Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1942, Page 3

Two Extra Pages In This Edition Late news and sports are covered on Pages 1-X and 2-X of this edition of The Star, suppiementing the news of the regular home delivered edition. An Evening Newspaper With the Full Day’s News LOCAL—NATIONAL—FOREIGN Associated Press and (#) Wirephotos, North American Newspaper Alliance, Chicago Daily News Foreign Service and The Star's Star Staff Writers, Reporters and Photographers. Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 14. 35,7 90th YEAR. No. British Scour Sea for Carriers Bataan Defense | Which La ) ¢ Foening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION UP) Means Associated Press. 69. unched Ceylon Raid; WASHINGTON, D. C, Repulses Japs 300 R. A. F. Planes Blast Nazis Onlandand Sea Two Aircraft Vessels Hunted by Warships After Abortive Blow By the Associated Presa. COLOMBO, Ceylon, April 6.— Japan tried a “sudden death” air blow on this island flank to India yesterday, but alert defenses turned the attack into one of the sharpest air defeats the Japa- nese have suffered. About 75 raiders streaked out of the early Easter morning sun in the first raid of the war on Ceylon, which lies in the Bay of Bengal Jjust southeast of the tip of India, and the British declared 57 of them may never have regained the air- craft carrier from which they were presumed to have come. (British warships were believed scouring the Eastern Indian Ocean today for at ieast two Jap- anese aircraft carriers from which the attack on Colombo was launched, informed naval experts said at London. > (The fact the surprise attack was launched against Colombo instead of the great naval base at Trincomalee found no official ex- planation. Some observers thought it probably was aimed at war supplies en route to the hard-pressed British troops in Burma. (An enemy naval force, includ- ing an aircraft carrier, is operat- ing in the Bay of Bengal, the British announced officially at Delhi.) 27 Raiders Shot Down. Twenty-seven of the 75 raiders were counted definitely as having ;Rhineland and Paris Arms Plahts Are Targets in Night Assaults | Cologne Is Pounded for 105th Time of War; Loss of Only Five Bombers Reported By the Assoclated Press | fleet. approaching the record number of more than 400 raiders which attacked London less than a year ago, smashed hard during in the Paris area, it was reported authoritatively today. Cologne was said to have been<- LONDON, April 6.—More than 300 R. A. F. bombers, an air | the night at the German arms industry on the Rhineland and | one of the main targets of the |R. A. F, but British bombers also attacked the Gnome-Rhone works at Gennevilliers, about three miles from Paris, which the British charged was making aero engine | parts and other war material for the enemy. Cologne Raid Is 105th. attack, it was reported that more than half of the 300 planes took part [in the bombing of Cologne, raided for the 105th time. British sources estimated that the big R. A. F. bomber squadrons un- |1oaded about 1000 tons of high ex- | plosives and many incendiaries in | the raids which spread from Le Havre, on the Occupied French | coast, to the Rhineland. | Scores of four-engined Stirlings, each carrying eight tons of bombs, were believed to have taken part. The loss of only five—less than 2 per cent—of the air armada, one of | the heaviest R. A. F. raiding fleets | ever sent out, was called “very sat- | isfactory.” By contrast, the British lost 37 | bombers last November in a raid on Berlin of a similar heavy scale. That more than 300 bombers par- ticipated was fully end quickly ad- | | vertised—contrary to the usual pol- icy of concealing numbers—suggest- }Briuin's biggest. The raid on the Paris area was the fifth there since March 3, when the British began hitting at French in- dustries working for the German wer machine with an attack on the huge Renault works. | Twice last week the R. A. F. bombers struck at the Nazi-directed Matford works at Poissy, on the Seine River 8 miles from Paris. A patrolling British fighter was | reported authoritatively to have shot | & German fighter down over the Channel this morning. An authoritative statement said: e RA Re ‘Ausiralia's Posifion 'Mandalay Death'T”oll ven ot aoem 2w o s Much Safer Now, In Bombing by Japs Placed at 2,000 ‘[ Ancient City in Flames | 161 Axis Warplanes Reported Destroyed In Last Two Days By the Associated Press. Germany, Italv and Japan suffered one of their costliest week ends of the air war during the last two days. according to official Allied announcements listing at least 161 Axis planes shot down or destroyed on the ground, with 51 or more others damaged. Against this total, Russian. British, Australian and United States losses of 30 planes were announced in the Allied com- muniques. The Germans were said to have lost 106 in Russia and the Japanese 27 in Ceylon and 20 in the Australian area. Six Axis planes were shot down over Malta and two in the Libyan Desert. Besides these six more Axis planes were re- ported probably destroyed in various theaters and 45 more damaged, for a grand total of 212 Axis planes destroyed, prob- ably destroyed or damaged. destroyed and still another 25 as damaged. Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Laytsn, commander in chief of armed forces on Ceylon, supported the belief that the raid was sea-based and Jeclared it was doubtful whether the dam- aged planes could have reached their ship. (Japanese naval units have been battering at Colombo since Saturday and have inflicted heavy damage, imperial headquarters in Tokio announced. (Raids vesterday were directed against “enemy warships, mer- chantmen, air facilities and the principal military establishments in the Colombo area.” it satd.) The harbor area of this city. cap- ftal and southwest port of Ceylon; | (See CEYLON, Page A-3.) 58,313 Chinese Killed In 4 Months, Japs Say B the Associated Press. TOKIO (From Japanese Broad- casts), April 6 —Imperial headquar- ters declared today that Japanese troops had killed or captured 76,766 Chinese troops in 30 encounters from the beginning of “the Greater East Asia war” through March. The total, said an extensive sum- -mary of Japanese operations in _ China during that period, includes 58313 killed and more than 18,000 captured. Japanese losses, the communique asserted, amounted to 2,536 killed and 6,382 wounded. It listed as Japanese booty: Five planes, 17 tanks, 1470 trucks, 809 railway cars. two torpedo boats, 201 guns of various caliber, 1353 - machine guns and 12,443 rifles. Japanese forces also shot down 30 enemy planes and either sank or de- stroyed 4 gunboats and 13 mer- chantmen, it added. Gen. Somervell To Talk in Forum Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somer- vell, commanding general of the Army'’s services of supply, will speak on “Army Day, 1942,” in the National Radio Forum, sponsored by The Star, at 9 o’clock tonight over Station WMAL and the Blue Network. He will be heard in an address at the Army Day banquet at the Mayflower Hotel. A kArmy Minister Says 20 Japanese Planes Are Destroyed in Series Of Week-End Successes | By the Associated Press. | U.S. ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 6.—The encouraging word that Aus- tralia’s position is much safer | after two months of acute dan- | ger was given by Army Minister | Francis M. Forde today after a |series of smashing week-end | successes in which Australian and American airmen destroyed at least 20 Japanese planes and damaged 19 others. But he warned must be everlastingly | against attack. “I am encouraging nobody to be- | lieve the tide has turned,” he said after inspecting an American troop camp. “We must be vigilant and ready. There is a long way to go yet.” He said Australia owed her easier ‘posi!ion “to speed and generous | help” from Britain and the United | States, plus measures taken by the | dominion itself. “These joint measures have built up in the Commonwealth a force which in the North has already shown the Japanese the sharpness of its range,” he said. His warning, however, that Aus- | tralia must remain vigilant was un- | derscored by press reports that the ‘v(See'*AusmAuA'.* Page A-6) prepared éCanada’s Army in Brifain |Sets Up Headquarters By the Associateo Press. SOMEWHERE' IN ENGLAND, | April 6.—Formation of a Canadian |1st Army headquarters in the | United Kingdom was announced | today and its first commander, Lt. | Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton, de- clared it would provide a Canadian organization “competent to under- take the planning for eventual offensive operations on the con- tinent.” | “It will keep the closest liaison with British organizations set up for similar purposes,” Gen. Mc- | Naughton said in a statement from | the new headquarters which was opened this morning in southern | England. He said formation of the 1st | canadian Army “is a clear recog- nition that the war can only be | won by attack—aimed at the heart of Germany.” Bulgarian Town Shaken LONDON, April 6 (#).—A Rome | broadcast reported today by Reuters said an earthquake had caused seri- ous damage in the Bulgarian town of Tutrakan. that Australia | After Heavy Air Raid; Bodies Fill Streets By ALFRED WAGG, Speciai Cable to The Star. Second Twin Attack Made in Great Force; Foe’s Losses Heavy By NELSON SHEPARD. | Bataan's defenders stopped the second heavy land-sea as- sault in two days on their right flank yesterday when the Japa- nese used tanks, artillery and dive bombers in a futile attempt War Department reported today. |land attack which was launched in on the beach defenses fronting Manila Bay smashed the new night sea-borne attack. One enemy dive bomber was shot down by anti- aircraft artillery. | During Saturday’s savage fighting, | Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita's assault Indicative of the weight of the ing that the attack ranged among | troops succeeded in making several | slight penetrations in the right cen- ter of the American-Filipino lines. Despite desperate attempts through- |out yesterday, the enemy was un- !able to extend the slight gains, all | their attacks being repulsed with | | heavy losses. | While details were lacking in the | report on the new sea-borne raid | to close the jaws of a pincer on | |the right flank, it was repulsed by | the accurate fire of well-placed light artillery along the beaches. It was believed that some of the troop- | carrying barges may have been sunk. | Saturday’'s landing attempt was ef- | fectively smashed in this way. No Raids en Corregidor. | Corregidor fortress again was free | of enemy air raids for the second | consecutivé day since March 24, but ‘vwo Japanese dive bombers at- | | tacked Forts Frank and Drum with | light bombs. These two forts are | nearest the Cavite shore across the bay. No damage or casualties re- sulted from these attacks, the com- munique reported. | | Although the land attacks in Ba- | taan were made with large forces, there was every indication that the weary, but alert defenders were giv- | | ing the Japanese more than they re- | ceived. It was apparent that they | command the beach fronts so suc- cessfully that any attempt to MONDAY, to smash their way through, the | Japanese losses were heavy in the | APRIL 6, 1942 THREE CENTS. REALLY GETTING TTHINK YOU MIGHT TELL THE LITTLE FELLOW THAT HE CAN TAKE THOSE DARK GLASSES OFF, MR PRESIDENT. THIS 1S NOT A TIME. FOR UNDILUTEDOPTIMISM, BUT THE PICTURE ISNT AS BLACK AS IT LOOKS TO HIM, WERE. Indusiry Would Forgo Profits, ‘Nelson Says Tells Senate Group He Opposes Bill to Limit Earnings | By the Associated Press. | Industry would be willing to | forgo wartime profits from the Government In the great ma- jority of cases, provided it was assured protection against capi- }tnl impairment, Chairman Don- | ald M. Nelson of the War Pro- | duction Board believes. | “I think the majority of industry, if I interpret it rightfully, would be, if all things were equal, willing “great force,” while artillery based | | | Confers With India’s Native Leaders Cripps’ Cancellation of Press Talks Believed Sign of Progress By the Associated Press. NEW DELHI, India, April 6.— Louis Johnson, head of a special mission named by President Roosevelt, held exploratory con- versations with India’s native leaders today in what was widely | believed to be a projection of United States influence in an ef- fort to smooth the country’s dif- ficult political problem. Mindful of the importance of India's political problems if India is to be converted into a military bulwark against the Axis, Mr. John- | invade | son conferred for 2'3 hours vesterday | Ching-hui 6f Manchukuo, teturning MANDALAY, April 3 (Delayed). the peninsula from the Manila shore | with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, past —Thirty-six Japanese planes | bombed Mandalay = for three hours today and this ancient and holy city, now the first city in | Burma, is in flames. | The Japanese poured down in- cendiary and other types of ex- | plosives. They began conflagra- | tions which are destroying the com- | mercial center and laying waste to two-thirds of the center of the city proper. First reports, which are unoffi- cial and incomplete because of the continuing fires, place the dead at from 2000 to 3000 and the wounded at approximately 5,000. | The enemy aircraft approached | the city from a northeasterly di- | rection at a height of 5000 or 16,000 feet. Civilians, not warned by | air-raid alarms, were conducting . business as usual when the bombs burst. This accounted for the large number of déad and wounded. | The streets were filled with those | who were trapped and burned alive. | The water and electric systems were | decommissioned, making operations by doctors impossible and crippling | the city hospital. All communications were out and thousands sought safety in the | country by traveling over the lower Burma road in the direction of | Chungking. Masses of civilians are | now homeless. | Air-raid precautions were insuffi- | cient and there was no substantial fire department available. I saw time bombs exploding hours after the last Japanese planes departed. | The raids began at 11 o'clock in through terrific wreckage and streets blocked with wires, debris, bodies, | horses, bullocks and smashed WAZONS, I saw idols crumbled amid charred and burning ruins. Outskirts of the city, which were practically un- | touched by the raid, were filled with | refugees. Cholera, which for many weeks | has been a grave problem, now is expected to pecome more serious. | The city is still smoking and blazing | as T write this. | The British announced in London Saturday that Mandalay had been bombed by Japanese warplanes Priday, saving the attack was heavy, but that no military damage was done, A London communique said a hospital caught fire and patients | had to be removed to safety. Friday’s attack was not the first on Mandalay. On February 19, the Japanese reported, they scored di- rect hits on military installations and inflicted heavy damage. By the Associatec Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 6—A stockholder of the Curtis Publishing Co. asked United States District Court today to compel the Saturday Evening Post to abandon what he termed its “isolationist” policies and to cease publication of articles he said tended to stir up racial feeling. In one of the most unusual suits ever filed in the Federal Courts here, George E. Wanderman of New York declared such policies are in- jurious to the financial interests of the 25,500 Curtis stockholders and ultimately will result in “complete t‘lnmfiimion" of the company’s good Mr. Wanderman, who owns 50 of 4 b 'Stockholder Sues for Policy Shift By Saturday Evening Post | the 3,393,821 shares of Curtis com- mon stock, said that already the Post's “isolationist” policies had caused numerous subscription can- cellations and that numerous ad- vertisers had refused to renew their contracts. An article entitled “The Case Against the Jews,” written by Milton Mayer and published in the March 28 issue of the Post, especially an- tagonized both readers and adver- tisers, the stockholder asserted. Mr, Wanderman asked the court not only to compel the Post to change its policies but also to direct the company to withheld the salaries of 10 officers and directors whom he also named defendants. 4 the morning and I left at 7 p.m, | at this time is bound to be fatal. The report of the assault being made with “great force” indicates | the enemy in approaching the all- | | out attack stage to reduce the Ba- | | taan lines before the start of the | congress president, Maulana Kalan | rainy season | | Cannon-Carrying Barges Used. ‘ president of the powerful Congress Party. Mr. Johnson conferred for an hour this afternoon with Nehru and the Azad. Mr. Johnson, a former assistant At San Francisco Begins | By the Associatea Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April 6.—Com- pulsory evacuation of Japanese from San Francisco begins today with the departure of 660 of them for Santa Anita Race Track, which has been turned into an assembly center. Those leaving for the Southern California center, first of an esti- mated 5,000 to be removed from San | Prancisco, have been living in the bay and ocean waterfront districts of the city. Meanwhile, Japanese in Long Beach and San Pedro continued to | arrive at the Santa Anita center, | bringing the total there to more than 2,500. In San Diego, 1.225 Jap- anese were registered preparatory to evacuation this week. | :Nonh Manchu Eorder Ordered Reinforced | By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 6.—Premier Chang to Harbin from a visit to Tokio, said | | he had received orders to reinforce the northern frontier of Manchukuo, Exchange Telegraph said today in a dispatch credited to the Rome radio. It said Chang declared the rein- forcement was ordered so Japanese military operations in the south | might proceed without being ham- | pered by fear of surprise interven- } The first landing attempt was & | secretary of war who heads a mission | tion from the rear. | new type of attack, employing can- | non-carrying barges. It was beaten | off with heavy enemy losses, the War Department announced over | the week end. Part of the fifth ma- jor assault in less than two weeks, this landing attempt was turned | back when the defenders sank sev- eral of the barges and forced the | others to retire under heavy fire. i'rhe barges carried 75-millimeter | guns. | Savage fighting raged all through Saturday as the assault by sea was accompanied by a land attack to the | east on Gen. Jonathan M. Wain- wright's right flank. “No landing was effected,” the | communique said. “Enemy losses | were probably heavy.” This sea attack, like yesterday's, was made on the eastern shore of the peninsula, from Manila Bay. which enemy warships may not en- ‘er because of the island fortifica- tions at the entrance. The barges were believed by officials to have been improvised. Indicating that heavy Jap- anese artillery had been brought into the battle during the twin at- tack, the communique said: | “Furious fighting raged along the right center of our line in Bataan | all through April 4.” “The enemy launched a heavy | infantry assault supported by an in- tense artillery concentration. Large numbers of shock troops were massed opposite our positions and succeeded in making some small gains. Heavy casualties are believed to have been | inflicted on the enemy.” | 2 Dutch Forces Battling | In Java, Van Mook Says By the Assoclated Press. UNITED STATES ARMY HEAD- | QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April | 6.—Two Dutch forces of consider- | able size still are battling the Jap- anese in Java, Lt. Gen. Hubertus J. Van Mook of the Netherlands Indies told Gen. Douglas MacArthur to- day. The forces, under command of Gens. Schilling and Pressman, are | well supplied with food and muni- tions and should keep Japanese forces occupied for some time, Van Mook said. ! |to build up India's war industry | potential and who in addition has Roosevelt for some one-of India's native leaders. Neither the contents of the letter nor to whom it is addressed has been divulged. Series of Meetings Planned. Mr. Johnson's meetings were the first of a series he has planned in what was described as an effort to familiarize himself with India’s problems and see what can be con- tributed toward a solution. His whole attitude, however, has been to impart an attitude of vigor and urgency toward the problem. The Congress Party Working Committee. which has conditionally rejected the proposals brought by Sir Stafford Cripps, met for two hours this morning. The exact text of the committee’s resolution on the proposals still are undisclosed. but Azad said it might be published to- morrow. Azad was expecting today a com- munication from Cripps which pre- sumably would give the British war cabinet’s decision on the Congress | Party’s proposals concerning Indian defense. Sir Stafford and Congress leaders are expected to have further dis- cussions after the British envoy receives a reply from Prime Minister Chang left Tokio March 24 after a week’s visit in honor of the estab- | lishment of Manchukuo under Jap- | been made a special Minister to | anese sponsorship. | India, did not give to Nehru a Jetter | | which he has brought from President | Attention to North Urged. | BERLIN (from German broad- | casts), April 6 (#.—Maj. Nakajima of Japanese Imperial Headquarters | was quoted in dispatches from Tokio | | vesterday as declaring that “from | the standpoint of national defense | nothing would be more dangerous than concentrating all our energies in the south and neglecting the north.” “Over our great successes in the south, the Japanese people must never forget that the center of our national defense is situated in the Japanese-Manchurian-Chinese sec- !tor,” he said in an article in the periodical Diamond TOKIO (from Japanese broad- | casts), April 6 (£ —Lt. Gen. Yoshit- sugu Tatekawa, retiring Japanese | Ambassador to the Soviet Union, | sald yesterday on his arrival at Manchouli, Manchukuo, that he be- lieved Japan and Russia would ad- here strictly to the Soviet Jap- anese neutrality pact. 'Canadian Party Leader | {Urges Draft Defeat T | By the Associated Press MONTREAL, April 6.—Ligouri La- | combe, leader of the Canadian party J_ohnson, U. §. Envoy, Evacuation ofJapnese RentCutin75PerCent 0f Cases Handled, Cogswell Testifies Only One Boost Granted; Senate Unit Approves | $5,400 for More Help [ Rents have been reduced in 75 per cent of the 1,200 cases dis- posed of thus far under the Dis- trict rent law, Administrator | Robert F. Cogswell testified at Senate hearings on the sixth supplemental war supply bill, made public today. Although committee members ques- tioned the need of increasing funds for the Rent Administration, they granted $5.400 for additional person- nel for the current fiscal year, after Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, fully into the rent control budget for the next fiscal year when' the regular District suply bill is taken up. Congress started the rent control office with $22.570, based on six months’ operation, but Mr. Cogswell said he believed nearly $100,000 would be needed for the next fiscal year. . “In what percentage of cases did vou prevent an increase in rent?” Senator O'Mahoney inquired. “That would include the reductions.” One Increase Granted. | Mr. Cogswell said there has been only one case where an increase was granted “In other words. in more than 99 per cent of the cases you have kept the rents down?"” Senator O'Mahoney continued. | Asked by Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada what he has done about putting a ceiling on hotel rates. Mr. Cogswell replied. “I have something I am going to pro- ceed on within the next week or 10 days.” He explained his office had been busy registering rooming houses having three or more ten- | ants. $200.000 in Requests Delayed. Mr. Cogswell said he had been told there were 5000 rooming houses here. but guessed the number will be closer to 15.000. Already. he said. | 9.000 returns have been made in the | registration. The committee also heard other | District officials on a variety of de- ficiency estimates, as a result of which $328.817 was added to the bill for District institutions for the re- mainder of the fiscal year. The committee postponed ap- proximately $200.000 of local items until the regular District bill is | taken up. Most of the money granted was the health, welfare, refuse disposal. | | xeeping schools open at night for civic work and completing one six- room addition to the La Fayette Churchill and the British war cab- | . 4"\ lorver of Parliament, said at| School inet to the Congress proposals for India’s immediate future. Sir Stafford canceled a press con- ference set for tomorrow and with- held publication of the Congress | proposals, and this was considéved | an indication that negotiations are making progress. Crips and Johnson Meet. anese raid on Ceylon as a warning to political leaders to bring nego- | tiations to a speedy conclusion which would permit the mobiliza- Mr. Johnson and Sir Stafford met yesterday and the United States | 'Zoo and Playgrounds Attract ‘Thousands for Egg Rolling envoy was informed of the course of the negotiations. Some quarters attached even greater importance to the conferences Mr. Johnson held with Nehru and Azad. ‘The Indian press used the Jap- (See INDIA, Page A-6) Summary of Foreign. Mandalay death toll in bombing by Japs placed at 2,000. Page A-6 Cripps’ mission to India believed near climax. Page A-1 | Battlefield thawing, Nazis and Reds Jjockey for positions. Page A-1 150 Rabaul defenders kilied 1,500 Japs, survivors relate. Page A-2| Nazis to boost slave labor force to 4,000,000. Page B-11 Special U. S. envoy confers with In- dia’s native leaders. Page A-1 National. Preighter sunk after four escapes from U-boats. A-4 Widespread fraud to circumvent blacklist is found. Page B-11 & Today’s Star Fleet called stronger than before Pearl Harbor. Page B-11 Washington and Vicinity. Rent reduced in 75 per cent of cases handled. Page A-1 Zoo is main attraction for egg rollers this year. Page A-1 Eight burned when auto hits gas main, causing fire. Page A2 Tourists missing in Easter parade; uniforms predomipate. Page A-3 Washington es Army Day without a parade. Page B-1 Federal workers here reach all-time high of 233403. Page B-1 New Municipal Court hailed by judges and lawyers. Page B-9 Miscellany Nature’s Children. Page B-13 4 | an anti-conscription meeting last night “the supreme duty of all| true Canadians is to vote ‘no’ in| | the forthcoming plebiscite” through | | which the government seeks release | from previous commitments regard- ing conscription for military service‘ overseas. | enough promises, renounced enough of its commitments,” said Lacombe at a public rally. “The defense of Canada is and must remain our front line.” government has violated —— » Paper Says U. S. Blocked | Petain-Laval Accord | By the Associated Press. VICHY, Unoccupied France, April 6.—The Paris newspaper Nouveaux Temps said today United States pressure had blocked a rapproche- | ment of Marshal Petain and Pierre Laval and that the Axis powers were | “through with France” because of her failure to collaborate. Starting slowly because of cloudy weather this morning, Easter egg rolling crowds swelled to promising proportions by noon today and promised to hit a record high by 5 oclock this afternoon. Rollers barred from the White House grounds this year becquse of war conditions went to the National Zoological Park, the west lawn of the Capitol and 38 community play- grounds. Dozens of extra police and first- aid assistants brought into the Cap- itol and the Zoo had an easy time this morning, but by noon their duties had become heavy. No one was seriously hurt at either the Capitol or the Zoo, but there were dozens of skinned knees, cut fingers and bumped heads. By tonight the 53,000 children and parents who rolled eggs at the White House last year are expected to have made an appearance at the Zoo, which had 48,000 fans of its own (See EGG ET.I’N , Page A-2) White House Party For Children Today Is First During War The first White House party to be held since the United States entered the war was to be for children only this afternoon. Although none of the Roose- velt grandchildren are in town, a dozen or so youngsters were to gather in the Executive Man- sion to hunt Easter eggs and see a movie. The invited guests, probably including Mrs. Roose- velt’s nieces from Michigan who were to arrive at the White House today, ranged in age from 4 to 12 years. Mrs. Roosevelt herself had no Easter finery with which to greet her young guests. She was too busy to buy spring clothes. | to work for nothing for the Gov- ernment in this war period. pro- | vided there was no capital impair- ment during this time,” Mr. Nelson told the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee 1n testimony made public today Questioned in connection with proposed profit legislation submit- ted to the Senate, Mr. Nelson urged that the Army, Navy and Martime Commission be given flexible au- thority to renegotiate production contracts on which they suspected excessive profits had been made. Instead. the committee approved submission of an amendment to a pending $19.212.000,000 military sup- ply bill which would apply a sliding scale of imitations Fear Capital Losses. Mr. Nelson said he thought that most contractors desired to make only a reasonabie profit, but wanted to be protected against capital losses when they entered a relatively new field of manufacturing munitions and other war supplies. “Now the thing that is in the mind of most manufacturers, both the large and the small alike, I think in this war effort from what I have seen, is that they are not so much concerned with profits.” he said. I am talking about the great majority. I would say 90 per cent of the volume, “But they do not want to take capital losses and there mayv be capital losses entailed where a man takes a contract at a fixed price and his costs do not turn out as he expected. His labor costs him more, his material costs him more; he is not able to do it in the time ! of Wyoming said he would go care- | expected: it took him longer to do it. or the rejections were greater the repairs he had to make on the item were greater. “All of those things might bring about a capital impairment and. of course, no one wants to see that capital dissipated.” McNary Backs Limitation. Earlier Minority Leader McNary had swung powerful Republican support behind the effort to write drastic war profits limitations into the huge military supply bill Declaring he would support any workable scheme to cut off excessive war contract profits, Senator Mc- Nary said he was confident other Senate Republicans felt the same way and would give wholehearted backing to pending proposals. “We don't run wars to make mil- lionaires,” he told reporters Special significance was attached to Senator McNary's statement of the minority viewpoint since the profit limitation proposal was due to be presented today in such a way that a two-thirds vote might be nec- essary to attach it to the military bill. Sliding Scale Approved. Striking down a flat 6 per cent limitation previously approved by the House, the Senate committee voted to authorize ths presentation of a comprehensive amendment under which industry would be al- lowed profits ranging from 10 per cent on the first $100,000 of war con- tracts down to 2 per cent on all above $50.000,000. While the House provision was limited solely to future contracts to be made on funds provided within the bill, the Senate committee de~ cided to broaden the proposal to in- clude all war orders. past present and future, except those on which the Governgnent already had mace final payments. While Senator McNary said he had not yet familiarized Himself with all the details of the commit- tee-approved amendment, he felt the principle was workable. Likewise, Democratic Leader Bark- ley said he thought ths amendment was satisfactory, althcugh Senators O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming | and Overton, Democrat. of Louisiana made known their intention of of- fering a substitute, which the com- mittee rejected Saturday by an 8-to- 8 tie vote. The substitute proposal would leave the responsibility of fixing final profits with the War and Navy De- partments and the Maritime Com- mission, which would be authorized to renegotiate contracts on which | they found excessive profits were being made excessive costs charged. Once the profit limitation feature is settled, the Senate is expected ‘o or | give speedy approval to the huge ap- propriations bill, carrying $17.43 000,000 for the Army and $1,634,000,- | 000 for the Navy in addition to minor appropriations for other depart- ments. Of the Army’s share, $6,990,000,000 would go to the purchase and out- fitting of 31,070 additional airplanes, with $3,680,000,000 allocated to ex- pansion of ground facilities and to stepping up the pilot training pro- gram. Slightly more than $2,000,000,000 would be provided for the training, subsistence, pay and housing of the Army, expected to reach a strength of 3,600,000 men before the end of the year. A total of $2200,000,000 would be made available for aid to America’s allies in the form of air- craft equipment and parts, trans- portation service, depots and other services overseas. The Navy'’s share would be divided between $809,000,000 for new share facilities and maintenance, and $825,000,000 for miscellaneous items, including $470,000,000 for aviation. B