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Evening star., 1943-04-12
Half Of S115,oo0 Goal
Reported by Symphony

Only 50 per cent Of the goal of
$ll5.000 to sustain the National
Symphony Orchestra through l943-
A was reached through Saturday, 1t
was reported today at a meeting of
the heads OF 10 committees partici-
pating in the drive
An estimated 1910 pledges. total
ing $4,000, were tabulated from in
complete reports received.
E. r. Finkenstaedt. vice chairman
OF the drive. pointed out that $3.50
pledge cards have yet to be heard
from, which is over half OF the
5000 cards originally assigned.
One big problem. he asserted. was
that campaign workers are unable
to see all the people on their lists.
He said he hopes that those people
interested in the symphony will mail
In their contributions without being
solicited.
Mr.. Finkenstaedt said every effort
must be made to put the drive over
the top by the final report luncheon
Friday at 1890 pm. at the Statler
Hotel.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Alexander Reply
To Eisenhower
Sure of Victory

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, April l2-Gen.
Sir Harold Alexander. British COM
mander of all Allied ground forces in
North Africa, expressed confidence
yesterday that the enemy would be
driven from his last foothold in
Tunisia.
Replying to the recent congratula-
tions from his chieftain, Gen
Dwight Eisenhower. on the junction
of the British sth Army and the
American I'd Army Corps. Gen. AL
eXander said:
All ranks serving under the COM
mand of the 18th Army Group join
with me in thanking you for your
inspiring personal message of con-
gratulations on their recent success.
The joining of the 9th Army
from the east with their American
comrades from the west, who have
fought so gallantly under difficult
conditions. is indeed notable
event. There has been hard fighting
in the past and there is much more
to come. but I am fully confident
that, under your leadership, the task
of driving enemy forces from their
last footholds in the continent of
North Africa will be successfully ac-
complished."
Evening star., 1943-04-12

on roll call IS Democratic members
and Representative Gearhart, Re-
publican of California voted against
reopening the tax issue, while nine
Republicans voted for the recon-
sideration.
The lineup was Identical with the
committee vote on the Ruml plan.
which was rejected, l6 to g. The
skip-a-tax-year proposal later was
presented in the House as an amend
ment to the committees bill and was
defeated, 2l5 to 1873.
Mr.. Doughton had said earlier
he did not believe the committee
would show discourtesy" to Mr..
Hull and Secretary of Commerce
Jones by turning to taxes when the
cabinet members had been called
to discuss reciprocal trade.
Murray Asks Action.
In the continuing word drama on
taxes. CIO President Philip Murray
wrote Mr.. Mccormack and Mr.. Mar
tin. urging that the two parties for
get their past differences and Join
in an immediate report to the House
membership of sound pay-as-you-
go tax plan"
Mr.. Murray proposed a program
including withholding levy for de-
duction of taxes from wages and
asked that the 1912 tax obligation
be abated to the extent of the full
normal (6 per cent? tax and to the
extent of the surtax 13 per cent? on
the first $4,000 of taxable income
only"
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Staying Witness Fails
To Identify Cook
Defense Counsel Hits
Testimony Of Marine
BY the Associated Press

oS l1'S ASsOCldted Press.
ALBANY. Oreg., April l2.-Harold
Wilson, Marine Corps private. de-
clined today to identify Robert E..
Lee Folkes as the man he saw
emerge from lower 10, the berth in
which Mrs. Martha Virginia James
was slain aboard a limited train
early on January 23
During cross-examinati ton of Pvt.
Wilson. KEY states witness at the
murder trial Of Folkes. the trains
colored second cook. Defense At
torney Leroy Lomax pointed to
Folkes and asked:
rs that the man you saw coming
out OF the berth?"
Without hesitation, Pvt. Wilson
replied i don't know
Pvt. Wilson, the only witness dis
closed by the State to have seen
the knive killer OF the 2l-year-old
Navy oficer's bride told Friday how
he saw a man climb out Of lower 13
and run out of the car. Pvt. Wilson
occupied the berth above Mrs.
James.
Pvt. Wilson admitted, under cues
tioning, he told officers early in the
investigation that the man wore a
brown pin-stripe suit. In testimony
Friday he said the man wore a dark
overcoat, an assertion also made by
District Attorney Harlow Weinrick
In his opening statement
Didn't you decide that the man
wore an overcoat after the district
attorney said he must have worn an
overcoat with a knife up a sleeve'?"
Mr. Lomax asked.
No Pvt. Wilson said. explaining
that he was excited and schocked''
at the time Of the Staying.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
IAuthor links Central America
Twill Be World Crop Cradle

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 12.-Charles
Morrow Wilson, author on Central
American subjects, said today that
Middle America is "a world cradle
of crops and could be the "ulti-
mate mecca of mankind's agricul-
ture"
Mr.. Wilson. in an address at a
one-day Institute on Middle Amer
ica and the United States to signal
ize American Week and the
'nterdependence of the nations.
stressed the richness of the soil of
the area and its potential develop
ment as rich farming section.
In the United States you can
produce one crop of corn a year"
Mr. Wilson said. You harvest ap-
pies, pears and most other decidu-
Gus fruits once a year.
In Middle America you can har-
vest bananas or plantains or va
rious other native fruits practically
every day Of the year In certain
areas you can plant and harvest
two or even three crops of corn per
year
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Peacetime Needs Will
Make Jobs, Says Ber|e
State Department Official
Discusses Conversion
BY the Associated Press.

by ne Associated press.
NEW YORK. April IA. A.
Berle, jr., Assistant Secretary of
State. predicted last night that
America S wartime production would
be converted to peacetime needs
with jobs for servicemen and those
now employed.
The conversion. Mr.. Berle said at
the Goth anniversary dinner of the
New Leader, weekly newspaper Of
the Social Democratic Federation
Of New York. would be accomplished
by Government control "as de-
centralized as circumstances per-
NIT" and not by unlimited
statism."
Mr. Berle asserted that American
liberal thinking has nothing in
common with the doctrine of class
war adding that the United States
has never been interested in the
dictatorship Of the proletariat' be-
cause 1t wants and proposes to
abolish the proletariat.'
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor. de-
clared that a destruction of the
trade union movement would be
the shortest cut to revolution in
America and charged such de-
struction was sought by "reactionary
interests" backing labor curbine
legislation.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Pepper Asks U. 5. Pledge
To Join Postwar Group
Hy the Associated Press,

Hy the Associated Press.
A resolution to pledge the United
States to enter postwar United
Nations organization as full par
ticipating member was proposed to
the Senate today by Senator Pepper
Democrat. of Florida.
The proposal. requiring the two
thirds concurrence Of the Senate
necessary in action on treaties
would direct the President to in
form other United Nations, that:
The United States is ready to
enter into solemn pledge that it
will. within six months after the
conclusion of the war in Europe
becoming full participating men,
Der Of an acceptable form Of United
Nations in order to implement the
Atlantic charter. safeguard its peace
and promote its welfare by CO.
operating with other free peoples OF
the world"
The President would be instructed
to invite other nations to join in the
execution of such a past as we'll as
lin initiating Immediately a study
and exchange of ideas and sugges-
tons as to what should be the
specific form and detail OF the
United Nations to be formed"
Evening star., 1943-04-12
High Court 10 Review
Rule Upho|ding Draft
Conviction Of Seaman
Refuses to Hear Plea
Of Officer Convicted by
Court in Philippines
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Supreme Court agreed today
to review a decision sustaining the
conviction of draft registrant on
a charge that he knowingy failed
and neglected to keep his local draft
board advised at all times of the
address where mail would reach him.
Homer Lester Bartchy. alias Homer
Brooks of Houston, Tex, contended
he had notified his board of his
address but that notice to report
for induction was sent to his previous
address and was not received.
Service at Sea Cited.
Mr.. Bartchy, seaman in the serv-
Ice of the American merchant ma
rine, surrendered to FBI agents in
New York. He was convicted in
the Federal District Court at Hous-
ton and was sentenced to 60 days
in Jail. The conviction was upheld
by the Fifth Federal Circuit Court.
Referring to his service in the
merchant marine. his Supreme Court
petition asserted:
For his devotion to duty and OBJ
servance of his obligation to aid his
native land in this hour of terrible
stress and strain, petitioner has been
subjected to the ignominy of in
dictment, trial and conviction, and
the consequent stigma of draft
evasion, in time of war"
Among other actions today, the
court:
Communicated Secret Maps.
Refused to review decision
which denied a writ of habeas
corpus sought by Rufo c. Romero,
an Army captain in the Philip
pines who was convicted of repro
duclng and communicating secret
maps pertaining to national defense
Capt. Romero was convicted by a
general court-martial at Fort Will
liam Mckinley, Philippine Islands.
on November 25, 1910. and was SEN
fenced to dismissal from the service
and to Is years imprisonment at
hard labor. The Justice Department
said he communicated the maps to
persons not entitled to receive such
information.
Capt Romero, who is confined at
Mcneil Island. Wash, contended
he was the victim of frame y
Upheld a s4OOO.OO0 income tax
assessment imposed by the Treas
ury on the Chicago Stockyards Co.
on the ground that the company, by
permitting its gains and profits to
accumulate instead of being dis
tributed. had been "availed Of" to
prevent imposition of a surtax on its
stockholders.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Unions, so Plants Start
On Work-or-Fight Plan
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
PORTLAND. Greg. April 12-
Portland war industries put into ef-
feet today a work or fight labor sta
hi,iZation plan.
The plan. ratified by labor unions
and so war plants. provides that en-
plovers will notify draft boards
whenever worker quits his Job or
Is dismissed for cause. Absentee
ism or chronic hardness is adjudged
cause for dismissal
To reduce labor turnover and pre-
vent labor piratine. the plan also
provides that worker may not
leave one Job for another without
clearance slip.
Approximately 10000 employees
are affected.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
British Eighth Army in No Mood
To Give Fleeing Foe Any Rest i.
Men Know There Still Is Bitter Fighting
Ahead, but Are Confident of Victory

throw up a defense line Friday at
the Wadi Chaffar, 20 miles south
OF Sfax. but the British were press
ing him too fast and the Germans
did not have time even to blow up
the bridge and thus delay the Brit
ish crossing Of the wadi.
British guns knocked out one
giant Mark vi tank in a shirmish
and another OF these prize rolling
fortresses fell into British hands.
Troops on the coastal road found
great quantities of enemy equip
ment abandoned in the hasty re-
treat, including more than 50 guns
75s and l05s.
Magnificent Spectacle.
The sight of the Army on the
move once again is a magnificent
spectacle. Columns pouring up the
coast, led by scout cars, were keep
ing contact with the enemy. Be-
hind them came Shermans, Grants
and Valentines. and then infantry
and supply endless COL
umns roaring through clouds OF
dust and streaming through green
barley fields and olive groves, snak-
ing around hastily built detours
where roads and bridges were
blown up, pushing over roads and
tracks still spotted with fresh holes
from which sappers had taken
mines.
We were up before dawn to join
the columns moving on Sfax under
cold, gray clouds. On the right the
Mediterranean looked dull and
leaden until the sun broke through
the clouds to make the water spar
kle with silvery sheen. Little
fishing boats were at anchor in
quiet lnlets while the Army rolled
forward feu wards auov
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Bread Output |mperi|ed,
Senate Group Is Told
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Representative of the bakers
industry said today an OPA order
reducing their supplies OF shorten
ing 80 per cent would have an actual
effect of curtailing production 50
per cent. They opposed the order
before a Senate Small Business Sub
committee.
Gerard R. Williams of Scranton,
Pa, one OF the witnesses. said that
as other baking ingredients such as
sugar have become scarcer. the load
has been pushed on to shortening. "
He added that failure to give
bakers the necessary shortening for
the balance of l943 would men half
the bread and other baked foods for
our men, women and children, loss
to the farmer of his best customer,
the baking industry. and be equiv
alent to rationing wheat, of which
there is abundance.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
ice Suspends Order
Freight Rates
Standard Passenger
Fares Undisturbed
Ey the Associated Press


The Interstate Commerce Com
mission announced today a decision
suspending increased freight rates
ordered a year ago but leaving un-
disturbed 10 per cent increase in
standard passenger fares.
II also revoked increases in COM
mutation fares and announced that
an independent hearing will be held
on these
The decision was based on hear
ings at which the Office of Price
Administration and other Govern
ment agencies contended that the
increases were unjustifled in the
light of increased revenues of the
railroads and were out of line with
the stabilization program.
The commission said the decision
was reached April 6 by a vote of
s to with Commissioners Aitchison.
Eastman Lee Mahafle, Splawn and
Rogers in the majority, and Chair
man Alldredge and Commissioners
Porter, Miller, Patterson and john
son dissenting.
The original decision of the COM
mission allowed increases of 10 per
cent in the interstate standard pass
enger and communication fares which
became effective February 10, 1912.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Counterattack Launched
By Chinese Forces
By :he Associated Press.

BY :he Associated Press
CHUNGKING, April 12.-The
Chinese, continuing their harassing
activity near the port of Swatow
in the southern province of Kwang-
tung, have launched counterat-
tack against japanese forces, in
f1icting casualties and capturing
prisoners, the high command said
in communique today
The Chinese war bulletin indi-
Gated the japanese had failed In
an attempt to capture two small
towns near Swatow
The japanese attack reflected fear
that there might be a dangerous
concentration of Chinese troops
around SWatow. The successful
Chinese counterattack was started
April 5.
The communique claimed that,
after ferocious Chinese resistance
lasting night and a day. 1000
Japanese were repulsed north OF
Lini in Southern Shantung one Of
the Japanese strongholds of this
maritime province.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
BY DON WHITEHEAD,


WITH THE BRITISH 9Th
ARMY NEAR sFAx, April 10
(Delayed) The Afrika Korps
is fleeing toward the hills north
OF Sousse, fighting rearguard &C
tions in a desperate attempt to
shake off the tenacious advance
of the British 9th Army.
But Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery is giving his old enemy no
chance to break away or get set in
any position before he reaches the
perimeter of defenses around Tunis.
After smashing the enemy's Wadi
Ell Akarit defenses and joining his
forces With the Americans. he poured
tanks, guns and infantry into full
chase with no pause The army
which fought its way almost 1000
miles across Africa was in no mood
now to give the enemy any rest
Tunis lies ahead. and the 9Th
Army is talking about the day when
the Axis forces will be showed into
the sea"
The men know there still is bitter
fighting ahead, but they believe
nothing can stop them-a supreme
confidence instilled by Gen. Mont
gomery who has praised the 9th
Army as proba bly, the greatest fight
ing machine in the history of the
British Empire.
With Americans now on the left
flank, Gen. Montgomery can con-
centrate on driving ahead while the
enemy is Juggling forces to meet
threats from the British 1st Army
the Americans and the 9th. And
that's what he is doing.
Marshal Erwin Rommel tried to
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Production in GERMANY
Declared Down 209o
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. April l2.-The mag
azine Steel today quoted its London
editor as saying Germany has lost
up to 20 per cent Of its production
volume in metal industries through
labor slowdowns and Allied bomb
ing of plants.
Bombings up to a few days ago
damaged numerous raw material
and fabricating plants in different
parts of Germany, the trade pubh-
cation declared. 1t also reported
that in addition to slowdowns by
workers imported to Germany from
occupied countries. malnutrition has
made some labor unable to work as
hard as expected
Steel said qualified British OBJ
servers estimated production drop
of 20 per cent in Hamburg and the
Rhur district; general decline Of
IS per cent in coal output. IS per
cent in iron and 1872 per cent in
steel, and an Is per cent drop in
production at Cologne.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Armor Plate Steel Plant
Tied Up by WaIkout
By the Associated Press.

GARY. Ind, April 12.-Production
halted today in eight hearth
furnaces of the No. 5 shop at Carne-
gie-Illinois Steel Corp. Gary works,
company officials said, after about
$50 union steelworkers refused to
work due to grievance, the nature
OF which was not clear.
CIO union officials could not
be reached Immediately, but COM
pany officials claimed the steel
workers leaders, too. were in the
dark as to the precise reasons for
the walkout.
The company said the trouble
started on the pm. to midnight
shift yesterday when IS men quit
work after three cinder snappers or
manual laborers in the crew didn' t
show up. The midnight to am.
crew Of IS men and today's 8 am.
to pm. day crew of 100 men also
stayed OF the job.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Two Florida Dog Tracks
Set New Betting Records
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla. April l2-The State
Racing Commission reported today
that the Jacksonville and Tampa dog
tracks, which finished their 9O-day
meetings Saturday night. had their
best seasons at the parimutuel VIM
doWs
Attendance at Jacksonville was
down from last year. 107,881 to 73,-
516, but betting hoped from $2,3ol. =
824 to $2,595,432. Tampa's crowds
fell off, 99.841 to S3,735, but wagering
went up from 50 2.302.916 to s3,1o5 1864.
The Palm Beach plant, which also
finished its season Saturday night,
showed slump from last year both
in attendance. 80 $50 to 59065. and In
betting. s1,5l9.604 to $1,341,589
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Reich Won't Collapse
From Lack Of Food
U. 5. Expert Warns
German Position Called
Much Better Than in
World War Years

This country was warned today
by an Agriculture Department Off
cial, who has conducted a food sur
vey of Europe, that Germany will
not collapse through lack of food.
The warning was contained in an
article written by Dr.. John H,
Richter of the Office of Foreign
Agricultural Relations in the cur
rent issue of Foreign Agriculture.
The Nazis' food position in this
war is much better than in the
World War because Germany has
a well-laid and long -esta blished
food production plan, DR.. Richter
found in his survey.
He points out that there is cor
siderably less food in Europe W
than before the war. but the E.
duction in supplies that have oc-
Cured have not been enough to
make the Axis European food prob
lem a decisive factor in the war.
Food is not Germany's weakness
in her fourth year of war" he said.
In second article written by
DR.. Lazar Violin, department expert
on Eastern Europe, Nazi plans to
make the Russian soil and peasant
population a source of food for the
Reich were described as being
thWarted because of the Russians
scorched earth policy and the ma
tives' lack of cooperation.
DR.. Violin pointed out that Ger
manv's so-called new agrarian Or
der in occupied Russia is designed
exclusively for the purpose of max
ing Eastern Europe an agricultural
appendage to Germany through ex-
ploitation of the local population
"Nazi promises of speedy elimina-
ton of collectivized agriculture in
the occupied regions in favor of a
system based on individual land
ownership by the peasants have
proved to be largely a gesture he
said.
The Nazis gained an area of
great productive capacity in the
Ukraine, but it proved to be one in
which few skilled farm workers
were left and very little essential
field equipment such as tractors,
plows and horses, DR.. Volin's survey
showed.
Evening star., 1943-04-12

John F. Budd, editor and pub
Usher, predicted that air transpor-
tation in the postwar period will
result in the increasing Importance
of the so-called banana republics v
"* Once the war is over and
air cargo is free to expand as it will
and must, the forgotten countries of
Middle America will be forgotten no
more Mr. Budd said - The
resources in mineral and agricul-
tural wealth which have remained
so long untapped will start coming
out-by air
Credit problems between the ma
tions of Central and North America
as result of the war were discussed
by Alexander o. Stanley of Dun &
BradStreet, Inc
Pan-America week. to emphasize
the needs of the United States and
the Latin Americas. was sponsored
by Ambassadors. Ministers and other
officials of the 10 Central America
nations and by American business
men and officials.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Jury Given Records
In Steel Fraud Case
Probe Opens Into Charge
Tests Were Faxed
By 'he Associated Press.

By 'he Associated Press
PITTSBURGH. April 12.-The
Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp. today
surrendered to Federal grand jury
records of steel inspection at it's
Irwin works. as the Government be-
gan an investigation of charges that
the plant furnished substandard
plate on war contracts.
A Senate committee recently heard
testimony that when plate produced
at the Irwin works failed to meet
specifications. the recording in the
plants heat books" was preceded
by the letter IF" to indicate fake.
A subpoena was issued for Ru-
dolph Haley executive assistant to
the chief counsel of the Truman
committee.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Thieves Get Over $500
In Postal Receipts

Theft Of more than $500 worth
Of postal receipts from a pharmacy
at 245l Good Hope road Sc. was
reported to police today by the pro-
prietor. Paul Gellman, who said
thieves jimmied the front door. The
establishment also serves as q
branch post ONCE.
Mr.. Gellman said thieves also took
STA IN checks and cash belonging
to the drug store.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
British Surgeons S Widow,
Native Of District, Dies
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
YONKERS, N. Y. April l2.-Mrs.
Anna Edib, GA. widow Of DR.. Robert
Edib, a surgeon who served in the
British Army under Field Marshal
Lord Allenby in the Middle East In
the last World War. died Saturday.
Funeral services will be held today.
A daughter, Mrs. Mary Hoffman
Of New York, survives.
Mrs. Edib was born in Washing
ton, D. c., the daughter OF Logan
and Katherine Smith Precise. She
lived in London and in Cairo, Egypt,
for many years.
Evening star., 1943-04-12
Jop |nternee Is Slain
Trying to Flee Camp
BY the Associated Press,

SALT LAKE CITY. April H.
James Hatsuki Wakasa, 62-year -old
Japanese. was shot and killed by
military police last night while at
tempting to flee the relocation CEN
ter at Topaz, Utah, the Once Of
War Information reported today.
The centers commandant said
military police opened fire on
Wakasa after he ignored four COM
mands to stop crawling through a
fence around the residential area.