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A—-2 x British Continuing To Press Refreafing Axis Force in Libya Enemy’s Corps Reported Running Short of Fuel; Supply Columns Raided By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 12—With the Axis African corps reported run- ning short of fuel, the British Near East command declareg today it was maintajning its pressure on the re- treating Germans and Italians in the El Agheila area despite bad weather. The British said their planes “in particular carried out most effective attacks on enemy supply columns and motor transport.” In the Halfaya-Salum area on the Egyptian-Libyan frontier, where an isolated Axis garrison is defying British attacks, the Birtish said their troops captured about 100 Ger- man and Italan prisoners yesterday. They added the operations against that outpost were ‘proceeding meth- odically.” Rommel Retreats Slowly. ‘The North African army of Gen Erwin Rommel was falling back slowly from Agedabia with British mobile forces lashing at its stub- bornly resisting rear guard, it was reported. British military quarters said an order found on a German prisoner— one of 26,000 Axis troops reported captured thus far in the Libyan campaign—disclosed that Gen. Rommel’s men had been directed to conserve fuel because of the diffi- culty of replenishing their dwindling supplies. “Owing to the great expenditure of fuel on the eastern front the fuel situation of the Reich is ex- tremely stringent,” the order said. ‘The British acknowledged yes- terday that operations against Gen. Rommel's forces, retreating from Agedabia, had been hampered by severe sand storms, but said they were continuing to press their of- fensive. Rommel’s Base Raided. Although the weather also inter- fered with R. A. F. activities, one squadron of Hurricanes was report- ed to have made a lightning attack on Gen. Rommel’s cummunication lines and air basis, knocking out nearly 400 transport vehicles and destroying 13 aircraft. (In London, a British military commentator, Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Fuller, urged yesterday, in the Sunday Pictorial, that the Brit- ish African offensive should be continued on into French Tu- nisia.) Gen. Georges Catroux announced, meanwhile, that his Free French forces had assembled a complete motorized division in the western desert and that it was ready to take part in the British offensive. Air Base Is Established At Agedabia by British ROME, Jan. 12 (Official Broad- cast) (#).—The Italian high com- mand announced today that Axis planes had heavily attacked an ad- vanced British airdrome at Ageda- bia, Libya, but declared that land operations on the North African air front were limited yesterday to pa- trol skirmishes. The announcement was the first indication that the British had es- tablished an airdrome at Agedabia, which is more than 300 miles west of the Egyptian frontier. It would appear to indicate that Axis forces had withdrawn a considerable dis- tance from the town. Troop-Laden Transport Sunk, British Claim LONDON, Jan. 12 (#).—The Ad- miralty announced yesterday that its submarines had sunk a large Axis transport, “laden with troops,” and probably destroyed a supply vessel in the Ionian Sea. The ships may have been headed for Libya from that arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and Greece, although the position of the attacks was not otherwise specified. Communiques Heavy Battle Rages | In Philippines The text of the War Department | communigue No. 55, outlining the| military situation as of 9:30 a.m. to- | day, follows: 1. The Philippine theater: A heavy artillery battle is in prog- ress along the entire front. Ground activity is increasing as fresh Japanese troops move into front line positions. Enemy air attacks are being renewed on de- fensive installations and fortifi- cations. Gen. MacArthur reports that Japanese troops occupying Ma- nila are attempting to suppress the use of radio receiving sets by civilians. This apparently is de- signed to prevent the reception of broadcasts from the United States and England, even though the action' also prevents reception of propaganda broadcasts from Tokio. 2. There is nothing to report from other areas. The text of War Department Com- munique No. 54, outlining the mili- tary situation as of 1 p.m. yesterday, follows: “1. Philippine theater: “Heavily reinforced Japanese troops attacked the right flank of Gen. MacArthur’s line northwest of Manila with tremendous force. American and Philippine soldiers defending previously prepared positions repulsed the attack with heavy enemy losses. Our casualties were relatively small. “Hostile aircraft resumed bom- bardment of fortifications of Ma- nila Bay and defense positions in that vicinity after several Balfimore Couple, Two Soldiers Die In Auto Collision Two Other Persons Are Seriously Hurt in Crash Near Ellicott City BY the Associated Press. ELLICOTT CITY, Md., Jan. 12— Two Frederick County soldiers and a socially prominent Baltimore couple were killed, and two otner men, one a soldier, were injured late last night in an automobile collision five miles west of here on U. S. Route 40. The dead: John K. Culver, jr., 27, Garrison, Md., a Baltimore suburb. Mrs. Culver, 20. Pvt. Charles S. Bowers, 20, Bruns- wick, Md. Pvt. Harry W. Rohrback, jr, 22, Brunswick. Two Critically Hurt. Charles B. Carroll, jr., 28, also of | Garrison, descendent of one of Maryland’s first colonial families, who was a passenger in the Culver car, was seriously injured and ad- mitted to St. Agnes Hospital, Bal- timore, Pvt. Albert G. Dutrow, 21, of Prederick, a passenger with the other soldiers, also was admitted to St. Agnes Hospital with critical in- Juries. | State Trooper W. M. Bohler said | papers found on the bodies of the | soldiers indicated they had just been granted a furlough from Fort George G. Meade. Third Corps Army headquarters said the men had just started a 10-day leave. Dies on Way to Hosptal. Trooper Bohler said Mr. Culver and the two soldiers were killed in- stantly. Mrs. Culver died en route to the hospital. Mrs. Culver, the former Miss Miriam A. Beard, made her debut in Baltmore in 1937 and was the| daughter of Mrs. E. Read Beard, prominent Maryland horsewoman and the former owner of Blockade, three-time winner of the Maryland | Hunt Cup. ‘The Culvers were married at the bride’s home on New Year Day. One Motorist Arrested, Several Hurt in District One man was booked on a reckless driving charge and several persons received minor injuries in traffic accidents in Washington yesterday. Mack Jarratt, 24, colored, of Alex- andria, was the motorist arrested, In addition to the reckless driving D. C. Traffic Toll Killed in 1942 5 8 95 Killed in same period of 1941 ‘Toll for all of 1941 charge, he also was booked as driv- ing without a permit, following a collision on the Highway Bridge with a car operated by Robert Richardson, 31, of Arlington, accord- ing to police records. Both drivers were treated at Emer- gency Hosplital and released, but Miss Bernice Doll, 26, of Port Allegheny, Pa., a passenger in Richardson’s car, was admitted to the hospital with an injured right ankle and left knee. Earlier yesterday, a car driven by John G. Attilis, 18, of Alexandria was involved in a collision with a streetcar operated, according to police, by Howard H. Hart, 41, 1125 Maryland avenue NE. The acci- dent happened at Third street and Pennsylvenia avenue N.W. The mo- torist was treated at Casualty Hos- pital for abrasions of both knees and right hand and a passenger in the auto, Miss Alvis Bell, 18, of 206 E street NW. was admitted to the hospital with abrasions of both knees. In an accident early today, a car driven by Clarence J. Taylor, col- ored, 23, 2389 Fourteenth street S.E., ran over the sidewalk, smashed into a lamppost and caused injuries to the driver and two passengers, ac- cording to police reports. The driver received minor cuts; Ruth Mack, colored, 24, 319 Fifteenth street SE., lacerations of the left eye, and George Hill, colored, 28, 243 Tenth street. SE., a fractured leg. The 1nn.elr was admitted to Casualty Hos- pital. U.S. Sends Reinforcements, Australia Navy Chief Says Br the Associated Press. SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. 12—Re- inforcements from the United States and Britain are on their way to the Far East, Australian Navy Minister J. M. Makin announced yesterday in a speech in which he foresaw se- curity for the Dominion against “any menace.” Mr. Makin did not specify whev.he” United States troops would be land- ed in Australia itself or used in other Pacific Ocean war theaters as a screen for Australia. Appeals for Singapore Aid. NEW YORK, Jan. ‘12 ().—An Australian broadcast quoted a Sys- as issuing an urgent hurry call for help for Singapore, warning that disaster to the United Nations in the Pacific may be the price of delay. “Our men are withdrawing fast and are crying out for aid,” the front-page editorial said. “If that Help does not come soon | icans agains., being excessively con- ney Daily Telegraph editorial today | Ha! THE EVENING Defends Senate Plan To Gire Him Control Of Mcrket Costs By the Associa.ed Press. Declaring the war was placing new, unexp:cted and as yet un- measurable iemands on this coun- try for fooc. Secretary of Agricul- ture Wickarc today cautioned Amer- cerned aboit prices and too com- placent aboit supplies. He voiced this warning in an in- terview ex)laining why he had asked Congress to vest in him, rather than in a separate price ad- ministrator, the power to set ceil- ings on farn products. The Senate in effect ga-e him that power in a price contrcl bill passed Saturday, despite a reg1iest of President Roose- velt that al, price control be vested in a single administrator. Con- gressional a.tion on the legislation has not beex completed, however. Emphasizag that he did not wish to alarm consumers, Secretary ‘Wickard sa:l they should neverthe- less recognie now that events since Pear] Harbor had greatly altered the food stuation. Before Japan struck, dems:nds were limited mostly to this country and Great Britain. Supplies a.d production prospects appeared aaple then. , “But todav no one can tell,” the | Secretary sild, “what the demands | dipon us m:y be before the war is won. We mnay be called upon to furnish vas; supplies to Allied fight- ing forces .nd peoples all over the world. ‘We may want to send huge quantities ¢’ food as well as muni- tlons ta th: conquered -peoples at the proper ime so that they might help defeat the dictators. “In view of this prospect, I am concerned,” Secretary Wickard said, “that the Anerican people are more concerned bout prices than the possibility tat, in the future, de- mands migit outstrip supplies.” Agricultur2, he said, faces a pro- duction jok comparable in size to that of the munitions makers. New food production goals to be an- nounced soern will surpass anything ever attemvted in this country, he said. The responsibility for the success or fiilure of this production program, h: added, is his and his departments. Consequently, he said he believe¢ all governmental con- trols affeting farm production | should be centered in the agency responsible for production. Price Affects Production. By comyarison, it would be {l- logical, he said, to place responsi- bility for a-quiring airplanes in one agency anc the power to determine the price 1 another. “Price,” the Secretary said, “is a vital factor in all production. Price contol, if rightly used, can help get soundant production. If unwisely u:ed it might hinder pro- duction. n this period of emer- gency we 1eed those prices which will securc the maximum produc- tion of the necessary fodds and the minimum oproduction of the un- necessary cnes.” “After gll,” he said, “the best protection ‘he consumer has against skyrocketirg prices and rationing is abundant :upplies and not price de- crees. Nc& all the authority in Germany :nd Italy has been able | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1942. DETROI1—RIVER ICE SNAGS THREE SHIPS—Three train ferries we,e caught in an ice jam near the Ambassador Bridge on the D:troit River here yesterday afternoon. After several hours of pushing and pulling, Pere Marquette’s No. 12 (fore- Food Production Needed More |Supreme Court Kills Than Price C urlg, Wickard Says SECRETARY WICKARD. to prevent bootlegging of rationed products. Under such circumstances the rich eat and the poor go hungry. Secretary Wickard said he be- lieved his department, with its tech- nical knowledge, was in a better position than any other agency to say what the prices should be to| secure the needed production. He added frankly that the experience | his department has had with the Office of Price Administration, headed by Leon Henderson, con- vinced him that the two agencies could not work satisfactorily to- gether on prices. Farmers, the Secretary said, are confused by the proposed split be- tween production and price control. ‘This confusion, he declared, jeopard- izes the 1942 farm program. He said farmers, like everybody else, wanted to know if the agency ask- ing for increased production is in a position to assure fair prices. “It has been said,” Mr. Wickard stated, “that the Secretary of Agri- culture wants the power to control prices so that farmers may be en- abled, through him, to gouge con- sumers. That is not true. Farmers don't want high prices and infla- tion.” The Secretary said the legal price standards now in effect were, on the whole, fair to both the farmer and the consumer. He said he opposed provisions in the Senate price bill which would have the effect of in- creasing these price standards. Appeal Made to Public Not to Hoard Food BALTIMORE, Jan. 12 (#)—Food | wholesalers, retailers, and brokers | yesterday appealed to the Maryland public not to “hoard groceries.” They declared supplies were am- ple, and in most cases above normal levels, and warned that hoarding would lead to speculation and price increases. Harry E. Cook, president of the Maryland Food Brokers Association, declared, “I don't think anyone should buy beyond their normal re- quirements. An artificial demand on food stores would make it pos- sible for speculators to increase prices. “From the retail and wholesale grocers’ point of view, grocers’ sup- plies are quite ample to meet any normal demand for months to come.” (Furnished by the United with lowes temperature in the mid River Report. Potomac a)d Shenandoah Rivers clear at Pery; melc‘ clear at Great Fall toaay ‘Tide Tables. (Purnisheo by United States Coast and Geodetic Buwey.) &lh = High Low Sun, today it may be too late. We may lose Singapore.” C. B. S. heard the broadeast in New York. one battleship, six cruisers, two destroyers, eight transports and 10 smaller vessels. “Later our planes attacked an enemy cruiser and two large transports in the Celebes Sea, with undetermined results. “There is nothing to report days of inactivity. The bombing attack was relatively light and did no serious damage. “A formation of heavy Ameri- can Army bombers again af tacked a Japanese naval con- centration off Davao, -on the Island of Mindanao. Despite poor visibility one direct hit was scored on an enemy battleship in Malalg Bay in Davao Gulf, set- ting the vessel afire. A hit was also made on an anti-aircraft battery on shore. All of the American planes returned un- damaged to their 5 “The enemy fleet in and near the Gulf of Davao consisted of A from other areas.” The text of Navy Communique No. 27, issued yesterday and based on reports received until noon, follows: “Central Pacific: “The naval station at Tituils, Samoan Islands, was shelled shortly after midnight Sunday, January 11, Samoan time, by & small enemy vessel. Fourteen shells of light caliber landed in the naval station area. The only casualties were three slight in- Juries to personnel. There was no material to the naval station itself. “There is nothing to report from other areas.” A Sun. tomorrow _ Moon, today Automobils one-half howr after sunset. Reprt for Last 48 Mours. Saturday— 4 pm. Receed st 24 Hours. (Prom noca yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 3-, at 4:10 p.m. yesterds ear g, 48. a:?a-m. 1. at 7 am. today. Year ato, 5 Precisitation. Monthly jrecipitation in inches in the Capital (curent month to date): Month, 1042. Ave. Record. January _ - 070 385 7.83 '37 rusry . 327 6384 84 March 375 88491 April 327 913 '80 May 370 10.69 '89 June 413 10.94 '00 July 471 10.63 ‘86 Augu: 401 1441 '28 September %.24 17.48 '31 tober ¥ §8i 3 November 23 /60 '89 m) 832 7.56 '01 Wecther Report Districs of Columbia and vicinity—Generally fair and warmer tonight, 20s; gentle to moderate winds. Btates Weather Bureau.) Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 58. on January 2. Lowest, 6, on January 1i. Humidity for Last 34 Heurs. ("fl)m noon yesterday to noon today.) ighest, 81 per cent, at 7:3( m. e Eowest. 46 Ber “cont, "at” 130 Pomea: terday. ‘Weather in Various Cities. ‘Temperature. Precipi- Highest. Lowest. tation. = 37 Abilene, Tex. Albany.’ N. Portian 'Y P !gé Eg B > 1096 1ML L0 R ERED IR sseami R S R R R N AR R AT SR RN B R AN AR RN BERE! R B S o R S R TR R R RS B SR R SRR 3 gt e Heard as Price Bill Goes fo Conferees Joint Committee Starts Work on Revision of Control Legislation B the Associated Press. There was talk at the Capitol today of 25-cent cotton—music in | many a Southerner’s ear—as Senate and House conferees prepared rewrite the administration’s battered price control bill. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt conferred on the bill with Vice President Wallace, Speaker Ray- burn, Senate Majority Leader Bark- ley and House Majority Leagder Mac- Cormack. No announcement of de- ground) worked herself loose and went to the rescue of her velopments was made at the close of the conference. The measure was approved Satur- day by the Senate, 83 to 1. Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, the dissenter, opposed it because it contained no wage controls. The House previously had passed the measure in much different form. Senator Brown, Democrat, of Michigan, chairman of the Senate sister ship, the No. 14 (left), which she soon freed. The Wabash | conferees and opponent of most of ferry Windsor (right) still was Law for Punishing Debt Defaulfers Penalties for Failure To ‘Work Out’ Advances Of Cash Held Peonage The Supreme Court today invali- dated a Georgia dept-collection law which punishes by fine or imprison- ment persons who fail to do work for which they have been compen- sated in advance. “Such coerced labor is peonage” said the unanimous decision of the court which was read by Justice | Byrnes. Justice Roberts did not | participate in the case. The Georgia law was challenged | by Ira Taylor, a colored man of | Wilkinson County, who allegedly re- | fused to “work out” an advance of | $19.50 obtained from his landlord. On conviction, the man was fined $35, with the alternative of serving eight months in a prison camp. The Federal Government joined in the defendant’s appeal to the Supreme Court, declaring the law violated the Federal anti-peonage statute and the slavery and due process amendments to the Consti- tution. The Supreme Court knocked out the law on the ground that it was ‘“repugnant” to the slavery amendment and to the anti-peonage statute. State Defends Law. The State of Georgia defended the law on the ground that it was not designed to punish for failure to perform service or to pay debts, but for fraudulently procuring money. Justice Byrnes said there was no material distinction between the Georgia law and an Alabama statute which previously had been held by Mrs. Roosevelt (Continued Prom First Page.) conference last week that the Bud- get Bureau after canvassing the sit- uation, agreed that civilian defense should be under civilian control. The Bureau is still studying the mat- ter, she said, and added that she had conferred with bureau officials Sat- urday and would see them again this afternoon. Army Experience Limited. “The real reason,” she said, “why it is better to keep civilian defense under civilian control is because civilian defense is not entirely an Army question in which the Army has any experience. If it was purely a question of learning what you did about fire bombs or what you do in air raids, that would be one thing. But it is not. “The real defense is the prepara- tion of the people to have confidence in themselves, to feel .security in their way of life and to have a high morale. This comes not just from the ability to meet, in a military way, certain conditions. “It comes from the knowledge that daily conditions can be met, that you have a say in meeting them and that you have a part in the defense of your community and your coun- try. I don't believe that is a func- tion that can possibly be fulfilled by the Army.” She also indicated that she be- lieved the Army already has its hands full and pointed out that the money spent by O. C. D.—whether it was controlled by the Secretary of the War as the House would have it, or by Mayor La Guardia, as the Senate decreed in the original bill— would be for protective equipment that the Army would have to ap- prove in any case. A Maximum in Effectiveness. Asked to comment on longer hours for Government workers, she sald that in Great Britain, the workers at first volunteered to work longer hours, but that the hours were finally cut down when it was de- cided the longer period reduced pro- duction. She said there was always a maximum point, beyond which production would slacken, arid said that point would be found only if management and labor get together to discuss it. g 1 She also told her press confer- ence that she had written to James Petrillo, head of the Musician’s Union, to discuss the picket line of musicians outside a New . York theater. Mrs. Roosevelt had tickets for the show but did not go when she noticed the picket line. She sald she had received letters from the New York local of the union and from the theater management. Her only comment was that it was int how two groups could look at the same thing in different S. “Iin. Roosevelt also remarked dur- stuck early today. —A, P. Wirephoto. the Supreme Court to violate the slavery amendment to the Constitu- tion. He added that it was argued in this instance, just as it had been in the a case, that the pur- pose of the law “is nothing more than the punishment of a species of fraud—namely, the obtaining of money by promise to perform serv- ices with intent never to perform them.” Actually, however, the court con- tinued the Georgia statute “em- bodies a substantive prohibition which squarely contravenes” the slavery amendment and the Federal anti-peonage law. “Its effect, the court said, “is to authorize the jury to convict upon proof that an agreement has been reached, that money has been ad- vanced on the strength of it, that the money has not been returned, that the appellant (defendant) has failed or refused to perform the services ‘without good and sufficient cause’ and nothing more. The neces- sary consequence is that one who has received an advance on a con- tract for services which he is unable to repay is bound by the threat of penal sanction to remain at his em- ployment until the debt has been discharged. Such coerced labor is peonage.” 8 In taking the unusual step of con- | testing a State law, the Federal Government charged that it was a violation of civil liberties. ‘The defendant Taylor had denied | that he had contracted with his | landlord for the carpentering work | for which the $19.50 reputedly was advanced. The Supreme Court also ruled that 1 money paid a country club from 1931 to 1935 for golf and tennis privileges, in addition to annual dues, was subject to a Federal tax as “dues or membership fees.” Justice Jackson delivered the 8-to-0 | decision, specifically involving the | ‘Winchester (Mass.) Country Club and the Merion (Pa.) Cricket Club. Justice Roberts did not participate. Drys Urge Food Production A temperance organization in| England claims that the land now being used for growing hops for brewers would grow 100,000 tons of | potatoes and 2,400,000 bushels of | oats. the amendments forced into the bill by an adamant farm bloc, said that as the measure now stood it probably would permit cotton to go to 22 cents a pound before any price controls could be instituted. Cotton now is about 18 cents a pound. Some Backers Dissatisfied. But some members of the farm bloc said they thought cotton might reach 25 cents a pound, if all of th amendments were retained. Even some Senate members who voted for the bill expressed dissatis- faction with it. Senator Vanden- berg, Republican, of Michican cast an “aye” vote and then turned to a colleague to remark in a voice audible in the galleries: “But I don't like it.” Senator Brown estimated that the Senate version of the bill would per- mit food price increases of 25 per cent above present levels, largely because of an amendment by Sen- ator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of ‘Wyoming, providing for upward re- visions of farm “parity” figures on the basis of rises in industrial wages. | Senator O'Mahoney disputed Sen- ator Brown's contention. Parity Defined. Parity is a price for a farm com- modity which would give it the same buying power it had in a basie period, usually 1909-1915. The House as well as the Senate provided that the proposed price administrator could not place ceilings on agricul- tural products until they had reached 110 per cent of parity. Senator Brown figured that the O’Mahoney amendment would make it necessary for products to reach 121 per cent of present party levels before price corltrols would operate. In dispute also was a provision inserted by the Senate farm bloc, over President Roosevelt’s written objection, requiring approval by the Secretary of Agriculture for any proposed ceiling on the price of a basic farm commodity. Roosevelt Biography Banned in Denmark By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, Jan. 12—A re- cently-published biography of Presi- dent Roosevelt by the Swedish journalist, Alfred Oeste, was banned yesterday in German-occupied Denmark. Oeste has been a correspondent for the Baltimore Sunpapers and in 1932 received a journalistic award from the Swedish-American Foun- dation. Victory Book Drive Is Boosted by 100 Volumes From Star Army Lieutenant Gives Thirty More to Lift Spirits Of Men in Service As dozens of persons walked into neighborhood libraries today with books for service men under their arms, and 90,000 school children were asked to contribute, The Star - became the first business organiza- tion to enter the Victory Book Cam- - paign when it opened this morning. A load of 100 books was turned over by The Star to Miss Clara W. Herbert, librarian of the District Public Library. Between now and February 4 any citizen can give books to the soldiers, sailors or Ma- rines by mailing each one on 3 cents postage, or carrying them to the main public library at Eighth and K streets NW, the 12 branch li- braries or the George Washington University Library. More than 30 books were received today from an Army lieutenant, who told Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith, Dis- trict campaign chairman, that he - had had many opportunities to ob- serve the need for books among the soldiers. Lt. Jack L. Stinson, trans- ferred from the War Department here to Fort Devens, Mass, sent the books from his apartment at 1833 New Hampshire avenue N.W. with the hope that they raise the spirits of some of the Nation's de- fenders somewhere. The plea for District school chil- dren to contribute books was made by teachers at the request of Super- intendent Frank W. Ballou. Usually District school children are asked only to contribute to the Red Cross, but the merit of the Nation-wide men influenced the break in routine. Gov. O’Conor of Maryland entered the campaign yesterday with a re- quest that all Marylanders assist in the campaign started by the American Red Cross, American Li- brary Association and the United Service Organizations. “Give a book for freedom” was the slogan given the Maryland cam- paign by Mauritz Haligren, State manager. Bomb in Auto Injures City Official in Florida BY the Associated Press. TARPON SPRINGS, Fla,, Jan. 12. —Explosion of a charge of dyna- mite, which police said had been planted under the floorboard of his car, yesterday injured City Commis- sioner Mike Smarkos, liquor dealer and sponge fleet operator. Mr. Smarkos was admitted to the city hospital with severe leg in- Juries. The bombing came on the eve of today’s municipal election in which a mayor-commissioner -and two city commissioners will be elected. Mr. Smarkos is not up for re-election, being & holdover member. The dynamite was hidden under the driver’s seat, with wires attached to the transmission to set it off, Police Chief E. E. Gnann said. Fin- gerprint clues are being sought by investigators. Mr. Smarkos, a native of Greece, has lived here since 1922. Conigress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Routine business. Judiciary Subcommittee considers nominations and routine business. House: Routine business. of any business .o . is to make KNOW you and LIKE you and BELIEVE in you The first HALF of your business is getting ready to sell . . and advertising : s + + + + and that's the g TOUGHEST half. The first half lies dormant and costly, a lia- bility, until you have also created the condi- tions that result in sales. It is just as important, just as necessary, that you invest in the good opinion of the people of this community as it is that you invest in leases, in store furnishings, in equipment, and in the goods that you intend to sell. For it is truth that if buyers and shoppers don’t know you, don’t like you and don’t believe in you s s & s s + : it is as though you did not exist. When buying time comes, people go unerr- ingly, and naturally, to the stores of the men that they know and believe in and like. They go to those en in them, li they believe they’ll get fair and square treat- believe that the service or com- modity they buy will be a little better, a little finer . .. ....at a fairer, squarer price. The things that these buyers think govem what yo!\:’:ell. Profits hang on belief . . . : & profits hang on. you dntw:ntizm, ADVERTISING in this newspaper. ment; they ... but the last half is selling stores because they like the ke the feeling in the store; liking . . . . . and BOTH if can be created and L o e S It is as simple asabec. hhalmm"tlyou ring-gelli - need to kno censorship written to suggest the use of women doctors by the Army and that on the question of women volunteers for the Army, she believed it should be made possible to use women 1f they were needed. A A w of ad ill you ask us to prove it? The Evening Star drive for 10,000,000 books for service °