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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Drive Launched
Here 10 Collect
Auto Use Tax
Half of Maryland,
D. c. Stamps UnsoId,
Officials Estimate

A drive on motorists who have
failed to buy the IS use-tax stamp
was launched here today by depu-
ties of the Collector Of Internal
Revenue.
In a statement released through
his Washington Office, A. Parks
Rasin of Baltimore, acting collector
for Maryland and the District OF
Columbia, said:
1T is our job to see that the
tax laws are enforced. And we are
going to see that they are enforced"
Not more than half of the motor
lists in Maryland have bought
their auto use-tax stamps so far,
MIR. Rasin estimated. His represent
atives in the local Office have re-
ported. he said, that, judging from
the looks of automobile windshields
here, about the same proportion Of
violation exist in Washington.
Must Be on Windshield.
Of course. many motorists may
have purchased the stamp and kept
them in their pocketbooks. said one
official. But the stamp belongs on
the windshield. it was emphasized.
Revenue men have been ordered to
check up on all cars here. and to
call attention to violations. The tax
should have been paid by July /.
Violators who fail to pay the tax
face penalties under the revenue
law Such failure is a misdemeanor
and subject to fine of SIS and
costs, Mr.. Rasin explained.
Revenue men began enforcing
the stamp requirements yesterday
in Virginia.
Meantime, the withholding tax,
which went into effect July /. con-
tinued to raise many questions con-
fusing to the public. Many people
on wages and salaries apparently
did not know about the withholding
tax until they found it deducted
from their pay this week, it was
pointed out today. Withholding is
merely savings device to meet the
tax due, which must be computed
next March when the next income
tax return is to be filed, it was
explained.
May File Later Claim.
Revenue officials explained that all
wage earners are subject to with
holding above certain exemptions,
and If it is found that they owe
no tax they can file claim for re-
fund.
Wages and salaries earned by chill
dren are reportable IN the income
tax returns of the parents, who may
also take credit for the withhold
ing from their children's pay.
Meantime, there were indications
that the Treasury Department soon
would extend from August 81 to
November the deadline for filing
reports for the census of property
in foreign countries. owned by per-
sons under the jurisdiction of the
United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Downed Pilot Meets
Victorious Opponent,

One of the queerest experiences
of any New Zealand airmen was
told recently at Oamaru In fight
over Malta Pilot Officer Rae clashed
with a Sudeten Czech A cannon
ball blew his control stick from be-
tween his legs.
He baled out and landed with
wounded leg. At the hospital he
met the Czech who shot him down.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Water Office
Probers Plan
Early Inquiry
5-Mun Committee
Named by D. C., Heads
To Check Accounts

A five-man committee named yes
terday by the District Commission
ers to investigate the accounts and
records of the water registrars Office
will attempt to hold a preliminary
organizational meeting not later
than the first of next week, Corpo-
ration Counsel Richmond B. Keech,
chairman, said today
The Commissioners order called
on the committee Ito conduct an
investigation of the accounts, rec
ords and administrative practices
of the Office of the Water Registrar
of the District, including considera-
ton of the matters referred to in
the controller generals letter dated
April %, 1943, and to submit a report
to the Commissioners of their find
ings, with recommendations
Loss of Income Charged.
The letter of Controller General
Warren, which was printed recently
in connection with Senate hearings
on the District appropriation bill,
Contended that hundreds of thou
sands of dollars have been lost as
result of the policy of holding only
the occupants of premises mot
owners responsible for payment of
water bills. delaying billings. charg-
ing of improper rates, cancellations
and adjustments of accounts re-
ceivable and failure to bill all &C
counts which should have been
billed. etc"
The intention of the Commits
sioners to investigate became known
when Chairman McCarran COM
piled with a request recently from
them to have r. V. l.. Wright, who
Is studying the whole water system
for the Senate District Committee,
to be a member of the Commits
sioner's committee.
Investigation Broadened.
In addition to Mr.. Keech and Mr..
Wright, those who will serve are Dis
trict Assessor Edward A. Dent,
Thomas B. Hopper of the Washing
ton Gas Light Co. and w. L. Jones
of the Potomac Electric Power Co.
Mr. Wright's investigation of the
water system is said to be consider
ably broader than that proposed by
the Commissioners. Senator Nc
Carran has written Commissioner
Young that designation of Mr..
Wright to serve on the Commits
sioners' committee to investigate a
particular phase of that general
subject is not to be construed as
limiting the scope of Mr., Wright's
activities or Of the Senate COM
mittees investigation. nor as bind
ing Mr.. Wright or the Senate COM
mittee by the finding or recon-
mendations of the Commissioners
committee"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14

Government employees with tired
palates can thank Uncle Sans new
French chef for Transforming 35-
cent lunch into something special.
The chef, Pierre Berard. is cur
rently working out at the Navy De-
partment. but ultimately he plans to
spread his influence-and his cook
ery-to the chefs of other Govern
ment eateries.
Pierre, whose kitchen travels have
taken him to the Savoy Plaza and
New Yorker Hotels in New York to
the Drake and Blackstone in Chica-
60 and the Roosevelt in New Orleans,
appeared complete with chefs bon
net at the Navy Department today.
There he buzzed about, f1inging
kisses at the food. darling from fish
to salad to potato in a fine whirlwind
of enthusiasm that soon had his
colored helpers waving the food out
of the kitchen with kisses.
With a fine disregard tor the man.
power situation, Pierre remarked
that he'd fire a waitress who puts
salt and pepper on the table with
one of his meals. He'll do the
seasoning and the customers will
like tor else.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Romance Appears DuIIed
By Wait for Licenses

KANSAS CITY. - What's hap
pened to romance? James A. Filmer,
marriage license clerk, wonders.
Since the new Missouri State
law-requiring a three-day wait be-
tween filing of the application and
issuance of the license-became
effective, the number of applications
in Kansas City has dropped sharply.
But what's worrying Mr.. Kilmer
is that of those who have waited
the three days and become eligible,
only one couple has appeared to
claim Z license.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Deaf and Hliterote
Drunk Defendant
Confounds Judqe

The case of Henry Wilson, 80,
of Hickory, N. c., will be heard
out of court.
Wilson appeared in Municipal
Court today on drunk charge.
He told Judge George D. Mel
son, Il can't hear" The clerk
tried writing out the charge.
Il can't read" Wilson said. The
case was turned over to the
probation officer.
The next defendant suffered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
X X
MAotHo~4~1MlM
WAR BONDS
PineoppIes
PineoppIes

For fighting in streets, in trenches
and close quarters the foot soldier
is helped no end in clearing the way
by hand granades. Well need thou
sands Of them to blast our way into
Berlin. One S25 War bond will buy
a dozen of them.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Express Records SET
Here in April and
-Four Months
Months Volume Shows
1873 Per Cent Gain
Over Yeor Ago
By EDWARD C. STONE.

April witnessed another new all
time record for that month in ex-
press shipments in and out of the
Capital and also saw a new total
for the first four months of any
year in company history, Supt. w.
0. r. Hannah, of the Railway Ex-
press Agency, reported today.
The April peak was brought about
by 234,060 shipments against 2O2, 2,116
in April, 1912, an increase of 1884
or 1873 per cent, Mr.. Hannah said.
The monthly gain was again due
to the extra heavy shipments of
general merchandise as well as war
materials. April also registered the
major portion of Easter shipments
this year.
In the first four months of this
year Railway Express handled $685.
497 shipments in the Capital, COM
pared with 795,34O packages in the
like period a year ago, or an increase
of 98,157.
April business volume, based on
the number of shipments, was larger
than January and February but not
quite up to March, comparisons by
months with last year being as
f0l]ouyc.
Evening star., 1943-05-04

| listen to a country which has skirted
showdown with Hitler.
The Nazis have gotten far less
from Sweden than they asked for.
Germany in 1910 vainly demanded
Swedish rehabilitation. Germany
demanded the right to send armed
troops over Sweden at the Nazi will.
Sweden refused, but in July, 1910,
the government here agreed to let
German soldiers use the. rails pro-
vided they were equipped only with
side arms. Officials still keep secret
the refusal while the transit traffic
has been advertised.
Northbound German soldiers
board the train at Trelleborg in
Southern Sweden on the Baltic so
miles from Germany or at Halsing-
borg, ferry trip from Denmark in
sealed trains operated by Swedes.
They travel to the Norwegian bor-
der at the little town of Kornsjo. The
SWedeS demand that as many SOL
diers travel south each day as travel
north. Officers are allowed to carry
PASeoAo. ooAo4C4o, hCpG Ill cars apart
from officers, may carry bayonets.
They are considered troops on
leave. The German government
pays for their passage and pro-
vldes their food. Three trains
weekly run to and from Norway on
the same basis coming from Trelle-
borg or Halsingborg to Northern
Sweden carrying Germans staioned
at Narvik.
Responsible Swedes say the gov
ernment granted this privilege be-
cause it lacked the protection of any
international convention prohibiting
it. The trainers of The Hague
treaties never considered the pos
sibility Of this sort of use of
neutral's territory by belligerent.
Arms carried by freight trains are
said to amount in a month to what
one ship could carry.
The Nazis supply Norway chiefly
by sea. Swedish military repre-
sentatives accompany each passen-
ger train.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
RCA Chief Reports
Plants Have Become
Huge Arsena|s
Sornoff Says New
Instruments Help
Armed Forces
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 4.-David sar-
noff, president of the Radio Corp. OF
America, told stockholders at the
annual meeting today the company's
manufacturing plants had developed
into gigantic arsenals of RADIO" and
were developing new instruments to
give the American armed forces the
most modern radio equipment in
the world.
Sarnof said much of the out
standing work being done must re-
main secret until after the war,
but he could say that television
techniques in RCA laboratories had
been used as the basis for several
wartime advances He called the
radio-electron tube "a master key
to future scientific developments, !"
and said radiothermics, one of its
latest achievements, was having i'm
portant wartime applications.
Sarnoff said net profit for the
quarter ended March 81 was $2,594,-
Oil, equal to 13 cents common
share, against $2,666,733, or about 13
cents a common share, in the COM
parable quarter of 1912.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Ceilings
Continued From First Page.D

they can easily be read by Gus
toners.
Later, according to the radio ad-
dress of Price Administrator Prem
tiss M. Brown, on Friday night,
booklets containing all the max
imum prices on foods applicable in
each area will be issued to con-
sumers for study and reference.
Authorities believe such a system
will help materially in crushing
black markets. 1t has been pointed
out that many patriotic housewives
have become unwilling supporters
Of black market operations because
they have had no way of knowing
the legal prices on many of the
commodities they buy.
Under the individual ceilings in
effect, each establishment was al
lowed to charge the highest price
set for each product during a base
period in March, 1912. These prices
were supposed to be posted in every
store so they could be consulted by
housewives, but often the prices
have been placed behind counters
and in other places where the small
type was not legible to the patrons.
In independent stores, where pro-
prietors penciled or typed their own
lists, there was no way for the con-
sumner to know that the prices ac-
tually reflected those in effect dur
ing the freeze" period.
To Set Up Price Panels.
1t was believed that the price
panels" which Mr.. Thompson re-
Gently said were to be set up as ad-
juncts to the Is area rationing
boards, are to be consulted in the
fixing of prices and probably will
take hand in the enforcement
procedure. Complaints from house
wives will most likely be filtered
through these price panels before
they reach the enforcement division
of the local OPA for action.
An indication that the OPA in
te,.ds to begin its communicated
ing system soon came, last night
from Milton Rich. chief of the food
price division of the regional OPA,
WHO addressed a meeting of the
Association of Manufacturers in
New York. Mr.. Rich said that the
price panels are being established
in all communities within Region 2,
and that the personnel of these
panels would include housewives,
businessmen, physicians and law
yers.
At the same meeting, Paul Willis,
president of the Grocery Manufac-
turers of America, warned that un-
less OPA regulations were put on
sound, realistic basis" the present
method of food distribution faced
a complete breakdown.
Mr.. Willis said that the first CELL
irgs squeezed" margins to a point
where only the peak volume of
1912 kept grocers from going out OF
business. That peak, he said, has
now been passed to rationing and
shortages.
Evening star., 1943-05-04

communique broadcast by the
Berlin radio and recorded by the
Associated Press, was made in
this language:
con the Tunisian front no
major operations took place. In
the course of planned movements,
our troops, first unnoticed by the
enemy, moved into new and more
favorable positions in the north
ern sector.
c"Hereby the city of Mateur,
after the destruction of war
Important plants, was left to the
opponent without fighting"
CThe German language was
similar in tone to the type of
German communique issued after
winter defeats in Russia, when
the Nazis regularly asserted they
had withdrawn according to
planned operations, to shorten
the lines.")
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO May 4 lP,.--A strong under
tone prevailed in wheat today despite
paucity of offerings. Some observers be-
ieved the strength was in sympathy with
the stock market
Rye trade was broader than wheat in
volume. but prices in general reflected
those OF wheat. Corn was at ceilings and
oats were somewhat weaker, especially in
the May contract
levels and unchanged to "a higher than
yesterday's finish, May 1.451s, July
LOS. oats. UNCHANGED to 2s lower, and rye
unrh"nred to y higher
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Commodity Prices

NEW YORK, May 4.-The Associated
Press weishted wholesale price index of 50
commodities today declined to lO6.35
Previous day. 106.43: week ago. lO6 "a; ;
month ago, 1862. year ago, 9933.
1913. 1912. 1871. 800
High ----- 106.s2 1O3.22 95l2 1875
Low 103.43 1854 1IO3 80 s
I926 average equals 1909
Evening star., 1943-05-04
New York Cotton

NEW YORK. May 4-Cotton moved in
quiet and narrow range today as traders
GRAFTON of the Commedity Credit Corp.
selling program and the outcome of the
coal dispute. Light LIQUIDATION was alb
sorbed through price fixing against Gov
eminent textile orders and covering in
Late afternoon values were 5 cents a
bale higher to 10 cents lower: May, 2O,lsi;
July. 1898, and October. 1887
Futures closed cents bale higher to
Evening star., 1943-05-04
BoIIes
Continued From First Page.)

of a major arms industry and
simple indication like the presence
of a helmet on the desk of high
government official.
Sweden hopes to exert an influence
on the reconstruction of postwar
Europe. 1t has wisdom, riches and
civilization combining social de-
mocracy and opportunities for indi-
vidual enterprise and initiative
But victorious belligerents may not
Evening star., 1943-05-04
1943. Average,
Soldier Has Rution SpIurae

ALTON, Ill. (P.-A soldier home
on furlough went on ration binge.
His board allotted him Is points
for the week. He passed up fancy
canned foods and blew the 16 points
on two bottles Of catsup.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Odd-Lot DeuIinos

PHILADELPHIA, May R-The Sc
curities Commission reported today these
dealers or specialists on the New York
Stock EXCHANGE for May g.: 5,534 -pur-
chases. involving III ,069 shares 1869
~ short sales involving .463 shares
Evening star., 1943-05-04
Weather Report

Furnished the United
tonight and Wednesday
morning; gentle winds
Maryland east portion continued cool in
the tportion ntonieh andW Wednesday
Evening star., 1943-05-04

There are more than 20 convent
ent branch offices for Star Want
Ads" located throughout the CITY.
Evening star., 1943-05-04
NEW YORK BOND MARKET
Press.
TODAY'S SALES.
P ennrtpI in npllorc

N. Y. Bond quotations fur.
nished by the Associated
Evening star., 1943-05-04
New Orleans Prices.
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, May P.-Divdends de-
clared: Wv
Accumulated.
Evening star., 1943-05-04

The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today - sos S:02
Sun tomorrow S:07 SOB
Moon, today 6:36 am. 1922 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on one.
half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital tcurrent month to date):
Evening star., 1943-05-04

Wheat No, > hard, 49,. Corn. No I
yellow, lG1; No; >, l07: No. 3, LOS
yellow, 91l2: No , white, 23ia: No. a.
llsh2. Oats, NO, ] mixed, 66ia; No. >
white, So: No. 5. 66l2; No. 4, 66: sample
grade white .64 a. Barley, mailing 92-
.0I. nominal; feed. s3-SS nominal.
Evening star., 1943-05-04

The Sun and Moon.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1943-04-22

TO HELL o ACHIEVE MEAT
To achieve the hog goal farmers must breed every sow and gilt
available. They must save every pig possible. They must feed
hogs to heavier weights. Extension livestock specialists and your
county agent can give you information on breeding, feeding, care
and management. They urge producers to practice sanitation
in the hog lot. Look after the sows at narrowing time. Put pigs
on good pasture and feed them a concentrate ration. Provide a
mineral mixture. Grow more feed. Plant grazing crops. Control
diseases. ~
Beef cattle production provides one Of the best means Of utilizing
forage crops and pasture grasses. Cattle production requires .
minimum amount of labor. Cattle prices ire high.
Good pasture is essential to economical beef production. PRODUCE
ton of hay and silage is important. Farmers can increase graz.
ing by improving permanent pastures. AAA payments are
available for seeding, fertizing and moving pastures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-04
DUTCH TRAITORS
FACE EXECUTION
IA of AZ Already Shot;
Daughter of Nazi Com
missar Kidnapped

London. May 4.--CUP)-The In.
dependenW
dependent French News Agency re-
ported in Il dispatch from Istanbu
today that Netherlands patriots hat
kidnapped the daughter Of Arthur
SeySS- Inquart, NaZi commissar for
Holland, and had listed Al Dutch
traitors for execution. Fourteen
OF the AZ already have been shot
the report said.
The French agency reported that
Seyss-Inquarts daughter was held
as n hostage and that a Gestapo
search for her had failed. She was
said to be 10 years old, but her name
was not given IN the dispatch.
The Dutch Netherlands Indies
News Agency said Tat there Wac
no confirmation from other sources
of the reports carried by the French
agency.
SeysS-I nquart has enraged Hol-
lands population by recent orders
for interment Of some 100000 for
mer members OF the Dutch armed
forces and for CONSUMPTION OF coll
lege students for labor In Germany,
the Dutch agency said.
The first batch OF 1880 former
soldiers were sent TO IA concentra-
ton camps near the German border
last week and the refugee Dutch
government broadcast orders for the
ment to resist. Premier Pieter s.
Gerbrandy in London called on all
Hollanders to help Illustrate the
German plans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-04
REDS SHOOT DOWN
81 NAZI PLANES
Soviets Lose II in Dog.
fights in Caucasus Sum
day, Yesterday
BY M. s. HANDLER
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent


Moscow, May 4. CUP The
Red Army beat off German In
fantry attack on n Soviet bridge
head on the west bank OF the Do
metz below BalakleSa In the Ukraine
today, killing 100 enemy Officers
and men, while Russian and Axis
air forces traded blows along the
length Of the front.
A Russian broadcast said Soviet
flyers shot down 81 German planes
in dogfights west of Krasnodar In
the northwest Caucasus Sunday and
Monday with Soviet losses totaling
q aircraft.
Russian bombers raided an enemy
airdrome south Of Balakeleya and
wrecked IL planes on the ground
the midday communique said. Two
others were shot down In air COM
bats over the airdrome.
Northwest OF Moscow. seven Ger
man bombers attacked a Soviet
battle formation went TO Kalinin.
Gunners shot down one plane and
anti-aircraft fire accounted for a
second.
Soviet Scouts on the Kalinin front
attacked German troop position
and In hand to-hand fighting killed
30 men and captured one heavy
machine-gun and trench mortar
In the Caucasus, Soviet heavy
guns opened fire for the first time
In recent weeks against the shrink
ing German bridgehead on the
Taman peninsula. More than 200
Continued on Page -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-04
NAzI VETERAN
ARRESTED BY FBI
Wartime SeditiOn Statute
Violation Faces DIR Franz
Ernest Paul Fielder

Washington, May 4 - (UP)-At-
torney General Francis Blddle said
today that FB1 agents had arrested
DR.. Franz Ernst Paul Fielder, 50,
decorated German veteran of World
War I, at his Pittsburgh home last
night on charges Of violating the
wartime sedition statute.
The complaint against the natur-
allied chemist charged him with
mailing an unsigned postal card
containing seditious statements TO
a Pittsburgh draftee, Harry w. Nc
Murty, the day after publication in
Pittsburgh newspapers of list Of
inductees.
II convicted, he faces maximum
penalties Of $4,000 fine, or 10 years
Imprisonment, or both.
Biddle also said that Fielder had
been identified as author of letters
send under aliases to the Spanish
embassy. the French ambassador,
President Herbert Hoover,
OLllUtO FMAllC WOIhtIS IIcSlUCIlU
John L. Lewis, and others in which
he denounced President Roosevelt,
Great Britain, and American entry
into the war. He also urged a
German-Japanese- Russian coalition
against the "Anglo-Saxon gangster
nations" Biddle said.
The postal card TO McMurty,
which the inductee turned over to
postal authorities, said that nov
you are in the army, not an Amer
lean soldier, but British legionary
. fighting for the British empire.
for Jewish world domination and
Russian BolsheviSm.'
Under the alias of THE Irish
American Club, John Mccartney
D!Gc.le said, Fielder wrote to Lewis
that the "unwarranted murder of
white people, that is Christians,
must be stopped through strikes,
violence, boycotts (no Christian
should patronize Jewish stores, doc
tors, and so on"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-04
"B"- &c" Coupons
Face Reappraisa[

Boston, May 4-(UP)- New
England motorists with "B" and
&c" ration books face a reap
praisal of their gasoline allow
ances as result of the new OPA
drive TO divert 10000 barrels of
fuel day to military needs.
The announcement was made
here last night by Director
Charles +. Phillips Of the OPA
N&uonal AutOmotive Supply
Rationing division. He warned
that Civilian consumption of
gasoline is over its quota in the
IL eastern seaboard states and
has to be cut"
Phillips, who came here from
Washington with six assistants
emphasized that the Army
needs every drop Of gasoline
II can get" He added that every
gallon used In q car means
one less gallon coming in 10 go
abroad to our troops In North
Africa"