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Evening star., 1943-01-17
Nozi Force at StoIingrod Key
10 Rostov Problem, Eliot Says
Major Describes Their Plight as Sorry,
With Strength Cut Below 100000

on the lower Don, and on his left
linking up, by wide-sweeping mo-
bile forces, with the right flank ele-
ments of Rasmenikoff' army. If
| he can advance to Salsk, which he
Is approaching, he will be able either
TO push directly on Rostov along the
branch line railway from SalSk to
that city, or swing southwest toward
Tlkhoretz to cut off the retreat of the
German Army of the Caucasus The
Germans must have his forces in
mind in all their calculations.
Vatutin Moves on Kamensk.
AS for Rossokovsky, he is appar-
emily getting under way again after
| encountering severe resistance and
heavy counterattacks. He is aStride
the lower Don about go miles from
RoStov. North of him. Col. Gen.
Vatutin is again moving on Ka-
mensk, astride the Moscow-R -Rostov
Railway. This advance probably re-
suits from the reopening of much
OF the Stalingrad-Likhaya Railway.
but it, too. is still blocked from
connection with the main Russian
rail system by the continuing re-
SlStance OF the trapped German di-
visions in the Stalingrad area.
On the whole, therefore, it seems
probable that this German force at
Stalingrad holds the KEY to the
whole problem. If they can con-
tinue to hold out until the German
army of the Caucasus is in safety,
or has reached the line where it
has decided to make a stand. and
until German reserves have arrived
to bolster up the Donets positions
then the situation will begin to
look a little more favorable for the
Germans.
II they should give way within
the immediate future, the impetus
thereby given to all the converging
Russian armies except that of Ras-
menikoff) by the reopening of their
through rail communications might
carry them forward with a rush.
and it is hard to see how either
Rostov or the Caucasus army could
be saved.
German Strength DwindIes.
The German forces at Stalingrad
must, however, be in a sorry plight
by this time. They are entirely de-
pendent on their dumps, plus
trlckle of supplies by air; they must
be starving, they are undoubtedly
boarding ammunition like precious
jewels, and they have undoubtedly
lost all mobility through the death
OF their animals and the exhaustion
OF their motor fuel.
Their strength is probably now
reduced to something under 200 900
men, perhaps to a far lower figure.
Under the ceaseless pounding of
Russian air bombs and artillery
projectiles, attacked by day and
night by fresh, well-armed, fully
clothed troops, these wretched Ger
mans have just been hidden by their
Fuehrer to fight on to the bitter
end. On how well and how long
they can and will obey that order
may hang the fate of hundreds of
thousands of their comrades in the
Caucasus, and in the triangle of |
the Don and Donets Rivers.
fCopyrieht, 1a43, by Herald Tribune
Syndicate)
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Series Of Meetings
On China Opens Friday

Miss Mary Nourse, historian of
China, will preside at the first dis
cussion group of new series on
China and the Chinese to be held
at 7;30 pm. Friday in the George
town branch of the Public Library,
Wisconsin avenue and r street NV.
This is the first meeting of the
group which will convene on alter
nate Fridays from January "a to
April 2.
Miss Nourse, who has lived in the
Orient for II years, wrote history
of China, THE Four Hundred Mil
lion," and "Kodo, the Way of the
Emperor"
A later meeting will be led by
l1rs. Alice Tisdale Hobart, author
of "Oil for the Lamps of China"
and THE Cup and the Sword"
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Ickes Says Coal Strike Costs
u. S. 100000 Tons Per Week
Bituminous Producers Agree to Boost
Shipments to Offset Anthracite Crisis
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Estimating that the anthracite
coal strike was costing the country
100000 tons of fuel per week, Solid
Fuels Co-ordinator Ickes announced
yesterday plans to use substitutes
and other measures to tide over the
period of the work stoppage.
Mr.. Ickes said that anthracite
coal production in the week ended
January 9 amounted to $4,000 tons,
and was 100000 tons less than could
have been expected if all the mines
were operating.
He said anthracite mines have
temporarily suspended all ship
ments to Canada or United States
points west of Erie, Pa, in order to
conserve for the East the supply
Of hard coal that is available.
He also said Eastern bituminous
Evening star., 1943-01-17
BY Maj. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

LLiol.
Ihe concentric advances of the
Russian armies on Rostov present
some interesting problems involv-
ing the factors of time and distance.
Ihus, the German Army which is
Withdrawing from the Grozny area
Is now west of Nogutskaya on the
RostoV-Baku Railway; it is about
275 miles from Rostov. But the
Russian armies on the lower Don
and the Donets are from 60 to 80
miles from Rostoy. Can they get
there first?
Ordinarily one would be inclined
to the opinion that they could not
because the retreating army from
the Caucasus has good rail lines
available, while the Russians in the
areas mentioned have no open rail-
ways behind them, are operating at
the ends of long and lengthening
INES of communication over bad
roads and are encountering ever
stlffer German resistance as they
approach Rostov itself.
But there are complications.
First. 1t. Gen. Rasmenikoff is do
ing a very good job in the way of
pursuit, He is keeping his advance
going on fairly broad front, and
he is making bold use Of his mount
ed and motorized elements, as testi-
ned to by the speed of his advance
and his continual sweeps to the
f1anks.
Nears Open Country.
He is now on the point of emerg-
Ing from the broken country in
which he has been operating into
more open country, where the su-
perior Russian winter mobility will
count heavily. Moreover, he has
just taken Blagodornoe, the eastern
terminus of a branch line railway
parallelling the Rostov-Baku Rail
way, and if his engineers can
quickly build connecting link from
Budyonovsk to Blagodornoe, along
a route already surveyed and over
comparatively easy terrain, he can
begin to use second line of rail-
way as he advances.
Thus, Rasmenikof seems to have
at least fair chance of increasing
his pressure on the retreating Ger
mans and perhaps compelling their
main force to stand and fight to
avoid being broken up in detail.
Next, we must give little thought
to the operations of 1t. Gen. Yere-
menko, coming down the Stalingrad-
Rostov Railway toward its juno
ton, at Tikhoretz, with the Rostov-
Baku line. Yeremenko has Just
taken Doivnaya, which is about 100
miles from Tikhoretze. He is en-
countering heavy resistance; his
lines of communication are difficult
because they are blocked, at Stalin- !
grad, from direct rail conlmunica-
tion with the main Russian supply
bases, and he can make only limit
ed use of this stretch of railway,
which is "in the air." so to speak,
and on which he cannot have much
in the way of locomotives and roll
ing stock.
Nevertheless, he is going ahead,
maintaining contact on his right
with Col. Gen. RoSsokovsky,s army
Evening star., 1943-01-17
HyuttsvilIe Man Named
To Radio Service Post
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 16.-The ap-
pointment of Perry Wightman of
Hyattsville to the post of procure
ment officer for the War Emergency
Radio Service of Maryland was an
nounced today by Col. Henry S.
Barrett, State director of air raid
precautions.
Mr.. Wightman will continue as
radio director for Prince Georges
County, in which he has developed
a network of amateur radio opera
tors for emergency communication
He is credited with having orig
mated wired wireless" Use in ci-
william defense.
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Serop Prices Revised
To Speed Processing
By the Associated Press.

The Office of Price Administration
yesterday revised certain iron-steel
scrap prices to encourage prepara-
tion of scrap for furnace use before
its shipment to steel mills.
The adjustments were brought
about mainly by lowering prices
which steel mills may pay for un-
prepared scrap, The $3.50 differ
ential between unprepared and pre-
pared heavy melting steel was in
creased to $3.50.
Evening star., 1943-01-17

coal producers have agreed to in
crease soft coal shipments into the
East Coast States where anthracite
Is the primary home heating coal
in order to provide substitute fuel
to replace the dwindling supply of
hard coal.
THE coal shortage has created an
acute fuel situation dn the East
in the face of the fuel oil emer-
gency in this REGION Mr.. Ickes
said.
Weather and local supply condi-
tions, he explained, will affect the
success of the Government and in
dustry in stretching the hard coal
supply to meet needs.
Evening star., 1943-01-17
Work on lo Airport
Projects Halted by WPB

The War Production Board yes
terday revoked priorities and or
dered the halt of construction on
10 airport projects in Is States hav-
ing total cost exceeding $4,000 900.
The projects were part OF the
program of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority The stop-work order
was issued in line with WPB's policy
of eliminating construction not di-
rectly essential to the war effort in
order to save metal lumber and
other materials.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Decision on Probing
Wallace. Jones Fight
Rests With Senate

The decision on whether Congress
will investigate the dispute between
Vice President Wallace and Secre-
tary of Commerce Jones rested with
the Senate today after the House
Rules Committee voted against a
House inquiry.
A resolution of investigation by
Senator Bridges, Republican, of New
Hampshire, is pending on the Senate
side. Representative Colmer, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi, told the Associ-
ated Press one of the reasons the
House committee refused to report
out the resolution before it was that
the House would have been put in
the position of investigating the
Senate's presiding ofhcer-the Vice
President.
Senate Democratic leaders have
indicated they have no disposition
to encourage an inquiry. Repre-
sentative Wigglesworth, Republican,
of Massachusetts, was the author of
the resolution that died in the
House committee.
1elu MaAer JOr PreSlOent.
Chairman SABBATH said the Rules
Committee decided against report
ing it because a majority felt that
efforts are being made to straighten
out matters within the administra-
ton" He did not dislose the COM
mittee's vote.
Mr.. Colmer said he thought the
Rules COMMITTEES action was based
on these three points:
"l. That, if there is any investi-
cation, it should be made by the
Senate
% Such an investigation might
serve to add fuel to the flame of
a highly controversial and unfor-
tunate row within the Presidents
cabinet, and 3, such an investiga-
ton no doubt would. be played upon
by our enemies, with whom we are
at war. in propaganda intended to
show disunity in our country"
Mr.. Colmer said that in his opin-
ion the President himself could
forthwith settle the row.
The general feeling among other
legislators appeared to be that only
the President could settle the dis
pute.
Byrnes Failed to Make Peace.
War Mobilization Director James
p. Byrnes attempted the role Of
peacemaker last week, calling the
two men to the White House for a
conference, but afterward the ex-
change of charges and counter
charges only grew more heated.
Mr.. Jones Reconstruction Finance
Corp. is the financing agency for
Mr.. Wallace's Board of Economic
Warfare which seeks, among other
things, to obtain strategic minerals
and other materials abroad, outbid-
ding Axis nations where necessary.
Mr. Wallace last week accused Mr..
Jones of delaying BEW's purchase of
strategic war materials and said
Jones had "harassed" administrative
employees of BEW.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Flyer Off Course Blamed
For Oklahoma Bombing
Bv the Associated Press


BOISE CITY, Okla. July An
sirman off the beam sent the five
small bombs crashing down in this
Oklahoma Panhandle community
carly Yesterday, Boise City residents
learned with belated comfort today.
The mlsdirected air raid practice
halted only when the master switch
at the city light plant was pulled,
backing out the town.
officers at the Dalhart (TeX)
Army air base who arrived to in
vestigate said the plane was from
that base.
One of a group which left Dalhart
10 bomb practice range near Con-
len. Tex, 30 miles south of Boise
City, apparently got off course and
the pilot mistook Boise City for the
practice range, they explained
No one was injured and property
damage was slight.
One of the practice bombs, loaded
with sand and small powder
charge, knocked a hole in the Bap-
list church. Another damaged a
garage.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
New Preferred Stock
OF 10Th Century.Fox
Placed on Market
By the Associated press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July Lehman
Bros, Hayden, Stone g. Co. and
Blythe g. Co., Inc, today offered a
new issue of 100000 shares of Goth
Century-Fox Film Corp. prior pre-
ferred stock, without par value,
$3.50 dividend cumulative, at $10O
per share.
Twentieth Century stockholders
yesterday approved issuance of the
stock to finance the purchase of So
per cent of the outstanding shares
in the National Theaters Corp. for
s13 100000 The film company al
ready owned AZ per cent OF the
theater stock.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Seors, Roebuck Sales
SLIGHTLY Above 1912

CHICAGO, July Sears Roe
buck 81 Co., mail-order and retail
merchandise firm, today reported
sales of 69,144,69l in June. an in
crease of less than ! per cent from
sales of 500, ,120,849 in June, 1912.
Sales In the five months ended
June 80 totaled s333,412,565, a de-
crease of 81 per cert, compared
with sales of 1851 ,486, ,688 in the
same 1912 months.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
May Railroad Nets
Show Big Increase
Over Year Ago
By the Associated press.

By the Associated Press.
The Nations railroads had an
estimated net income of $35, 100, 900
during May. compared with $685.
668 ,283 in the same month last year,
the Association Of American Rail-
roads reported today.
May operating revenues amounted
to $759 $3.50, ,727. an increase of $685.
100000 over the 1912 month, while
operating expenses totaled $454,-
361, ,704, an increase of 10000, 900.
Net income for the first five
months of the year was $377 800 900
an increase of $166, 100000 over the
corresponding period last year.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK, July (P.-Late Foreign
exchanbe rates follow tGreat Britain in
dollars, others in cents)
Canada: Official Canadian Control Boa rd
rates for United States dollars, buying, Ia
per cent premium: selling, IL per cent
premium: equivalent to discounts on Cana
dian dollars in New York of buying 991
Canadian dollar in New York open mar.
ket, 9H per cent discount. or 905O United
States cents.
Europe: Great Britain. oficial Banker.
Foreign Exchange Committee rates., buy.
ing, 4.02: selling, 4.04.
Latin America: Argentina, oficial. 2q77;
free, 25. IA; OF .O1 OF cent; Brazil. oficial
6.05n: free, 520n; Mexico, 30. .65n
Rates in spot cables unless otherwist
indicated. Nominal.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
CHICAGO Grain

CHICAGO. july 'P.-Grain prices
turned downward throushout most Of the
session today, but losses were mainly OF
fractional nature and some support
came into the wheat pit on mill buying
Hedging pressure increased. Transactions
in all pits were on much smaller scale
than Yesterday.
Deferred contracts of rye showed de-
cidedly nervous undertone. dropping more
than a cent at times on heavy profit
taking. The July contract, however, was
an exception. moving UP to a new seasonal
peak. Offerings of this delivery were small.
Oats trading was mixed with prof1t-tsking
noticeable.
News that the Senate had passed legis-
lation TO lift the corn ceiling from 1.O7
to 40 bushel. Chicago basis. came Just
at the close. and too late to influence
prices. Wheat finished 1s-E lower: July,
:4s's:- September. l4sss-a4 oats were
Of as-Ss and rye was 2ss lower to 1 cent
higher: July, lib.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
London Market Quiet

LONDON, July 7 (Pl.-The stock
market was quiet and firm today.
Industrials were selectiyely higher
and oils irregular. Dividend paying
Kaffirs we're steady. International
securities we're mixed. British funds
were helped by investment demand.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Horse Is Stompeded
By Bus Potron's SIup
By the Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS.--A bus patron
leaned from his window. planted a
sound slap on one of two carriage
horses standing at the curb.
Police listed resultant damage
from the scared horses as one taxi
fender knocked of, one fire plug
battered, one parked police car
damaged-a $3.50 spanking.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
WASHINGTON Produce]

From the war<. Food Administration.
Prices paid net fob, washington;
Inally unchanged Prices paid for lFeoeral-s
State GRADED eggs received from grading
large. Al "A; average. 431z; U. 8. grade Al
medium, 37-40; average, 39hSu = tradH
B, large. 39-4l: average, 40; u. s. Rradst
B, medium. 81: u s. grade C, 81 Browns.
y. s. grade A, large. 41-44: average. 431a:
y. s. grade A. medium. 1910, average.
age, AZ u. s. grade B. medium. 80; U. 8.
grade c, 34-31: average. 361R. Current
receipts nearby ungraded eggs, whites. IS:
LIVE POULTRY-Market steady Re-,
and fryers, oSh er~.- "a. \
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Weather Report
FURNISHED by the United States
lNaa Rnraai1

tFurnlShed by the united states
Weather Bureau
District of olumbia-Continued
hool this afternoon, tonight and
Thursday morning; a few showers
Thursday morning; moderate winds
Virginia - Moderate temperature
IN southwest; continued cool in east
and north portions tonight and
Thursday morning; scattered thun-
hershowers
Maryland-Contin cool tonight
and Thursday morning, few
showers Thursday morning.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah clear a.
Harpers Ferry. Potomac clear at
Great Falls.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. July (Pl.-Cotton futures
trading was restricted today by ncertainty
over the fate of the subsidy issue at WASH
| inston, coupled with tendency OF traders
| TO await the Government acreage report
| to be issued Thursday.
Prices were barely steady. reflecting light
| liauida tion and hedge selling from Texas.
| which found only scale-down covering and
| price fixing support.
Late values were unchanged to 10 cents
| and December 1921
| Futures closed is cents a bale higher
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO, July : lP,.--Poultry. live. s
trucks; firm: prices unchanged at ceilings.
Butter. receipts. 1.245.551: steady:
prices a quoted BY the Chicago Price Cur
rent are unchanged.
Eggs. receipts. 81 .a"3. unsettled
changes, current receipts 81; dirtles, 35 II.
checks rs; others unchanged.
Evening star., 1943-07-07

The sooner you get that War saw
ings stamp in your book the sooner
you will get victory in the bag.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Washington Exchange
SALES.

SALES.
Washington Gas s5 pfd.--"5 at los.
at lO6.
Potomac Electric Power 3i.s 1a66--Sl 900
at 1093.
Washineton Railway 4 Electric 4s-Sl 900
at 10S34.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
TextsofW fWoIIoce- Jones Statements on Quinine

il the
Evening star., 1943-07-07
New York Bunk Stocks

NEW YORK. July : GP.-NationaI Asso-
citation Securities Dealers, Inc:
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, July z LP,.-Dvidends de.
clared: ~
Accumt lated
Evening star., 1943-07-07

New Orleans Prices.
NEW ORLEANS. July 1Pl.-Trade buy
ms ChSet lon- realizing in cotton futures
mere today. Closing prices were steady, 5
cents bale higher
Evening star., 1943-07-07

Record for Last ~ Hours.
Prom noon yesterday to noon todayD
Highest, So, 2:2O pm. Year ago, 90.
Lowest. 20, am. Year ago, Sc.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 95. on June II.
Lowest, 6, on February Is.
Humidity for Last 2i Hours.
From noon yesterday TO noon todsy)
Highest a6 per cent, at $40 am.
Lowest, 81 per cent, at 2:30 pm.
Evening star., 1943-07-07

Spot cotton closed steady, UNCHANGED
Sales, 644; low middling, 1925; middling,
999611sa; es9ood sood mi mlddlins, 2l.2O. Receipts,
Bid. n Nominal
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Precipitation

Monthly precipitation in inches in
Capital tcurrent month 10 date:
Evening star., 1943-07-07

Report for Last ~ Hours.
Evening star., 1943-07-07

The principal additional supply
of quinine made available to our
armed forces since the fall -, Java
was procured through the splendid
services of the American Pharma-
ceutical Association, financed by
RFC acting under directive from
the WPB.
A substantial quantity of quinine
in it's various forms has been as
sembled from thousands of domestic
stocks, large and small, held by
druggists and others throughout the
Nation, much of it donated to the
Government.
Evening star., 1943-07-07

| milo Perkins, executive director of
! the BEW) emphasized this fact in
his recent testimony before the
House Appropriations Committee.
Project Now Underway.
| Col. Fischer is now in Costa Rica
and the quinine project is underway.
Some of his seeds have been germi-
mating in the Department of Agri-
cultures experimental station in
Beltsville and are about to be sent
| to Costa Rica. The rest will be
planted there. 1t will be 1916 before
| quinine from the seeds brought out
of the Philippines by Col. Fischer
can be put to work fighting malaria
in the tropics. Even so, our armed
forces may need it desperately by
that time if they are still fighting
in the malarial regions of the South
west Pacific.
We and the Army would be quite
willing to strip greater part of the
young trees at the end of 212 years
if we have to do so to get quinine
for our soldiers, even though the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. may
lose little money through not wait
ing seven years to let the trees ma
ture for the most profitable period
of stripping.
In fairness to the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. want to report that
on a recent development project in
Guatemala, where 300 million Gin
chona trees for quinine are being
planted under Board of Economic
Warfare directives, we have thus far
had no opposition from the RFC.
We had previously won our fight in
terms of principle on the Fischer
project just described and Mr.. Jones
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-13
Miss Johansen
Becomes Bride
OF 1t. BearScOve

The Chevy Chase Methodist
Church was the scene OF the mar
riage of Miss Florens Irene johann
sen, daughter of Mr.. Oskar johann
sen and the late Mrs. Martha An
dreason Johansen of Orlando, Fla,
to Capt. Karl Olaf Bearscove, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Bearscove Of Seat
tie, which took place Friday evening
at o'clock.
The Rev. Clifford H. Richmond
officiated and the wedding music
was played by Mrs. C. H. Richmond.
Mrs. Virginia Lanigan sang.
Given in marriage by Mr.. B. F.
Stearns. the bride was gowned in
pastel blue marquisette over taffeta
fashioned on simple lines with a
full skirt She wore a Juliet cap
of blue marquisette and carried a
white prayer book with a spray of
gardenias. Her only jewelry was a
pearl necklace which belonged to
her mother.
Miss Helen Whelchel, the maid OF
honor, wore gown OF rose silk
jersey and carried an old-fashioned
bouquet. 1t. Francis j. Meier
served as best man.
Immediately after the ceremony
Capt. and Mrs. Bearscove left for
a wedding trip.