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Evening star., 1943-03-12

Casablanca meeting with Prime
Minizter Churchill. Mr.. Roosevelt
remarked with laugh that if that
was true he must have been under
the table because he did not see the
Soviet leader.
Asked If he could say anything at
all which might clear up widespread
speculation about relations of Russia
with the other United Nations, the
President said only that he would
not do too much speculation, re-
marking that every one could re-
member what another form of specu-
lation did to the country in 1929.
The FDIC report made public by
Mr.. Roosevelt showed that the cor
poration. established after the bank
ing crisis in 1888, has saved more
than l,250,000 depositors from loss
in 800 insured banks which have
closed since that year. This repre-
sented 998 per cent of the depositors
affected.
The report also stated that not
Withstanding assumption by the
FDIC of S50,000000 in losses which
otherwise would have fallen on the
depositors, the corporation has &C
cumulated surplus of 1925 900 900.
The FDIC now provides full pro-
lection for more than 65,oo0.OOO &C
counts in the banks of the country,
the report added
Evening star., 1943-03-12
Russia
Continued From First Page

Of kharkOv. The war bulletin
was broadcast by the Berlin
radio and recorded by the Asso-
ciated Press
Although dispatches from that
front said the Russians were bleed
ing the enemy white as he plunged
for the prize and had plugged some
gaps in the Soviet lines, official
communicates admitted that the de-
lending forces were Cutnumhered bV
German reserves thrown into the
battle which now had veered to the
west of the city.
The Germans. communiQue said.
were trying at all costs to break
through to the city"
The Soviet midday Communioue
said strong enemy tank and in
fantry forces stormed our positions"
west of Kharkol AT the cost of
heavy losses in material and man
power, the enemy succeeded in
pressing back our units" To the
south Of the city, however, it was
claimed that a German thrust had
been thrown back with the loss of
nine tanks.
On The central front numerous new
victories were reported in the last
IL hours. including the capture of
several towns and villages southwest
Of Gzhatsk on the road to wanna
West and south Of Belly the Red
Evening star., 1943-03-12
Vyozn1o Strategic as Russian Rail Junction

Vyazma, key city along the Cen
tral Russian front, owes its impor-
tance in the war to its strategic
location rather than to size or re-
sources. 1t is junction of five rail-
way lines, says the National Geo.
graphic Society.
Although the lines are German
held in the immediate vicinity of
the city, four of the five lines that
converge at Vyazma from the north,
south, northeast and southeast come
through territory which has been
for the most part reoccupied by the
Russians, These lines run, for ex-
ample, from Moscow, about $50
miles to the northeast: from retaken
Kaluga, Kursk and Kharkov on the
southeast and from Rzhev.
The only line into wanna which
proceeds continuously through Ger
man-captured country is the sec
ton Of the main trunk line that
extends southWestward to the Polish
border
Before the war started. wanna
was llle CeiltSI Vi one OF Une ledQlng
dairy regions of the Soviet Union
Many Of the workers of its 10000
residents we're also employed in its
fax, vegetable oil, leather goods and
match industries.
Both trade and war are old stories
to ancient wanna. AS early as the
l1th century, this settlement was an
important station for traffic between
Gulf of Finland ports and Southern
Russia.
At different times during medieval
and later struggles for power in
this part of the world wanna
was captured snd held by the
Lithuanians and Poles. During the
1872 Napoleonic campaign in Russia,
the city was the scene of an engage
ment won by the Russians.
wanna fell on October IA. 1941,
in the first successful drive of the
Nazis toward Moscow. Later the
invaders were thrown back by Rus
sian counterattacks to a battle line
Just short of the citv.
Evening star., 1943-03-12
Wushinqton Produce

BUTTER-AA solid pound prints, 5lA:
AA l4-pound prints, 52L4: solid pounds.
50H; A u pounds, 5ls4: solid pounds,
50h; B "a pounds. 81 q; butter chips and
pats. 54L
-LIVEsTOCK-Calves, 1s; spring lambs,
Is.
From Food Distribution Administration,
Prices paid net fob. Washington:
EGGSEMarket steady on graded eggs.
slightly stronger on nearby ungraded eggs
Prices paid for Federal-Statc-graded eggs
received from grading stations (March 121
Whites: U. S. extras. large, 3s-40: average,
39i2 U. s. extras. medium, 36-37 average,
81: U. S. standards. large. 36-3S: average
81: U. S. standards, medium 80: U. s.
trades, "a
Browns. U. S. extras. large, 31-39 aver
age, 36-3S: average, 81; U. s. standards
medium. 35: U. s. trades. 34-35: average
"a. Nearby ungraded eggs: Current re-
ceipts: Whites. 35-36; mixed colors. "a -35.
Receipts, Government-graded eggs, $40
cases.
LIVE POULTRY-Market Arm. Fowl
colored. As pounds, 81. Rooter, 5i2 pounds
and over, 1920. Broilers, under pounds.
rs. Fryers, "A pounds. 29i2.
Evening star., 1943-03-12
Ecc|es Proposes
50 PET. Withholding
Tax 10 Pay for War
Head of Reserve Board
Urges Shorp Reduction
In Living Standards
Continued From First Page }

"a withholding tax on all income in
excess of the income tax eXemp-
tions" at the rate of 25 per cent if
the per cent Victory tax is retained
or preferably, 80 per cent if the
Victory tax is repealed.
The only practical alternative, Mr.
Eccles contended, would be an II
per cent retail sales tax on all items,
including food and clothing. which
he estimated would yield five billion
dollars
Americans must not only accept
present economic controls, he de-
clared, but must consider addi-
tional measures and techniques de-
manded by the unprecedented prob
lens resulting from this unprece-
dented war.
1T does not appeal to my sense
of justice that young men of the
Nation should risk their lives and
lose them while we at home quarrel
and complain, squabble over dollars,
seek to fatten our pocketbooks, to
hoard scarce food, wc-too many
of us-wno act as If these were lush
boom times instead of a war to the
death" -"
Evening star., 1943-03-12
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, March u LP>.--Lats foreign
EXCHANGE rates follow Great Britain in
dollars, others in centS):
Canada: Oficial Canadian Control Board
rates for U. s. dollars. Buying 10 per cent
premium; selling, | per cent premium:
equivalent to discounts on Canadian dolls rs
in New York of buying, 9.9l per cent: SELL
ina 9 0a per c. mt.
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
ket fO,s per cent discount, or S9.S1A
U. S. cents
Europe: Great Britain, oficial Bankers
Foreign Exchange Committee rates): Buy
ing, OF: selling, 4O4
Latin America: Argentina, oficial, 29.71:
free, % so; on 3/I00 cent; Brazil ofhcial,
6.05n; free, 5.2On: Mexico, 20 Son
Rates in spot cables unless otherwise in
dicated. n Nominal.
Evening star., 1943-03-12
Raids
Continued From First Pagel

attack-a term customarily applied
to heavyweight raid in which
large area is blanketed with fire and
explosions
The round-trip from England to
Stuttgart is about 900 miles, 300
miles shorter than the journey to
Munich and return. Five hundred
tons OF bombs were dropped on
Munich Tuesday night.
All five of the German aircraft
shot down over England were ac-
counted for by pilots of Norwegian
fighter squadron operating under
the Raj fighter command.
An Air Ministry communique said
their victories were won without
mourning single bullet hole in their
own aircraft"
In addition to the bomber attack
on Stuttgart, the Air Ministry said
Allied fighters on intruder patrols
roved over Holland and Brittany.
Two of the aircraft were missing.
Shipping Area Machine G unned.
At least six persons were killed
when the Germans bombed and
machlne-gunned a shopping dis
trlct in outer London. A bus driver
was burned to death when his bus
was destroyed by fire. Three trains
were machine--eunned at one sta
ton where waiting suburbanites
stretched out on the station plat
form as machine-gun bullets struck
nearby
During the night German bomb
ers attacked targets in Northeast
England and four enemy planes
were reported shot down. DNB, in
broadcast recorded by the Asso-
clated Press, said Newcastle had
been bombed.
1t took more than an hour last
night for the Germany bound Brit
ish bombers to cross the Channel
coast reports from residents in that
area said. The planes were flying
above the clouds.
Their return about 80 m. coin
clded with an exchange of British
and German long-range artillery
across the Dover Strait. The Brit
lsh opened the firing and the duel
continued for more than an hour.
At least five of the raids on Ger
many this month have been heavy
those on Berlin, Hamburg, Essen,
Munich and Nuremberg. In the first
10 days of the month more than
1000 tons of bombs were dropped
on Germany and German occupied
territories.
Evening star., 1943-03-12

Army was developing its successes
capturing Is towns and villages.
Rushing along the road to Smo-
lensk these forces were blocking
off and 5ypassing enemy garrisons.
1zvestia said small groups of the
Russian Army were rushing ahead
breaking into settlements and hold
ing them in the path of the enemy
retreat until the main Red Army
forces approached.
A Pravda dispatch said latest So
Wet successes in the northwest were
along the shore of Lake linen
where the Russians smashed into
strong enemy positions in villages
along the banks of rivers emptying
into the lake.
Ice of Rivers Blown Up.
The Germans blew up the ice of
the rivers to form a jagged wall to
hamper the Russian advance, Prav-
da said, but the Russians skirted
the defenses and attacked from the
rear by crossing the lake.
On the Kharkov front, Red Star
said. the Germans were trying des-
perately to force an unidentified
river with tanks, but were being
repulSed by Soviet artillery.
The army newspaper reported that
the Russian drives west of Sevsk,
below Orel and Bryansk also was
meeting serious resistance from large
German tank forces trying to cut
off the Russian wedges.
The paper said, however, that the
Russians were we'll prepared with
Well-placed anti-tank guns, artillery
and mortars.
In the Kuban area of the Caucasus
the Russians were gradually clearing
settlements of enemy forces, fighting
their way through heavy mud to-
ward the Black Sea naval base of
Noyorossisk. 't.
German broadcasts, as received in
London by the Associated Press, said
the withdrawal from wanna was
made before daylight today.
After having removed their ma
terial and levelling the airdrome and
motor highway, DNB said, German
planes let loose hundreds of in
cendiary and explosive bombs upon
the city -.
An exception was made for the
center of the city, precious from the
historic viewpoint but without any
military value. The cathedral
which had been transformed by the
Sovlets into canteen and coffee
house, and was the quarters of Ma
poleon during his campaign in 1912,
as we'll as two hospitals filled with
civilians and wounded Bolshevists.
were spared
In order to anticipate the even
tual Soviet communiqueS on the
subject of booty, the Germans have
listed well in advance of the Rus
slams that which was left at
wanna
There remained SO DESTROYED
locomotives and 200 wagon-carts of
goods entirely burned, the Germans
said, in addition to two cemeteries
OF automobiles, the result of the
Soviet destruction of vehicles during
the battle of 194l.
Following the measures taken bv
the German troops at Vyazma has
lost all strategic Importance for the
Soviets.'
Evening star., 1943-03-12
Africa
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Continued From First PageD
while the series of Axis attacks in
both Southern and Northern Tunisia
came to halt without any sig
nifcant gain.
At the same time United States
bombers and fighters struck again
at Axis sea lanes and the Allies re-
ported the destruction of IL more
Axis planes. Seven Allied aircraft
were listed as missing.
Small-Scale Action.
There was no late report by noon
today of Rommel's attack in the
Ksar Rhilane zone 40 miles SOUTH
west of the Mareth Line, but au-
thorities said it was a small-scale
action carried out by 80 armored
cars and was believed to be making
little progress. They regarded it as
a defensive measure against long
range raids.
Escorted by Spitfires and Kitty
hawks. the Bostons started the
aerial onslaught against the Mareth
Line with raid at the northeast
end. Observers said fires broke out.
B-26 Marauders with P-38 Light
ming escorts caught a convoy of
Axis motor barges in the Sicilian
Strait, blew up one and damaged
two others and shot down two
escorting Junkers 88s and a Messer-
schmitt ITO, it was announced.
Four other Axis planes were de-
stroyed by Allied aerial squadrons
protecting Allied ground troops near
Ksar Rhilane and five others, unre-
ported previously, were said to have
been bagged in air raids on Axis
fields IN the Tunis area yesterday.
Heavy Blow to Axis.
Dispatches yesterday said Gen.
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's forces
had delivered another heavy blow
to the Axis.
Rommel lashed out suddenly at
flanking British forces near Ksar
Rhilane, but an Allied communique
last night said heavy casualties
were inflicted on the enemy, and
many vehicles were left burning"
The Raj, it was announced,
joined the battle and gave very
effective support" Last nights
communique said the fighting was
continuing.
Rommel apparently hoped to
break the ring which the 9th Army
and the other Allied troops in Tu-
nisia are forging around the Axis
forces in the south, but there was
no indication he was successful.
Ksar Rhilare is connected by road
with Foum Tatohuine and is on a
caravan trail leading northWestward
to Axis held Kerbili.
Montgomery Confident.
Dispatches from the front at Me-
dinine, where the 9th Army broke
up an Axis attack last week end
and inflicted heavy losses on the
enemy, said Gen. Montgomery was
supremely confident that the 9th
Army could turn back any Axis
attack.
The 9th Army was reported to be
using with great success an inno-
vation in anti-tank defense-a row.
ing g. FOUNDER gun.
(The Moscow radio broadcast
last night report of an inter-
view between Gen. Montgomery
and a Tass correspondent in
which Gen. Montgomery was
quoted as saying: Il always 60
in for certainties. That's why
the preparations which may ap-
pear slow to some people must
be complete and careful.'D
Evening star., 1943-03-12
lerner Store Sales
At All-Time Peak
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special DISPATCH to The Star
NEW YORK, March l2.-Record
sales of S64, 1886, l13 are shown in the
annual report of Lerner Stores Corp.
for the fiscal year ended January 81
l943, an increase of sl4,345, 141 or 49,
over the preceding fiscal year.
Federal income and excess profits
taxes amounted to 1892 ,625, an in
crease of s2,106,S80 over the pre-
vlous year.
Evening star., 1943-03-12
London Market Firm

LONDON, March II (P.-The
stock markets closing undertone was
firm after day of quiet trading.
Industrials were mainly firm. Home
rails improved Oils were steady.
Kaffirs and diamond shares were in
clined to be reactionary.
Evening star., 1943-03-12
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. March IL lP-All grains
were under pressure today, wheat and rye
dropping more than cent at one time, as
a moderate amount of commission house
selling uncovered a scarcity of buying or
ders. Wheat sank to lowest levels in about
two weeks.
Hedging from the Southwest was a fac
tor in the bread cereal downturn. Eastern
houses sold rye freely and the market
broke rather sharply when stop-loss orders
TO sell were uncovered on the way down,
Oats weakened with wheat and rye.
Wheat closed on the days lows, off lis-
17s. May, 451s-1 As: July, l45ss-L
corn was UNCHANGED at ceilings, May, 90;
oats dropped 1s-1s. and rye broke .-2A.
Evening star., 1943-03-12
New York Cotton

NEW YORK, March IL 0Pl.-Weakness
in the grain market brought out hqui
dation in cotton today.
A good part of the selling was attribu-
ted to hedging from the South along
with commission house liquidation. Offer
ings were absorbed through trade price
fixing.
Late afternoon values were 10 to 35
cents a bale lower; March, 20.25; May,
2o.0l, and July, 1885.
Futures closed i 10 % cents a bale
Evening star., 1943-03-12
ChicaEo Cash Market

ChlcaE0 CaNh MAFKtt.
Cash wheat, no sales. Corn, No. y yellow,
pie grade yellow, 12-l 90. Oats, No. !
mixed, 65; No. >, 64h: No 1 white, 66i2;
No .. So: No. ;. 63s4- No 4, 6334 4-64 "a
Barley, mailing, 9O-l O6, nominal feed,
1880, nominal Soybeans, sample grade,
yellow SO. Field seed, per hundred
weight. nominal; Timothy, 4.15-5.00;
alsike, 81 .OO-26 90: fancy red top. 725-15:
red clover. 20 .O0-25 90; sweet clover. Z so
$50: alfalfa 32 .OO-39. 90.
Evening star., 1943-03-12
Baltimore Stocks
Special Dispatch to The Star.
Commodity Prices

NEW YORK, March 12-The Associated
Press weighted wholesale price index OF IS
commodities today advanced to l06 So
Previous day. lo6.29: week ago OF Al:
month ago, 104 81; year age. 81 81 --,
lq43. 1912 1o4l 3a-40
High ----- l066 6s f0322 9512 1928
Low l0343 1854 1903 63fS
G926 average equals 1909 =
Evening star., 1943-03-12
Weather In Various Cities.
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO, March IL 1Py.-Butter. re-
cepts. 439s s54: arm; prices as quoted by
the CHICAGO Price Current are UNCHANGED
Ess receipts 30,22s; frm: current re-
ceipts, 36, other prices unchanged.
Evening star., 1943-03-12
Weather Report


District OF CoumbiaColder
night and Saturday morning; gentle
Maryland and Virginia-Colder
Evening star., 1943-03-12

Don't fire till you see the whites
of their eyes. But you may buy
War bonds now.
Evening star., 1943-03-12
Washington EXCHANGE
SALES

SALES.
washington Gas S5 pfd-1O at 10l
AFTER CALL.
capital Traction 1st 5s-s1 900 at
lO57s, $1,000 at 1O57s.
Evening star., 1943-03-12

LITTLE Want Ad" in The Star
brings a LOT Of results. MA. 5000
Evening star., 1943-03-12
New Orleans Prices.

Middling spot, 81 sen.
Bleachabie cottonseed oil futures closed
40 lower. Sales, two contracts. May,
14.05b
Evening star., 1943-03-12

Spot cotton closed steady, so cents a
bale lower. Sales, 5s7. Low middling
s14s FeesGp1a Fmiddiins ,eH $oI good m!ddlins
Bid n Nominal
Evening star., 1943-03-12

Wv orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS, March - L49.-Hedec
selling on a fairly large scale depressed
cotton futures here today. Tho market
closed steady, UNCHANGED TO 10 cents a
Evening star., 1943-03-12
River Report.

Potomac and Shenandoah clear at Har-
,ers Ferry. Potomac clear al Great Falls
Report for Last 81 Hours
Evening star., 1943-03-12

FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geoedetic Survey
Evening star., 1943-03-12
New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK, March l3 R-Natio
Association SECURITIES Dealers. Inc:
Evening star., 1943-03-12

EA-ulFiUtHG .OBOOkS closed. fPluS
tras aPaid so far this year e2Eo extra,
hS5 extra. k20c extra. mS1 so extra.
pPaid in 1912. yS10 extra.
Evening star., 1943-05-02

The best way to root for victory
Is to dig deep into that pocketbook
or purse and buy War savings
stamps.
Evening star., 1943-05-02
.253 Women Marines
Begin Duty Tomorrow

Women marines will march into
the corps headquarters in the Navy
Department Annex at Arlington,
Va, tomorrow. The first detach-
ment will consist of 253 enlisted
women marines.
1t. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, Marine
Corps commandant, will inspect the
group at $50 am. tomorrow, after
which the women will be assigned
to their new posts.
The detachment comes from the
Naval Training School in New York,
City, where the group completed
basic training
Members of the detachment are
scheduled to visit the Marine base
at Quantico, Va, today at the invi-
tation of Maj. Gen. Philip H. Torrey
post commandant. They will tour
the post, attend baseball game anc
have dinner there.
Evening star., 1943-05-02

what we might do to help the
national good"
Mr.. Monroe said he knew a num-
ber OF Army and Navy officers but
had never used them"
1--WE never sold anything to the
War Department" he declared
I've worked like a dog for what
have and I haven't anything.
my friends and I are merely
trying to be helpful to the Govern
ment. We have done more things
for the national good in that house
(2l0l r street, than the people in
any other house in Washington.
Guests Termed Patriots
Mr.. Monroe emphasized that
never was there what he described
as war broker" at the dinner
table at 2101 r street.
The people who attended the
dinners were all outstanding, pa
triotic citizens" he declared What
did we talk about? 1t was our kind
of businessmen business for money
or orders for Government contracts
We talked about things for the
good of the Nation"
Mr. Monroe said he recalled dis
tinctly the night Mr.. Fey attended
the dinner which set 2101 R street
in the public light. He pointed out
that at that time he asked Mrs.
Smith if it would be 'all right" to
invite Mr.. Fey to the dinner. Mrs.
Smith told him it would be, he said,
and he extended the invitation.
But there were only two Army
officers at that dinner, Mr.. Monroe
said. despite Mr.. Fey's testimony be-
for the subcommittee that number
of officers in the armed services
attended.
Mr.. Monroe reiterated the charge
he made before the subcommittee
Wednesday-that the telephone line
at 2101 R street had been tapped
and that he had been warned by a
New Deal official he was to be
framed and "persecuted" but
added that his mail also had been
intercepted"
Evening star., 1943-05-02
March Lease:-Lend Aid
Was S6SS, 100000,
Stettinius Reports
Total Expenditures Put
At $10,319,000, 900;
Brituin Benefits Most
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The United States extended $685.
600 600 in leaSe-lend aid in March,
bringing to $10,319 900 900 the total
expenditures since the program be-
gan March II, 1941.
In reporting that last night Ed
ward r. Stettinius, jr., lease-lend
administrator, said goods transfer
red represented s8,494, 1876 900 of the
over all total Services, such as ship
repairs, shipping and production IA
cilitieS made up the remaining ST.
825 1888 900.
Lease-lend shipments in the last
three months were divided as fol-
lows: United Kingdom, 38 per cent:
Russia, 81 per cent; Africa and Mid
die East, 16 per cent; Far East Gn-
cluding India, IA per cent; other
areas, l per cent.
Russia Gets Most Planes.
Without giving actual figures, Mr..
Stettinius said more lease-lend
planes have been sent to Russia
than to any other military theater.
Approximately ,one-third of all COM
bat planes produced in this country
have been turned over to lease-lend,
and aircraft make up the largest
single category of transfers, total
ing ST, 1,405, ,744,OO0 to April l..
Because of an increasingly acute
food shortage in Russia, Mr.. Stet-
tinius said, as much food will be
shipped to that country this year as
to Great Britain, which formerly re-
ceived the bulk of lease-lend food
shipments.
Mr.. Stettinius said reverse lease
lend provided to the United States
by the United Nations, as we'll as
aid to each other, has continued to
mount in volume and importance"
and I'VE know that in proportion to
the resources they have available
this lease-lend aid by our Allies to
us and to each other is entirely COM
parable to our own"
Classificati ton Of Goods.
Goods transferred under lease
lend by this country from March,
1941. to March 81, 1943, as reported
by Mr.. Stettinius:
Munitions-Ordnance, $3.50, ,040 900;
ammunition, $943, ,742,OOO; aircraft
and parts. $1,405, ,744 900; tanks and
parts, $731 ,376, 900; motor vehicles,
$467, ,668 900; watercraft and parts,
$3.50, 1855 900.
Industrial products - Machinery,
$780, 900; metals, $6O7, ,43O 900;
petroleum products, $413,312O00;
other industrial products, $685.
212,0O0.
Foodstuffs, $1,268,911 900; other
agricultural products, $286.110,OOO,