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Evening star., 1944-11-23
Cigarette Shortage May Persist
After rs Harvest, VIA Warns
War Requirements
Exceed Production,
Reducing Stocks
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
To the troubles of cigarette smok-
ers who figure they're lucky these
days to find pack anywhere, the
War Food Administration today
piled this unhappy thought:
The tight supply situation may
continue beyond harvest of next
years tobacco crops.
In a report on 1945 tobacco pro-
duction goals, the VIA said war
requirements have exceeded produc-
ton, reducing stocks below normal.
The demand for American tobacco,
it was explained, may increase next
year, regardless of whether the war
ends in the meantime. Some re-
duction in domestic usage may oc-
cur if the armed forces require
ments are pared.
TT is estimated" the report said,
that exports during the 1944-5 sea-
son will be larger than occurred
during the 1884 season primarily
because of more liberated countries
in Europe and the movement abroad
of foreign owned tobacco now stored
in the United States.
"Also, any easing of the shipping
situation, as well as the desire of
liberated countries to obtain to-
bacco to replenish diminished or
exhausted stocks, will increase ex-
ports during the next year or two"
There have been widespread re-
ports and complaints of cigarette
shortages in recent weeks from ci-
villains at home and fighting men
overseas, especially France.
Army authorities have explained
Evening star., 1944-11-23
Pictures Called
Proof That Nozis
Use Hitler Double

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 23.-The London
Daily Express said today it had
"incontestible proof" that the Nazi
leaders have been using a double
to impersonate Adolf Hitler since
the attempt to kill him on July 20.
A difference was noted in meas
urements of Hitlers ears in prewar
photographs and one issued by Ber-
lin week ago purportedly showing
the Fuehrer at his headquarters on
September 25.
When these photographs were
given a photo-microscope test of
the type used by the American FBI,
the Express said, Hitlers right ear
in the latest picture measured near
ly half an inch larger each way.
This proved, the paper said, that the
new photo was faxed because the
ear stops developing at the age of
81. After that there is practically
no change and mans identity can
be established as accurately by
measuring his ears as by taking his
fineerprintS,
Evening star., 1944-11-23
Phone Company
Makes Appeal
ToOperotors
Possible Damage
OF Strike to
War Effort Cited

Calling attention to the damage
to the war effort that might be done
because of inadequate communica-
tions, C. A. Robinson, vice president
and general manager of the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co, to-
day released the following appeal to
employees:
I'VE need not tell you that Wash
ington is the communication center
of the entire Allied world-that fast
and dependable telephone service is
vital to the war.
only last Monday Gen. Eisen-
hover said, Unless every one all
the way through the United Ma
tions-those at the front and those
at home-keep on the job everlast-
ingly and with mounting intensity,
we are only postponing the day Of
victory" You are needed at the
switchboard.
Il earnestly ask each one of you
to reflect on the damage that in
adequate communication can do to
the war effort and urge you to re-
turn to work"
The company also disclosed that
the War Labor Board has requested
(See STATEMENT, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1944-11-23
FLYER Who Sank
jap Cruiser Dies
To Save Own Men
Maj. CorsweH Sticks
With Officer Whose
Chute Was Ruined
BY the Associated Press.

os tlie hSSOCldteQ fTeSS.
A UNITED STATES BOMBER
BASE IN SOUTHWEST CHINA,
Nov. IA Delayed Maj. Horace E.
(Stump) Carswell, jr., pilot of the
B-24 Liberator which sank a Japa-
nese cruiser and destroyer on Octo-
ber Is in one of the greatest bombing
exploits OF the war, gave his life IL
nights later in a self1ess effort to
save members of his crew.
The 2s-year-old flyer from San
Angelo, Tex, who already had be-
come the ranking hero of the United
States 14th Air Force. made his final
decision in the highest traditions
Of the Air Forces.
With two of the engines in his
four-engined bomber shot out in q
low-level attack on japanese con-
voy in the South China Sea, Maj
CarsWell and his copilot, Second 1t
James L. ONeal, 26, of haywood
ILL.,, were nursing the plane to base
when the other engines failed
Eight crew members bailed out
Three officers remained aboard
The plane crashed in flames on 6
China mounsainside.
Maj Carswell and 1t. ONea
could have jumped long before thai
happened, but they were sweating
it out with Second 1t. Walter w
tSee FLYER Page A-4)
Evening star., 1944-11-23
Police Check History
OF Intruder Slain in
.WRC Officials S Home
MohIon GIuscock Shoots
CoIored Man Who Made
Vile Threats to Wife
fPicture on Page BIZ

Arlington and District police
today were checking the back
ground of a 20-year-old Wash
ington colored man who was
shot to death yesterday by
Mahlon A. Glascock, CONNER
cial manager for Radio Station
WRC, after making indecent
and vile" telephone threats to
Mr.. Glascock's wife.
The shooting occurred at Mr..
Glascock's home, IT'S South Lowell
street, Arlington, after the colored
man, identified as Charles M. Diggs,
439 New Jersey avenue Sc, dining
room employe of the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co.. had en-
tered the Glascock house and identi-
fed himself as the one who had
made the phone threats.
There was a likelihood, police
indicated, that Diggs might have
been responsible for several other
instances of indecent telephone
threats to housewives in the Wash
ington area.
Action Held Justifiable.
Arlington County Coroner w. C.
Welburn issued a certificate of JUS
tiflable homicide, and police said no
Charges would be placed against
Mr.. Glascock pending the investi-
cation.
Early this afternoon Common
wealth's Attorney Lloyd w. Douglas
told reporters he was mot complete
ly satisfied with the evidence in
the case and is continuing an in
vestigation.
Mr.. Glascock reported that the
first threats against his wife, Mrs.
Jean Glascock, were made last Fri
day night when the colored man
used filthy and vile' language over
(See SHOOTING, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1944-11-23
Meeting of Cigarette
Wholesalers Called
By OPA Attorney

John L. Laskey, chief en-
forcement attorney of the Dis
trict Office of Price Administra-
ton, has called a meeting of
cigarette wholesalers for pm.
Saturday to advise them of
their obligations under the
Price Control Act and to dis
cuss practices which must be
stopped"
Mr.. Laskey said he has had
complaints of tie-in sales and
overceiling charges. He made
it plain he would advise the
wholesalers of the OPA's view
on the situation and what his
Office will do. The meeting will
be held at the local OPA Office,
5601 Connecticut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1944-11-23
Nation Grateful for War Gains
Observes Thanksgiving Day
U. S. Groups All Over World Get Turkey
Washington Foreeoes Holiday to Work

Gratitude for the tide of
events which Is carrying Amer
lean forces and their Allies for
ward to certain victory in the
battle for survival of a world
order in which there is reason
to give thanks marked observ-
ance of this third wartime
Thanksgiving Day.
In churches throughout most of
this country, in Army posts spread
over all the world, in famous
churches in England, France and
Italy, Americans gathered today in
confidence and hope to express their
thanks.
The traditional turkey feast asso-
ciated with the day was lacking for
many civilians on the home front,
Evening star., 1944-11-23

but it was assured for most Of
Americas fighting men.
The War Department proclaimed
turkey a must for the men in the
trenches, hospitals, training areas
and combat stations everywhere
Aship and ashore the Navy served
holiday dinners from its 10000, Goo
pound supply of young roast tom
turkey"
Cooked dinners were being carried
very close to the fighting lines" the
Army said, and those who do not
get them today will do so when they
come out of the lines for a rest.
The Navy allotted a pound for each
man in the continental United
States, with an extra half pound
each for the boys at sea-
For thousands of Government en-
(See THANKSGIVING Page "A
Evening star., 1944-11-23
White House Action Due Today
As Phone Strike Hits Capital;
Spread to New York Threatened
Bright Outlook for
Agreement Seen by
Union Official

Definite action" late today in
the telephone operators strike,
which began in Ohio and spread
last night to Washington and
Detroit, was forecast by Govern
ment sources at noon today.
The hint that the White House
would intervene in the controversy
before nightfall came from a
spokesman for Economic Stabiliza-
ton Director Vinson. The normal
course followed in unsolved labor
disputes is for Mr Vinson to refer
the difficulty directly to the White
House. Only the President has the
power to order seizure of plants or
industries in the name of the Gov
ernment.
Meanwhile, prospects for settling
the spreading communications
strike appeared better, it was indi-
Gated by a wire sent to union asso-
ciates by Miss Jeanette Reedy, vice
president of the striking Ohio Fed
Grafton of Telephone Workers. A
settlement would forestall any i'm
mediate action by the President.
Krug Sees Army Officials.
J. A. Krug, chairman of the War
Production Board, was reported to-
day to be comforting with Army Of
ficials. Should President Roosevelt
order seizure the Army would be
asked to operate the Nations tele-
phone system.
From New York came word that
unless the strike situation in the
Capital and in other major war
centers clears up soon. the union
may call out girls employed by the
telephone company in the country's
largest city.
Already, New York union opera
tors have announced they would
handle only essential long distance
calls going into the Ohio strike area.
A meeting between representatives
of the Federation of Long Lines
Telephone Workers and Edward C..
Macguire, labor adviser to Mayor
Fiorella La Guardia, was to be held
at noon.
WLB Efforts Fail.
Washington operators began leav-
ing their switchboards long before
the hour set for the general tie-up-
6 am. today-and on that deadline
the Associated Press reported that
some Detroit operators also were
quitting work, but that Michigan
Evening star., 1944-11-23

Bell Telephone Co. officials said
services was almost normal.
Company officials described the
Detroit strike as only partially ef-
fective.
At am. a company spokesman
said there was no outstate inter-
ruption and that calls to distant
points, such as Washington, were
being handled without difficulty.
At that hour the company re-
ported a survey showed that of 205
operators due at work 145 had re-
ported. In the long-lines depart
ment. the company said, II op-
orators were at work, although only
81 had been scheduled to report
The company had provided sleeping
accommodations for employees who
chose to remain in the main tele-
phone building at the end of their
regular shifts last night.
The sympathy" strike was get
ting underway in defiance of the
War Labor Board, which has been
seeking unsuccessfully to settle the
Ohio trouble.
Other Workers Ignore Order.
About 5000 Ohio workers ignored
a back-to-work order issued yester-
day by the board, which at once
took steps preliminary to getting
the matter before President Roose-
welt, and the strike here was
launched in disregard of a board
message which said that ANY in
reference with telephone service in
the Nations Capital at this critical
period of the war cannot be toll
Grated"
AS the first step In the procedure
which normally brings a labor dis
pute before the President, the board
took steps to refer the case
to Sterilization Director Vinson.
Prompt action could be expected in
that quarter Should the Govern
ment take over the properties it
would be illegal under the Smith
Connally Act for any one to foster
a strike. For the first time, women
formed the rank and file of a strike
of such potential proportions.
In the hope of staving of further
trouble, Gov. John w. Bricker of
Ohio last night appealed to every
employe who loves his or her coun-
try to respond to the call of duty
and return to work at once" but this
plea also went unheeded.
The strike, directed by the Ohio
(See STRIKE, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1944-11-23

that a lack of sufficient shipping
to carry all needed ammunition, and
such things as smokes as well, has
caused the shortage in France.
Secretary of War Stimson said
today the Army hopes to restore it's
normal stocks of cigarettes for over
seas troops as soon as supply and
distribution problems can be solved.
He blamed the shortage mainly on
the enormous supply problem Gre
ated by the mounting offensives.
Domestically, Price Administrator
BoWles has said fears of shortages,
rather than actual shortages, con-
tributed largely to the situation.
OPA has held rationing to be un-
feasible, Mr.. Bowles saying that
with sane buying there should be
enough cigarettes available"
Evening star., 1944-11-23
War Bond Sales Here
Rise 10 S6,80O,O00,
Gain Of 100000
Figure Applies Only to
individual Purchases;
Leaders Explain Log

Individual sales in the Dis
trict's Six War Loan drive for
100000 have advanced to
$1,000, 900, the War Finance Com
mittee announced today. This is
an increase of 100000, and
brings the reported sales thus far
to 1434 per cent of the total in
dividual quota Of SAG, 100000.
Sales of series e" bonds advanced
only 100000 in reported sales yes
terday, raising the total e" bonds
sales to s5,00O,OO0. or 1921 per cent
of the $4,000, 900 e" bond quota.
War Finance Committee officials
declared the small increase was not
discouraging because of slow report
ing and processing over the holiday
eve yesterday. A report had not
been expected from the processing
headquarters at the Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond today. because of
the bank holiday, and officials said
they felt the small amount reported
was due partly to the misunder-
standing about sales being reported
today.
Big Day Expected.
Today was expected to be the
biggest day yet in the District S
drive. Volunteer bond statesmen
ignored the possibility of taking a
Thanksgiving holiday and continued
their house-to-house, ofice-to-o Office
soliciting.
These are the questions they
planned to ask each person: when
you sit down to your Thanksgiving
dinner in comfort and peace, can
you honestly say you have given
thanks to the American boys who
are dying to make your comfort and
peace possible? Have you bought
your extra $100 bond?"
Gen. Douglas Macarthur sent a
Thanksgiving message to the Ma
ton. saying:
Our armed forces have returned
to the Philippines with Gods help
America is pledged TO liberation
and restoration of this land. We
at the front have complete faith
in you at home The spirit of
Evening star., 1944-11-23
First Thanksgiving Racing
MAY Set PimIico Records

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PIMLICO, Md, Nov. 23.-The first
Thanksgiving Days racing in the
history of the Maryland Jockey Club
gave evidence of creating both new
attendance and wagering records.
When the gates were thrown open
at 10 am. large crowd already was
gathering. President Henry A. Parr,
Sd, had $4,000 program printed last
night and it was possible the crowd
may reach 10000. The wagering
was expected to exceed $1,7O0,OOO.
Topping the days card was the
eighth running of the Lady Balti-
more Handicap at mile and one
sixteenth for fillies and mares.
Christopher T. Chenery's Cattachip-
tico was the only scratch from the
race, which carries gross value
of 100.
Evening star., 1944-11-23
Russian Forces Push
Nearer 10 ; Hungarian
Rail and Road Centers
Germon Reconnoiterinq
Action in East Prussia
Is Reported RepuIsed
BY the Associated Press.

DS ttic ASsOIIotCo iCos
MOSCOW, Nov. 22.-Russian
assault forces today inched
closer to the Hungarian COM
munications strong points of
Hatvan, Eyer and Miskolc in
hard fighting along the 85-mile
battle line northeast of Buda-
pest.
Chill rain and deep mud slowed
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's S
offensive, but the Soviet communi-
que listed six villages captured and
43 German tanks knocked out
against fierce counterattacks by
Hungarian and Nazi SIS elite
Guard units.
Front dispatches, emphasizing the
vigor of the Nal defense, reported
IL counterattacks were repulsed at
Heviz-Gyor, a town just south OF
the Budapest Hatvan railway cap
tured yesterday by the Russians.
Red Tanks Fan Out.
The Soviet communique said fur
ther gains were made in the area
of fallen Gyongyos, stronghold in
the foothills of the Matra Noun
tains from which Red Army tanks
were tanning out in the huge sweep
around Budapest toward Czecho-
slovakia and invasion routes to
Southern Germany.
The early morning supplement of
the Soviet communique broke sew
eral days of official silence about
East Prussia and the area above
Warsaw, reporting the repulse of
a German accommodating outfit in
East Prussia and heavy patrol COM
bat around the Polish town of Pull
tusk.
Minor Action Reported.
Otherwise, the war bulletin said,
there was only minor action along
the rest of the Eastern Front
Russian frontline dispatches said
conquered Hungary was replete with
contrasts of squalid villages and
luxurious castles and claimed that
hundreds of Soviet citizens were
liberated from years of forced labor
on Magyar estates.
Other published reports here said
Hungarians had been killing Rus
sian wounded and torturing cap
tured Red Army nurses.
The Romanian high command an
nounced that troops of the Roma
nian 4th Army, ''in close collabora-
ton with Allied Soviet troops" had
captured the town and height Of
Tokaj, lis miles northeast of Buda-
pest, and penetrated deeply into
Hungarian territory to the west.
The broadcast communique was
recorded by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission. The Berlin
radio reported the evacuation OF
Tokaj yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-11-23
Nazis Cleared From Area
Near Faenza, Italy
By the Associated Press.


ROME, Nov. %. Eighth Army
troops battling strong enemy re-
sistance have cleared the Germans
out of the Cosina River loop, less
than 4 miles southeast of Faenza,
and captured few more villages in
substantial gains in that area below
the Bologna-Rimini highway, Allied
headquarters announced today.
Polish troops have continued their
advance beyond bitterly contested
Mount Fortino and captured the vii
lagos Of Oriolo, San Biagio and San
Mamante.
Farther to the west, 5th Army
Indian troops occupied important
ground north of captured Modig-
Llama.
Evening star., 1944-11-23
Long-Distonee Calls
Here Are Disrupted
With 1000 Out
Pictures on Page BID

Long-distance telephone serv-
ice in the Metropolitan Area
was partially disrupted today
after more than 1000 operators
here went out on strike.
The walkout, voted last night by
the Washington Telephone Traffic
Union in the face of War Labor
Board appeal not to tie up service,
came suddenly while the WLB was
still considering dispute over
wages between the operators and
the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co.
The strike came both as a SYM
pathy movement in connection with
the strike against the Ohio Bell
Telephone Co. and as a means of
forcing the telephone company here
to settle the pending grievances,
union officials said.
Dial Service Not Affected.
Principal effect of the strike here
was serious disruption of long
distance service and toll calls among
the outlying exchanges in the Wash
ington area. Dial service, which is
operated automatically. was carried
on as usual.
The strike was voted last night
at a turbulent meeting of the union
members in the Hamilton Hotel, at
tended by about 200 woman men,
bers of the union
Picket lines were thrown around
the main Office of the telephone
company at 723 Thirteenth street
NV. and the various exchanges
at 6 am. today, the official start
ing hour of the strike here.
Telephone company officials said,
however, that service was already
affected at o'clock last night, when
many of the night-shift operators
left their posts to attend the union
meeting.
Spread Held Possible.
The possibility that the strike
would spread to other departments
of the company appeared as Mrs.
Mary E. Cannon, union president.
announced that plant workers" :"
affiliated with another union, would
meet in the Hamilton Hotel at
noon to decide whether to walk out
in sympathy. She said another shift
of plant workers would meet at the
same place at 6 pm.
Across from the telephone COM
pany's main Office about 80 men
stood watching the pickets. A
spokesman said they were members
of the Federal Long Line Workers
Union. Local 220l. and they did not
intend to cross picket lines at any
OF the Offices where they were es-
tablished.
Mrs. Cannon said 2,700 operators
were involved in the strike here
A company official said, however
that only $500 operators were en-
ployed throughout the system.
Despite the holiday, long distance
traffic was lighter than expected,
the company spokesman said. Those
calls which were being made were
being handled reasonably satisfac-
torily," he said. with about two
thirds of the switchboards covered,
No System of Priorities.
THE public apparently under
stands the circumstances" the COM
pany official said, "as inquiries and
requests for assistance have been
few"
Another company official said VOL
unteers recruited from among en-
ployes who reported to work were
managing to keep up with the VOL
ume of long distance calls "in a
limited fashion"
No system of priorities had been
established, but in some exchanges
where the volume of toll or long
(See OPERATORS, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1944-11-23
Macedonia Cleared
Of Nozis, Tito Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 23.-Clearing of
the last of the Germans from
Macedonia was reported today in
Marshal Tito's communique.
The final phase was the annihila-
ton of more than 5000 Germans
encircled in the Upper Vardar
Valley and capture of Icevo, Cos
tivar and Tetovo, the broadcast
bulletin said.
In lighting In Eastern Bosnia, the
Germans were declared to be '.regu-
larly killing their men" who attempt
to desert.