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Evening star., 1943-06-15
Capitol Farm Leaders
Renew Demands for
ne-Man Food Control
Senate Group to Resume
Hearing on Subsidies;
Bloc Visits White House
By the Associated Press.

os tue hsSOSlelcQ FTcSs.
The battle Of the food price
front rolled back to the White
House today with new congres-
sional demands for appointment
Of a one-man boss over the war
time bread basket.
AS labor and farm leaders squared
OH for another skirmish before the
Senate Banking Committee, Chair.
man Fulmer led a bipartisan dele.
cation of House Agriculture Com
mittee members to White House
conference with the avowed aim Of
convincing President Roosevelt
something should be done at once
to consolidate the food authority
which Mr.. Fulmer said is scattered
all over the landscape"
A delegation of five Senators and
four House members presented 6
similar proposal yesterday, but rar
up against the opposition Of Wal
Mobilization Director James B
Byrnes. Nevertheless, Mr.. Fulmel
and Representatives Flanagan
Democrat, of Virginia; Kleberg
Democrat, Of Texas; Cooley, Demo.
crat. Of North Carolina; Hope. Re.
publican. of Kansas. and Andersen
Republican, of Minnesota, said they
would nominate Food Administra-
tor Chester Davis as their candi-
date for the "czar" role.
The food situation facing thi.
country demands concentration o1
authority and we hope for early
action" Mr.. Fulmer told reporters
Phillip Murray, president of the
Congress Of Industrial Organiza.
tions. scheduled an appearance be.
fore the Senate Banking Commit.
tee to urge an appropriation fol
subsidies to defray the cost of roll
ing back retail food prices.
Albert Goss, master OF the Ma.
tional Grange, was expected to fol-
low the opposition line taken by
other farm leaders who content
the subsidy-rollback plan is a dis.
guised effort to obtain higher wage.
for labor.
The committee already, has writ.
ten into proposal to boost the Com.
modify Credit Corps lending au.
thority by $1,000, ,00o, 600, a pro
hlbition against use of any Of thi.
money to finance subsidies, but Mr.
Roosevelt repeatedly renewed YES.
terday a suggestion that from ST..
500, ,000, 900 to $4,000, 900 900 be made
available by Congress to roll bach
food prices. The CIO and AFL IA.
vor a $2,00o, 900 900 grant for thu
purpose.
Warns Again Of Imitation.
Supporting this plan, Mr.. Byrne.
was said to have argued that any
puncturing of food ceilings woult
start the imitation spiral whirlins
faster than ever.
He was quoted further as sayins
that II the final decision on produc.
ton, processing. rationing and pric,
fixing is given to one man, tn,
trend will be toward price increase.
to meet such din1culties as thos,
now being experienced by Gamers
Senator George, Democrat, o.
Georgia, who arranged yesterday.
conference, said the Gamers couldn',
take care Of the crop because pric,
ceilings won't let them pay wage
equaling those paid by war plants.
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Brown Says Subsidies Hold Key
To Entire Sterilization Plan
Warns Food Dealers of Threut
Of Serious Defect on Home Front

will leave our economy shattered
and helpless"
Mr. Brown called the price of
foods the basic element in the budg-
ct Of every family and added that
unless food prices are effectively
stabilized, then the stabilization
program as whole must collapse. "
Describing the general maximum
price regulation as a Landmark in
our fight to control infiation," Mr..
Brown declared:
Had it not been issued, the cost
OF living would have risen. not the
10 per cent it has increased since
May. 1912, but 10 times 10 per cent.
For in the spring of 1912 the pres
sures upon the economy had grown
to dimensions we had never before
known, and we were confronted, not
with the threat, but with the GER
tainty OF galloping imitation unless
(See BROWN, Page A-I6)
Evening star., 1943-06-15
British Ruid Casualties,
Hit Years High in May

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, June 15.-Civilian casu-
alties in air raids on the United
Kingdom reached the highest level
of the year last month, the Ministry
of Home Security announced today,
with 584 persons killed or missing
and 1873 injured severely enough to
be hospitalized.
In comparison. Aprirs casualty
toll was 172 killed and 205 injured.
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Five zoot Suffers Held
In Murder Of Soldier
BY the Associated Press.

Ell PASO, Tex, June 15-Pvt
Donald c. Hemenway, stationed at
nearby Fort Bliss. was found stabbed
to death in neighboring Juarez,
Mexico, and oficials there said yes
terday that five youths wearing zoot
suits were held for investigation.
Mayor Antonio Bermudez OF
Jaurez, directing the inquiry into
the death of the Natick (Mass.) SOL
dier, said the arrests were made
after a witness reported seeing three
youths wearing zoot suits attack a
United States soldier on a Juarez
street Saturday night shortly be-
fore Pvt. Hemenway's body was
found by two small boys,
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Antiwor Candidates
To Oppose Jon C.. Smuts
y the Associated Press

PRETORIA, June 15-Prime
Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts will
be opposed in the South African
general election July by two anti
war candidates. one Of them a
woman.
They are Mrs. I. j. Hansen. inde-
pendent. and J. F. Ludorf. Nation
alist, who will contest the Prime
Minister'S rural seat Of Standerton
In the Txansvaal.
Evening star., 1943-06-15
Rumoniu Bans Leather Shoes

BERN, Switzerland, June Is IP.-
A Bucharest dispatch published here
today said that the sale of leather
shoes had been banned In Rumania
until December ] to insure supplies
for winter.
Evening star., 1943-06-15

American heavy bomber fleets
blasted Wilhelmshaven and Cux-
haven Friday and Bremen and Kiel
Sunday in daylight attacks, contrib
uting an unannounced weight of ex-
plosives.
The American precision bombing
lads scored at least a dozen hits on
and around the Atlas works, one of
the largest shipyards in Bremen,
reconnaissance photographs dis
closed yesterday. Fierce fighter op-
position during the companion
American raid on .Kiel prevented
effective use of the cameras.
The two attacks cost the Ameri-
cans 26 bombers for the heaviest loss
yet encountered in a single sally. A
spokesman 1Q1 the 9th United States
Air FQsse Sid the enemy put into
the III al types of fighters.
Evening star., 1943-06-15

(See SUBMARINES. Page A-16D
Evening star., 1943-06-15

(See SOMERVELL, Page ALI
Evening star., 1943-06-15

tSee BROWN, Page A-16.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
The Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

HORIZONTAL
. i--Perched.
Popular language
q-To soak.
i2-Ostricn like bird,
i3-Less Wild.
i4-New Guinea base.
I5-Hauled.
l7-Irrigates.
l9-Donates.
21--Compete.
22--English county.
2l-Corrugated.
-7s-Msnufactured.
2e-Pronoun.
30-MinerAl spring.
3i--Neuter pronoun.
32--Least fresh.
3S--Near
3s-Gof mound.
3s-God Of love.
3a-speed contest
4i-Stoats
43-Endures.
44-Complete.
t5-Ceases.
l7--Steamed.
50-stair parts.
53-Do wrong.
5i-songbird.
5s-UnIied states senator.
67-Beast OF burden.
bs--stalks.
5e--Number.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
Bright Sayings
of Children

The Times Is publishing such re-
marks and paying 81 for each
published.
Today 81 goes to Miss Cecile
Dion. 15042 Birwood avenue. Her
4-year-old cousin Bobby was
asked if he could keep a secret.
"I'll tell the woridw Bobby
exclaimed.
Mail your favorite child's say
ings 10 Bright Sayings of Children
Detroit Times, Detroit.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
Connolly Answers

la Pandora. OBJ Aescu-
lapius: (c) Vulcan.
2-(a) The Hairy Ape: (b)
"Icebound"; (c) "Liiiom."
81 al Jerusalem; (b) Babylon;
(c) Capri. r Il.
4-(N Portihari; OBJ Pacelli;
(c) Hyde.
5-(a) About four times the
size; (b) almost twice the
size; (c) about one-third
the size.
6-CD Gauchos; (b) Bertillion;
(c) CroeSus.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13
Quick Answers

1-Senecas, Cayugas. Onondagas,
Oneidas. Mohawks.
2-De Lesseps.
3-"Blynken and Nod"
EXylophone.
57-False. Beginning Of the day.
6-Two.
France.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-13

Answer to yesterdays puzzle.
Evening star., 1943-02-21
V>Mail for Victory

or Nce-versa, there may be manv r.,.
sons:
Letters may have to wait for CONVOY
to gather.
shlps may be sunk, though both Army
ana Navy say the loss here is surprisingly
small
Joe may have been transferred Even
II ne left forwarding address (Which
ne oIteh 1orgets) there may be delav
before his mail catches up with him n
ne is transferred to a strategic area
letter to him may be held up temporarjlv
lest his unit designation provide valuable
information in case 1t falls into enemy
hands.
II Joe's In the Navy, Coast Guard or
Marines, even more chances OF delay are
present, because OF the frequency and
secrecy with which naval boats moys
about.
The Armys answer-and. to smaller
degree, the Navy's-is V-mail. Mean.
while the Army has cut out the sending
OF packages to boys abroad except when
requested. while the Navy has set limits.
lot OF people still are suspicious Of
V-mail, say the Army and Navy postal
people, who mention that only q small
percentage of overseas mail goes this
fast, sure way, though that percentage is
growing
One plant often heard about V-mail
Is an alleged lack of privacy-but all
mail to servicemen overseas Is censored
anyway.
Here's what actually happens:
V-mail, written on special white paper
forms (to photograph welD are photo
graphed on l6-mm. film which Is tiown
abroad to the V-mail station nearest
Pvt. Joe Doakes. There print is made
from the film and this print Is sent to
Joe in sealed envelope.
The original of Mary's letter is not de-
stroyed until the word comes back that
Joe has received the photogra phic repro
duction Of her letter. II by chance that
particular roll of fllm Is lost In a plane
accident, Mary's letter Is again photo
graphed and a print made and sent to
Joe
More than Is million have been sent
without single loss. Since It's the Aim
that travels, the saving In cargo space
can bc imagined when you remember
that a pound Of v-mail Aim carries 1000
letters.
Evening star., 1943-02-21
BY Thomas r. Henry,
Star STAFF Correspondent.

LONDON tby mall h.-Washington is
the throbblng, aching heart of the
United Nations.
1t Is not the sophisticated, world
crowded Capital on the Potomac. It is A
farming village of 300 people in A fertile
fold Of the West Sussex downs-about
40 miles from London but even farther
away from that rushing metropolis in
spirit than a village in Maine or Wis
consin.
Every man, woman and child in Wash
ington is fighting the war OF its men.
mostly farm workers. l06 are in the
British armed forces Their grand
fathers and grandmothers, wives and
babies are modified.
I didn't expect much in Washington
I had wandered there attracted by the
similarity in names. l found the soul of
the democratic world therein the
abashed country women who lined I'D
before me in the little village hall.
nervously tWitcFing their fingers in the
presence Of one whom they evidently
considered distinguished visitor. They
had been told to be there by Lady
Davidson, wife of the former legal ad-
wiser to the Sudan government, and Miss
Blanche Langton. directors Of the Wom-
ems Voluntary Services for this part of
rural England.
England's Home Army
They were the sort of plain, homely,
country women one would meet at a
grange gathering in Massachusetts,.
Their faces were furrowed with toll and
worry. They are England's home army
Evening star., 1943-02-21

erty at Washington. He worshiped at
a Friends Westinghouse, the Blue Idol,
which still is used for church services.
An infant daughter is buried in the old
churchyard.
Charles the Second is believed to have
spent his last night in England before
his flight to France on the eve OF The
civil wars in hiding near Washington.
Village inns all over the countryside like
to advertise that Charles the Second
slept here"
The village is rich in literary history
For some time Francis Thompson lived
nearby. He composed the Hound of
Heaven wandering over the downs. 1t
Is Washington Landscape he describes in
his celebrated lyric:
The hills look ouer on the south
And SouthWard dreams the sea,
And 1uith the sea breeze hand in hand
Came innocence and she.
She looked a little Uisttully,
Then 1Uent her sunshine Uau;
The seas eye had a mist in it,
And the leaUes tell from the day.
The eccentric poet and painter William
Blake also haunted Washington and some
of the ideas in his unearthly poetry may
have been derived from the werdness Of
the Chanctonbury downs. He had retired
to the country nearby, but soon left be-
cause the gentle poets nature could not
endure rural boorishness.
Rudyard Kipling. who lived not far
away in East Sussex, was a frequent
visitor here.
celebrated pub here is the Frank
land Arms. Frankland is described as
an eccentric Oriental traveller descend
ant of Oliver Cromwell, who wrote a
drinking song describing Washington
Evening star., 1943-02-21
Topical Press Photo.

supplied with all the luxuries they can
get to them Three Of the village cats
Freeman. Hardy and Willis-are. or were.
aboard this corvette to give it homeliks
touch. But Washington has just gotten
the discouraging news that Freeman and
Hardy have been washed overheard.
Willis still retains some of his nine lives.
Having paid for the corvette they are
starting out to buy the government a
few Spitflres, at a cost of 5000 pounds
each. Mr.. Howe has on display at his
home a great variety OF toys-mostly
model ships. tanks and airplanes-made
by village schoolboy to be sold for this
fund
The women of Washington maintain a
road canteen which is open day and
night to all passing troops-English.
Canadians, the few Americans who get
into this part of the country. the growing
ranks OF the Womens Land Army and
all the other multiple women's services.
Anybody in uniform can always get a
meal and drink there.
Sincerity of Country Folk
1t is not so much any single thing that
Washington is doing which impresses the
visitor. 1t is the multitude of services.
running into the dozens, which are
absorbing the energies of every human
soul in the village. But what almost
brings the tears to ones eyes is the
humble, unassuming, unquestioning. self
sacrificing, utterly democratic sincerity
OF these country people. They wear no
uniforms. They expect no praise and
get none. They would be astounded at it.
Perhaps the same thing might be found
IN farming village in Maryland or Vir-
glnia If one'out of eight of it's inhabitant,
was in the service, if it had been In the
war for nearly four years, if it had been
rocked by exploding bombs overhead, \
Ihere are many of the same sort of
people in rural Maryland or Virginia.
But until that day comes anybody
seeking the real heart of the democratic
world can do no better than to 20 to
thls hitherto unsung namesake OF the
capital OF the United States hidden in
the West Sussex downs.
AND II anybody in Washington want,
70 DO some war work where it will reallv
count they can do no better than tn
ADOPT this English village.
Evening star., 1943-02-21

beer as the best to be had in England.
What are the war jobs of these WASH
ington women?
One housewife modestly announced
that her job was running the meat pie
club whose members undertake to bake
$50 pies a week for distribution at cost,
4 pence each, through the village in
order to supplement rations. They are
especially for workers and children and
do not have to be accounted for.
Another is running a rabbt-raising
club. BY agreeing to sell half their rab-
bits to the butcher they can get bran
ration to feed them-and thus have the
other half clear as a ration supplement.
Another raises geese and another goats
on the same sort of plan.
All are knitting ceaselessly for the
sailors in the merchant navy. They are
gathering surplus vegetables for the navy.
They are tilling home gardens. They
took care of hundreds of London children
during the blitz receiving back from the
government only small percentage of
the cost. They are maintaining a cloth
ing base where there are piles of all sorts
Of warm clothing. hot water bottles and
the like received from the United States
and Canada. These are for use in case
of bombing, by no means unlikely for
this little hamlet The children scour
the downs gathering wild roses for
vtamin-rich jam, chestnuts and walnuts
to be sold for various war funds.
They keep up a constant supply of
clothing for their own LOG men in the
service. The great pride of the village,
says Mrs Hughes, the wife of the school
master, is Ronald Lillywhite, who just
year or two ago, it seems, was little
boy in knee pants in the village school,
and who has just been awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross.
Probably the biggest job of all accom-
plished by Washington is to buy, out of
its savings, half corvette for the
Atlantic service. This money has come
out of the socks of families many of
whom have total income of not more
than $40 a week. Farm workers are not
highly paid in England. Proudly William
N. Howe, who is treasurer of this fund,
showed on his ledger where several such
families were contributing as much as
$5 week
They keep the crew of their corvette
Evening star., 1943-02-21
Writer Finds Soul of Democratic WoI411 114x = ly1in

hands and used to climb the hill to
water them every day. He started as a
boy and when he died in his late Dos
had the satisfaction of leaving them in
fourishing condition.
Now, according to local legend, he was
greatly hampered in his task by the
Devil who every night would pull up all
the seedlings planted during the day.
But Mr.. Goring perseyeTed and finally
Satan gave it up as q bad Job,
There are two versions of another
legend-one that anybody who walks
around the ring seven times at night will
see Satan come out Of the copse and can
transact with him any appropriate
business Nobody would dare test the
truth of this say Washington people
But Mr.. Gotcher, proprietor of the
nurseries which are the largest business
enterprise in the village. says the real
legend is that in order to see the black
gentleman one must run around the ring
three times, holding ones breath. He
tried it himself as harum- -scarum boy.
But since the ring is half-mile in cir
cumferenCe nobody has yet succeeded
in the feat.
Also, allegedly nobody in Washington
will go near the Chanctonbury ring at
night 1t is as eerie a spot as could we'll
be imagined There is no human habi-
tation for miles. One IS utterly isolated
from the low-lying weald below. Once,
without question. the very space sur
I1I I,-& ~,
Roman temple. Before that it is be-
lieved, although there is no positive
evidence, that Druid rites were conducted
there, probably accompanied by human
sacrifice.
Evening star., 1943-02-21

OF her six British guests when they bade
her reluctant farewells last month. Her
own boy is flying an American plane
somewhere.
Those kisses were the incest surprise
those homesick men ever got" laughs
their chaplain, "and my feeling is that
this sort Of thing is the only practical
course toward permanent peace alliances.
Peace TO be more than an armistice,
must be supported by such British masses
as my seamen represent. and they must
back up a subordination of national to
international security. A week in an
American home creates for these fellows
the tie that binds"
USO officials report that Chaplain
Fleming's course" is working equal Won
ders in American homes Requests for
more British house guests are piling up
on USO desks. Our folks come back for
more of that special brand Of apprecia-
ton with which these salty visitors re-
Evening star., 1943-02-21
BY James D. White,
Associated Pres, STAN Writer

Mary to postmaster to Pvt. Joe Doakes
a double-play which can often mean
the difference between a rarin' to- 20
soldier and discouraged one
Never before, say the Army and Navy
has mail to the armed forces overseas
meant so much in terms OF morale.
That's why their postal services, in CO.
operation with the United States Post
Once, are going to such lengths to see
that the mail goes through.
To battle one of the worst mail prob
lens In history, the Army and Navy
say they need the cooperation of both
Mary and Joe.
They say that 10 per cent Of all letters
for men overseas have something wrong
with the address, and indicate that If
Mary and Joe would be careful when
they write, they'd get more letters from
each other.
ship sinkings, for instance-that's why
they dreamed up V-nail (for victory
which is, they say, the surest and fastest
way of getting letter to a serviceman
overseas.
But Vmail or ordinary mail, 1t has to
go through. The reports from the front
are that many men would gladly miss a
meal to get letter.
In getting the mail to our men over
seas the Army and Navy have to use
schedules and transportation as they
find them.
The Army has, roughly, a million and
a half men overseas. and its post Offices
function In China India. Australia, the
South Pacific, Africa, Greenland and
dozens of other places. The Navy has
million men in service and large pro-
portion of them are at sea most Of the
time.
What happened during the Christmas
rush indicates what the Army and Navy
are up against The Army shipped
overseas nearly two and half million
parcels, more than 81 million ordinary
letters, and more than Is million air.
mail letters. The Navy. which takes care
of mail for the Coast Guard and Ma
rines. handled comparable amounts Of
mail In relation to its size.
Delays In such huge systems are In
evitable, postal service men say. and II
Mary doesn't hear promptly from Joe.
Evening star., 1943-02-21

time-honored stand -offishness between
"limeys' and Yankee gobs whenever they
docked side by side in good old peace"
days. Hot dogs, thick ham and cheese
sandwiches with coffee or strong tea, fol-
lowed by beer "chasers" and an hours
session around an Embassy piano with
repertoire by all hands that swung mer-
rilly from Roll Out the Barrel" to John
Peel and Deep in the Heart OF Texas"
ending with hands crossed for Aud
Lang Syne, these quickly performed
the miracle on which Rhodes and Com
monWealth Fund scholarships have con-
centrated for years.
A sort of international USO, co-opera-
ton among Britons and Americans in
the battle of morale, is the kind of prof.
ect this young Englishman is effecting
That his increasing roster Of American
collaborators are enjoying their part in
this battle Is typified by the rural Caro-
lima mother who impulsively kissed each
Evening star., 1943-02-21

spond to their hospitality, be 1t ever so
humble. Many letters are being ex-
changed these days between the hostesses
on these shores and the boys mothers in
England
For games dancing, relaxation, sight
seeing, midday meals and travel ar
rangements the USO club workers dove
tail with home hospitality committees in
Chaplain Fleming's project" He seems
to be bringing about, without premedita-
ton, an overall coordination of the nu-
merous American friends he has made
since 1929 in churches, private homes
and welfare and civic organizations
"All of this American kindness has pro-
duced a really deep-rooted gratitude
among my men, Mr. Fleming assures
you. When their times come to go to
sea again, they are fortified and encour-
aged by these wonderful memories and
long-lasting friendships on this side"