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Evening star., 1943-11-25
Bengal Famine Deaths Set
Far Over 100000 Weekly
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW DELHI, Nov. 25.-Mrs. vi
jayalakshmi Pandit, president of the
All-India Women's Conference and
sister Of Jawaharlal Nehru, told
correspondents last night that an
estimate Of 100000 starvation deaths
weekly in Bengal was quite
modest"
She expressed belief that the num-
Der OF deaths was increasing because
OF epidemics Of cholera, malaria and
beri-beri.
She said large number Of young
women in famine areas had "disap-
peared" and. according to reliable
reports, had gone into Calcutta
brothels.
Mrs. Pandit said she was "very
happy" that United Nations re-
lief and rehabilitation agency had
been formed, but added that it was
dereliction Of duty that immediate
help for India had not been ar
ranged. =.
Money is welcome" she said,
but we need food"
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Ohio Farmer, Wife
And Daughter Found
Shot 10 Death
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE
Ohio, Nov. 25.-A well-to-do Fayette
County hog breeder, his wife and
daughter were found slain at their
farm home near here today.
The body of Elmer Mccoy, 50, lay
just within barn door about 100
feet from the house. Mrs. Mccoy
64, was found inside a screened back
porch and the body of their daugh-
ter, Mildred, a., a school teacher,
was on the ground between her
parked automobile and q gate lead
ing to the farmhouse.
No Trace Of Weapon.
Sheriff w. H. Icenhower and Act
ing Coroner E. H. Mcdonald had
found no trace Of the death weapon
Each victim had been shot through
the head.
Sheriff Icenhower said the bodies
were discovered by Dewey Clayton,
a farm laborer employed by Mr.. NC
Coy, when he reported for work.
The Staying occurred sometime after
9 O'Clock last night, the sheriff
added. Telephone wires had been
slashed inside the Mccoy home.
Mr.. Clayton lived with his family
in another house on the farm.
Sheriff Icenhower said Mrs. Clay
ton told him she heard shots some
time after 8 pm, but attached no
to them.
Two Autos Entered Yard.
Miss Mccoy taught in Darke
County and generally arrived home
about 8 pm, Sheriff Icenhower
said. Shortly before that hour, the
sheriff said Mr.. Clayton told him,
an automobile entered. the Mccoy
yard, followed a little later by an
other.
Miss Mccoy had one hand in a
coat pocket when found. Mrs. Nc
Coy still held a dish cloth in ore
hand, her spectacles in the other
Mr.. Mccoy fell beside a small feed
mill, the stump Of a cigar in his
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Veterans Now Receiving
Army Discharge Buttons
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The honorable discharge buttons
authorized for civilian wear by for
mer soldiers so discharged or trans
ferred to inactive status are now
being distributed, Secretary Of War
Stimson announced today.
The insigne is a small gold
covered plastic button bearing an
eagle within circle, the wings ex-
tending beyond the circle.
The buttons will be given without
cost to all men and women who have
served honorably in the Army since
September 8, 1899, and were sepa-
rated from the service under honor
able conditions.
The nine services commands In
the United States will announce
locally within the next few days the
details of distribution procedure.
Evening star., 1943-11-25
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neral Of Mrs. McCoy's mother, 1t
was said at their home here today.
Miss Pat Dye, 14-year-old daugh-
ter Of Mrs. Mccoy, said nurse told
her in a distance phone call
from Warren that Mr.. and Mrs.
Mccoy planned to take a train
which would put them in Washing
ton sometime today. Mr.. Mccoy is
employed as foreman at Union
Station, Miss Dye said.
Walter Bloomfield, rs, lived at
l708 Seventeenth street NV. until
last August, when he went to De-
troit on a Government Job, his wife,
Mrs. jamie Bloomfield, said.
Relatives of Jasper Williams.
whose address was listed as a E
street NV, could not be reached
Immediately.
The Ambassador, which was
scheduled to arrive here at 8:25
am, will come in at about 4 pm.
it was said at Union Station. A
train to complete the trip had to
be made up in Ohio, 1t was ex-
planned.
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Cab Driver Is SIashed
And Robbed by Two Men

A cab driver was cut on the hand
last night while struggling with two
men who robbed him of S., police
said today.
Julius Lehrman, 1105 Jefferson
street NV, the driver. said he
picked up the men at Ninth street
and New York avenue at 7:15 pm.
He said they wanted to go to Four
teenth and U streets NV, but when
they ordered him to pull into an
alley he refused and drove to the
1000 block Of Portner street NV,
where one Of the men produced a
knife. The men drove off in the
cab, which was found later in the
1900 block Of Ninth street NV.
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Quebracho Official
Calls Berge Unjust
~ the Associated press.

BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 25.-An
official of the Forestal Land, Timber
d Railways, Ltd, declared last night
that Assistant United States Attor-
ney General Wendell Berge's charges
that the United States Is at the
mercy OF an English Argentine
quebracho monopoly pool were 'un-
called for and unjust in their failure
to give credit where it is due"
Quebracho extract is an impor-
tant leather tanning agency.
Replying to the Berge statement,
John B. Sullivan said Mr.. Berpe
was very badly informed on the
real facts of the case, which are
well known to many other officials
OF the American Government"
Mr.. Berge, chief Of the Justice
Departments antitrust division.
made his statement in Washington
before a Senate Military Affairs
Subcommittee on War Mobilization
He described Mr.. Sullivan as an
Argentine citizen who formerly was
q citizen Of the United States and
said he was chairman OF the Board
OF Forestal Of England and man
ager Of its Argentine subsidiary
as well.
Mr.. Berge testified that % pro-
ducers In Argentina and Paraguay
make up the quebracho industry and
that five of the producing firms are
owned or controlled by Forestal
through its Argentine subsidiary.
Production Of quebracho extract,
Mr.. Sullivan said, has been strictly
regulated by the Argentine govern
ment since 1884 with the co-opera-
ton Of Paraguay to save the in
dustry from ruin and conserve the
quebracho forests. He added that
uncontrolled exploitation at that
time resulted in the production of
twice the worlds requirements an
Evening star., 1943-11-25
La Guardia Is Called
To Argue Subsidy
Case for Consumers
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Still hoping to save President
Roosevelt's food subsidy program
from a nearly-certain congressional
defeat, Senate Democratic leaders
arranged today to call in Fiorello H.
La Guardia Of New York and other
mayors Of big cities to argue "the
case for the consumer"
Mr.. La Guardia, advocate Of Fed
eral subsidies to hold down food
costs. is among group OF mayors
scheduled to testify next week be-
fore the Banking Committee on the
anti-subsidy bill which swept
through the House, 278 to 1T.
Chairman Wagner said he expect
ed Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chi
cago and a group from Southern
cities to be among those appearing
with Mr.. La Guardia next Friday.
The hearings will open Tuesday with
farm organization spokesmen, op-
posing the subsidy program, to be
heard first.
Says Consumers Would Suffer.
You might say the mayors are
going to state the case for the great
masses Of consumers who are going
to be the ones to suffer through
higher living costs If subsidies are
stopped" Senator Wagner said.
Despite this drive for public sup
port Of subsidies, Senator Gillette.
Democrat, Of Iowa predicted that
the Senate would pass the ban and
also would override a veto.
The 1owan said he wasn't at all
sure the President would veto the
bill, as he did last summer, adding
that he believed the administration
might accept congressional edict
against subsidies and adjust price
control machinery to let farm prices
go up somewhat.
Thomas AssaiIs OPA.
Senator Thomas, Republican, of
Idaho, meanwhile, charged in a
statement that the OPA is guilty
OF un-American. vicious and rattle
Drained conduct" in its handling OF
price ceilings on livestock. 90
He said that despite the livestock
industry's costly program of ex-
pansion" to meet war needs, pro-
ducers had taken 20 per cent cut
in income when wholesale meat
prices were rolled back.
The Congress of Industrial Or
asked the Banking Com
mittee to hear testimony by Philip
Murray, CIO president, or "his per-
sonal representative" on the anti
bill.
Nathan Cowan, CIO legislative di-
rector. charged in letter to Sena-
tor Wagner that "those who have
utilized this bill as vehicle for de-
stroying the subsidy program for
control OF the cost of living in this
critical war period are displaying
irresponsibility in toying
with the home front economic
structure"
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Sacrifices 10 Aid
War Effort Urged
BY Msgr. McC

The Right Rev. Patrick j. Nc
Cormick, rector Of Catholic Univer-
sity, today appealed to all civilians
to bear willingly their wartime sac
rifices In order Ito speed the victory
which will bring the peace and es-
tablish the brotherhood among the
nations which we ardently DESIRE"
Msgr. Mccormick delivered the
sermon at the Thanksgiving Day
pan-American mass at st. Patricks
Catholic Church, Tenth and G
streets NV. The guest list included
a group of distinguished personages
headed by Vice President Wallace.
This special mass is an annual event
at st. Patrick's.
Our hearts and minds should
respond to the spirit of the day
THANKSGIVING as we realize how
great are the mercies which have
been shown us and for how much
We should be thankful" Msgr. Nc
Cormick said.
Must Make Sacrifices.
1T Is true that all of us have
to make sacrifices, practice self-de-
NAL or deprivations, but what are
these compared to the hardships,
the suffering of our gallant men In
every branch Of our fighting forces,
who are ready and prepared even to
of1er the supreme sacrifice that our
purposes in war may be achieved?
. With our prayers of Thanksgiv-
Ing should also 60 the prayer to God
IN behalf of our leaders and in be-
behalf Of all those of our Allies who
will be responsible for the victory
which will surely come that they
will be capable too of successfully
accomplishing the peace, q peace
which will be founded on Justice
and charity and insure to all men
and for all time the God-given
rights which as individuals and as
nations we have sought in this war
TO make secure and everlasting!
And let us pray also that In the
planning, the chartering of the
peace and in the deliberations and
debates which will precede the con-
clusion Of the term of peace a rev.
erent ear will be accorded to the ap-
peaLs already made, and undoubt-
edly yet to be made by him who on
earth represents the Prince OF Peace,
the supreme pontiff. Plus XII"
Other Guests at Mass.
The guests included Justice Frank
Murphy OF the Supreme Court, Mel
son Rockefeller. co-ordinator OF In
ter-American Affairs; Senator Mead,
Democrat, OF New York; DR.. L. S.
Rowe. director general Of the Pan
American Union, and the following
members Of the diplomatic corps:
Ambassador de Freyre San
tander Of Peru, Ambassador Cas-
tillo Najera Of Mexico, Ambassador
Alfaro of Ecuador, Ambassador
Escalante Of Venezuela, Ambassa-
dor de Michels of Chile, Ambassa-
dor de Guachalla of Bolivia, Am
bassador de Valasquez of Paraguay,
Ambassador de Recinos of Guate-
mala. Ambassador de Caceres of
Honduras, Ambassador Liautaud of
Haiti, Ambassador de Escalante of
Costa Rica. Ambassador de Jimenez
OF Panama, Ambassador de Sevilla
Sacasa Of Nicaragua, Ambassador
de Copello Of the Dominican Re-
public and Rodolfo Garcia Arias.
charge d'affaires of Argentina.
Evening star., 1943-11-25
De Lorenzo, Brewster
Union Head, Given
Thomas Endorsement
Special Dispatch to The Star.

OpecIAi Olsp&tch 70 the Star.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-Complete
confidence in Thomas de Lorenzo
head Of the United Automobile
Workers local at the Brewster
Aeronautical Corp. plants, was ex-
pressed today by r. J. Thomas, UAW
president.
In statement issued today after
Q conference with De Lorenzo and
Henry j. Kaiser, the company's new
president, Mr.. Thomas declared:
II feel that as q result of my in
vestigation, I am in q position to
voice my complete confidence in
the part Mr.. de Lorenzo played and
will continue to play as the chief
labor spokesman in making Brew
ster . vital part OF our war produc-
ton machinery"
He added that previous confer
enoes with both men have convinced
him that "the situation at the
Brewster plants is such that the
country MAY be assured of the
maximum possible output Of aircraft
from these plants"
In expressing his delight" at Mr.
Thomas statement, Mr.. Kaiser said
1t confirms my belief that CO.
operation between labor and man
agement at Brewster is and will
continue to be really effective"
In testifying recently before a
House Naval Affairs Subcommittee
Investigating Brewster's failure to
meet plane production schedules, De
Lorenzo admitted that he has used
half dozen different names when
they come In handy"
He also acknowledged that he had
lied in several oficial documents
among them his 1910 income tax
return and his draft board record.
The Brooklyn-born labor leader
said he picked his present name
from a telephone book or . hat"
because "it sounds nice"
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Packers to Pay
| Workers Bonus
lover Million
Ry the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated PfeSS.
AUSTIN, Mimi. Nov. 25.-George
A. HORNED 81 Co., Austin meat
packers, cut the annual earnings
melon with employees yesterday and
1t meant every worker will receive
as year-end bonus, sum equal to
7.013 times his average weekly pay
check for the year. =.
Thus, a man earning the mini
mum base pay Of $28 40 week will
get a bonus of $l99.17. Altogether
the total bonus will exceed $1,000
900, the largest since the plan was
begun in 1889. The bonus is de-
termined by q fixed formula under
which net earnings are divided be-
tween stockholders and employees.
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Ration Coupon
Salesman Picks
Wrong Customer

Garfield Grisson, 22, colored, 400
block of Richardson street NV. had
some B gasoline coupons he wanted
to sell early today. He approached
a man seated in car at Fourth
street and Rhode Island avenue
NV.
The man was interested in the
coupons and in Grisson. In fact, he
was SO interested that he took Girls
son to No. 13 police station and
charged him with violation of OPA
regulations in selling and possessing
gasoline coupons.
Grissons customer was Sergt. Karl
6. Mccormick of No. 13 precinct,
who was IN plain clothes and about
to 90 Oh duty.
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Report

District Of Columbia and vicinity
Continued fair weather, moder-
ately warm this afternoon; lowest
temperature near freezing tonight;
Friday, increasing cloudiness and
somewhat warmer.
Maryland-Fair, slightly colder
east portion; Friday increasing
cloudiness and somewhat warmer.
River Report.
Potomac River and Shenandoah
River clear this am. at Harpers
Ferry. Potomac slightly muddy at
Great Falls.
Tide Tables,
Furnished BY United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Arsenal BIuze FutuI
To Four Employees
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
PINE BLUFF, Ark, Nov. as
Four civilian employees Of the Pine
Bluff Arsenal died from burns re-
ceived last night in an industrial
accident that also slightly injured
1t. Raymond F. Gutierrez OF the
arsenal staff.
The dead were Winfield Anderson,
81; Lloyd Ellison, 36; Fred Lewis, 40,
and Claude Yancey, ~, a colored
woman.
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Dr.: Stirling to Show
Films From Mexico

Illustrated with color film, a
lecture on his five expeditions into
Mexico will be presented by DR..
Matthew w. Stirling tomorrow night
to members of the National Geo
graphic Society at Constitution Hall.
The films will show the finding of
colossal stone heads, priceless jade
and magnificent temples at Palen-
que, abandoned ages ago by the
migrating Mayas.
Evening star., 1943-11-25

CAMP LEJEUNE, New River, N. c.,
Nov. 25.-He came, he saw and he
Is helping to conquer. And in the
process he established another
FIRST" for the pioneering United
States Marines.
Caesar, who received his training
at Camp Lejeune, was the first dog
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Caesar, Canine Leotherneck,
First to Reach Bottle Zone

THE tollo,Ding story, dis
trtbuted by the Associated Press,
,Das ,Dritten BY Corpl. Harold A.
Bredrd. U. S. M. c., OF Mon
roe, Ld)
Evening star., 1943-11-25
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in
Capital (current month to date):
Evening star., 1943-11-25

The Sun and Moon.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-02

CURED while the men were making
a routine training flight.
Mckee attended the University of
Pennsylvania and st. Joseph's
university in Philadelphia before
entering naval aviation. He is sur
vived by his father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Mckee and his
brother, David of Ardmore, Penn
WAS RADIOMAN
Wilson, a radioman, was born in
Milford, Mass, but later moved
to his present home in Worchester,
Mass, where he completed his
schooling.
Seaman Pond was born in Amar-
lilo, Texas. His home was in Phoe-
nix, AriZ.
Naval officers followed their
usual custom in withholding infOr-
nation about the crash until the
next of kin of the crash victims
had been informed of the deaths
in the usual careful manner adopt
ed by the navy department. Of
ficials also conduct an investiga-
tion into the probable causes of
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-02
Council Acts on
Tex Decided Land

a law passed by the last state legis-
lature which provided that taxing
agencies could handle their own
tax decided property if they wished
instead of letting the state con-
troller's office handle it.
City Clerk Neal Gavin was made
chairman of the committee COM
posed of Fire Chief c. S. Reed, Pub
lie Works Director Walter Heinecke,
and Grant Bristol, inspector.
TO VISIT PROPERTY
The council instructed the COM
mittee to visit each piece of tax
decided property and find out what
condition 1t is in, ascertain if it Is
rentable, if it needs rehabilitation,
and if it is possible to sell it and
get it out of the red and on the
tax rolls.
It was understood that the state
had been collecting rent on 36
pieces of tax decided property with
improvements on it with the lowest
rent 81 month. City records show
that there ore 100 pieces of tax
decided property in the city with
Improvements on it.
In order to facilitate the flow of
water between the storage basins
at the city water plant, the council
ordered IL twenty-four inch valves
at $35,25 each.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-02
Continuance Of
Early Closing Seen

Members of the merchants COM
mittee of the Ell Centro Chamber
of Commerce were scheduled to
meet at chamber headquarters at
10 a. m. Friday to consider posi-
bility of continuing the p. m. Sat-
urday night closing for the dura-
ton of the war.
Continuance of the 6 p. m. Sat-
Crday night closing was considered
because of lack of merchandise and
the manpower shortage. 1t was un-
derstood that merchants in Braw-
ley were considering a similar ac-
ton and that rs per cent of them
favored the early closing on Satur-
day nights until the end of the war.
AS originally scheduled the early
closing in Ell Centro was to have
ended Sept. IL and stores there
after to remain open until p. m.
on Saturday nights.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-02
Nip Isle
Empty.
Report
Santa Isabel
IS Said to Have
Been Evacuated

LONDON, Sept. 2. (UP)
The Japanese were report
ed today to have abandoned
the large, cigar-shaped is
land of Santa Isabel in the
central Solomons as a result OF
American outflanking movements
which had made their positions
there untenable.
Hayden Leonard, reporter Tor
the Australian BrOadcaSting COM
mission, cabled the British Broad
casting Corp. that a total lack OF
enemy opposition to recent Allied
air raid on the island makes 1t
look as though the Japs had re-
treated another step nOrthward.'
LARGER ISLAND
Santa Isabel is one of the larger
islands of the Solomon group, lying
northwest of Guadalcanal and
northeast of New Georgia. Allied
forces SO far have made no at
tempt to capture Santa Isabel but
the Japanese position there has be-
come increasingly difficult since
the capture of Vella Lavella island
Continued on Page 8, Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-02

> IL was the 1lrSt American gam
from positions south of the Sala-
maua airfield in several weeks and
occurred Sunday and Monday as
Australian troops closing in from
the west increased the pressure on
the enemy.
SURROUND FORCE
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's spokes-
man said the American troops drove
approximately three-fourths of a
mile to each scout ridge, practically
surrounding japanese force still
holding out on the inland extreme
of Roosevelt Ridge. He said the
Japanese were widely scattered
through the mountains from two
to four miles from Salamaua air.
drome and were deeply entrenched
trying to stave off the Allies.
There were no new report from
the Allied forces on Kila Ridge
commanding the useless Salamaua
airdrome about a mile from the
base itself.
The communique listed Allied
losses as a Liberator and five fight
ers in an air fight Monday over
Bougainville in the northern Solo
mons where SO of about 60 enemy
planes were shot down in a run
Continued on Page 6, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-02

nounced tonlght.
Surging westward in every key
sector from Smolensk to the Sea
of Azov, the Red army occupied
hundreds of towns and villages and
rushed the hard pressed German
defenders back toward the Dnieper
river, it was revealed in a Soviet
communique and an order of the
day by Premier Marshal Josef Stall
in.
Among the major Nazi defense
bastions topped by the Soviet on
rush were Sunny. middle anchor of
the 250-miles line between Bryansk
and Poltava; Lisichansk, 122 miles
southeast of Kharkov; Voroshilovsk,
east of Lisichansk; Chistiakovo, 40
miles east of Stalino; and Buden-
ovka, on the Sea of Azov only IS
miles east OF Mariupol.
GERMANS YIELD
The landslide of Soviet victories
in the heart of the rich industrial
DonetS basin made it evident that
the Germans were yielding swiftly
in a pull-back to evade the threat
of development by the Russian
forces far beyond them to the
northwest
The days honor of an order of
the day by Stain went to Gen.
Nikolai F. Vatutin's army which
captured Sumy, IS miles northwest
of Kharkov, laying open the way
to Konotop and the Ukrainian capi-
tai Of Kiev beyond.
The Red army advance below
BryanSk netted more than 100
towns and villages and drove the
last of the German invaders from
the Kursk region, the communique
which followed Stains order an
bounced.
The drive against Smolensk con-
tinued to develop rapidly, the Rus
slams reported. More than 100 towns
and villages were occupied during
the day in advances of three to six
miles.
The Nazis were undertaking fee
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-02
Housing Shortage
Education Threat

if We avert this danger to our edu-
cation system"
He said that there are seven or
eight families who require furnish
ed apartments or houses. There are
no small children in these families
of tachers but some of them need
two bedrooms as they have aged
relatives living with them.
Weakley pointed out that teach
ers keep house for at least nine
months out of the year and may be
regarded as semi-permanent rent
erS.
Elementary, high school, and
Junior college classes will open for
the fall term in Ell Centre on Sept.
20, Weakley reminded
AS is the annual custom all
teachers in the system will have a
pre-school get-together on the Sat-
urday before the opening of school.
This meeting was scheduled at
Central Junior college, at a. M.
Sept. l8.