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Evening star., 1943-01-18
Gen. Alexander Seen
AS Possible Allied
Chief in Tunisia
Main American Problem
So For Regarded as
One Of Supply Lines
BY VICTOR GORDON LENNOX,
Foreign Correspondent Of The Star and
CHICAGO Daily News

Chicago Daily News.
LONDON, Jan. 18.-It is my grow
ing belief that British Gen. Sir
Harold Alexander will be entrusted
with the full responsibility for
directing all the Allied forces op-
Grating in Tunisia and elsewhere in
the Central Mediterranean area
This seems reasonable since the bulk
of forces fighting there for the time
NOTABLY after, Gen, Sir Bernard l.,
Mo1ltgomery's 9th Army breaks into
Tunisia-will be British.
Gen. Wayne M. Clsrks United
States 5th Army will ,haye, plenty of
work farther west, especially since
the Anglo Americans are believed to
have readily agreed to the request
of Gen. Henri Giraud, French North
African High Commissioner, that he
should be allowed to raise an army
of no less than 100000 to invade
France at the earliest practicable
moment. ....
So far Americas main task in
North Africa, and incidentally one
of 1t. Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower S
worst headaches, has been the
organization of supply lines from
African Atlantic ports to front areas.
1t is no secret that there has been
great congestion which has held up
offensive operations so far
The British Army during two
years of campaigning in the Middle
East and the Far East learned by
the bitterest experience that the
present war is more a battle for
supply than anything else. Without
supplies, the bravest troops are pow
erless against a better supplied
enemy.
This lesson has been fully alb
sorbed by the War Department in
Washington, and while there would
certainly be reluctance to make
command changes this early in the
campaign, I am under the impress
sion that changes are coming.
Meanwhile, it is not possible here
to obtain confirmation of the Wash
ington report that Army Chief of
Staff Gen. George c. Marshall may
succeed Gen. Eisenhower as su-
preme commander in the eastern
theater OF operations.
Copyright, 1943, by Chicaso Daily NewsD
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Peiri|Io's Attorney Seeks
Dismissal OF U.S.. Suit
Nv tho sSsoc;atsd prssx

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. 18. Counselor
for James c. Petrillo and eight other
officers Of the AFL American Fed
eration of Musicians today asked
the Federal court to dismiss
Government request for an injunc-
ton to prevent enforcement of the
unions ban on making records for
public purposes.
Attorney David KatZ. appearing
in chambers Of Judge John P.
Barnes, argued that the court
lacked jurisdiction, that the anti
trust laws were not involved and
that the NorriS-La Guardia Act
applied, since the issue concerned
was a labor dispute according to
an earlier court ruling
Judge Barnes set January 25 for
hearing arguments on the motion
to dismiss and February for
hearing the Governments argu-
mentS for a preliminary injunction.
The Government was prepared to
argue today in behalf of the pre-
liminary order.
Evening star., 1943-01-18

result of the committees investiga-
ton last year. 1t is authorized to
advance money to plants carrying
out or seeking war contracts.
The committee. it was pointed
out, has heard testimony of small
mine operators to the effect that
the WPB has failed to take action
looking toward the expansion of
production of essential materials. ="
In the face of this, the report said
it was "a Well-knoWn fact that the
war construction program has per-
mitted an overeXpanSion of factories
that cannot be fully utilized because
of the lack of sufficient metals and
minerals"
The suggested war minerals di-
rector would have full statutory
power to coordinate the activities
of the many Federal agencies en-
gagged in the discovery, development,
production, importing and financ-
ing of metals and minerals"
Problems of Civilian Needs.
The proposed civilian supply ad-
mlnlSUFaIOf unQer tne WPB would
have full authority and RESPONSE
bility to determine civilian needs
and to take such steps sa- may be
necessary to meet civilian needs"
The committee held that there
is no one agency or official with
the clear-cut responsibility of de-
termining our essential civilian re-
quirements and seeing that they
are met" The Office of Civilian
Supply, supposed to perform this
function" has no statutory or ad-
ministrative responsibility ito do
anything more than send advisory
memoranda to other branches of
the WPB, which may or may not
be interested in receiving such ad-
vice"
Other members of the committee
are Senators Maloney of Connecti-
cut, Ellender of Louisiana, Mead
of New York and Stewart of Ten
nessee, Democrats, and Capper of
Kansas and Taft of Ohio, Repub-
licanS.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
PeYrouton S Arrival
In Africa Reported
BY the Associated Press.

ALGIERS. Jan. 18.-North Africa's
complicated political pot boiled to-
day with the reported arrival of
Marcel Peyrouton, who quit his
Vlchy- y-appointed job as Ambassador
to Argentina, and with Gen. Henri
Giraud's appointment of a German
hating military man as acting gov
ernor general of Tunisia.
Peyrouton is said to have placed
himself under orders of jacques
Tarde de Saint -Hardouin, career
diplomat, who is Secretary of For
eign Affairs in Gen. Girauds North
and West African high commits
sariat.
Gen. Giraud's appointee as acting
governor Of Tunisia is Mai. Gen.
Jurion. He was brigadier general
in Tunisia when the Allied landings
were being made. Gathering a con-
siderable force of his men, he broke
through positions established by the
Germans, joined Gen. Giraud, and
turned his forces immediately
against the Nazis.
Evening star., 1943-01-18

cleanse me Of agnoSticism forever
and complete my redemption.
Rain Curtains Pass BY.
The thing that happened was
miraculous then and grows in pro-
portion as I think of it now This,
our 18th day. had started out as a
scorcher. A blush curtain of rain
moved toward us across the sea.
Then just after 10 am. a squall
blotted out the sun and our hopes
rose.
We prayed for it to reach us. But
it passed us by. about a quarter of
mile off. Somehow, my faith didn't
die. I prayed with the rest, whole
heartedly now, I believe, for the
first time Like many of the others,
I didn't know how to address God
properly, so I talked to Him as I
would have to a parent or a friend
God" I said, You know what
that water means to us. The wind
has blown it away 1t is in Your
power, god, to send it back again.
It's nothing to You, but it means
life to us"
Some of the others had given up.
Some one said in disgust that the
bloody wind would blow in the same
direction for another 40 years.
God, the wind is yours" I can
tinued. You own it. Order it to
blow back that rain to us who need
it."
There are some things that can't
be explained by natural law. The
wind did not change, but the re-
cedlng curtain of rain stopped where
it was. Then, ever so slowly, it be-
gan moving back toward us-against
the wind!
Moved as If by a Hand.
Maybe meteorologist can explain
that to your satisfaction. One tried
1t with me; something about cross
currents buffeting the squall back
1 tell you there was no buffeting
1t moved back with majestic de-
liberation. 1t was as though a great
and omnipotent hand moved it back
across the waves. And for my
money, that's exactly what hap
pened.
We caught a great store of water
| Again the salt was sluiced from our
stinging bodies. Many of the boys
had shed skin three or four times
by now and there were raw places
where they had chafed against the
sides of the RATS. In addition, most
OF them were afflicted with the salt
water ulcers, which covered thei1
abdomens, hips, legs and feet. Some
had to crouch down for momentary
relief.
That rain was Godsend-I Use
capital G Intentionally. 1t helped
us over four days of the doldrums
which were just ahead and were to
be the most terrible part of our
ordeal.
Copyright 1943. By Chicago Tribune)
CTo Be Continued Tomorrow
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Superphosphote Allotted
To Maryland Farmers
BY the Associated Press.

BY Inc Associated Press.
Joseph H. Blandford. chairman of
the Maryland Agricultural Conser-
vation Committee, announced in
College Park yesterday that $50 tons
of superphosphate had been allotted
to Maryland and Delaware farmers
for January. The quota for Febru-
ary and March will be the same.
Mr.. Blandford said farmers should
apply to their county Agricultural
Conservation Committee for the
superphosphate.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Hecht Co. Presents
Testimony 10 Show
.0PA Was 0beyed
Judge UphoIds Right
To Give Evidence
OF Good Fuith

The Hecht Co., charged with nu-
merous violations of price ceilings
began presenting evidence before
Justice F. Dickinson Let's in Dis
trict Court today intended to show
that it made every effort to comply
with regulations Of the Office OF
Price Administration and had set
up a careful system within the store
to help the various departments
obey.
n The store, against which the OPA
seeks an injunction restraining it
from continuing the alleged viola
tions, called as its first witness
Robert Levi, now an ensign in the
Coast Guard but with the Hecht
Co. for five months in l942. Mr.
Levi, an economist and accounting
expert, said he was instructed to
set up a plan for enforcing OPA
and WPB regulations.
Were there any restrictions on
your budget?" he was asked.
Analysed Regulations.
The witness said there were none,
adding that he could employ all the
help he needed. He said he got hold
of all merchandising regulations as
soon as possible, analyzed them and
called meetings of department heads
to talk over the best way of comply
ing with them.
Referring to the Government S
testimony that prices of many ar
ticles frozen by OPA in March had
been sold at higher prices afterward,
Mr.. Levi explained that OPA had
held that merchandise delivered by
manufacturers after March at
higher prices than they previously
had charged, could be sold at higher
figures. Department heads, he said,
had been instructed to make lists Of
these instances where the manufac-
turers had increased prices after the
freeze" period and to return them
on special forms.
Fleming James, one of the attor-
neys for OPA, interrupted to object
to the entire line of testimony in
dicating the stores good faith. He
contended the price e-control law was
specific and that the Government
had only to show there had been
violations to obtain an injunction.
Defense Upheld.
Spencer Gordon, one of the coun-
sci for the company, replied that
this was a matter for argument at
the close of the case and that the
court first should hear the defense
testimony. Justice Let's agreed
with this contention. He said he
would consider the legal points in
volyed at the close, meanwhile re-
ceiving the companys evidence for
whatever it might be worth in the
light of the law.
In the closing testimony for the
Government, Lester Kaplan, OPA
investigator, gave further alleged
examples Of price ceiling violations,
taking up the furniture depart
ment. Reciting a series of prices
which he said had been raised after
March in violation of the OPA regu-
lation, Mr.. Kaplan said his table
showed total of $1,366.64 in over
charges on individual furniture
prices. : af fns IS --81.rh
Mr.. Kaplan cited one chair which
he said cost the store $40 and was
priced at $2s.88 in March and at s33
in October. Another item cost the
company s792 and eventually sold
for $24.95, according to the witness.
He also charged the store with
failing to submit some of its higher
prices to OPA in its reports and
with substituting earlier and lower
prices.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Messersmith to Report
To Hull This Week

George S. Messersmith, American
Ambassador to Mexico, will be in
Washington at the end of the week
to make a routine report. the State
Department said today. He will re-
turn to his post after brief vaca-
ton in the United States with Mrs.
Messersmith, the department added:
Mr.. Messersmith, who has been
in Mexico City for year. is said
to be on his way to New York City
today from Laredo, Tex, where he
stopped briefly yesterday
Evening star., 1943-01-18
BY 1T. JAMES c. WHITAKER,
U. s. Army Air Force Transport Command
As Told to Charles Leayelle.

AS lOld 10 ChafleS LeavelIe.
Through the late watches of the
chilling night, my feeling persisted
that our prayers for water would be
answered.
But there was a feeling also of
uneasineSS and apprehension. In 10
days of helpless drifting on the
empty Paciflc-10 days of almost no
water or food seemed to have be-
come strangely psychic. Death was
ready at last to strike at our little
band.
The sun rose behind a threatening
cloud bank on that eleventh morn
ing and in short while blessed rain
was flooding down upon our RATS.
We were wise by this time and used
every facility available for catching
and storing water. We cut the in
hated seat out of the raft I was
IN and used 1t as a rain catcher,
storing the water in Capt. William
T. Cherry's Mae West rubber life
jacket. We slaked our thirst.
1t was a squally rain, however
and high waves upset the tiny two
man raft carrying 1t. John j. De
Angels, navigator on our ill-fated
Flying Fortress, and Sergt. Alex
kaczmarczyk, a passenger, who had
been en- route to join his unit in the
Southwest Pacific.
The little rubber doughnut was
righted easily enough, but we had a
difficult time getting the sergeant
back in it. 1t became apparent at
once that Alex was in bad way
Exhaustion, exposure, thirst and
hunger had dissipated the store OF
strength he had mustered after leav-
ing the hospital in Hawaii, where
he had spent 45 days with yellow
jaundice.
Had Drunk Sea Water.
In addition, he had been drinking
salt water in the vain hope OF
quenching his terrible thirst. He
now made several meaningless re-
marks and shouted. Capt. Eddie
Rlckenbacker spoke sharply, trying
to snap him out of it. When Alexis
true condition was realized, how
ever, Rick took him into the larger
raft he occupied with Col. Hans
Adamson, his military aide, and Pvt
Johnny Bartek. Pick sent Bartek
over to the smaller raft with 1t
De Angels.
During that day Alex was given
regular doles of water. There was
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Two New Agencies
Proposed in Senate 10
Aid Small Business
Directors of Minerals
And Civilian Supply
Suggested by Murroy
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES,

proposals to establish two new
ofnceS, a war minerals director
with independent authority and
a civilian supply administrator
within the War Production
Board, are under consideration
by the Senate Small Business
committee, Chairman Murray
told the Senate today.
In report detailing the com
mltteeS activities during the last
session of Congress and its plans
Tor the new session. Senator Muir
ray, speaking for himself and his
committee colleagues, had some
sharp things to say about the war
production setup in its relation to
businessmen.
The committee" he said. now
questions whether the War Produc-
tion Board itself has been able
even to centralize procurement and
production. There is a disposition
among various procurement agen-
cies to feel that they are separately
responsible to Congress rather than
each responsible to the War Pro-
duction Board. Actually there is a
genuine basis for this feeling, in
aSmuch as the responsibilities of
the procurement services have been
defined by statute and those of the
WPB have not"
Definitions May Be Needed.
One nf fEn
that will have to be determined
early in the session, said the re-
port, is whether Congress should
not define the responsibilities of
all major agencies engaged in run
ming the war effort"
While improved organization in
Washington is essential, even that
is not enough, the Montana Senator
insisted, adding: The Government
is the creation Of the people and it
should live among the people. Our
vast country cannot be administered
by 'directives' from Washington, or
by any group of people, no matter
how well intentioned, who sit behind
closed doors and neglect to take the
small businessman knows that the
Government must be taken to the
people and the people to the Gov
ernment"
The committee promised to recon-
mend fortnight measures to pre-
vent the pattern of concentration
developed in war production from
becoming the pattern of concentra-
tion for all manufacturing after the
war" The report added:
I'VE feel that those who are plan
ming the war and building the future
of our country ought to put the
Nations existing capacity to maxi
mum use for production now rather
than to continue building magnifi-
cent factories which are likely after
the war to be leased or otherwise
disposed of to large corporations.
Concerning the possible need for
war minerals director. Senator
Murray said one of the biggest OBJ
stacles to the fuller use of smaller
plants in war production had been
the shortage of steel, copper, alumi- 4
mum and other basic metals.
While this committee" he said.
"does not feel that the shortage
OF metals is an excuse for the
Smaller War Plants Corps failure
to make more progress during the
past months, the committee is
acutely aware of the strategic i'm
portance of our materials supply
a., tho uor Y,rooreYo -
The corporation was set up as a
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Anti-Aircroft She'll
Falls in Palace Garden
Bv the Associated presx

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 13.-An anti-air-
craft shell intended for German
bomber fell in the garden OF Buck
ingham Palace last night.
1t destroyed bed of brussels
sprouts, which once had been a
flower plot. No one was hurt.
Evening star., 1943-01-18

sonnel has arrived in Malta aboard
destroyers after escaping from an
Italian submarine prison ship which
was blasted to the bottom of the
Mediterranean by an Allied plane
Reuters dispatch from Cairo said
today.
The men broke out of the con-
ming tower as the water poured in,
the dispatch said. Allied surface
craft picked them up.
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Owl Carrying Prey Hits
Wires, Cuts Off Power

BY the Associated Press.
SPOKANE, Wash. Repairmen
seeking break in a power line found
the body of great horned owl that
had flown into the wires.
Still clutched in its talons was
Hungarian partridge.
Evening star., 1943-01-18

The war we're in is the war to
win. Buy War bonds! lsito-g
Evening star., 1943-01-18
Death Takes Member of Rickenbucker Band;
Shower MiroculousIy Turns to Aid Them

fThiS is the SeUenth INSTALL
ment OF the day-by-do story
told here in fuH tor the first time
of Capt Eddie Rickenbacker
and the SeUen companions NTH
lChom for more than three 7OeekS
he fought thirst, hunger, sharks
and the elements in the eQua-
tortal Southwest Pacifc)
Evening star., 1943-01-18

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concerning OPEN
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syste m--coIl MA.
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Evening star., 1943-01-18

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cleanse me of agnoSticism forever
and complete my redemption.
Evening star., 1943-01-29

campaign represents a genuine pool
ing of our resources with those of
our Allies. The military burden in
the beginning was almost equally
shared by the British and ourselves.
Now British, French and American
forces are fighting in combined op-
eration."
Congress to Check Spending.
Republican leaders in both House
ard Senate have declared they
would not oppose continuance of an
arrangement which has sent billions
of dollars worth of supplies to the
Allies, but want to know how the
money is spent
LeaSe-lend officials, in denying
Mr.. Jones statements concerning
beer and powderpuffs, said they
were compelled to buy small guam
tity of rayon hose in order to obtain
a supply of cotton stockings request
ed by 1t. Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hover for distribution to civilians in
North Africa. The warehouses hold
ing the cotton stockings, they said,
insisted that lease-lend also clear
out their rayon hose.
Mr.. Jones said lease-lend officials
had told him that the Government
was reimbursed for those shipments,
but he argued that the cost of such
items as accounting and personnel
had been borne by lease-lend money.
Evening star., 1943-01-29
Washington Realtor
Is Found Hanged in
Cellar Of His Home
WilIiom c. BIundon
Was in HI Health,
Relative Declares

William C. Blundon. So, Washing
ton realtor. was found hanged this
morning in the basement of his home
at 1924 Jonquil street NV.
A clothesline was around his neck
and attached to beam in the
basement ceiling. Found by his sis
ter-in law, Mrs Gertrude Blundon.
he was pronounced dead by an
Emergency Hospital physician.
Police quoted the siSter-in law
as saying Mr. Blundon had been in
i'll health and had threatened suicide
several times
A native of Washington, he had
been in the real estate business for
the last 40 years. taking a leading
role in development of the Bloom
ingdale district.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Ono Blundon, and two sisters. Mrs.
Mary l.. Acton and Mrs. Laura Es-
terly, both of Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
l pm. Monday at the Hines fun
eral home. 2901 Fourteenth street
NV. Burial will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1943-01-29

are being flown across the highest
mountains in the world under al
most impossible conditions.
But they are getting through" :"
he said. They are getting through
in pitifully small amounts in terms
of what China needs, but at an ac-
celebrating rate. We will not-and
we should not-stop until all in
genuity and every effort is eXpend-
ed to move more aid into China"
Repeats Russian Figures.
He repeated recently y-announced
figures that Russia has been sent
almost $500 planes-more than to
any other country - and we had
sent her more than 5000 tanks.
more than to all other countries
combined, and $1,000 trucks, jeeps
and other motor vehicles"
The lease-lend administrator said
that food shipments to Russia have
not amounted to large proportion
of our lease lend aid in the past.
but that they were being increased
greatly.
1T is difficult" he said, ''to esti-
mate how much the peoples of Rus
sia have helped us by holding back
the Nazi forces and taking the of
fensive away from them, or to esti-
mate the value to our national inter-
est of the superb fight of the Chinese
against the japanese.
by the lives lost, the cities and
homes destroyed and in the other
losses of war. Russia and China and
Great Britain have made limitless
contributions to their cause, as well
as to ours. There have not been and
there will never be developed a
standard of values by which we can
measure lives lost against the cost
Of airplanes or guns"
OF the Egyptian campaign. Mr..
Stettinius reported that between
February and November, 1912, the
United States exported under lease
lend and under cash purchase to
Egypt over 1000 planes, many hun
dredS of tanks, 10000 trucks and
hundreds of pieces of artillery.
Constructed Supply Lines.
Here again We reaped the benefit
of work done over a year age" he
said. 'Lease-lend funds and British
funds were used to construct the
supply lines over which these weap-
onS were sent. = - Without the sup
ply lines the Egyptian campaign
could not have been undertaken. ."
Mr.. Stettinius told the committee
that the same considerations of ex-
change governed the preparation for
the North African campaign.
While there the American share
| in supply was larger" he said, "the