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Jap Barge Fleet Fails
To Land Single Craft
In Los Negros Attack
By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, Mar. 9.—
Americans fighting on three in
vasion fronts around the Bis
marck Sea have crushed Japa
nese opposition in New Guinea
and the Admiralty Islands, and
are holding against strong ene
my counterattacks in New Brit
ain, Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s
communique said today.
Japanese troops aboard a small
barge fleet failed dismally to dent
the 1st Cavalry Division’s positions
north of Momote airdrome on Los
Negros Island in the Admiralties
Tuesday night. Not one barge
reached shore against the fire of
the Americans.
Marine invaders of Willaumez
Peninsula on the North New Britain
coast had consolidated their hold
ings and were slugging it out Mon
day night with counterattacking
Japanese, who had recovered from
the surprise of the landing the morn
ing of that day.
23 Miles From Madang.
Thirty-second Division troops have
seized complete control of the
Northeastern New Guinea coast for
35 miles west of Saidor, in their
drive for the enemy base at Madang,
now 23 airline miles away. The
Americans, after going ashore be
hind the Japanese at Yalau March
5, struck at Mindiri and captured
much abandoned enemy equipment.
The Japanese barge movement
against Los Negros followed a weak
night aerial attack on American
positions around Momote airdrome
now used by Allied combat planes.
The Americans extended their
perimeter 2,500 yards northwest of
the airfield when they occupied
Paitalia Mission Plantation. They
also found several hundred more
Japanese bodies, the communique
said. The invaders previously had
buried more than 1,200 enemy dead.
The marines on Willaumez Penin
sula, New Britain, were facing stiff
fire from Japanese reinforcements
apparently from Talasea. ■ The
Leathernecks’ landing on the west
coast of the peninsula was about 5
miles northwest of Talasea, where
there is an airstrip.
^ape Hoskins Attacked.
Allied aircraft supported the ma
rines by attacking enemy barges
and installations at Cape Hoskins
east of Talasea.
The offensives in New Guinea, the
Admiralties and New Britain all
emphasized the growing Allied con
trol of the Bismarck Sea, and prom
ised more hardship for Japanese
troops apparently left stranded in
these areas by Tokio strategists
Gen. MacArthur said work has
been completed on the airstrip on
Green Islands in the Northern Sol
omons. New Zealand and American
troops captured the island Febru
ary 15, putting the Allies astride
the Japanese supply line down the
east coast of New Ireland to the
Solomons, where several thousand
enemy troops are isolated.
Operations from this airstrip will
suppelment the strength of Allied
planes from Solomons airfields in
further reducing the enemy’s top
pling bases at Rabaul. New Britain
and Kavieng, New Ireland.
Aircraft from the Solomons ham
mered the Lakunai and Tobera air
dromes at Rabaul Monday with 55
tons of bombs. Rabaul has been
the daily target of these planes for
several weeks.
Kavieng was blasted by 62 tons
bf explosives dropped by Liberator
heavy bombers also from the Solo
mons. Airdromes, a pier and ware
houses were the targets.
Japanese positions around the
American beachhead perimeter at
Cape Torokina, on Empress Augusta
Bay on Bougainville Island in the
Solomons, were blasted by dive
bombers.
Meanwhile, it was announced that
fighter pilots of the 5th Air Force
have shot down their 1,500th Japa
nese plane in an air skirmish yes
terday over Wewak, New Guinea.
"Fifth Air Force lighters have lost
only 134 lives in their two years of
combat for the destruction of more
than one-sixth of the enemy’s esti
mated strength of first-line aircraft
at the beginning of the war,’’ head
quarters said.
'Proxy Parents' Head
Fined on License Count
Mrs. Eva Miller, 52, operator of
Proxy Parents, an organization in
the 3900 block of Blaine street N.E.,
which cares for the children of
working mothers, was fined $30 in
Municipal Court yesterday for op
erating both a foster home and an
employment agency without a li
cense.
Two policewamen. Miss Constance
Tilley and Miss Eleanor Amos, testi
fied they had answered a newspaper
advertisement by Mrs. Miller and
had been engaged to care for chil
dren at 50 cents per hour, of which
they gave her a fee of 10 cents an
hour.
‘ HOMELESS, BUT CHEERFUL—Mrs. M. Loupal, wrapped in
| blankets, sits unperturbed amid the ruins of her bombed Lon
• don home. She awaits transportation to a rest center.
[ —A, P. Wirephoto.
Knox
(Continued From First Page.)
' can sea lanes. Its sailors on lease
, lend patrol boats have rescued sur
, vivors of torpedoed vessels. Lease
lend aircraft with Brazilian pilots
have sunk a Nazi submarine and
damaged others.
Cuba, which has received some
Coast Guard vessels on the same
terms, has been contributing to the
escort task also, he said.
Reverse lease-lend doesn't com
pare in dollars with what the United
States has handed out, said Mr.
Knox, but it is a considerable con
tribution. As an example, the
United States Naval Base in Britain
has operated for a year “without
making a single cash expenditure.’’
"It is my hope that the effective
ness and scope of the Lease-Lend
Act will not be cut down or re
stricted,” the Secretary added.
Diverging from the lease-lend
topic, Admiral Land unfolded these
postwar views:
The merchant marine should be a
Navy reserve unit, and as many
ships as possible should be used m
expanded foreign trade. What is
left should be stored.
.Before the wsr, Italy carried 60
per cent of its exports in its own
ships, Germany 70 per cent and Ja
pan 80 per cent, ar.J henceforth, “as
far as I’m concerned, they shouldn’t
carry any.”
There is some doubt that there
will be a great overabundance of
shipping. There were 74,000,000
dead-weight tons of shipping in the
world in 1939 and exactly the same
amount at the start of this year
sinkings had neutralized construc
tion.
In the merchant fleet the United
States has a powerful weapon to
prevent another war, Admiral i^rnd
declared.
“It’s like a prize fighter who al
ways keeps in condition,” he said.
“Nobody wants to take him on.”
The admiral said he would pre
sent soon a detailed plan for using
the big merchant fleet, built at a
cost of $16,000,000,000, adding that
“the problem can be solved and
rather easily.”
importance to all our affairs at the
present time.”
Mr. Bevan asked: “Is it not a fact
that the method chosen on this
occasion to make this announcement
has been to the great disadvantage
of the British public because follow
ing the statement made in America
all the newspapers in Great Britain
were asked to make no comment if
possible on the matter, although the
newspapers in every other country
in the world have been discussing it
for six or seven days • • •?"
“I think it was very good of the
press to help in that way,” said Mr.
Churchill.
“Yes,” Mr. Bevan commented, “but
it leads to abuse.”
Churchill
(Continued From First Page.)
simultaneously with the British
and Russian services.)
Mr. Winterton. Conservative, asked
Mr. Churchill, ‘‘Does he not think
it highly desirable when statements
of the greatest importance affecting
the whole course of the world are
made that they should so far as pos
sible be made simultaneously by the
head of state of this country and of
the United States?”
The Prime Minister replied: "It Is
noi for me to lay down the rules on
this matter which affects many
countries all over the world and
which are governed by circumstances
and conditions prevailing in them.”
Not Possible, He says.
Mr. Hore-Belisha asked if Mr.
Churchill would “arrange when an
nouncements of this importance are
made that they be made in a con
certed manner. * • * Would it be
possible to make them as a con
certed statement in Washington and
London simultaneously?”
“No,” Mr. Churchill answered, "I
certainly couldn’t give any under
taking of that character. I think
complete and close agreement which
prevails not only in principle but on
i methods between Great Britain and
jthe United States is of the greatest
Deferments
(Continued From First Page.)
three committee members were ap
pointed by Paul V. McNutt, head of
the commission.
He revealed WMC had also been
hard hit by the committee’s defer
ment policy, and that some of the
cases would be appealed back to the
committee, and if necessary to the
White House. He said he under
stood other agencies were also ap
pealing to the White House to hold
on to some of their workers.
Mr. Appley reported the WMC
Agency Committee had requested
the Review Committee, headed by
Edgar Puryear, to grant 277 defer
ments for pre-Pearl Harbor fathers.
Of that group Mr. Appley said 227
of the requests were for 60-day de
ferments, 32 were for four months
deferments and 25 were for six
months.
The Review Committee, Mr. Ap
pley reported, approved eight re
quests for 90-day deferments and
one for 60-day deferment. WMC
has 1,476 fathers of draft age in the
agency.
Gunther Granted Divorce
In Las Vegas, Nev.
By the Associated Press.
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Mar. 9.—John
J. Gunther, author and foreign cor
respondent, was granted a divorce
yesterday from Prances Gunther. He
charged she deserted him in 1941.
District Judge George E. Marshall
awarded Mrs. Gunther custody of
their child, John, jr„ 15, together
with $200 a month for his support
and $600 monthly alimony. Mrs.
Gunther denied desertion, but did
not contest the action.
Woman, 74, Injured
When Hit by Trolley
Mrs. Cecelia Ryan, 74, of 1915 Six
teenth street N.W. suffered a pos
sible fractured skull today when she
was struck by a northbound street
car as she stepped off a loading
platform in the 3300 block of Four
teenth street N.W., police reported.
Police said the car operator was
Benjamin Fletcher, 51, of 1445 Park
road N.W. Mrs. Ryan was removed
to Emergency Hospital.
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'Jury Acquits Two
In War Fraud Trial
A District Court jury yesterday
acquitted the American Manufac
turing Co. of Texas, its former
president, William J. Gourley, and
.former Lt. Col. August J. Cayouettej
: of a charge of conspiracy to defraud;
the Government in connection with
j arrangements for the manufacture
of munitions and ordnance mate-'
rials.
Judge Marion S. Boyd of Ten-!
nessee, who has been presiding as
a justice in District Court, had de-j
nied a defense motion for a di-i
rected verdict, which was sought!
on the claim the Government'had
failed to prove the charge. After
the refusal, • Defense Attorney
William E. Leahy announced the
defense would stand on the mo
tion and was ready to argue the
case.
Accordingly, without placing a
single defense witness on the stand,
Mr. Leahy addressed the jury for
approximately four hours. No
other defense attorneys spoke.
Mr. Leahy contended checks
which hdd been received by Col.
Cayouette, while the officer was
connected with the Office of the
Chief of Ordnance here, were either
in payment for engineering serv
ices or were loans.
The case consumed 17 trial days
and a large part of the time was
given over to identification of many
records and documents introduced
by the Government.
Brooks Assails Plan to Lift
Southern College Race Ban
The proposal of the United States
Office of Education that Negro stu
dents be admitted to white colleges
and universities in the South was
condemned yes
terday by Rep
r e sentative
Brooks, Demo
crat, of Louisi
ana as a move
toward a “mon
grel race” and a
Federal invasion
of edu cation,
“last citadel of
States’ rights.”
Inserting h i s
remarks in the
Congres s i o n a 1
Record, Mr.
Brooks called
the suggestion R*P- Brook*,
“tragic and puerile.” He declared
it will result only in more trouble
for the Negro.
John W. Studebaker, Office of
Education commissioner, was
charged by the Louisianian with
an effort to bring about “forcible
commingling of students of the two
races in the South, which Is un
thinkable.”
“Such a course is intended to
break down barriers which have
stood between the Negro and the
white races since the birth of the
Republic to the present time,” Mr.
Brooks declared. “It has for its
ultimate purpose social equality and
the producing of a mongrel race in
the United States.”
Fly
(Continued From First Page.)
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to defend the FCC against the many
charges preferred against it.
Critics of the FCC also have
charge that the agency neglected to
fingerprint and otherwise make sure
of the loyalty of radio operators,
and that the files of the commis
sion were denied to the FBI.
The FCC, answering this charge
previously, contended the FBI was
at liberty at all times to examine
its files, though it did not want them
removed to the Justice Department.
The FBI now has taken over com
plete supervision of determining the
loyalty of ship radio operators.
Some members of Congress have
complained that too many draft de
ferments were requested by tnc FCC.
The Reuters (British) News Agen
cy, according to an Associated Press
dispatch from New York, yesterday
issued a statement denying Mr. Fly's
assertion before the committee that
it enjoyed especially low rates from
British Empire filing points in com
petition with American news serv
ices. Reuters asserted that pi ess
rates within the Commonwealth
were the same for American and
British agencies, and that it paid the
same rate—somewhat higher—for
messages from British points to the
United States as did American or
ganizations.
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Soldier Jailed for 30 Days
In Crash That Killed Three
Pvt. Edwin A. Duffaut, jr„ colored,
23, identified as the driver of an
Army truck which collided February
21 ■with a taxicab, killing three sol
diers, was fined $100 and given a
three-month suspended sentence on
a charge of reckless driving in Upper
Marlboro Police Court yesterday.
The soldier, stationed at the Camp
Springs (Md.> Army Air Base, was
ordered by Trial Magistrate Alan
Bowie to serve 30 days in jail in de
fault of payment of the fine.
The crash, in which three of six
soldiers riding in the cab were
killed, occurred on the Southern
Maryland highway south of Clinton.
Duffaut said the cab, driven by
Edwin T. Adams, 1300 block of
Rhode Island avenue N.W., had been
traveling in the middle of the road.
He added that as the two vehicles
approached each other, the cab
swerved to the right of the truck,
forcing him to* turn to his left to
avoid striking the cab head on. De
spite his efforts, he said, the vehicles
sideswiped.
Mr. Adams claimed that the truck
suddenly swerved in front of him,
causing him to turn to the left, side
swiping the truck.
Both drivers had been charged
with manslaughter, but were ac
quitted. Mr. Adams also was found
not guilty of a charge of failing to
keep to the right of the road.
Nelson
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for business firms to begin jockeying
for competitive postwar position, Mr.
Nelson declared at last night's
meeting of industrialists, adver-i
tising and radio executives and;
publishers, who were brought to j
Washington by the Office of War
Information and the War Advertis
ing Council for an inside look at tne
progress of war and possibilities ffir
reconversion. The group heard nu
merous military leaders and war
agency heads during the day, but
the Nelson speech was the only one
made public.
Stresses War Needs.
“The Nation cannot afford to
have the minds which run Amer
ican business swing away from ur
gent war problems to postwar mar
kets any more than it can afford to
have workers leave war jobs in
order to look for jobs in the civilian
economy, the WPB chief said, add- j
ing:
"It is only fear about the attitude!
of Government that would make
business seek a premature return
to civilian production at the risk of
the national war effort. It is only
unwarranted fear of the attitude of
management and # Government that
would make labor become unduly
agitated over (war production) cut
backs.”
Mr. Nelson said such fears are
not justified because inteUigent
planning for peace has made the
country “better prepared than ever
before in its history to anticipate
the problems that lie ahead and to
overcome them by wise action.”
The one-day session of business
leaders and Government officials
was not open to the public. A fear
of some officials that a recent
“deluge” of advertising of civilian
articles which are now out of pro
duction would lead to a letdown in
the war effort was the principal
reason the industry executives were
brought here for a "close-up picture
of the war.”
Meanwhile, it was understood Mr.
Nelson soon will announce selection
of a committee, headed by Charles
E. Wilson, WPB executive vice
chairman, which will fix policy for
industry reconversion. The com
mittee will closely parallel in repre
sentation and functions the Pro
duction Executive Committee, which
Mr. Wilson also heads. As revealed
recently by The Star, this will en
able the same group of officials to
control cutbacks in the war program
and the resumption of civilian pro
duction. Army and Navy officials
will be heavily represented.
240 Poles Reported
Executed in Warsaw
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 9.—The Polish
Telegraph Agency said yesterday it
had been informed by the Polish
underground that 240 Poles were
publicly shot in Warsaw February
15 and that the Germans fired on a
large crowd praying at the scene
two days later.
The agency said also that on Feb
ruary 22 the German occupation
press in Poland carried the obitu
aries of Otto Bauer and Heinrich
Schneider, Nazi officials in the|
Province of Galicia, confirming re-1
ports that both had been slain by*
the underground.
Bombers Hit Kuriles
6th Time Without Loss
By the Associated Press.
PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR
TERS, Pearl Harbor, Mar. 9.—Six
times this year American planes
have hit the Japanese in the Kurile
Islands on the northern approach
to Tokio and returned without loss
of a plane.
The latest raid, made Sunday by
Navy search Venturas on Para
mushiro in the face of heavy anti
aircraft lire, was announced yester
day by Pacific Fleet headquarters.
The attack occurred at night and
the results, if ovservable, were not
disclosed.
Headquarters also reported the
dropping of 31 tons of bombs Mon
day on airfields and other installa
tions of the Japanese in the Eastern
Marshalls. The attacking Navy
search Ventiyas and Hellcat fighters
were damaged by antiaircraft Are,
! but all got back to their bases.
Dealers Get No Markup
On 75-Cenf Liquor Tax Rise
Liquor retailers will be given no
marginal markup when the top 75
cents-a-quart tax is added to ceiling
prices of liquor, the Office of Price
Administration said today as it out
lined new ceiling prices for bottled
goods effective April 1.
The tax base will rise to $9 a
100-proof gallon from thopresent $6.
The 75-cent top boost will be
added to the present ceiling price
for 100-proof quarts of whisky, gin,
brandy, rum and all other alcoholic
distilled spirits, with the increase
proportionately less for lower-proof
liquors and smaller-sized bottles.
The tax oh an 86A-proof fifth, for
example, will go up 52 cents.
Typical of the additions for wine
are a 5-cent hike for a quart with
15 to 21 per cent alcoholic content,
while champagnes, sparkling and
carbonated wines will be increased
by 16 cents for a 26-ounce bottle
and 8 cents for a 13-ounce bottle.
The new tax applied to beer will
mean an increase of only a fraction
of a cent a bottle, OPA said.
The 500th red ribbon signlfyini
eight Red Cross blood donations and
membership in the “Gallon Club’
has been awarded Mrs. Lillian Bron
stein, a Red Cross nurses’ aide.
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