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Evening star., 1944-01-13
United Nations
Event January I9

The United Nations Club will
have an evenings entertainment
January 10, for which Dumbarton
Oaks, former home of Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Woods Bliss, has been
loaned. Dorothy Clark Norman
composer-pianist; Luck Roberts
pianist; Lena Sanford, singer, and
Andy Razaf, composer, will give the
program Mrs. Norman, who will
take part in the program, also will
serve as chairman for the evening
and mistress of ceremonies, intro
ducing others who will take part
She has appeared for the United
Nations Club twice before, once
when the home of Mrs. Edward T
Stotesbury was loaned to the club
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Justices and Wives
To attend Concert

Associate Justice and Mrs. STAN
ley F. Reed and Associate Justice
and Mrs. William o. Douglass will
be in the distinguished audience in
Alexandria this evening for the
candlelight concert at Gadsby's
Tavern.
Among others from Washington
who will join the large number OF
high-ranking officials and members
of residential society to hear the
concert, at which Corpl. Vincent
Burns of the Marine Corps will bt
the solo artist, will be Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Corcoran, Mrs. Raymond
A. Wheeler and Sir Campbell Stew.
art
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|RHssel Brink Weds
MISS ReUercOmb
In Langley

The Methodist Church at Lang.
ley, Va, was the scene of a prettily
arranged wedding last evening, wher
Miss Virginia Lee Revercomb be.
came the bride of Mr.. Russell H
Brink. The pastor Of the church
the Rev. Esdras Gruver, ofiiciateo
at Z o'clock, before an altar decked
with white chrysanthemums and
gladioluses, and flanked with palms
Mrs. Gruver, organist of the church
and Mr.. Elmer Guilford gave the
wedding music.
The bride Is the daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. Luke w. Revercomb o1
Mclean, and she was given in mar
riage by her father. Her wedding
gown was of white satin and her
|inger-tip length veil was becomingly
arranged. She carried a white or
child on the cover of her prayer
book.
Mrs. Everett E. Revercomb was
matron Of honor, wearing gold
color taffeta and carrying bouquet
Of talisman roses.
Mr.. Brink, who Is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Brink OF Trenton
had as his best man Ensign Everett
E. Revercomb of Mclean, and the
ushers were Mr.. Marvin H. Kirby
and Mr.. G.. Clinton Florance OF
Mclean.
The reception was held in the
RiXey Mansion in Arlington, wher
Mr.. and Mrs. Revercomb were as
sisted in receiving by Mr.. and Mrs
Brink, parents of the bridegroom
The bride attended Mary Wash
ington College at Fredericksburg
and now is employed by the Bureau
OF the Budget. Mr.. Brink was grad
uated from Rutgers University, and
after two years of engineering work
on the Alaska Highway, he is con-
nected with the Public Roads Ad-
ministration.
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.HyattSviUe Girl
ENGAGED to We'd

Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Smith
OF Hyattsville announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Miss
Ella Catherine Smith, to Corpl.
Clifton Earl Thrift, U. S. A., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen R. Thrift of
University Park.
Miss Smith was graduated from
the Hyattsville High School and
she attended Columbia Technical
Institute in Washington. She now
holds responsible position with a
credit organization; in Hyattsville
Corpl. Thrift also was graduated
from the Hyattsville High School
and now is stationed at the Para
chute School at Fort Benning.
No date has been set for the
wedding,
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Issued at Rockville.

Leroy Washington 3D. and Matilds
Bailey, "a both Of Boyds, Md.
Joseph N. Hayes. So, and Clara p Wrisht
3S, both of WASHINGTON.
Thomas E. WEIGH, 21, Norfolk Va, ant
jeanne Bechtol. Is. Fort Worth. Tex
Toland L. Brown. %. Columbus. Miss.
and Gloria J. Humsinger. 20. Mmins-
vile Pa.
Thomas Perry Sapp, "a. and Marjorie
Ellen Lambert, %. both Of Grafton
W. Va.
Leo John Densmore. %. and Anna Emili.
Cross. 81. both of Arlington .,,.4.s
Frederick H. Thomas, 81. Long Island. N
r, and Jane v. Price, 20. Silver sprtns
Robert H. vittur. 90. Washington. ane
Ora Hannah. 90. Columbus. Ohio. =,
Thorndike. %. both of Washinston.
Robert L. Harris. 81, Fort Myer. Va, and
Dorothy Dean, IS. Front Royal, Va.
william T. Sevald, 81, Fort Meade: Md.
and Mary Jane Dougherty. %. Wash
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Mrs. Hagar Hostess
At Luncheon

Mrs. Alice Hagar was hostess at
luncheon. yesterday, entertaining in
honor of Mrs. Douglas B. Mcintosh,
general manager of the publication
for which Mrs. Hagar is Washington
editor. Other guests included Miss
Pat OMalley, Mr.. Tom Mcdonald
Mr.. Martin Logan, Mr.. Marshall
Baneu and Mr.. Ray Bell.
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Social Ne1Vs
In Nearby Suburbs

Mrs. Francis x. Jordan of Takoma
Park was honor guest at a surprise
baby shower last evening at hel
home, when the guests brought q
number of lovely gifts for her in
fant son, James Francis Jordan
Co-hostesses at the party were Mrs
Marvin Stromberg and Mrs. Hiram,
Lewis Clark. Among the guests
were Mrs. Frank Battaglia, Mrs
Ben Rather, Mrs. Ray Morse, Mrs
Kenneth Doolan, Mrs. George Duni.
gan, Mrs. William Ragsdale, Mrs
Ray Bladen, Mrs. Louis Michaelson
Mrs. Lewis Monaco, Mrs. Francis
Callahan, Mrs. j. w. Martin
mother of the honor guest; Mrs
Earl Farr, jr., and Mrs. Daymude
Mrs. Dewitt w. Zook entertained
at bridge Monday evening at her
home in Takoma Park.
Corpl. James Edwin McKeever of
Fort Jackson, S. c., is spending a
13-day furlough with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L. McKeever
in Silver Spring.
The Misses Kathryn and Margaret
Clark, daughters of Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald E. Clark of Silver Spring.
entertained members of their soror-
ity at their home Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles R. Fenwick
are spending few days in Rich
mond and before going South were
hosts at buffet supper Sunday
evening at their home in Falls
Church. Their guests included Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Cline, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward G. Fenwick, DR.. and Mrs.
Howard S. Berger. Capt. and Mrs.
E. D. Williams, jr, Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip NJ Talbot, Mr.. and Mrs.
Theodore Uhler, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
M. Cole, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter R.
Granger, Capt. and Mrs. w. q.
Stephenson, DR.. and Mrs. Dexter
Davis and Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund
Campbell
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Marys Wanko1Vicz Is Engaged
Pbelbs-Le1Uis WeddingSaturday

is being made today by the
Polish Embassy M Witold Wankowcz
Of daughter Mys wankowicz to NE Holmes
H. Wc son Of Mrs Roger Wolcott Milton
Wech OF Boston, The popular charming family
have been living in Arlington circle of
friends has given them
No date has been set for the wedding Mile
Wankowicz who herself enjoys wide popularity younger
washington attended
and graduated from Georgetown College
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ian informal dinner party to be
given by 1t. and Mrs. Walter Kemp.
Last evening, the bride-to-pe was
entertained at a dinner given by
Miss Alice Shurcliff, when all of the
guests included classmates at Bryn
Mawr. The dinner was followed by
Ia surprise miscellaneous shower
given by Mrs. Michael Dichter in
the apartment which she shares
with Miss Lewis at the Imperial.
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making an informal debut In WASH
ington the same year. She later
took nurses training at Union Me-
mortal Hospital In Baltimore, and
was graduated in 1943.
Mr.. WEIGH attended Brooks
School and was of the class of 1912
at Harvard College. He was a men,
Der of the Hasty Pudding Institute
Of ITO and of the Signet Society,
also being secretary Of the Harvard
Advocate. He is with the Division
Of European Affairs Of the State De-
partment.
Another engagement of note,
which was announced before the
holidays, will culminate in the
marriage Saturday Of Miss Flora
Louise Lewis, daughter of Mrs
George Chase Lewis of Mount Ver-
non, N. Y, and the late Col. Lewis,
to 1t. Clement Russell Phelps
U. S. N. R., son of Mr.. and Mrs
Harold Dwight Phelps of Rochester
N. Y.
The ceremony will be held in the
Memorial Chapel at the Army Med
ical Center and because of the re.
cent passing of the brides father
only very small reception for the
immediate families will follow. 1t
Col. Ralph Rogers, United States
Army chaplain, will be the officiat-
Ing clergyman.
Miss Virginia June Lewis has ar
rived from her home in Mount Ver-
non, N. Y, to be her sisters maid
of, honor, and Mrs. Alden Clark, OF
New York, claSsmate at Bryn
Mawr, will be the matron of honor
The bridegroom's sister, Miss Vir-
ginia Phelps, who will be the only
bridesmaid; his brother, Mr.. Stuart
Mason Phelps who will be his best
man, and his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Phelps, are expected TO arrive from
Rochester Saturday. ...
Two of 1t. Phelps brother officers
NJ the Naval Academy, where 1t.
Phelps is an instructor, 1t. V. Mel
sh Robinson, U. S. N. R., and 1t.
Thomas L. Downs, jr, U. S. N. R.,
will be the ushers.
This evening Miss Lewis and 1t.
Phelps will be the guests of honor at
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Marriage License
Applications

Under D. c. lap. couples must
apply for q marriage license on
one day, 10ait three fuH days and
recefDe their license on the fifth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
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Mrs. Hitchcock Home

Mrs. Gilbert M. Hitchcock has re-
turned to her residence on Kalo-
rama road after having spent the
past six weeks with relatives in
Memphis and Omaha.
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Pen Women Schedule
April 29 Meeting

A one-day business session will
be held by the National League Of
American Pen Women on April %
at which necessary changes in by
laws will be considered, according
to an announcement of the Execu-
tive Committee Washington has
been selected for the meeting place,
as many State branches already
have representatives here engaged
in war activities. Election of off,
lcers will be held
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period as we have on the prosecu-
ton of the war, we are bound to
have success" she concluded.
The speaker was introduced by
Mrs. Nancy Poore Tufts, program
chairman. Miss Kathryn Fox, the
president, presided.
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ninistratior
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spreading out over the actual line of the hull.
Suppose the carrier got stuck in one of the
locks? Suppose she scraped side, or rammed
one of the gates? 1t might put the Canal out
of commission for weeks. So great was the
risk that 27-foot scale model of the carrier
an exact reproduction in proportion and
weight - was built and put through tests
on replica of the Canal locks in the Navys
testing basin at Carderock Md. 1t was towed
through without hitch, and word went to
the Canal, "You can take her through"
Before him on the carriers bridge, the
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pilot held the specifications laid down at the
testing basin thousands of miles away. A few
lamp posts were broken off, but aside from
that the carrier made the passage unscathed.
Battleships, not much of problem in the
locks, are tricky to handle in the sharp cuts
and turns of the channel across the Panama
Isthmus Because of their tremendous weight,
they draw more water, creating bank sue
ton that pulls the stern up and makes turn
ing difficult Destroyers breeze through four
to a lock - perhaps the easiest vessels OF all
to handle because of their slim lines and COM
paratively small weight Average passage
time for the 4O-mile waterway is about
in an emergency.
The Panama Canal,' General George G.
Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, said recently.
"is and will remain military objective of the
first order" Fortunately, however, danger
from direct attack has been minimiZed.
A Tough Nat to Crack
HINGED with bases and guarded by air and
sea patrols thousands of miles from its
approaches on both sides, the Canal is we'll
nigh impregnable Navy ply patrol bombers
note every vessel approaching the area far
out at sea- Then the Coast Guard or the Navy
ntercepts the ship, checks her papers and
crew. Before the vessel can enter the water
way itself, searching parties have combed
her from keel to radio mast, leaving behind
guards everywhere. Watching, too, are guards
along the shore, in the control towers of the
locks, and at channel lookout points.
Enemy aliens may not travel by ship
through the Canal. They make the crossing
by the tiny Panamanian Railroad. reboard
their vessels on the other side.
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tional means will be used to implement the
general strategy for the defeat of Japan
From now on, a steady stream of warships
will be pouring back from the Mediterranean
and the North Atlantic, and navigating the
Canal to take their places alongside the vet
eran ships already closing in on the Japs.
The Canal doesn't just join our two oceans
- it joins our great steel mills and shipyards
of the east and west. Our oil on each side of
the continent. The tremendous heavy-weap-
ons arsenals of the Atlantic with the fighting
fronts of the Pacific The raw materials of
our west with the factories of our east. And
all the other factors of American production.
Il win Help Civilians. Too
FROM a transportation standpoint, the
quickest way to get our weapons into action
against Germany is by railroad to the East
Coast ports, and then by transport across
to Europe. This is because production is
heaviest in the eastern United States. But
when we swing against Japan, it will be
quicker to load ship on the East Coast and
send it through the Canal to the Pacific than
to ship arms and ammunition by train to the
West Coast and from there to our fighters.
Our railroads are already overburdened; thus
the saving effected by the Canal will be
direct contribution to civilian economy as
we'll as to the strategy of war
To equip the Canal for its paramount task
of speeding our feet from ocean to ocean,
its channels and passageways have been
widened recently. Work is now under way
on third and larger set of locks - to handle
the great new ships now planned. The pas
sageway will require new approaches from
both the Atlantic and Pacific, and the whole
is likely to be reserved for use of the Navy
when it is completed some time after the war.
Until the new locks are in use, every ship
of our feet - even the super carriers i
laid down to specifications dictated by the
present dimensions of the Canal Even the
British take these figures into account.
While all Of these great ships will fit the
locks. their passage is frequently an in
tricate engineering problem.
For example, recently the Navy flashed
orders to a newly commissioned carrier to
join Pacific task force. The carrier fitted the
lock measurements by inches, but her transit
was complicated by the fact that the entire
superstructure of carrier is on one side.
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5nxH
Aznzi1u

All these precautions are taken to prevent
the scuttling of ship in the locks, the sabo-
tagging of machinery. or the mining of some
vital point along the route.
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"So Sorry, Mr.. Tojo"


A FEW weeks before Pearl Harbor the gov
eminent quietly advised the Japanese that
the waterway was no longer open to their YES
sels That precaution not only kept the Canal
open for the immediate emergency but also
guaranteed its functioning efficiently IN the
two-ocean war which lay ahead
America had not forgotten the lesson it
learned in another two-ocean war - the
Spanish-American. 1t was in fact, this war
which led to the building of the Panama
Canal.
In 1898 the Atlantic fleet had to call for
reinforcements, and the only ship which
could fill the gap was the battleship Oregon,
then anchored on the other side of the CONT
nent in San Francisco Bay. On March l9.
1898, the Oregon weighed anchor to begin
one of the historic voyages of naval history.
Sixty-six days later, she arrived at Jupiter
Inlet, Fla, after a 14,OOO-m dash around
Cape Horn, through the stormy Straits of
Magellan, to join Admiral Simpsons feet
blockading the Spanish in Santiago Harbor,
Cuba Only the dash of the Oregon insured
our victory when the Spanish attempted to
escape from the harbor on July 3.
The lesson of 1893 is still the basis of our
strategy today. For two and half years
that strategy has proved itself correct, while
America fought bloody, two-ocean war.
And the Panama Canal, the embodiment of
that strategy, now stands ready for its mo-
mentous role in the crushing of Japan.
The End
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-04-28
LEGAL FIGHT STARTS

CHICAGO, H., April 28.--Mont- gomery, Ward began the legal fight against the Governments control of it's Chicago facilities shortly after two of the firms top executives of the board, Chairman Sewell Avery and President Clement Ryan were barred from their office by Wayne Taylor. Under Secrtary of Com merce and Federal operating mana ger of the properties.
 Soldiers patrolling the buildings were ordered to keep the two off, cials out on the grounds they "re- fused to cooperate with the Govern ment."
 Company Counsel asked Federal Judge William Holly to dismiss the injunction obtained last night by Attorney General Riddle restrain ing the firm executives from inter- fering with Government operation.
 The legal attack is based in part on the contention the seizure of the properties. in keeping with the order
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-04-28
OF M-W PLANT
 OUTRAGEOUS
Senator Byrd Calls for All Faets- Dewey Says lt's
 lJndmeritan

WASHINGTON, April 28. = Sen- ator Harry Flood Byrd said he has called on the War Labor Board Tor an explanation of its action in or dering Montgomery Ward to extend the expired contract with the CIO union and the company's refusal to comply which led to the seizure of the Chicago plant by Federal offic- ials and the Army.
 Prom the accounts in the news papers on the incident of the Gov ernment's seizure of the plant, it appears to be an outrageous abuse of power,' said Senator Byrd.
 The Senator also told reporters he had asked Montgomery Ward to furnish him a statement of the company's viewpoint so it could be placed in the Congressional Record.
 Representative Charles S. Dewey, Illinois Reublican, complained of what he called a "high-handed un- american procedure" taken by the Government. and he demands a Congressional investigation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-04-28
HOMESTEAD FACTS ARE
 DEMANDED
ServiCemen Must Be Given Bitter as We'll as Sweet
 Knowledge of Alaska

WASHINGTON, April 28. = The House Committee on Appropriations told Interior Department officials that they didn't want Alaska held out as land of the proverbial milk and honey" but wanted service men who want to settle there given the bitter facts with the sweet.
 Rep. Johnson, Oklahoma Demo- crat, chairman of the subcommittee holding hearings on the annual Interior Department bill, listened as B. w. Thoron, Director of Terri tories and Island Possessions, told that the department is getting 200 letters a month from service men, inquiring about the possibilities of homesteading on land in the Ter ritory after the war, and insisted that a definite statement be made about the possibilities, Thoron said.
 We are not holding it out as an ideal place. We are saying there is land there good agriculturally, but they must realize when they go there that it is frontier country with communication and transportation problems.
 No one should go thare who is not ready to face the problems of developing a homestead in an iso- lated section and no one should go who doesn't have certain amount of capital to carry him through the development period"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-04-28
RED ARMY IS PRESSING ON
 IN RUMANIA

LONDON, April 28.-The Russian army is pressing a determined of fensive with powerful tank support ed forces north of the Rumanian city of Iasi, and fierce battles are raging in the area for the second successive day. Rumanian com- munique said.
 The bulletin, broadcast from Bu- charest, said that local Russian penetrations have been sealed off or reduced by counterattacks."
 Moscow made no mention of such an offensive although the Soviet communique announced some 400 Germans were killed as Red Army troops repulsed an enemy thrust southeast of Stanislaw in the Car pathian foothills.
 The Russian communique said that no important changes had oc- cured on any of the fronts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-04-28

 CAMPAIGN NOW AT END

z ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, April 28.-The invasion forces have closed the Hollandia campaign which lasted six days, by capturing the third Japanese air. field and putting the three into im- mediate operation and within bomb- ing range of the Philippines, also the end of Japanese resistance in that sector.
 The undertaking entailed leap frogging 500 miles of the New Guinea coast under guns of the powerful naval armada and sending of thousands of soldiers sloshing through the muddy jungle terrain.
 Light feints of the Japanese are believed to indicate the enemy sent troops to other sections. The last main Hollandia airfield fell as the last pincer was closed.
 Australian forces moved north from Madang, which was captured Tuesady, to take Alexishafen, which also has large airdrome.
 Gen. Douglas MacArthur said Jap anese at Hollandia fled inland and all organized resistance has ceased.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-04-28
Public Letter of Thanks Released
 ByRev. Baranofi

The Rev. and Mrs. M. A. Baranoff. who have been in Juneau for the past two years, are leaving within the next day or so to return to St. Paul Island in the Pribilofs, from which they were evacuated, together with the Native Aleuts, at the time of the Jap invasion of the outer islands.
 The following letter, expressing the thanks of the appreciation of the popular couple to the many friends they have made here, and for the support they have received, is in the nature of farewell:
 Upon this, the eve of our de- parture from Juneau, Mrs. Baranoff and I wish to bid farewell to our many friends and thank them for their kindness and amity to us. We carry with us to the Pribilof Islands the feeling that we leave here an enduring spirit of love and welcome which supported and enriched us after our evacuation from the isl- ands, and which will follow us upon our return there.
 Our hearts are too full for proper expression of gratitude for the many acts of generosity and hospitality which have been extended to us, but we hereby offer our thanks and enduring friendship to all of you.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-04-28
GEORGE BROS. FARM TURNED OVER FOR
 VICTORY GARDENS

Of interest to Juneau gardners is the announcement that the George Brothers farm at Salmon Creek has been turned over for Vic- tory Garden assignments, with the main part of the ground having all ready been plotted into twenty-one separate garden spots.
 Each plot is on the average of l. 400 square feet and nine plots have already been assigned. All persons interested in obtaining one of the sections of ground are requested to call Fred Geeslin at the Office of Indian Affairs in the Federal Build ing.
 When all of the plots have been assigned, other suitable ground will be plotted for assignments as need ed, MT. Geeslir announced.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-04-28
RELAxATI0N0F STEEL FORMULA
 RECOMMENDED

WASHINGTON, April 29. The abandonment of Federal wage con- trols over incomes up to $50 a month for single workers and $200 for family heads was urged by a special Senate committee, which pictured 20,000,000 persons of the white collar and low income groups living now between subsistence and privation."
 The subcommittee, headed by Senator Claude Pepper, of Florida, recommended that the War Labor Board relax the Little Steel Formula to allow employers to raise the sal- aries up to those levels without WLB approval.
 The group asked for increased funds for the OPA to enforce more rigid price controls to- check "the present inflationary trend"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-04-28

WASHINGTON, April 28 = The War Shipping Administration an- nounces the Navy Department has informed it that the Liberty ship John Straub, reported to have brok- en its back at sea and sinking off Sanak Island on the coast of Alaska on April 19 with the loss of 65 men, was actually destroyed "as the result of a violent explosion of an un- determined origin. Her cargo was highly inflammable, consisting of high octaine gasoline and oil" The ship was bound for the Alaska theatre of war
 The War Shipping Administra- ton said the statement was based