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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Charge Of Burning City
'Unfounded, Proeope Says
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Hjalmar Procope, Finnish Min
lister to the United States, has de-
MED as completely unfounded'
charges made through the Soviet
Information Bulletin, issued by the
Russian Embassy, that the Firms
had burned Petrozavodek, capital of
the karelian- Finnish Republic.
Il refute the accusations as COM
Ipletely unfounded," Minister Pro-
cope said yesterday. "On the con-
trary, I charge that the Russians
themselves burned the city before
they withdrew"
To substantiate his claim, the
envoy offered copy of the Hell
Isingin Sanomat, Finnish newspaper
dated October 3, 1941, which stated
that "the greater part of the city
Twas burning as the Firms entered"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Leon Weiss Is PuroIed
From Mail Fraud Term

BY the Associated Press.
The Federal Parole Board sale
yesterday that Leon Weiss, New
Orleans architect serving a FIVE
year term in Atlanta Penitentiary
on a mail fraud conviction, hao
been granted a parole, effective
March i, 1914.
Weiss, member of the Huey Long
organization, was convicted in Octo-
Der, 1910, but did not begin serving
the sentence until January 2, 1912
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
BY the Associated Press.

There will be total eclipse of the
sun next month. but because of the
war it looks as if astronomers in the
United States will have to sit this
one out.
The total blackout will be observ-
able only in parts of South America
and West Africa, and there are no
known plans for expeditions by
scientists from this country.
Colleagues in South America will
have their telescopes trained on the
sun, however, and a party of Mexi-
can scientists also will be on the
lookout in Peru.
The eclipse. which will occur
January Is, will be the first total one
over land areas easily accessible to
American astronomers since 1910,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
New Defense Tactic
BY Nozis Reported

NEW YORK, Dec. 81 (P).-The
Nazi-operated Norwegian radio sale
last night that during the Raj
heavy raid on Berlin Wednesday
night the Germans used a new
defense tactic of "antiaircraft
grenades.'
Quoting German military sources
the broadcast, recorded by the FEC
said mo German fighters went ur
and the attackers took heavy pun.
ishment" and that Berlin has never
before seen such defense"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Raids
Continued From First Page.)

was black with F'ortresses" and
LiberatorS, and an Army announce
Iment termed the huge formations a
task force" A new navigational
instrument helped bombardiers
strike targets they could not see.
Some flights of bombers met stiff
German fighter opposition and
heavy antiaircraft fire, with at least
one formation was attacked by fight
ers using rockets.
Eighth Big Raid Of Month.
1t was the eighth heavy raid Of
December for the American Air
Force, and its first mission since
appointment of Maj. Gen. James
H. Doolittle as new commander.
A brief communique did not dis
close the size of the American force
beyond saying it was "the largest
number of heavy bombers and larg-
est number of fighters ever dis
patched. Thus it numbered more
than the 1900 American planes
which joined in daylong assault
December "a on the Pas Calais
area.
In a year-end review, the Raj
declared last night that Germany
had been struck with 134,4OO long
tons of bombs this year, nearly four
times the weight dropped in 1912.
1t said the Allies had achieved air
superiority in every theater of war
and that nine of Nazidom's 81 great
est industrial cities of more than
100000 population had been sc
seriously devastated that in al
probability they have been forced
for some time to consume more thar
! they produce"
Heavy Destruction.
/ The bombing brought heavy de.
struction in Cologne, Essen, bort.
mund. Dusseldorf, Wupperal anc
Bochum, the Raj said, while Ham.
burg suffered the most serious
damage of any industrial city in the
world between July Is and August
3" in raids costing 81 British planes
The raids on Europe, carried out
with consistently reduced percent
age OF losses, had a marked effect
on the war and in putting Germany
on the defensive, it continued, esti.
mating that the Nazis had put sc
per cent of their day fighters and 81
per cent of their night fighters or
the Western front, beginning il
! September, for defense.
Coastal command planes, il
added. sank more submarines ir
l943 than in the three preceding
years combined, and the Raj gave
magnificently complete air supper
to troops in Africa, Sicily ane
Southern Italy.
The report termed airfields II
Southern Italy the greatest priz.
won in invasion Of Sicily, addin,
there are few centers of German
war production which cannot b,
bombed from Britain or the south.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Weather Report

District of Columbia-Fair and
warmer this afternoon. Fair to-
night, with lowest temperature %
degrees. Saturday fair, with mod
crate temperature.
Maryland-Fair and continued
cold tonight. Saturday fair, with
moderate temperature.
Virginia-Fair in east portion
considerable cloudiness in west por-
ton, with occasional light snow in
mountains Continued cold tonight
Saturday fair, with moderate tenn
perature.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear at Harpers Ferry. Potomac
muddy at Great Falls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Rubber Heel Ceilings Set

The Office of Price Administration
today established ceilings of 10 cents
and IS cents a pair on rubber heels
sold to customers who tack them on
their shoes themselves. Such heels
are sold mainly by variety stores.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31


NEW YORK. HELD IN
WIFE'S DEATH-LeWis Wolfe.
81, wealthy Montreal con-
tractor, was held without bail
on a homicide charge here
yesterday in the death of his
wife, Mrs. Paula Wolfe, 81,
radio singer and actress. Po-
lice said he confessed to
bludgeoning her to death with
a Steel-weighted mans shoe
because he suspected her of
lnfidelity. "A. P. Wirephotos.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31

MIAMI FLA-CHID FLIES TO Observation-Disclosures old
Gladys Herrera with her parents Dr.
OF Havana Cuba, arrived last night by clipper fight
Ann Arbor Mch for removal of brain threatening
the chd life The child and parents Immediately
an Eastern Arines plane and due to Michigan
University Hospital today for the delicate operation
Max Peet outstanding brain The United
and the Cuban government arranged the mercy flight
"A. P. Wirephoto
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
D. c. Grocer Pays
$500 Penalty for
Price Law Breach

Samuel Paper, grocer, s31
Fourth street NV, was fined
$500 yesterday in Municipal
Court after he pleaded guilty to
charges of selling turkey at 6
cents a pound above the OPA
ceiling price, and of misrepre-
senting the weight to the buyer.
A 5000 fine was imposed on
each of the two counts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-12-31
Record for Last Fl Hours.

Record for Last 81 Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 30, at - noon: year ago, AZ.
Lowest, 25, at 8 am; year ago, 80.
Record Temperatures This Year.
HieheSt. SO, on August 10
Lowest, =, on February 15.
Humidity for Last 21 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 6s per cent at $50 am.
Lowest, "a per cent. at 2.30 pm.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today. Tomorrow
Hlgh -----.--- 1910 pm. -----a---
Low - 6:44 am,
High - 1887 am.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets
Sun, today S:O7 5:55
Moon, today - 1888 am 1920 pn1
automobile lights must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
Precipita alton.
Monthly precipitation In inches in the
Capital current month to date):
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Capital tcurrent month to date):
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Report for Last "a Hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24

the start of the attack, but died
down as the weight OF bombs Satuf-
ated the defenseS.
VITAL CITY
Dortmund is The headquarters ior
the central electricity works and
is the site of steel works, foundrleS,
coal mines, and many otner import
ant war industries.
Four-engined Lancaster, Stirling
and Halifax bOmberS III very great
strength" rained thousands OF de
molition bombs ranging up TO four
ton super block-busters, as well as
tens Of thousands OF fire bombs, on
the war factories supplying Hitler's
armies.
Good weather enabled the first
raiders over the Ruhr to pin-pOint
their targets and kindle vast fires
that served as beaconS for the
remaining raiders.
PREVIOUS HEAVIEST
The previous heaviest raid on
Germany was carried out the night
Of May 70, when more than 1900
tons Of bombs were dropped on
Duisburg and 30 aircraft were lost.
Dortmund had been raided %
times previously, the last time the
night Of May 4, when the largest
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24
4 STEP IN THE
RIGHT DIRECTION

While America reserves judgment on
the decision of party leaders to dissolve
the Communist Third Internationale, the
move of Russian leaders seems to be a
definite step in the direction of world
solidarity.
The expressed purpose in giving up the
principle Of fomenting world revolution
was in order that workers of the Inter
rationale could devote all their efforts
toward defeating the Hitlerite 'coali-
ton" In this there is an indication that
the dissolution will be in effect only SO
long as the war lasts, but nevertheless
the precedent will have been set.
It will be up to other nations to keep
the Internationale in an extinct state al
ter the war, for only then can true unity
be achieved.
As ever Russia's supreme chief. Joseph
Stain, remains question mark IN the
whole affair.
Whether his reception OF former Am
bassador Joseph Z. Davies Immediately
preceding the announcement had any
thing to do with it can only be surmised.
But arrangement Of an early conference
between Stain, President Roosevelt and
Winston Churchill, which was Davies
intimated purpose in visiting Moscow,
seems now a probability of the near fu-
ture.
Perhaps at such meeting the desires
Of Russia in the postwar picture Will
finally be brought into full view.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24
CALIFORNIA; FUTURE

(Santa Monica Outlook
Development OF war industry in Cali
fornia has been one of the outstanding
facts Of the war The latest WPB Off
cial reports place California first in the
list of states in the volume Of war con-
tracts with Michigan second and New
York state third.
Today California holds 1912 per cent
cf all the war contracts of the nation.
These measure the vast growth of the
aircraft industry and of shipbullding IN
the state under the pressure Of war neces-
ity. The three Pacific coast states hold
over SIS 900 600, 900 Of war orders or 14.3
per cent Of the total. 1t is an astound-
ing record which safely may be said never
to have been equalled.
These facts explain the pressure for
housing which has been felt widely over
the state They forecast a great indus
trial future for California. While ship
building doubtless will decline rapidly
when the war ends, the supremacy OF the
state in aircraft manufacture may we'll
be regarded as permanent. With these
two great developments the war has
brought many branches Of general in
dustry, most Of which undoubtedly will
remain and prosper when peace returns.
1t may be some years, under peace con-
ditions. before California will again at
tain industrial premiership among the
states, but present conditions point the
way to that eventual goal.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24
INDE0SION..OUR
WORST ENEMY.

One of the factors most responsible
for retarding many phases of both the
war program and creative, increasing
volume Of output by the rank and file
of industry. is the lack Of clearcut, feas-
enable rulings controlling conduct OF
individuals and the activities OF business.
Were such rules and regulations def
mite. both for workers, employers, law
yers, bureau branches. community gov
ernment agents and all the rest we be-
lieve every phase of wartime economy
would be materially improved over its
present condition.
An excellent example to illustrate the
point is the situation surrounding job
freezing regulations. Orders were issued
April by President Roosevelt. Today
some 6 weeks later, nobody knows what
the rules are nor what they mean.
The confusion and the apparent power
of undarlngs in Washington to reverse
the local authority's decision has resulted
with a chaotic condition which is harm
full both to workers and business, and
which produces a doubt in everyOne's
mind as to what can and cannot be done.
If you want to wreck football team,
Just get its players confused. If you
want to beat an army, get its leaders con-
fused If you want to freeze productive
action dead in its tracks; just create con-
fusion and indecision.
Yes, the arch-enemy Of improved in
ternal operation Of the war program is
Indecision; and second only to Indeci
sion are Confusion, Doubt and Fear.
Until these are corrected by means of
specific and accurate rules or laws, rath-
er than by the fluctuating elasticity of
bureau flats, we can expect no relief and
no improvement.
Sometime, possibly we will return to
the fundamentals of our governmental
theory; theory proposing that this be
a government OF laws and not Of bureau
prescriptions.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24
Biqqest Pve-In vosion Reid
Devus$otes 9 ermon Center

LONDON. May "a. UPD-A huge
British air armada devastated the
key German industrial center of
Dortmund last night with more than
1000 tons of bombs, by far the
greatest tonnage ever dropped in a
single air raid, the air ministry an
nounced today.
Thirty-eight planes were lost in
the attack. but the ministry said
vast, billoWing fires were left burn
ing among the war factories turn
ing out the weapons with which
Adolf Hitler hopes to fend off the
impending Allied invasion.
4-MOTORED SHIPS
Three of every four planes on
the raid were giant four-motored
bombers, it was understood. The
London Star estimated that the
total cannot be far short Of 1000"
Their target was one of the cities
reported affected by the recent
spectacular RAF bombing of three
dams which released flood water in
the Ruhr valley.
Preliminary reports said the raid
was Well-concentrated though the
targets in the later stages of the
raid we're obscured by smoke that
mushroOmed to 5000 feet. Anti
aircraft fire was fairly intense at
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24
s. Burton cath
Writes:

The italians have a name for
what ruined the AXIS in North
Africa. Benito Mussolini, a former
war correspondent, calls it African
sickness" This is virulent dis
ease which attacks the empires
that dictatOrs try to found upon
defiance of the laws of God and
Man. 1t is highly contagious. The
Mediterranean is not broad enough
to keep it long out of Europe.
But no sickness is self produced,
and every sickness is spread by
germs of one sort or other. We
would like to believe that the Axis
African sickness was an act of
God, which demonstrates the su-
premacy of mind over matter, of
right over might. Unfortunately
that is not the case.
The United States produced the
little bugs that destroyed the Axis
in North Africa. We made them
IN our industrial plants. They take
the form of tanks and planes, tank
destroyers and cannon and mortars,
machine guns and baZookaS and
automatic rifles and carbines, high
octane gasoline, bombs and shells,
land mines - that is to say, of
ordnance and munitions.
The victory was a United Nations
achievement. The British provided
most of the manpoWer. The French
contributed substantially to the
constant pressure, which cracked
Rommels proud Afrika Korps. But
all three armies used, almost eX-
cluSively, made weapons
and munitions.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24
LOCAL INDUSTRY
CGrass Valley Union)

Grass Valley UniOn)
In the tremendous economic disloca-
tions incident To the war, little business
probably has suffered more than any
other group i'm the nation. Tens of thOus-
ands of business men have gone to the
wall and lost everything they had built
up by years of endeavor. And there is
untold personal tragedy behind the va
cant store windows which have appeared
ON Americas Main streets.
Of vital interest. therefore. is the re-
cent statement of Senator O'Mahoney OF
Wyoming, in addressing the Executives
Club of Chicago that the solution OF our
after-the-War economic problems must
be found in the revival of little business,
and not in government spending and gov
ernment-sponsored works projects. De
claring that a substitute must be found
for government spending, he asserted.
That substitute will be the invest
ment OF private capital in one field which
is now completely neglected and sup
pressed, namely, in the field of local in
dustry, trade and commerce"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24
Ste p-Stone Isles
Feel Bomb Bio s%s

excellent" hits on the harbor area,
starting fires.
Marauders attacked the air fields,
hitting many buildings, and Well
ingtons renewed large fires in the
harbOr at night.
Lightnings made three attacks
on Sardinia, sinking four small
boats in Carlofortrc harbor on the
southwest corner of the island, and
bombing the block area They also
shot up factory building on Piana
island and a radio tower on nearby
San Pietro island
BOMB ZINC WORKS
Other Lightnings bombed an i'm
portant zinc works at IgleSias, north
of Carloforte, hitting many build
ings.
A DELAYED report from Marauder
pilots said ten medium enemy
bombers were destroyed ON the
ground at Decimomannu air field
on Friday, while an Raj Beau
Fighter shot down two Italian planes
Saturday night while on coastal
patrol. tThis apparently boosted the
toll of enemy planes to 3l7 in four
days last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24

sought unSucceSSlully odbuTudy III
ternoon to sink two [. S. naval yes
sells operating near the island. They
were tWin-engined bombers.
The communique did not indicate
where the planes came from. But
they could have come from Kiska in
the Aleutians or from Paramushiro,
$50 miles west Of Attu.
NO CHANGE
There is no change in the general
situation ashore on Attu where
army troops late last week sprung
the island rat trap" by cutting
the japanese into three small
groups which await surrender or
death.
The war department issued this
description of the method of attack
on Attu:
THE first landing on Attu island
was made by scouts at Blind Cove
on the north side of HoltZ bay on
May IL, the war department stated
today IN making public a map and
photographs showing the advance
Of American forces against the Jap
aneSe.
The scouts formed protective
line behind which the main north
ern force of American army troops
landed on a beach just to the north
Of Holtz bay. AT the same time on
May IL the southern force landed
on the other side OF the island at
Massacre bay.
PUSH SOUTHWARK
"On May l2 the northern force
began pushing southwark, overcom-
ing enemy resistance along the west
arm of Holtz Bay. BY the nth, this
force. had made its way past the
west arm of HoltZ bay and had cap
tuled the east arm, including the
air1ield, which runs III from the
beach on the east arm of Holtz
bay.
Meantime the southern force
had been pressing northWard and
also nOrtheastWard into the hill
masses, where japanese resistance
was met and overcome. BY May
1913, patrols of the northern and
southern forces met in the Massacre
bay-HOltz bay pass. Combined fore
es then pressed from various direc-
tions toward the Chichagof harbor
area.
UNIT CUT OFF
"One small Japanese unit is COM
pletely cut off in the hills and is
being mopped up. The enemy is still
on high ground west of Chichagof
harbor and also in Chichagof val
ley and in the mountains between
Chichagof harbor and Sarana bay
At present the American attack is
upon the hill mass just west of Chi
chagof harbor, where west and
southwest peak each rises to 1900
feet. Another attack is directed on
the valley area Of the pass from
Sarana bay to Chichagof harbor. A
third attack is being pressed against
the hill mass north of Lake Nichol-
as where East Peak and Middle
Peak rise to 400 and 100 feet
respectively in the area between
Chichagof harbor and Sarana bay"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North
Africa, MAY "a. CAPITALIZED air
squadrons laShed docks and air
fields on the Italian islands of Pan
telleria and Sardinia without meet
ing serious opposition, it was dis
closed today, while bombers from
the Middle East command swept the
Aegean sea and hammered the Ital-
ian port Of San Giovanni.
American bombers and fighter
bombers raided Pantelleria three
times in five hours and were fol-
lowed Sunday night by RAF Wei
lington bombers, which dumped
4,000-pound block busters on the
same targets. u. S. Lightnings raid
ed Sardinia twice.
REFLECTS DESTRUCTION
The destruction of 305 AXIS planes
in four days of Mediterranean Of
fensive was reflected in lack OF op-
position during the daylight at
tacks by the American bombers.
The raid on Pantelleria, where
five small ships were hit, was open
ed by WarhaWkS that attacked gun
emplacements, followed by Mitch
ellis and Marauders, which scored
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24
Way Clear for
Unity of French

LONDON, May "a CUP) - The
French national committee an
nounced today that the way ap-
peared clear for formation of a
central authority of anti Axis
French forces and that Gen.
Charles De Gaulle probably would
leave for Algiers this week for a
conference with Gen. Henri Giraud.
The fighting French announce
ment said that, after hearing the
report of Gen. George. CatrouX, the
committees liaison man, nothing
now appears to oppose speedy
formation of a central authority at
AigierS." "
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24

During this year the Navy will reap
its first major harvest from the plan
ming and work instituted nearly three
wears ago We have passed the days OF
blueprints. From now on, each week
will mark the addition Of new and DOW
erful combat ships to the fleet. Each
dav will mark the addition of scores Of
deadly naval planes Each hour will add
guns and shells to our arsenals by thou
sands-Navy Secretary Frank Knox.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24
Japs Report US.
Exchange Possible
By UNITED PRESS

A japanese broadcast reported
Monday that Japan was negotiat-
ing with the United States and
Great Britain for an exchange OF
interned nationals
we expect that an agreement
will be reached in the not distant
future fol" the second exchange OF
nationals with America and Brit
ain" the broadcast recorded by
United Press in New York said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24
Stain I 'TI'0asfs U.S..
Envoy, President

MOSCOW, May "a CUPD-Premier
josef Stain gave Joseph E. Davies,
special American envoy, four-and-
a-half-hour 18-course state ban
quet last night and toasted Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Premier Churchill
and the United Nations.
The banquet was held in the big
white marble Catherine room in
the Kremlin while Davies was
awaiting a second summons to
Stains office to receive his Of
ficial reaction to President ROOSe-
velt's long personal letter.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-24

Our manpoWer vastly outnumber-
ed the Germans and Italians. Yet
this numerical superiority would
have been useless if the Arsenal of
Democracy had not supplied the
material for an overwhelming SUI
periority of fire power, both on the
ground and in the air.
Our MA Sherman" medium
tank proved its superiority to any
thing the Axis had. Our MILO tank
destroyer, mounting fully en-
closed three-inch high velocity
gun, demonstrated its capacity to
knock out anything Rommel had,
including the Cotton Mark VI tanks
from which the Desert Fox eX-
pected SO much.