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Evening star., 1943-04-20
d. C.. Newsmon Helps Rescue
Arqentines from Stream
Harry W. Frontz Saves
Visiting Journalists
When Bridge CoIIopses

Harry w. Frantz, well-known
Washington newspaperman, is being
hailed by his friends as hero today
for his part in helping save two
Argentine neWspapermen from
drowning during the early days Of
their tour of the United States.
The story, which has been circu-
lating here privately for some time,
came to light on the arrival of the
Argentinians and their American
escorts after an extensive trip to
military posts and war production
centerS.
Representing the Office of Co.
ordinator of Inter- american Affairs,
Mr.. Frantz went to Miami, Fla, met
the party of nine visiting journalists,
and was accompanying them, along
with other Americans, when the ac-
cident happened at military post.
Three of the visitors and Mr.
Frantz were posing for picture on
a small pontoon bridge when their
weight, as they were standing too
close together, caused the bridge to
break. The four were plunged into
the swirling waters of flood
swollen stream Only one of the
three visitors was in trouble at first
and Mr.. Frantz was holding him up
when second Argentinian got into
difficulties. For a time Mr.. Frantz
supported them both. Then five
other persons who had jumped into
Evening star., 1943-04-20
5 Gents a Barrel
Rise in Ceiling Price
Of Crude Oil Urqed
House Small Business
Committee Calls for
Immediate Action
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The House Small Business
Committee recommended today
that the overall ceilings on crude
petroleum prices be lifted to "a
level that will encourage ample
production and prevent mo-
nopoly."
1t urged that the Offices of Price
Administration and Economic Sta
bilization make effective without
delay" the recommendation of Pc
troleum Administrator Ickes that
the price be increased IS cents a
barrel.
Chairman Patman told reporters
the committee felt this was mini
mum that should be agreed on i'm
mediately, and that a higher price
eventually was desirable.
The report stated that "the COM
Evening star., 1943-04-20

the river came to their assistance
and finally all were taken ashore
by an amphibious jeep.
Prominent in Washington jour-
nalism for many years, Mr.. Frant2
was with the United Press covering
Latin American affairs here before
going to the Office of Co-ordinato1
of Inter-American Affairs. He lives
at 1924 Aberdeen road, Bradley
Woods.
$47, ,342 900 for the Owl, an increase
of $11342,0O0 over 1943; S5,473,O ,OOC
for Oil Administrator Ickes, an in
crease of $1,468,000; $36, 6,15O,0O0 for
the BEW, an increase of s13,150,O0O
The President suggested a re-
duced sum, s4S,170OO0, for the War
Relocation Authority, which had
S70,000,000 for this year. This or
2anization will need less. apparently
because its biggest task-removing
japanese residents from West Coast
areas-has been accomplished.
Additional supplemental appro-
priations submitted to the House in
cluded $3,000000 for the Office of
Price Administration to defray cost
of printing and other expenses in
cidental to rationing. and S2053, 900
for the Office of Defense Health and
Welfare
Evening star., 1943-04-20

mlttee recognizes that a proper re-
lationshlp must be maintained be-
tween the prices for crude petroleum
and the refined products thereof y
but added that since committee
studies were confined to the "pri-
mary problem" of crude prices, the
relationship was not explored.
The committee also advocated
full attention to the petroleum in
dustrys requirements for materials
and manpoWer and urged acceptance
by other governmental agencies of
recommendations by the Petroleum
Administrat ton.
The report was submitted to the
House by Mr.. Patman after the
committee had concluded a week of
hearings on the petroleum situation.
1t was an interim report, Mr.. Pat
man announcing that final report
would be submitted as soon as it
can be prepared.
Evening star., 1943-04-20
Refugee Conference
Report Traces Nazi
Slaughter Of Jews
Booklet Shows Few
Will Be Left After 1o43
If Deaths Continue
BY HELEN KIRKPATRICK,
Foreign Correspondent of The Star
and Chicago Daily News.

LONDON, April 2O-Coincidental
with the Bermuda refugee confer
ence the Inter-Allied Informa-
tion Committee has issued an up
to-date booklet on Jewish persecu-
tions in occupied Europe showing
that by the end of this year, if the
Germans carry out their plans,
there will be scarcely a Jew left
alive in Europe.
Country by country, this commit
tee, established by Allied govern
ments in London, lists German de-
crees and measures and the num-
bers of people affected. Yugoslav
Jews have been as effectively ex-
terminated as any, while Poland has
great Jewish ghetto whose condi-
tions are such that few can hope
to survive Described in the book
let are all the usual Nazi methods
of treatment: Whipping, castor OIL
hoses.
twenty-five thousand of Bel
GUMS $4,000 Jews had been sent to
Eastern Europe to forced labor by
November, 1912. The remainder are
expected to be expelled from Bel
GUM this year.
In Bohemia -Moravia it is esti-
mated that there were no Jews left
of the 10000 by the end of 1912 BY
the end of July, 1912, there were
10000 between the ages of IS and 80
in the Terezin ghetto. OF all these
and $4,000 Slovak Jews, the Ger
mans expect none to be left soon.
Frances 50,000-odd Jews have so
far suffered the least TWenty-e eight
thousand are shut up in Pare des
Princes and Velodrom d'Hiver in
Paris and 10000 had been deported
to German concentration camps by
last September.
Greece has few Jews. but all its
5000 have been deported to camp
in Crete. Luxembourg's 5000 Jews
have been helped by the American
Joint Distribution Committee-2,00 900
being evacuated. More than 300
have been sent to Poland, the rest
are in German camps.
Most of Hollands 10000 Jews
have been taken to Westerbork
camp in the mist of the most DESC
late part of the country None are
expected to survive this year
BY the end of 1912 Norway's 1,400
Jews had been gathered in Bredt-
vedt concentration camp and many
have been sent to work in the Upper
Silesian coal mines. In December
anti-JeW laws had been extended to
cover half and quarter Jews.
Copyright, 1943, by
Chicago Daily News, 1nc)
Evening star., 1943-04-20
Ii. Bean Of Colin Ke||y's
Fortress Crew Decorated
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA.
April l9 Delayed LIT. Joseph M.
Bean, believed to be the only active
survivor Of Capt. Colin Kelly's Fly
Ing Fortress crew. today received the
Silver Star and Distinguished Flying
Cross at one of New Guineas ad-
vanced air bases.
1t. Gen. George c. Kenney, COM
mander of Allied air forces in the
Southwest Pacific, pinned both med
ais on the shirt of the 26-year-old
navigator from Burbank, Calf.
The Silver Star was for 1t. Beans
part in the bombing of the Japa-
nese battleship Haruna, sunk by
Capt. Kelly's plane off the Philip
pines in the first days of the Pa
cific war.
The Distinguished Flying Cross
was for participating in the flight
Of nine United States land planes
from Honolulu to Manila Septem-
ber S, l94l-the first fight of land
planes across the Pacific.
The mission against the battleship
was 1t. Beans third.
His total now is 30.
Evening star., 1943-04-20
President Requests
S2,372,350,000 Fund
For War Shipping
Congress Also Asked
To Step Up Funds
For BEW and owl
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt asked Con-
gress yesterday for S2,372 100000 for
the War Shipping Administration
most of it for construction of cargo
vessels-for the fiscal year starting
July l.
Congress provided $1,14S,000 900
for the current year.
Included in the shipping recon-
mendation was an allotment of
s50,0OO each to five States operating
schools in which merchant mariners
are trained. They are Maine, Mas
sachusetts. New York, Pennsylvania
and California
The President also asked Congress
to step up appropriations for the
Board of Economic Warfare, the
Office of War Information and the
petroleum co-ordinator for war.
The specific requests included
Evening star., 1943-04-20
Fifth Rubber Plant
Going Up in Louisville

BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 20-A
fifth synthetic rubber plant in
Louisville should begin operation
about midsummer, DR.. B. j. Oakes,
executive vice president and gen.
eral manager, announced yesterday.
Construction of the new National
Synthetic Rubber Corps plant now
is well under way, DR.. Oakes said.
His statement was the first public
announcement that the factory is
being built in Louisville.
The new unit is owned jointly by
five nationally known rubber COM
panies, Goodall Rubber, Inc, and
Hamilton Rubber Manufacturing
Corp, both of Trenton, N. j.; Hewitt
Rubber Corp, Buffalo, N. Y; Lee
Rubber & Tire Corp, Conshohocken,
Pa, and the Minnesota Mining g.
Manufacturing Co. of st. Paul, MINI.
Evening star., 1943-04-20
Jap Press Official
Gives Full Story Of
u. ). Raid on Toxic
Announces 'Shoneri-Lo'
Was Aircraft Carrier;
Reveals Attack Plan

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 20. - The
"Shangri-La" from which United
States planes raided Toxic last
April was an aircraft carrier,
Maj. Gen. Nahao Yahagi, chief
of the army press section of the
japanese imperial headquarters,
told newspapermen, according to
a Toxic broadcast heard here to-
day by an editor of the Ministry
of Information.
L take pleasure in telling the
people of the United States the full
story" Yahagi was quoted as saying
as he recalled that Washington au-
thorlties last week were to have
given details of the raid, but with
held them on security grounds.
Planned for 16 BOmbers.
The raid was planned for a squad.
ron Of 16 bombers of the BIS type
he said, which were ordered to ap-
proach Japan in aircraft carriers
and, after carrying out the raid, &c
to Chuchow, Chinese air base ir
Chekiang just south of Shanghai
From Chuchow, Yahagi said, the
planes were to go to Chungking tc
join the AVG and, for this reason
30 American volunteers with su.
perior ability" were selected to make
the raid.
They were to bomb Japan durin,
darkness, the japanese official con
tinued, and they were to resort t,
daylight bombing only if this plal
failed"
THE first plane,' he said, wa
to take off SO as to reach Japa,
just before sunset April 10 (Aprj
l8 in the United States) and dro,
lncendiary bombs on prescribe,
factories.
Were To Be Guided by Fires.
Other aircraft we're to reach tn
Japanese mainland after sunset an,
use the fires started by the frs
plane to find targets in Toxic an,
the suburbs"
II that plan was impossible. va
Evening star., 1943-04-20
Failure of Refugee PorIey
Seen by Zionist Leaders

NEW YORK, April 20 (P,.-Leaders
OF the New Zionist Organization of
America said Yesterday the Ber-
muda Refugee Conference in Ham
ilton was doomed to failure.
They charged the conferences
deliberations are guided by British
imperial policy and said the confer
ence refused to recognize Palestine
as the only solution to the Jewish
problem.
Col. Morris J. Mendelsohn, presi-
dent. and Ben Netanyahu, execu-
tive director of the New Zionist Or
ganization, which claims men,
bership of 10000, said the confer
ence was TO quiet the wave of pub
lie CONSERVATION over the mass
murder of European Jewry and to
divert attention from the stubborn
decision of Britain to shut the gate
OF Palestine, decision that. in ef-
feet, helps Hitler to complete the
extermina ton of Jews in Europe"
Evening star., 1943-04-20
State Of Iowa Buys
$1,000, 900 War Bonds
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa, April 90
1owas State government bought
$4,000, 900 War bonds today to help
the State along toward it's $l00, ,0OO,-
900 quota.
State Treasurer w. G. c. Bagley
said the funds came from building
appropriations recently ordered
frozen for the duration by the Legis-
lature. He said the $4,000 900 pur-
chase would be credited to the vari-
ous Iowa counties in proportion to
their share of the State bond quota.
Evening star., 1943-04-20

hagi said 13 planes under Maj. Gen.
James H. Doolittle were to bomb
Toxic and its vicinity while others
under Maj. j. A. Hilger were to
bomb Osaka, Kobe and Nagoya.
The broadcast did not elaborate
on which plan was used or why, but
from Toxic radio announcements at
the time of the raid it was deter
mined that the first planes reached
Toxic around noon.
Evening star., 1943-04-20
Gen. Covendish, Seized
By Jops in Burmu. Dies

BY the Associated Press
BOMBAY, April 20.-Brig. Gen. R.
V. c. Cavendish of the British forces
was captured while directing opera
tions on the Donbaik front in
Burma and died while in Japanese
hands, it was learned today.
The Berlin radio broadcast a re-
port on Gen. Cavendishs capture
10 days ago, fixing April 8 as the
date Of his death.
Evening star., 1943-04-20

Gen. Olds, native of Woodside,
Md, pioneered the North Atlantic
ferry service from Canada to Eng
land in 1941, and later established
the routes over the South Atlantic
and the Pacific.
THE success of these ferry serv-
ices under his leadership and in
splration,' said his citation, has
contributed in very high degree
to defense of our country and it's
Allies.
Evening star., 1943-04-20
First Ship Sinking in Gulf
Since AUGUST Announced

BY the Associated Press.
The Navy announced today that
survivors had landed at Tampa, Fla,
from small Norwegian merchant
vessel torpedoed and sunk in the
Gulf of Mexico by an enemy sub
marine early in April
This is the first time the Navy
has announced torpedoing in the
Gulf of Mexico since August 26.
Evening star., 1943-04-20
Dodds and LawStress
Winning War as Only
Real Refugee Solution
Nozi-Persecuted Peoples
Warned Not to Hope for
Immediate Succor'
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, April 90
Richard K. Law, British Undersec-
retary of State for Foreign Affairs.
and Harold w. Dodds, chairman OF
the United States delegation to the
British American Refugee Confer
ence, opened the two-nation meet
ing yesterday by stressing the neces-
sity of winning the war as the only
final solution to the refugee prob
lem.
Mr.. Law warned the Nazi-perse-
cuted peoples of Europe against
false or premature hopes" OF i'm
mediate succor" from the confer
ence because of wartime exigencies.
However, both Mr.. Law and Mr..
Dodds declared the group hoped to
find a solution for the immense
problem which could be presented
to the United Nations for interna-
tional action.
Will Point Way to Solution.
"The problem is too great for a
solution by the two governments
here represented Mr. Dodds said
in the opening speech. The CO.
operation of others must be solic-
tied. Our task will be to point the
way and offer such definite propos-
ais as may be possible under war
conditions and in the light of what
the war effort of the United Ma
tions will permit"
Pointing to an Allied victory as a
necessity to final solution, Mr.. Law
declared:
u believe the prosecuted people
themselves should understand this
truth and that they should not be
betrayed by false or premature hopes
of what may be possible into the
belief that aid is coming to them
when in fact we are unable to give
them immediate succor.
I'VE must take care" Mr.. Law
added, "to see that we are not be-
trayed by our feelings of humanity
and compassion into courses of
action which at best would postpone
the day of liberation and at worst
might make liberation forever i'm
possible.
There are no doubt a number
of things which we might attempt
to alleviate the conditions of the
prosecuted peoples, but if any of
these things were to postpone by a
month the achievement of victory
we would be doing i'll service to
those very people whom we wish to
help"
Governor Welcomes Delegates.
Both DR.. Dodds and Mr.. Law
recognized, they said, what the gov
ernments of Britain and the United
States already have done for
refugees.
Acting Gov. w. L. Murphy at
tended the opening session and well
coined the delegates with a brief
address.
Several other Bermuda authorities
and half dozen correspondents sat
with the small delegations in the
hotel conference room
At the conclusion of the session.
Mr.. Murphy declared the meeting
adjourned and the conferees went
into the first of series of informal
private sessions.
A number of government experts
from Washington and London who
met with the delegates plan to pre-
sent information on the number of
refugees who might desire asylum,
as we'll as on shipping. immigration
law and other problems involved.
DR.. Dodds, president of Princeton
University, and Representative
Bloom, Democrat, of New York
were the American delegates at
tending the opening session, Senator
Lucas, Democrat, of Illinois having
L.
Evening star., 1943-04-20
Beods Used to Poy Natives

Natives of Ecuador refuse money
for bringing rubber from the
jungle, but will accept beads such
as are sold in fve-and-1O-cent
stores in the United States.
Put your pOcketbOok on the often.
sive. Buy War bonds now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
The Crisis Nears

Anglo-American invasion of Europe
probably is a matter of days, now, rather
than of weeks or months. The worm
has turned, and totalitarianism is about
20 go on the defensive. German propa-
gandists have selected June 20 as the
date. They may rot be far off. Only
select few know exactly when, exactly
where, exactly how the allies are going to
strike. Strongest clues point to the Medi-
terranean, but readers of detective stories
understand that the best way of solving
the mystery is to look where the clues
do not point
1t is quite possible, and in keeping with
the most successful methods of modern
warfare, that we may strike Simultane-
ously at half a dozen or more points, pre-
pared to push hardest whichever blow
finds weakest spot in Nazi defenses. 1t
could be, even that the decisive attack
will be withheld until feints and diver
sions in great force have pulled Hitler'S
forces off balance. In specializing thus
we are not giving aid or comfort to the
enemy because we, like all other laymen,
are completely in the dark. Axis strategy
clans undoubtedly have canvassed all
possibilities and have done their best to
prepare against any eventuallty
The one thing about which we and
Hitler's generals can both be quite GER
tain is that when our INVASION forces
finally disclose the location of their major
drive, the die in this war will have been
cast. The crisis will be in sight, though
the climax may still be weary months
away If we obtain, anywhere on the
continent, bridgehead from which to
start the march on Berlin, the beginning
of the end will have been achieved for
Nazism and Fascism and Japanism. If
we fail, in our major attempt, our loss is
going to be so terrific that the best we can
hope for will be stalemate.
The first relatively small forces that
land through whitening fire will find hard
going, and will remain in imminent peril
until they can be strongly reinforced. We
must not be alarmed by slow progress and
grave dangers at the outset; we must
not be discouraged if tentative, distract
ing raids - that may look like the real
thing-are defeated The invasion of
Europe will be the biggest military oper-
alton in history-perhaps the most COM
plicated. Neither elatior4 nor deflation
must be permitted to rule us during the
preliminaries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
Plain Talk

A national oil shortage will be newt
able within two years, and responsibility
for it can be placed squarely upon the
OPA and the Federal Treasury, says Wal
ter S. Hallanan, member of the Petroleum
Industry War Council, unless present
trends are Immediately reversed. He as
serted that the nation is producing and
consuming five times as much oil as is
being discovered, and that the only rem
edy is price adjustment which will stlmu-
late wildcatting and restore thousands OF
stripper wells to production
ct is no time to be concerned about
ruffled feelings of some government bu-
reaucrats, or to be fearful of reprlsals
from Washington" said Mr. Hallanan.
"This is a down-to-earth problem and 1T
cannot be discussed in Technology of the
Stratosphere. I may use such an earthly
term but they have not yet devised any
synthetic substitute which can be used
as money I know that the starry eyed
dreamers in Washington regard this as a
sordid term but they have not yet devised
any synthetic substitute which can beused
by oil men to pay lease rentals, drilling
costs and increased taxes"
He added that Congressman, pubic
officials of oil producing states, Federal
government committees and every other
disinterested individual of body" has
warned of the impending oil shortage and
has urged an immediate price correction
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16

a lack of battle equipment that could
easily have led TO military defeat. And
they did it with degree of dispatch and
efficiency that left the swivel chair plan
ners gasping. The miracles they have
achieved in war can be multiplied in
peace, providing the capitalistic system,
under which they must operate, is pre-
served. Under it the coal and metal
mines, the oil, power and transportation
industries which have made victory pos
Sible, can insure progress in the future.
Those who promote the idea that "bus
mess has reached its ultimate maturity"
or that American development is a closed
chapter" do not have faith in the CAPT.
talistic system. They would cripple pri-
vate industry as the prime source of jobs
and tax revenue. They would shift the
burden of employment to political agen-
cieS, and taxes would fall on the shoulders
of the workmen hired by those agencies.
The party in power, as the sole employer,
would eventually demand political allie
glance from all. The bargain would be
sealed. The people would have jobs and
the government would have their free
dom. That is the alternative to
capitalism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16

have been sending their anguiShed
queries across the unreasonable
void, hopeful that some word of
comfort would return to bless them.
Yet at the time Pliny wrote, thou
sands of men and women in the
Roman world were finding comfort
In their sorrow because of this new
religion called Christianity, which
was just beginning to make itself
felt among the masses. Pliny knew
Of this religion but regarded it as an
ignorant superstition. So he wrote
to his philosophical friend and ask
ed for some fresh word Of comfort,
great and strong, which would sup
port him In his grief.
The remedy was at hand, but the
Roman man of letters was too proud
to give it any consideration. Those
who had faith drank of the refresh
ing water that springeth up unto
eternal life, and he who had moth
ing but the philosophy Of men upon
which to rely cried out in the BIT
terness OF his anguish. Philosophy
is never enough. Only the gospel
explains and comforts.
All Rights Reserved Babson
Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16
Weiner Resigns

The housewife, bedeviled in every at
tempt to find food for her family table, is
not going to mourn the passing of Joseph
L. Weiner as a power in the civilian sup
ply division of the WPB. For it was Wei
ner who authorized an 80 per cent reduc-
ton in the manufacture of farm machin-
cry, though critical food shortages already
were we'll on their way.
1t is difficult to know whether Weiner
could have done otherwise without Grip
ping essential arms production. But at
any rate, he symbolizes the gross mis-
management which threatens to hit the
American table even harder than it has
been hit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-16

Fordham and Harvard seismographs
recorded severe earthquakes among the
islands of Japan Sunday. This area is
what is called the "solar plexus' of the
worlds main earthquake zone. Weston,
Mass, also received signs of the shocks.
All three seismograph stations were
agreed on the territory. Earthquakes in
Japan come pretty accurately it is said,
and according to calculation one is due,
of a severe nature, in about year, and
will undoubtedly be followed by tidal
wave The predictions are based on the
fact that quake in 1923 was followed by
another in 1888. The 1888 quake, it will
be recalled, is the one during which this
country was about in sending relief to
the stricken country One of the largest
natural upheavals in our own part of the
country occurred five years ago next
September, a hurricane that brought
much destruction and loss of life.