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Evening star., 1943-07-12
Army Lists Eight Victims
.0f Formation Flight Crash
N the Associated Press

~ the Associated Press.
ALLIANCE. Nebr. July l2.-The
names OF eight. soldiers from the
Alliance Air Base killed in the col
li.ion OF two Army planes 80 miles
west Of Hemingford Saturday were
released by 1t. Col. D. Arthur
Walker. base commander, today.
The planes were on a routine
formation fight when they collided.
The dead: ' 30
Second 1t. Theodore K. Chapman,
Gladstone. Tex.
Second It. John r. Hunter, Belle
vue. Pa.
Second 1t. Wendell w. Lepley.
Union. Iowa.
Second 1t. Henry v. Hoover,
whose wife lives here.
Staff Seret. Thomas E, Mcclure,
Sylvia. N. c.
Corpl. James r. Lee, Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Corpl. George Kurchak. Johns
town. Pa.
Corpl. Edward J. Foley. New York
City.
Another plane from the base
crashed near Sedalis, Mo, Satur-
day. killing five soldiers and in
jurins several others. Air base Of
ficials said the names were not
available here.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Bv EDWARD GfLLING.

Representing the combined British Press
Distributed BY the Associated PressD
AN ALLIED COMMAND POST IN
THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA
July II tDelayed).-Allied planes
were operating today from cap
tured airfields in Sicily.
German troops have been thrown
in. in an endeavor to hold up our
advance.
Last night when British troops
entered Syracuse at 8 pm. there
was some fighting in the streets
and German troops tried to hold
out in the barracks of the town, but
by dawn this morning fighting had
ceased and the enemy was COM
pletely cleared from the town and
port.
Later in the day Allied mine
sweepers cleared The beach ap-
proaches of mines.
On the southern coast American
troops have captured the ports of
Licata and Celia, and equipment al
ready is being unloaded there.
The bridgehead held by the Amer
leans is IS miles in length and 10
miles deep.
Between them and the British 9th
Army on the right are the Ca
nadians, who took a big part in the
capture of Paehino Peninsula yes
terday.
Today Allied troops we're tanning
out as they advanced inland and
up to midday there was no sign Of
any enemy counterAttack.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Minister Finds Miners
Don't Want 10 Strike
Ry the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 1.-THE Rev. J.
Clyde Wheeler, associate minister of
Central Woodward Christian Church
who was a coal miner before he
entered the ministry, devoted his
sermon Yesterday to report on his
nonth-long inspection of strike-rid-
den coal fields Of the East and South.
Urging the church to exercise
"vigorous leadership in Americas
labor problems as 'in any great So
cial problem" the Rev. Mr. Wheeler
described living conditions among
the miners and said:
They do not want to strike. Anti
strike legislation means little to
them. Their demand is for a con-
tract giving them certain guarantees
under which they can work They
would rather work for the Govern
ment at Army pay than for the coal
operators without contract. They
insist there are two things they will
not give up. These are the gains
that labor has made in the last
decade and the right to exercise the
freedoms granted them by de-
nocracy."
OF the mine union leader, Mr..
Wheeler said: TOO many people
are coneemning and making Of John
L. Lewis q traitor and an opportun-
ist. To the miners, he is neither
One man said to me: Get this
straight. We don't work for John
L. Lewis. He works for us. He
makes the demands for us that we
first make to him."
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Metal Misuse Charged
To Bedding Makers
NJ the Assoetated prsss

~ the Associated Press.
The War Production Board
charged large section OF the bed
ding industry today with misuse OF
metals and asserted a three months
survey by its compliance division
indicated only about half Of the
industry has been operating in
compliance with the law"
Some 725.oo0 pounds Of iron and
steel have been "misused" in viola
ton OF conservation orders, the
board alleged. adding that 80 per
cent OF the 600 companies investi-
gated were serious violators Of Or
ders restricting the use OF materials
chiefly iron and steel for coil. slat
fabric and box bedsprings"
OF the balance, WPB said 10 per
cent we're guilty of negligible viola
.ions." per cent had gone out OF
business by the time the survey was
made. and only So per cent were
complying with the law.
The agency did not specify what
companies had violated It's reeula-
tions, but announced that stop
orders have been issued in q number
OF instances. 1t warned that "in the
case OF a willful violator, criminal
action will be considered"
The manufacturers surveyed rep
resent 30 per cent Of the bedding
trade, WPB estimated.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Appropriations
CONTINUED Prom First Page J

school teachers for June and also
contains funds for other District
employees; for Freedmen's Hospital.
the administrators ONCE Of the
Federal Security Administration,
st. Elizabeth's Hospital and the So
cial Security Board. These en-
ployes have received no money for
the latter part Of June.
The Labor and Federal Security
Agency bill contains payroll money
that was due on July 6; the war
agencies bill, pay due the same date
for the Co-ordinator Of Inter-
American Affairs and the Board of
Economic Warfare, and money due
July 10 for the OPA. Funds to pay
other war agency workers later this
month are In this measure also.
The Interior Department bill Is
awaiting signature, and unless 1t is
cleared today. the employees will not
be paid tomorrow.
It was said at the Treasury that
checks for all the workers involved
are ready as soon as the money
becomes available. ....
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Mine-BIusted Merchant Ship
SoIvoged by Volunteer Crew

The story OF how six volunteers
followed their skipper back aboard
mine blasted merchant ship to
take 1t safely to It's African desti-
nation was told by the Navy today.
The latest episode Of merchant
shipping heroism was written around
the barnacled hull Of the 8. 8. Matt
w. Ransom, commanded by Capt.
John Metsall Of New York City.
The ship was nearing an African
port with valuable cargo Of Army
supplies when she struck mine.
The violent explosion shattered her
bow and was followed seconds later
by a second blast that apparently
sealed her doom.
The vessel began to settle and the
abandon ship order was carried
out-"even the cat and dog were
lowered into the life boat"
But. As the lifeboats stood by, the
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Sici|ions Reported Cooperating
With Allied Invasion Armies

Our troops are meeting only light
opposition 40 far and the civilian
population Is reactine we'll to our
landing and cooperating in every
way.
One illustration OF this occurred
when An ofncial OF one town which
Our troops occupied without much
trouble offered to 60 to a nearby
town In which the enemy was re-
sisting to advise them to surrender
with the result that the town then
surrendered.
More than 1000 prisoners were
taken yesterday and an Italian
coastal regiment was virtually wiped
out. Included in the enemy tanks
knocked out yesterday by the Brit
ish were a number of French ma
chimes being used by the Italians.
Enemy air opposition throughout
the whole Of Saturday was prac-
tically negligible but today enemy
aircraft Ia slightly more In evi-
dence. which s another indication
that the landing caught the enemy
Of balance.
Sicilians say that German troops
on the island had the nrst warning
Of invasion at Am. Saturday,
three hours after our hrst assault
troops landed.
The hrst real clash with the
Germans came this morning when
units OF the 9Th Army engaged them
at Florida. about eight miles west
Of Syracuse, and fierce fighting en-
sued. -.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Survivor of Six Ship Sinkings
Soys Torpedoing Is 'Boresome'

and he was rescued by italian
fishermen, he said.
A Stuka dive bombers got his next
ship in the Mediterranean and
strafed lifeboats, he said, hitting all
but one man. Mr.. Dexter said he
was shot In the hip and spent sew
eral months in a hospital on Malta
He said the fourth sinking was of
the English coast In Norwegian
vessel.
mo was my worst experience, ;
he said. Il was in big British
refrigerator ship when q sub got
us. Twelve Of us were in one life
boat with little food and water
We spent % days in that boat and
nine OF the men died. I went down
from 1873 to IS pounds before we
were picked up. I don't like to talk
about 1t.
1.-THE sixth sinking was a year
ago when I was on a Yank tanker
In the Caribbean. A torpedo hit
the ship and about one e.fourth OF
the crew got away in lifeboats. We
were about 100 yards away when the
ship blew up with all the rest o1
the crew In her"
Evening star., 1943-07-12
4 Army Men Die in Crash
OF B.24 on Training Flight
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, July 1.-Two
Army Air Force officers and two
enlisted men were killed today in
the crash of B-24 Liberator
bomber on a training flight about
2 miles southwest of the Smyrna
Army Air Field, the crafts base.
After a record of a year free
from fatalities this was the fifth
fatal crash at the Smyrna base
during the last two months.
Public relations gave the names
of the dead as: Second 1t. Arthur
H. Hunt, jr., Is, pilot, Lima. Ohio;
Second 1t. Paul J. Holly. %, CO.
pilot, Fairview, N. j.; Pfc. James
E. Cureton, %, student engineer, Lib
erty Hills, s. c.. and Pfc. Raymond
Levine, %, flight engineer, Roxbury,
Mass.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
viereck Tells Jury
He Never Advocated
Naziism for America
Earlier story on Page 1-B.)

Earlier Story on Page l-bD
George Sylvester viereck. on trial
at District Court, this afternoon
denied ever having advocated Ma
tional Socialism for the United
States or ever being member of
the NaSi party.
Called to the stand In his own
defense, the 59-year -old author and
Journalist was questioned by De-
fense Attorney Leo A. Rover. who
asked him If he were an advocate
Of National Socialism.
Viereck replied in the negative
adding that he did not believe that
1t was the ultimate solution to the
German problem" When asked if
he had ever advocated National
Socialism for this country, he
quickly replied:
Certainly not"
Mrs. viereck testified briefly prior
to her husbands appearance. She
described his activities In their New
York apartment. saying that he did
most Of his writing and other
work there.
She said they had been married
a. years and had two sons some
where In Africa"
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Cash Basis Liquor
Rallag' Withdrawn
By Commissioners

The District Commissioner today
withdrew temporarily their order
putting the local liquor business on
a strictly cash basis beginning next
Monday.
While the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board studied the matter
further, the Commissioners decided
to return to the former regulation
giving retailers up to As days within
which to pay for supplies. \
The action followed a hearing last
week in which retailers, cafe and
hotel managers voiced objections to
the new regulation. John L. Laskey
chief attorney for the District OPA,
declared that q cash order would
constitute a price increase.
At the hearing the retailers also
recommended that q sliding scale OF
discounts up to 1 per cent on pur-
chases Of rs or more cases Of liquor
be allowed. Discount control will
be studied further, 1t was said.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Maritime Union Asks
Sea War Risk Bonus
OF $3.50 a Month
Py The Associated Press.

By the Associeted Press.
NEW YORK, July 12-The Ma
tional Maritime Union tCIO) at its
fourth convention here yesterday
voted to demand a sea risk war
bonus of $3.50 per month for all
ratings on merchant ships, and 4
fat s25 monthly wage increase for
all ratings.
The union voted to submit the
wage and bonus demands to its
Negotiating Committee for action
with the proper Government
agencies.
Stanley Postek. boatswain and
Manhattan delegate to the conven-
ton. presented the bonus demand.
"A fiat bonus Of $3.50 should be
made. instead of the present bonus
of 100 per cent OF the salary for
rating" he asserted. Ordinary sea-
men get only $50 so per month under
the present emergency scale. while
captains get $500 per month and
more-sometimes as much as $500.
The men in the lower ratings
| value their lives just as highly as
those in the higher ratings, and
they value their patriotism just as
highly, too. Therefore, the sea risk
war bonus should not be figured on
the 100 per cent of pay basis but
should be fiat figure Of at least
$3.50"
Earlier, the delegates adopted a
resolution requesting President
Roosevelt to halt deportation pro-
ceedings against Harry Bridges.
West Coast labor leader, and to
grant him citizenship.
The resolution said that Bridges
personal contribution to Our victory
effort is unexcelled,' and that
charges to deny him American
citizenship and secure his deporta-
ton were false.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Northwest AirIMes Plane
Returned by Army

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 12.-The Army
Transport Command announced
yesterday that it had returned to
Northwest Airlines one Of the Al
passenger Douglas transport planes
requisitioned last year for special
wartime service.
Maj. Gen. Harold L. George,
commanding the ATC, cited the
critical need for additional air
transportation" on the NWA system
between Chicago and Seattle as the
reason for returning the plane.
The Civil Aeronautics Board
recommended the action after con-
sultation with the Post Once De-
partment.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Man Denies Theft Of Cash
Ration Books, Clothing

A 34-year -old colored man who
is said to have confessed to be-
tween 20 and Is house-breakings
in the Southeast and Southwest
sections, was held under $4,000
bond pending grand jury action
this morning following his plea OF
not guilty to one house breaking
charge before Municipal Court
Judge Nathan Margold.
He is Frank Robinson OF 1927
Delaware avenue S.W., who was
charged with breaking into the
home Of George c. Willis, 306 Fifth
street Sc, on the night OF July
10 and taking $76. ration books and
some clothing. He was identlned
through finger prints on the window
sill, police said.
Loot was believed to total between
$1,000 TO $780,
Evening star., 1943-07-12
|WFA Chief Refuses
~ Boost o 10 Parity
|0n Wheat, Reed Says

Senator Reed, Republican, OF
Kansas said today War Food Ad-
ministratorm Marvin Jones failed
to give wheat State Senators the
definite assurance they wanted
that the grower be given parity
price for his crop next year.
The only assurance that the Sen
ators got ct q closed conference
with Mr.. Jones in the Kansan's Of
fice,. Senator Reed said, was that
the Commodity Credit Corp. loans
on wheat will be IS per cent OF par
ity next year making floor price Of
$l24 a bushel on wheat, the same
as now" - -
Sees Incentive Lacking.
"But that doesn't solve the prob
lem about getting an incentive for
the farmers to plant more wheat
this fall" Senator Reed told re-
porters. I'VE insist that the farm
ers should have assurance of getting
parity for their wheat, which Is
about 2l cents a bushel more than
the floor price.
lone Of the difficulties confront
ing us u the action OF Congress In
eliminating parity payments to
wheat farmers. In September well
undo what the House did In this re-
spect."
'Mr. Jones said the S5' per cent
loan rate will be maintained on
wheat and he added that he felt the
farmers would increase their acre
age regardless Of what other action
Is taken"
Mr.. Jones declared an embargo
on S10l a bushel Canadian wheat
will be continued to protect this
Nations wheat interests.
II recognize the diff1culties OF
the farmer" Mr.. Jones said. He
always has done his part and /
think he'll do 1t now"
Says Price, Not Patriotism COUNT
Senator Reed, who was present
when Mr.. Jones made this state
ment, declared later that I'D rather
depend on price than patriotism
to get the increased acreage on
wheat that Is needed SO badly in
the war effort.
Il think the farmers agree with
me-" the kansan asserted. This
Is Just plain horse sense and it is
no impeachment of the patriotism
of the farmer. There was nothing
that came out OF this conference
that indicated that there Is such
horse sense In the administration.
"r think there will be some in.
crease In wheat acreage, but 1t Will
be materially short of what the ad-
ministration wants
N. E: Dodd, agricultural adjust
ment agency administrator, who
accompanied Mr.. Jones to the con-
ference. told reporters the goal was
from 65 900 900 to $1,000 900 acres
next year as compared with an es-
timated harvested acreage OF 52,-
900 900 acres this year.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Six Months Frequency
On Loan Charges Urged
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, July IA pro-
vision that charges on small loans
shall not be made oftener than
once In six months was included
in a number of amendments sug-
sested today for a proposed bill to
regulate small loan companies in
Virginia.
M. r. Morgan, State Commits
sioner Of Banking, offered the
amendments at public hearing
conducted by the Virginia Legisla-
tive Advisory Councils Committee
studying small loan regulations.
Mr.. Morgan said the amendments
had the approval Of the State Cor
poration Commission which drafted
the proposed regulatory bill and
were offered to clarity the pro-
visions of the act.
Evening star., 1943-07-12

vessel ceased settling. Capt. Metsall
called for volunteers to attempt
salvage. Virtually the entire crew
volunteered, but Capt. Metsall chose
only six, explaining II don't want to
risk lives unnecessarily"
With that little crew, he climbed
back aboard the listing vessel, re-
ignited the fires and slusgishly
moved to port.
The volunteers who brought the
ship in, the Navy said, included
three members Of the Navy gun crew
Ensign Earl j. Kohn, Buffalo
N. Y, and Seamen J. C. Rehmert
Dayton. Ohio, and John J. Enrisht
Anaconda. Mont.--and three mer-
chant crewmen-A. v. Gately. Jack
sonville, Fla; Peter Drevas, Quincy
Mass, and c. Give Boyer, New
Orlear1S.
Evening star., 1943-07-12

ent, reported from an advanced
post that the invasion armada
totaled some 1000 ships-more than
double the record-breaking $50 used
in the invasion of North Africa last
November.
Military sources emphasized the
early fighting involved only Italian
coastal troops and that the main
body Of enemy defenders, known
to include many Germans, still was
to be engaged.
Celia was the first specific landing
point mentioned in an official an
nouncement. In the first eye
witness account from correspond
ent, Ross Munro Of the Canadian
press also told Of landings at Pa
chino by Canadian forces. r.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
By the Associated Press.


PORTLAND, Greg, July IA
survivor of six ship sinkings said
today that being torpedoed and
bombed Is getting just plain bore
some"
He is Dean Dexter, 10, who was
born In Detroit but reared In Mel
bourne, Australia, where his father
was a United States consular at
tache.
On furlough from the merchant
marine, Mr.. Dexter told reported:
II went to sea four years ago for
excitement, but I'm getting rather
fed up with 1t row. It isn't exciting
any more to- get torpedoed or
bombed or strafed. It's just plain
boresome."
Mr.. Dexter said his first torpedo
ing was about three and one-half
years ago In the North Atlantic on
British ship anad that he spent
six or seven days on a raft before
being rescued.
A few months later, another
British ship was torpedoed from
under him In the Mediterranean
Evening star., 1943-07-12

is the best possible kind of base from
which they might mount an invasion
Of Europe.
From a growing list of airf1elds
captured during the week end-two
at Celia and third at Pachino al
ready had fallen into Allied hands
before today's announcements
Allied planes were already operating
in devastating support of the ground
columns.
The naval forces also contributed
powerfully to the co-ordinated
push, bombarding defended areas
near Pozzallo and the railway be-
tween Syracuse and Ragusa last
night, while an Allied destroyer
commander accepted the surrender
Of Pozzallo early yesterday after
noon.
The surrender of Pozzallo re-
called the destroyer Nubians cap
ture Of Linosa Island last month
when 140 shaken Italian troops sur
rendered as soon as the warship
appeared.
Reported using French tanks, the
Italians were said to oe lighting
poorly In most cases, out the Ger
mans were now going into action
and resistance was likely 10 stiffen.
The Allied line now resembled a
crescent, with the Americans at the
western point and the British at the
eastern tip.
Five of the points captured were
on the highway which cuts across
the southeastern corner of the is
land, and the Allies were now ready
to link up the horns Of the crescent
by drive deep into Central Sicily.
The Allied high command off,
cially said that American and Raj
fighters maintained control of the
air over the advancing Allied troops.
Heavy Troop Movements.
The enemy obviously was t,ring
to build up forces for a counter
attack, for pilots reported heavy
troop movements on many roads
leading to Southeastern Sicily.
The resulting. raids on transport
by the ASS Mustangs equalled in
fury any strafing in the African
campaign.
Leading one formation of A-36s 1t
Robert w. Hafer attacked q convoy
OF almost 200 vehicles in Eastern
Sicily and his airmen reported the
destruction Of 100 trucks in that
foray alone.
In another Allied air punch Capt
Glenn Stell of Shreveport, La, leo
a Mustang formation in taking the
same toll of an enemy highway con-
voy.
A third Mustang mission led BY
Capt. Justin c. Gunnison of Sar
Rafael, Calf, demolished 80 more
vehicles, while a fourth mission lee
by Maj. D. B. Rathbun of Oakland
Calf, hit four tanks and shot UP 9
train depot. More trucks, armorec
cars and locomotives were wrecked
in scattered sorties.
Spitfires Account for ~.
In continuing night and day all
battles Malta Spitfires accounted fol
22 Of the As enemy planes. losing two
Of their own, while protecting the
southern beaches against bombing:
by the German and Italian ali
forces.
These new aerial blows were keyed
with assaults by fleets of American
Liberator bombers from the Middle
East command which heavily pom
barded the Reggie Calabria and
Vibo Valentia alroromes. -
American parachutists and British
glider troops who dropped from the
Sicilian Skies Friday night to attacs
coastal defenses from the rear were
reported to have contacted the Allied
sea borne landing parties after sue
cessfully carrying out their missions
with negligible losses.
Gilling, British war correspond