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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-09
CURLING PROFtTEERS
BIGGEST TASK

A few days before he resigned as
director of the Food Distributing
Administration, Roy F. Hendrick-
son declared that his most difficult
task was in preventing profiteer-
ing by the food industry on sales of
commodities to meet war and lease
lend requirements running high in
to the millions. He is not sure that
he succeeded, he said.
The F. D. r., he added, has no
authority to renegotiate contracts
for food and is unable to recover
excessive profits.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-09
WHY WASHINGTON
HAS SLUMS

Why is Washington, capital Of the
richest nation on earth, disgraced
by some of the worst slums in the
world? We have asked that ques-
ton many times, and now Senator
Arthur Capper gives a startling
answer.
Il have reached the conclusion"
says the Senator, these slums exist
because they pay a better return on
the money invested than almost
any other investment in Washing
ton."-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-09
THEY DO. O

A court official, after explaining
the history of the American flag to
a group of aliens seeking citizen
ship papers, asked n of them;
Tell me - what flies over the
city hall?p
The alien blinket a minute.
"Peejins!''
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-09

who took a day or two off to re-
cover from a hangover, or had a.
bellyache due to eating too much
caviar or blue points or porter
house steaks. - The Progressive
Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-09
THE ARMY

A milkman, indicted into the
army, wrote back home from camp:
Bessie, | sure do like this army
life. It's nice to lie abed every
morning until five-thirty."
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-09
Peace-Time Profits Doubled

The $4,000, 900, 900 total is more
than double the profits of 4,088,-
600, 900 enjoyed by corporations
after taxes in the last peacez time
year of 1899, which was extremely
favorable to business.
The corporations were able to
show big profits after taxes because
their profits before taxes zoomed
up to $22, 300, 600, O00-more than
four times what they had been in
1889, and almost $4,000, 900, 600
above 1912.
Profits for 1914, it was estimated,
will be several billions larger than
last year. That does not seem to
bear out the Presidents prediction
that he would not permit the Gre
alton of a new crop of war million
aires.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-09

There are between $50, 900 and
240,0 blind persons in the 20 La
tin American countries, it is esti-
mated.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-09

l love such mirth as does not
make friends ashemed to look upon
each other next morning. = Izaak
Walton.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-09
WAR CONTRACTORS
PROFITS CONTINUE
TO REACH FOR MOON

Report for 1943 Makes Mockery
of "F. DIS" Pledge OF No New
Millionaires
PUBLIC is PAYING TAXES
All Branches of Industry Are
Shown to Be Enjoying I'm
imaginable Prosperity
The Department of Commerce
January Survey of Business
brings out in striking fashion two
significant facts:
II That profits of war contrac-
tors during 1913 moved steadily
upward to record breaking peaks
and
(2) That the public and the gov
ernment r paying the war taxes
Of p~rofiteering corporations in
prices that cover their taxes-and,
of course, all their expenses, in
Guiding greatly 'ballooned" sala-
ries and bonuses-and leave them
more than they ever had before.
The department estimated 1943
profits, after taxes, at So, 200, 0OO,-
000-the greatest in history and al
most 1000, 900, 900 above 1912.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-02-09
In Bonanza Glass

In Bonanza Glass
While industry is basking in un-
imaginable prosperity, the depart
ment disclosed that some branches
are in the bonanza class. .
Mining profits were shown to be
up four times; transportation pro-
fits have multiplied 25 times, while
merchandising profits are just
about twice what they were before
the war.
A significant feature pointed out
by the department was that mining
profits yer up almost as much
after taxes as they were before
taxes. This paradox is explained by
the fact that loopholes in the min
ing tax laws permit that particular
class of profiteer to dodge taxation.
The fact that practically all cor
porations are making record break
ing profits is pretty conclusive
proof that taxes alone are not a
sufficient curb on profiteering. In
addition, there must be effective
control of prices and, as everyone
knows, price control has been one
of the big failures of this admins
tration.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Greyhound Strikers Ignore
WLB Back Work Order
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Mar. 18-Pennsyl-
vania Greyhound Lines buses on ap-
proximately 100 runs operating out
of Pittsburgh were tied up for the
second day today as drivers and
garage workers, ignoring War La
Dor Board demand to return to
work, remained away from their
jobs.
The workers, members of the AFL-
Amalgamated Association of Street
Electrical Railways and Motor Coach
Employees Association, Division 1868,
did not admit they were on strike,
but said they merely were attending
a continuous meeting which began
early yesterday.
About 400 union members are in
volved.
The Continuous meeting" was
called by T. E. Benson, union presi-
dent, after a protest over the dis
charge of two drivers. Mr.. Benson
said the workers also have protested
delay in WLB action on wage in
crease demands the union made last
October
The WLB last night telegraphed
the union it could not "condone work
stoppages of this nature which af-
feet such vital transportation facili-
ties" and added the wage increase
demands would receive no further
consideration while work is inter.
rupted.
State and Federal labor concilia-
tors have intervened. The walkout
has affected travel to Washington,
Philadelphia, Cleveland, Columbus
and other cities on routes through
PittShlIroh
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Gider-Borne Units New Base
Cuts Jap Supply Line in Burma

two hours the transports landed or
took off from the field at the rate
of one every, AZ seconds.
Even while the transports were
bringing reinforcements into the
first field a second glider assault
force landed in the valley a few
miles farther south and established
second airport and stronghold.
On invasion day" Allied air and
ground general met in series of
conferences with Col. Cochran to
check last-minute details.
The public address system ordered
the pilots to take their posts. Sol
diers were ordered to their places
in the long rows of gliders. Airborne
engineers and technicians took
places beside Indian troops with
knives swinging on their hips.
American and British coloneIs
worked side by side with privates
in hurrying the gliders into posi-
ton. For a half hour after the
takeoff the airtrains circled around
the field to gain altitude before
crossing the 7,0O0-foot mountain
peaks of Burma.
First Glider Trip for Men.
Several gliders were forced to cut
their tow ropes over the mountains
and radio instructions were sent out
TO tell them where to 90 to receive
help. Some of the gliders, which
hao diff1culty on the take-off, landed
within a mile of the airport, were
brought back, and sent out again.
Most OF the troops were making
their first air trip, and it was the
frst glider trip for all the fighting
men.
Some of tAe gliders crashed into
the nearby jungle or collided with
empty gliders ahead. Capt. Donald
c. Tulloch, Ogdensburg, N. Y. who
was one Of the first to land in a
glider, set up first-aid station on
the edge of the field for the injured
Later. Capt. Tulloch organized
night searching parties for men who
landed short of the field.
British assault troops stacked their
guns When returning patrols report
ed the valley free of japanese, and
helped the Americans drag crashed
gllders off the runway. Often gliders
passed within few feet of men
working on the field in the dark.
Ammunition carrying parachutes
covered the valley floor for hun
dreds Of yards around and hung
from trees, At dawn the first fu-
neral was held, for four American
and several British soldiers who had
been killed in glider crashes. TINY
tWo-seater planes. flying at tree-top
altitude, landed and picked up the
injured.
Hospital cases were flown to an
American commando base, where
they were attended by Flight Surg.
Capt. Cortez F. Enloe. jr., of
Manhasset, Long Island, and Jeffer-
son City, Mo.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Vandegrift Says laps
Are Facing Dilemma
BY the Associated Press.

oS tlit AoSOSthbca EIcSS.
NEW YORK, Mar. 18.-Lt. Gen.
Alexander A. Vandegrift, Marine
Corps commandant, declared last
night the japanese face "perplex-
ing dilemma" in their defense of
Pacific islands, but said it would be
folly to say the enemy already was
hanging on the ropes.
"The most challenging battles of
this war lie yet ahead, not only in
the Pacific, but in other theaters as
well,'' he told the Friendly Sons of
st. Patrick at their 160th anniversary
celebration.
Allied conquest of the Pacific. Gen.
Vandegrift said, has created this
problem for the Japanese.
IF the fleet attempts to risk
toe-tc-toe battle, the japanese stand
a chance of losing the bulk of their
naval power. If, on the other hand,
the feet falls back again and again
to avoid a major contact, further
island stepping-stones are open to
our assault, and-equally significant
we have more time in which to
continue massing our strength n
the Pacific, and more time in which
our valiant submarines can carry on
their deadly attrition against enemy
shipping"
The Marine Corps leader cau-
toned against regarding Truk as
the final outpost before reaching
the Japanese homeland, pointing
out that between Truk and our
final goal there are the Mariana
Islands, the Bonin Islands, the
Philippines, and the heavily fortified
China Coast.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Wilkinson Receives DSM
For Role in SoIomons
By the Associated Press.

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS. South Pacific, Mar. II
DelayeO The Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal was presented by Admiral
William F. Halsey, Allied COM
mander in chief in the South Pacific,
to Rear Admiral Theodore Stark
Wilkinson of Rosslyn, Va, COM
mander of amphibious forces in the
South Pacific, for his part in the
Solomon Islands campaign.
Admiral Halsey, bareheaded and
clad in his familiar khaki shirt and
tropical shorts, made the presenta-
ton today under the spreading trees
outside Admiral WilkinSon's head
quarters hut.
Reading from the presidential cita-
ton, Admiral Halsey said Admiral
Wilkinson's direction of and par
ticipation in these (Solomons) op-
erations reflect great credit upon his
bold leadership, careful planning
and sound tactical judgment"
Admiral Wilkinson, SIS, born in
Annapolis, Md, was graduated from
the Naval Academy in 1905. He was
deputy commander of South Pacific
forces before his present post and
served as director of naval intelli-
gence during the first eight months
of the war
Evening star., 1944-03-18

of the entire campaign quota, re-
ported $222, 1886 or 80.3 per cent OF
its goal. The two other branches
announced collections to date to
equal $117,227 or 58.1 per cent, and
$81 ,274 or 54.4 per cent.
Ernest @. Draper, chairman OF
the Government division, reported
that his group was slow in starting
but that the aggregate collection
to date from 76,375 donors was $685.
716 or 3407 per cent of the quota.
Lloyd B. Wilson, chairman of the
campaign, was presented the auto
lgraphed original Bergman Red
Cross cartoon published In The Star
last Monday.
1--WE must remember that this Is
our campaign" Mr.. Wilson warned
the campaign workers. "The Red
Gross is the vehicle or medium
through which we do our work, but
this is the campaign of every citi-
zen in Washington. 1t is our indi-
vidual responsibility to make it
success. We can't do it by proxy"
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Pepper Opens Move
To Resume BuiIdinq
On Cathedral Here

Praising DIR. Angus Dun of CAM
bridge, Mass, who is to be conse-
Grated Bishop of Washington April
10, former Senator George Wharton
Pepper of Pennsylvania yesterday
launched movement to strengthen
the National Cathedral Association
with view to resuming construc-
ton of the edifice on Mount st.
Alban, in the immediate postwar
period.
Mr.. Pepper called on gathering
of distinguished women at the Sui
grave Club to stimulate interest and
membership in the association, on
a Nation wide basis. Emphasizing
that he was not detracting from
the necessary work of prosecuting
the war, nor of providing the Red
Cross and other groups with funds,
the Philadelphian stressed the ne
cessity of laying strong founda-
tion OF support now for Washington
Cathedral.
The present unhappy world"
needs an ideal to tie to, in solving
postwar problems, he declared,
pointing to Washington Cathedral
as the Gothic embodiment of
Christian Truth" symbolic Of that
ideal.
South Transept Next.
The next part of the cathedral
to be built. he predicted, would be
the south transept, to be followed
by continuation of the nave.
Bishop-elect Dun, Mr.. Pepper
said, is deeply interested in the
future of the Cathedral as an in
fiuence on the spiritual life Of
Washington and the Nation He
characterized DR.. Dun as a man Of
balance" who has mo tendency to
forget the fabric, and apply his
talents exclusively to the spirit, nor
on the other hand to forget the
spirit and devote himself entirely
to church of stone"
Faith in Enterprise.
II am processing my faith in the
Washington Cathedral enterprise, y
Mr.. Pepper declared" I have a
burning conviction of it's practical
possibilities and immense signifi-
canoe at this moment In an un-
happy world" The cathedral here
he said, is destined to become lone
of the great Gothic churches Of the
world"
The project, with it's large acreage
on Mount st. Alban, appeals to per-
sons with a love of the out-of- doors,
education, music, architecture and
"a religion Of beauty and holiness, u
he said.
Mr.. Pepper advanced the idea o1
an oak grove on Cathedral Close
in connection with the out-of-dool
amphitheater there, as a memoria
to Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee
founder of the cathedral.
The gathering was under auspices
of The Washington Women's Com.
mittee of the National Cathedra
Association, of which Mrs. ZeBarney
T. Phillips. widow of the late dean
of the Cathedral, is chairman, ano
Mrs. Reginald Huidekoper is vice
chairman. Presiding was william
r. Castle, former Undersecretary o1
State, member Of the Cathedra
Chapter.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Former Star Reporter
Escapes Injury in
Bombing at Anzio
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED H EADQ TER S,
Naples, Mar. 18-Further details of
the German air attack Thursday
on press headquarters on the Anzio
beachhead which slightly injured
five correspondents, revealed today
that Corpl Wade Jones, former re-
porter on the Washington Evening
Star, was in the house at the time
of the bombing.
The five injured were: Ernie Pyle,
United Features Syndicate colum-
mist, formerly of Washington; Will
liam Strand, formerly of the Wash
ington Bureau of the Chicago Trib-
une: Sergt. George slim" Aarons,
Yank magazine photographer;
George Tucker of the Associated
Press and Wick Fowler of the Dallas
News.
Mr.. Fowler, Sergt. Aarons and Mr..
Tucker have been released from the
hospital and Mr. Strand expected
to be released today. Mr.. Pyle was
not hospitalized.
Two 500-pound bombs from a raid
ing German plane exploded a few
feet from the building. Ceilings
came down and partitions inside the
Villa Virtue, 5th Army public rela-
tons headquarters, were ripped out
by the blast. Corpl. Jones, CORE
spondent for Stars and Stripes, said
the building also was hit by ma
chine-gun bullets and cannon shells
from raiders.
In the house next door to press
headquarters were John Lardner of
Newsweek, New York City; Homer
Bigart of the New York Herald
Tribune and several British corre-
spondents. Their rooms were show
cred by wreckage of walls and CELL
ings, and several bomb fragments
pierced the walls and came through
windows. But no injuries were re-
ported.
Villa Virtue, built on cliff over
hanging the beach, had been con-
sidered an unsafe location, but there
were no other available houses on
the beachhead offering any more
security.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Nazi Broadcast Tells
OF Tortures inflicted
|BY. Paris 'bIuebeard'
BY the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 18.-The Berlin
radio said today that house in a
Paris suburb in which bodies of per-
sons believed to be victims of a
"bluebeard" killer have been found,
contained a death chamber fitted
with arc lights and periscope
through which the slayer watched
the dying agonies of his women VIC
Tins.
The Vichy radio asserted Thurs
day night that physician, for
whom police are searching through
out France, had been indicted for
the murders of some 80 persons.
Karl Schmidt, a German crime re-
porter, said in the Berlin broadcast
that the killer drugged his victims
In an ante-chamber, then dragged
them into the death room and tied
them to rings set into the wall.
Schmidt said the killer then watched
through periscope, one end of
which was only inches from his
victims faces as they struggled.
After they died, he continued,
their bodies were dropped through a
trap door into a trench filled with
quicklime.
The broadcast said the additional
women's clothing was found in the
villa yesterday, some of it bearing
the mark of a fashionable Paris
firm, but that detectives had found
no clue to the whereabouts of the
fugitive.
DNB, the German news agency
said in dispatch yesterday that
nine complete skeletons had been
recovered from the lime pit and a
furnace in the villa.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Irwin 5. Cobb Leaves
Bulk OF Estate 10 Wife
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 18-Irvin S.
Cobb, famous Paducah (Ky) writer
humorist who died here last week,
left most of his large estate to his
wife, Mrs Laura Baker Cobb, whom
he married in 1900.
In his will, filed in Surrogate S
Court yesterday, Mr.. Cobb directed
that his wife receive for life the in
come from fve-siXths of the resi-
duary estate. On her death. their
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Cobb Rog-
erS, is to receive all the income
plus S25 900 cash And when the
daughter dies the principal is to be
distributed among her children.
The other sixth of the estate was
ordered set aside as trust fund
for MIR, Cobb's sister, Mrs. Hewitt
HoWland of New York.
Mr.. Cobb drafted the will last
Christmas eve, He lett no money tc
his brother, John S. Cobb of Mem
phiS, Tenn, stating he already had
provided for him over many years.
No indication was given as to the
estates actual value.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
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Evening star., 1944-03-18
Japs' Caroline Bases
Raided 81 Times
In Two Months
By the Associated Press.

o! Ine Associated Press.
PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Pearl Harbor. Mar l8.-Ja-
pans Caroline Islands, untouched
by American bombers until mid
January. now have been raided 81
times in gathering air offensive
which already has proved the vul-
nerability of Truk and virtually
wiped out the military town of
Ponape.
Truk has been raided three times,
counting as two the successive
strikes of carrier planes February
Is and II. Kusaie, the first Caro-
line base to be hit last January II,
has been attacked 16 times, Ponape
13, Oroluk and Pingelap twice.
A press release yesterday by Ad-
miral Chester w. Nimitz told of
the third raid on Orluk and the Sec
ond raid on Pingelap Wednesday by
Navy search planes.
The accumulative deadliness of
these attacks is clearly shown in
photographs taken of the town of
Ponape, which the japanese had
built up from less than 5000 to an
estimated 10000 population during
the last % years. Liberators first ap-
peared over Ponape on February a.
Pictures taken less than a month
later showed large portions of the
town laid waste.
Yesterdays press release also told
of attacks Wednesday on three un-
designated enemy atolls in the East
ern Marshalls. Last February 8, Ad-
miral Nimitz ceased announcing the
names of these atollS because their
supply and communication lines had
been disrupted by invasion of Kwa-
jalein between the Eastern Mar
shalls and the Carolines. Since then
more than 80 raids have been an
nounced, most of them embracing
attacks on from two to six atolls.
All planes returned safely from
Wednesdays raids.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
President Honors
| St. Patrick With
|Green Ensemble
'y the Associated Press.


President Roosevelt was logged out
yesterday in green tweed suit, with
a green carnation in the lapel.
He was wearing a green and white
striped tie, too, in the spirit of st.
Patrick's Day and on his desk were
numerous reminders of the occasion,
including a flower bowl of sham
rocks.
In view of the color scheme" a
reporter inquired at his press con-
ference, lis there anything you can
say about the Irish question:"
Well, the Chief Executive re-
sponded, sometimes when people
talk about the Irish question, they
think in terms of controversy. But
the Irish in this country are not
controversial at all.
That was good for a laugh, and
then the President added that we're
all in this together.