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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Soviet Forces
Smash 10 East
Bank Of Donets
Dispatches Indicate
Bottle for Rostoy
About to Begin
BY HENRY c. CASSIDY,


| MOSCOW, Jan. 16-Sweeping
through 80 more towns, Red
Army forces today battled to the
east bank of the Donets River,
20 miles southeast of Kamensk,
and to the Sal-Manych Hills
overlooking the Manych River
southeast of Rostov as they
steadily closed in in a semicircle
around the big Nazi base at the
gateway to the Caucasus.
(These positions would put the
Russians some 80 to 80 miles
from Rostov to the northeast and
southeast. They already had
driven within go miles of the big
| port from the east IL their smash
down both banks of the Lower
DOM
Battlefront dispatches indicated
the battR for Rostov itself was about
to begin, with the Russians prepar-
ing for smash across the Donets-
last natural barrier to the city
despite the difficulties of winter
weather at its height
Advance on 25-hile Front.
The Soviet Information Bureau
announced that the Donets was
reached in Russian advance on a
25-mile front which recaptured the
villages of Borodinov and Potseluiev,
on the east bank of the river where
1t loops to the northwest past
Kamensk.
Other forces pushing down the
Moscow rail line from the
north were said to have made new
gains between encircled Millerovo
and KamenSk
! Southeast of Rostov, the Informa-
| ton Bureau said, Soviet troops
reached the ridge of the Sal-Manych
Range. Now they face the Manych
lowlands with many lakes joined by
canals forming the gigantic Manyct
Canal, which plays an enormous
part in irrigation of the arid steppes
, of the Northern Caucasus"
(The Manych begins in the big
Kalmyck Lake between Elisha
/ anu SdlSh, IlOWS just east OF odlSk
/ and emptieS into the Don 80
miles upriver from Rostov.l
Strategic Places Taken.
The forward sweep was important
not so much for the number Of
places taken as for the strategica
significance of most of them. Mos
vital Of the towns listed as newl,
occupied were:
Glubokaya. on the Rostov-Moscov
railway IA miles north of Kamensk.
ShakhtinSky.
Lityinovka, where the Middle Dor
army crossed the Kalitva River in
its westward thrust into the Donets
Basin.
Diadin. southwest of Litvinovka
and close to the shores of the
Donets River
! Kurenny, 80 miles southwest of
Zmovnlki on the Stalingrad-
Tikhoretsk railway and little more
than 40 miles from Salsk.
Blagodarnoye, at the head of a
rail spur which connects with the
tSee RUSSIA, Page A-6)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
WAVES to Free 4,5OOOfficer
81 900 Men, House Unit Told

and 500 enlisted men have been re-
lieved of desk jobs and sent to duty
elsewhere.
The session of the committee was
one of series being held behind
closed doors to protect secrets of
naval strategy. 1t Corndr. Mildred
H. McAfee, WAVES director, also
testified and discussed the admins
tration of her organization.
Chairman Vinson of the Naval
Committee said meetings would re-
sumo Wednesday with Vice Admiral
F. j. Horne, vice chief of naval OPP
erations, making his second appear
ance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Reed Protests Massacre
OF Small Bakeries
Ry the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press,
Senator Reed. Republican, of
Kansas contended today that be-
tween 5000 and 10000 small bakers
were about to be forced out of bust
ness by Government price regula-
tons and complained to Stabiliza-
ton Director James F. Byrnes
against 1.-The massacre of small busi-
.nessmen upon any such scale"
Senator Reed was joined in his
protest by other members of the
Kansas congressional delegation
Senator Wherry, Republican. of Ne
braska declared that Senator Reed s
letter to Mr. Byrnes expressed his
sentiments. too
The small bakers, Senator Reed
said, were caught in a squeeze be-
tween the established ceiling price
for their bread and new ceilings on
-four, which recently were increased
about 10 per cent at the wholesale
level
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
.120 More Cited Here
As VioIators Of Ban
On Pleasure Drivinq
ODT Forbids Additional
TroveI Service for
Non-EssentiuI Use

Twin blows were struck in the
drive against pleasure driving
today when the Office of De-
Tense Transportation advised
transit companies in the East
ern gas ration area not to in
crease bus service "for the &C
commodation of pleasure seek
ers" and the local Office of Price
Administration inspectors re-
ported 100 more motorists for
suspected violation of the driv-
ing ban.
Joseph B. Eastman, ODT director
said transportation companies had
been besieged with requests to aug
ment service especially on Sundays
and at night to concert halls, night
clubs and other places of amuse-
ment. He asked the public to stay
off public vehicles during rush hours
of war workers.
Local Catch Biggest Yet.
The 100 motorists constituted the
biggest local catch" made so far
by inspectors.
An additional five District auto
lists were reported by police, bring
ing to 480 the total number of al
legged drivers cited since January T.
Meanwhile, in Baltimore, it was
reported that approximately 1,700
Maryland motorists have come I'M
der suspicion of violating the nom
pleasure driving regulation since il
went into effect Thursday a week
ago.
State OPA enforcement headauar-
tiers announced that 1,642 motorists
had been turned in until last night.
adding that more were expected
today, the Associated Press reported.
Varying procedures were planned
by ration boards in the District and
nearby Virginia and Maryland as
the boards prepared to begin hear
ings for alleged violators of the driy-
ing ban.
In Arlington, J. Maynard Ma
gruder, rationing board chairman,
(See PLEASURE DRIVING, Pig. A-6J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16

The House Naval Affairs Com
mittee, which is reviewing the
Nays conduct of the war, has
learned that approximately $500
male naval officers and $1,000
enlisted men will be replaced by
WAVES before the year is out.
Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs,
chief OF naval personnel, who ap-
peared before the committee yester-
day, said the Navy has tripled in size
during the last year and now has
more than 100000 on active duty.
Since the creation of the WAVES
July 30, he said, 1900 male officers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Efforts 10 Mediate
Railroad Workers
Demands Dropped
Boord Is Confident
Dispute Can Be Settled
Without Strike Vote


CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-The Ma
tional Mediation Board an
nounced today that it had aban-
doned its efforts to mediate wage
and closed-shop demands of
more than 100000 operating
employees of class l railroads.
A statement issued by the board
expressed confidence, however. that
the dispute could be settled without
resorting to strike vote.
No threat to the wartime railroad
transportation system exists at this
time, the statement made clear.
Text of Statement.
The statement follows:
Concerning the dispute between
representatives of Is cooperating
railway labor organizations and a
large number of railroads which was
taken up in mediation in Chicago
January 7, l943.
Railway labor organizations, as
we'll as labor organizations generally
have pledged the President that
there would be no strikes for the
duration of the war, provided the
Government would set up adequate
machinery to hear and dispose of
disputes. The President has pro-
vided the machinery in the railroad
industry by the issuance of execu-
tive order No. 8172 establishing the
National Railway Labor Panel of
which DR.. William M. Leiserson of
tSee PATI, WORKERS pape A-6A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Willkie and SpangIer
Hold Conference Here
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Wendell L. Willkie. 1910 Republi-
can presidential nominee. had a
breakfast conference today with
Harrison f. Spangler. chairman of
the Republican National Committee,
but said afterward there was no sig
niflcance TO their meeting
Mr.. Willkie said he was here on
legal business and got together with
MI Spangler only in a social way
before leaving for New York later
in the day. 1t was the first meeting
between the two since MI. Spaneler
was named chairman of the party
organization last month in a con-
test which saw the defeat of Werner
w. Schroeder of Illinois, whom Mr..
Willkie opposed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
u. S. DOWNS 30 JAP PLANES IN OLOMONS
German Civilians
At Last Told of
StoIingrod Trap
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN (From German broad
casts, Jan. 16.-The German
high command said today that
in the area of Stalingrad our
troops who have been engaged
for weeks in heroic defensive
battles against the enemy at
lacking from all sides, repealed
further attacks yesterday by
strong enemy infantry and tank
formations"
Thus the high command told
the German people for the first
time that the troops which
pressed into Stalingrad last fall
were trapped there, sealed in a
Soviet-Surrounded pocket be-
tween the Don and Volga
RiversD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Restaurant Safe Here
Is Robbed Of S2,700

Harry Lee, SIT H street NV, CO.
owner of restaurant at 656 Penn
sylvania avenue Sc, reported to po-
lice today that thieves stole $2,7OC
in cash from safe In the cafe last
night.
Mr.. Lee told police the thieves
entered through skylight. The safe
was removed from behind a cigar
counter in the front of the store to
an icebox in the kitchen, and ripped
open. All the contents except SIC
in quarters were stolen, the owner
reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Kote Smith Improves,
Manager Reports
BY the Associated Press.

bg Iht ASSOclated PresS.
NEW YORK, Jan. l6.-The con-
dition of Kate Smith, 33-year- old
radio star who suffered a gall blad-
der attack last Friday, was de-
scribed as improving" today by the
Office of Ted Collins. her manager.
Miss Smith appeared on her CHS
show, Kate Smith Hour" Friday
night after the attack, but has been
confined TO her home since.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
lraq Declares War
On Axis Countries;
Germany Denounced
Berlin Government Is
Accused of Fomentinq
Outright Rebellion
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Jan. 16.-The Iraq
Legation announced today that
Iraq is at war with Germany,
Italy and Japan.
Later it was officially an
nounced at Baghdad that state
of war exists between Iraq and
the Axis nationS)
Iraq already had broken relations
with the Axis. The rupture of rela-
tionS with Japan came in November,
194l, and at the same time diplo-
matte rela ions with the Vichy
government were ended.
Robert Johnson, BIC commenta-
tor, said in a broadcast recorded by
CHS that it was particularly sig
nificant because 1T is the first time
that an Arab country has joined
with Britain in a declaration like
this"
The Minister of Iraq today handed
Secretary of State Hull a communi-
cation from his foreign Office an
nouncing that Iraq regards itself at
war with Germany, Italy and Japan
after midnight tonight
The German government has in
terfered most openly and in every
way in the domestic affairs of Iraq
and has been responsible for the in
stigation and promotion of outright
rebellion" against the Iraq govern
ment, the communication stated.
The Italian government, the state
ment continued, has committed the
same acts constituting interference
in the domestic affairs of Iraq," and
the government of Japan was de-
clared to have been guilty of the
fragrant violation of the neutrality
of Iraq by lending assistance to the
German and Italian governments"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Markets at q Glance

NEW YORK, Jan. Is ,P,.-
Stocks irregular; profit selling
stems rise. Bonds mixed, selected
rails, utilities gain Cotton
steady; trade price fixing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Late Bulletins
Child Falls Three Floors

Betty Jean Vipperman, 6,
said by police to be a deaf
mute, was in a critical condi-
ton in Providence Hospital
after falling three floors to a
concrete porch from her
home at IL Third street Sc.
this afternoon. Police said
the parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert yipperman, were out at
the time.
Flynn Hearing Wednesday
Chairman Connally of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee announced today
the committee would begin
hearings next Wednesday
into the qualifications of Ed
ward ]. Flynn, retiring Demo-
cratic National Committee
chairman, to be Minister to
Australia. Appointment of a
subcommittee on procedure,
headed by Senator George,
Democrat, of Georgia, and in
Guiding Senators Thomas.
Democrat, of Utah and VAN
denberg, Republican, of Mich
igan, as members, also was
announced by Senator Con-
nally.
Earlier Story on Page A-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16

(see MARCANToN1o, Page A-6)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16
Weather Report

Mooerate temperature and occasional rain to-
night. temperatures today-Highest S. at 3
pm; lowest, 43, at am Full report, page AS.
*fuet OIL consumption should be 30 per cent
oI ahotment for period ending February ,.
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Continued on Page AS, Column 81
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(See RUSSIA, Page A-6J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-16

'see RAIL WORKERS, Page AS
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tSee GREW, Page AS.
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Junior Trinity Guild
Meets Wednesday al
Mrs. Floyd Fagersons

Junior Trinity Guild OF Trinity
Cathedral will meet Wednesday,
May S at p. m. at the home OF
Mrs. Floyd Fagerson, $40 18th
Street.
iCo-hosteSs with Mrs Fagerson
will be Mrs. Victor Powers.
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Let Americans Fight
Philadelphia Record

philadelphia Record
You never heard of hospital like it. But you
may recognize the patient.
On one side keeping constant check his pulse,
nurses are working in relays to hold up his morale.
On the other side, more watching thermo-
meter kept constantly in his mouth.
His brow is famed by still other nurses lest he
become over-excted. Dark curtains keep out the
light And when his tray arrives, his beefsteak is
coated with chocolate even though he didn't order
it.
Yet this patient isn't sick.
He's big strapping fellow Healthy and strong.
Struggling get out of that dollhouse and take
of his morale
Perhaps you recognize him. He is John @. AM
erican being cuddled by the Papa Knows Best boys
in Washington who think he's too much of sissy
to take the facts of war straight Yet in that shape
John @. is supposed to be set for victory!
Pardon if choke
If our picture of the civilian American patient
is slightly overdrawn it's because we're bang up
against situation that needs to be criticized to
keep it from becoming worse
Denying the truth to the people or messing it
up with extenders to ta maintain an ersatz morale,
or OBJ cover up brass-hat bunglng.
Nobody complains of military censorship that
keeps information from the enemy. The argument
is solely keeping from people information they
have right to hear.
The President himself set perilous precedent
when he proposed bar all correspondents from the
conference postwar food problems Even the
amended schedule of press arrangements is practi-
cay a gag noted in the letter to the President
from the committee of Washington correspondents
Now comes the statement of the is writer's who
quit OWL that their designations resulted from Con-
viction that it is impossible for to tell the full
truth Elmer Davis reply to their charges is creaky
at the joints. Able and honest Davis is in his
famous role of commentator, we wonder if he is
equally able administrator We wonder if he
knows Just what his organization of more than 5000
is screening from public view?
Two Incidents these. But part of a trend to
be checked. For example:
Staging of the Anglo American refugee confer
ence in Bermuda, amid secrecy preparations COM
parable to those for the food parley.
Drew Pearson notes that U. S. submarine sink
ing of Jap warship released by the Navy March
Is apparently fresh actually took place last
November.
Refusal to permit pictures to be taken of the
Army plane which crashed into home in Philadel-
phia last week. because they'd be bad for morale
No need to toss in other instances Our readers
recall most of them.
It's not a crisis-yet But we're headed for
shoals, and with plenty of time to steer clear let's
correct this dangerous tendency at once.
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LOOK and LEARN g. G. GORDON

Australia which the three islands
O. articles clothing equipment soldier
receiver
cities
a. Who South Pole in 1911?
is grain throughout
world?
ANSWERS:
l. Greenland Guinea,
g. Seventy
square Chicago
miles
Rice.
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20 YEARS AGO {yf Mn EMPIRE
MAY 4. 1928


adjourned
quit m, m. B..
member formal adjourn
in w. final
days lasted virtually 81 hours.
Secretary Harding Secretary Alaska
F during
closing the Legislature.
surprised spectators
chorue of entitled Native Land"
Bradley Manager Mining
aboard Princess Mary Mr. Bradley had
spent previous States business.
recognition legislative
gold watches near final session.
nucleus
library the operating this dis
library Sherman Library
A. Shoup L. entertained bridge at
played the afternoon and
ten
DeNfytt the Street Commit
the repairing Douglas had begun
of ST 900 appropriated for the job.
A. family from
Gold
generally
maximum temperature 81 and the minimum 49,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-05-04

In normal times, it doesn't seem to make much
difference how income tax is paid-taxes on last
years incomes paid now, taxes on this years IN
comes paid the same year.
1t is probably less work to figure out taxes on
last years incomes. especially less work for the en-
ployer who under pay -you-go plan would have
to do the figuring.
In normal times. if persons income is growing
little each year he also finds it easier to pay his
tax for the income of the preceding year But when
the picture reverses 1t isn't good.
Right now with prices rising all the time, most
incomes are becoming smaller in fact, perhaps not
in figures
1t would that pay-as-you-go plan would
not ony easier the taxpayer during an infla-
tionary period but would also mean more money for
the Treasury right now.
Those who argue that to establish pay-as-you-
go system is to forgive skip years taxes
are not on solid ground They classed with those
who claimed that by establishing daylight saving
time, an hour gained or lost 1t is simply de-
Gliding to cali o'clock o'clock, and to substitute
one bookkeeping system for another
! Instead of calling this years tax a tax on 1912
income, simply call it tax on 1943 income.
< 1t is certainly much fairer in time OF war to
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COP T0HAvE
DEADLOCK | 1 | |. | IS
I DEMO: VIEW

o.
WASHINGTON, May 4.-Demo-
cratic observers of the pre-presi-
Dental campaign scene seem far
Their from agreement about the 1914
choice of the Republicans than
about their own most probable cam
didate, but they share an idea that
another Republican convention
deadlock is in the making. A ia
vorite son entry then viii gallop
away with the prize, they think.
Many Democrats here on visits
from various sections OF the coun-
try foresee a wartime presidential
race as fostering Roosevelt
fourth term candidacy But not all
Of them share the enthusiasm OF
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-05-04

Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania,
nor his expressed conviction that
President Roosevelt's reelection as
well as his nomination is a fore
gone conclusion The by election
portents OF 1912 have many of them
worried. They voice doubt that even
another Roosevelt election sweep
could insure Democratic house con-
troll.
F6resee Confusion
Viewing the Republican scene,
however, the same Democrats fore
see ideal conditions, when the par
ty convention assemblies next sum-
mer, for multiple favorite-son hold
out tactics to confuse the nomina-
ton outlook, There are Republican
governors in about half the states.
Many of them other than Dewey in
New York, Bricker of Ohio, Stassen
Of Minnesota NOV serving in the
Navy, and even Warren in Cali
forflia, have been or are being
doomed by their friends
AS Of today, few Republicans en-
tries into presidential primary rae
'es on a nationwide scale can yet
BE dtscerned. wendell wilfkie is
Viewed as heading in that direction.
Governor Bricker's friends have
been active outside Ohio
Democrats refuse to take serious
" Governor Dewsy's assertion that
He expects to serve out his term.
one seasotied Eastern Democrat is
reported convinced that Dewey will
be drafted iii 1914 unless a military
figure develops by that time to steal
the show, =
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SAVING NELSON'S HEAD

Row No. 4 was over the size of
the Army, In. which the planning
board argued that we did not need
the huge total Of eleven million
men under arms. In this row, the
President jumped in ON the side OF
d big Army. The Long Haired Boys
lost.
!, last and most spectacular row
was to save the head of Donald
Nelson as WPB chief. Actually the
Ffesident signed letter putting
Befhte Baruch in charge of war
production. Under him, because of
his age, was to be an administra-
TIE deputy, energetic Lewis Doug
lAs, dynamo of the War Shipping
administration.
Then suddenly the Long Haired
Hcys Jumped to Nelson's support.
They got Wayne Coy, a potent in
f1uelce with the President, to go to
the White House Mysteriously. the
Story leaked to the press Suddenly
Nelson fired Ferd Eberstadt This
electrified washington Old Don
Nelson, they decided. had taken a
new lease on life.
Tlhfs turned the tide. The Presi-
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any Roosevelt came out for the big
aifplane program.
Row No. 2 in March and April
OF last year involved the problem
OF; too many factories.
III too many factories are built" y
warned the Long Haired Boys,
there won't be enough steel and
copper for the actual weapons OF
war"
This row was won by the Army.
Came September however, and the
Long Haired Boys once again
warned that the nation was build
inR far too many war plants, that
there was not enough raw material
TO, keep them running.
The row finally was won by the
planning board. The combined gen.
eral staffs OF the Army and Navy
later agreed that there was a
danger of too many factories, They
curtailed Somervell's program.
Row No. 3 was over scheduling
The Long Haired Boys claimed you
couldn't have rubber factories, es-
cort vessels, high octane refineries
warships and Maritime Commission
ships all at the same time; that
someone had to decide which was
most important and schedule the
materials to them accordingly.
In the end, WPB and the Long
Haired Boys won. And Patterson's
current complaint about rubber fac
tories being finished instead Ct
octane refineries, belatedly proves
that these should have been "sched-
uled" long ago.