
and the ultimate consumer.
Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota, author of the investigating
resolution, made known yesterday
his intention of having an average
family food bill analyzed, by trac-
ing the price Of each commodity
back through the various handling
stages to the producer.
The North Dakota Senator re-
lterated his belief the inquiry will
show price levels at the farm are
not to blame for the present cost
Of living.
Inquiry Seen Timely.
The inquiry gets under way at a
time wheh- farm prices and their
effect on living costs once again
are causing a major controversy,
as the Senate prepares to start de-
bate Tuesday on whether to sus-
tain or override President Roose-
velt's veto of the Bankhead bill.
The measure would have excluded
from the determination OF parity
price any Government subsidy pay
ments to farmers. and in vetoing
it the President warned that It's en-
actment would endanger the entire
stabilization program.
The President said the Bankhead
bill would deprive the Government
OF the power to prevent every SUBJ
stantial' increases in food prices.
He pointed out also that the War
Labor Board is "resomtely adher-
ing" to the Little Steel IS per
cent formula for controlling wages,
but warned that it will not be pos
sible to hold that line if the cost
of living increased further.
Decision May BE Close.
Although the Bankhead bill
passed originally on February Is by
the top-heavy vote of 78 to 2, the
decision may be extremely close on
the question of passing it over a
veto.
The farm group is bound to lose
some of the 70 votes, on the argu-
ment that if the veto is overridden
Congress will be assuming the re-
sponsibility for any subsequent
trend toward imitation.
1t was regarded in reliable quar-
ters last night as still doubtful, how
ever, whether enough members
would change record vote cast less
than two weeks ago in order to sus-
tain the veto. If, on the other hand,
the veto could be sustained in the
Senate that would settle the issue,
since both houses must override to
(See FOOD, Page A-1O)
Evening star., 1943-04-04
BY NORMAN A. KAHL.

An estimated $500 automobiles a
month are being drawn out of the
Washington Metropolitan Area by
QUITO town buyers who are invad-
ing the used car market here, it was
learned last night.
Most Of the cars are being shipped
to Texas and Louisiana and to cities
such as Chicago and Detroit, where
they are resold to defense workers
at inflated prices, it was reported.
"A' gasoline ration coupons in these
areas are still worth four gallons
each. Some used cars. however. are
being sent down to the defense areas
tn the Carolinas.
Meanwhile. many Waahington
Evening star., 1943-04-04

rid of their cars before leaving civil
ian life.
Unless steps are taken soon to halt
the shipment of cars from WASH
ington and nearby communities. the
dealers say, the effects Of this activ-
ity will be felt in an increased bur-
den on public transportation, re-
duced vehicle taxes and a further
decline in the filling station business.
A meeting to consider what action
might be taken will be held by the
board of directors of the Washington
Automotive Dealers Association to-
morrow night The Better Business
Bureau already has been asked by
the association to conduct an inves-
(See Used Cars, paRo A.l0.)
Evening star., 1943-04-04
By MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

The list of "non-deferrable"
activities was extended last night
to cover men in the 38-to-45 age
bracket with the threat of in
duction if they don't find essen
tial work beginning May l.
Although the set Of directives
issued by Selective Service Director
Lewis B. Hershey was aimed par
ticularly at older men who have
dairy farming experience, it laid
out pattern for using the draft
to force all the older men into
essential work.
In it's extension of the non-
deferrable list to cover the senior
citizens who have been draft-proof
since December, the War Manpower
Commission went further than
President Roosevelt, who outlined
Evening star., 1943-04-04

Meanwhile, in Chicago. Senator
Gillette, Democrat, of Iowa made
public letter from Mr.. Jefers.
in which the rubber director SAID
that one of the goals of his pro-
gram was to allow Americans their
usual activities without prohibitions
and restrictions, which to my mind
are completely unnecessary and in
the end will be reflected in reduced
production from the farms as we'll
as from industry generally and will
go a long way in disrupting public
morale"
"Of course" Mr.. Jeffers wrote,
If we get to point as has been
suggested that We should take trucks
and buses off the highways, con-
fiscate the fifth tire and confiscate
Evening star., 1943-04-04
u. S. Infantry Strikes in Waves
AT: Nazi Lines East Of FL Guetar;
2 Jap Cruisers Sunk by Airmen
Short Distance
Remuins to Be
Cleared to Gubes
By the Associated Press.

6s the Associated Fress.
Battle-tested American infan-
try struck in waves yesterday
against Germans intrenched on
the steep slopes of the desert
hills east of Ell Guetar in South
ern Tunisla in a grim drive to-
ward the Gulf of Gabes and a
junction with the British 9th
Army, now posed for another
smash at Marshal Erwin Rom
mels retreating forces.
Front dispatches revealed the
American attack began Friday, that
German tanks Immediately struck
back and that the battle then was
Joined in earnest as American ar
NOR pulled back to let 1t. Gen.
George S. Patton's infantry get to
grips with the enemy. Only few
brown hills were said to stand be-
tween the Americans and a straight
shoot down the road to Gabes.
Rugged and heavily mined de-
fenses protected Rommels inland
flank.
Tanks Cross Mine Field.
When the Americans made their
sudden bid for a through q
tank column traversed a narrow
track across an enemy mine field
along a road leading toward the
coast.
Many German tanks Immediately
counterattacked, however, and il
was then that American armor drew
aside to let the infantry resume
operations.
Front dispatches reported some
German panzers were knocked out
and several others were damaged
before the tank battle was broken
off,
Mines by the thousands. in a va
riety of sizes and deadly trickery,
have become one of Rommel's most
potent defense weapons.
The Americans strove to develop
techniques for rapidly clearing the
cleverly concealed bombs and some
experts in the task of cleaning up
behind Rommel were loaned to them
from the British Army.
First Army Drive Continues.
In the Fondouk area north of Ell
Guetar the Americans were frus-
trated temporarily in attempts to
win high ground south of Fondouk.
The drive of 1t. Gen. K. A. N.
Anderson's British 1st Army toward
the Axis strongholds of Bizerte and
Tunis in Northern Tunisia was re-
ported making progress and inf1ict-
ing casualties on the enemy.
French troops under Gen. Marie
Louis Koentz are fighting with Gen.
Anderson's forces, and a French
communique yesterday said they had
left Sedjenane far behind" Sed-
ienane is only about "a miles west
of Mateur, traffic junction between
Tunis and Bizerte.
Though hampered by poor flying
weather in recent days, the Allied
air force continued to drum Axis
troops, vehicles and airports with
explosives and fire bombs. The
Allies control of the air appeared
virtually complete. Since March 10
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Hungary Premier Sees
Duce After Call on POPE

BY the Associated Press.
The Berlin radio said last night
that Premier Nicolas Kallay of Hun
gary had visited Premier Mussolini
in Rome after being received in
audience by Pope Plus XII in Vati-
can City.
The broadcast was recorded by
the Associated Press,
Evening star., 1943-04-04


Making it plain that he will
stay on the job until the rubber
program is success, Rubber
Director William M. Jeffers said
yesterday that if the synthetic
program is carried through as
planned it will be completely
unnecessary to restrict the use
Of tires on automobiles.
After telling reporter that he
felt the fate Of the rubber program
would be fairly definite by July l.,
the Union Pacific Railroad presi-
dent issued brief statement say
ing he will remain here until the
rubber program is completed"