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_ WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1943.-THIRTY-EOUR PAGES.
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Nazis Report Soviet Advance
To Rechitsa in Gomel Sector;
Sofia Is Blasted by U. S. Flyers
Drive Also Threatens
To Isolate Germans
In Northern Area
BULLETIN.
MOSCOW VP). — Masses of
Red Army infantry, cavalry,
tanks and self-propelled guns
pouring into the hole west of
Kiev to Baranovka have
reached a point only 35 miles
from the prewar Russia-Polish
border.
(Map on Page A-5.)
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 15.—The Ger
man high commanti announced
today that Russian Cossacks and
tanks, in a sweeping drive west
of Gomel, had driven to Rechitsa,
about 30 miles to the southwest
on the railroad linking Gomel
with Poland, but had been beaten
back in attempts to capture the
town itself.
Rechitsa's seizure would sever one
of the two remaining rail lines over
which the Nazi defenders of the old
fortress of Gomel might fall back
to escape the encircling Soviet
movement.
The advance along the northern
edges of the vast Pripet Marshes;
also threatened to split off the
Northern German armies from the
forces of the Central front.
Another Berlin broadcast acknowl
edged the German evacuation of]
fchitomir, rail junction on the Nazis'
last north-south railroad artery east
of the old Polish border, whose fall
threatened to cut the central Nazi
forces off from the Southern Ger
man armies. Moscow said the Rus
sians were 30 miles west of Zhito
mer.
Renewed Red Attack.
The broadcast reported renewed
Soviet attacks northwest of Kerch
in the drive against German and
Rumanian forces sealed off in the
Crimea, and fresh Soviet attacks in
the Dnieper bend.
The German-controlled Paris ra
dio said Russian assaults in the
Krivoi Rog area in the Dnieper bend
were developing into a large-scale
offensive on a broad front.
An earlier Berlin broadcast said
that a big battle was raging in the
Dnieper bend after the Russians,
hurling nearly 500.000 men against
the German defenses, had broken
through between Zaporozhe and the
area north and northwest of Krivoi
Rog.
The Paris radio in a broadcast re
corded by Reuters also said the Rus
sians had attempted new crossings1
of the Dnieper on both sides of
Cherkasy, about 70 miles northwest
of Kremenchug.
50 Towns Captured.
A Russian communique announced
that 50 towns were swept up in the
continuing drive toward the old
Polish border, now less than 60
miles away.
While troops on the right flank
of Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's first
Ukrainian front pushed ahead after
capturing Chepovichi, 15 miles
southeast of Korosten. central units
drove directly west past Zhitomir.
This force yesterday took Bara
novka, 30 miles west of Zhitomir,
exceeding the pace of more than
10 miles a day which has been made
between Kiev and Zhitomir.
Gen. Vatutin's striking force is
composed of tanks, cavalry and
motorized infantry capable of press
ing closely on the heels of the re
treating Germans. The Soviet com
munique said the swiftly moving
Russian troops had liberted 4.000
civilians whom the Germans were
driving to siave labor in Germany.
Counterattacks Repulsed.
On the left flank Gen. Vatutin's
men were reported to be meeting
and overcoming repeated German
counterattacks. On one sector the
communique reported that Russian
troops broke through enemy resist
ance and captured a populated place.
The Germans then launched four
fierce counterattacks in swift suc
cession. but were thrown back after
500 of them were wiped out.
Close-locked fighting which has
marked all the combat in the
Crimea continued in the Kerch
Peninsula. Northeast of Kerch, the
Germans launched 11 counterat
tacks with infantry, tanks and self
propelled guns, but all were re
pulsed. The communique said the
Russians captured two strongly
fortified points near Kerch, killing
900 Germans.
The broad lines of the Red Army's
next move has not yet emerged from
the smoke of the battlefield, but it
is believed the Russians are likely
to fasten a flank against the Pripet
Marshes and swing southwest, driv
ing the Germans toward the Bug
River and Rumania.
Navy Seizure Discounted
By Chastleton's Operator
While aroused tenants of the
Chastleton Hotel planned another
ipass meeting tonight to discuss re
ports that the Navy would take over
the hotel as a WAVE dormitory,
hotel owners today said the Chastle
ton had never been offered for sale.
"The Navy has never asked us to
quote a price for the sale or rent of
the building and we have never
given them a price,” said Thomas
D. Carson of Washington Properties,
Inc., which operates the hotel on
Sixteenth street N.W.
Mr. Carson said Navy officials had
surveyed the establishment but
added that he understood the Navy
had also inspected several other
hotels. He said he had the im
pression the Navy was "just looking”
and had no intention of taking the
building.
Meanwhile, hotel residents said
the second mass meeting was called
at the request of tenants who missed
the Saturday night session.
i *
Air Assault Successfully Opens
Balkan Offensive, Allies Say
Battle Lines in Italy Remain Unchanged
As Both Sides Consolidate Positions
By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers, Nov. 15.—American B-25
Mitchell medium bombers ranged
in force over Sofia yesterday,
making the first air attack on
the Bulgarian capital from this
theater in a blow designed to
dislocate traffic over the whole
Balkan rail system, while
aground in Italy the battle lines
remained virtually unchanged.
Other bombers swept into France
for their third attack on the impor
tant Antheor railway viaduct near
Cannes the night before, and light
bombers shot up the harbor of Civi
tavecchia on the west coast of Italy.
Escorted by P-38 Lightnings, the
Mitchells dipped over Sofia’s railway
yards in two big formations, drop
ping tons of explosives on the tar
get. Nine out of approximately 24
German intercepting fighters were
shot down in a fierce battle.
Official reports described the
bombing as "extremely accurate,’’
with explosives dropping squarely on
locomotive repair shops, car assem
bly shops, a main line depot and rip
ping up the tracks in the yards.
"This successful opening of the
Balkan offensive has a far-reaching
consequence,” an official announce
ment said.
“Through this Immensely impor
tant rail center German supplies are
transported to Greece and down into
the islands of the Aegean and also
to the Western Balkans. The Sofia
railway yards link up with rail
routes through Hungary, Rumania
and Bulgaria and congestion at Sofia
would have the effect of dislocating
traffic over the whole Balkan rail
system.”
(The Budapest radio, quoting a
Hungarian news agency report,
first reported the Sofia bombing
last night. The broadcast said
“several waves” of enemy planes
attacked about midday and that
several persons were killed.
(The Germans in an obvious
effort to impress Bulgarians,
threatened dire reprisals on Brit
ain today for what was called a
“naked and undisguised terror
raid” on Sofia.
(The Berlin radio declared
“neither British nor Americans
can claim they were retaliating
against Bulgaria, because the
Bulgarians have never done any
i See ITALY, Page aT27>
American Bombers
Drop Record Load on
New Guinea Bases
Threat of Alexishafen
And Madang to Allied
Positions Smashed
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL
LIED HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 15
j—American bombers, in a per
fectly co-ordinated three-ply at
j tack, dropped a record load of
1223 tons of explosives on Alexi
shafen and Madang, ending for
the time being an increasing
threat to Allied positions on New
Guinea.
The mission was to smash bases,
from W’hich the Japanese had been
strafing Australian troops and;
American aircraft in New Guinea's!
Markham and Ramu Valleys, and
apparently supplying forward bases, j
Shortly after dawn Saturday P-40 j
and P-39 fighters strafed the tw’O'
airstrips at Alexishafen. starting
towering fires at the expense of one
plane, dowmed by severe antiaircraft
opposition.
Waves of Liberators Attack.
Then came wave after wave of
Liberator bombers at medium alti
tude, followed by Mitchells at tree
top height. The 223 tons they
dropped was the heaviest load ever
throw’ll against New Guinea and
was second only to the 350-ton raid
October 12 against Rabaul in the
entire Pacific theater.
Gen. Douglas MacArthurs com
munique today said great fires were
started in fuel and supply areas,
four enemy planes were destroyed on
the ground, antiaircraft positions
silenced, three luggers and five
barges destroyed in the harbor and
the entire area given such a thor
ough blasting smoke rose in a thick
blanket.
A strong force of fighters formed
a protective umbrella, but not a
Japanese plane rose to fight.
Rabaul and Gasmata Hit.
Allied bombers struck also at Ra
baul and Gasmata on New’ Britain
|and raked both Buka and Buin on
.the northern and southern extremi
j ties of Bougainville. Five floatplanes
were destroyed at their base on
Kapingamarangi Island and three
i cargo ships were torpedoed and
bombed with unobserved results in
night attacks on Kavieng, New Ire
land.
As to the land fighting on Bou
gainville, where United States ma
j rines secured a beachhead at Em
press Augusta Bay November 1, Ad
miral William F. Halsey, jr., com
< See PACIFIC^ Page A-12" i
Fierce Fight Improves
British Positions on
Dodecanese Island
Substantial Casualties
Inflicted at Leros, But
Battle Is Inconclusive
By the Associated Press.
i CAIRO, Nov. 15.—British troops
I improved their positions in cen
tral and northern sectors of the
Dodecanese Island of Leros yes
terday, inflicting substantial
casualties on the Germans and
capturing a number of prisoners,
a Middle East communique an
nounced today.
The fierce fighting for the island,
important in the strategy of the
Aegean because of its submarine:
base, was accompanied by continued
aerial blows in which long-range j
fighter sweeps and bomber assaults
were carried out over the German
positions.
Explosions and fires were started
at Gurna Bay, Alinda Bay and Cape !
Pantali, and a Heinkel-111 was de- ■
stroyed.
Bombers also attacked German
shipping in Suda Bay, Crete, while
fighters patrolled Herakleion air
field on the same island and at
tacked many military targets in an
effort to blanket the German offen
sive.
“Pour-engined bomber formations j
raided Maritza airfield on Rhodes j
on a similar mission last night.
Nine Allied planes were lost in the
aerial phases of the operations.
The battle for Leros still was in
conclusive. however, and. official re
ports yesterday said the Germans
had established numerical superi
ority and had straddled the island
at its narrowest point, virtually di
viding the British and Italian de
fending forces in the north and
south, although the Allies still held
Leras, the chief town. The 8-mile
long island is only about a mile
across at its waist.
The Germans had gained their
position by both sea and air-borne
units, supported by dive bombers.
Gripsholm Nears Rio
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Nov.
15 <£>>.—'The repatriation ship Grip
sholm, returning 1,500 Americans
and other Western Hemisphere na
tionals from Japanese internment
camps, was sighted off Rio de
Janeiro Harbor early today after a
journey from Mormugao, Portuguese
India, via Port Elizabeth, South
Africa.
Chevy Chase Squadron Leader
Downs 15 Japs in 15 Days
! Maae tnrire Kecora
Three Weeks After
Reaching Pacific Base
Lt. Comdr. J. T. Blackburn. 31, j
of 8502 Loughborough place,
Chevy Chase, Md.. commander of
a Navy land-based fighter squad
ron in the South Pacific, shot
down 15 planes in his first 15 days
at an advanced base there, ac
cording to an Associated Press
dispatch.
Thursday, three weeks after his
arrival at the base, Comdr. Black
burn was credited with another cer
tain victory and one probable when
his squadron shot down 18 enemy
planes in helping to ward off a Japa
nese air attack on our carrier force
striking Rabaul. Eleven of the vic
tims were bombers; the others,
fighters.
) A year ago. Comdr. Blackburn
I spent more than 60 hours adrift in
a rubber boat after a mishap dur
ing operations off North Africa.
During this time, a chamois skin
lining from his helmet and a small
canteen of water furnished his only
food and drink.
A 1933 graduate of the Naval
Academy, Comdr. Blackburn is the
son of Capt. Paul P. Blackburn, now
also on duty with the Navy in the
Pacific. He was bom at Annapolis,!
LT. COMDR. J. T. BLACKBURN.
and was graduated from Western
High School here when his father
was on duty in Washington. He
attended Severn Preparatory School
in Annapolis. Before leaving for
overseas more than a year ago, he
was a flying instructor for the Navy
at Miami, Fla.
Mrs. Blackburn and their two
children live at the Loughborough
place address.
Supreme Court
Will Review
Portal Pay Case
Ore Mines Dispute
May Have Bearing
On Coal Contract
COURT REFUSES to review de
cision upholding ban on political
contributions by holding com
panies. Page A-12
The ’Supreme Court today
agreed to review a case involving
the question of whether time
spent by iron ore miners in
underground travel is compens
ible under the Wage-Hour Act.
The litigation is looked on as
important because of its possible
bearing on the demands of the
United Mine Workers for portal-to
portal pay, one of the major
stumbling blocks in their contro
versy with coal operators.
The principle was recognized in
the Ickes-Lewis wage agreement
under which coal mines are being
Federally operated. In the ore case
the Government has lined up with
unions and contended that workers
should receive this pay.
Previously Upheld.
The ore case was instituted by
the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron
Co., the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Co. and the Republic Steel
Corp. which asked for a declaratory
judgment in Federal District Court
in Alabama to determine their
liability for the underground pay.
In both District Court and in the
Fifth Federal Circuit Court of Ap
peals, it was held that the Wage
Hour Act requires this payment to
be made.
Under that law, hours in excess
of 40 must be paid for at the rate of
time and one half.
Similar litigation now is pending
in Federal District Court in Virginia
to determine if ccal miners are en
titled to travel pay.
Fahy Backs Payment.
Granting of a review means that
the case Will be set for oral argu
ment in a tew weeks, after which a
formal opinion will be delivered.
Opposing a Supreme Court review,
the Justice Department asserted
that the Circuit Court decision was
"correct ”
Solicitor General Charles Fahy
said the travel underground to and
from the actual site of employment
was accompanied by "the greatest
discomfort and inconvenience and
by considerable peril."
“The facts in the record, with
forceful eloquence, establish that the
miners are not only employed dur
ing underground travel but are en
gaged In hard work.”
Interpretation Challenged.
The company said the Circuit
Court decision had been used as
"a judicial precedent in support of
the claim of the United Mine Work
ers of America that it was the in
tention of the Congress to include as
a part of the ‘work week' all of tl>e
underground time of coal miners."
Tne Circuit Court, the com pans
added, gave a construction to "the
words ‘work’ and ‘work week' rad
ically different from the general
concept of these words as undrr
stood and acted upon by all inter
ested parties for many years in the
iron ore mining industry."
Rent Case Review Set.
The court also agreed to review
litigation involving the constitu
tionality of the OPA rent control
program.
The Justice Department appealed
from a decision by the Middle
Georgia Federal District Court
holding the legislation to be uncon
stitutional.
The Georgia tribunal held the
rent control program was an uncon
stiutional delegation of legislative
power.
The Supreme Court already had
agreed to review litigation, brought
by two Boston meat dealers, in
volving constitutionality of price
fixing provisions of the emergency
price control act.
In another case the court refused
to review a decision holding consti
tutional the rent control provisions.
Constitutionality of the legislation
* See SUPREME COURT, A-12 .)
7 More Jap Ships Sunk;
U. S. Subs' Score Now 496
By the Associated Press.
The Navy today counted a total
of 496 enemy vessels sunk or dam
aged by American submarines with
the report of six more Japanese mer
chant ships and a plane transport
sunk, and two other merchant ships
hit.
The roll was regarded as particu
larly impressive since a considerable
portion of the enemy’s essential
merchant ship tonnage is repre
sented in addition to numerous war
ships, including destroyers and some
smaller vessels.
Special significance is attached to
each new sinking of a Japanese
freighter or cargo transport since
the enemy is believed by naval au
thorities to be so hard pressed for
shipping that every loss is a blow
at his entire communications sys
tem.
America’s submarines thus far
have sunk 346 Japanese ships, pos
sibly sunk 36 others and damaged
114.
Wilson fo Slay at Post
Despite Resignation
Bs the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—Charles
Edward Wilson, executive vice chair
man of the War Production Board,
said yesterday that his resignation
had been before President Roosevelt
“for some time" and that he intends
to return to private business.
Mr. Wilson said no determination
had been made of the resignation,
and added that even though it was
accepted he would not leave Wash
ington at once. The fact that he
had submitted his resignation was
disclosed in Washington last week.
I
Moral: Don't Be an Optimistic Pessimist—or Vice Versa
Roosevelt Message
Asks Funds to Share
United Nations Relief
Tells Congress Specific
Outlay Sought Awaits
Atlantic City Report
Bv J. A. FOX.
President Roosevelt today asked
Congress to authorize an appro
priation to permit the United
States to participate in the work
of the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Administration,
which now is drafting in Atlantic
City its program for bringing aid
to Axis victims.
In a message accompanied by a
copy of the UNRRA agreement
signed by representatives of 44 na
tions here last week, the President
said he would defer asking for a
specific sum until the Atlantic City
conference is roncluded.
“A small fraction of the national
income of the contributing member
states will, it is hoped, be sufficient
to meet the needs," Mr. Roosevelt
said. ‘Some of the liberated na
tions may be able t-o make payment
for the supplies and services ren
dered. But only by bringing to bear
the resources of all the United Na
tions will we be able to relieve a
substantial part of the suffering of
the millions who will need help.''
He emphasized, however, that Con
gress would determine the extent
of United States expenditure ‘‘under
its constitutional procedure."
Italy’s Plight Cited.
As an example of the needs to be
i met. the President described the
| havoc being wrought by the Nazis
[in the territory they are relinquish
ing in Italy.
The text of the President's mes
sage follows: ::
’’I am happy to inform the Con
gress that on November 9. 1943, rep
resentatives of 43 nations and peo
ples joined with our own Govern
ment in signing the accompanying
UNRRA agreement, setting up an
international relief and rehabilita
tion administration to give first aid
;n the liberated areas. This agree
ment provides only the framework.
The implementation is left to the
constitutional lawmaking body of
the member states.
“The task of the organization will
be to assist in furnishing the medi
cine, food, clothing and other basic
necessities and essential services
which are required to restore the
strength of the liberated peoples.
They have been deliberately stripped
by the enemy in order to support
the Axis war machines. More than
that, the Axis leaders have boasted
that as they withdraw, they will
leave only devastation—what they
have not stolen they will destroy.
As our American soldiers fight their
way up the Italian boot, they are
discovering at first hand that the
barbarism of the Nazis is equal to
their boasts. Their only rivals in
this respect are the Japanese.
“UNRRA will be able to make
only a beginning in the vast task
of aiding the victims of war. The
| greatest part of the job will have to
be done by the liberated peoples
themselves. What UNRRA can do
(See~ROOSEVELT~Page A-12.)
House Committee's Report
Assails 'Illegal' OP A Rulings
Smith Group Asserts
Agency Usurps Power
To Order Starvation
by the Associated Press.
The Office of Price Administra
tion was roundly assailed today
by a congressional committee
which accused it of having pro
mulgated “illegal, absurd, useless
and conflicting” regulations and
of having “construed its power
to authorize it to sentence citi
zens of the United States to
starvation.”
The committee, headed by Rep
resentative Smith, Democrat, of
Virginia and created by the House
to keep a check on activities of
executive agencies, recommended
changes in existing law to "retain
and strengthen inflation control and
at the same time eliminate the
abuses and injustices now apparent.”
Conceding a need for “extraordi
nary governmental action” in time
of war to mobilize the Nation’s eco
nomic as well as military resources,
the committee said "there are right
and wrong ways to accomplish these
purposes.” the wrong way being by
the usurpation of power by execu
Committee Quotes
'Typical' Example
Of OPA Phrasing
B? ‘he Associated Press.
A congressional committee to
day cited as what it termed “a
typical example of the legalistic
language employed by the Office
of Price Administration” the
following language from Amend
ment No. 5 to Maximum Price
Regulation 319:
“All commodities listed in Ap
pendix A are those known to
the trade as such excepting
therefrom such thereof, if any,
while subject to another regu
lation.”
tive agencies through “misinterpre
tation and abuse of powers” granted
by Congress “and the assumption
of powers not granted.”
There was no immediate official
comment by OPA. but Representa
tives Scanlon, Democrat, of Pennsyl
vania and McMurrav, Democrat, of
Wisconsin, chairman and secretary,
respectively, of the Congressional
Committee for the Protection of
Consumers, promptly issued a state
ment on behalf of this group attack
(See OPA, Page A-12.»
Hearing Calls Vinson
To Explain Veto of
Rail Wage Increase
Harrison and Richberg
Appeal for Adoption
Of Truman Resolution
By the Associated Press.
Stabilization Director Fred M.
Vinson was scheduled to appear
before the Truman Committed
today to defend his action in
vetoing an 8-cent hourly wage
increase recommended for 1,
100.000 non-operating railroad
workers by an emergency board
functioning under the Railway
Labor Act.
A resolution sponsored by Sen
ator Truman. Democrat, of Mis
souri and Representative Crosser.
Democrat, of Ohio would validate
the increase, for which the railroad I
brotherhoods are making a vigorous
fight.
The unions took their case to
the country last night, asking for
public support.
In other developments on the
labor front, Senator Byrd, Demo
crat, of Virginia declared the War
Labor Board had “surrendered to
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, in approving
the Ickes-Lewis coal wage agree
ment, and the Congress of Indus
trial Organizations- news service as
serted that Congress has failed to
adopt a sound tax system, “blocked
effective action to control prices”
and, as a result, is partly respon
(See LABOR, Page A-12X~
Nassau Board Asks De Marigny
And De Visdelou to Leave Island
By the Associated Press.
NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. 15.—
Alfred de Marigny, whose depor
tation was urged last week by
the jury which acquitted him of
the murder of Sir Harry Oakes,
has been invited to leave the
Bahamas, along with his close
friend, the Marquis Georges de
Visdelou.
An order was issued after a meet
ing of the Governor-in-Council
Saturday.
Nassau censorship prevented
transmission of the information
until this morning.
The Governor-in-Council is an ex
ecutive group composed of the Gov
ernor of the Bahamas, now the Duke
of Windsor, colonial officials and the
Governor’s advisers. The Duke him
self is in the United States, and did
not take part in the session.
It was learned that Mexico will be
a haven for the two men if arrange
ments can be made.
They plan to leave within the next
two weeks.
(See OAKES, Page A-12.)
De Marigny and Wife
To Be Remarried in
Church, He Says
By the Associated Press.
NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. 15.
—Shortly after it was learned
that he has been invited to
leave the Bahamas, Alfred de
Marigny announced today that
he and his wife, the former
Nancy Oakes, would be remar
ried this afternoon.
The twice-divorced De Ma
rigny said he had obtained
permission for the ceremony
from the Catholic archbishop
in charge of this diocese. He
set the time as 2 p.m. and the
place as the Francis Xavier
Church.
De Marigny explained that he
and Nancy would be married
again because "we were not
married in a church before.”
He said the Rev. Father Bona
venture would perform the cere
mony.
D. C. Teachers fo Aid
In Culling Misfits
Before Induction
T50 Social Workers
Sought for Assignment
As 'Medical Field' Agents
By MIRIAM OTTENBERG.
Washington school teachers will
soon be called on to help induc
tion station psychiatrists sort out
the ‘ fits” from the misfits for
service in the armed forces.
Five teachers of each potential
soldier or saikc- from the District
will be asked to paint a picture of
selectees’ school days—whether he
was moody or a “show-off, " whether
he was accepted or disliked by his
schoolmates.
All Washington private, public
and parochial schools have agreed
to participate.
The program also calls for about
150 social workers, to be assigned to
District draft boards as “medical
field agents.” They will pick up
where the schools leave off, filling
in the story of the selectee's life
and habits to the day he reports for
induction.
Previous Data Limited.
Until now induction station
psychiatrists have had nothing to
go on except what the selectee says
when he's interviewed at the station,
how he acts, what his neurological
tests indicate. And in many sections
of the country the armed forces
have had to rely on general practi
tioners for lack of trained psychia
trists. An estimated 100,000 men
are expected 10 be discharged from
the armed forces this year for
“mental and nervous” reasons.
Under the new system, which will
go into effect here as soon as enough
social workers volunteer to make
the investigations, the induction
psychiatrists will know whether a
man was “moody” in school or in
frequently absent from work with
out cause. These will be considered
“clues.”
It was explained that a psychiat
rist, about to rqject a man because
he seemed unusually tense or nerv
ous during his induction station ex
amination, might think again if the
man’s records showed he had ben a
normal, hard-working civilian. On
the other hand, psychopaths—one
of the hardest types to detect—
might be revealed as such by their
record.
Schools to Make Reports.
Hereafter, the schools will write
up a record of any boy who quits
school at 15 years or older or who
graduates. Five of the youth's
teachers will each turn in a report,
without conferring with each other.
'The teachers will be asked if the
youth’s school work was getting
poorer, whether he was a truant,
to what extent he had difficulty
making up his mind, whether he was
accepted or disliked by his class
mates, whether he co-operated with
(See PSYCHIATRISTS, Page A-13.)
Senate Inquiry
Into Liquor
Shortage Voted
Tax Dodging and
Hoarding Charged
By Van Nuys
By J. A. O’LEARY.
The Senate Judiciary Commit
tee unanimously approved today
the Scrugham resolution for a
full investigation of the current
liquor shortage, and Chairman
Van Nuys announced hearings
may start next week.
“You may look for some startling
revelations as to tax dodging and
hoarding,” Senator Van Nuys told
newsmen after the meeting, “be
cause I have already gone into the
situation with the author of the
resolution during the past week.”
Declaring there is “enough liquor
in this country to last for five years
even if another pint is not made,”
the Indiana Senator said that, in
his opinion, it is being withheld
from wholesalers and retailers for a
higher profit.
Washington to Be Included.
Senator Van Nuys made known
Saturday that if the committee
authorized the inquiry, it probably
would look into the situation in
Washington, along with the rest of
the country.
All of the committee discussion
preceding approval of the resolution
was favorable to an investigation,
the Senator said, and he will file
with the Senate Audit and Control
Committee this afternoon a request
for $10,000 from the contingent fund
to cover expenses of the investiga
tion.
“If the money is not allowed, we
will go ahead anyhow',” Senator Van
Nuys said, “but we will not be able
to make as exhaustive an inquiry.”
Officials of distilleries will be
called when the hearings start and
Senator Van Nuys said that among
the questions to be taken up will
be whether large companies are
buying up smaller ones to get their
inventories.
Cites Stock Withdrawals.
Although liquor may be held in
bonded warehouses eight years be
fore taxes become due, Senator Van
Nuys said it is common knowledge
that whisky does not age perceptibly
after from four to six years.
In September, 1942, he said, 10,
000.000 gallons were withdrawn from
bond, as compared with 2,000,000
gallons withdrawn in September this
j year.
Introduced in the Senate Friday
by Senator Schrugham, Democrat,
of Nevada, the resolution calls for
! a full and complete inquiry into
the business practices connected
with the sale and distribution of
spiritous and malt beverages and
wines.
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Increased Sugar Quotas
To Stand, OPA Decides
By the Associated Press.
Increased sugar inventories al
lowed retailers and wholesalers on a
temporary’ basis through November
15 will be maintained indefinitely,
the Office of Price Administration
said today.
OPA originally allowed the in
crease to meet demands for home
canning. The permission was later
extended to take care of heavier
supplemental rations granted to
bakers, confectioners and other in
dustrial users.
Transportation difficulties and con
j tinued heavy’ use by industrial user*
! makes it advisable, OPA said, to
maintain the larger inventories in
j definitely.
Nazis Reported Holding
All Bulgarian Ports
J E? the Associated Press.
ISTANBUL, Nov. 15.—Reports
emanating from the Balkans said
today that the Germans have as
sumed complete military control of
all of Bulgaria's Black Sea ports.
The Germans are known to have
been in full control of the major
: ports of Varna and Burgas for more
than a year. Seizure of the remain
der was seen here as a possible in
dication that the Nazis fear a Rus
sian thrust across the Black Sea
after the Red Army cleans up the
Crimea.
Late News
Bulletins
Lawyer Hits Subsidies
Assailing food subsidies as
forms of Government “bribery
and blackmail,” Joe G. Mon
tague, Fort Worth (Tex.) at
torney, charged today before
the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee that the subsidy pro
gram was part of a bureau
cratic program to “revolution
ize the social, economic and
political structure of this
country.”
(Earlier story on Page A-11.)
Amendment Rejected
The Senate Judiciary Com
mittee today rejected, 9 to 8,
a resolution by Senator O’Ma
honey, Democrat, of Wyoming
calling for a constitutional
amendment to prohibit collec
tion of a poll tax as a qualifi
cation for voting for Federal
officers.
(Earlier story on Page A-4.)
No 'Secret Agreement'
Secretary of State Hull,
holding his first press con
ference since his return from
Moscow, Said today no secret
agreement had been made at
the Moscow conference and
declared that neither Russia,
the United States nor Great
Britain desires to compromise
the Atlantic Charter.