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In there can be no suits for breach
of contracts"
The Presidents order forbids SUI
perseding of provisions OF any indi-
vidual or collective bargaining
agreement with respect to rates of
pay or hours worked in excess Of the
agreed or customary work week"
Mr.. Gavit said he assumed that
since that was the only specific
reference to labor contracts in the
Presidents order, other provisions
Of the contracts could be super
seeded by the executive order.
There is no reference to abroga-
ton OF contracts in the promul-
gated regulations.
Because of the Importance of this
issue the commission expects to
issue legal opinion in order to
meet inquiries from management
and labor, 1t was said.
The regulations require regional
and area directors In 80 labor short
age areas to do an on the spot" Job
OF increasing the work week to 48
hours. They further provide that
no company which must release
workers because of the 48-hour week
shall institute the longer hours until
the United States Employment
Service finds suitable work for the
discharged employees.
Evening star., 1943-03-01
February Sinkings Drop
To Lowest Monthly Total
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Sinkings of six cargo ships by Axis
submarines In the Western Atlantic
were disclosed in February, marking
the lowest monthly total of an
nounced losses in enemy action in
those waters since the attack on
Pearl Harbor.
January brought announcements
OF 80 such sinkings. The monthly
average in the first year after the
attack on Pearl harbor was As.
1t was announced last week that
$50 persons lost their lives in the
sinkings by U-boats of two United
States vessels. These sinkings
brought to GIG the Associated Press
tabulation of Allied and neutral
nations cargo ships announced as
sunk in Western Atlantic attacks
since December 7, 194l.
Evening star., 1943-03-01
Doctors, as Jury, Will Decide
If Felon Dies at Home or Jail

erans' HOSPITAL for his remaining
weeks.
The State Board Of Administra-
tion, sympathetic to his request,
authorized the warden to permit the
removal.
Later, Williams sister from Salina.
kans., visited him. She thought 1t
would be fitting for her brother to
spend his last days at home with
his mother. so she ordered an am
bulance and had him moved.
This, Mr.. Amrine said, violated
conditions OF the privilege granted
Williams. as neither he nor the
board authorized the trip to Salina.
Consequently, he was ordered re-
turned to the penitentiary.
He'll be returned Immediately il
the doctors determine he can survive
the 15O-mile trip.
Evening star., 1943-03-01
Ninety Allied Merchantmen
Sunk in Month, Nazis Say
Rythe Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
German submarines, torpedo boats
and planes were declared by
Berlin broadcast communique today
to have sunk 80 Allied merchant
vessels, three cruisers, two subma-
rines, destroyer and 10 smaller
warcraft during February.
These claims were without con-
flrmation in Allied quarters.
The communique. recorded by the
Associated Press, said the sunken
merchant vessels totaled 578,8OO
tons. Twenty-eisht other ships
were declared damaged, IA so Sc
verely that they must be assumed
to have been sunk"
The high command said U-boats
sank 81 OF the merchant vessels.
one of the cruisers, the destroyer
and three escort vessels.
Evening star., 1943-03-01

unanimously approved resolution of
1921 which said "voteless delegate
projects threaten to defeat or post
pone indefinitely the real national
representation through constitu-
tional amendment which we seek"
The National Representation
Committee pointed out that the
Paddock bill for a voteless delegate
died with the last Congress and has
not been reintroduced. 1t was re-
ported, however, that the legislation,
lis being revised for reintroduction
in the present session of Congress. "
Another measure, now pending pro-
vides for a District delegate who
would serve as chairman of the Dis
trict Board Of Commissioners.
Evening star., 1943-03-01
l. J. Arnold Lumber
Industry Figure, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

oy tAtS AboOClALeQ FTeSS.
CROSSE1T, Ark, March IL. j.
Arnold, 81, a nationally known figure
in the lumber industry, died OF a
heart attack at his home here yes
terday.
Mr.. Arnold formerly was general
manager of the Crossett Lumber Co..
Crossett Paper Mills and af1iliated
concerns. At the time OF his death
he was treasurer and director of the
enterprises.
He also was chairman of the
Arkansas State Forestry Commits
sion.
A native OF Harbor Beach, Mich.
he graduated from the University of
Michigan in 1918 and became an
official Of the Crossett enterprises in
1923.
Survivors include his mother and
two sisters, all of Chicago.
Evening star., 1943-03-01

slip as to the number OF points that
must be collected.
Most Of the business today he
said, has been In frozen vegetables,
He explained that 4 customer can
get more vegetables for his points
by buying frozen foods.
Mr.. Burke said he doubted wheth-
er a system Of having customers
leave their books with him would
work out, inasmuch as his customers
would not be able to budget their
purchases under such an arrange
ment.
He said that for a while he was
so rushed with telephone requests
for information on the new ration
ing system that he has been forced
to refer all inquiries to the OPA.
Store managers and their STATS
indicated general willingness to
help those customers who do not
yet fully understand the new ration
ing. They were also advising them
now to get the most out of their
stamps.
The greatest headache for the
storekeepers, one Of them said.
would come from people who can't
read. For them, he said. the point
system doesn't even exist.
It's bound to take q little longer
at the counter than it used to when
the grocer had to add up only the
prices. But the OPA had some ad-
vice for the housewife which It feels
will save lot of time and keep tenn
pers from getting frayed.
Paul M. OIeary, deputy OPA ad-
ministrator in charge Of rationing,
suggested that the housewife should
make out her shopping list very care
fully and plan what she is going to
get before going shopping. 1t may
be little tricky at first, trying to
figure out how to get the things she
wants with the points she has left
in her book. But it will be simpler
working it out at home, OPA omcials
believe, than trying to juggle the
points around after she is In the
store.
Housewives were reminded that
the blue stamps labeled A, B and c
will have to last throughout March
and spacing OF purchases was urged
to prevent running out OF stamps to-
ward the end Of the month. House
wives were also asked to use their
larger coupons first, since srocers
will not be permitted to give coupon
change.
BY shopping early in the day and
early in the week, housewives were
told, they would save their own and
the grocers' time. and they would
make 1t possible for war workers to
get better service when they come to
the stores later In the day.
Ordering by Phone Permitted.
Each person has 48 points to spend
this month, II he hasn't had any
coupons clipped out because Of ex-
cess cans on hand a week ago. The
stamps come in denominations of
l, 3, S and 8 points, and they may
be used in any combination to
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avenue NV. Only nine persons at
this store bought items requiring
the surrender Of coupons, and all OF
their purchases were In these cate
gories. The highest purchase totaled
a points and the lowest 3.
Store managers also reported that
customers wanted as little bother as
possible In shopping under the new
rationing system.
They just drop their books on
the counter" one manager said
land tell me to take out whatever
stamps need"
One Customer In Hour.
The United Stores grocery at
Fourteenth and r streets NV. had
one customer during the first hour
Of business, the manager reported
A woman came In and wanted a
can Of pork and beans. He didn't
have any. So she said she'd take q
can of salmon. Canned meats and
fish are frozen" So she went out
without buying anything.
nv CAIC OAoOA Nv 0lOOCiy oJOIC AZ
Tenth and K streets NV, about
half dozen customers came in be-
tween 8 and o'clock, most of them
with pretty good idea of what they
wanted and how many coupons 1t
would cost them.
The Wardman Park grocery store
operated by Morris D. Burka tn the
basement Of the hotel, has an un-
usual problem. Ninety-five per cent
Of the stores business, Mr.. Burka
said, is handled by telephone. This
means that the bulk Of the worries
over stamps will fall to the delivery
boys.
Mr.. Burka thought 1t would be
lot easier II his customers would
come down to the store and learn
how the new system works. Under
the circumstances, he said, he may
have to get additional help because
deliveries will be slowed through the
necessity for collecting the stamps.
When Mr.. Burka sends an order up,
he makes a notation on the order
Evening star., 1943-03-01
Job Confirmation Bill
Action Postponed
Until Wednesday
Senate Judiciary Group
Also Delays Decision
On Arnold Appointment

The Senate Judiciary Committee to-
day postponed action until Wednes-
day on the Mcclellan bill to require
Senate confirmation of appoint
ments to Government positions pay
ing $4,000 or more year.
Part of todays executive session
was devoted to consideration of the
appointment OF Assistant Attorney
General Thurman Arnold as a
justice of the Court OF Appeals for
the District, but action on that
nomination also was put of until
Wednesday.
Chairman Van Nuys said no one
on the committee was opposing the
appointment. but some members
wanted more information. Mr..
Arnold Is head of the Antitrust
Division OF the Justice Department,
and it Is understood some of the
discussion related to that problem.
Will Study Substitute.
When the committee meets We'd
nesday, Senator Van Nuys said. the
pending question will be the substi-
tute Senator O'Mahoney. Democrat.
OF Wyoming, has offered for the
McKellar confirmation bill. The
OMahoney plan would limit the bill
to policy-making officials by exempt
ing the many employees scattered
throughout the Government whose
technical skill places them above the
$500 level, but who do not form
ulate Government policies.
Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New
Mexico. also an opponent of the
Mcclellan bill, will offer another
amendment to exempt specifically
employees of the Tennessee Valley
Authority. In addition to its gen.
eral terms the OMahoney substi-
tute exempts the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and any employees paid
out of the White House appropria-
tions.
As reported from a subcommittee
the McKellar bill would apply to
virtually all employees at or above
$500, who entered the service since
July l, 1896.
Ahe PRESIDENT IS vigorously Op-
posed to the measure.
Asks Screening" Policy.
Senator O'Mahoney, In discussing
his substitute, said:
MY judgment is that whatever Is
passed should not endanger the
merit system"
At the same time he expressed the
opinion that the policy" jobs should
be screened through" the Senate so
Congress would know who the pol
1cymakers of the Government are.
The Senate exercises the right of
confirmation over many of the
policy-making of1lces, which were
excluded from the Ramspeck Civil
Service Extension Act, but there are
large number that are made di-
rectly by the heads Of agencies
without outside controls.
One OF the principal targets of
the McKellar bill is the large block
of war service appointments for
which ordinary civil service re-
strictions were waived because of
the emergency.
Evening star., 1943-03-01
BY the Associated Press,

by the Associated PreSS.
LANSING. Kans., March IA
group OF physicians will serve as a
jury to determine whether Harvey
William shall meet the death he fer
vently sought to avoid-as an in
mate of the penitentiary.
II his incurable illness IS so des-
perate that return to prison would
hasten his death, Williams, under a
20-to-48-year sentence for robbery
may spend his last hours at home
Otherwise, he will be returned to his
cell to await the end that at the best
can't be delayed long
Warden Milton F. Amrine told this
story OF Williams dying wish:
The convict, veteran of the war.
was told he had an incurable ailment
and he couldn't live long. He asked
to be removed to the nearby vet
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900, 900, adding that the great ma
jority Of shipments had reached
their destinations despite enemy
submarines.
Since March, 1941 he said. 1000, :
600 tons OF foodstuffs, valued at
81 l,250, 900 900, had been delivered.
Less than 8 per cent of the Nations S
food supply thus was exported last
year. aggregating about one pound
In 10 OF the pork and two pounds
Of each 1000 ponds of beef supplies.
He said that last year Australia
and New Zealand supplied American
forces with 10000, 900 pounds Of beef,
veal. lamb and mutton. or 5000, 900
pounds more than the United States
had shipped to all lease LEND coun-
tries.
Evening star., 1943-03-01
Cotton Control Plans
OF Wickard Face
Rising Opposition
Formers Fight Quotes
Aimed to Encourage
Peanuts and Soybeons
Ey the Associated Press.


The administrators compulsory
cotton control program tottered to-
day before a rising tide of opposi-
Zion in Congress, among growers
and in the industry.
The program is designed by Sec
retary OF Agriculture Wickard to
prevent expanded planting OF the
types Of cotton of which there is
3 relatively large supply and to en-
courage instead the planting OF
wartime food crops, particularly
peanuts and soybeans for vegetable
oils, on land which otherwise would
be used for cotton.
Demands that the program be
abandoned have reached Secretary
Wickard In such proportions in re-
cent days that his aides expressed
doubt he will be able to withstand
them.
Provides Cash Penalty.
The program features a rigid mar
keting quota system under which
farmers are subject to a cash pen
atty of nearly half the market value
Of cotton sold in excess of AAA
sales allotments.
Chairman Tarver of House Ap-
preparations subcommittee drafting
the Agriculture Departments new
supply bill. summoned I. w. Duggan,
'AAA Southern director, before the
committee today to explain why the
quotas should not be removed and
farmers allowed to plant all the cot
ton they want. Opposition to the
quotas has been particularly strong
among Georgia farmers.
An appeal for unlimited cotton
production has been made by Oscar
Johnston, president of the National
Cotton Council and a former AAA
ofncial. Emphasizing that cotton
seed Is source Of ediblk vegetable
oil and Of protein feeds for live
stock-commodities needed In larger
Quantities-Mr. Johnston 16id:
Soil, climate. equipment and ex-
perience OF cotton producers are not
adapted to the production Of any
other crops yielding anything like
comparable quantities of foods, feeds.
fibres, or raw materials necessary to
the war effort"
Mr.. Johnston reported q general
lack Of information and understand
ing of the tremendous Importance
Of the American cotton crop as a
producer Of food and feed"
HI.v> D~>L1>-~
This erroneous impression Is
causing serious troubles In many
quarters" he said. 1T is placing
the cotton farmer in an unfair and
unpatriotic light in the eyes OF the
general public and Is having a seri-
Gus, adverse effect upon his efforts
to secure the labor, farm machinery
and supplies necessary in making his
crop. 1t is impeding the operations
Of all branches OF the raw cotton
industry-from producers to manu-
facturers-in making their maxi
mum contribution to the war effort. "
The removal last week of restric-
tions on wheat apparently gave i'm
petus to demands for the lifting OF
cotton quotas.
Their abandonment would leave
only some types of tobacco subject
to AAA marketing controls.
Under the 1943 farm program
Southern farmers were asked to
hold down paintings of short staple
cotton, of which there is large
supply, and to increase the produc-
ton OF long staple types. of which
supplies are relatively short.
Evening star., 1943-03-01
j. :. Airmen Sink
Ammunition Ship
In Shorthand Area
Lenothenine Doy'ioht
Permits Afternoon
Bombines Of Kisko

American qirmen sank an
enemy cargo ship of BUN In the
Shorthand Islands, destroyed an
enemy plane on the ground and
set fires in q raid from which one
plane failed to return, the Navy
announced today In a communi-
que. which also described other
raids In the South Pacific and the
Aleutians.
The fact that the cargo ship blew
Up and sank while still In view of
the attacking aircraft led observers
to believe 1t was An ammunition
snip. .4
The Aleutian raids began on the
afternoon Of February n when a
force Of heavy and medium bombers
With flghter escort attacked the
japanese positions at Kiska. Re-
suits were not observed, but all
United States planes returned to
vheir bases. Due to the fact that
the season is changing there are
longer hours OF daylight In the Aleti-
tians now and afternoon bombing Is
possible.
During the afternoon of the fol-
lowing day medium bombers hit
:he Kiska positions again In the
camp area. Again all American
planes returned.
On February % least longitude
time) q Lockheed Hudson bomber
made the 10th raid on Munda, on
New Georgia Island. where Ameri-
can forces have been hammering
since mid-November to prevent
Japanese operation Of an air field.
On the same day a force of Con-
solidated Liberator heavy bombers
with Grumman torpedo planes ac-
companying attacked Japanese ship
ping of BUN and also bombed
enemy air fields at Kahili, near
BUN, and Ballale, also in the Short
land area. 1t was on this raid that
the cargo ship was hit. Large fires
were started at Kahil and Ballale
and an enemy plane was DESTROYED
on the ground. 1t was from this
raid that one American plane failed
to return.
A raid was carried out the same
day on Villa on Kolombangara
Island. All Of the Douglas dive
bombers, Lockheed Lightning and
Grumman Wildcat fighters that
made the trip returned to their
bases.
Jap planes destroyed in the gen.
eral Solomons area now total s78
and so surface vessels are known
to have been sunk Eleven others
are listed as probably sunk and 1l6
as damaged.
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make up the required number of
points for Z purchase.

R~AAAs0 AO y pO1CAl84S.
Ordering by telephone is still per-
mitted. but housewives must not
tear out the coupons except In the
presence OF the delivery boy. When
they 60 to the stores themselves.
they must keep their coupons intact
until they reach the counter and the
grocer can see what they are doing.
Shoppers were reminded not to
tear out any red stamps-not yet, at
least. Later they win be used for
rationing meat, but at the moment
the red coupons are worth nothing.
Point values for March were pub
hshed In chart form in the news
papers about week ago. They are
also posted In the stores and. in
some cases, marked on the cans or
on the shelves.
In addition to those values ap-
pearing on the charts, the OPA
has announced Z schedule for dried
and dehydrated foods which were
frozen" suddenly last Saturday
along with canned goods. Dry
beans. peas or lentis are worth, 9
points 4 pound and dried and de-
hydrated soups are worth Is points
. pound.
Evening star., 1943-03-01
Strawberry Buying
Program Announced
~ the Associated Press,

~ the Associated Press.
The Agriculture Department re-
ported today It will purchase about
y, 900 900 pounds of processed straw
berries this year for export.
Purchases will be about equal
to those last year and will be made
In Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas,
Alabama. Tennessee. North and
South Carolina, Oklahoma, Ken.
lucky and possibly other States.
Evening star., 1943-03-01
Dr.. UhI, Missionary, Dies

GETTYSBURG, Pa, March
P>.-Dr. Lemon l.. Uhl, IS, retired
Lutheran missionary who spent 81
years in India, died In a hospital
here Saturday. He returned to the
United States in 1923. He was a
native OF Millersburg, Ohio.
Evening star., 1943-03-01
No.. |3

Onions from sets are one of the
most easily grown crops. Seed onions
are bit difficult and few local
gardeners take the trouble to plant
them.
AS early in March as the soil can
be worked pint or two OF onion
sets should be planted. Sets need
not be spaced more than an inch
or two apart In shallow drills, II
to IS inches apart. II the sets ere
placed too deeply in the soil they
Will make good green's II barely
covered with soil they should make
from medium to fair sized pulbs.
II the sets are placed an inch or
Evening star., 1943-03-01
Weather Report

a
District OF CombiaColder
%; moderate
Virginia-Lght southeast
colder tonight.
Maryland-Coder late tonight, in mountains
Evening star., 1943-03-01
ONIONS FOR THE
VICTORY GARDEN
BY WILBUR H. YOUNGMAN,
The stars Garden Editor.

Spring onions may not be per-
misstble in polite society, but most
folks look upon them as a sort Of
spring tonic. Few are the gardens
Evening star., 1943-03-01

INHC UO HOC HHVc
q row or more
of onions grown
from e arly
planted sets"
Evening star., 1943-03-01

Record for Last ~ Hours.
From noon Yesterday to noon today,
Highest. 81, at $40 pm; year ago, 40
Lowest. 33, at $40 an; year ago, "a
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, -. on January II.
Lowest, 3, on February IS.
Humidity for Last ~ Hours.
From noon Yesterday to noon today.)
Lowest RI per cent at $50 pm
Highest, ~ per cent at $50 am.
Evening star., 1943-03-01

monthly precipitation in inches in tn
Capital tcurrent month to date);
Evening star., 1943-03-01

light, snow furries in mountains.
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Report for Last AZ Hours.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26
Here's Prize
u inning Wish

That 50 Christmas quc>.
tm What T. Your Christ
ma. wish hraugl1llLeMLd--
est variety = answer this dc
partmc6t has ever seen
There were wishes for hi-
cycles dolls Christmas turkeys
and new Jobs. wishes for the
mr.ourh Of loved ono, for
family reunions for peace and.
happiness throuPhout the
world,
Barihc wish that far and
away tops them all rs contained
i'm this splendid letter from
Roland Ritter of RudyaId,
Mont
Dear Miss Robinson;
In a world at war il seems
ridiculous 10 make a Christmas
wish for anything aS personal
a> for instance a wrist watch
or fine pair of riding boots
or even for the end of the war
So that We NAV return TO our
old peaceful profitable, secure
WAY of life
Every ono of Us needs some
thing far more important We
need an awakening TO the real
rrcaf1trrr uf tifoSc ancfcnt worttS
heard on the first Christmas
Good viii toward men Those
words mean far more than a
mere Complacent tolerance a
LAW willingness To let the other
fellow 20 his way II he'll let
YOU 20 YOURS. That's the kind
of attitude which gave the
ugly forces Of greed hate and
~clli>hncSS the chance to
flourish, which made ~ possible
for The Whole world To burst
into flame.
"Nr need to realize thai the
welfare of every other human
being is our own concern and
that il il our duty 10 know
why there is inequality op-
precision and unrest I'm tho
\ world and then do, something
about It, Unless this condition
II C0TTCctCd there Will BE- blood
she'd and. destruction aS long
~ the human race exists.
~ Christmas uiSH Is that
crfrU one of as DC GWGkcpcd 10
u\trel-ba00 ~ ms duty 10 MS
Ir.H1. Hf1
Roland Ritter aco rs
ElarHG Mont
tG5 90 prgrl
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-26
Short Story

chau,Ca.v 7. was from BhH
Jordan Iu The mddic-WC.t
Profound COMMUNICATION
II TT7---
Chuck bunkcd 40 The mo.
saac
Only two words he rum-
bed Xouda thunk Bill
voulda sent more hut they re-
long woidS. ANYHOW
lie tossed the wire 20 Blukv
Smith The latter man read The
two vords-and a terrible NIB
popped INTO his mind Prhaps
10 Was more than NIB thr
time perhaps DE was looking
for Blls Job. But whatever The
reason. be smHcd broadly
Chuck cleucheG his fists
~Wot> the idea -f-laughin ?'
he demanded "Wots fuun,
about dat telegram" Not do
dem Woids mean
BHrky Shruered
Il don't know what Bill had
i'm mind nc lied casiiY hut he
sure has said a tough thing
Profound COMMUNICATION sim
plf ng2ns that You're better
off now without your wife Bill
Z seemed 10 Think that maybe
yohr wife wasn't on the level
with YOU.